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that even when they are about to process these neighboring charges, they've also been talking says, what was an incredibly tragic day? seeing refugees streaming in this turned into a violent night. they seemed terrible things experienced unimaginable hardships to come this far. what happens now the to a new era of cooperation. us president joe biden phrases a breakthrough and relations with south korea and japan. the hello, i'm kimberly healthy. this is l 0. live from do also coming up the state of emergency in the canadian province of british columbia, rapidly moving wild fires force mass evacuations. west african leaders
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agreed to commit troops for an intervention force, but only as a last resort to restore democracy in the chair. and the effects of micro plastics in the food chain. scientists in bond gladish and cover an alarming discovery the, the leaders of the united states, south korea and japan have agreed to deepen military and economic cooperation at a summit in camp david in maryland. it's seen as a big project. unity in the face of china is growing influence of the asia pacific and nuclear threats from north korea. i use presidential bite and praise the leaders of south korea and japan for pursuing close to relations. after a long history of animosity stemming from tokyo's colonial rule,
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i'll just hear as ellen fisher reports from camp david years in the planning pull down, and most of these and rivalries overcome us. president joe biden believes this is a significant diplomatic moment. this was the 1st summer that i've hosted at camp david as president, as i can think of no more for the location to begin the next year or next year of cooperation. a place that as long symbolized the power of new beginnings, the location was deliberate, kept david in maryland. the presidential retreat is where a peace deal should be made agreements reached breakthroughs, accomplished japan, and says korea have a long history of suspicion and bitterness early. but the perceived going menace of china the pacific. i mean unpredictability of north korea brought all 3 countries together. and what joe biden declared was a moment, a political cottage regarding the response to north korea. the 3 countries agreed to strength of co operation for the full implementation of the sections and to work
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closely together in the un security council. the diplomatic ties will be stronger with a leader level hotline. there will be annual military exercises and efforts to protect and boost supply chains and the economy. we have agreed to step up our security cooperation to ensure our people safety and security in the region. but the americans that came to point out this is no time division. and showing young this assembled was not about trying. that was not the purpose of the meeting, but it did come. china obviously came up and i'll just say we don't share concerns about the economic coersion or height intentions caused by china. but this summit was really about our relationship with each other and deepening cooperation across on the tire range of issues that went well beyond. the white house says it's been working on this agreement since almost jo, biking sparse, the and office. the compact. the insist is designed to last for years and years. but for the moment it's only 2nd to last as long as you're bite and remains in
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office hours for sure. i'll just see that i come david in maryland. well i, her tan is a senior fellow at the tire institute and he says, the meeting was a public relations stand, which focused on china without over at leasing. so i think it is a about china. you'll notice in the last 2 months, all 3 countries put out the defense white papers identifying or security white papers, identifying china is the thread of japan. and the us explicitly south korea implicitly . then you have this summit, it's been choreographed, but clearly it is about china. it's hypocritical to say it isn't. obviously, there are other issues somewhere discuss some not for instance, dpr k nuclear threats. definitely an issue, but you know, the release of nuclear, a waters off the coast by japan. um, not discussed, are you talking about these things is, is just, it's, it's
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a p r exercise. and the question is why? well, you have 3 leaders who were all under 40 percent in terms of their popularity. a button is at $36.00, is the highest you and is that 33 percent? it gives you, depending on how you're looking at his, his cabinet is only a 26.5 percent approval rating. so they were hoping that this would make them look strong. but unfortunately, by not addressing issues like the nuclear water release. and, you know, trying to make this sound like it's not about try to when it is try to takes away a little bits impact. meantime, shot is increased military activity is just one of the causes of concern. taiwan has accused beijing of intimidation after chinese troops carried out drills near the taiwanese waters on saturday. now china says the naval exercises are a warning to what it calls collusion between separatists and foreign forces.
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taiwanda floyd aircraft and vessels in response. the drills follow a visit by the time when he is vice president to the united states, which angered vague jang, china considers the self covered the island as its own territory. ok, we're going to turn to the, to canada, now where a state of emergency has been declared in the province of british columbia as yet another wildfire threatens tens of thousands of homes. it's known as the macdougal freak fire, and it has been burning near the city of west colona for days. but in the past 24 hours, it grew from 60 hacked chairs to more than 6000 evacuations are underway now west cooler, and it has a population of 36000 and across like open ogden evacuations. have begun near colona, a city with a population of about a 150000 macdougal creek is one of more than a 1000. the active wild fires burning in canada right now. about 1500 kilometers.
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ne, a major blaze is also threatening yellow knife. the capital of the northwest territories will. i'll just here is rosalind jordan reports a fast moving wildfire in the mountains near the city of cologne, a british columbia. on friday officials there declared a state of emergency as the fire destroyed homes and businesses mcdougal creek wildfire is just one of more than a 1000 fires, burning across canada. up north in yellow, nice residents were heating the government's order to evacuate by noon on friday. a mass of fire is approaching the city from the east. nobody official said evacuation is necessary. we're heading into a critical couple of days in this. during the management of this wildfire,
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we expect to see north west winds to north, to west north, west winds, over the next 2 days. and that those are wins. that will trend. both of those fires in directions that we don't want fall far as buyers are a natural phenomenon. un official say global warming is fly. canadians are living in crisis mode. this year we've seen very, very high temperatures this week, including a temperature of 42.2 degrees celsius in the town of listen, which was a new august temperature records. you don't normally and you shouldn't normally associate 42.2 degrees celsius with canada. but this is what we are seeing. the forecasts for western canada wide spread and light rain over the next few days. not nearly enough to extinguish these residents nightmare. rosalyn jordan, l g 0. well, in west africa, leaders from 11 nation say they want to use diplomacy to solve the crisis caused by
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the crew in new share. the time is running out. defense chiefs from the eco us block say they have a plan for military intervention to reinstate and share with alex, do president. but at a meeting and got his capital, they refused to make their timeline public. charles stratford reports from across up to 2 days of close to meetings, west african defense chief say they have a plan for possible military intervention against 2 leaders in new jersey. we've already agreed on find to rip up there to apply for the income pension. this i typically capacity with strategic objectives that quick make need that mental from investors hope to better better, better incorporate across commission. if a piece of security said the west african block, had the resources, equipment, and political will to act militarily and the door to find
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a diplomatic solution to the crisis would not be open it so much longer. the member must do so because presidency it to be hop on, meet the elements. how can we take the real quick man? yeah, i have the resources to run that. take this mission. so i tell you, read that to them in time. the or the is cubic, but d b is fast well, beside the diplomatic efforts by numerous delegations, including echo as the african union, chad the u. n. m, the us old bids to find a peaceful solution to the causes of so far failed it. go on, says it wants to put sanctions on every member of the community to self appointed, so called transitional government, and yet they still refused to free. detained democratically elected president
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mohammed bar zoom. unimposing came on trial for treason, a move which echo us. and it's international back of say, he's groundless. an escalade tree, obviously is keen to dispel room is the policy only j was being dictated to by foreign governments like new jersey form a colonial power from because they do have this in the players. all is principles of miss infringement. the probably about equal access, the payment guide at all being directed by disc. i'll hold that, i'll be, you know, the, i'm missing the point completely. but any military intervention plan against in these years koolaid is faces. many political and legal hurdles before it could ever be implemented. these include approval by parliaments and legislative bodies or participating west african states. a number of which including regional powerhouse nigeria have already said no to any potential military action yet.
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because this commission of official security was definitive in saying that this is not a war against and is yeah, he said that his expect to possibly in the next 24 hours or so. a committee of echo as representatives could well travel to any sherry and capital in the for discussions with the cool leaders. this is something that the 2 liters i've said in recent days that they are still open to. however, defense chiefs here now say that these kind of discussions cannot go on forever and if necessary, they are ready to go. child stuff without a 0 across in time or the $230.00 people have died of color i, in the democratic republic of congo of this year, most of them are children, and that is according to unicef, which says more than 31000 cases, have been recorded north cuba province, it is worst effected fighting between government forces and m 23 rab. busy as has
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force, millions of people to flee their homes, that many live in overcrowded displacement caps and that's where they are at risk of waterboard diseases. open the window in the middle does activity. we are here at the bilingual i t p site where we carry out hygiene and water purification activities in terms of water. when we arrived here, there was a serious problem because the displaced families didn't have access to the drinking water. they were drawing water from the lake, which at least one kilometer away. this water was not drinkable, nor did they have access to some of the patient facilities today, the change was visible before it was a serious problem, the massive. okay, we're going to turn to syria now where there have been protests over the high cost of living. hundreds of people demonstrated in damascus. that's the capital where the local currency hit an all time low against the dollar. traders say it costs as much as $13000.00 syrian pounds to buy just $1.00. series currency has been
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following since the civil war began in 2011. robert keep is the director of the smith center for international business at chapman university and he says, serious economic situation needs to be a turning point for the government to bother humanitarian and just a purely economic standpoint. i would argue they should try to bring a piece to the country. i mean, that would be the number one best solution. if you could simply tamper down this distant tent, which now is coming from within its own stronghold area, that's the amazing thing. you've always had this split with the sunni community, but now you have within government, strong hold areas. these protests the just shows how bad it is. so i hope hopefully that's a way to call. i mean, they should be doing it for other reasons. but if it's only because they're losing their grip on power from the places that they have followers or the government
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should try to find some resolution of the war. bring about a coalition government, something like that, move away from authoritarianism. i mean, and all of those things translate into typically more effective economic policies when you have an effective, an inclusive, a government system, a, even if the reasons are of altruistic they can bring a valid for us to outcomes. all right, time for a short break, still ahead on algebra. i'm just seeing human in the and then to go region of ecuador, where communities must vote on whether or not to keep all this intact or open it up to mining interests. and we were far from australia as england and spain prepared to meet in the women's world cup final stay with us the
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years or whether update in a minute 15. let's kick this one off in australia and truth be told not a whole lot going on here. on sunday, but you know, that's not gonna lapse, right? so let's put this a day forward. we see a disturbance now in the by monday to tuesday, we're going to be in the thick of it through south australia, the to or is the ti breakdown to tasmania? this will be both the rain and wind combo dealing with a lot of rain on new zealand, south island tapping into pacific moisture 0. so it's packing a punch. and then we've got rain pouring down the east cape. so that's plugging gives been a saga sunday here with a height of 16 degrees for indo china. around the gulf of thailand, we've seen verse of rain here about 80 to a 100 millimeters that will continue on sunday for southern cambodia. right into southern vietnam. and for the philippines mid now, island, southern philippines, throw some flood advisories in play here just because of how intense the rain has been. a slug of rain is moving from the yellow river valley down to the gang. see.
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so i'd say anywhere from chung chain to wou han to young show. there is a lot of rain in the forecast here. not rain, but heat that we're talking about through a huge swats of japan. so tokyo at $37.00, you factor in the humidity. it's feeling in the low fourties over the next few days, and now you're in the know, the the,
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[000:00:00;00] the, you're watching alger 0 mind of our top story is at this hour us president joe biden has praise. a breakthrough in relation to strength and ties with south korea and japan. the 3 nations have agreed to deepen military and economic cooperation at a summit in camp david's. a state of emergency has been declared of the canadian province of british columbia as yet another wildfire threatens tens of thousands of homes. this one burning near the city of west colona. it's prompted evacuations across the province. leaders from 11 west africa nation,
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say they want to resolve the political crisis in new cher diplomatically the time's running out. defense sheets, regional block echo watch say they have a plan to reinstate the ousted president. well, in the united states, parts of southern california are under a tropical storm warning for the 1st time ever as hell of hurricane hillary approaches the west coast. it's for just to make land full on sunday. hillary is currently near baja, california and mexico. now the us national hurricane centers is warning of what it describes as a quote, potentially catastrophic flooding situation. if hillary makes landfill, it'll be the 1st tropical storm to hit the state in more than 80 years to okay, well, going to head to atlanta in georgia. now with the city, it's a city where donald trump was indicted just a few days ago. his rivals for the republican presidential nomination are meeting
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their to rally support for their white house campaigns. the former us president says he plans to skip the 1st republican primary debate there on wednesday, but that is where our john 100 has more from atlanta to georgia for president donald trump says he's not going to participate in the 1st republican debate. that is to occur on wednesday. busy and trump said he's going to be at an alternative event doing an online interview with a former fox host tucker carlson. trump was not invited to an event in atlanta were 6 other republican hopefuls are speaking. they are all attending this event hosted by a radio host who is not a trump fan and didn't want the entire debate to be dominated by the former president. meanwhile, trump's lawyers are negotiating his surrender to authorities in georgia where he will be fingerprints where his monk shot will be taken. that is to occur some time before friday. the 25th and meanwhile trump's lawyers have asked for
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a case in washington dc to be the late. the prosecutor in that case is asked for a january hearing date that would be for a trial for his actions surrounding the january 6th 2021 insurrection. his lawyers want to push that off until 2026 as a year and a half after the november 24 election. and the judge will have to decide whether to have that hearing in january 2026 or to split the difference. john henry and l g 0, atlanta, will ecuadorian go to the polls for a snap general election on sunday and the poll could have a big impact on both the economy as well as the environment. citizens will be asked to vote for or against the batting. of mining and further, or l drilling in the amazon, our latin america editor, lucy, and newman reports from the chaco and in region. this. this is the
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heart of the tool indian region to speak to john in ecuador. it's known for its extraordinary biodiversity. and this essential for providing much of the capitals, fresh water and food. i keep the phone number of c on the coffee. i will produce organic coffee, moke meat, co co should that the 9 is loads of products that go to the city and from the to other places around the world. the, the, the people like really must say that the region and those who live in is facing a powerful enemy. not far away, rusty machinery and sects of lift up with chemicals of the telltale signs that the legal miners have passed through here. in addition to, as government has granted 12 mining concessions to local and international companies, and 8 more are in the works. do you think that on my phone is with us young response outlanders? they say they'll carry out responsible mining? that's what they've been saying since the beginning of time from the expectation of oil to mining. but i think we all know the most bottles,
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apart from the exquisite vegetation, the mountains, and the shows that you see here are rich in gold. and in copper, that is why the communities that lived here one that all this could become one giant mine that would contaminate and destroy life. that's why on sunday the doors will be asked to vote in a referendum in which they can decide whether or not to completely ban mining in this area, as well as oil extraction in another of eco doors. ecological hotspots guessing the national park and they put drawers. amazon greenforest is one of the most bio diverse in the world, but it's also origin oil and sundays referendum and put dorians will essentially have to decide what's more important. exploding ecuador is most important source of income, or preserving it for the good of the environment and its inhabitants. it doesn't mean that these are, the petro look, is unions,
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is this both are possible. look at the name of instead of a name, and that's what we are exploiting of the moment is barely ag hooked is out of a total of a $100000.00. that makes up the sunni puck that's allowed us to extract $55000.00 barrels of oil a day, which is nearly $1200000000.00 for the equal to reinstate. it's a lot of money for a country already deepen debt. the question nichol joins must answer is what will ultimately cost them and their environment more to see in human outages era. in the end, the and chuckled. region, ecuador, the 1st ship to use ukraine's new humana. terry and corridor in the black sea has arrive safely and assemble. the joseph schulty sailed for the boss for us in turkey day. early on friday, the container ship left odessa on wednesday, after being trapped for 18 months since the russian invasion. moscow recently pulled out of
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a major rain deal guaranteeing safe passage of vessels from ukrainian ports. ukraine ad romania have signed an agreement to work together to boost keeps green exports. romania as prime minister says he aims to double the transfer of speed for the brain by improving the countries infrastructure. or maybe it has been a key transit point for exports from ukraine before which has sort of austria has been charged with giving false evidence to a power lametre inquiry into corruption. sebastian kurtz is set to stand trial in october for his administration. is the lead role and offering favors to a russian investor. the corruption scandal 2 years ago caused his 1st government to collapse. he says the allegations are false. the scientists and bond was ash have found tiny pieces of plastic and frogs and fish because fogs eat mosquitoes and other insects. the discovery has wide spread implications for
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disease control and farmers have your child re, has more bangladesh was once a major exposure of live frogs for frank, dining restaurants in europe. and the us shipments were banned in 1989 due to a rapid decline of fraud population, as well as an increase in farmland pest. such as must gators, now bangladesh of frogs are facing a different kind of thread. this time from plastic poisoning, a new study by the international and union of conservation of nature saves 15 out of 47 spaces of frogs here are under threat on the, on a glow for all the already explained, told 14, let me place this is a tom menefe upfront species are already on the brink of extinction, from plastic and macro plastic pollution out emerging issues. you can see how people are dependent on it on a daily basis. so this has become a plastic era professor of products university also discovered micro
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plastics. in 83 percent of fish. it started. we have even discovered micro plastic in the muscles of various fish. that is the edible parts. yes. which means we are already consuming micro plastics with the food chain. in another study assigned is found in abundance of pollutants and surface water and underlying settlements of lakes and rivers in the capital dot com. got it out on the deluxe. on the chromebook software, we hardly get fish. no, it is. it's because of the video portion reverse is canals due to pollution. fissions don't beat as they used to. they're not able to survive anymore in this part of the waters. the experts save frogs of vital role and controlling mosquitoes that carry diseases such as malaria cases of dangled fever. i've reason alarmingly here, in recent years, research i was involved in the studies are the high level presence of micro plastic and frogs. both of the potential try to bio diversity and crop production, environmental dash scientists, the verizon disposable plastic uses, is creating
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a pressing challenge for food safety as micro plastic accumulating and the marine full chain sandwich all day. i'll just see a doctor. alright sweetie is leading health australia one mill in the 3rd place, play off of the women's fee for world cup. but the main event is taking place in sydney on sunday, and that's where england will take on spain. and the final are reporter alex thomas . is there for us? the ultimate prize is inside the england and spain as each team seeks to win its 1st women's world cup trophy. expect more passion and excitement with 75000 people at the game here in sydney. a 1000000 small watching around the world. obviously this is the biggest game, the one that you dream about, the one the means the most thought. so like it will hit when we're we're,
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we're in the tunnel. i'm, i'm, we're ready to walk out and yeah, i think it's an incredible occasion. it's been a number of votes on both teams, packs with talents. i'm going to sleep in england. we haven't yet seen the best of spain's alexia protests. when of multiple world players a year was to england around beats and how to play an easier pos to the final with no count games against nigeria, columbia, and co host, australia, spain school improve drastically off to the group stage. as they swept aside switzerland, the netherlands, and suite, we are no england. we all know the play is awfully with some of them and some of my teammates, maybe we because when some of them we know that they have a really good team and they've been doing good. so i think it's going to be a really good game. the finalist or even the match, but perhaps the
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a sopping glenn sleep is the coach. sabrina bateman. this will be her full success . it may just final off the guiding the netherlands to european championship victory in 2017 and then a woke up run his up spots before winning. you rode 2022 with england. not since the local events in 1991 has the women's well. comp had to 1st time finalist, this'll be the 3rd. oh, european final thoughts. the 1st will champion from that confidence since 2007. interestingly, this will be the 1st time england in spain is played each of the women's world cup . and it comes in the same stadium where england, one amends rugby woke up exactly 20 years ago. alex thomas out as the era sydney the, you're watching out the 0. these are the top stories, this,
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