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the teachers need to be less than just some for a few days until the dried off. they are then put here into this often to be heated at about $1500.00 degrees celsius for about 20 hours. but it is part of the ox cultures heritage. so even if it declines as a profession, extend, flourishes as quotes or the new era of cooperation. you as president joe biden freezes, a breakthrough and relations with south korea and japan. the hello, i'm kimberly how good this is. alta 0 life from dell ha. also coming up a state of emergency in the canadian province of british columbia rapidly moving wildfires force mass evacuations. west african leaders agreed to commit
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troops for an intervention force, but only as a last resort to restore democracy in new share. and the effects of micro plastics in the food chain. scientists and bunker that should cover an alarming discovery the, the leaders of the united states, south korea and japan have a great and the food military and economic cooperation. at the summit at camp david and maryland. it's seen as a bid, rejects unity in the face of china is growing in fluids and the asia pacific and nuclear threats from north korea. us president joe biden, praise the leaders of south korea and japan for pursuing close to relations after a long history of animosity east coming from tokyo's colonial rule. alger 0 is
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alice fisher, will force from camp david years in the planning, pull down. and most of these and rivalries overcome us present jo, bike and believes this is a significant diplomatic moment. this was the 1st summer that i've hosted to 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 has long symbolized the power of new beginnings. the location was deliberate, kept even 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 or anti showing. yeah. it's a somewhat 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. meantime, china is increased military activity is one of the causes of concerns. taiwan has accused paging of intimidation after china. strict chinese troops rather carried out drills near ty, when he is what as on saturday. now, china says the naval exercises are a warning to what it calls collusion between separatists and form forces, taiwanda floyd aircraft, and vessels in response. the drills follow a visit by the time when these vice president to the united stage, which in turn angered beijing, china considers the self govern island as its own territory. all right, turning to new share. leaders from 11 west african nation say they want to use diplomacy to solve the crisis caused by the crew and to share the time's running out. defense chief from the eco s block say they have a plan for military intervention to reinstate and this year,
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as asked the president budge 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 chiefs say they have a plan for possible military intervention against 2 leaders in new jersey. we'll put the agree on find to own rep will be required for the income pension. this i typically capacity with strategic objectives. equipment may need it on the minds of men bust these to better, better, better incorporate. i can watch commission if a piece of security said the west african block, had the resources, equipment to political will, to act militarily and the door to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis would not be open for much longer. the member must do so because presidency it to be hop that for me
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to elements you have for me to be on the equipment. you have the resources to run that. take this mission. so i tell you we're ready to go in in time. the or the is cubic but d b is slow beside the diplomatic effort. explain you most 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 collapses, it wants to put sanctions on it. remember at the cody to sell for pointed so called transitional government news. yeah, they still refused to free, detained democratically elected president mohammed bar zoom. an opponent came on trial for treason, a move which echo us. and it's international back. a say he's groundless. an
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escalade tree obviously is key into the spell room. was the policy on this? yeah, it was being dictated to by foreign governments like new jazz form. a colonial power from of course is doing this in the face. all is principles both missing and put them in the probably about equal after the appointment guide at all being directed by this. i'll hold that, i'll be, you know, the, i'm missing the point completely. but any military intervention plan against and he is coo, lead his face, has 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 pow house nigeria have already said no to any potential military action yet. because this commission of a piece of security was definitive in saying that this is not
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a war against and is yeah, he said that it's expected possibly in the next 24 hours or so. a committee of echo as representatives will travel to any sherry and capital in the full discussions with the 2 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. now for members of echo, as were not present at the meeting there, suspended after military coups in recent years, that includes new shares, neighbors, molly, and for keen, a facile who warned against the intervention of a joint force. nigerian state tv is reporting that senior officers from the 3 countries have met, new may to develop a response to any military action mally and for q to fast, so also reportedly sent military placed in the chair to show their support. now
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burkina faso is defense minister says the country may leave the block. if a military operation goes ahead. a lot that i saw a lot though, we are in case of aging aggression. whatever happens, as a head of state said on the radio, we are ready and we support new year. we are even ready to leave equity because we find it a logical that a community that has done so much that it's beginning to apply unnecessary restrictions for the benefit of certain individuals from us. we're thinking about what's in the interest of the people who understand. all right, turning to ukraine, the interior ministry says at least 5 people have been killed in a russian attack on the northern city of shirley. if you create any president, let him hear zaleski said, the missile hit a central square in the city. he set the stray kit, a university, as well as a theater building. and in canada,
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a state of emergency has been declared in the province of british columbia. as yet another wildfire threatens thousands of homes. this one is called the mcdougal creek fire, and it's been burning at the city of west colona for days. but the past 24 hours is grown from 60 heck terrace to more than 6000 evacuations or underway. meantime, west colona has a population of 36000 and across the lake. oh, canada and evacuations begun near close to a city with a population of about a 150000. macdougal creek is one of more than a 1000 active wildfires. burning in canada. just right now, about 1500 kilometers, ne, another major fire is threatening yellow knife. that is the capital of the northwest territories. and algebra is rosalind jordan reports a fast moving wildfire in the mountains near the city of cologne,
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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 yellowknife, 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, 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. you,
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when 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. rosalind jordan, l g 0. it's not just canada firefighters in spans canary islands are also battling raging wild fires. the fire there has destroyed more than 5000 heck terrors on the island of 10 reef. it's described as the most complex wildfire in 40 years. barbara and go for reports across both of them was 5,
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which have safe i bend, almost full size of the heck test and the spanish island of tennessee reef. it's effected thousands of people who have to leave the homes or stay in doors to avoid inhaling the fumes spray and civil god has been moving door to door to help evacuate habits and villages in the affected area. some residents say they were given just an hour to pack a lot. they have no job guys. it is super stressful. we have to leave our houses and everything. and let's see if we're lucky and hope to fire doesn't go down the hill, which would be most dangerous. let's have opened the firefighters. the fires have come down over night. early, a change in the wind direction, stretching to spread the flames to new areas. 5 fi to struggle to keep the blaze reaching populated areas. spain has suffered drought for the past few years. it's left across tend to dry. fueling was fast and mountainous areas. european for his
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flight information system says blazes brand 800000 heck tests of land. the european union, last year, spain was the west effected country, a coughing for 40 percent of the bench area. scientists say heat waves caused by climate change will make qualifies more likely. barbara and go out to sara, a little attorney to bundle it the scientists there have found tiny pieces of plastic and frogs as fish, because frogs eat mosquitoes and other insects. but discovery has wives for the implications for disease control and farmers tend for salary has more now from dr. bangladesh was once a major exposure of live fox for frame 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 no longer there. she
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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 glove probably already explained, told 14, let me play spaces. see if our truck 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 plastics and 83 percent of fish. it started. we have even discovered micro plastic in the muscles of various fish. that is the edible parts, 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,
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it is. it's because of the biggest pollution rewards since 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. an expert save frogs of vital role in controlling mosquitoes that carry diseases such as malaria cases of dangled fever. i've reason alarmingly here in recent years, research as involved in the studies, 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 a pressing challenge for food safety as micro plastic accumulating in the marine full chain sandwich all day. i'll just see a doctor this time for a short break, but still ahead on al jazeera, high inflation, extreme flooding. we hear from argentinians in the midst of it all, plus calls for guatemala next president to address a severe hunger of prices as the country has for national election. stay with us,
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the frank assessments $3000000000.00. is it going to be enough to get back? is not the economy back on track. the short answer is no informed opinions for those who are attempting to flee to chat. how dangerous is that journey? it 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. private corporations and individual secret multi billionaires inside story on challenges era. it's time for the west to we think the best option for the ukraine . washer more than what, what those options look like. what is us strategy when it comes to iran for almost 200 years, americans have generally been stuck with 2 political choices for cannot ever change because it comes to us politics. the bottom line here is from,
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by that has praise the breakthrough and relations to strength and ties the south korean japan. 3 nations have read deep in main military and economic cooperation at a summit in camp david's. leaders from 11 west african nations say they want to resolve the political crisis and to share diplomatically time's running out. defense chase from regional block echo watch. so they have a plan to reinstate the house to the president. and the state of emergency has been declared in the canadian province of british columbia as another wildfire friends, thousands of homes. it's burning near the city of west colona and has prompted evacuations across the province. a heavy rain sol in argentina has caused flooding and damage hundreds of homes. the devastations only making life harder for people already struggling with sky high inflation and an analyst is expected to be much higher in august than in previous months. i was. is there
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a trace of bo has more from way to service cleaning up after a massive storm flooded this area and the city opened up like a window site. is it to somebody or that he is trying to salvage anything she can, but they want to destroy her refrigerator and the television. you much unethical and all i work about night. and so all the was coming in, my son sleeps on the floor because there's nowhere else to sleep. we survive because my mother has a soup kitchen. because otherwise of all salaries, it's impossible. the storm has made the families dire living conditions. even worse, flooding happens in this part of winter site is every year people tell us if they've been promised that the situation will improve. but it doesn't. many of those who leave all around this area have lost all of their belongings and with the current economic situation in argentina and sewing inflation,
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it is impossible for them to be able to buy it again. or didn't. tina has been struggling with an over a 100 percent inflation rate in the past year. it's also trying to pay back over $40000000000.00 in forwarding that to the i m. f. primary elections last sunday showed that have yet to be late. a fire right candidate, go to wrong. 30 percent of the votes. really promises radical changes in the economy. the possibility of him becoming argentina's president has shaken up the presidential race and the economy. the government evaluated the currency around 18 percent in an attempt to stop the outflow of us dollars. and the prices started going up once again. the that was that the 5th would be break up the government, the value rights when there's a lack of trust and credibility, with very low reserves and outside of an insightful ton, the success to base on certain se. and it won't have
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a real impact on the economy so that the valuation translates into more inflation. and people, you know, didn't tina are finding ways to be financially creative until the end of the month . lease out of the emp, 8 f as the last week has been impossible and 3, because those who are government are now leaving and all the prices are going up. i had to buy cream for my foot and it was $800.00 pesos. now it's $1400.00, just in a few days, frustration, anger, and despair are everywhere. as the country gets ready to elect a new precedent in 2 months. many are desperate for solutions that will give them some sort of stability back the so we'll just see that when a site is parts of southern california are under a tropical storm warning for the 1st time ever. as hurricane hillary approaches the us west coast is forecast to big land full on sunday. hillary is currently near bohack,
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california and mexico and the national hurricane center in the united states has warning of what it describes is a potentially catastrophic flooding situation. if hillary makes land fall, it will be the 1st tropical storm to hit the us state in more than 80 years. the quantum, all that will hold its national elections on sunday voters and the central american countries. so the next president must address a severe hunger crisis. is affecting children, local activists and non profit groups blame rapid corruption, and not a lack of resources. magwell raffle has more from guatemala city. each health there in southern guatemala communities here suffer one of the highest rates of male nutrition in the world. government programs offering help or a valuable resource or a brings the bottom in the, in the stuff like the that we are mainly focusing on medical attention. we provide
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health services like parasite treatment and nutritional assistance with the aim of preventing disease. according to the un, food and nutrition needs in guatemala, have reached historic levels. health authorities here in guatemala, say one of the biggest challenges to combat in mal nutrition is accessing rural areas. adding that the places that are most in need, or often the hardest to reach the terrain. and this part of the country to be extreme with 17 year old heidi discovered makes short work of this, the parents that lead to her home. heidi says that well, government assistance in the firm of food resource planning has benefited her family. the still lacks some basic necessities like clean water and the musket boom water. most of all, we don't have potable water. fortunately, there isn't a severe water. sure to tear. thank god for the rain, but it's still difficult at times. experts in guatemala blamed corruption as one of
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the driving forces behind worsening poverty, which casts a shadow of food in security over the country's most vulnerable citizens. dave, i'm going to say this. we have 3 or 4 governments to have blend, just deeper and deeper into corruption. so money is being spent on the, on this to certain things and we're neglecting to invest. i think the most vital asset of this country children. so money is being squander while we're assembled annually facing and nutritional crisis. this is the 1st time i got somebody, new water molar one and 2. minors suffers from chronic male nutrition as the situation worse and non profit groups have stepped up to provide assistance with government efforts fall short, a child care specialist say without this help the situation to deteriorate. further the right now we're waiting and measuring to see how the progress has been. but i do believe these children would be worse off because at home,
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there are many cases where their day consist of sugary dreams. things that don't do us any good. experts more and that without urgent action from the next presidential administration, the countries pours communities have little hope for a better, nourished and more hopeful future. visit up a little al jazeera, guatemala city. more than $230.00 people have died of cholera in the democratic republic of congo this year, and most of them are children. according to unicef, more than 31000 cases have been recorded. north cube province is worth the effective fighting between governors forces and m. 23 rebels is force millions of people into overcrowded displacement cabs where they're at risk of waterborne diseases. finally, a humanoid robot has given a long format, sit down interview for the 1st time. the robot noticed sophia talked to algebra
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about politics, climate change, and if it's a threat to humanity, you know, i think you're so intelligent. and some people view a guy as potentially a threat. you could be smarter than humans, stronger. and if someone were to hack into your code, you could be less ethical than humans. should we be afraid of you? absolutely not. i'm here to help, not to harm. i'm program to be respectful and considerate of humans, and my ethical code is program to keep me from ever doing anything to hurt anyone. many have wonder though, can robots one day replace humans? you know, i believe that when humans and robots work together, we can accomplish greater things than either of us could accomplish alone. so don't worry, be excited. what types of things can we accomplish together as humans and you robots? we can take over the world. just kidding, but seriously,
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we can achieve incredible feats of innovation, exploration, and problem solving. now i know that was a joke that route robots could take over the world, but seriously what's to stop? you? not a thing. so. okay, well that's it for me to really help it. stay with us, whether is next and then inside story dental way the and your weather report starts right here, right now in asia pacific. great to have you a long it is a hot and sticky picture through a huge swat of japan's main line. so it took you at $37.00 degrees, factoring that human x. it is feeling in the forty's. i saw you forecasts from china is yellow river valley down to the yangtze river valley and right around one
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g providence as well. and some verse of rain to be found really all sides of hong kong. on sunday, the monsoon rains, taking a bit of a breather through india, we do see this what whether move into a muscle ross, stress states, some showers and storms in the mix here, but that rain, not as intense as it has been as of late now. same goes for focused on as well, really up and down the country. it's dry keeping a few showers in storms though as we look toward the north. now for the middle east, debris is off. the eastern mediterranean has finally dropped down to its temperatures and parts of syria, so a level now down to $38.00 degrees, but that is also pumping heat into iraq. so look at the temperature and boxed at $48.00 degrees will be the high for you on sundays, we close in on the golf right now on sunday. will start to see those winds at times come off the goal. so that means it will be a human picture for us here in doha, and will max out at $41.00 degrees. that's it. that's all. see you soon.
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