tv News Al Jazeera August 20, 2023 12:00pm-12:30pm AST
12:00 pm
seen in recent weeks, this russian old folks monastery has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries. the a 3 year transition until civilian rule. that's the proposal from new jersey to leaders, as they tried to stave off the military intervention, the hello, i'm kimberly help if this is out 0 life. and uh huh. also coming up, thousands more, people leave their homes and british columbia as wild fires ripped through western canada. the stage is set for spain and england as sydney house, the fee, so women's world cup final plus i'm seeing human in people were
12:01 pm
equis, orange will be going to the polls to elect a new president after a campaign marked by unprecedented by the news years military leader is proposing a 3 year transition to civilian rule, the statement from general abdur romaji on a follow tox, with a delegation, the west african block echo us. they also met in his years to post president mohammed, but soon it goes. hawk has more or answering the dentists called to mobilize. tens of thousands of volunteers gathered outside of new year's nationalist take him to join the armed forces. so the genta, this is a show popular support for last month's qu, inactive defiance and the face of the threat of military reactions from the west
12:02 pm
african body eco box which wants to reinstate the deposed elected president buses. and the crew leader general gianni delivered a message of his own after meeting an echo aust delegation in the capital. and yeah, me neither the national council for the safe guard of the homeland nor the people of new york war and remain open to dialogue. but let us be clear, if an attack were to buttons are taken against us, it will not be the walk in the park. some people seem to think the costs delegation ultimate with president, but assume he's being held with little access to food or electricity. his health is reportedly deteriorating. we met him, we heard from him what was done to him. she told us about the problems he's facing, that we will take the leaders that sent us here. did you take, use him of treason for acting in the interest of a foreign state, alluding to france, the former colonial power, the tempe, the need to meet them all?
12:03 pm
the will tact militarily, is to stop what could be seen as a contagion of cruise. there's been cruise in guinea, burkina faso, and molly countries who carry the echo off mandate like center goal and ivory coast wants to stop this. but these states are seen as to close to france. the former colonial power for part of the population echo was seen as the armed branch of the former colonial power. these the gentle leaders in neighboring molly in burkina faso have sent their military planes in solidarity to new sheriffs coordinator general gianni. and his supporters seemed to be determined to cling onto power no matter the consequences. nicholas hawked alger 0. okay, we're going to get more on the story from. i did raise who is live for us. and then i, jerry and capital a boucher. so what do you make of general chinese address to be, to be, to be honest, general chinese,
12:04 pm
a man under pressure. basically he's under pressure from the company community to of west african states, an international community. he's also under pressure domestically to deliver a festival. you have thousands of civil servants where you have to receive their salary for last month, and then we just few days through the end of another month. he really, really is a matter of depression. so he dedicated most of these significant parts of his speech to the nation, to the issue of sanctions imposed on the country. you call them cool and very, very disturb lising. and he said basically it's food and medicine. so i've been sort of chopped off. is that it's not receiving any ad. if this continues for a long time, it will generate entitled crisis and turn the tide, i guess is government. so basically he is looking at the possibility of it may be a growing international attention to the crisis news years facing is that is one of
12:05 pm
the poorest countries in the world. and it depends to a large degree to international how much, how much of these a couple of already by donors who think that the political situation that makes the store difficult to deliver anything. and also you're talking about sanctions imposed the country, and the only access to it has is through countries like a particular 5. so, and model which is also another little country motor, tanya and julia and this is becoming i see this problem for jenny at the moment. i was very quickly in general, she on a met an echo us delegation that she turned away the last time. do you think this is going to lead to any kind of breakthrough eventually? it looks like it at the moment i will waste a chinese trying to buy time for his government and unless he can do the boat with some of the key issues that brought him to power, i've been definitely, he wouldn't be running out of time shortly. simply those issues include of caustic,
12:06 pm
your to the c. c came to power. they've been 5 or 6 attacks appointment yet. and so just does this stuff so it just wasn't killed. and so it needs the support of course, he needs a new way or he needs and allow us to discuss the possibility of relaxing some of these sensors and also giving use administrative time to continue. so basically we're looking at the possibility that yes, they could be uh, told in the coming days and weeks, but we kind of show whether or not these are enough to shut off stable any military innovation in this. yeah, because if you look at brick and if possible, and molly such apartments as i've met and those leaders, those ministry leaders, student power. kimberly. all right, i had very slide for us there in a bush at the very latest latest. thank you so much. i the okay, well going to turn to neighboring malley now the united nations peacekeeping mission. there is speeding up its withdrawal as and security situation in that country. worse since the military and government has pushed the united nations
12:07 pm
mission to leave the country before the end of the year. out 0 sent. and monica reports un peacekeepers in there, in northern molly or rushing to pack their bags, dismantle equipment and shut down their operation. summer from ivory coast others from bangladesh. their objective was to protect this dark city of tim book, 2 from iso and all kinds of fighters, but they're being forced to leave before completing their mission. in june, molly's military lead government cold for the withdrawal of the un peacekeeping force known as mendoza saying, there was no peace for them to keep accusing the un, if an action to the face of attacks and blaming it for the deteriorating security situation. the head of the mission disagrees. let me show the money actually and how i feel the mission did a very good job, of course is not perfect, but we worked with devotion, sincerity, and coverage. and we paid a high cost. 300 and my colleagues have lost their lives and 700 were injured saving molly? so we feel we have done a lot of products, not enough,
12:08 pm
says june to leader a seem equally to he believes the country is better off without the international peacekeeping force. but with the help of russian mercenaries from the wagner group, human rights organizations accused molly and soldiers and russian fighters of war crimes, including rape, torture, and the killing of civilians. they're meant to protect number yeah, a lot of mean by the, in the body and state and the body. and we will try to take over those you in positions which appears to make sense. but given the context and the stolen piece of process, their presence may increase existing tension. those as the un force of pulling out all kinds of fighters attack the compound and bear injuring several peacekeepers. since there's been fierce fighting armed groups against the valley and army and russian mercenaries, each side trying to gain control the compound. looking to replace the peacekeepers, and course in the middle are the people of tempe up to vincent monahan,
12:09 pm
l g 0. and in sudan, artillery selling and explosions has been reported in the country's capital. as fighting between the army and paramilitary rapids support forces shows no sign event. a gun fires also been reported in um durham n. across the now river from hard to many people are trapped in the city, cut off and the conflict. that's the raging there since april. all right, we're going to turn to western canada now were tens of thousands of residents there . have been forced to leave their homes as to wild 1st threatened urban centers. the mcdougal creek fire has destroyed several buildings in west colona and british columbia. further, north crews are trying to keep the flames away from yellow knife past the capital of the northwest territories. i'll deserves petty co haines reports and
12:10 pm
this is why wild fires are so terrified in an instant. it shifts grows, consuming everything, and everyone in its wake. oh my god. this was nicky lawyers view from the passenger seat at the very ends you where the right to the right. that is where we felt the most intense heat in the car. you could feel a little bit of warm driving through it. but most of it, it was just the fear of all the rad. the read, the glow is all that lights up. the skies here in west cologne and british columbia, where tens of thousands of people have evacuated or been told to, with a no numbers of homes and buildings already destroyed. we will start counting the number of houses when we stop fighting the fires that are burning today. soon as we know, we'll share the information with jeff and julie hoffman evacuated. but they say their community is keeping them updated on what they left behind remotely. with the
12:11 pm
doorbell, cameras were on a facebook group, a community face for a group that just is posting constantly. here's how things look right now out the front door. it just gets piece people some peace of mind, a reassuring glance at their past, and they hope their future after this experience that they say has only strengthened their love of this area. we were generously offered our friends house while they're out of town. and we've heard again, just hundreds of people offering their places, offering their acreages to store all of their vehicles in their and their toys and their things. this has been a terrible wildfire season for many parts of canada. right now, the country is battling over 1000 wild fires, many of those classified out of control and headed toward new communities. every day, patty calling out to 0 and stay with the wildfires on the hawaiian island of
12:12 pm
maui. search teams are continuing the grim task of recovering the remains of victims. cruise from washington state and california are using police dogs to search for hundreds of people still missing. after wildfires raised much of the historic town of high, now the remains of at least a $114.00 people have been found so far, but most have yet to be identified. meantime, wildfires are also raging on the spanish island of henry for nearly 30000 people have been ordered to move to safety. at least 11 towns have been affected. michael apple reports tend to rephrase it. ins can do little but watches the way it's plays in full decades. it's rick and it's been north of the spanish china. wild fires began earlier this week in a mountainous national park in the center of the island. the fires have laid waste
12:13 pm
to move in 5000 heck. these are land within a 50 kilometer radius. no homes have yet been destroyed. residents are appealing to emergency services to do everything in the policy to keep it that way. i get back and forth with the state of defies. near the farm, we have a truck event, the farmlands, and or la haynes, or they, every time it's a business that was doing well. but if i could complete the ruin us, please do something about it because the buyers are right. they because they're worried about the animals. they've left behind the middle, something on the farm and are in front of the houses. we want them to stay the say that the father doesn't go to the homes and maybe some of the animals can be saved . we all, as you can understand, novice to thousands have been evacuated, but not every one is taking up the offer of temporary accommodation. the court, we are staying in the car. they offered us a place at a sports st down be. but we prefer to stay in the car because that we,
12:14 pm
we can watch if the house bigs or not. we know the, the smoke is hampering if it's the bath hold a blaze from the air, but we'll see already say they'll wake him to bring the wild fires. it's reckoning 11 towns under control like level which is 0 and it's southern california. it's bracing for what the us weather service calls catastrophic flooding. hurricane hillary is moving north along the coast of mexico's baja california peninsula. now it's expected to turn into a tropical storm. what it makes landfall late on sunday. for the 1st time in history. the city of los angeles is under a tropical storm watch. flash flooding has already hit baja. these are the scenes from the town of santa rosalia on the east coast as dependents villa forecast or say, hillary will bring heavy rain as much as the year's worth in just
12:15 pm
a matter of days. all right, we're going to take a short break. we're still ahead on al jazeera guatemalans had to the polls to elect a new president with crime and corruption dominating the campaign. the with us the, there's a developing disturbance and the australian via table one. those details right here, right now it's this shield of rain. it's going to throw a bit of rain into south australia states and goes for victoria, australia, capital territory, a c t rate down to tasmania. but we're not talking about a whole lot of rain here. so for example, in melbourne, maybe about 10 millimeters, so mostly overcast sky with the shower following throughout the day on tuesday. but
12:16 pm
it's much more steady rain for new zealand, especially the north island. the worst of it, though, i do think we'll be out over the pacific, but still get it strikes with some bands of rain and gives ben with a height of 15 degrees smelt. the rain has been more intense around the gulf of thailand here. so, southern indo china, many spots here have picked up to a 100 millimeters of brand new. i think we can expect the same and hold. you've been city on monday for china. let's do the action is south of the yangtze river valley. we'll call it and south, but with this breeze here off the east china see it is bolstering rain, so it is a very socket forecast on monday, as we head toward tuesday in p young yang, and same goes for the northeast of china. so a lot of rain around har been and still keeping that hits and humidity in tokyo is $35.00. but feeling about 40 soon a bit. the . it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. but it's great as rival is just
12:17 pm
a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between funds from a class device sustained over generations. most smoky junior support his opponents of news clip colors in an epic cute, a rich business put the funds who make football. when i was just the right the the welcome back. you're watching as a 0 reminder of our top stories at this hour is yours, military leader is proposing a 3 year transition to democracy. general abdur reminds jani made the statement to
12:18 pm
after meeting a delegation from the west, african block echo was in the capital nam may on saturday. southern california is bracing for what the us weather service calls travis traffic flooding forecast or say hurricane hillary will bring heavy rain as much as a year's worth just a matter of days. the canadian province of british columbia has declared a state of emergency as wildfire as rich for the region. authorities have ordered tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. on the next hour, england and spain will face off in the fee for women's world cup final and both teams are on their 1st title. here's alex thomas with a preview from sydney, australia. the ultimate prize is inside the england and spain as
12:19 pm
each team seeks to when it's 1st women's world cup trophy, expect more passion and excitement with $75000.00 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 that means the most thought. so like, or it will hit when we're we're, 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 spending on believable tournament, most teams attacks 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 player of the year awards, england around feats and how to play an easy a 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
12:20 pm
aside switzerland, the netherlands, and suite. we are no england. we all know the play is i'll play 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 a sopping glenn sleep is the coach. serena 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 europe and final thoughts, the 1st world champion from that confidence since 2007. interesting lee,
12:21 pm
this will be the 1st time england and spain has played each of the other women's world cup. and it comes in the same stadium where england went to men's rugby woke up exactly 20 years ago. alex thomas, how does era say me? all right, for more our correspondents are at the found zones. paul reese is in madrid. the 1st for going to start with sonya guy i go, who is in london for us, is sonia talked to us little bit about the weather and this is the 1st time that they are in a world cup. final is pretty big mode for them, isn't it? absolutely, and i don't think you can underestimate how monumental this is and the fact that it is causing so much enthusiasm and really as, as you have funds already coming in to this event here, to witness this at this location in east loans. and you can actually feel the excitement and how the momentum is behind the line that says on jointed also by the
12:22 pm
open ice of this event. james king james, why did you think it was important to actually drive funds towards celebrating this momentous occasion? but it's not just the biggest event the way we spoke was it used to be as folks we learned about generation. so to be able to play upon nothing but people for at least loved their loved to germany, to this park. this is fantastic. it is also a real poetry of this because victoria pop is such an important historical area for the women's business of keeping the suffragettes back in the early 1900. so it's right to you have a women smoke upon with you in a st. paul, could somebody they concession back in 1913 as much indeed. and it's very interesting. you put it in that historical context as well. but it's also reviving this idea that in fact it is probably the women who are going to be bringing football back home and pop while exactly like i said before it's, it's more than just really spoke. now this is, you know, as much a massive event for a whole nation in the whole school to, to be, to see. so it's just
12:23 pm
a fantastic atmosphere. ready. i think we have over 20000 people here today. and that's going to be wonderful day. and what do you think the impact is going to be of this event is by when or even if i don't when? well, i think that the, the impact from the last week with the euro success, the, you know, the impact of the young people just will generally, and especially for young women as been monumental. so i mean, we're very proud of what the chase i follow, but it's, i think i 11 day move very large scripting and ask for that. so with that momentum behind them here, it's also important to note that even in spite of the injuries that the england team have suffered, a still persisted and hopefully assisting onto olds that comp final to actually when. all right, so you go live for us in london with the very latest. okay. read across now to madrid, and that is where our poll reese is. joining us live and talk to us a little bit about how important this game is for the women from spain. the well, kimberly m, i little i comment
12:24 pm
a completely random location and, but right at the moment, but about 10 minutes ago, they were hundreds of funds behind me. thousands further on queueing up to get into the weeds inc. center, which is put on a big screen just to show you this final uh, 6000 tickets all sold out. you know, the excitement has been has been building a lot. these are holidays in madrid at the moment. august is a ghost town. but as soon as we arrived here this morning, thousands of people started to arrive at sea this much, you know it's, it's a huge based for women's football football in spite of that 1st type of woke up final, let me bring in, uh, sonya trigo who is a uh full my football at hair in spite and the subdivision and sonya, how excited are you on the old spaniards about as much as i think that we are a very nervous and excited because you say we the opportunity for our team. um, i think we're going to win that we are nervous on the whole now how
12:25 pm
important is this for the women's game? obviously balls a loaner of a successful club. so yeah, but in terms of, um you know, women's football as a whole. i think it's very important for i, we're football on a for the football in his brain because we have to progress and all that. so i read about easy to add all the people know that a we got really a good players on 2 threes. they worked on um a, the fonts to that team. so we are growing low we've, i think that's what we're going to do to grow on to a continuance and getting things now that it's an even more amazing achievement, considering what happened with the team in the run up to this woke up with players leaving could you could you tell us a bit about that situation? yeah, i've seen that a, that opportunity a,
12:26 pm
a mega the ball a c that we've done least of for the football on some, some players. um. yeah, is a we grow, we achieve a dollar sign and competition more. mon let use done the fun play football with your new money. i'm leaving for that so well, it should be should be an exciting day. hopefully a big base for the women's football. so not too long to kick off about 35 minutes on the thousands of people the all behind us favorite move right somewhere will be willing that's a month to victory. all right, paul, race there live in the drive at the very latest. thank you so much for that. appreciate it. i okay, we're going to turn to eco or now where it is holding a general election in the coming hours. now it, it's important because it comes just weeks after
12:27 pm
a presidential candidate. there was assassinated or latin america editor lucy, a newman has more for us from quito. edwards, unprecedented political and security crisis, an unprecedented snap general election. a religious ceremony flanked by special forces served as the final campaign event, police down to the thought was replacing assassinated, anti corruption and crime candidates. but none to be said, seal put for bush, look like whether it is when that it was go. ecuador is now and knock of state. otherwise, how can we explain what's happening? we are a country that exports the largest amount of drugs abroad that also consumes as many drugs at home. what do you see if they pick up the reading of the polls by diminishing margin as lawyer lisa gonzales from the left wing citizen revolution party, still led by exiled former president, the file quoted at cuz he was sentenced to 8 years and it was sent you on corruption charges that he denies from abroad, he told ecuador,
12:28 pm
and set the good days will be back under lisa gonzalez. you will buys that. i see a country on its knees for going to start to put it back on it's feet so we can walk and then run. in a year and a half, we're going to control security and the countries, the prisons and the borders. but the candidate who poses to use an iron fist against crime is 40 year old jan topic, a kyra's magic new color in politics. the media now economist and security impresario shows off his tattoos from recent military missions. he falls into french, foreign legion in somalia, syria and ukraine, and was trained as a sniper topic last off comparisons to rambo, but tells out to xerox. kid myers. el salvador is controversial. president knight, mckinley goes economic buddy to i don't agree with everything he does, but if that's something that i admire about how solve it, those presidents, which we will implement in my government, is clarity and determination. read
12:29 pm
a new form of leadership with energy, urgency and determined to do what is necessary now. although it's a door and have a lot of choices, the winter won't have a lot of time. according to the constitution, the new president can only stay in office long enough to finish the outgoing president's administration. in other words, about 18 months after that, there will have to be a new presidential election, a situation many believe will increase in stability and govern ability. here in ecuador, to see a newman, i'll just hear, i clicked on and guatemalans are also heading to the pools in a presidential run, i've seen as a test of the countries democracy polling stations set up in schools and gymnasiums are being guarded closely by police and the military voters will choose between congressman bernardo era valo and sandra torres, a former 1st lady rushes luna. 25 space
12:30 pm
craft has crashed into the moon after spinning out of control. this happened hours after the experience with the space agency described as a fault abnormal situation. now the cross was preparing for maneuvers before landing. the mission was watched earlier this month as part of a race to explore the south pole of our planets, closest neighbor. the is out 0 and these are the top stores. this hour is years military leader is proposing a 3 year transition to democracy.
25 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on