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the on i'll just say around the challenges with the is really settlers a tech palestinian vehicles in the occupied westbank categories. really, women is shot dead. the men several of any age. great to have you with us. this is elza 0 life from the also coming up deserts transformed into rivers full force of tropical storm. hillary factors the west coast of the united states. the british nurses sentenced
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to life in prison for murdering 7 babies in attempting to kill 6 others. understand human and keep the equivalent where a runoff election will take place in 2 months after the 1st round, that ended in surprising results the we start with an escalating situation in the occupied westbank is really settlers of attack, palestinians after and is really woman was shot dead the attack happen near the city of hebron is really medias a palestinian suspect, opened fire on a passing vehicle. that abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank near to run us through what happened today. what we know has happened is that there was a drive by shooting more than 20 bullets hits and is really car, apparently belonging to a driver who was taking a hitchhiker,
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a woman with her 6 year old in his car. the woman has been announced dead by these really medical themes as well as at the man who has been injured and is in a serious condition after that attack. these really forces have located old entrances, leading, so hyper on they re did multiple towns looking for the suspects that they believe has conducted the sure thing they've been using helicopters surrounding homes, trying to locate him. they say that our 3 sources say that that has been a car that was found burns in the city of had who was needed hydro. and they believe that this was the card that was used by the perpetrator. remember, this incident takes place after that or at least 2 days after another attack, a shooting in a car wash and so water in the north of the occupies westbank on saturday. that's
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for, for 3 to has also been on the news with is really forces have a sense reinforcements to the occupied to us back to look for them. so there's been a lot of tension here in the occupies us back of the last 48 hours. and we've seen some of those attacking palestinian cars, attacking palestinian vehicles in south city is c r retaliation because we've seen in the previous months a set to the attacks intensifying against palestinians. part said killer these when i tax happen against is really soft. there's. we've seen the sound of the water with suck to there's re visits, birds, homes. and so. 7 that is, will tell you that's not the only do stuck those get away with these attacks and is really, are we, does this have to intervene? what they say the, these people, the purpose racers, they huge we need almost always gets away with the actions on attacks against about a similar knit abraham reporting from ramallah. thank you very much. and that was
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a 0 is harry false, at reports now from west jerusalem. the initial is really military response to this latest attack is being to announce to the appointment of a so the battalion of soldiers to the occupied westbank. that's about a 1000 personnel. they say that's to enhance security and aid in the mind on. so those this attack and the one involved in this saturday attack. so the noise in the town of who are the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has brought forward a security cabinet meeting that was due to take place in september to next week is secure to administer the fall, right? say go off. it's not then via had demanded such a meeting take place on monday in the hours off to this attack. we understand that's not happening. but he has also said that the policy of these really military and the occupied westbank has been to lenient so far. uh, colleagues of his on the far right to this government, making similar implied criticisms of the defense ministry of defense minister.
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talking about too much freedom of movement as they see it on roads inside the occupied westbank palestinians. there all those within the is where the ministry sources being reported in the media are saying that these kinds of comments unhelpful could the stabilize the situation. the already we have seen some attacks by settlers in previous shooting attacks by policy means that are being waves assessed or attacks against palestinian communities. and there are concerns that we might see something similar in response to this one as well. and is really forces of arrested 13 palestinians from the cities across the occupied west bank. the operations were focused around the town of myra ramos, south of bethlehem, fulcrum, albania, and cooper. and is really forces say that they're looking for a suspect, who killed 2 is realizing who are on saturday. now to the political crisis in this year, a former rebel commander and ally of deposed leader mohammed by zoom says that there will not be peace in the country until the detained president is released. the
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warning coming from reset beula comes as supporters of a cool rallied in the capital naomi. the military leader general abdul amman. johnny has proposed to a 3 year transition to democracy. he's under international pressure to reinstate the president's have to seizing power last month. addresses following the developments from the nigerian capital of boucher. what is more like uh, according to our homes by a reset. the former tours administer to preston mohammed by zoom. and he said his supporters, people of the same ideas or ideology and good by the cool in the country and that they were resort all means necessary, including the use of force to make life unbearable for the government. they had, they said that the country would never know peace until i'm advising these were leased by the agenda in may. and they also said they also accused the military
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leadership in new jersey for declaring war on the country. he didn't elaborate that and you didn't also just cause the mortality stuff that rebellion. remember, he is a, one of the notable commanders of the tory companion between 1990 to 1995 and in 2007 to 2009 until when peace was declared, a tooth was declared and the peace was a return to the north of the country without not, we're going to see large scale operations. we, we not sure at the moment, but that's way it's getting to know any de la, added as she is. a research are focusing on this whole region of west africa. and he explains how the gentle leaders are likely to react to the former rebel leaders warning. i especially don't think that going to be dismissed of, um uh, recycling is, uh, i put in his comments and she's recent agitation. but the reason being that they
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know she's credentials, they know what the landscape of the law, the, the amount of of a special and got to trust me. she is in the shadow and in neighboring countries where the weather. that's why i like um, uh, populations and the news gosh, use of the last few decades of the phone calls. you can see the, the occupation is really old. um, a told in costs time was inject a come from florida from the, from the phone and i was calling to say of to our in cost of applying for bands and recent blog with a major issue good respect to the episodes. and so the last thing, this is an addition to the pressure already being already weighed on them like an arrow from, was from the, from of the international um
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a powers. and they, they, i don't think it was. this is another problem. the one on the apple, exactly. addition to what they, according to the, the imposter, the deputy find themselves korean pricing, navigate pos, a tropical storm. hillary has brought heavy rain and high winds to southern california after causing flash floods. and at least one death in mexico city and country leaders, county leaders are asking california is to stay at home and power cuts or also likely run those reports from palm springs in california in death valley. normally one of the driest places on earth flood waters cascaded over a highway one sign of tropical storm hillary's force. as it battered southern california, the storm made land full on mexico's baja california peninsula on sunday and boot swiftly northward. one person was reported killed in mexico when their vehicle was
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swept away. 26000000 people are in the storms path. the national weather service warrant of catastrophic and life threatening flash floods, particularly affecting low line desert areas. some towns were under evacuation orders, elsewhere. people loaded up on sandbags and sought shelter indoors that down the hatches in los angeles, heavy rain flooded intersections, public schools in la and san diego will be closed on monday, one person was rescued from the rain swollen l. a river. right now, it is critical that angelenos stay safe and stay home unless directed otherwise by safety officials record rainfall hit palm springs and neighboring towns as if the storm wasn't enough of 5 point. one magnitude earthquake hit sunday afternoon near santa barbara and was felt by people throughout the area. as darkness falls,
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millions of people throughout this region are waiting age to sleep for the full force of tropical storm hillary to descend as one senior official in san diego county ward. the worst is yet to come. rob reynolds, l g 0, palm springs, california of thousands of people have been ordered to leave the areas in western canada where nearly 400 wine and fliers are burning. more than $35000.00 people are also under evacuation orders and the province of british columbia. canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season on a record. at least 1000 fires burning across the country. the i think, prime minister of spain says the wind fire on the canary island defended reef, couldn't be stabilized. soon. firefighters continued their 5 day battle over night . around a half the 26000 island is forced from their homes by the approaching flames. have now been allowed to return. police are investigating whether the blaze was started deliberately. the fire has destroyed large areas of national park pine forest in
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the north, far from forest areas in the south of the island. a british nurse has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering 7 babies in her care. lucy lit b was found guilty of attempting to murder 6 others at the neo natal hospital unit where she worked, let be refused to leave herself. the sentencing british prime minister wishes to enact says that he wants to change the country's laws to stop this from happening. i think it's cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face the victims. and here the 1st time, the impact that content had on them and their families and loved ones that we are looking and have been at changing the low to make sure that that happens. and that's something that will bring fluid into cost. houses here as sonya jago has the latest from london, i have only been 3 other women who have been handed down a whole life for the mattress. the deemed so dangerous that the possibility of
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being released from prison was deemed too dangerous. now lucy, let be joined. the ranks of the killing of 7 babies, a neo natal units in the countess the chest of hospital, as well as the attentive killing of 6 others. while she did not turn up to hear it has sentencing in court. today, the judge addressed the quotes directly as if she was stating that the meditation calculation and coming in your actions. now that will also present some dozen the relatives of the victims as well, giving statements detailing the enormous distress that these families start suffered. also what is being called into question is why did the hospital leave it so late for these decks to be investigates? that was indeed quite a bit of
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a contrast between how the consultants were wanting the executives of the hospital all the issues. yes, the executives of a hospital launch 2 inquiries initially which failed to include any forensic testing. one of actually police work hold in and investigators will looked at that's when it became obvious, all the expense of let fees in put into this. nevertheless, there are serious questions being off and inquiry is being put into place. but there are also calls for those executives of the hospital to be compelled to give evidence of why they left it so late to pull the inquiry again. so do you guys ever, i'll just, sarah, love them. that australian man has been charged with more than $1600.00 defenses of child sex abuse. the 45 year old is accused of committing the crimes when he worked in miles care sensors. now inter paul says the police forces globally are making some progress in combating the expectation of children,
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but that social media platforms, encryption and artificial intelligence are creating more opportunities to commit offenses. as sarah clark reports from birth of the 45 year old, allegedly right and abuse, 91 children, and over a 15 year period while he was a child care worker according what happened and sharing the content online, he's been charging calls in prison. this is going on right around the country. it's the reason we had a role commission and it's the reason the royal commission came up with the recommendations that did. there are a lot, as i said, is that they are doing this to children, child abuse, offenses the risk because the result of an international police operation, the rapid expansion of social media platforms such as tick tock, snapshot and facebook is increasingly helping a friend is she an access illegal material. what we're dealing with is a phenomenal amount of content that most of the victim identification seems closely
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trying to find the victims in. we're doing our best, you know, law enforcement is absolutely doing its best. but the, the, the production, the content as far as strips the actual human resources that police control at the internet is more than 32000000 reports of child sexual abuse. materials were quoted last year by the national center for missing and exploited children in the united states. live streaming technology is better webcams, and smartphones i've changed the way a friend is approach the victims is always on thinkable. how much material is actually out there. so that right is actually growing on an annual basis and it will continue to grow and less tech companies that have do a lot more to actually stop that. the whole story is globally and making some progress, instilling and identifying the spread of images of child sexual abuse. but the dock wave is making it even more difficult for law enforcement organizations with
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a friend is able to authorize anonymously online. it's here where a friend is, collaborate and share techniques on how to engage in groups of victims where you have a chat for ends with thousands and thousands of offenders p t. talk about how to offend and how to approach children online. i would speculate that absolutely it is having an impact on the rights of online grooming and children. it's a battle no last but one. the police acknowledge will continue to evolve. 0 o'clock alger 0, brisbin still ahead on alpha 0, the count down to the election in zimbabwe. we'll have the latest from the capital, rory plus the world's longest serving prime minister, hands over power to his son. stay with us the
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. let's go with an update on the monsoon rate is great to heavy along. so 1st 10 boxes found not much going on. it is quite up and down the country temperatures fairly well. they should be for the his time of the year, but it's in india with those rains are picking up in the northwest. so from him module production to the far northeast in our natural br dash. but it will be particularly bad for altura khan and alter protest states. and a question if we'll see flooding budget square and how bad it will be now for the rest of the country. fairly quiet because most of the energy is contained into northern india on tuesday. meantime, for the southern philippines, meaning no island, severe fight advisories in play here because of the monsoon rains. and if we look at china, we can trace out rain falling from glen g. providence to eastern china through these trying to see in the yellow sea. this rain will pour into the korean peninsula. it is going to dallas boats, p young yang and sol. so we look at the 3 day forecast in so we've got days of rain
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ahead. so tuesday, wednesday, thursday, it's raining by the time it's all said and done. could see half a month's worth of rain in 72 hours full and this weather report in indonesia and the lazy looking good in jakarta, is sun cloud combo there with a height of $33.00 degrees. and now you're in the know see of the as a i driven robots become more intelligent and more a ton and this will lead out smart us. do you think you could from the world one day if i ever decided to take on the world? i'm sure i do a great job roberts, never get tired of sophia, one of the world's most advanced humans like robots, and i will be talking to algebra 0. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world to what we've been using kind of files that matter to you. the
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you are watching alpha 0 or top stories this hour is really settlers of attack palestinians after and is really woman was shot dead in the occupied west bank settlers through stones of vehicles and assaults and drivers near romano. tropical storm hillary has brought heavy rain and gusty winds to southern california after causing flash floods. and at least one death in mexico city and county leaders are asking people to stay at home for british nurse has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering 7 babies. in her care, lucy litzy was found guilty of attempting to murder 6 others at the neonatal hospital unit, where she worked in bobby's opposition leader nelson,
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cham visa is holding his final rally ahead of elections. on wednesday, thousands of his followers are gathered in the capital. herani. 12 candidates are running for the presidency, but the competition is mainly between the incumbent. i'm assuming on god what, and to me. so how room with us that has the latest from her i nelson and so besides the saying to them always that he knows the economy is in bad shape. he knows. i mean, the families are struggling to make ends meet and people are concerned about height . i'm employment and corruption in the country. he says that if people want change in the ball with basic argument, because he is young, he's 45 years old and that's young in politics is about me. but he said we have new ideas to to round the economy. his policy is not be easy for them come last couple of months leading up to the vote on wednesdays. some of them are still in jail and some of them said it was about low to intimidation and manipulation. visit amazon and god, what had his last value on the fact that his seems to be infrastructure development
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. he's been going around the country and people, according to the ribbon cutting president because he's an opening bridges road schools, mind palms. his idea is that it is put in for such a engine while we that would attract investors and that could create jobs, could take off the winnings honestly. apart, you say that be minds, these problems only going to people who are lying to the beginning. son if he is hockey in 2018000 to music and very close to beating wisdom and god what at the presidential election. and people are saying that this race come wednesday, people vote could be another type, contract, hardaman, tulsa out there. but i think the world's longest serving prime minister has handed over power to his son. but the 1st transition of power in cambodia for nearly 40 years. it is unlikely to mean any change in policy. as tony chang reports, cambodia, as king arrives for the opening of the new parliament in the capital pen pen,
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just behind him home, sen, prime minister since 1985. despite international condemnation, the election in july was need the free nor fair. the king maintained to have faith in his new government. no. okay. i strongly believe that the new man died. government was leave the confidence from the parliament and will fulfill duties in accordance with the policy to continue to push for economic price and lift to the livelihood of people. but this palm and we'll see a shift in power, not from one policy to another, but from father to son. the 1st order of business is a vote of confidence in the new prime minister. and with a 120 of a 125 seats in the hands of the cambodian people, spotty, the c p. p. the result is in no doubt, one minute has been groomed for the tough job for several years. he took a noticeably high profile, rolling campaigning during the last election race. although he remained quiet about
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his plans for the new ro educated in the us and u. k. and the fluids, english because one minute may look more presentable in his father who grew up as a fighter in the jungles of campo during vietnam. but those expecting a change in policy like me to be disappointed. and then he keeps his way of thinking is not different from his father's to us, but he has more capabilities than his father. he's more presentable on the international stage, and he's seen as i'm thomas again may say that that that transition is already started. just last week, one minute was presented to china is foreign minister, one e, when he visited, but on pen. the smiles suggest the cambodia is powerful. allies expect friendly relations to continue. like father, like son, tony cheng elders, are the voters in ecuador will add to the poles in october for presidential rentals left when candidates we say gonzalez and her surprised challenger danielle noble
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beat 6 other contenders and sundays election marred by gang violence and the assassination of an election rival, let's see a newman has this report from the capital keep though it were drawing seem to or want the same scene as they went to vote for a new president. okay. much or no sir. that's too much crime and poverty. all we want to do is live in peace, but there was no consensus about who could deliver out of the candidates. louisa gonzales from the lift wing citizens revolution party came in 1st place, but with far fewer votes than expected. the assassination of her arch rival, 12 days ago, change the dynamic of the election. the reason why we have on file is campaign was the hardest hit is because the number of the sensor represented to most the sort of halt. cool. and so i go to use and he was,
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he had been in advisory for years and years, and he is his assassination. immediately sort of prejudiced recycle inside his his ticket. but when the counting began, 35 year old harvard educated businessman daniel and noble with the both wearing a bullet proof vest came in 2nd place when i got to humans. and i have an immense desire to improve the situation of the ecuadorian people. today we all live with a terrible uncertainty with insecurity and the lack of opportunities for young people. but i don't know how any minus it was always going to be an unpredictable race. but few could have predicted that the son of one of ecuador, as riches men, would sweep into a ronald's presidential election. then your noble lot is very, very new in politics, but he has a lot of money to finance of social media campaigns. yep. that's not the only reason, so many people voted to him. young people like least got to see a say they want someone who represents then you have to for me because he's
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a young candidate. we need someone young in politics. secondly, louisa goes to alice described her disappointing both as a glass half full. and this is the 1st time in the history of ecuador, that a woman gets such a high percentage of votes in the 1st round, winning the election to be the president of ecuador. but you will have her work cut out for her to win in the runoff in 2 months. a long time to wait for a country that is all ready really for money search indeed. and violets you see in human outages, era people through japan now where the prime minister will be holding a cabinet meeting on tuesday to decide the start date for the release of treated radioactive water into the ocean. earlier he met with leaders from the fishing industry to hear their views. the fishermen say that they're already under pressure from climate change and over fishing, and now they face threats to their reputation for food safety. but you and nuclear watchdog says the government's plan is safe. however, china,
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south korea and pacific island nations are against this. the stock market investors are disappointed by the latest efforts to boost the economy in china and stave off inflation. stock prices felt a 9 month low and the u on tumble in value after the central bank cut the main interest rate. traders were hoping for a larger cut in other measures. the world's 2nd largest economy is struggling with reduced demand for godes for goods both at home and abroad. the spaniards are getting ready to welcome home their champions after beating england to win the women's football world cup. for the 1st time, spain secure to one, no victory to take home the trophy in australia as captain, older carmona scored in the 29th minute. they have no joint germany is the only nations, the wind, both the women's in men's world cups for races in madrid. he sent us this reports a while of preparations to welcome to take him home with the world cup trophy,
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going at a quite short notice. here in spain, it was already decided what the venue would be and the hours after la beach england will know in the final, in sydney, the people behind me working in $35.00 degrees celsius temperatures. to build a stage where the team will arrive sometime after that flight lands at about 10 pm local time. and with the sun haven't going down. they were expecting many thousands of people to come down here near the point of delray to welcome them. now the overnight reaction has of course sent it on the historic 1st have a world cup, final victory, full the spanish when the same, but also on control receive after the match during the celebrations on the pitch and sidney, the spanish mobile federation president louis will be all as test one of the play as jenny. i'm also full on the mouth during their celebrations and she was seen in the social media video afterwards saying she did not enjoy it. now the spanish team already had problems with many players leaving the setup before the world cup,
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complaining about how they were treated. and this latest incident has caused a lot of control to say, especially among politicians, back at home with the a qualities minister saying it's an example of male sexual violence against women. so while this woke up has been a joyce occasion, it's been the biggest ever for women's football. it shows how much women's football has progressed. it also highlights how much that is still today. even here in spite in the home of the world cup, when is pull race, i'll just era madrid. the this is als is 0. your top stories this hour is really settlers of attacks, palestinians, after it is really woman, was shot dead and the occupied westbank. settlers threw stones at vehicles and assaulted drivers near ramada. how are you false, it has more from west jerusalem. you know that this woman was a 40 year old woman named that she knew greed. she was from an illegal settlement
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