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states for mexico's presidential election will be announced. will this be the 1st time in the country's history to women? go head to head for the top, jo, september on al jazeera, the the general who let a cooling over through good bonds president has been named the entering lead the serial venue a. this is elsa 0 life from don't also coming up in the program. hurricane and dalia, alicia's heavy rain and plunges thousands of homes into darkness. in the us state of florida. moscow bounds revenge as ukraine launches its largest wave and throw strikes deep inside russia. and will be taking
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a look at the rear super moon. as lighting up the sky, the, the african union of the united nations and france are condemning yet another military coup in africa. this time in the central african country of gabon presidents allie bone goes under house arrest, and the government has been dissolved military coup leaders of appointed this man general. bruce will leave the game a as transitional leader, president that lead bongos family has ruled the oil rich but impoverished country for 55 years. it was jubilation across the country. but the deposed president is asking people to rise up from set a goal. nicholas hack begins our coverage celebration on the streets of the capital, the believe you get one free give on liberated to crowds of waving palm leaves and
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assign a victory hug. do you have any soldiers hours after they carried out there? said mos, we are so happy, there's a sense of joy. we'll be waiting for this moment. for so long we suffered so much poseurs. jumped the name of the man leading because he didn't hide it, but he's clicked that or the in gwinnett has been named as the transition leader. and he is the head of the presidential guard, which pledge to protect president of the bone. go a close aid to bone, go or leave puts bone, go under house arrest, bring to an end. the 56 year long bone go. family dentist, i'll be bone. go when seen a strong and invincible appearing desperate. and the lone, appealing for help from his palace, where he's being detained. so i'm calling you to make the noise to make noise, to make noise, lee, how i'm thinking you a call that has fallen on deaf ears following the presidential election on saturday
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. the vote was marred by a massive fraud, says the opposition longer ordered the shut down of the internet and band international observers and foreign journalist from covering the election. when boned goes, your election was announced on wednesday morning. the soldiers seized power, nearly from genta. vote. the election results interesting dozens of electoral officials and accused them of trees. about this, the day we have decided to defend peace by putting an end to the current regime in the general elections of august 26, as well as the truncated results are cancelled. the boat is closed until further notice all institutions of the republic, or there's all that the african union has condemned, the latest qu, in the region. but the gap in these people appeared jubilant. these things in national anthem, in chance, we have chased injustice and she did bone as it working to and you don't nicholas hawk out to 0. a good bon is one of the francis closest allies in the region,
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and french authorities have condemned the cool. but the gavin is living in france or celebrating this mutiny. they gathered outside their embassy in paris houses here as natasha butler was there. the community is gather all the boys in class. my people have been telling me to be on the double thing going to day. once again, they say it's because it's a peaceful revolution hosting to be sometimes it's just some of the for school, we are delighted. i'm 47 and all my life i've only heard about the bung goes and so for going these people, it's a realization that the bone goes off, finished with a bundle. 16 is doubled. the i'm subject case of the same doubles and depends on the need to maintain very strong ties, shooting for,
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to present to form very strongly, many different tiers should phones is enables the family agent saying, well, well, people here say has never trickled down to marry people in one and now from this one, disbanded the gap and these people want to take this to full screen of polls. watson calling, i think friends will see that we are capable of running our country well. and we hope the friends support us, but not to recreate a neo colonial relationship, but as an equal economic part that knew what the french government has content, what a goals of crew to tell you. a call to evaluate q. bronze is closely watching the situation and calls for the results of the election wants to know to be respect to the next your, the is, is going to be very concerned about his interest in the machine facing double and
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a number of large friends. in the country as the 0 powers, the cooling combined is one of several military takeovers in recent years on the continent from molly's a, chad guinea burkina faso, most recently new chair. now gabon elected presidents were ousted by the army. the majority of the crews unfolded in french speaking nations where france has military bases and french companies have business interests. government as the 8 largest producer of oil in the region at 200000 barrels a day and has the 2nd largest manganese deposits in the world. french companies like total energy and mining giant error, met dominate the bonds business sector. and despite the bonds mineral wealth, a 3rd of its estimated 2300000 people live in poverty. france also maintains a military presence in the country with around $400.00 soldiers permanently stationed there. as i'm address reports from the capital of new share of france
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appears to be losing its grip across the region. is in it uh, 40 and african army has again struck in french speaking africa. natalie is a 10th attempted or successful cool on the continent. and so, yes, you of a very post president of global legal joints, the growing list of french allies sucked by the military in what seems to be a continuous trend in west and central africa. yeah, i liked the closing government in guinea. growing insecurity is given us the main course of the change in governments in brooklyn, across so the smiley and is your supporters of the cause in the say how regency funds that's popping up need is quinton give and fretted access to that countries resources. so the problem in the last 12 years western allies fronts, especially we're more interested in our resources, one we will live in poverty and lack of security. this year has for more than half
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a century to be supplying french nuclear reactors with uranium fuel. but the local population is particularly unhappy that the former colonial power has failed to help improve their lives. no help reigning attacks by i'm goose finishes and elsewhere, which are some of the reasons advised by leaders of the military coup last month. all the countries now under military rule, in the region and different sentiments are particularly high in money and leave the june to order french troops for these. and that is expected to happen in the share . many times which we call diplomacy of the net, i believe this will pop pause from from england everywhere they meant in africa in this uh, cuts us tools, the kind of in the ability to, to, to, to meant and do you have diplomacy, the population really, the one to feed themselves, froze maybe quickly losing its grip and interesting it for my call is, but i'm going to say the former colonial power must change its strategy in relating
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to the countries it used to. if it wants to remain relevant now, and how many degrees i just need a yeah, me emergency services have been deployed in florida after hurricane and dahlia slammed through the western coast with strong winds and rain. it caused flash floods and knocked out power to thousands of homes. warnings of a life threatening storm surge floods and high winds were issued. the most afford is 21000000 residents. at least 2 people have died in road crashes related to the storm. the hurricane week into the category to store method approach 7, georgia nbc news corresponding j great reports from gainesville in florida. as you can see, conditions here in gainesville have changed dramatically overnight into the early morning, driving raines and, and strong. when that's given way as the storm has pushed through and out of florida now and moving into georgia, what it left behind. no it's,
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i'm pretty severe damage in this area. we had some power outages, some fries that were down, a lot of that power restored, but it's along the coast line that this storm did. it's most devastating work. a wall of water 10 feet high or higher, pushing into areas. frankly, it's never been before flooding out many of the towns along that coastline. and then you also get that driving wind a 125 miles an hour. is it made landfall ripping apart most everything and a half? now the storm moving into georgia and still causing serious problems, flooding already an issue there. and it will push into the carolinas and then eventually forecast per se, turned out perhaps by the end of the day, or overnight and back out over the water. one other thing that is a concern along the path of this storm is still a concern here. coordinate those there warnings and watches across the strike zone right now. that will continue for quite some time as well. that's the very latest from here in gainesville on j grey president joe biden says the government is
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helping with relief efforts a federal change on the ground. they're going to continue to work with the 1st responders in florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, to get people to safety. you've all been reporting this as soon on television or number of rescues already taken place. as i walked out of my office a moment ago to begin to recover from the impacts of the store. and mike hannah is at the white house. the biden administration appears to be doing everything possible to show that it is doing everything it can to help the states deal with this current crisis. as the president that has directed the administrator of the federal emergency management agency, fema, to travel to the area, to assess the damage, to see what the federal government can do in terms of assisting local administrations. and then to report back to him. now she again chris will be
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administrative, also brief. the meet you on the situation along with reading the president. throughout the course of the morning, she made the very important point that the storms are getting more intense because of the woman of the oceans. she says that the storms passing over water that is getting hotter and hotter, intensify, and this lessons the reaction time for those who are getting to deal with the consequences of the storms on the situation in molly president by the end of the to that as well. saying that some $95000000000.00 will be sent to hawaii to improve the electricity grid throughout the state. this an important element. office administration's proposed and concern with what is happening and these natural this asked as he was criticized for moving late in terms of what happened in molly. however, now with the hurricane striking florida georgette north carolina, he does appear to be going out of his way to show that is,
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administration is hands on in this crisis and is doing everything it can to help a deal with. is that my kind of era at the white house, the ukraine has launched what appears to be the biggest wave of air strikes into rushes since the start of the war. ukrainian drones targeted these 6 regions in russian territory discuss city was the hardest hit. a large fire started in the airport where several military planes were damaged. they were also attacked their moscow that led to flights at several airports being suspended for the south. there are reports of drones being shut down in the brands, to luca oriole and the re, as and regions. the attacks went unusually deep into russian territory and mark a major escalation and ukraine's use of drone warfare. us and russia has hit back with our strikes on that ukraine capital killing, at least 2 people. rob mcbride reports from keith. this was one of the most
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intensive exchanges of ms island drone strikes so far in the war. attack drones struck 6 regions inside russia with the most northerly target and at base near the city of pus golf. wherever it's reported, more than 20 drones were used. starting lodge fires, full giant principal plains on the ground where hit. although the extent of the damage is disputed by both sides, moscow says it down to many of the attacking drones, accusing key of, of targeting civilians, assisted by its western back as me system the as give a ukrainian drawing a tax on civilian objects, confirm the terrorist essence of the keys regime. once again, it's clear that ukrainian drains, once able to fly those distances without assistance from western satellite information. so we can get for things monthly, but russia has will, and the strikes will not go unpunished. as is often the case,
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ukraine hasn't confirmed it's behind these latest strikes, maley referring to them cryptically, as accidents happening on russian territory. but leaders in cave say that ad base is used to launch attacks on ukrainian territory, all legitimate targets. just before daybreak, wednesday, much of key was awoken by a series of explosions as mold in 40 russian drones and missiles targeted the city in waves from all directions. would ukraine claiming to have shot down daily old of them? but they were casualties with several people killed and injured in what said to be the largest russian attack in month with every indication of more strikes from both sides to come from mcbride. i'll just say iraqi. the still ahead on that was a 0. indigenous communities call some protest says brazil, supreme court considers limiting their rights and central lands and the families of
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hundreds of bangladesh. she's who has been forcibly disappeared or demanding answers from the governor state the here's or whether update in a minute. 15 is always thanks for your time. there is a super type food in the south china sea and that is dragging a lot of rain across in your china. some heavier pulse is true to the south, so bang cocked to hoshi mean city. i think that's the zone that will really be the worst spot. if we go in for a closer look at our super typhoon, it's fretting a lot of rain to taiwan. some goes for the southeast corner of china, so thing, food. yeah, and, and one down provinces inundated with rain here, the risk of flooding and line slides. now the red lines, that's where the storm is going. just wobbling around hong kong and then we've got
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this tropical storm which will intensify into a type food through japan, through islands and potentially east china in the days to come. here's how it's looking in japan. we've got this batch of what weather between korea and japan, so by and large it is mostly dry across japan's main line, those temperatures up against ok at 35 degrees. also quiet for into an easy is java island, but some versa of rain to go for the dang and down under right now we've been setting records, adelaide temperatures have fallen off there. but pers, you could set a record for the last day of august. it's 30, we've got you in for 29, so it's possible. and in new zealand, nothing much to report, no weather alerts, but a bit of rain for gifted. that's your update. the between the 18 hundreds and as recently as the 9090s in canada, over a 150000 children were taken from their homes and forced into schools that stripped
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them of their identity and to offer their lives. as the search for unmarked graves continues and harrowing revelations emerge. people and power examines the long term consequences of the government funded system. residential schools, canada shame on a jersey to in the the, the watching else 0. a reminder of our top story is this. our military leaders in gabon have named a general bree, so leave in game a as transitional leader, place president of the bundle under house arrest, and enclosing overnight curfew. the u. n. the african union and friends have
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condemned to retain and dalia his head, florida and the southern us and has been downgraded now to the tropical storm. neighboring georgia and south carolina has also declared a state of emergency. warnings of a life threatening storm surge floods in high winds have been issued for most of florida is 21000000 residents. ukraine has launched what appears to be the biggest wave of air strikes into russia since the start of the war targets included in airports where reports of damage to military aircraft were disputed. russia hit the bank with strikes on the ukrainian capital key b julian presidents, gabrielle bora, cosigned, a degree for a decree, formalizing a search plan for the remains of people who disappeared during the military rule of, of go still finishing the truth and justice project as the world commemorates the day of the disappeared, and it's the 1st time since the end of the finish ever seen in 1990 the, the children government has trying to find those who went missing. thousands of
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people were imprisoned, tortured and killed during interstate 17 years in power, or latin america editor lucy, a new and is in the chilion capital santiago. with more on the story. it's a very intricate plan, but more importantly, it's the very 1st time that the julian state takes responsibility for trying to find the remains of those people. now it's uh, he did say that, he underscored that it was the responsibility of the state, the state. he said, had killed these people had tortured these people had made them disappear and the state has to find them. not the relatives who have been acting, he said, and i'm quoting him as detectives for the last half a century, trying to find out what happened to their loved ones after they were taken away by the military. there is a responsibility he says, to use science. he said also to make sure that there is enough money all the money necessary. he said in fact, tried to find places where the remains might have been buried. hidden, we know,
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of course, that many people were thrown out of helicopters or their bodies blown up with dynamite, so that it would be impossible to find them perhaps, but out of $1100.00 people, some remained. certainly clag can still be found after all this time. in bangladesh, the families of victims of force disappearances have rallied to demand their return . they accuse the government of harassment, of trying to silence them. human rights groups blamed security forces for more than 600 missing people in the past 14 years. 100 schroeder, a has more from the capital doc. initially it's land breaks down as she describes the movement she heard our father's mind was saying was abducted by um, police in the me for a yell talk out for years own there's no trace of the businessman, you know, to have a feeling that father is still alive and would like to know where he's now. if you've killed him, you can please let us know where he's buried. then no one would have to worry that
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he's still missing, but he's been, i can have a funeral for him to the local, an international human rights organization, say more than 600 bangladesh as i've been forcibly disappeared since 2009. so i'm returning home. but refused to talk for fear of reprisal. many of those were found dead in remote locations. ju marked as brother went missing in 2015 police later said that the student and the opposition political activism had died in custody. related to detain me along with my parents and my brother who was the main target and ultimately became a victim of custodial torture and death. i was kept in jail after he died for another 6 months. copeland and michael checked my wit, protesting vices against the oppression and harassment of the indigenous people in the chapter. drum hill tracts, region witness to say, both where victims are forced to disappear and says by state security forces. we
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have one demand that everyone along with michael and co pa da talked about who are victims of enforced disappearances. be immediately when the number of fund for disappearance as an extra judicial killings. how's the fall and significantly since 2021 that was run the us government impose sanctions on come under as of the rapid action battalion. that's the countries lead anti terrorism police unit for rights abuse and their role in enforce disappearances in risk and wellness family members of the victims up and for its disappearance had been subjected to intimidation and harassment by members of the law enforcement and intelligence agencies. this sonya, this loves brother was seized by security forces 10 years ago. the opposition party leader is still missing. the key to all the family members want is for those who are victims of enforced disappearances and subject to torture and secret detention sells to return home. every day. we still dream of uniting with them. the
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bangladesh government has dismissed the allegation as false and fabricated, and government ministers have repeatedly failure to respond to concerns raised by the un, the us and other foreign governments from the judge rate of this data doctor the best the municipality has inaugurated a memorial. so sharina, actually the veteran alpha 0 journalist who was killed by his really forces in may 2022. the abraham reports from best to him in the occupied west back. it's been almost $500.00 days since. and it's really nice, fresh, off, and killed just sitting, i will, i'll click, but no one has been held accountable yet. what about a city is continue to fight for justice. there are still some of the defying her memory. and remembering, sitting, this is the latest memorial design by the best policy. and the architect says
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that you wanted this tourism been the symbolism of the city, the black league show in city and speak to it basically resembling headed off from the screen as a whole. so assembled students from different areas from palestine to show jerusalem. he says that this is kind of the front and center of citizens coverage here in the occupied to us bank. and underneath that there's a sense of the city is to love. in some absence, there's greater presence sherry and will never be absent. be corrupt her report, a disease. it's very difficult to get your, you know, memorial no activity is enough to on it's not difficult to see cities fixtures and memorials in different places, impala fine, and elsewhere in the world. but people here tell us that the most important place
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to stays in is in people's hearts and minds. is that, but he just, that's what him the of us trulia will hold a referendum on october 14th to ask voters whether the constitution should recognize the indigenous population. the 122 year old constitution has never acknowledged the images in business. people as the original inhabitants, they make up nearly 4 percent of australia as population. indigenous leaders and activists in brazil or calling from nationwide protests because of threats to their way of life. yet supreme court judges are about to deliver a ruling that may limit their rights to in federal lands. monica yanna care reports from rio de janeiro, the indigenous people across brazil, once more facing threats to their survival. for 2 years, they've been urging the supreme court to take action and confirmed their rights.
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twin sister, lance, tribal leaders warning supreme court president cause of that and certainly has bred violence. it was take care of us because sleeping peace knowing that our constitutional rights have been questioned and the mercy of invaders who, gravel lands at any cost. the issue at stake is a landmark case establishing a timeframe to limit the number of indigenous reserves in brazil is approved. we tribes living on their territories at the time presume, enacted its constitution in 1988 can claim to yeah, using spring bench brooklyn, and requested that we have a problem with that date before. 1988, many indigenous peoples were forced out of their territories at gunpoint presented was the military dictatorship and they had no means to fight for the rights of the 1988 timeframe is established. their land claims and hundreds of others will be
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a note. but even if the justice is rule in their favor, results, indigenous peoples are facing a still greater threat. this time from the conservative dominated congress, the powerful farm lobby is pushing for a bill that will open protected indigenous territories to commercial activities, such as logging in farming. it also allows the government to reclaim existing reserves environmental safe, that this legislation not only puts the survival of hundreds of tribes in danger, but also that of the amazon reinforce with the clear possibility of conflict release from each branch of the government. there's a certainty on both sides of the debate about exactly what land rights in brazil will mean in practice. monica not give ultra 0. we are just a narrow. now before we let you go, have to show you this. if it is a clear night sky, then look out of the window,
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you might be able to see the biggest brightest moon of the year. it's called the blue super moon. it's the closest it's ever been to earth this year as it moves around its orbit. and although it's called a blue moon, that is not actually it's color a car leg explains a from a walk row. one katara is east coast this once in a blue moon and is once in a super blue moon. and that's what we have here. i'm joined by some asked or photographers as well as space enthusiast, and we've been using these telescopes to get a closer look at the moon. this one is rigged up to a laptop. it's giving us a very precise image of the moon. it's that it's brightest and biggest that it has been so far this year and a half to say it's pretty spectacular, even to the naked eye. now it's called a blue moon because it's the 2nd, the full moon of the month. we have the 1st one at the beginning of the month that was cool, discharge, and moon. and this one has come at the end of the month. they called super moons,
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because they were the closest on the moon's rotation to the us. and so we can see them a lot brighter and a lot bigger. now the next time we will get to see a phenomenon like this will be about 2037. so you better get out and see it. because as i say, it only happens once in a blue moon the, this is also 0, and these are the top stories. military leaders in the bone have named a general recently in game a transitional leader. they have placed president tally bundle under house arrest and imposed an overnight car, a few that you in the african union and friends have condemned the vision. it has already didn't get my police general brief. legally. any grandma's been unanimously appoint.
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