Skip to main content

tv   News  Al Jazeera  August 31, 2023 3:00am-3:31am AST

3:00 am
the visits is still in mexico city. where's vocals are turning a notorious municipality into an urban utopia, a sense of community on a jersey to the of the floods in your legions. ticket bones, new interim leader to the president is overthrown in the military. cool. the time serial venue, it's great to have you with this. this is elza 0 live from the also coming up in the program. assessing the aftermath. the clean up begins as
3:01 am
a tropical storm and dahlia hits the us state of florida. remembering those last chiles, presidents launched as a nationwide search for the remains of thousands of people who were disappeared under the regime of august to finish. and a rare sites will be looked into the night skies for this year's loose, the, the african union, the united nations and friends, or condemning yet another military coup in africa. at this time in the central african country of gabon presidents, eli bongo is under house arrest and the government has been dissolved milledge recruit leaders of appointed this man at general, bruce will leave the in game a as a transitional leader, president tele bunco, for his part is under house arrest? his family, his rule of the oil rich,
3:02 am
but impoverished country for 55 years. now there was jubilation across the country, but the deposed president is asking people to rise up from sending goals capital the car because hack begins are coverage. a celebration on the streets of the capital, the ability to bone free give on liberated features, crowds of waving palm leaves and the sign of victory hug. you have any soldiers hours after they carried out there, said mos we are so happy. there is a sense of joy. we 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 and he in grandma has been named as the transition leader. and he is the head of the presidential guard, which pledge to protect the president of the bone. go a close aid to bone, go, leap 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
3:03 am
a strong and invincible appearing desperate and alone appealing for help from his palace, where he's being detained. so i'm calling you to make the noise to make noise. mostly how i'm thinking you a call that has fallen on deaf ears following the presidential election on saturday . 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, then nearly from genta revoked 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 26th. as well as the truncated results are cancelled, the boat is closed until further notice all institutions of the republic,
3:04 am
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, and chance we have chased injustice and she's good bone. is it working too? and you don't speak list hawk out a 0 gigabyte and it's one of the furniture as close as dallas in the region and began to ease living in france. or celebrating the mutiny. they gathered outside their embassy in paris, latasha butler was there, the deputies community, you've got the right people have been telling me to say the double thing. going to say once again, they say it's because it's a peaceful revolution. hosting to be sometimes it's just something i'd be for school. we are delighted,
3:05 am
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 phone goes off finished with a bundle. if you call in for a doubles the, i'm subject case of the same problems and depends on the needs of may very strong ties, shooting for to present to form very strongly, many people here just phones is enabled. the family agency, right? well, well, here's a has never trickled down to internet. only people i'm one to now from this one just found is a gap. and these people want to take this down to full screen of polls. watson calling, i think friends will see that we are capable of fronting 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
3:06 am
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, that external doubt, that's how it is going to be very concerned about. it's interesting still has a gap on a number of friends in the country. the 0 power. now here's a closer look at who's been named is good bonds entering liter general bruce. so we can gamma is the 1st cousin of the deposed leader. you replace tele bongo step brother as head of good bonds, republican guard in 20. 19. in the past several years. and game a has expanded bongos personal guard and elite force in charge of protecting the president. his family and other high profile staggers back in 2009. he was deployed to morocco and set a goal for diplomatic missions. the crew leader is described as a very powerful man, and is believed to be
3:07 am
a millionaire. he has real estate in the us, which he paid for in cash, according to an investigation by the organized crime and corruption reporting project. alexis, of course, year i'm, is a specialist on african current affairs. he's the managing editor of 7 for africa. he explains why some are celebrating the outcome in goodbye. the underwhelming impression the icon is that people were just fed up with the simplest, uh, and they won't have any form of change. and this is definitely change as far as the concerned because you know what they had before was up on go and then they had his son and that's 56. use a rule. so they wanted a complete brought to a complete change from that. and anything that moves away from that as far as the people couple of concerned is a fresh start, is the change. this is the do next big stick enterprise. you mean the didn't have to win the total, but i think that's a fundamental populum. and that's something we really have to kind of hit around
3:08 am
here. and we took over from his father when his father passed by 2009 and using voting to contentious elections in 2009 and 23rd, 2016. and that is, the issue here is not so much the he, one is that he took it and then there were elections and people pretty quickly moved beyond the music. and the idea that he wasn't gonna live alive as far as to like his father and the one that is more of the site. and then we saw this with this most recent election with the votes on the sides of the people felt like this was trying to remove the saying, the fact that it was a coffee, the fact that there was a major blackout. and when i read session observers with just a sense that again, people was allowed to engage and accountability weren't allowed to vote someone out which the basic kind of of democracy of the qu in gabon is one of several such military takeovers. in recent years on the continent, from molly to chad greer, the guinea working of fossil most recently new share. and now the bon elected
3:09 am
presidents were ousted by the army. the majority of the crews and folded in french speaking nations where france has military bases and french companies have business interests. gabon is the 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 put the n l z and mining joins error met, dominate the bonds business sector. and despite the bonds, mineral wealth, 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 is um, address reports from the capital of new share. france appears to be losing influence across the region. 40 and african army has again struck in french speaking. africa need is a tense, attempted or successful. cool on the continent. in 3 years you is a very pose president of global i label to join to the growing list of french
3:10 am
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 brook, in a fossil mommy. and is your supporters of the cause in this a hell regency funds that's popping up need is quinton give and credit 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 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. now 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. the countries now under military rule, in the region,
3:11 am
into french sentiments are particularly high in money and leave the june to order french troops to leave. and that is expected to happen in the share. many times which we call diplomacy of renetta bleach. this will pop pause from, from england able to what they meant in africa in this a couple us to will speak to end up in the ability to, to, to, to mentioned, do you have diplomacy, the population, or the, the one to feed themselves 1st may be quickly losing its grip and interesting, it's for my colonies. but i'm going to say the former colonial power must change its strategy in relating to the countries it used to. if it wants to remain relevant. now, how many degrees? i just need a new, i mean hurricane and dalia is now we can do a tropical storm, but it's still threatening. florida in georgia, with flooding and powerful destructive wins. john engine reports
3:12 am
a hurricane. a dahlia swept into northern florida. is a powerful category. 3 storm. it wins immediately, making their mark the mercurial i wall of the storm ripped off this roof top, we left another intact next door. strengthened by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico dahlia briefly reached category for level winds before slowing. as it rolled ashore in florida as lightly populated big bend region, the president promised federal help to effect in states. i'm ready to mobilize that support for they need. i don't think anybody can deny the impact of climate crisis anymore. just look around historic slides mean historic slides on the edge of the storms path and the capital of tallahassee dahlia failed this century old oak tree under the governor's mansion. this picture posted by 1st lady casey to status who was inside at the time. the storm left hundreds of thousands without power utility
3:13 am
workers are actively working to restore power in all affected areas. and they have started doing that as soon as it was safe to do so. so those, those restoration efforts are ongoing. after the destructive winds move on, the biggest rep remains a catastrophic storm surge rising and the storms pass in tampa. drone footage shows water, spilling over a sea wall and on to sidewalks. some residents using kayaks to navigate flood waters. the flooding is unbelievable. bayshore boulevard is completely under water and dangerous, and i'm seen individuals try to still drive down and that's a big mistake because their cars are getting stranded from florida. dahlia road through georgia in the carolinas, with plains evacuated ahead of adel use arrival. alabama maxwell. air force base staged emergency relief supplies. as
3:14 am
a dahlia moves on leaving flood waters in its wake, a clean up that could last months begins john henry and l g 0. and n b c. news correspondent j grey has the very latest from gainesville florida. as for a damn adjustment too early, according to officials here, they still haven't made their way into some of the hardest hit areas. but we know that there is significant damage, especially along the coast line, where the value of made landfill earlier this morning with a wall of water pushing into areas. it's never been before with severe winds ripping a part, the small communities alone, coastline there. and again, there were teams and, and power crew staged outside of the strikes on things have cleared the storm, thankfully move through relatively quickly. and so they've got in and started their work. in fact, we just saw some power cruise here. moving through the area in gainesville, they, they've got a lot of work ahead and, and especially again in some of these harder hit areas where they're still standing
3:15 am
water and, and teams can't get into that. they don't know what's floating in that water or maybe underneath. and so that's going to take some time. was still a head on l 0. taylor corruption, smuggling and espionage and zambia. a group of egyptian nationals face up to 30 years in jail if convicted 500 days since her death by it is released and i am a seniors. remember al jazeera journalist, sharina ugly, and continued to call for just the in depth analysis of the days. headlines, 1000000 euros to help students here address migration is it going to ease the migrant crisis? will make it less informed opinions. we need more investors and more people that make the decisions and regiments for frank assessments. this balance between the toe and sons reassurance is particularly important for the 5 missing destruction
3:16 am
inside stored on out to 0 lake city. and it's here, i'll g 0 was me, see a telling them such offer for exploring the long lasting love story between the city of naples and football. like on a gold mine road on the left for diego, this endless unconditional, the motto, dona inmate, on the examining the impact of today's headlines. setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. international filmmakers, some world class journalists, bring programs to inform and inspired on al jazeera, the,
3:17 am
[000:00:00;00] the, you're watching else, a 0, a reminder of our headlines. hurricane and dahlia as we can into a tropical storm, as it moves north over the state of georgia. millions in georgia and florida remaining the warnings of a life threatening storm surge floods in high winds. one person has been killed in georgia and at least 2 people have died in the road. crashes related to a storm in florida. crowds have taken through the streets across the board to celebrate the military's takeover military leaders of named general brucell mcgee. in demo as transitional leader, the african union and france have condemned. the subject is placed, the deposed lead around the bungalow, under house arrest, phone go,
3:18 am
has appealed for help from his supporters and from the international community. the court in zambia has denied bail to 11 suspects facing smuggling corruption and astronaut charges. it's asked the police found guns, ammunition millions of dollars and fate. gold on board, private plains 5 egyptians were among them interested 2 weeks ago for allegedly entering a restrictive zone. at least some good report. however, with us that has the store drug enforcement agents in the capital, the sockeye show gen, unless the a croft that are causing so much speculation and controversy in zambia, there was a story that they had said that maybe would come through and see them and pay the message to the people here at the court, very, very the across, along with guns, bullets, cash and fake gold was seized by police. on august,
3:19 am
the 13th. several arrests were made including 5 egyptian nationals that being denied bell and charged with corruption, smuggling and espionage. for entry and restricted zone at the airport, egyptian authorities say the a croft a privately owned and will only in transit when they landed in cairo. but the fact that it's a crime, but she just doesn't make it related to the states one way or another. and district felicia was all about the relation of egypt as a state with a private jet. so um, i'll also news about adoption authorities following up with the them, you know, sorry, fees and following up on the status of the egyptian, they are the keys face up to 30 years in jail is convicted when they stand trial. that means hope they wouldn't find these thoughts. many of the questions raised in this unusual police investigation will be answered. hardwood task out of their chilion presidents, gabriel bork, has launched
3:20 am
a search plan to find the remains of people who disappeared during the military rule of ojo still pinto shay, he made the announcement as the world commemorates the day of the disappeared. it is the 1st time that the government vowed to find the forcibly disappeared. our latin america added to or lucy, a newman sent us this report from santiago of the relatives of nearly 1200. julian's were never seen again after they were detained nearly 50 years ago. by agents of julius foreman, military dictatorship, were invited to the presidential palace for a very special event. among them, 48 year old, could he stay on martinez? he was still a baby in 1975 when his father left the house to meet another member of the 10 discipline left we organization that he belonged to anybody. a soul who took me with him. when he arrived at the designated corner, the agents were waiting on it had been betrayed by com rate,
3:21 am
could broken out of torture. my father managed to convince them to drop me off at my grandparents house nearby before taking him away today. then i mean, we never saw him again. i mean, look at me, i will say, no matter this has been trying to put the pieces together ever since. his mother fled to friends with her 2 children who became friends with the children of another exiled couple. it was only when might of seeing this return to the as an adult that he discovered that his friend's father was the one who had betrayed his unity to me . that you're not the only when we met 2 years ago, i told her i can teach you. i think that you, the family and my family are all victims studies story period. our country left to perhaps none have suffered more than the friends and families of the missing who have been carrying out a painful, lonely, and frustrating search for their missing loved ones for nearly 5 decades. now, for the 1st time since kennedy's return to democracy, current president govern inputting has announced
3:22 am
a plan to search for the remains of the more than 1100 people who disappeared. it entails more money, more technology, more science, but a bubble more political will for the children state to take responsibility for what happens. but for the families of the disappeared this mixture of hope and skepticism. more than 2 decades ago, the presumed remains of political visitors were dug up in this hill. in a shocking report on national television. earlier this month, it was reviewed and they've been put in cardboard boxes and identified and forgotten in official forensic centers until now, with a mazda view that our mothers are, we'd always have post without getting answers. so we say this plan is too late. we hope the states negligence will end. no, that is what the president has promising. but after nearly half a century,
3:23 am
at least some may at last be able to bury their dead sea in human, al jazeera santiago to and bangladesh, the families of victims of force disappearances of rally to demand their return. human rights groups blamed security forces for more than 604th disappearances. in the past 14 years, their families accused the government of harassment to try and force them to remain silent about what's happened. the town of bethlehem has inaugurated in memorial for sharina black clay, the veteran alice's you're. a journalist was killed by his really forces in may 2022, mid to abraham reports from bethlehem and the occupied west. it's been almost $500.00 days since and is really sniper shot and killed. i just need a shooting. i will. i'll click. but no one has been held accountable yet. what about us? it is continue to fight for justice. there are still some of the defying her memory and remembering,
3:24 am
sitting this is the neatest memorial design by the best policy. and the architect says that you wanted this to resemble the symbolism of the city. the black plague show in city and speak to basically resembling headed off from the screen. you have also assembled students from different areas from palestine to show jerusalem. he says this is kind of the front and sensor of citizens coverage. here in the occupied to us bank and underneath it, there's a sense of the city is to love. in some absence, there is greater presence sherry and will never be absent. be corrupt her report. it's very difficult to begin sharing no memorial. no activity is enough to on it's not difficult to see cities fixtures and memorials in different places, impala fine,
3:25 am
and elsewhere in the world. for people here tell us that the most important place to stays in is in people's hearts and minds. is that but he is just need of bethlehem the it's it's, it's a clear night sky where you are, you may be able to see the biggest and brightest moon of the year. it is called the below silver moon. and it's the closest to earth that it's ever been this year during its form is the name however, has nothing to do with the actual color as our whether presents or camera leg found out when she went to see it. at an observatory here in consort, for astra photographer, as you ever sta, any opportunity to see a space spectacle is a good enough excuse to use this rooftop of the tree. but this one has given him more than he wished for enough to get the whole family out in fact and his neighborhood. and with it all the necessary equipment to catch this month, double unity lights, not just one,
3:26 am
but 2 full loons. both of them super names. this is a game super fluid is super. that's what it's very special. set them is up close with the moon, so we can set them up to them. so that's again, a very of absence from gaza to greece, focused on to india, japan and do by reading through is, is gather to see the celestial event that's also expected to make title flooding less. as it's in 10 square rotational pool. also makes tides higher of every month . the full moon has a different name. many of these dates back to native american roots, different cultures across the world gave them these names depending on what was happening in a particular month. now, the modern day calendar doesn't follow the calendar. exactly, but the moon names shining on, we've got the one moon the wolfman, the storage and moon, like the one we saw at the beginning of this month,
3:27 am
the blue moon, and the super noon. like this one. the moon's orbit is elliptical following overall cost around the meaning that at different times it's closer and further away, the time superman was coined in the late seventy's to refer to the point when the full moon is that it's closest pointed to via this super moon is the is closest just 357000 dollars, so kilometers away. moving a 160 kilometers closer than the one at the start of the month. according to nasa, the parent size increase is around 14 percent. and since it's the 2nd full moon, it's also known as a blue moon. the time used when we see it twice in a single month. last time it was in january 2018, but i was too little to remember that the 1st superman of the year was in july and the 4th and last will be next month. but it will be more than
3:28 am
a decade until the next super blue moon many that seems like you as a way car leg which is 0. i'll walk right. and that's it for me 0 then. yeah. next you've got whether the inside story will be looking at the out here in initiative to and the political crisis in the share and will be back with more world news at the top, the hour right here on hours the, on the here's how it's looking for the last day of august across asia, great to have the along, and it is a quiet pitcher in focused on through to central asia as well. so let's move on to india, where the monsoon rains have taken a bit of a breather. really it's a southern slice of india where what weather is in the mix. so south of janai,
3:29 am
some verse of rain to be found around careless state as well. let's talk about that type food in the south china sea. it's dragging a lot of rain across indo china, particularly heavy bouts of rain from bangkok to help him in city or any of the risk of seeing some flooding here. dr. the blue, by the way, the more intense that rain is falling. so we got a pair of type phones, one to the south of taiwan, the other to the northeast and were tracking out both of these at the south china, one just me angry and around looking to make a potential land for west of hong kong. and then we've got this type food that will impact japan's roku islands over the next little bit. let's talk about japan right now. there is what the weather warbling between korea and japan, but the bulk of that activity will stay over the open water. we've got heat stroke alerts in place for tokyo once again with that temperature at $35.00. and again, we're almost into september. temperature should be going down fairly quite across the java island,
3:30 am
including for chicago. that's for up to the, the latest news as it breaks. as darkness falls, millions of people throughout this region are waiting age to sleep for the full force of profitable storms. hillary to descend with details coverage. defense chiefs here. now say that these part of discussions cannot go on forever from around the world. just over a decade. also, the men's team, one to european championships, is a spanish women's t about rules to football. well, the 10 and initiative by algeria in the crisis in neighboring this year, they are here and they're proposing a 6 month transition period from military to civilian rule. while other countries are threatening to leaders with military intervention. so how much leverage does algeria have to push its initiative for this is inside store the

31 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on