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your, your, your net out is here, the pledging allegiance to good bones, new interim leader to the president is overthrown in the military. cool. the times that are of any age, great to have you with us. this is elsa 0 life. and the also coming up assessing the aftermath. the clean up begins after tropical stormy dahlia hits the us state of florida. remembering those last chiles presidents launch is a nationwide search for the remains of thousands of people who are disappeared
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under the regime of august. the finishing and the rear sites we looked at the night skies, but this year is blue super move the the african union, the united nations and france are condemning yet another military coup in africa. this time in the central african country of gabon, president, ali bongo is under house arrest, and the government has been dissolved military coup. leaders have appointed this man general bruce for legally in game as transitional leader, president, that of the bone goes under house arrest. during that time, his family has rules, the oil rich, but impoverished country for 55 years. now there was jubilation across the country . but the, the post president's is asking people to rise up from set of goals, capital, the car, and nicholas had. it begins our coverage celebrations on the streets of the capital
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. the booty kept on 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 their crew said mos, we're so happy. there's a sense of joy. we're waiting for this moment. for so long. we suffered so much poseurs. jumped the name of the man leading because she didn't hide it. but he's 1040 in grandma 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, leap puts bone, go under house arrest, bring to an end. the 56 year long bunco family dentist ali baba when seen 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.
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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 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 to the gap. and these people appeared jubilant. these things in national anthem and chance we have chased injustice and she bone as they're working
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to and you don't speak list hawk out to 0 is a good one. is one of the francis closest allies in the region, and the companies living in france a celebrating the mutiny. they gathered outside their embassy in paris officer as natasha butler. was there, the community you guys are. so like 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 that they, i think sometimes there's just some of ivy for school. we are delighted. i'm 47 and all my life, i've only heard about the bung goes. and so if we're grabbing these people, it's a realization that the phone goes off finished with a bundle,
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if you will call. and it's got on the subject case at the same problems and depends on who needs a knee brace, drones, toys, which questions on the phone? very strongly, many different tiers. just phones is enables the family a critical well. well, people here say has never trickle down to marry people one. and now from this one, disband is a gap, and these people want to take this to full scale of polls about some pull. and 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 the relationship. but as an equal economic part that knew what the french government has content, when it cools the crew to tell a posting of a bronze is closely watching the situation and calls for the results of the
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election once the known to be respect to that external. there's no doubt that's how it is going to be very concerned about. it's interesting. so as i mentioned facing double number, no friends in the country is the 0 power us. and here's a closer look now at who has been named as the bonds entering leader general bruce only in gamma is the 1st cousin of the deposed leader. he replaced ali bongo step brother is head of good bonds, republican guard, and 20. 19. in the past several years and get my head expanded, bongos personal guard and elite force in charge of protecting the president, his family, and other high profile state, hers in 2009. he was deployed to morocco and set a goal for diplomatic missions. the coordinator is described as a very powerful man. he's believe to be 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,
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joseph siegel is director of research for the african center for strategic studies at the national defense university in the united states. and he dresses like from washington dc today. so tell us a little bit more about general in game. i mean we gave some broad outlines of, of who he is. i wonder whether he was on your radar at all. and before today, slow general. and when my was well known within cover on, he had to study the military academy of morocco. and as your report noted to, he was well connected to the bank or the family. he had served as part of the presidential guard under the elder homer long ago. and it rose to the ranks and then did some diplomatic assignments under ali fargo returning to pick up the presidential guard . and in the course of that, uh, task, you know, the presidential guard is,
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was expanded from about 30 to about 300 soldiers. so he was influential individual. and he is believed to have benefited from the largest of the bunker regime. so somebody who is seen as a post influential in military circles as well as politically we think at home. what would you say is behind the school as well? it appears that this time that the main motivation by general grandma is really to seize power for power sake. there was a initial, initially there was thinking that with the announcement of the crew, just after the election results were released, indicating that the president bongo had yet again, one which would, which was defined the information we had seen from independent pools. the other,
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the sense was that the, maybe the military was quite to step in and help to ensure a clear democratic transition to the rightfully elected leader. who would have been the opposition leader, uh, albert, or whoever you know, all the indication since or that really this is about the military opportunistically taking advantage of the defense towards president bongo and really seizing the moment to take power for themselves. but i suppose there's different ways you can look at this. you could say this is a coup. uh, obviously the people have just taken power of done so by force they're on elected. they're not chosen by the people. you could also, in our reporting so far as touched on this, you could also point out to the bongos have run the country for more than half a century father then son and natalie von go just one. what i believe was a 3rd term in a contested election. another one,
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you could argue they had it coming as well. there's plenty of grievances that got an legitimate grievances against the bank a regime. so there certainly is questions about the legitimacy of the election as well as many cases of corruption. however, that doesn't justify a military coup, which is basically a bunch of military officers. it declared that they themselves are the head of state and, and, and the new sovereign authority in that country. i think if there's real, you know, concerns about grievances, the right thing to do is to, you know, raise these issues in a legal manner. and, and again, there were just directions and got wrong. and by all accounts,
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the opposition leader one. so that is the direction we should be looking at. really, there is a real risk when a new entry takes power. there suspending the constitution there, dissipating the rule of law. and as we've seen with other cruise in africa, they don't end up transitioning to out of civilian leadership. they end up just being a new power that will prolong their own hold on the state indefinitely. all right, dr. joseph siegel. thank you so much for joining us on the program today. the qu, in google and comes 5 weeks after another in new share, which was also a former french colony. as i'm address reports from the capital live news year, 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 for a very post president of global legal joints,
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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 brook, you know, fossil, the mommy and his yeah. supporters of the cause in this a hell 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 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. home, the countries now under military rule,
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in the region and to french sentiments are particularly high the money. and in my leave of 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 repulse from, from england, able to what they meant in africa in this contest will speak to end up in the ability to, to, to, to mentioned, do you have diplomacy, the population, the, any, the one to feed themselves 1st may be quickly losing its grip and enter ways and 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, and how many degrees i would use either. yeah, me sorry. k, natalia has now we can't into a tropical storm is it moves ne, over the us state of south carolina toward the atlantic ocean at least 3 people
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have died in storm related incidents. john henry reports, hurricane and dahlia swept into northern florida. is a powerful category. 3 storm its wins immediately making their mark the mercurial eye 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 and floored as lightly populated big bend region. the president promised federal help to effective states. i'm ready to mobilize that support for it. they need, i don't think anybody can deny the impact of a 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
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casey to status who was inside at the time. the storm left hundreds of thousands without power utility workers are actively working to restore power in all affected areas. and they 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 threat remains a catastrophic storm surge rising and the storms pass in tampa. drone footage shows water spilling over a c wall and onto the sidewalks. some residents using kayaks to navigate flood waters. the flooding is unbelievable. the bay shore boulevard is completely under water and dangerous, and i'm seen individuals tried to still drive their on it. 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 vidalia is arrival alabama maxwell. air force base
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staged emergency relief supplies. as a dahlia moves on leaving flood waters in its wake, a clean up that could last months begins john henry and l g 0. a. mr. head on alpha 0. indigenous communities calls a protest, says brazil, supreme court considers limiting their rights fans federal lands and $500.00 days and sort of death by and it's really sniper palestinians. remember, alice's, you are a journalist, sharina, i'm ugly, and continued to call for just 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
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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, 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 hutchins city. or any of the risk of seeing some flooding here talking the blue by the way, the more intense that rain is falling. so we got a pair of type foods, 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, whether 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, it's $35.00 and again, we're almost into september. temperature should be going down fairly quite across
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the, you're watching else a 0 reminder of our headlines this, our crowds have taken to the streets across gabon to celebrate the military's take over. hillary leaders have named a general brucely v in gamma as transitional leader. the african union and friends have condemned the crew magenta, his place bid opposed. leader ali von go under house arrest bundle his appeal for help from the supporters and from the international community. hurricane italia has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves north over the state of south carolina. it is cause widespread flooding and damage in both florida and georgia. at least 3 people have been killed in storm related incidents. a trillion presidency, gabrielle boric, has launched a search plan to find the remains of people who disappeared during the military rule level. go still pinned of shape. he made the announcement as the world
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commemorates the day of the disappeared. this is the 1st time the government vows defined to forcibly disappeared. our latin america editor lucy, a newman census. this report from santiago relatives of nearly 1200 julian's were never seen again after they wouldn't change 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 you stay on martinez? he was still a baby in 1975 with his father left the house to meet another member of the 10 discipline left him organization that he belonged to me. body, 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, could broken out the torture. my father managed to convince them to drop me off at my grandparents house nearby before taking him away. i mean, we never saw him again. i mean,
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look at me and we'll set 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 one might have seen 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. that historic period our country lived 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 the tenants were turned to democracy or president w bought each hasn't announced a plan to search for the remains of the more than $1100.00 people who disappeared. it entails more money, more technology, more science, but
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a bubble more political will for the chilean states to take responsibility for what happens. but for the families of the disappeared, there's a 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. they've been put in cardboard boxes and identified and forgotten in official forensic centers until now, with a mazda view of the, our mothers are, we'd always have paused without getting answers. so we said 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 as the sun may at last be able to bury their dead sea in human, al jazeera santiago and mexico relatives of victims of disappeared. people have also marked the day, nearly
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a 100000 people have been registered as disappeared since 1965 of those about 40000 were added in the past 17 years following mexico strict response to cartels in the country. we are all suffering from the same thing. i'm missing loved ones at children this day shouldn't exist, but it does. and so we have to be here in the struggle so that the authorities do something about it. of indigenous leaders and activists in brazil are calling for nationwide protests because of threats to their way of life. supreme court judges are about to make a ruling that may limit their rights stance. extra 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. twin sister, lance,
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tribal leaders warning supreme court presidents cause of that and certainty, has bred violence. it was take care of us because sleeping peace knowing that our constitutional rights have been questioned. and then with the mercy of invaders who gravel length 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 present, enacted its constitution in 1988 can claim to yeah, using the thing, there's probably a request of that. we have a problem with that data 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 say 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 pursuit will mean in practice. monica, and i'll give, i'll just 0. we addition narrow in the town of bethlehem hes inaugurated in memorial. so sharing
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a great veteran l 0 journalist was killed by his really forces in may 2022, mid abraham reports from bethlehem and the occupied west bank. it's been almost $500.00 days since. and it's really nice fresh off until i just need a city and 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 city. this is the latest memorial design by the best policy. and the architect says that you wanted this tourism been the symbolism of the city. the black plague show and syrians fix it, basically resembling headed off from the screen of the old. so assembled students from different areas from palestine to show jerusalem. he says this is kind of the front and center of shit in coverage here in the occupied to us bank
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. 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, 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 in palestine and elsewhere in the world. but 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 that's what i have the so if it's a clear night sky, then you may be able to see the biggest and brightest moon of the year. this is called the blow super mode. it is the closest it's ever been this year during its orbits, but the name has nothing to do with the color as or whether presents
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a car leg found out and an observatory here in guitar. for astrophotography, as you ever sta, any opportunity to see a space spectacle is a good enough excuse to use his rooftop, observe a 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's double unity lights. not just one, but 2 full moons. both of them super names. this is again, super more fluid is super global. that's why 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 these together to see the celestial event. that's also expected to make title flooding less. as it's in 10 square rotational pool
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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 new in the calendar. exactly. but the moon names shine on. we've got the one moon the wolfman, the storage and moon, like the one we saw at the beginning of this month, the blue moon, and the super noun, like this one. the moons over it is elliptical following an overall cost around the us, 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 noun is that it's closest pointed to the this super noun is the is closest just $357000.00. so columbus has a way, more than a 160 kilometers closer than the one at the start of the month. according to nasa,
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the parent size increase is around 14 percent. and since it's the 2nd full moon, it's also known as a blue moon rate. 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 shipment of the year was in july and the 4th and last will be next month. but it will be more than a decade until the next super blue moon for many that seems like you as a way car leg out a 0. i'll walk around the this is elsa 0 and these are the top stories. crowds have taken to the streets
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