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are such profitable storms hillary to descend with details coverage defense checks here. now say that these kind 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 swimming state. but now rules football, well the good one is suspended from the african union with immediate effect a day after military cooling, the ousted president, lee bungle the time. several venue it's good to have you with this. this is else has your life from the also coming up in the program of protest against un peacekeepers in the democratic republic of congo, springs violence, killing at least 43 people to form
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a members of the far right proud boys group were sentenced to prison for their role in the capital riot, september 2020 presidential election and tropical storm and dahlia lashes. the us states of north and south carolina. after leaving a trail of destruction in florida in georgia, the the african union has suspended gabon from all activities following wednesday's crew. after seizing power, the military cancelled the election results in which president, tele bongo, was declared. the winner. the opposition had claimed irregularities with the vote. they're now calling on the military to complete the counting of votes. cost. nicholas hack reports. the general's in gabon gather to pray for the success of police in grandma, the general that took down the 55 year long bone go dentist to after staging
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a cou on wednesday. and grandma arrested all the bunk go after you was announced the winter of saturday's presidential elections, decreased park celebrations in the capital region one once i finish this all sorted sort of a bit smid comp, a whole that could still be in the pool. the kennings that my profile, the parents and i have experienced this is old. now like, you know, i've seen it and you have seen, you pulled them off the computer. so sometimes it went through it like for the last 50 years, we have been ruled by a bunch of gangsters that pillage the country's resources and have made our people back. know what on the mon joe. hey, john saw show much the news. our elders can't afford health care, young people are unemployed. the situation has just gotten worse for a country that's so rich, i just saw whitmore pub quick, a $6000000000.00 worth of crude oil were exported last year. gabon is a country rich and natural resources were most live on less than $2.00 a day at the genetic he's been goods, family of high treason,
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accusing them of stealing billions from state coffers. meanwhile, the african union has expelled good on the u. n. and the, including france, the former colonial power have condemned the crew to ask you a, the law sounds good by you this. so we would like to reassure an old donors, development partners as one of the states credit is that a professionals will be taken to guarantee respect for our country's commitments, both externally uninterrupted. and grandma is expected to be sworn in as president of transition on monday by the constitutional court. this once trusted, confident of the bulk of family and friends, it appears to some a continuation of the past is an inside under receipt. so it shows that there's somebody who understands the inner workings of the reasons, particularly within an upper rabbit as strategic as a defensive security sector. the political opposition and civil society members call on the agenda to complete the vote count saying the presidential elections
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were marred by fraud. and who am i speaking to unite the country for his supporters? it too, is an opportunity for a new beginning in a country that has lost trust in its leaders, nicholas hall calendar 0. well, you know, it could be ran for parliament in gabon as an independent candidates, and he says he's not surprised. there was a cool what made me to render finally, he's not in the bone of the 100 and for the tree of seats in front of me. and the 80 to 90 percent of all the seats were taken by the be the g, which was the, the, the parts seem to how well the bunch of people. and then the, when they decided to when the time to go to okay. then we say that i cannot believe them a gun, let them run the country as the one thing for the come to it was i'm, i'm, i don't know, i mean it'd be nice and i've the young as a young person, we have
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a clue. we decided to be part of the parts of the woods. you got the what you call a life for our country. then we decided to, to be part of the of the, of the votes so that we can change the thing in the, in the parliament. so that we could bring our own knowledge and bring what we can go for to our countries renew. that's a, that's and that's the next policy to be the g and the, even though we live at, let's leave the power to renew that. so when we go to, to, to, to the election that they were going to, to, to do to just p o, o, a victory. and the what, what is big thing from them is that once they declare that country, they the, the retailer and they, maybe they thought that with the people and those that 2 people were not surprised
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what to do with it. oh, are you saying that no matter what the middle of the time that will give you that will be taking over with show that's the the, the so we will, we will, we would need to be done. it's frances ambassador to an easier no longer has diplomatic immunity, military leaders stripped silver, it's of that protection and they have instructed police to proceed with his eviction in a statement. the french government said that the genta doesn't have the authorities expelled. the diplomat. france insists of the approval of the ambassador comes only from elected authorities. in this year. the coordinators have called for each to leave the country after he refused to meet with the newly the new military appointed. foreign minister address reports outside the french embassy insurance capital in the army. it's a test situation here in front of a french embassy and the residence of the in boston to over there. are you see from the background smashed glosses and i've been trying to be frank,
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the residents of the friends and both of them. and that was about a few weeks ago when i angry mob supporting the cool launch, the anger and the french and wanted them to leave now would seem more military and police diploma on the street and around the embassy. we've scouted more than a dozen trunks. military and police products are stations. yeah, that shows you the amount of to go into the courses deployed to maintain security. round the clock on the prince embassy, the idea of the capital. over the next few days, we expect more activity in front of both the industries and the rest goes of the printer and busted out here in the capital. here me and over here is the french embassy. you can see the interest of interest, how the glass was smashed, bodies hungry. bob, why it's important because when they launch a type of embassy on the residential fee and process that here. now what we see regularly happening is every vehicle that goes into the embassy and out of it is regularly checked by security forces to ensure that nobody on authorized cause
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meets out or speak straight to the embassy the ground. this, we are told orders from the top echelon of the military. and we also hear from secure composers that they are just waiting for orders to execute any come on. it includes the enforcement of cutting of electricity, supply, fuel and water, through the embassy and the residence of the residential be sprint, i'm positive over the next few days. we also hear from actors and supporters of the cool, but they're going to more assistance at all establishments for institutions, for of the french, including the military bases here in the capital. until the last 4 different pros leads me just the oil and degrees algebra. and yeah, me is there at least 74 people, including a dozen children have died in a fire in the band and building in johannesburg, the president of south africa has called this a wakeup call. the 5 story building had been taken over by homeless and vulnerable people who were then forced to pay rent to criminal gangs. i'm going to be able to
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report some johannesburg a fly like this has not been seen here. if we use rows of dead bodies, evidence of the in store know that in gulf the building in china's book city center to keep putting the jumping, we had to push some of them. do we jump in with the luggage? is there was fire too much smoke and the fire started from the 1st floor of the sled going up. so the people inside the floor, the ones with the 3rd floor, 1st floor, it was difficult for him. some escape defined. as the searching recovery operation began, officially loops were missing due to janet should live day for about a year. besides, the rebuilding was a band and but home to many illegal occupants. i'm confused. i'm good. how much time do you name them? i?
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i really, i just want to see my dog. it's been to that issue. i just one of the biased autism, the early hours of the morning. well, many slipped giving them a little time to escape from overcrowded conditions. the building was leased by the city to a normal government organization, which looks off the homeless people and drug addicts. the remote run but many refused to move, watching and waiting for word about their loved ones. wondering where they'll sleep tonight. some hang onto the little they could grab as they ran from the building while it took firefighters about 2 hours to extinguish the flames. the searching recovery operations have gone on for far longer than that. police are investigating what caused the fire and why the building was illegally occupied. i know of a crowded city officials say they are at least 700 abandoned buildings. yeah. which
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are being illegally sublet, taken over by informal landlords charging people for accommodation. many survivors don't know where they'll sleep next. potentially or she could do now is look for to task in nearby hospitals and walks. so me to mila ultra 0. john is book to former leaders of a us fluoride group known as the proud boys have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the us capital riots. jo biggs receives a 17 year sentence, and zachary relo, a 15 year sentence. both were accused of being instigators and the storming of congress 2 years ago. they faced several charges including suspicious conspiracy. melanie sloane is a former federal prosecutor and an attorney with the expertise and government ethics. she says the ruling is not surprising. stuart roads, another leader of the proud boys earlier was sentenced to 18 years. so the judges have made clear that they take these cases extremely seriously. there's
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a lot of concern going into the 2024 elections, especially with former president trump running again and speaking regularly about the problem of fraud. there's a lot of concern in the united states about how the elections will turn out, and they want to make sure that we don't see a repeat of what we saw in 2020 for president. trump has indeed been charged with very serious charges in now several cases. and most recently we've seen that one of them is set to begin in washington dc. now in march, which is our one day before what we call super tuesday. a major primary where any states hold the hold primaries and decide who will be the next. now many, we expect to see president trump take held responsible for his actions as the same way that these defendants have been held. i think another interesting thing that we'll see in the coming days is enrique tiro is still to be
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sentenced to use another proud boy. he was very high up in uh in the proud boys. and one of the organizers of these riots at the, at the capital. and so we will be interested to see how that case plays out as well . he's also apparently cooperated at some level with prosecutors. so we'll, we'll see what happens. their cleanup is underway in parts of the southeastern us after a hurricane and dalia swept through the storm cause damaged in parts of florida in georgia, which so more than a meter, a flood water, our slowly being restored to the hundreds of thousands who suffered outages had equal height reports for those the floods. now coming back to see what's left of the life they left behind for some devastation matters is what i'm hoping that this material
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is here and we're going to rebuild some home simply blown or washed away. don't appear to have any windows is broken for others. i'm feeling great. the house is still here and those that stayed now recounting terrifying hours. so the capital range just takes throughout and me and my 3 kids and my grandson, my daughter is pregnant. she's 5 months later, so she was right on the side of the bed wherever things were coming in and it failed her, but she was able to pull her out of it. you gently a team. sure. as a category 3 hurricane in florida state suffering the worst of the storm, but it hit a sparsely populated area and so far, no fatalities. it continued as a tropical storm through georgia and the carolinas in south carolina, a storm surge of almost 3 meters too high for a flood wall in charleston water rushed in to the historic downtown one man was
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killed in georgia by a fallen tree. but considering this area has not seen a storm this strong and 127 years, the general feeling is, could have been so much worse as of 6 am today. they are approximately a 146000 power outages reported across the state. but power is being restored quickly. that's far 420000 accounts. the loss power during the storm had been restored. still the storm spending more than 560 kilometers when it came shore left behind, a huge area of destruction. one that will take months and for some years to recover from pinnacle hanging out to 0. still ahead on alice's 0, animal rights activist tells us about the steps iceland is taking to end commercial wailing in the future. the
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the brought to you by visit capital, to bottle the active weathers going off shore. now there are actually 2 hurricanes to look out to your well tropical stones. now you would call them dahlia and franklin functions going away tickets right away from nova scotian, this one's probably taking a bit of rain to was bermuda having left the mainland behind but fairly quickly filling in the gap. but i'm more showers building in for example, georgia. pub handler, florida all the way down through the florida. most of the rest looks fairly drawn. that's true for canada to central calendar a little bit with places, but on the west coast is increasing cloud, right and, and the breeze coming down from the gulf. so it's cool down and a, for example, there was still shows in the mountains what this does it, south west, but the heaviest. right. and for which the surface that no and particular that's true. and jurors drag you down towards panama,
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span your possibly for the rico and cuba. this the right terms. you have for this and mexico's showers. i'm mostly on the west and side pacific coast star for america. the most active event of the cold fronts that came out recently, this one here barely descended, but what is left behind much cooler weather. for example, in rio is warm is still in panic. why? big charles building here and significance that was pulling down the, the in chain from santiago south. whats the weather brought to you by visit cuts on the critical debate. instead of trying to externalize the management of this problem in teaching is here to meet the, to other countries to europe. the members state should be trying to take control of this issue themselves. inside story on al jazeera,
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the, [000:00:00;00] the, your watching else 0 reminder of our headlines. the african union has suspended gabon from all activities following wednesdays. cool. the opposition alliance in gabon says that the country should be grateful to the military leaders and so power at or calling on them to finish counting the votes from wednesdays, presidential election, the president of south africa is describing the depth of 74 people, including a dozen children in a fire in an abandoned building as a wake up to the 5 story building in johannesburg had been taken over by many
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homeless and vulnerable people were then forced to pay rent to criminal to former leaders of the us fluoride group known as the pro boys have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the us capsule rights. both were accused of being instigators, any storming of congress, 2 years. at least 43 people have been killed when violence broke out. that a protest in eastern democratic republic of congo, the army says that they were killed when a plan to protest against united nations peacekeepers was broken up since last year . the un mission has based public backlash as many say that they failed to protect civilians against armed fighters. now come with it, has this update? some of the council can shasta the demonstration was cold full by the leaders of a co initiative on group known as was the lender to become increasingly visible within the city of government since the beginning of this? yeah, not for those wide spread reports and the full alone side. government forces the
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conflict against the n 23 great into and widely reported to be back by neighboring when they come. good government denies back in the military. rolanda will say denies its role and following the reported involving in this conflict as they move into the city. and one company's ministry is the same, them as for that role. and they had that power and growing strength as being visible through them holding parades and ma, she's and the one planned on wednesday was against the presence of u. n. c. c. losing phone guy seemed that the presidential, god did not want this to go ahead. they went to the headquarters of the group where people had got a break of the crowd, not as in this incident, that they were conflicting reports of what happened. as the members of parliament and rights groups say more than 20 people were killed. the army says 6 civilians and one police officer were killed and that more people may have died late. so in
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hospital, french press agency says it's seen a secret ministry document counseling. a people have been killed. the person told us the number couldn't be waiting to hear from the, from the lead government here in the capital. kinshasa may give a briefing on this in the coming hours. meanwhile, we do not have more than a 100 people were arrested by the military following this incident, including slices medicine, these rigs, as well as women and children. malcolm web houses, era, kinshasa, democratic republicans. the un peacekeeping force in southern lebanon will stay in the country for an extra year. the security council has renewed unit feels mandate, but the negotiations were tough and the deal may not satisfy everyone. gabriel elizondo reports from the united nations with
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a resolution mandating un peacekeeping operations in southern lebanon set to expire on thursday night, a last minute compromise at the security council to stave off a crisis and possibly maintain a fragile piece. but they were tough negotiations on the annual renewal of nations, interim force, and 11 on the mission known as unified field. at issue, freedom of movement, language added to the resolution last year has allowed you to feel soldiers to carry out unannounced patrols along the lebanese is really border freely. and without the authorization from 11, he's military the lebanese government and has blah, which wields great political power in the country, wanted language permitting unannounced unit fil patrols to be removed from the resolution. and lobbied hard for it is a how about a man? he then this is called sovereignty 11 on tried with the utmost effort to introduce
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any amendments or changes to the resolution. it was prompted by keen understanding of maintaining lebanese sovereignty and the sovereignty of the lebanese government and the council. was it an impasse but struck a deal on thursday just hours before the resolution was set to expire, which would have thrown the entire peacekeeping mission into turmoil. the new resolution that was agreed upon states the unit, phil should coordinate their patrols with the lebanese military. but also reaffirms unit fills, independence, and freedom of movement to conduct patrols unannounced when and where they deem necessary. colleagues, we believe the resolution adopted today, and the broad support for it reaffirms unit feel strong mandate and it's freedom of movement. and so we strongly endorsed it, it's how uncertain, how has the secretary general has been as rela,
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will view the compromise deal. he signaled recently they wouldn't accept any compromise. so meeting is adjourned for a deal they tried to satisfy. everyone might look good from the confines of the council chambers in new york, but how it plays out in reality, on the border between 11 on an israel, is still an open question. gabriel is on to, i would just say to at united nations, mexico's opposition coalition has named its candidate for next year's presidential election. the block has big 16 year old sen such as galvis. the computer engineer with indigenous routes will likely go head to head with another female candidates representing the ruling party. the winner wouldn't become the country's 1st female president. close to 3000000 singaporeans will be voting for a new president on friday. the role is largely ceremonial and supposed to be non political, but this election is the 1st to be contested in more than a decade. folders are frustrated by the cost of living and
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a series of political scandals. tony chang reports looking for blessings just ahead of the presidential election in single pools pool. high 10 ministry presidential candidates helps home talks to the habits about racial harmony and religious tolerance. a key message in this culturally diverse city states. mr. me is less keen to discuss the election race to bring such a party to good pull into a 40 place. this is the temple this as a walnut street. you know. the men many assumed to be the front runner is a former deputy prime minister from the ruling people's protection policy or the p a p. well, the presidency is a launch. the ceremonial role, previous incumbents head strong links to the b p. it is a little bit more difficult and challenging future cities,
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which is the reason why i have entered this content to all my experience and capability. because the p a p is based several corruption investigations and questions over the moral behavior of its m p's. this year, the policy appears more vulnerable than it has in a long time. the most importance, it's a struggle to stay afloat and one of the richest countries in the world. daily expenses in rent have risen dramatically and recent use, a real pressure, particularly on the young political put cost as turns cia and the risk delani point out that this is the 1st election, many of the listeners will the votes, and then the 2nd pulls use promises a political stability onto ways enough, the things stand out, housing cost of living. and because while we can hear the plans of what is going to happen, the feeling in the current state is, is the front of the people,
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our feelings, transfer people are feeling squeeze. elections here are usually very predictable things. the ruling policy is being in power since 1959. but with a new generation of votes is going to the ballot box. there is the possibility this presidential election could see that very rare thing. a protest, thanks. tony. checking out is there a sample? the former prime minister of thailand techs and shinall watts has asked the king for a royal pardon. he returned home from 15 years of self imposed exile my last week and was immediately taken to present to start an 8 year sentence as related to 3 previous cases of it, including of use of power and corruption facts and was moved from prison to of state hospital soon after his return, due to a 4th of ill health, a judge in the us state of missouri has ruled the white homeowner who shot a black teenager after he mistakenly walked up to the man's house. must stand trial
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. andrew leicester is charged with 1st degree assault and armed criminal action. the judge issued the ruling after hearing from several witnesses including ralph yard, the teenager who went to the wrong home to pick up his brothers. the 84 year old previously pleaded not guilty. animal protection charities have condemned to iceland after his decision to resume wailing starting friday. the government confirmed that it will not be extending a temporary band, but the minister for food and agriculture has said that she hopes to end the practice by next year. meanwhile, there will be strict are conditions in monitoring iceland along with japan in norway or the 3 countries that allow commercial wally patrick ramage is a senior director with the international fund for animal welfare. he says that iceland is actually taking steps to end this historic activity. the ministers, funded as far as doctor, has taken steps and publicly declared herself very clearly as very,
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very skeptical as to whether whalen should continue at all. the decision to allow wailing to resume for the month, month of september is an unfortunate one. it's regrettable but required under i splendid law and regulation her hands were really tied and she's going about an orderly process. today's decision ironic though it may seem or counter intuitive though it may seem is a step toward the end of iceland, a wailing, not a step toward its full time resumption. the ministers next big decision will be in december as to whether to extend another 5 year quote for. ready going in the country, we are optimistic for weight to make the right decision at that time. tourism eclipse. fisheries as the main source of accidental income for iceland in 2018 eco tourism into chicken. where leads the way in iceland and wales people, the communities and economic prosperity do much better when these animals are seen
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and not heard. we are watching is the way forward for iceland. their businesses have responded to that. the public internationally goes to iceland in order to watch whales, but not to watch the big harpoon, but to watch them with cameras. they're paying money to do it. it's clearly the way for the last thing that this species can tolerate is being killed for products that nobody needs. and regrettably, that's what christian boss and the loan whale are involved intends to do over the coming months beginning as soon as tomorrow. the this is alice has 0. here you are headlines this hour. the african union has suspended gabon from all activities following wednesday's crew. the opposition alliance in gabon says that the country should be grateful to the cruelty to resume to power. it's also calling on them to finish counting the votes from wednesday's presidential election. because hack has more from the car. and in the short run it,
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