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this is news coming to you live from bali and almost a hundred dead in indonesia a second earthquake in a week people rush out of their homes as the quake hits the tourist islands of long walk and body buildings have been evacuated and hundreds of tourists are being taken off the out and we have an eyewitness report coming up also on the show day six of true test in john good demonstrators taking to the streets again soaring inflation and shortages of the sanctions and things go good with us with the u.s.
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about to reimpose the sanctions. plus in zimbabwe it families bury their dead from last week's post election by one of them sylvia microcell who was shot in the back by security forces we have a special report. to. eat. played . hello and welcome i'm a bit touchy a deadly earthquake has struck the indonesian islands of long walk in bali at least ninety one people died in the quake which shook the islands on sunday evening hundreds of people were also wounded mainly in the north of. the tremors also knocked out electricity and damaged buildings and left thousands homeless authorities have been evacuating local and foreign tourists the region has been hit by numerous aftershocks. and for the very latest to have janice
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maxwell had an engine the next what a car is he saying about the situation and. now for the very latest to have janice maxwell had an engine the next what is he saying about the situation in lombok right now yes so the last update provided from the disaster management already was that search and rescue efforts are ongoing as you mentioned you know severe challenges in terms of the electricity is going out destroyed in northern mom book which is a lot of the rural part of the island and it's also one of indonesia's forest provinces so if the structure was already over but many bridges have been damaged which shows further frustrating rescue efforts they also said that you know despite the number of injured and and did provide. further frustrating rescue efforts
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they also said that you know despite the number of injured and and did provide it this morning base numbers are expected to rise the rescue efforts continue now what are the main challenges and priorities for the rescue teams and relief agencies at this point. yes the disaster management agency is operating the military as well as organization by canadian reprocessed the red cross is called urgently called for but donations to the victims as well as the disaster management agencies that they urgently require more ready to eat meals. shelter for victims as well as medicines i'm aware that there is things sort of charitable efforts in bali to send stuff to. but certainly this is
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very much alive and ongoing rescue effort and next what is the danger of more aftershocks only a week ago there was a similar earth quake in the region yes there was more than one hundred aftershocks in the hours after the quake however both already have a sure despite these two quite severe earthquakes that the chances although now that you minutes major earthquake are very unlikely and you look in bali and huge tourist hubs and i say hi to the tourist season right now what kind of advice is it is given. countries including singapore and australia have issued travel warnings. and they you know the situation on long. though they have evacuated many many tourists and locals as well as from the gillie islands which are technically part of lombok but that is the. president just don't do is actually
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ordered. to send a special crisis team to do with before interested certainly taking this very very seriously max want to thank you very much for that update. numbers thank you and if you take you to the on end of long book i joined by jet i have evacuated many many tourists and locals as well as from the gillie on islands which are technically part of lombok but that is the. president took oh do is actually or did mistreated send a special crisis team to do with before interested they certainly take me very very seriously maxwell in jakarta thank you very much for that update numbers thank you and if you take you to the on end of long book are joined by jen montgomery lee she's from canada and on holiday in long book with her family jen tell us you must have had a fairly tariff it time they're going to tell us about where you well when the
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quake hit and what you went through. we were staying and our fellow we had just returned from dinner we had been in the room for about ten minutes when we started to feel the floor searching canyon and the walls started to crack and we could hear glass shattering and and everything was just moving all around. it it was very intense so they difficult situation no i used stock on long ball what have you been to what would happen now and then you can go. as far as we know for right now we're stuck as soon as the quake hit last night almost everybody that was here started trying to book flights and fast boats all of the flights booked up within minutes and we can't seem to get on anything lights and maybe wednesday. the fast boats are not running so we are going to look into
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a slow ferry tomorrow but we've been given sort of different accounts of what's happening at the port so for the fate of an additional challenge. i say affected because. i understand that this fifth was on your bucket list can you tell me what brought you to indonesia. my daughter's been fighting cancer most of her life. her cancer recently came back for the fourth time and when we reached the end of our treatment options we my husband and i decided to quit our jobs and take our kids to see the world and bucket list and bally and lombok were on our bucket list so they must have time for you there jen what have you been seeing the today want is it around you and what's happening to the new way you and what kind of head are you getting from officials in the polities. it's been an emotional day there's
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a lot of stuff here at the hotel where we're staying that have lost their homes sixteen staff members there's a lot of damage to the hotel we're on the main route out of staff here at the hotel where we are staying that have lost their homes sixteen staff members there's a lot of damage to the hotel we're on the main route for the emergency vehicles to go by so it's been a constant stream of. first responders we've had a ton of aftershocks so it's been it's been a very unsettling and stressful day the hotel and authorities are doing their best they can to update us but there's a lot of we don't know and in our situation we're not really capable of just going to a port the port to sit outside for five hours in the heat with our daughter so we're just standing by in a waiting. to give us a sense agenda how is your family coping with this natural desire to given the
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gonif in especially conditions that you have that you're facing that. well i think it was very shocking and emotional because you know maybe our our senses are a little heightened and we're living on a maybe a different level level of stress. the kids you know have faced a lot of death in their life but this just felt really out of their control and i think that they had a really big eye opener and they were very scared sad a big shock for them jim montgomery levy to all of us from all the very best to you and your family and thank you very much for talking to us today about your experiences and what you went through thank you. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world south sudan's government and the country's main rebel group have signed
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a sea. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world south sudan's government and the country's main rebel group have signed a ceasefire and power sharing agreement the deal will lead to the formation of a unity government south sudan has been torn by civil war since two thousand and thirteen previous attempts at a peace agreement have phased. cambodia's leader one sen has said he would stake his life on the accuracy of recent election results the poem was widely criticized office forty claim to have won all three hundred and twenty five parliamentary seats using dramatic language films and said he would be prepared to die if the vote was falsified has been in power for more than thirty years. authorities have evacuated to villages in southern portugal as a forest fire burns out of control and the fire in the algarve region has been burning since saturday temperatures climbs to to record highs of portugal and at
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the weekend the iberian peninsula is bearing the brunt of a heat wave sweeping across europe. in venezuela an investigation is underway after an apparent assassination attempt on president nicolas maduro the president survived the assault after several groups armed with explosives flew towards him during a speech at a military parade the interior minister has said six people have been arrested so far. the japanese city of hiroshima is remembering the victims of the world's first atomic bomb attack seventy three years ago august sixth is commemorated in japan and other countries with cords for nuclear disarmament the bomb dropped by an american warplane instantly killed eighty thousand people. iran's government has announced major steps to ease foreign
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exchange strong actions and allow iranians to bring in currency and go in and that's to come but the expected effects of new u.s. sanctions do to stop this the iranians are voicing their anger at the state of the economy which is being created hardship to order. for six days in a row now iranians have taken to the streets in protest in cities across the country they're angry about high prices and the government they accuse iran's politicians of mismanagement and corruption leading the country into ruin. however not everyone is marching some feel helpless like his son. he's certain that his life won't get better any time soon. and i don't know what being a move the u.s. sanctions is. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the sanctions just hit all didn't we people who are poor anyway like me the rich what
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is. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the sanctions just hit. who are poor anyway like me the rich once. food prices have risen by forty percent in just a few months and few people can afford to buy meat even the price of bread have soared. iran's currency has plunged in value since may when the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and threatened iran with new sanctions and the reaal has lost seventy percent of its value against the euro with disastrous consequences for rainy and. things like eggs tomatoes and bread that were foodstuffs we could still afford to buy to when you can't even pay for a cucumber and that's really bad fruit became too expensive long ago i. think. sharpening rhetoric between iran and the u.s.
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also has people worried despite a recent surprising proposal by donald trump. i would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready yet to have a hard time right now but i ended the iran deal it was a ridiculous deal. taran hasn't directly replied to trump suggestion but some international media report a meeting might happen in new york at the next general assembly of the united nations. meanwhile the iranian people continue to hope for a resolution to their problems a little earlier gentleness eric roundoff in tehran to what kind of sanctions iranians can expect and way through the sanctions are coming back in two phases the first mostly coming about tomorrow that's going to hit things like. financial transactions and sales of carpets and things the really difficult ones are going to come in november when the u.s. is going to try and block oil sales now some countries like india and china have
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already said they're not going to cut from iran completely but that's going to be a major blow to ron's economy and that's where we're going to start that's a real impact on. domestic economy with prices going up and things like that and all of this is coming at a time when we've already seen days of protests about the economy and about the government's howling over this crisis. so that was a generous and drowned off reporting from the head on turning on to zimbabwe tensions are still running high and weak off the country went to the post the victory of the zanu p.f. parties being disputed by the opposition m.d.c. as a country struggles to recover from post-election violence religious leaders have been praying for peace it's a difficult time specially said those burying their dead our reporters on the ground sent us this report was friends and families pay their respects to see you on the force and her final journey the
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mother of two was killed in zimbabwe as post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by a soldier's bullets it's the death of a rather slushy on the tumbler still can't believe the. show is a good look she was a brave little if any. you are just. hype what are these up and. he says god and wednesday opposition m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met was brutal violence by zimbabwe's smooth water cannons tear gas rubber bullets and life and the mission to crack down on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised
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consequences that was. if he didn't listen last night i'm going to institute in deep and to. do it with these fears of violence have been subsided the opposition is vowing to challenge the election results nelson chamisa insists the presidency has. lupus. businesses. and posters to make sure that we. will split. but so far has not provided any evidence to back up his claims and the tense situation life in harare is only slowly getting back to normal many people in the capital are still scarce scared just speak out scats to criticize the government or the security forces after last week's violent clashes many fear that the time of god who ruled the country for thirty seven years with an iron fist
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might be done but that his legacy of brutal repression still lives on. was. among those afraid to print fingers over his sister's death. i. was. with. loved ones this is little comfort in the fact that the deaths have sparked outrage since happiness across the country as they mourn they suspect the government is just hoping that the dust settles as quickly as possible. do football now or soccer if you prefer brochure dortmund have signed belgium midfielder axel did sell some ject to
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a medical new coach lucien father wants improvement off the squad could finish the only force in the bundesliga last season and which he joins the german side from the chinese club tianjin kwan gian on the belgian international star and as his country finished ahead of this summer's world cup but dortmund triggered his twenty million euro release clause to sign him that city reportedly took a hefty big cot after moving from the cash rich chinese super league. akin now in the world of softly holding favorite courtney khan luke made it made a comeback to remember by running the us open event in california cano was only competing in the third event of the season after returning from a foot injury she delighted the fans with victory over stephanie gilmore on home shores at huntington beach and despite losing in the final string is given more
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extended her lead in the overall standings she's chasing a seventh straight one title. some stunning stuff on base to welcome guest had no intentions between the u.s. and turkey putting a strain on the leader of the turkish that's right i mean these disputes with the united states over the fate told us drew bronson is threatening to further destabilize the euro the us had imposed further sanctions on two ministers and president. after months of plunging exchange rates the turkish currency has now hit a fresh low against the dollar inflation also rose again in july to nearly sixteen percent that's a fifteen year high increase in pressure of the central bank to hike interest rates . for days one issue has been dominating the front pages of turkey's newspapers. the country's spat with the united states has fueled fears of full
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blown economic turmoil. at the center of the dispute is us pastor andrew brunson's seen here in a white t. shirt turkey accuses him of helping to plot a failed military coup in twenty sixteen after spending twenty one months in jail he was transferred to house arrest at the end of july. that didn't go far enough for u.s. president donald trump who swiftly imposed sanctions on two senior turkish ministers . that in turn caused the lira to slide to a record low against the u.s. dollar continuing and already existing trend take a look at this. as you can see the number of turkish lira you need to buy a dollar has been rising since the beginning of the year but in august a record was set five turkish lira now buying new just one u.s.
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dollar on surprisingly on the streets of istanbul the mood is far from upbeat. things aren't going in a good direction it's terrible that one u.s. dollar is now worth five lire we're ready have financial problems i don't approve of it things will get worse that's what we're expecting. turkey's dispute with washington isn't the only factor affecting its economic prospects concerns over the independence of the country's central bank and the president added to one's ability to tackle soaring inflation are among other issues weighing on investors' minds. china says it's prepared for a long trade war with the united states comes on response to a series of tweets from u.s. minds. trying to assess. prepared for a long trade war with the united states statement comes and response to a series of tweets from u.s.
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president donald trump praising the effects of trade tariffs he hasn't posed this followed beijing's publication of the new list of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products that came in response to washington's threats to impose new duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports chinese state media lashed out at trump and described the new us stars as extortion. h.s.b.c.'s focus on growth markets in asia appears to be paying off the london based bank says pretax profit rose in the first half of this year by four point six percent to seven point two billion dollars last year it just is easy to plan to concentrate more intensely on china and southeast asia it said today and to be the main global lender behind china's belgian road infrastructure project crossing asia and it is busy as europe's biggest bank turns most of its profits in asia.
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but after years of restructuring and cost cutting h.s.b.c. shifted back to growth looks like. in frankfurt investors rewarding this. not entirely the share price of h.s.b.c. is currently lower than at the beginning of this year and also today the market reaction to this earnings report is negative which has to do with the fact that growth costs money the bank is spending billions on new technology and for new stuff and you know the strong relations that h.s.b.c. has with china and that it even wants to strengthen of course there is a risk in that given all you know the trade hassles the people in china in business investors there are very very nervous at the moment the stock market in china lost about four percent last week alone and certainly h.s.b.c. must get to feel some of this
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a comet shares in the world's largest industrial gas company linda have plunged what's gone wrong there. well you know the sixty billion euro merger of linda and its american competitor praxair which is currently underway is in jeopardy linda reports that the u.s. federal trade commission wants the companies to sell more assets before approving the deal and that's linda says something that may push the total as opposed to go on the threshold which was negotiated in the merger deal now whether or not america's america first policy is behind all this is unclear but if you talk to people here many speculate that it is and that explains the harsh negative stock price reaction linda says are down nearly ten percent here in trading in frankfurt . a man who's known for his and that explains the harsh negative stock price
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reaction linda says are down nearly ten percent here in trading in frankfurt from one who isn't in frankfurt thank you. the u.k.'s international trade secretary liam fox says the chance of a no deal breaks it is growing he blamed for what he called the european commission's interim transitions in an interview with the sunday times newspaper said there was a sixty percent chance the u.k. and the you would fail to reach an agreement talks have hit a rough patch as the e.u. negotiators have said that britain has failed to make realistic proposals the british government has so far insisted it has drafted mutually acceptable threats it prime minister tourism they cabinet however is split on how close the u.k. is economic relationship to the e.u. should be. corruption is costing however it is split on how
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close the u.k. is economic relationship to the e.u. should be. corruption is costing ukraine billions that it can't afford that's according to a german newspaper report which estimates the state is losing more than four billion euros in tariffs alone that's twice it's as much money as the country hopes to borrow this year from the world bank i.m.f. and the combined reports describes how the importance of customs officials falsified customs declarations at the country's ports to save on feeds it says police prosecutors and the intelligence services involved in that for all of. the decades children have brought their fantasies to live with lego thought to be around one trillion of the tiny interlocking bricks in the world all of them made of plastic bust now the danish company wants those dreams to become
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a little more sustainable. a bigger building a city or designing the park of your dreams lego allows adults and children alike to live out their imagination for. the blocks have traditionally been made out of oil based plastic bussin not to sustainability the company's latest range is made from sugar cane based polyethylene the new pieces were unveiled at a children's advantage at london's natural history museum. where company that deals . with children and children ultimately inherit the planet and for us it's very important vons they could soon be the norm lego is planning to use one hundred percent sustainable materials and packaging by twenty thirty the company hasn't yet revealed whether the environmentally friendly flocks will come with a hefty year price tag. business here's a reminder off the top story we're following for you here people in indonesia rush
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to evacuate their homes as they were hit by a second wave in a week hundreds of tourists taken off the islands off a long book and almost one hundred people are dead. in news from more news coming up at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news information on stories around the clock on our website. thank you very much for watching.
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