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the was. the forest starts. to slow this is deja news coming to an end or less
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a hundred people dead in indonesia a second earthquake in a week people are rushing out of their homes as a quick hits the tourists on the balkan bonnie buildings have been evacuated and hundreds of tourists having taken off we have an eyewitness report for you also coming up. days six of protests in uganda demonstrations taking to the streets again soaring inflation and shortages of ascension and things could get must with the u.s. about to reimpose sanctions. and in zimbabwe families bury their dead from last week's post-election violence one of the dead was phil gramm who was shot in the back by security forces we have a special report for you. at
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least ninety eight people have died in the quake that struck indonesia on sunday night the holiday islands of long walk in bali were the worst affected magnitude of the quake was a powerful seven it struck as many people were having their. time in lombok locals and tourists alike were packed into restaurants when suddenly the floor guy like you might think that. all the power went out almost immediately people brought out into the straits it was just a wake since the last time a tremor brought destruction here and this one was even worse but. it. we ran out from my house twice two times. everyone ran out because the quakes were very strong. as the knot drew on rescuers began pulling the dead and injured from beneath collapsed buildings first responders were overwhelmed across the nation's
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holiday islands local residents joined emergency services pulling the injured out by hand. on a mobile managed to put their credit limit. and over one hundred aftershocks forced authorities to take dramatic measures at bally's main hospital the injured were treated in the open air. so no way of placing patients here in the parking lot and the gymnastics yard plus in areas near the hospital that do good to flush out evil as dawn broke in addition authorities were still rushing to remote areas. on the kili islands northwest of la buck terrified people packed onto the beach white and fold them up to to a quite soon to wakes people and desperate to leave they fear the trauma could trigger a tsunami. even though authorities say there's little chance of it right now. there
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are just one account somewhere safe somewhere and i don't know the risk of not so. clever. bali lombok a prone to earthquakes all the same millions of tourists visit them every year now the russians in the other direction the airports of packed with people wanting to go home. and it's not a queue to the island of long book or joined by jen montgomery me 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 that can tell us about where you were when the 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 start to shake and then the walls started to crack and we could hear glass shattering and everything was just moving all around we it
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was very intense so very difficult situation no i was stuck on long what have you been to what would happen now and maybe 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 of stuff within minutes and we can't seem to get on anything lights and so maybe wednesday. the fast boats are not running so we are going to look into a slow ferry tomorrow but we've been given sort of different accounts of what's happening at the port so for the safety and additional challenge. i think the fix would be and i understand that this trip was on your bucket list can you tell me what brought you to indonesia. my daughter's been fighting cancer most of her
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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 launched on time for you the what have you been seeing that today want is that iran to you 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 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 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
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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 waiting. and said give us a sense an agenda how is your family coping with this natural desire to given the 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 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
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a big shock for them jane montgomery maybe wish you all of us from all of a 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. now i cannot bring you up to date with some other stories making millions around the bond the japanese city of remembering the victims of the once first atomic bomb attack seventy three years ago august sixth is commemorated in japan and in other countries because when you could to solomon the bomb dropped by an american and instantly killed eighty thousand people. in venice that an investigation is underway after an apparent assassination attempt on president nicolas maduro the president survived the assault off a severed drones on but explosives through towards him during a speech at a military parade the interior minister said six people have been arrested so far.
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iran's government has announced major steps to ease foreign exchange strongs actions and allow iranians to bring in currency in gold and that's to combat the expected effects of new u.s. sanctions you to stop this the iranians are voicing their anger at the state of the economy which is being great hardship to ordinary people. 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. with an i don't know what the name of the u.s. sanctions is. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the
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sanctions just hit alternately people who are poor anyway like me the rich ones suffer. food prices have risen by forty percent in just a few months and few people can afford to buy meat even the prices 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 when you can't even pay for a cucumber and that's really bad fruit became too expensive long ago. and. sharpening rhetoric between iran and the u.s. also has people worried despite a recent surprising proposal by donald trump. i would certainly meet with
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a round of they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready yet to have a hard time right now but i ended the year and deal it was a ridiculous the. turnaround 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. and we have wolf we release you on the effect of the sanctions and what they're having on iranian business climates that would be later in the program with us turning out to zimbabwe retentions us to running high a week off the country rent to the post the victory of the zanu p.f. party has been disputed by the opposition m.d.c. as the country struggles to recover from post-election violence religious leaders have been praying for peace it's a difficult time specially for those burying their dead are reports on the ground
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sent us this report. was that friends and family paid their respects to the on the force on her final journey the mother of two was killed in zimbabwe is post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by soldiers bullets it's the death of brothers i see on the tambour still can't believe the. kids it would look she was a bit too we'll. i lost. it when we were just. up and. he says god wednesday the position m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met was brutal violence by zimbabwe's. what
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they can and tear gas rubber bullets and life and the mission to crackdown on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised consequences that was. if he didn't listen. i'm going to institute and indeed 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. this is done. 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 still scats scared just speak out scats to criticise the government or the
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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 might be gun but that his legacy of brutal repression still lives on. was. among those afraid stooping fingers over his sister's this. i i. it will. always be working with him but with. not i would think. once this 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. you're watching the
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japanese coming up ahead tensions between turkey and the u.s. . on the turkish lira it's reached a record low against the dollar today. would have that story for you shortly. if you can. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same core to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. work on the fourth just a side.

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