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all the thinking, everything lay to change because you read revealed starts november 3rd on d, w with the c d w news line from there was flooding for a decade, leaves more than a 1000000 in nigeria, homeless and farmland destroyed hunger crisis looms as pharmacists now impossible to grow anything also on the program, one of donald trump's former senior aides is sentenced to 4 months in prison. the
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banner had refused to give evidence to congress about the january 6 storming of the us capital. i'm a new leaders agree, a so called road map to head off a winter energy crisis, promising measures within weeks to shield households and businesses from soaring prices. but germany and france remain divided on how to achieve ah i'm so gale. welcome to the program. authorities in nigeria or warning of a looming hunger crisis as the worst flooding for a decade, kills at least 600 people in lease more than a 1000000 homeless. even before the floods hit, the government was battling high inflation and food shortages and the u. n. had warned of catastrophic levels of hunger. ah, this is what the rainy season usually looks like, an ambrosia in se, elijah,
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and this is what the same community looks like. now. swollen rivas, have in on they said numerous towels and villages across nigeria cause in 1400000 people to flee their homes for camps set up on higher ground. 27 out of 36 states have been affected. and i'm bra states is one of the was hit. one 3rd of the state is now on the water. we are suffering, but suffering is better than stealing. that's why we are here in this condition. the clothes that i'm wearing are the only ones i have left. the flood carried away all our belongings. lujan waller, schools have been destroyed by water. so our plea is anyone that can help us should help us. any one your help should help us please. local angels and philanthropists as crumbling to help where they can people here see the
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feel neglected by the government the government and i need to have them gone and not seen any residence with key infrastructure swallowed by water. many of the flow debt communities are without power, and people's generators have been destroyed. critical infrastructures such as schools, health care centers, police stations, and banks can't operate. the nigerian government says that thought they received only one in size of the flood. they never foresaw, at this level of destruction and with a number of families that have been washed away. there are concerns about foot scarcity in the coming months. south eastern ange area is at risk of flooding, at least until the end of the rainy season in november. lead older correspondent flourished cora in lagos, told me why it's taking so long for
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a to reach some areas. well, the, the reason is simple. the problem is simply overwhelming for the government, the niger and emergency magic em management agency is doing their best to reach out to people who have been affected by these flaws. what you have to are less than that. many of this places are very hard to reach and the scare of the problem, the magnitude of the problem is one that the government did not really and decided like they didn't seem commune. and so reaching out, so up to every one or been able to reach out to every one. you know, i immediately is almost impossible. so many people are just relying right now on and use an philanthropies to send them money. i mean, we are talking about almost a whole of nigeria being affected, right, right. by the flood, right? i'm with huge sways of farmland destroyed. is the country now having for
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a crisis or food crisis? their projections of food crises are coming up in a, in a few months, according to the president of the all farmers association, which is the association of farmers and ange area are about 60 to 70 percent of nigeria. farm land would will be lost at to these floating of course, that means that we're going to see less how there's less produced carmine in the air in the coming months because farmers have planted their crops. and now they've all been washed away by the water. other than that, 6 months ago, there was already a prediction that nigeria was going to be among our 6 countries when that would experienced extreme food shortages. so the picture really looks very bleak right now. we'll take a look now some of the other sources making news around the world. captain abraham story has been sworn in as burkina faso entering president last month 34 year old.
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that the 2nd qu, in less than a year. he says, his main task is to fight your hardest insurgence. an election is planned for 2024 . the un security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an end to violence in haiti, and imposing sanctions on a powerful gang leader whose group has been blockading the islands main oil terminal. 2 weeks ago. haiti's prime minister appeal for international help in dealing with the crisis. georgia, bologna has become into this 1st female prime minister and its 1st far, rightly since the 2nd world war. she has a mandate to form a coalition government after meeting the president in rome. maloney's brothers of italy, party one last month's election. many citizen britons conservative party asserting for a new leader following the resignation of prime minister list trust. after just 6 weeks, an office party chief say her successor will be decided within
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a week. among the contenders. as the man she replaced former prime minister boris jones. donald trump's former advisor and right wing agitator steve bowden, has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with lawmakers investigation. the january 6th attack on the west capital would go to prison, straight away would remain free, pending his appeal. user also been ordered to pay a fine $6000.00 about and has pledged to fight the sentence. today was my judgement day by the judge, and he stated for the appeal, it will have a very vigorous appeals process. i've got a great legal team of the multiple areas of appeal. but is that science says right there? we have the vote sign on on november 8th, on november 8th, on november 8th, there's gonna have judgment on the ilit, jeremy biden regime last us corresponding catalina to more what we should make,
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it must have balanced jail sentence. well, he'll to answer this question. i do have to take a step back on this band and was a convicted in july for refusing to appear before the special house coming to investigating the jury. 6 attack on the capitol by trump supporters who are aiming to blog the certification of biden's presidential campaign with the committee members were asking for a testimony and documents from ban on because he was to leave to be in contact with donald trump during the weeks leading to the attack on the capital. so bannon is now the 1st person to be incarcerated for contempt of congress in more than half a century. and this sense, of course, an important and a very clear message to others involved in the storm of the capital 176. and it says a t, a standard for future cases. we fair to the justice department by the committee investigating the capital attack. and for those of us who don't follow us politics closely, just remind us how big of
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a fish mister bowden was. was steve fan and was the mastermind behind donald trump's presidential campaign. he's 68 years old. he is a, me executive and a right wing political strategies to serve as an advisor in the trump white house that he remained in contact with trump even after he was pushed out. he's also directly connected to the storm of the capital and henry 6 that is old. so because on january 5th, one day before that he said in one of his shows, tomorrow will be a big day mark this day. it will be huge. and a day later, we all knew what he was referring to the attack on the capital. so he is a well known figure and support are a former president, trump. and one of the funders of, of the whole matter movement. the make america great again movement. and so is this the end of his legal troubles? well, probably not balance, legal travels do not end with this single case 2 years ago in august 2020. he was
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charged with a wire fraud and, and money laundering over this involvement in fundraising efforts for donald trump, us mexico border war and trump part on him for the alleged crimes in one of his final actions back then as a president. but banner is also facing separate charges in new york of defrauding people who paid for the us. border war, according to prosecutor, has been collected more than $1000000.00 through a nonprofit organization called we built the wall and he controlled this organization and to use the funds to pay personal expenses and also to pay the president of that organization. or who had initially promised not to take a salary. ok, thank you for that kind of the, the coach of boy washington. so here in europe, leaders of agreed are so called road map to had off a winter energy crisis. as i measures are being drawn up to protect households and businesses from soaring prices. but weeks of difficult talks that remain, i,
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germany and france are divided over how to keep a lid on energy costs. showing unity that was the signal you leaders wanted to send. with this week's meeting in brussels, president of the u. pin council. sha, michelle made sure that the message came across last new on it. when we stand united, we are more influential and have a greater impact. we have demonstrated this unity, but there's still a lot to do. i believe we have taken important steps of the student council, which give us confidence in decision making capacity over the coming weeks and months. what have you? on the 2nd day of the 2, they summit, you leaders and aligned their unwavering support for ukraine isn't and we remain united and determined to continue to help ukraine in its defense, in a political humanitarian and financial manner, as well as with weapons leaders had been hoping to show the same unity when it came
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to tackling europe's current energy crunch. with soaring inflation and cost of living crisis, the urgency was apparent to every one. the only way to deal with the high prices are in the short term, is through e u action, or collect of purchases, a viable price caps. this would help all e u member states. but behind the scenes, difficulties between 2 of the used leading powers, france and germany became apparent. while german chancellor left charles continued to oppose the idea of a gas price cap. french president emanuel my call and several other countries kept pushing hospice any farther. i believe that it is not good for germany, nor for europe. if germany isolates itself, it is important that on a proposal that deserves broad consensus, we can find the unanimity, unanimity, lead as eventually agreed upon a general map. now, energy ministers from the 27 countries have to pick up the slack at their meeting
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in luxembourg next week. will ukraine's president as accused russia of planning to blow up a vital hydro electric dam in the occupied house on region. for laudermill, zalinski says russian troops of my make a half cup plot, power plant, and me denise prob river, putting hundreds of thousands of people in danger of flooding. if the dam is destroyed, the massive kafka hydro electric power plant in southern ukraine with its huge water reservoir, may soon become a weapon of war with devastating consequences. according to the ukrainian president russian troops supplanted mines in the dam. he says they are planning a false flag operation to trigger an enormous flood. j. lindsey is one of the largest energy facilities, which is the dam connected to this hydro electric power plant. the thing that holds a volume of about 18000000 cubic meters of water who's bigger woochie
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donald olspena. she fresh and terrorists blow it up, be more than 80 settlement. so including carson will be in the zone hit by flash flooding, for hundreds of thousands of people could be effected up. the expanse of water north of the power plant has been nicknamed the sea. over 240 kilometers of the disney per river are held back by this dam. last march, russian forces took over this site during their invasion. now, 7 months later, the russians are maintaining a defensive position in the region. experts say that the russian military may think that breaching the dam could cover their retreat from the right bank of the denise river and prevent or delay ukrainian advances towards care sun. within russia, news sources are saying that it is not them, but ukraine that is planning to blow up the dam. just don't remind of our top stories at this hour of forces in nigeria. a warning of a looming hung
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a crisis. the was flooding for a decade, has killed at least 600 people left more than a 1000000 homeless and destroyed for the former a to donald trump has been sentenced to 4 months in prison. steve bannon had refused to give evidence to congress about the january 6 storming of the u. s. capital they call foolish. we'll have more world news at the top of the our coming up next on the w a documentary looking at something. none of us can get away from taxation. good. i have been threatened, i have been better because we tried to to show 3 of face mafia all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporation.

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