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nnova welcome back to the phones twin full in these are my maxi. and it's good to have you with us the headlines. slamming the process as a show groaned kenya's opposition says it will not be party to the election commission's imminent announcement. the results of the residential vote. nggas. donald trump wants north korea that's america is looks and loaded. if the isolated state consider launching an attac. pyongyang meanwhile accusing trump of pushing the korean peninsula. to the brink of nuclear war. that is the growing contaminated eggs scandal which is asia with hong kong joining a list of sixteen
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other countries. that have imported eggs tainted with identical pesticide again we begin with the latest in the fall out from kenya's contested presidential election. kenya's opposition is saying that it will reject the imminent announcement. of the results of tuesday's presidential election because its concerns about the legitimacy of the vote have not been addressed. this coming just hours of the opposition said it was prepared to concede victory to incumbent president uhuru kenyatta. if the election commission agrees to provide access to it service. rioting got kenyatta's main challenger in shoes day. as a peaceful group claims that the commission's database was hacked. with results manipulated into eva all.
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jerash has this report. they wouldn't. opposition protesters set fires throughout the city of consumer on friday. in response the government deployed extra purity forces to a city. an opposition stronghold. police were also deployed to the nairobi neighborhood of kubera. were similar protests broke out. the unrest comes two days after opposition presidential candidate riled up dinga alleged the vote was rigged. the claim the election commission has denied. the allegations sparked clashes with police that have left at least three dead. officials and diplomats have called for peace while the independent electoral and boundaries commission or i ebc. prepares to announce the final tally. it is now vital. that the i. e. b. c. b. given the space to complete. its task. i make its final declaration of results. and align with kim and. its constitution. and with the laws and regulations
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the government its work. they can you know election commission has until tuesday to announce the results. but anticipation is growing. some kenyans have called for calm. well this is an election not everyone to be happy. there will be some aggrieved buttons. but i'm hoping that they will maintain some level of responsibility in their way they convey that. unhappiness or dissatisfaction. election pitted incumbent uhuru kenyatta. against opposition leader rilo dingo. many in the country fear a repeat of the violence that rocked kenya after two thousand seven disputed election. some twelve hundred people died and thousands more were displaced due to post election violence. two egypt's now whether he's thirty seven people have been killed in a train cras. near the coastal city of alexandria some one hundred twenty more. were injured two trains were involved in a head on collision. in the
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district of course kids. it's not yet clear what cools the tragedy. egypt's railway system has a notoriously poor safety record must be blamed on a lack of investment. and poor management well lets him out for a bystander was at the scene. but i do seem a trained one was on hold for awhile from our balcony over there. after a little while we heard a loud noise and saw people running and. i came down and i saw this. the other trim a stationary when i came here i was told that the other trims hitting a hit the other one from the back. what? american military solutions with regard to north korea all locked and loaded. that the latest threat from us president donald trump as he warns the isolated state once again. that it would regret directing any sort of military aggression out america or its allies. pyongyang in response is accusing trump of driving the korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war. this comes as the pentagon confirms that the us and south korea. would be pushing ahead with a large
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scale. metric the size in ten days time. motionplus tells us more. the us defense secretary has said that his country would prefer would diplomatic approach to the north korean threat. buddy's balls u. s. president donald trump keeps suggesting the opposite is true. earlier this week trump promised to rein farmer in fury on north korea. then this friday he tweeted military solutions and now fully in place locked and loaded should north korea iraq done wisely. hopefully kim jong earned will find another path. pyongyang meanwhile says trumps commented driving the situation on the korean peninsula to the brink of. okay a war. who have a ways to blame with millions of lives in north and south korea are at risk and possibly even elsewhere? more and more governments are calling for both sides. calm down. some such as the german
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chancellor want more use of diplomatic channels such as the un security council. russia which shares a border with north korea says it's think really worried about an escalating risk of conflict. your personal probably behoove you wanna fight has ninety broken out or the first step away from the dangerous threshold should be taken by the side of that is stronger. and smarter wouldn't let it. moscow is urging the usa and north korea to agree to a joint russian chinese plan when north korea would end missile tests and in return. the u. s. and south korea would stop they launch military exercises like the one set to begin next week. neither pyongyang no washington has yet signed up to this plan. now the small us pacific island of guam with its population of just one hundred and sixty thousand people. has kept a relatively low profile in
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recent years. that'll change on wednesday one qualm found itself at the center of america and to north korea's escalating war of words. pyongyang announcing it was reviewing plans to launch a full ballistic missiles into waters off the island's coast. tutors why is this tiny u. s. territory at the heart of the diplomatic row. plaid rush takes a look. nnova for beaches and tropical scenery. the small u. s. territory in the middle of the pacific may be a popular tourist destination. but it is also home to a strategic american military base. some six thousand us troops are stationed at the combined navy and airforce installation on the island. of which at least two. by the year its military. grissom airforce base hosts b. fifty two bombers and fighter jets. well guam naval bases home port for nuclear submarines special operations forces. the pacific island is three
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thousand three hundred eighty kilometers south east of pyongyang. which means it is in striking range of north korean missiles. once proximity to the asian country makes it an easy target for pyongyang. but the island is equipped with an anti ballistic missile system known as tha. which stands for terminal high altitude area defense. north korea said its plan to strike while will be completed by mid august. a potential worry for some of the islands roughly one hundred sixty thousand residents. but us official said that the threat level. remains. mr donald trump hey is my hand the words of venezuelan president nicolas maduro who now says he wants a one on one meeting with his american counterpart. following weeks of deadly anti government protests in the country and matures creation of a constituent assembly denounced as a power grab by the international community. jump accuse merger of being
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a dictator. america has also recently given the green light to new sanctions against a host of majora's allies. sean gaffney has the details. if i may not always ridiculed him as a cross imperialists but now he wants to me sam. nicolas maduro has called for a one on one with the u. s. presidents. after the trumpet ministration called him a dictator and issued sanctions against his government's. but what the people but i see then that don't don't i remind mr. trump of my desire to re establish political relations. based on respect and equality. to have a public relations. then that i feel then. only because. maduro also clarified his plans for a so called truce and reconciliation commission. which he said would be inspired by nelson mandela. was critics fear the moves will give him more powers to surprise the opposition. maduro remains
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deeply unpopular as venezuela struggles under a crippling economic crisis. runaway inflation far outstrips the average nationally waves and more than a case as of ten people are living in poverty. the demonstrations against the presidents have been running out of steam in recent weeks. protesters lose faith in the opposition's ability to bring about change. and a further sent back to marry is weird jails earlier this week for failing to prevent anti government protests. will the ticket when i'm out there there are a great number of men as. under thrash. who they're seeking to oust him in prison? events over the past few days our demonstration of what dictated nicolas maduro said recently. that what they couldn't get through votes. they would get through weapons. the opposition says a third of the country's marriage have been removed jailed or are under threat of arrest. and they've urged supporters to come on to the streets to protest on saturday.
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cambodia's government has announced that its prime minister is making an urgent trip to neighboring allow. part of his efforts to convince the country's government to withdraw soldiers he claims. when croaking on territory in northeast in cambodia. that trip announced after prime minister hun sen said he was prepared to use force. to expel inaction troops if they felt retreat. but the seventeenth of august. the dispute began in april one option soldiers entered a no man's. the buddha to provide a cambodian engine. arsenal pang insists is sovereign cambodian and. all gone. the eu is urging countries affectcted by thehe insectie tainted eggs scandal to stop blaming and shaming each other. this as we learned that i'm safe eggs have been imported into fifteen eu countriess. as well as switzerland and even hong kong. the european commission say little seventeen countries have received eggs contaminated
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with a pesticide we put out. which if consumed in large enough quantities cannot be harmful to humans alison sergeant has details. windy two tons of contaminated eggs in denmark over seven hundred thousand eggs in the uk and millions more in germany. more than half of the countries in europe as well as switzerland in hong kong received eggs that were exposed to the insecticide fit burnell. in france nearly two hundred and fifty thousand of them have been sold since april. some by this supermarket. where shoppers reacted to the news and all the ways one i'd expect he's i sure don't want to buy any hags were found of eating one? kill me. it makes me think we contrast anything. the world health organization says phifer now would have to be consumed in large quantities to cause organ damage. but it's still considered moderately dangerous insecticide banned from use around animals the produce food. uk's food standards agency
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says for bernal's presence on european chicken farms is more a question of public trust and public health. there's no reason why people should avoid eating eggs are our system is that it's very unlikely that any public health risk. but we can people to serve food like contrast and that means not having faded the hazardous substance that simply shouldn't be there. scandal has also created trust issues between you agriculture ministers. belgium with initially accused of not acting fast enough say in turn accuse the netherlands of knowing about the contaminated eggs since november. the e. you call for countries to stop finger pointing. their investigations ongoing which precisely are there to establish when a certain country knew and when it should have been added being in the notified we are not engaging in a blame game i think that your funerals are very clearly. explained them here. the eu has called for a summit on the issue in september. meanwhile both dutch and belgian authorities are working on criminal investigations enjoin grades
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thursday they made multiple arrests. well for more on the medical consequences of this tainted ag scandal. earlier i spoke to yawn cedric benson is the chief medical doctor. acinar edler hospital in eve to here in france i asked him what sort of symptoms we would expect to see. in someone who consumes the chemical. well it is sam. neurotoxic it is a product that show i talked on and jeff. make some extract on the neural transmission. and it effects the gap i object to its school that way. and system which is sad involved in seizure and epilepsy. so it is a product that can actually attempt on your ability to think and behave. i will sort of quantities we talking about just how much of this pesticide would someone have to consume before a self exhibiting symptoms. what i am studies varies on
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the exact tenant what? we can find in the literature is that. the threshold of the no effect at no eight affect observable level. oesa up to zero point zero two milligram per kilo. and they're what we knew instead that m. the eggs are contaminated to eleven oh zero point zero nine two milligrams per kilogram. which means that there are now five to nine times that built this racial. at the french and the day european sorry. and stunned that liberals say that no food you should contain more than zero point zero one meter crap. so we're talking a projectile tiny at levels o. products inside of food and disk wings that disparate has that. are potential effect on the buttons. and with that affects in any way be long term we talking only about short term effects. i'm usually into it rises nice short term but it remains in the body if you
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have any in con air intake sorry all. that fact in you. you will do this product would remain in your body for. so. nick say at five to ten day. and and therefore if you are for example a seven year ol. and eating one acre day you embrace there's threshold of zero point zero two milligrams per kilogram. as the observable effect stress old doesn't mean it will own you necessarily but you may start to feel. some it takes that some business and some potential effects. now europe's hope summers in a stranger to devastating forest fires. but this year the numbers of wildfires a supposing national averages and posing an ever greater challenge to firefighters. on friday flames broke out once again in corsica with officials warning of the southwest could be next in line. elizabeth walch explains. europe is once again a blaze
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as summer wildfires continue to force evacuations. and place demands on emergency response teams. early friday morning in flames quickly engulfed some eighty hectares in the northern tip of corsica. luckily the flames were not a threat to residents home. fire officials are still concerned. you give cities you do the objective is to try and contain the fire. to keep it from spreading. it's very difficult yeah response team because the terrain is mountainous the wind is. strong i see for. in southeastern france authorities were on high alert. as high winds and temperatures have created an environment particularly favorable to wildfires. in portugal flores continued to burn on friday prompting a massive emergency respons. the scene is midtown's single viewing at this moment we have five aircraft one helicopter rooms within seven hundred personnel on the ground and more than two hundred vehicles does not handle.
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the fires sweeping across europe this summer are taking place at a rate three times the average due to rising temperatures and high winds. the european commission trucks fires across the year through the emergency management services interactive map. which also forecasts dangerous conditions. the trend extends across the globe with wildfires spreading in the united states. canada she lay. and even greenland. earlier this year the southern hemisphere experience similar devastation during that summer months. the increase of wildfires is just one of the predicted effects of climate change. now he's been accused of blasphemy and has never been one to shy away from controversy. egyptian cartoonist dole and adults michael's everything from sexual harassment to donald trump's tweets checkout busts she was the first woman to receive the journalistic distinction. hold and last year was named one of the bbc's one hundred women.
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now her trailblazing work is available in a new book and is with walsh takes a look. della elidel one of egypt's most famous cartoonists. fears neither the top new nor the politically subversive. her drawings confront sexis. female circumcision and marriage and divorce stereotypes. her new book fifty cartoons and more about women shut the lay on the political social. and economic struggles of women in egypt and abroad. uploaded. the book started with the typical daily child faced by. like being female a wife an. and the many responsibilities. the attitudes people might have towards infertile women in the egyptian upper class what society thinks of divorced overweight or dark skinned women. these problems might seem simple compared to facing crimes like rape harassment and circumcision. but there are also problems that women facece every day earning a a hundred feet again and
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getting a. she says that her work changes daily inspired by ongoing issues like women's exclusion from the public sphere. two events like international women's day. and even the global refugee crisis. elidel admits herias she is always on the side of the neglected. etiquette they'rere all mmitted in mimid it's partyy all eleven hurting is the channelhrough whihich i can deliver my message. i'm concerneded about womens rirights because i'm a a fee cartoonist. at the begeginning off m m carereer i was u unsure of t my role should be. but eventually i knew i had to make a differencee as a female cartoonist. that's why t the women's causes depipied in my cartoons aren't integral part of me. have faced many of the situations myself. with human have gotten better sometimes. the artists but it's part of her life's work to defend women's rights. well it's time now for the business news with delano diss the height on iraq's most aussie out. today with a look at the markets as tensions of course up
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between the us and north korea mount indeed we are european shares ended the week in negative territory. this off of the us president donald trump tweeted that military solutions to deal with pyongyang should act unwisely were locked and loaded. the kinds of over one percent on the foot sea and the cac on here in paris the docks in frankfort ending the week completely. flat. i think. we're gonna break i have see back here. thank you delano we can cross live now to nairobi what president uhuru kenyatta speaking at accepting the announcement of the election commission. that he has just won a second term as canoes presidents cost to nairobi now. however my deputy. and his family. to do this opportunity. first and foremost to find what. they love. secondly. to find the people of this
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great and wonderful republic of china. for the confidence. so do you have shown. in many. my administration. until then. our list is just the pledge. that we shall continue. with the work we have already started. so you have a slight issue with the feed that will attend at now at to business will of course be following. at the kenya story for you as and when we know. delano so you are talking before you know it's not meant to exist here we were talking about the markets and how european shares ended the week in negative territory over the united states at this hour we are seeing. gains are across the board out positive inflation data are at improving sentiment out of state side. we move on now to saudi arabia state oil giant of. a you can see all the shares
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trading positive territory the nasdaq up six tenths of one percent. next saudi arabia state oil giant aramco is leading to where it's in new york for its main foreign listing. the listing could be the world's largest in the final decision will be taken by crown prince mohammed bin selmon. the same the sale of around five percent off around co is the centerpiece of the country's ambmbitious amambition twentyy thirtyy.e reform plan aims to diversify the sound. analysts believe the new york stock exchange will be picked for political reason. it's between riyadh and washington. now the world of video streaming has forced a major changes on the television landscape now it's the streaming landscape that's been shaken up. this as disney leaves netflix to start its own service now yet another new player has just stepped onto the field facebook long best seconds details. the race to provide a ality strtreaming serviceces heating up.
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two days after disney announced it would launch its own video platform james murdoch hinted t twenty firt century fox could be next to follow suit. with very open minded about an independently priced direct to consumer offering. a move that could spell the end of the netflix hegemony in the. disney already said it intends to pull most of its movies from the streaming giants and offer future content exclusively on its own platform. a new strategy that highlights the growing influence of online streaming. to the detriments of more traditional media. in the u. s. fifty million people now have a netflix subscription. against forty eight million for cable television. and it's not just tv as streaming has started playing an important role in social media. facebook began rolling out its new v video app on thursdsday. a service called watch which combines streaming with the life chats. making for a more dynamic viewing experience.
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and with its two billion users facebook hopes it can startt challenging some of it's well established competitors. such as google owned youtub. to france next where a one time fixture of the famous french riviera psp pulling up anchor. luxury yachts maybe setting sail for cheaper sure soon that's what local officials fear as new regulations have made docking in french water is more expensive. than ever before august second as details. nder of yachts flock to the french riviera every summer. in antibes so called billionaire stock these luxury cruisers have almost become part of the landscap. but this year the number of yachts has begun to. part of what he thought his thoughts were killed as difficult as we can see it physically very few about sales have been i'm only look at satellite information we can see there's a lot more in spain in its own. right than on the french riviera for
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offensive jacobsen because that part of the scene at the moment. a drop that's to blame on new european regulations according to many owners.. an incncreased tax on fuel imposed last fall has seen prices skyrocket. filling up a ship with a sixteen thousand liter tank now costs twenty four thousand euros in france. against eleven thousand in italy. the u. also requires employers to provide social benefits to their staff. and investments of around twenty thousand euros per employee. it gives them access to retirements social security and unemployment benefits. this ship captain welcomes the additional safety nets but fears the costs could become prohibitive for many yacht owners. well in one place it will become hardeder to find fols to stay here all year long. of course that many will be moving to places like montenegro one altar and so on you all mike exit up. local officials wrote a letter to a minion michael last week urging him to address the situation.
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they say thousands of jobs could be at risk if the french yachting industry. continues its plunge. that's busines
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[captioning made possib by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now. >> let's see e what he does with guam. if he doeses something in guam,t will be an event the e likes of which nobody has seen before, what will happen in north korea. amy: as tensions rise between president trump and north korea, we'll go to the small pacific island of guam, home to 163,000 people, and a sprawling complex of u.s. military bases. it's now

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