writers. in his turn ovens, he has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in east africa and its effects on the lives of up routed and migrating individuals an earthquake in pakistan's bellagio stand province as killed at least 20 people had struck in the early hours of flattening homes, while most were sleep rescue operations are underway, but the hardest hid areas are difficult to access dozens of trucks. an eastern sudan has been allowed through a blockade set up by protesters that's been causing a supply crisis. members of the beach tribes and let those trucks carrying medicine to pass for humanitarian reasons. pfizer says it submitted a request to the main us drug regulator for emergency approval if it's covered 19 vaccine. for children from 5 to 11 years old, trials for that age group began in july. the dr to vaccinate children has been spurred by the rise and infections with the delta variant, as well as the reopening of schools. the world health organization has endorsed that fast vaccine against malaria and to recommended the job be rolled out to millions of children across africa. it's 70 percent effective when combined with other treatments security forces. and soon as you have raise the studios of an opposition tv channel and seized some of their broadcasting equipment just days ago, one of the channels main presenters was also arrested for criticizing president, katie said live on air. a number of media outlets have come under pressure since the president suspended parliament in july. the philippine vice president, lenny were brader, has announced she is running for the top office. robledo is a human rights lawyer as well as leader of the opposition. she's also been a vocal critic of president rodriguez to turn in his violent crackdown on the illegal drugs trade. well, those are the headlines. i'll be more news here after the stream. america is a region of wonder of joy tragedy and yes of violence, but it doesn't matter where you are. you have to be able to relate to the human condition away. no country is a life and it's my job to shed light on how and why did high as i me. ok to day on the stream. we are bringing you 3 stories in one shadow . a key vote in southern ethiopia, venezuela's new currency, and long running tensions into nicea. there is so much to cover, but i will ways make time to include your comments and questions. you can join the conversation live right now. on you champ. we start with ethiopia, where election officials are verifying the outcome of a referendum that could lead to the countries 11th state. people in 6 parts of the southern nations, nationalities and peoples region were asked if they want a new south west state. have a listen to what some voters were thinking just ahead of the referendum he did with the yoga and okay, everyone from children, i don't want to call for to become a region get a little this. police, as you can see, is a very dense forest law. and we have a lot of coffee. bigelow, a carby in the rest of the country. everything is growing and changing. when i compare coffee with other places, it still backwards. the more on this we are joined by there. i can, i should see miss ella. he is a lawyer and electra who writes about political trends in southern ethiopia, barrett tech, so good to happy. i'm going to start with a map at the s and p p r region in ethiopia. there every area there. if you're going to give us a little introduction to this area, what would you tell us about the geography that people, the ethnic groups all mixed up with this area? tell us introduce us. thank you very much for having me. are in fog with that in and it is a huge region in there in the country. it has more than $56.00 emissions nationalities was in it. it was a huge enough for it sources and one so human capacity. but for us is from the inception of different system in the country, there are a turmoil install the political term warrants, or for the question, having an india and thence hit by a different legion. and basically the main factors that leads for ask for our being an independent region was a lie is factors. but one of the major reason was it just to relate to is a failure to find item straight to structure that orchestra for the multiple multiple groups within this region. as a result of this has made for bias groups in this region to quest for having an independent really region and that one of the southwest region which has custody of what for refund them, is one of the indication of that i'm just looking here at playful voting in the referendum, have a look a on my laptop there, a cat. how did the referendum go? we don't know the results yet, but how did it go? what was the other thankful? basically in a strong expectation that i've been there there probably to that region to be found at the new region. and this was a lease was very strongly asked by the people within the region. and i hope that they find them will end up with. all right, so if there is a new south west regional state, what defense will that make? it makes a huge difference. for instance, one of the difficulty related with the existing structure is that all figured out to be sold to give a local people the opportunity to answer themselves due to the great geographical distance between the region in the center that the seat of that interesting that i saw that people who are not able to make their voice be heard forwards to understand your needs, aspiration, the priority, and even the state of issues. we're not able to supervise whether they are already . she has to be implemented out to look a living $0.40. it takes more than 3 days to go to the united states hasa for the most part he put on what it does. so chicago and debate is on. so if this a state, the, if the current structure is in its place, it's hugely, are sort of the problem of if and i'm station of the region. and also if you look at the other reason, there is a strong problem. but in this region, in this how the nation nationalities, in people region in general, all the 3 groups who swear to lump together. and it does not adequately manage the settlement pattern, the language and the other fun as a state that under the constitution. and, but if you look at the southwest region which is going to be established, you try to integrate that into account for if those are those zones which we are within the southwest region. the new region. yes. a lot of stop some we know settlement pattern and the people do have a some ok, very similar language language they speak. and so many advantages are there. i want to put this t, this is from going to, he's a political analyst. and what i feel that every ethiopian is a, let's go out of it. i want to bring this comment and because he is predicting what the central government and how it's definitely going to cover and will react to this referendum, have a missing and then react. and me to the back of this figure regardless of the outcome of the referendum people in southern new york, i cannot best hope for cultural economy. and that they cannot expect political self determination. the central government to will as it is doing elsewhere in the country assigned individuals that are loyal to them and repressed those that are opposed to the regional government. yeah, exactly. it's. busy right, because even the establishment of this region before the thousands, this punishment of the region, i do have a lot of information that the government, the central government was trying to organize the committee, which would probably organize the new state. how the way it could be published at a 100 responsibly, the organization of the new packet. and i think the problem of this in the government was in the time for making the referendum because there is a general admission to expect that by central government before that time has already passed in the central government and established a national chain already pop. now. yeah, the marika. thank you. thank you so much. just 18th, just just as your connection is about to peter out, it's a perfect timing cuz i had just have enough time to say thank you so much for, for bringing us your thoughts about the potential of a new south west state in ethiopia. next we had to venezuela, where people are getting used to a new currency. the government is trying to fight, run away inflation and says that banking will be easier under the new bolivar. it's the 3rd time that the currency has been reset since 2008. here's what some locals in caracas are saying. i let me know what i'm pretty. the 1st time 3 zeros were removed from the currency. the 2nd time it was 5 zeros. and now another 6 years have been removed from the currency. then they say that this does not affect the value of products. how can it not, if you add the whole bunch of zeros to today's bolivar, what does that represent here? there's even inflation on the dollar, but that's the way it is. we have no choice but to live one day at a time. hello. yup. what i will know. you'll grow that old for me. i believe that the only thing that is going to improve is that i won't be carrying so much money because to carry $5.00 worth of boulevard in cash. you have to carry it in a suitcase. so i believe that the only thing that would benefit us would not be carrying so much cash in our pocket. nothing else because the prices do not go down . they keep going up. so a canadian is a correspondent covering latin america for writers. hello sarah. i am wondering if that gentleman was exaggerating. would you really need a suit case previously to carry around $5.00 worth of the previous uh, venezuela currency it is. is, was that over the top? no, he's right, and he's a, he's a bus driver so that the very small portion of the population that actually ever handled believe any when i was there for over 2 years and i never want to use but leverage in cash. so you know, i think what this current the change goes is essentially just make make transactions easier. i'm just trying to imagine what happened. what's the difference if you're living in venezuela the day before the currency was introduced and then the days after how, how would i know it's going about my life going about my work? well, what's different now? it's funny because actually i had a friend text me and say, so i have $30.00 worth of probably the rest of my bank account. people don't keep very much cash in the bank account because the inflation so you lose a lot of money which has not changed with this currency change. i think it would not go to the grocery store. can i still use it to go to the grocery store? and really what the answer is. yes, it was flashed off another 6 zeros. so what you know, let's say this changes all the time, but $1.00 was worth $4000000.00. believe it or is before it's not worth for mil for, for li buddy. all right, so when you go into look at the prices instead of you know, a dire of whatever peaches equaling $4000000.00 it would just be 4. and then that way that obviously like the highest bill note before whether one mil $1000000.00 believe at a and now it's a one believe that a coin. so that reduces the amount of cash people need to hold, hold on them. all right, so what about sorry, let's take a teacher's salary for instance. how are they faring out right now in terms of this new pilot see trying to course correct the economy. what would a teacher, sorry, be like today? well, i mean that's a little bit difficult because then as well as in this process of over the past 2 years, the dollar has been used a lot and it has just grown in popularity. busy and now it's basically used for everything. so then as well as kind of trying to figure out how to adapt to this because some people, it's a very small section of the population. do earn in dollars or foreign currency. but for instance, state workers still make a minimum wage which covers around $3.00 a month. so, you know, this currency doesn't change basically anything other that change doesn't. it doesn't change anything other than, than calculations counting. chuck. so i want to show you this on, on my laptop, it's from tweet as because as they knew we were talking about venezuela today to a pm to 6. 3 says the measures illustrate the fact that usa needs to lift the financial sanctions. it imposes all nations the impact, but it's wayne is politics because i read the regular citizens on the ground. suffer. thought sarah yet. well, i mean, i'd say 1st the economic recession in venezuela started around 2014. in the 1st, actually the 1st time they did this to the currency happened in 2008. there were question, say it in 2014 and then the u. s. imposed the 1st round of sanctions in 2017 and then the economy got really bad. i think that and then they did it again in 2019 i guess it's a company and you you definitely had need conditions. the sanctions have made conditions on the ground worse conditions. we're taking a very downward trend beforehand and, you know, at the end of the day, it's a question about inflation and curbing inflation. so venezuelans can feel like they have a place to store their money. right? and basically right now it's just going to continue to print it's none of my friends a hold money and believe in their bank account, it's just on a transactional basis. so you need to pay, i don't know, a painter or you need to pay somebody in the liberties. then you have to go and find someone to tell you the believe it is to keep it in their bank account. and you know, access to us dollars is very hard because of the sanctions. so just to give you an idea, you know, by the end of my time in venezuela, which was 4 days ago, people were walking back into the country with thousands of dollars in cash on them . often to even re sell it because there'd be shortages of $1.00 life. let me let me say this to you. this is gemma. he was just a few hours ago. so i have a list and then respond immediately off the back of the video. his gamma here is a loss of 4 years of piper inflation at which most benefit of the currency. in fact, are all the 2 thirds of retail transactions are being done in the us dollars. but those are all much deeper. and y'all serials on a bill later measure one too much to reverse the 70 percent g. b decline since 2013 and want to bring back the 5000000 people who have left their countries since yeah, i mean that that's absolutely the feeling on the ground. when the people, my friends, people who i know there, it wasn't really of much importance to them. of course we don't make it easier because, you know, you don't have to print life. $27000000.00 on a receipt, and you don't need to strike a credit card multiple times to be able to just pay for like a box of strawberries or whatever. but he's right at the, at the end of the day in inflation is, is continuing. and although it's load with the introduction of the dollar her around 2000 percent, so i'm just gonna go look at your total account. this is sam, a canadian at espinoza, and if you want to follow sarah, which i know you do a new snotty showing that 76.6 percent venezuelans live in extreme poverty up from 67 percent last year. we were talking about currency here, but this is the real story, right? yeah, and you know, again, what's, what's weird is that, i mean, now essentially venezuela is moving toward the do a currency situation. but these dollars and the private industry that you'll see, you know, there's a lot of things happening on instagram, for instance. and there's a lot less shortage of goods because they really relax, import import control. but that's a very small for the population, right? that can actually access them the most people you know, like exactly extreme poverty, they're living on less than i think a $1.20 a day. wow. and prices have increased with the dollarization and they continued to increase the wall. for instance, you can technically medicine, you can't, nobody can buy. yeah. yeah. so a canadian from reuters, thank you so much for joining us on the stream today would be appreciated your analysis. finally, to, to nicea where the gulf between supporters and opponents of tennessee is present, appears to be widening release, both for and against president chi saeed. have taken place in chimneys recently. here's some voices from both sides of the divide. oh yes, we want to deliver a word to case said no, going back now and to prosecute all those who have committed crimes against the people. that is the main and 1st demand to prosecute, all those who have wronged the people have been without the most important demands of the return to the constitution and the parliament. there is no country in the world without a parliament and without a constitution. and there is no country in the world in which a person has monopoly on all authorities, and we're against it. even the ousted dictators anil aberdeen, been ali did not monopolize all power in the way the case cited. this is very strange. the more in the tensions into nicea, we are joined by independent journalist sam kimball, st. get to see i'm going to be quite toughening to to start off with your headline . what would your headline be that sums out what is happening in tennessee this week to day? what would you go with her despite the appointment? oh, i of the country's 1st female prime minister and major questions remain about teenagers, democratic transition. oh, seal foss. let's talk about the moot in the country. give us an example of that mood. how would you sum it up? well, i think you could say most places that you go in the country, the feeling that you might get on the street is you might get a sense of anxiety attention. i mean things, things, in many neighborhoods, in a lot of cities, i mean kind of street life seems to be going on as normal or as normal has been over the last several years. but there's, there's a lot of anxiety and a lot of that comes from core is produced by least the tension between those who support the president. exceptional measures done on july 25th, which include freezing of the parliament and the dismissal of the minister along with your being parliamentary immunity. and supporters of those measures taken on the 25th of july and sin and those who are opposed you know, and often very staunch, very opposed. and those were kinda waiting it out. and i think those who are waiting it out kind of in a middle ground are those, you know, with the great extensive gaiety i was speaking to, for example, a long time activist and organizer down in south western city. the mining city brings a lot of the country's wealth and tact but long marginalized. and she was saying that she had gone out initially on july 25th to support the president's extraordinary measures that he took. she thought it was the only way that the, the squabbling and the major dysfunctionality in the government and the parliament in particular could be, could be stopped. whereas during these measure, and she thought that was the only way. but and she initially some kind of hedged optimism, the appointment of 2 new, just 1st female prime minister. and when pushed a little further though many of her doubts came out. she said, okay, we have to wait and see if this prime minister will, will bring any good things to the country. but she ended up saying, but this prime minister has very little authority, especially the face of the president, kind of consolidated the executive and legislative authority. and so she said, we simply cannot have a return to the days of the dictatorship, as she said, under the former president denali. so there's a lot of ambiguity and ambivalence and then some, if you speak to the kind of more active crowd folks who follow politics more closely and get involved on the street and those who were out in the revolution of 2011, there's a lot of pessimism and a fear about a return of dictatorship. they've said some i want to play federal kaboom. he's an economics professor dennison university, have a listen and them respondents i'm afraid that the support that the president currently has will gradually dissipate and disappear. and then we'll find ourselves in a deeper political crisis with no constitution with no parliament, with no coherent economic vision to take the country out of this quagmire. yeah, it's, there is an interesting, well, worrying position that the country finds itself in. now where the president has concentrated so many executive and legislative injustice powers in his own hand and the 25th of july and removed those from higher institutions that could renew his decisions or check the powers that it leads opposition with really only kind of more radical options, whether that's taking to the street or striking or, or otherwise. so there aren't these kind of formal political institutions, the ones that have been constructed since the revolution of 2011, to kind of mediating conflicts and check them powers. so indeed, i was just speaking to well known activists and journalists who move down the street from me and my neighborhood. and she was saying that she, she'd likewise, she thinks that the, the political as well as the economic situation where she's been central, all of this will decline further. i'm, i'm trying to think and try on that. what impact this political term all is having on every day life? how do you see it's playing out? well, it's been appeal like what gets a lot of the a lot of media attention and a lot of analysis in the political turmoil of kind of the, the high level at the formal level. but what has powered that and, or what has power of the social turmoil as well as the lyrical, most recently had been the covey that at the demick, which, which tunisia had initially responded to quite well in the 1st month of 2011, with one of the lowest infection and death rates in all of africa. but which, by the time of the president, history and measures had become the highest death rate in the world due to cove it so that it was there was massive, outraged, and massive frustration due to the mishandling of this pandemic in health crisis. i not to mention the rapidly rising inflation and unemployment and because of the coven crisis, tremendous crisis in lots of jobs for ordinary people, especially in the informal sector. so yeah, it's caused a lot of confusion on the street. and like sam, thank you so much. i am kimball, have a look here on my laptop. you can follow him on twitter. i do some on the roads, and you can catch up with all relation to museum via sams twitter feed. thanks for watching. if you've ever got a story idea for us at the stream, you can tweet us at a stream. i'll see you next time. take everybody ah . stories that need to be told. find a way. opening a window into another life. these are my babies, my students where i go, where i see them. it's just like we were in secondary from personal endeavors in epic struggle. took a lot of sacrifices in individual jenny whitney joe case has been firing documentary that changed the while on al jazeera. around 200 wildfires have struck turkey in recent weeks and also support has how to bring them on the control almost a decade ago. west spaniel. glad martin was an exchange student in turkey's booster province. she had no idea. she will be flying planes over turkey's agent, coastline to have combat wildfires. it is one of a dozen fire fighters who ever ride from spain to counter fires that have eaten up forest and pastures along with turkeys. a gym and mediterranean coast in the distance headquarters refilled their camp to buckets for another. go at the fires, though many are now contained, others have stubbornly spread due to change in ruins. aircraft. how played a white a role in this operations? 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