tv NEWS 30min Al Jazeera August 12, 2024 5:00pm-5:31pm AST
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[000:00:00;00] the safe them even come in as an international inside corruption, excellence award. denominator here on now. the at least 15 palestinians are killed. why is really strikes sensed on, on monday, we report from time eunice, where tens of thousands of people are struggling to find stacey. international humanitarian law is on district disregard the mind to justify on the world mark 75 years since the geneva conventions were signed. as
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israel continues to carry out brutal tax it costs the gaza strip. the, you're watching out a 0 light from a headquarters and don't find any navigate also ahead. the us special envoy to sit on says, talks to end the conflict between suzanne's army and the parent military force will go ahead in geneva. this week. wildfires rage near athens forcing thousands of people from their homes on the evacuation of a children's hospital. the hello. we begin in the gaza strip, where israel has killed these 15 palestinians installed on monday of the and is where they are striking
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a house and goes a city shifted one neighborhood on sunday, killing at least one person. meanwhile, in the south, tens of thousands of palestinians have been told by is really forces to evacuate the eastern parts of tron, eunice. many of them are sleeping on the streets as they have nowhere left to go in central garza and is really striking at home and mislead off the refugee camps. people were seen digging through the rubble of the building figure is released by the palestinian central bureau of statistics. so is really forces have killed 1.8 percent of the gaza strips population since october. the 7th. and victims of is where the air strikes in fine units have been taken to the north side hospital in southern gaza. rescue teams found some of the 13 bodies under the rubble in eastern parts of the city. is really one of the 3 says at target. it's how most fighters operating and so called safe stones, honeywell who didn't find eunice and has the latest developments for us. love the
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past in months. these really era talks carried out across the gods and from not only the cause. civility and casualty, further civilian cause of the re, a talk has an after not be the disability and casualty the destruction. that is cause to almost all means of life to the point. there are areas across the gospel it across the gaza strip, are more of a waste land. there is no way people can go back and carry out in normal life in these areas. something that has been feeding into a, an overwhelming feeling that this is a permanent displacement. this is what this really military is after the explosion of how the syrians of, from the areas where they lived for the past years, all of their life. it also changed, it changed their views of life as the new it before to birth 7, we're talking about public facilities. infrastructure as entire residential blocks are gone with all the memories that people have with everything that they build with their own hand, that the memories they created in these neighborhoods. these areas tracts continue
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up to this moment, more of it just few minutes ago. we could hear that clearly the ongoing are tailors of the eastern part of hon. eunice and the syndrome area emilio and the raise didn't belong to the, the, the southern eastern part of, of the city of theater. but i even deeper inside the central area and the site out review gap has been in torres side of relentless attacks to the overnights. early hours of this morning, more of the buildings are, are destroyed. it's been 75 years since the geneva conventions were established. as a framework to ensure the protection of civilians, detainees, and wounded soldiers in war, the international committee of the red cross which overseas, the convention says the laws had been widely ignored and are needed. now, more than ever. international humanitarian law is on this strain. to disregard this on the mind,
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to justify violence. more than the effort towards must we commit to this robust protective framework for our country. one that follows the premise of protecting us. instead of just define this today, down more than 120 conflicts recorded by my organization. unplug governments and media focused on destruction and ukraine, and casa, on conflict. as for, take a similarly shocking towards my infiniti. okay. i spent hundreds of thousands of lives fighting has this paste 8000000 into done. and $6000000.00 in the democratic republic of to come go to attract to conflicts and marty, the central african republic, columbia, mozambique, in march, syria and demon,
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all take it, finding schumann cost. well, the 1949 geneva conventions are a series of international treaties, but established standards for humanitarian treatment in war, and has been ratified by a 196 states, including all un member states. the 1st convention ensures the injured soldiers are treated humane the unprotected medical services from being attacked. second convention expense base protections to those at sea, making sure shipwreck them injured military personnel or treated well and safe guarding hospital ships. while the 3rd convention focuses on the humane treatment of prisoners or for binding torture, ensuring they get basic needs like food and shelter, and allowing them to stay in touch with their families. and 4th convention protect civilians during war prohibits attacks on the outlaws. collective punishment of jeffrey, nice as a human rights barrister who led the prosecution of former serbian leaders slow but
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down the last of it to be un international criminal tribunal. for the former yugoslavia, he says the world has changed slowly but surely since the conventions were assigned and that international pressure is key to holding israel to accounts those for conventions in the protocol is that all the insurance since have slowly but surely being taken as low it wasn't necessarily taking those below to begin with, but they are now below. and therefore, well, congress signed off on offices. it might be and they nearly will not have to evade below, but will close. if you look at a domestic setting, we have a low, we have people who break the law and it takes time to reduce the amount of offending, and you'll never able to reduce it to nothing, it seems. but that is more of his slowly happening in the world. and i think the most important example,
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perhaps starting the up to mistake rather than be weeks for your viewers who are concerned about gauze a push to would be to reconsider all to consider the judgements in the advisory opinion of the international court of justice delivered a few weeks ago we shall titles a little and said quite the degree to which israel has been happening on the side illegally. wrongly why is that? who put that is the low? i'm that me is the congress dot great britain, but also in the united states of america and other countries cannot go on supporting his road unless they remind israel that the geneva conventions of all the rest of what's now called international humanitarian law, has to be applied the attention of the israel 11 on border is rising as 2 for top attacks continue as has been left, threatens to carry out a larger offensive lead on sunday, the lebanese, our group size, it fired
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a volley of rockets into northern israel in retaliation for israel's attack. on southern 11 on last week, zanna for the reports and loving these capital, they routes. it was a late night attack or response to as well as targeting of southern villages. not the promised retaliation for the killing of hezbollah was leading military commander. the armed group has been firing rockets at army targets across the board for more than 10 months triggered by the war on garza. but there was a message in the latest operation today in fulton. and the light of the prefer ration of the uranium and hezbollah joined or separate the tack on these right as a retaliation with these rise in there on the route to test, always defend their ability of the island down and try to flooded or has velocity is really military or bracing for a potentially larger conflict in recent days as well,
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strikes have become more frequent and more intense. the aim appears to be to limit the hezbollah as ability to maneuver. but the arms group continues to strike back, expanding its range of targets, but still in largely the populated areas. the exchange of fire, however, is still within the unwritten rules of engagement, which means the focus is still on military targets. in relation to the right directories and exchanges a fight that we have been witnessing due in dispute. it has been very much since the localized as well continues with its targeted killings. and there is no front line there happening beyond the border region as well as promising what it calls an unprecedented response to any major attacks. the region is on edge for days now is really and western intelligence sources have been speculating on the type and
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climbing of retaliation that has the law and iran will mount in response to as well as recent assassinations. there are some reports suggesting that it could happen as early as monday with others saying, how's the attacks 1st and you run hours later? sonic booms are creating panic across lebanon, including the capital b. root is really war. planes have been increasingly breaking the sound barrier. it's psychological warfare is really reconnaissance. drones have also increased the numbers over lebanon's aerospace to detect launches in real time. as recent assessments indicate international pressure has failed to restrain iran. and it's like, has been lost from trying to draw new lines center for their eligibility to be route the officer more than
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a year of fighting between the armed forces in the parent military rapids support forces in strict on the us, special or on voice us peace talks we'll go ahead this week. he made the comments at a briefing in geneva, while the united nations also said the country is out of breaking points. we would have preferred for these talks to start in april when we tried again trying for this round. if not, april may, if not, may, june, and july. but we will move forward with this event this week. and that has been made clear to the parties that we have had a commitment engagement from the r assess, we've had extensive engage and with the staff. but they have not yet given us an affirmation which would be necessary today for moving forward with seating them on the 14th. okay, for more on what's been said to bring in our correspondence, have them oregon. joining us from far to him, hippa,
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of the well we heard from the us special envoy, tom here real on the fact that talks will indeed start. or rather the process of talks will start on the 14th of august. that's regardless of whether the student needs army does attend or not. now he made it very clear that this week would be a launch of the process and not in the absence of the could in these army, not the stars of the seas fired talks itself. he said that there was several of the countries and by these that are involved in the process of trying to bring together this it in these army. i'm the parent of the through rapid support forces for it talks the engineer, but for a cease fire to end of the or to halt the fighting here. and this is denise capital cartoon, and elsewhere around the country. now the city needs army has made it clear that there are certain conditions that need to be met and the sudanese government has also made that's clear. they say that they once and a guarantee that the get the agreement which was signed between the signees army.
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i'm the recess in the city of did the last year will be implemented by the recession. they said the ones that were presentation in geneva to be as a government, i'm not as this is denise army. and that seems to be a way of the government asking for legitimacy. so for the time being that that's an hour to verify it by this means army been going on for a while now. so that's what the invoice is trying to ensure that these are some very strikes, these exchange of comply between the army and the, the, the rapids. what forces pops and for the time being it looks like even if the process does start, the process of the detox received by will take some time until the signees army agrees to join the talks and the process for talk. okay, about just bring us up to speed done. i mean, we just turned that artillery fire behind you, as you're speaking to us, what is happening on the ground right now, and who's making a more gains of the what we've seen over the past few weeks, the hours of getting more territory to us. the southern and south eastern parts of the country they were able to take far. it's often not states that's in the south
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eastern sedan. they have been trying to get the capital of some of the states of thing that uh, the city of some that rather in some out of state. and they've been advancing towards blue nile space. that's one of the few states remaining in the country that has been free of conflict since april last year. the army, on the other hand, has been getting territory on the ground in the city of on demand in big capital cartoon. but those tend to those really are the civilians. people continue to be displaced. as a result of the fighting in the city of a fashion repeated the exchange of gunfire between the army. i'm assuming these forces has led to difficulty of age reaching to those in need in the city, open, placid, if that's the last remaining, armstrong, cold. the 8 organizations that have announced that there is famine in the, in some, some camp which is in fashion. so they all concerns that the human turn situation is getting more and more dire, more than 10000000 people already displaced half of the 49000000 population in need of military assistance. and this 5 bad. so i think continues in the capital costume
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and elsewhere on the country with both sides determined to win over the other militarily. okay, thank you. have a morgan. thank you so much. still ahead on al jazeera, ukrainian soldiers raised the flag in russian territory. moscow issues of factory ration orders for thousands of civilians because i'm not that bright and know not to japan reckon to have the oldest population at any village in this rapidly aging society. i'm fighting for the a hello right off the bat. this is going to be a bad rain storm. 4th of all, these keep in mind dark of the blue and the yellow, the more intense the rain is falling. so i think late tuesday, early wednesday, that's when you're going to see the worst of the rain backs off
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a bit on wednesday and then right back into the thick of it as we head towards thursday. this is also looking bad for a southern india for a careless state. second highest level alerts issued for an intense rain and also blanketed in rain cross street vonk. i'm thinking more so north of candy to indo china. we go actually, let's focus on the end parts. this eastern sides here. we're seeing the rain pick up. certainly could see some flooding there. all of the flooded words have been dropped the up and down to philippines and brain pretty much draped across southern china. now it's starting to find its way into shanghai, so that's gonna kick down your temperatures a bit to 34 degrees on thursday. tropical storm, maria made land for quite unusual to make the land falling this part of japan. it was only the 3rd tropical storm to do so starts to dissipate, but still a few lingering showers left behind there and do an easy looking good. let's go 32 degrees in your cart. are plenty of sun here. and you know, for the western side of afghanistan,
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[000:00:00;00] the top stories on algae 0, at least 15 palestinians have been killed and is really a tax on god's lessons dawn on monday in central dogs on is really striking a home down the street on the refugee camp. people were seeing digging through the rubble of the building the international committee of the red cross as many laws of the geneva conventions have been widely ignored in dogs. so as the world marks 75 years since the conventions were signed, the international laws were designed to protect the civilians during the war. and the us special envoy, tucson, says peace talks will go ahead this week. fighting between the army and the parent military rapids support forces broke out in april last year. the one says the
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country is that a breaking point has urged international efforts to end the crisis. the 10s of thousands of russians have been ordered to evacuate parts of to border regions, as the ukrainian defensive shows no sign of stopping the governor of russia's crust . creatures says ukraine is currently in control of 28 settlements and has advanced 12 kilometers into the russian territory. the russian president, vladimir putin says it's an attempt to draw his troops away from the front lines and to improve keeps future negotiating. position. here is a defense editor alex gets off the list with more forcing your bushes. close regions has been raging for a week as russian troops tried to stop the advance of ukrainian forces. but with the situation apparently deteriorating for russia, the governor of the neighboring belgrade region announced evacuation of russian civilians from a boat at district. louise took that off, but what was the evidence in order to secure it the life and health of our
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population? we are beginning to move people who live in the custody. out of some school districts to safer place is in a possible expansion of ukraine's operation. its soldiers fighting alongside georgia in volunteers was seen in the belgrade villages, perot's quality lapka in russia, just across the border. the operation has been a boost to you, creating morrell as they perceive their forces to be given. russia, taste bits of medicine, you know, should be personally unable to. yes, i suppose that the fact that they, when i support that, that's what they deserved with, let them feel what we feel, let them live in off the skin, russian or ukrainian. it is the civilian population that always suffers and this will fall into units in russia now organizing the distribution of food an 8th is people sleep with what little they can carry. first of the question and then you'll know over it what we need is new bedding sleeping bags, blankets,
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and some other things all because the nights will ready, quite chilly and it's august. it's approaching often. unfortunately, we don't know how long this situation will continue with each day. that pulse is president vladimir pretend is looking. we could as what was at 1st the raid by ukrainian forces now looks like a whitening operation carried out on the person soil. alex gets helpless. i'll just here to grease now where hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain a mass of blaze on the outskirts of the capital athens. all thirties are evacuating towns, including patients from hospitals, shown home reports, the ash clouds over the acropolis on sunday, as wild fires tool through forested areas. north east of the capital athens. by monday, the blaze was set to be moving like lightning across the 20 kilometers of front, apparently beyond the control of firefighters. large pots of mount been deadly. are
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also a blaze. see the fine up, what am i got along the front of the fire is really huge and it's, i'm controllable, right now the high and they're all the all have guides. all of the, all of the bonus this here was a good year for oil. for now, we really don't know what is coming next. we don't know if and when the firewall in the back. by mid morning, monday, residents with 11 villages and towns had been ordered to evacuate with volunteers unofficial. scrambling to assist the ancient town of marathon is also at risk with residence, the told to head towards the coast above the mobile foot. many remain doing whatever they can to save their homes and possessions for the equipment. it hurts. we have grown up in the forest, we feel great sadness and anger for the flames surrounded me. i couldn't see he'd
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a pine tree and this happened well to bombing at croft helicopters and 5 trucks with ceaselessly seen sunday. the task made ever more difficult by gale force winds, and weather conditions suggest things may only get worse with around half the country under a red alert. for one of the fonts c. c in june and july with the hottest month on record. and in the athens area, strong winds are set to continue with monday's temperature, expected to reach 39 degrees celsius. yet for all that these are increasingly familia seems environmental as well. and the grease is a summer time tinderbox. last year 28. people were killed in wild files across the country. and 6 years ago in 2018, a 104 people died, as far as devastated the seaside result of mattie jo, how elder 0 let me marry valley is a former deputy athens mayor and was the 1st he officer appointed to the city. she
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says, climate change is contributing to the increased frequency and intensity of while fires and it's horrifying. more and more, we're getting these crazy fires is mega fires, which according to firefighters, they create their own climate conditions and they're really, really difficult to set under control. if you have these types of extreme um high temperatures for very, very long time, heat waves, as we've had recently all around the world with many, many days where the temperatures are above 353637 degrees celsius. picking up to 40 or even more every now and then. then you expect to have these types of cascading and cold coming and other types of effect such as long periods of,
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of routes. and of course, wild fires and the wildfires are because they are the the are for us are still dry and for months and months we had 13 months where globally, the temperatures had been like records breaking records. cool. after the one months after the other had been the hottest months we ever recorded. so the summer for the northern hemisphere, we all expected it was going to be really hard in relation to our forest and to extreme fires. it's really difficult because, you know, friends are, are losing their homes, but also we're losing this incredible line for the city of athens, which are these, the, the, for us around it gives us, if this is how this city can survive, by having these forests around it, and now these are being burned again and again. so it's a problem. a heavy rainfall has flooded a hospital in the cool for
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a region of libya rescue where is evacuated. 3 pediatric and 8 intensive care patients on sunday. and the intense rain was reported to have cause widespread damage to the medical facility with court, or is in hospice awards. completely inundated by water. so can you and our, the leader of our religious coats has gone on trial, accuse of manslaughter hall and tank, and mackenzie was arrested off to the remains of more than $400.00 people were found in a forest. and can you all last year, and he's accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death. telling them they would go to heaven. stephanie decker has more from outside that court m on by. so it's a case that didn't just shop kenya, but the entire world and mine at the helm of that pool. mackenzie, former cab driver, taxi driver, turned into self appointed non of guards. now in this magistrate court in the indian ocean, port city of mombasa is the 4th trial he faces along with $94.00 of his followers,
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charges of manslaughter, of being witnessed out today. there's 3 other trials already on going charges of terrorism. charges of torture has the abuse of children and charges of murder. all these charges are denied by mackenzie and his followers, saying not guilty. we heard from the prosecution in court today saying that they were going to prove that this was sustained effort and mass starvation starting with children, then women, and then with man uh the defend saying that this had nothing to do with religion. we also saw mackenzie enter court looking more frail, perhaps thinner than we've seen him in public before, but still very much a man who looked like he believed he was in charge talking to his fellows, greeting them because of course, they're kept in different prisons and very much giving a message that they were still united and he was still very much in charge. he is at the helm. now,
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of all of these charges indicates that there's also raised questions about the accountability, about how to put checks and balances on past are self appointed, pastors, and preachers, and healing man in a country that is deeply religious, definitely decor, all g 01 bossa. can you, the older pond is facing a significant population in housing crisis. about 14 percent of japan's residential properties are vacant. where the 9000000 homes mainly in rural areas have been abandons. as people move to cities and japan continues to face a demographic challenge with its population shrinking for over a decade. in 2023, the country recorded. it's a consecutive here of declining birth rates hitting an all time low. this trend has contributed to a ghost town phenomenon and rural japan. projections indicate that the number of bands and homes could continue to rise, potentially surpassing 30 percent of all properties by 2033. rough mcbride travel to a village about
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a 100 kilometers northwest of tokyo to find out more of the work in that confection . we store muscle yuki and the son she did you teacher, that's one of the 3rd and 4th generations of a family business that's been in the village of non maku for a 140 is the shop is on what was once the bustling high street or where new york, they used to be about 40 shops along the street. now there were only 4 businesses left. everything else closed and there were no young people, little children. in the little more than a generation, the population has shrunk by nearly 90 percent, with 2 thirds of the residents older than 65. knoxville, 8. your kind of cheats, alignment last year with the number of its citizens being over 18 tilting 10 percent of the population for the 1st time within this rapidly aging society. this one village still homes, the reco having the oldest inhabitants. it's one of 20 communities in this
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