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protest in sudan, and a military official has been stamped to death. britons, prince andrew, stripped of his military titles. and patronage is as he faces a civil sex abuse trial in the u. s. and a russian lead military block begins pulling out of kazakhstan after a week long deployment to stop protests against the government. ah, hello, a former syrian colonel has been jailed for life after a german court handed down the 1st ever conviction for state back torture committed during syria's civil war. and why ruslan was the head of a security office at a notorious prison where detainees were tortured and killed. he oversaw murder, rape, and crimes against humanity, dominic cane as more from ballad 10 years ago. unwashed son was a senior officer in the syrian government forces. now the former colonel is

starting a life sentence for crimes against humanity convicted by a german court of multiple counts of murder, torture, and sexual violence. all carried out during his time in charge of the prison near damascus. stand it laughter by untied as if the defendant was a part of assisting. at his instigation, thousands of civilians were briefly tortured. he's also responsible for the murder of at least $27.00. the evidence we put forward through that on a big us lee was one rush. slam defected to the syrian opposition in 2012 before eventually coming to germany. 2 years later, when he was granted asylum, it was only in 2018. the police began checking out his story when they realized the extent of his crimes they decided to prosecute. in bringing this case, the german forces have invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction. effectively saying that some crimes are so serious that it doesn't matter where they take place,

nor does it matter that the victims and perpetrators on not german. what matters is the justice be done outside the court on thursday, relatives of victims of those killed in syria, gave their reaction to the verdict. yeah, they haven't shunned us ever that. yeah, we were actually expecting this verdict and were of course, hoping that this would be the word it. of course this doesn't bring back our loved ones and doesn't get our loved ones out of prison. we have to keep talking about it and keep reminding the world that there are still a lot of people in syrian prisons and math in on the human rights. campaigners welcome the sentence. i think it's quite okay for their survivor. their syrian how are affected this crime. so i hope that he said the sentence and despair that will be a strong base for a future war. and water slot was not the 1st form, a member of the syrian government forces to be jailed in germany. and if the

government here continues its prosecuting drive against those suspects of war crimes, there, he seems. unlikely to be the last dominant came al jazeera berlin, montana dela is a former assyrian prisoner and victim of torture. he's now executive director of the syria justice and accountability center, which documents and collect evidence of atrocities. he says while thursday's ruling is historic, there needs to be greater accountability. the security agencies lcd oriented above the law. beyond the law, the author all got shut off and unity and that started to see some and on the hands of national course in germany. it's unfortunate the trial happening odyssey ago. it's only for one person from a hold systematic machine off and is being disappearing, torturing and killing. but this is a good 1st step toward just witnesses. survivors are victims, families, the court,

listen to what's been said, they're unrest. lanham self was forced to respond to the allegation and comment on them, which is a history, and we know what the question both offices the view of you on the left, or they would walk away just just fine without it and think it will be in question but also lend themselves the way he responded under the act to people and how to get them to try to get. he did not regret what he did. ready to those people, and i'm very glad to see him being on trial and see this sort of thing i believe and holding the most responsible, official accountability. not only somebody who want them in an order plan was implementing this policy from you, of georgia and beating and killing. but he did not actually design that policy. and if you want to target the practice of don't show that it's usually of torture. we want to brag, we want to get those who design the policy and they're still in damascus company. ah,

security forces you down who shot and killed a protest. her hours after a senior military official was killed during a demonstration in khartoum. tear gas was 5 protested after thousands took to the streets against the crew in october, which plunged the country into political deadlock. living for multiple injuries. demonstrations want military need is out and to return to civilian government. while i'm involved more from cartoon, it's been a tough day actually. we have information about the hospital in call to him that is full of wounded for a test. and that person doc, for test to in battery who was killed. apparently after the killing of the police brigadier earlier today, there been signs of an intensification of the reaction by the military and the police forces the city sol, brimming with those forces in the vehicles. martin using the gas and using water

cannons production due today. so i mean, they stepped up the response to the professor after the killing of that big a deal. the police issued a statement. they did not accuse anyone specifically of being behind the murder, but they said they are investigating the incident. and they said he was stopped twice or 3 times and that caused him to die. this is a new development in this situation. we've been listening a hearing on the news of the killing of testers, over 60 of them have been killed. hopkins october 25th. but this development to date is fear of 2 d a m, the whole process of, of, of demonstrations for democracy and sit down with us to have always professed to be peaceful. they said they will remain peaceful whatever happens. and over the last

several weeks, when some of them will be killed, they insisted that they would not change their ways and they would not resort to violence. the committee, the towards the nobel peace prize, his appeal to ethiopia prime minister, to end the conflict and his country had won the award in 2019 in iraq critique of a former laureate than the region. the nobel committee says he has special responsibility for bringing in end to the fighting that broke out in late 2020. the committee generally refrains from commenting on the actions of nobel prize winners out of a one, a ward britain. this prince, andrew can no longer call himself his will highness and now faces a civil sex abuse child in new york as a private citizen fucking palace. as his mother, the queen has stripped him of his military titles and accused of sexual abuse by the junior fray, who says she was traffic to have sex with him when he was 17. he denies the allegations. on wednesday,

his lawyers failed to have the case thrown out more or less from the hall in west london. it's got a blow for prince andrew. tell us more about it. oh it certainly blue foot prince andrew and after the extraordinary further full thought from grace for the 2nd born to the queen or once the spare to the air was 2nd in line to the throne. her favorite son indeed embroiled in the sexual assault allegations. now facing trial, probably in the autumn and a huge effort here clearly by the monarchy at 2 distance, him from them at an absolutely critical moment for the institution. and indeed, the queen anne, hey, it is her heart of jubilee year, february the 6th, marx, 70 years on the throne. an entire year of celebratory events planned here a moment or also for the monarchy, perhaps to put a step forward beyond sort of scandals. russians,

internal upsets of the past to put forward its youngest and brightest figures and perhaps have an iron lie at to the future when it is a future that appears now to have no place at full prince andrew, as you say, stripped off military affiliations and ra of patronage is including 8 british regiments among the granite. he, a garza which he was colonel at one of the oldest and most prestigious at regiments, but really key to the whole thing. had this notion of stripping him of the title, his royal highness. it is a title, of course that he was born with and that more than anything else marks his really his complete removal now from official royal life. certainly for raw duties. let me read to you 2 statements. the 1st, the statement at put out a fairly brief straightforward statement i buckingham palace. this is all we have in terms of reaction at, from the ro, household in the monarchy with the queen's approval. it says and agreement the duke

of york's military affiliations and ra patronage. is, have been returned to the queen. we understand she will in due course had them out to other family members that you could, the oak, it goes on. we'll continue not to under take any public duties and is defending the case as a private citizen and an exempt from a letter that was written in the last 24 hours by a $150.00 more than a 154 were serving military officers imploring the queen to take this step. it's really, it's instructive of the way people view prince andrew with his position right now, where there's any other senior military officer. it says it is inconceivable. he would still be in position offices of the british armed forces must adhere to the very highest standards of property, honesty and honorable conduct. there are spent, these are standards. he has fallen well short of if it finishes by saying we understand that he is your son, but we write to you in your capacity as head of state and commander in chief of the

army, navy, and the air force, please do not leave it any longer to get how thank you very much indeed. still come the south out the us to deploy another 1000 military personnel to help hospital is overwhelmed by the surge in cubic cases. and lebanon paralyzed as public transport workers to block main roads during the strike over storing fuel prices. ah, ah, with hello. we've got high pressure dominating the weather across here at the moment. so that means quiet weather things settling down quite nicely the highest, a little in the atmosphere. keats's settled and find where there are problems with mr. fog just around the low countries and on into jeremy, around the high though. that's where the air is unsettled. it's rising. we have got

some stormy weather across at east side of the mediterranean central areas. follow your way around, the high keen wesley wind bring some rain and some more snow there into norway, and that's a unsettle weather. makes his way across scandinavia, through the baltic states a fair bit of snow. they're pushing into that western side of a russia. meanwhile, right sleet and snow slipping down across a pilot, pushing into ukraine, continued to do so. as we go through saturday. by saturday we will see significant snow for coming to northern parts of turkey, still a few shares and the eastern side of the medicine, right. but not as widespread as they happen recently, largely quite for central parts if here some wet weather and some windy weather coming into ireland added to the u. k. as we go on into the latter part of the, we can still a few showers there where we have those storms in central areas of the mediterranean, northern parts of libya, northern areas of egypt to still seeing some showers, a chance of some showers there around west africa, ah,

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a german court has sentenced a former syrian intelligence officer to life in prison for crimes against humanity . unrest, land was found guilty of overseeing the murder and torture of detainees at a prison near damascus. security forces and sudan of shot and killed a protest. her hours after senior military official was killed during a demonstration. in cartoon, thousands had been rallying against a coup which was plunged the country into political deadlock. and britons, prince andrew has been stripped of his military titles and can no longer call himself his royal highness. as he prepares to face a civil sex of his trial in russian troops have begun. withdrawing from kazakhstan after being sent there to curb unrest and cassock, authorities say security has been restored. following several days of violence last week, 10000 people were rounded up during the anti government protests, and 160 were killed. in kirsty walker has his report.

oh, after just a week in kazakhstan and bailey is short, why did i go? the russian led military force of around 2000 troops is on its way hope. its role protecting power stations and other infrastructure seemed as symbolic as the parade ceremony. mocking its departure. look, i hope to plan to rob the peacekeeping mission of assisting the brother people of kazakhstan has been successfully completed. so now you have your spirit, observers believe the c s t o mission was actually to show that president casem jermarta talk. i have had russian backing this deployment was very much at the request to the cause, externally government the president took, i have and clearly he needed this force to stabilize his own internal situation. once that was stabilized, once they understood that his own domestic forces would remain loyal, then the c s t o deployment was no longer needed in the city of al marty,

where the troops were earlier deployed. what the authorities describe as an official terrorist threat remains. anti government protests had led to the worst violence in casks dance, modern history. more than a $160.00 people died, including peaceful protesters and police officers. around 12000 people have been detained. friends and relatives are anxiously waiting for news of the mortgage, but my friend, i can even call him a brother, isn't, doesn't i keep of it was detained on january, 4th, he was firstly held at the district office of internal affairs like then they told us he was in an internal affairs department since january 6, we've been here. and we don't know whether he's a life or not activist say those detained aren't being provided with their rights. you are on that additional, misty to me. neither lawyers or relatives,

no one's allowed in sight. lawyers should be present during interrogations. the checkpoints block the access for lawyers and relatives to see what's going on in there. we don't even have a list of the detainees of breaking ha, that's not in queue with the c s t o is note of mission accomplished. foreign troops are on their way out, but much remains to be resolved in kazakhstan. robin 1st year walker al jazeera in another potential flash point involving russia. poland says, talks to defuse the crisis in eastern ukraine, have not made any breakthroughs. negotiations in vienna with the organization for security and cooperation in europe are aiming to deescalate tensions which are seen troops gather near the border, dosage a barrier ports from moscow. ah, this is what russia says is within its sovereign right to do hold military drills in the southwestern region, neighboring ukraine. yeah. these drills were held on wednesday as

representatives of russia and nato met in brussels for talks of security. the 1st in nearly 3 years since late last year, the west has been concerned by russia building up a force of nearly 100000 soldiers near ukraine. demanding that washington pledge never to let you crane joined a 30 member of military alliance or expanded eastwards, appoint the united states, refuses to accept. and at the opening session of the world's biggest security conference, the organization for security and cooperation in europe. a star warning from the incoming chairman, the risk of war is the always sea area is now greater than ever before. in the last 30 years for several weeks, would have been the phase 2 of a possibility of emergent america parent escalation in eastern europe. while the

polish foreign minister went on to warn that tensions could up end the post cold war order on the continent, moscow continues to maintain. it has no intention of attacking ukraine after the borrower channel. would you give us put a new much? we should abandon a vicious cycle of truitt and russia as the enemy. we proposed mechanism of agreement, cross solution, et cetera. our written ideas for the american side and for the nato elias are aimed at preventing the said are you through diplomacy, grocery stations, and not through raising 2 inches and the use of military instruments diploma. you. this follows high level talks between nato and russia and brussels on wednesday, where the 2 sides clearly did not have a positive outcome. after a 4 hour meeting, president vladimir putin spokesperson has called this weeks tops unsuccessful. the kremlin says that if the united states were to impose sanctions on president who it would be comparable to severing ties with russia, it is now clear that dialogue and diplomacy have not bridge the gap between moscow

in the west, but rather highlighted their unresolved differences. dorset avari al jazeera moscow . u. s. media says american diplomats have fallen sick this week with suspected cases of havana syndrome in paris and geneva by the us and russia have been holding security talks. the state department says it's working to identify the illness and who might be behind it and has raised the issue with russians. sexual estate, antony blinkin says the entire federal government is focused on the mystery ailment which was effected about 200 diplomats in their family members since 2016. but it's not known what causes the illness, but symptoms include me, grains, nausea, memory lapses, and dizziness and the doors. he was president, joe biden has announced that war military personnel will soon be deployed in hospitals around america struggling with a k with 19 search. 120 military personnel will be sent to 6 states next week is the beginning of a new deployment of 1000 service members announced last month to help combat large

case loads and stock shortages. hundreds of services members in the us are already helping in civilian settings and thousands of national guard members are assisting with testing and vaccinations. but also announced that his government will be acquiring millions more testing kits and, and $95.00 face mosques to be distributed across the us for free. i know we're all frustrated as we enter this new year on the crime variant is causing millions of cases and record hospitalizations. i've been, i've been saying that as we remain in this 10 demick pandemic in the unvaccinated, i know we all wish that we can finally be done when we're in mask. i get it. but there isn't there and really important tool to stop the spread, especially of a highly transmittal home across various what does correspond to, kimberly, how kit jones is now. so this promise of more masks and more tests. how quickly

will that it will appear? do you think well that is a valid question, one that the vice president commonly harris could not answer when she was asked that not once but twice in the united states on a local national network. now, this is something that has been a persistent criticism of the response of the biden harris administration, namely that it was warning back in december that there would be a winter of illness, severe illness and death. so they knew about the severity even if they didn't understand the severity of the oh, micron variant. however, there still are no masks available to the general public or the tasks that both have been promised. now we do know, according to the white house, that as of friday, potentially, there could be new details revealed about the website that americans could, mexicans could access and trying to get these free face masks. and also these tests

was that we understand will be largely free. but again, the fact that this is coming so late and we're seeing record number of infections that hospitalizations in the united states has left not only ordinary life disrupted, but many americans feeling frustrated and mean mold the minute cheapest. know they on sunday to ready had some people who, who deployed and this is a kind of another, another layer of that. how's that going to be received? right and well, it's been well received, given the fact that when we talk about the military, these are not soldiers, these are military trained, nurse practitioners, doctors. and they're really there to serve the of the hospital workers that are quite honestly fatigued as we go into the 3rd year of this this pandemic. and so as a result, there is a need for relief, but at the same time, there's also a need for a bit more of the understanding. the white house believes of the coping pandemic

itself. the president ended his remarks today talking about the challenge of miss information, but we should point out there isn't growing movement particularly on line. that is challenging. a lot of what the white house has been saying over the years, given the fact that the messaging continues to change, whether it be about isolation periods from 10 to 5. now we're hearing that a cloth mask that so many americans have been wearing for more than a year, may not be good enough for the honor kron variance. so there are challenges for this white house, the president saying this is still largely pandemic of the and vaccinated. but when you look at the numbers, there's still a 3rd of americans, roughly that aren't wearing mass. i don't want to be vaccinated. and when it comes to the boosters, only 80000000 americans have received that out of a population of 360000000. that's because they're skepticism about not only the

biden administration's response, but the public health information that the public is receiving. and that's a challenge for this white house. kimberly, how can thank you very much deed there's been another change to isolation. rules for people was coded in england to try to reduce star shortages in workplaces. how factory such a job. it says the minimum isolation period for fully vaccinated people will be reduced from $7.00 to $5.00 days. from monday people will be able to leave isolation on day 6 if they provide negative tests on that day. and the one before secretary says data shows around 2 thirds of positive cases, a no longer infectious by the end of day 5. india has reported its highest number of code 19 cases since may last year. almost 250000 infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours. that's 30 times higher than a month ago. and far as the global trend of the amazon variant driving a sharp increase in infections. but hospital admissions and deaths are lower than

in previous waves. 380 people died in the past day, compared to peak of more than 4000 last year. pocket transfer workers have gone on strike as lebanon, struggles with a deepening economic crisis. drivers have been blocking roads across the country. angry at surging fuel prices should hold their reports from beverage. they tried to paralyze the country, public transport workers blocked roads across lebanon, and the hope the authorities will improve their living conditions. and international increase in fuel costs is adding pressure to their financial challenges. but it's the rapid depreciation of the local currency that made petrol unaffordable for many is the phone a lot going on as we demand, they fixed a dollar rates, so we can live, we can survive with the fuel prices. we can't feed our children, we are in pain. lebanon's inflation has reached triple digits and is among the highest in the world that lead to fuel consumption, falling by nearly half as many people are no longer able to afford using their cars,

filling them with fuel costs more than their monthly minimum wage. that's now worth 20 us dollars. he can went to work is cheaper than using my car, but i still have to pay one ford of my salary for transportation. a few months ago, they nearly bankrupt, the government lifted subsidies on fuel because of a lack of foreign reserves. and public transport costs increased by 400 percent la mama, i know people who walk in for kilometers because they can't afford to pay for the ride. everything is too expensive. the economic crisis is likely to worse than as politicians blame for years of corruption. don't have a recovery plan needed to unlock international financial aid. last year, i'm going to talk, we have to beg for money to survive. we are dying slowly. the situation is drastic . many people are also struggling with power outages, lasting 22 hours a day because the state can't afford to buy enough fuel. i pay

1600000 lire for private electricity. that is more than an average salary. what about the other bills? food inflation in lebanon is among the highest in the world. most people in lebanon are paid in the local currency at the official exchange rates of $1500.00 to the us dollar. but the prices of goods and commodities are based on a power low market rates. that's no more than 30000 lire. us doesn't seem to be a clear way out of the crisis. the government hasn't convened in 3 months because a political infighting all the while. desperation among many is increasing and what was once a middle class country there elisha zita, beirut, one, be breaking news for you just now on the current of our say the supreme court in the u. s. has blocked the vaccine or test rule for us businesses, but has allowed the vaccine mandate for most health care workers. so on the one

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