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man's clothes on, i'd just eat up a showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al jazeera. ah, the u. s. president says he's certain russia will attack ukraine in the coming days . russia can still choose diplomacy. it is not too late to de escalate. in return to negotiating. a spike in fighting raises the alarm in eastern ukraine separate to say civilians are being moved to russia. ah, i'm rob matheson and this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up,
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me clearing the capital canadian police, break up a truck drivers, protest making dozens of arrests are not exactly plain sailing as a major storm hamas northern europe killing at least 9 people. ah, an invasion of ukraine within dave's u. s. president joe biden says he's convinced that russia's president has decided to to attack. but joe biden says that there's still a diplomatic way out. he insists russia is manufacturing a pretext to invade. and he says, the u. s. is ready to respond. make no mistake. if russia pursues his plans, it will be responsible for kit catastrophic and needless or a choice,
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united states and our allies are prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. are many threat to our collective security as well. we also will not send troops into fight ukraine, but we will continue to support the ukrainian people. you know, let's start up to 100. 90000 russian soldiers remain near the ukrainian border about meeting the russian president. alexander, look shanker and i says, let me put in the says his forces will begin nuclear drills. he would just go, what of can you look at today's talks, we also discuss strengthening our joint defense space of russia and bellows. we agreed again to take collective mrs. to strengthen security of l countries in the face of the growing military activity of nato countries near the borders of our status. we also focus on the joint military exercises which will continue and bellows until the 20th of february. i should say that these exercises of totally defense of nature and do not threaten anyone moscow back separate to say they're moving civilians to russia. there's been
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a flare up and fighting and east in ukraine. late on friday. there was a large gas explosion in the hands. charles tom ford is in nevada, laska and he begins are coverage oh, alarm in the streets of russian banks. his control de nancy. the sirens sounded after the leader of the self declared republic announced the mass evacuation of civilians. why at them they wouldn't have no idea what it is of today. february, the 18th, the one, the mass, centralized evacuation of the population to the russian federation has been organized. we ordered it, women, children, and the elderly are to be evacuated. first of all of our children gathered at evacuation points. lines of cars began heading towards the russian border. sauces. internet told al jazeera bus drivers were ordered to stay and help the evacuation ukraine in its western backers. half a day's been saying that russia plans a so called false flag incident,
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which could give moscow all the separatists. it supports a pretext to attack. russia calls that a lie. but hours later, russian media said this was a car. bombings and exc no casualties were reported. the target was said to be a top security official in the breakaway region. this is said to show a center where men can sign up to join the separatist forces. soon after the announcement by shilling, the leader of the other russian back self declared republican blue guns who followed suit me, me and said, all those who can carry a weapon should be prepared to fight. near the g is the one i call on civilians who are not mobilized or involved in the maintenance of infrastructure to leave for russia as soon as possible. the announcement came after what the ukrainian government in the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the o se, se, with some of the worst shilling by the russian bank, separatists,
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and years. the separatists accuse the ukrainian army of the same ukraine's military commanders said ukraine had no intention of attacking the separatist held territory, quarter of dodo. i reiterate that the military and political leadership of ukraine don't plan and not conducting offensive operations in the, the only option, the occupation of the people in territory that is acceptable to us is the political and diplomatic one and let these villages close to where the ukrainian government is in control, was surprised and scared by the news. news with the call when you socially. we haven't heard the news about the evacuation on the other side. i only heard about the kindergarten being shelled yesterday, and they said that it was provocation. there has to be an investigation with the cfo to the we of course we are worried. we have children and grandchildren, so we just want have otherwise we will have to leave this area. it must off. we have lived through this horror for years, mirroring the announcement by the leadership of both the self declared donates and
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lugens, the people's republic of a mass evacuation on the separatists control side of the front line has huge implications. potentially hundreds of thousands of people living in areas like these in the ukraine in government control territory. despite russia repeatedly saying it has no intention of an invasion or military escalation against ukraine. those words becoming increasingly hard to believe shall strive, al jazeera novice salva eastern on the diplomatic evers to avoid conflict, or continuing at a security summit in germany. the un secretary general ones, russia, that it will be breeching international law if it invades ukraine. i'll just say there's diplomatic attitude. james bay's reports from munich. the un secretary general has for weeks said he thinks war can be avoided. but his warnings about the situation are getting more dia with a concentration of russian forces it on ukraine. i am deeply concerned about height,
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intentions and increase speculation about a military conflict in europe. i still sing it will not happen, but if it did, it would be catastrophic. sitting with a german foreign minister, hannah lena bear book, the u. s. secretary of state antony, blinking, who was again asked about the prospect of war. the differences have to resolve through dialogue through diplomacy. ah, we are deeply concerned that that is not the path. it rushes martin. the man here vitale. click go. he was in the audience. we're ready to fight. we're ready to defend our families, our faith, our cities, our citizens. we need support a point clearly aimed at germany, which has not been supplying weapons to ukraine. the position, the foreign minister that said was based on her country's history,
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our responsibility after the 2nd world war was that never again from germany, there will be wall and never again, there will be genocide. the discussion was moderated by the incoming chairman of the munich security conference. christoph hoisin is his country's former ambassador to the un and was chancellor merkel, st foreign policy adviser back. and basset, of the big question. is there going to be a war? i think nobody knows. i don't know if putting himself knows he's playing, he's playing his game. see one day saying that now we want to, we want to go into negotiations. he says they were, it's never any, never had any intentions. and then you are following right now that when you look at the don bus, you'll see that the number of cease fire violations is skyrocketing on saturday. here in munich,
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the british prime minister flies in the us vice president and the ukranian president supposed to speak, and they'll be a meeting of the g 7 foreign ministers. on this growing crisis. james base al jazeera munich, and he's 12 people i still missing after agree, very cold fire on his way to italy. the great coast guard says 278. people were rescued from the vessel of the island of cor food. one was not on the passenger list and that all the fears more undocumented passengers could have been on board was so unreal. it was like, it was a bit like a titanic. i didn't know what was happening. and what you, on a boat. it was, it was close, so you have got no idea. it was pitch black. so you didn't know where you were. and i, i said to my friend, i says, are we on the see? and he said, i think will. yeah. so it was, it was,
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it was terrifies firefighters northwest and nods. and tina struggling to contain wildfires that could intensify in the days ahead. flames and korean to the province of already, scots, around $600000.00 hector's of land. devastating a national park and killing protected animals in the region. the fame being fueled by dry conditions and high temperatures. those weather conditions are expected to continue in coming days. police in the canadian capital of arrested more than a 100 people while towing away trucks blocking the streets of downtown ottawa. hundreds of officers continued to take control of the streets that have been turned into account for protesters angry about their governments. pandemic restrictions. victoria getting the reports. oh, this was the moment to police moved in to take back control of ottawa's streets, protest as if occupied the area outside parliament for nearly 3 weeks. ah, offices used that new pals under the emergencies act to arrest truckers and other
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protest is he refused to leave her scotts think lorna is absolutely ridiculous. arrestin people at a peaceful assembly that we are the right to be here even with the emergency act. oh canadian truckers calling themselves the freedom convoy accused the authorities of overreacting. i negotiated on behalf of the daughters a peaceful retreat. please promise they would not talk and they would let them free peacefully. they broke the deal because there's no leadership order or turned on violence. doctor there was purchased leader to more relate was among schools arrested. they've been demonstrating against a rule that requires truckers to be vaccinated to cross the u. s. border. the government says the illegal blockade and occupation is a threat to peace, order, and good government to day, our economy and arc democracy are facing
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a serious and foreign funded threat. these illegal blockades and occupations cannot be allowed to serve the authority of democratically elected governments. oh. 7 these say the work around the pool to clear the cities downtown area. so we're in control of the situation on the ground and continue to push forward to clear our streets. this methodical and well resource plan will take time and we are here to see it through to a safe ending. many truck has left voluntarily, but those remaining insist they won't move until the cove. it vaccine requirement to cross the us border is removed. victoria gay to be al jazeera still had an al jazeera, we're gonna meet members of me and mas resistance movement and discover the risks they and their families faced by dessert in the military. sometimes an ex police
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officer heads to jail for the killing of a black man, while a victim's family feels cheated by the sentence. ah, the picture on this forecast this is for saturday, is an improving one. for the most part, the breeze up through the states is a southerly attempt to the rising in the sunshine. whatever is on the ground, it's no longer forget the sky for the most part snows, confined mostly to canada, to mac does come across to new england, some degree. but the sun's out in cold start in new york. the snow before you, not 1 may be 20 centimeters for the days i, but he's gone from toronto, it will be melting. once more on the other side, the pacific coast, you've got snow both sides of the border on the higher ground,
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it'll settle. but in cities pulled 8 degrees, clearly worked. it's just too warm for that to happen. and the gulf of mexico and the cold air does come out of the united states. you tend to pick up the shower and get some pretty pokey thunderstorms. that's the forecast. some pulses, some mexico, a good scattering, a shower elsewhere throughout the caribbean, but nothing too unusual. the heaviest, right, as you know, has been a problem around rio just to the north, the city, and there's another warning out for the same air patropolis typically because this is the line that extends right up the north, west of brazil. it could bring yet more. well, potential danger from landslide, certainly flash flooding north argentina though, enjoying the sun ah criminal games, a filling vietnamese tilting to speak with one to one east. investigate how the traffic is on the beach in justice. oh,
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now to sierra ah, al jazeera, with blue ah, you're watching old, is it a reminder? what top stories this r b u. s. president says he's convinced to russia has made the decision to invade ukraine. joe biden says intelligence suggests it could happen in the coming days. separate as late as an eastern ukraine. se civilians are being moved to russia from dun yeske. and the hans blamed an increase in shelling in the region. calls for
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immediate de escalation in ukraine. have been front and center with the munich security conference you in the secretary general antonio quotas says, tension seems higher than during the cold war. while putting ukraine was promised nato membership and 20 await georgia. received the same guarantee. but russian forces, occupying nearly a quarter of georgia territory and its hope of entering nato remains distant of proficio walker reports from the line of control between georgia and his breakaway region of south of sacha, get out the best i have. finally came home this week. the 53 year old was detained by russian forces on george's de facto border with its breakaway territory. south, i'll set you back in 2019 last november, kennedy was freed of the suffering. a stroke. he never recovered.
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these men paying their respects, call themselves anti occupation activists. but look at the show, the badge on the right. a ukrainian georgian composite flag. they firmly believe that both countries today share the same enemy, russia re georgia's understand what is happening. can ukraine? i'm better than our anybody else in the world because what is happening ukraine ah, we had saw in georgia in 2008. back then president george w bush promised georgia and ukraine nato membership. later that year, russia invaded georgia to back south bassetti in separatists. in their conflict with the tbilisi government. its forces have never left the village of hoard, val, etc, has been split in 2 by the war. local resident luda says detentions happen all the
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time. why not have happened to trust her? it's scary. we're afraid it's really unpleasant, but we're not going to throw away our homeland our homes. where would we go? the sign up there reads state border of the republic of south sacha. well, south, the city is not recognized as a sovereign country, and yet that seems to be russia's strategy to divide georgia to keep this conflict unresolved. just as this razor wire divides, this village georgians have been rallying in solidarity with ukraine. some believe the government isn't showing here enough support the fear of provoking the kremlin, not many george's governing party calls it pragmatism. that is fragmented means that whenever we can benefit from our relations with rushing economic and trade terms, we should benefit. however, we are should not, and we will never,
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oh, give up our ah, national interest, which is ontario, integrity and our listened version. russian security forces have detained more than 1400 georgians since 2008. although most get released with a fine, some like godaddy have been jailed. torture and murder have also been documented, or georgia and ukraine share the same fate. unfortunately, i found the russia doesn't want georgia to be free. georgians know all to well the likely human cost of another war with russia. robin forest walker al jazeera, however, letty, more than 2000 soldiers and police and me and mar, have joined the resistance movement since last year's crew. many say they couldn't keep working for the john to after it use lethal force against protesters and
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activists. florence louis reports them way. river forms a natural border between tylen and me and math. for decades, it's been used as an informal border crossing, usually by villages fleeing fighting between ethnic armed groups and myanmar soldiers. lately, a new group of migrants has been making that journey deserted from yon most military. doctor min long, long had served the army for more than 20 years when he decided to leave. at 1st, he worried for his family safety as they were being watched. but his wife and children have since left the country at a google nubile, we are experiencing torture and murder by the judge every day as a doctor that's unacceptable jammed. there were so many factors that were pushing me to leave the military family. the one was the 9 right. they arrest people at night and said the bodies back to the family. the next morning, the bodies had been cut open and the organs removed. algebra has not been able to
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independently verify what he says. but unauthorized autopsies are reported to have been carried out on protest is killed by security forces. the activist group assistance association for political prisoners says more than a 1500 people have been killed by the gender since the coo last year. the military disputes this number and says the group is biased, but other former military personnel have cited the use of violence against civilians. as a reason for deserted. pet to saw is a former army engineer who joined the civil disobedience movement in mont. joan joan, i my emily, defied. stayed in the army. i would have gotten promotions, a higher lankin, but that's not what i want. i want to live in good conscience. i don't want to live with guilt and sadness, not knowing that killing people. i don't regret my decision. former army, captain lynde had on set up a facebook group to encourage soldiers to join the resistance and estimates about
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a $1500.00 have deserted the military. as of last september, he has left me on law and says he's unable to return home. saw him here. yes, i'm worried for my family. i don't know whether they're safe. i've had to cut off contact with them for my country and my people's future any, but i do worry for my family. can i have your resistance groups including the national unity government, a shadow government working to reverse the qu, are encouraging more people from the security forces to join them. they say those numbers are growing, but that may not be enough to challenge me on mars. well equipped military florence louis al jazeera, the u. s. is suspended nearly a $160000000.00 in aid to burkina faso barter. finding recent events amounted to a military coup. the move comes just days. after paula read amoeba was sworn in as president. he led the military and overthrowing roscoe body last month. it was loss has fallen, a must be stopped when an elected head of government is deposed by a military coup. or u. s. judge has sentenced
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a former minnesota police officer to to use in prison for killing 20 year old black man dante wright. his family says it feels cheated. john henry reports from minneapolis. i am, i have been profoundly moved by the latest case of a white police officer killing a black man indeed is controversially. as it began, office, jupiter made a mistake. that it tragically kim potter charged with an accidental killing faced a tearful judge who handed down his sentence well below the state guidelines of 6 to 8 years. it is the sentence and judgment of this court that you shall be committed to the custody of the commissioner of corrections for a period of 24 months. his life was cut short. the family of the 20 year old man
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potter shot dante right wanted no leniency. you took a field, sir? what he could have been so many things. april 11th, was the 4th day of my life. a police officer who supposed to serve and protect so much took so much away from us. she took our baby boy with a single gunshot there with her shattered mind. my life in my world, it will never ever be the same. a tearful potter addressed the family directly, i didn't even. ringback think you already heard broke in rights. family says tears are not enough. i feel she, i feel hurt. i'm not very upset. they were so tied up into her feelings in what was
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going on with her that they forgot about my son being killed. you know, in our community really quick marijuana. the sentence followed in april 2021 traffic stop that ended dante rights life police camera video shows right. apparently trying to escape a traffic stop. potter then a suburban minneapolis police officer fires which she says she thought was a taser. i the weapon she drew was her gun can bought or has agreed to travel. the state of minnesota talking to police departments about the dangers of weapons confusion. so other officers don't experience the tragedy that she did. though disappointed, rights family says they're grateful for at least one rarity. a white police officer was convicted of killing, an unarmed black man. john henderson,
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al jazeera minneapolis, brazil's president jad wilson auto has visited the city of patropolis after it was devastated by floods. online slides. at least a 130 people have died and more than 200 a missing on a could you not give reports? after returning from russian hungry, brazil's presence able sonata surveyed the destruction in the city of patropolis during a helicopter fly over. he said it was like a war zone with unfortunately, we could see the seriousness of what's happened here and patropolis, tuesday, heavy rains and mud slides tore down buildings in this historical brazilian town. more than 130 people have been killed. so far less than half of the victims have been identified and at least $200.00 people are still an accounted for. sirens and friday warned inhabitants that other parts of the city could collapse and that they should leave urea immediately. but when i blow the whistle,
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we start evacuating them. under my own, she's decided to risk his life and stay behind. i'll jazeera accompanied him on his mission to find the bodies of his neighbors. he's in ms. mon wage. my mother has been living in the same house for 48 years. she was there when the mudslide tore it down. she was with my 2 nieces and my nephew. on that, i had told the runa he had found her mother in the living room. the bodies of 13 year old mila, and 6 year old daniel had been dragged by the water to the bottom of the hill. the family album was salvaged, but 11 year old stephanie is still missing with love, humble. oh, don't worry, i won't stop looking until i find her. yeah, she's here somewhere. families of other missing people have used instagram to post their pictures and contact numbers. go up in the meantime, there's a huge rock that's about to fall on my house. i had to leave, but my neighbor is still under the rubble. nobody can find her nor her 12 year old
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child. funeral home have donated 200 coffins. meanwhile, the search for survivors continues. monica and i give all jazeera storm eunice has killed at least 9 people as it swept across the u. k. ireland, belgium and the netherlands record breaking gusts of wind of torn off roofs, damaged buildings and caused power outages. glory challenge reports. it was billed as perhaps the u. k. worst storm in 30 years, with winds expected 140 kilometers an hour. but that semi breeze compared to what storm eunice actually delivered. a gust on the olive white's top 196 kilometers an hour and has provisionally become the u. k. strongest recorded wind for all eunice's fury, though the damage could have been a whole lot worse. if, as i say, the surge had coincided with the winds and the high tide, we could have seen some devastation,
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hence the severe flood warnings and some evacuation. so i'm really happy that those things have gone out of think, but it was great. everyone was prepared and the public listed, and people kept himself safe. unit has killed and injured people. lo, fatalities from falling trees have been confirmed in the u. k, ireland, and the netherlands. but in most places, the damage has been to property rather than lives. now this rather sorry side is london o 2 arena, formerly known as the millennium dime. it's a huge right concept and exhibition space in london. se featured in james bond films and the like. but as you can see, storm eunice has shredded a huge great hole in its fabric skin. really rip it apart. it's going to be some effort to fix that one, i think. and then there was the disruption travelers anxiously watched information boards as train off, the train was cancelled. there was gridlock on many roads. this tailback was caused by the closure of the dark bridge,
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part of london's m. 25 orbital mate away. $400.00 plus flights are grounded to now every disaster needs a hero and come with the hour. come a big jets tv. the ation enthusiasts live web stream isn't used to large audiences, but more than 200000 locked down as host jerry dies, live commentary went viral, cherry on planes as they struggled to land at heathrow. they so awesome. like i to be tough to go. yeah. vague, swaying, mad, unice has moved fast, sweeping across the u. k. and ireland in less than a day. now the rest of northern europe is taking its 10 rory talents al jazeera london. ah, this is.
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