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you know, the potential that i called yeah, let me show, ah ah ha. monitors in easton ukraine record almost 2000. the 5 violence on saturday to ukrainian soldiers killed in fighting with pro russian separatists rushes president vladimir putin overseen strategic nuclear drill involving hypersonic politic miss ah, ah, hello and hasn't speaker. this is just a live of from the hall. so coming up 12,
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people are still missing 2 days after a very sailing from grease fire and returning treasures looted, artifacts go on, display in, been in while others are handed back to nigeria. ah, the united states has once again warned, russia could launch an attack against ukraine at any time. or is it a button will convene and national security meeting on sunday to discuss the crisis? the european monitoring agency o. s c says it's recorded almost 2000 and cease fire violations and eastern ukraine on saturday. the cleaning military says separatists, back by moscow, open fire on more than 30 supplements, kiev, and separate his forces have accused each other of provocative actions. russian president vladimir putin over saw strategic nuclear exercises. the kremlin says,
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is war ships and submarines have tested nuclear capable weapons and miss off. and president brought for zelinski says ukraine is committed to peace and has vowed not to respond to russian provocations. but he told delegates of the munich security conference, the world is failing ukraine, diplomatic edits, a james face reports for music. the us vice president koval, a harris meeting with the ukranian president vladimir zalinski. any threats to our country, we take seriously and we have rallied our allies and our partners to speak with one voice. the ukrainian leader made the trip here, despite warnings from the u. s. administration that it might be unwise to travel, given the threat against his country. later on stage, he was asked about president biden's assertion that president putin has decided to invade in the next few days, a level above in the shore, or was
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a meet him when we stand ready to respond to everything, we cannot remain posterity. how can you live in a state where you are told on a daily basis, that war will happen with that to morrow? the advance will happen. it means crushing national currency, money being taken out, businesses closing. can you live in that kind of countries and can you have stability in that kind of country be no it i, he also questioned why the announcement of the details of western sanctions should only come off to any invasion. but you would take either. we don't need your sanctions after the bombardment after our country has been fired. after we have no borders after we have no economy, when fond of our country will be occupied. why would we need sanctions then? each us from nato and you lead as a threatening, unprecedented sweeping sanctions on russia. but the details are not finalized. i asked the europe in commission president of on the line about possible measures
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such as stopping e u energy imports, and russia being excluded from the swift banking system. the final decision will be taken in case that russia is beginning a war against ukraine and the military of aggression against ukraine. and then it's going to be a political decision by the european council that is taken up the preparation for the preparation. everything is on the table when the lead is not just talking about sanctions, russia might face, but also what a full scale war might look like. it will be around us and where does that also for many, many lives and to have something like this in europe. it's hard to imagine, but we are closer to that. now don't be in any time since day at least in the cold war because i never seen such a concentration of troops and forces on such or read this with all. busy the different elements in place, everything from of course, the high end weapon system,
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so to feel hospitals, so to logistics, to come on the control. so russia on the launch and attack with hardly any warning time. there's remarkable unity in the words from e, u, a. nato members here, but if his president biden predicts as an invasion soon, will that unity persist when time for them to take action. james days, al jazeera munich, a russia back separatist leaders in east ukraine, say civilians in a don bass region are being evacuated to russia as shelling intensified char strap and has been speaking to people near the front line. there are hundreds of villages like these along the front line on the ukrainian controlled side on what's increasingly worrying the amount of civilians that are still here. as we understand this, evacuation continues in the separatist control areas or is increasingly wiring also
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. is that in villages like these, there are also a lot of ukrainian military and we've been speaking to some of the civilians here about their fears were soldiers staying and what were once private homes military vehicles passed by the talia runs the village shop. she has little hope, a peaceful solution to the crisis can be found. mother was in the military been his 8 years, but we all feel like target. and of course the military in the village makes the risk greater. i'm afraid to even think about an evacuation. if i would have to leave my home suddenly with a bag of documents who should not attending the security conference in munich, suggests he doesn't want a peaceful solution. most of the families of those buried in the graveyard have left the village. people tell us the shelling in the area and the last couple of days has been the worst in years yellow. it's very frightening. i felt the fear
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rising up through me when the shelling of dotted. we've been here since the beginning of the war. but where can we go and who can help us? we heard about the evacuation on the other side and it's not a good sign. there is no good that will come out of this is mainly the elderly left here. now they say the shelling has been worse at night. people in villages like this one close to the front line are afraid they are aware of what the russian back separatists on their side of the front line of now calling a mass evacuation of civilians. and they are asking, what about our safety to sean stratford? al jazeera, eastern ukraine, or maria of deva is research director at the european expert association based in ukraine. she says there is a rush and disinformation war playing out in the east of the country. what he said is, information is trying to push is the message that ukraine is together with the
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allies is preparing some kinds of provocation and preparing some kind of military offensive operation against boss. and for the last 2 days, we see that kind of messages appear in every our claim. and that ukraine has done that kind of aggressive military operation against don boss, which is completely untrue because our a few shells made already numerous states saying that your grant is fully obliged with the means agreements. and we do not plan any kind of offensive operation, nor shall in, on the don't boss. so that is why we really see that russia and the russia back rock states and the 3rd tourist of dunbar in the occupied territories. i prepare in april location and then they that will give them ground to accuse ukraine and to
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ask for some kind of military support from russia. what isn't formation in trying to do is to read that much here or you can, but it doesn't work here because your grant is already in there for 8 years in the state of war. and we have seen that for, for, for, for all the time. and the week later, the stand that russia is an aggressor, a president, putin has sent a message of his own on saturday, overseen strategic exercises involving russia's nuclear forces. dosa jabari reports from ok. so let me put in, gave her go ahead for the start of the nuclear drills, joined by his bell russian counterpart, alexander of the christian co rushes president chil saturday for these wargames. usually they are held in october. the exercises involved russia,
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northern and black sea fleets, its air force, as well as soldiers on the ground. the kremlin says the missile systems all able to launch nuclear warheads hit their intended targets. those recruitment, loma grimalda's shoes, or 3 exercises of the strategic deterrence forces are being carried on in the course of which tasks of joint management of nuclear weapons and weapons of increased potential danger will be worked over in the course of committing an operation of strategic attack. forces the russian backed leaders of the self proclaimed republics of don't ask and the hans in ukraine's dumbass region announced the mass evacuation of women and children. on friday evening. in the southwest region of restore russian citizens continue to be bust. then after being forced to leave their homes in ukraine in the middle of the night, and the situation is terrible. shooting has been heard for 3 days. we had to load the apartments and get dressed quickly, but they said that in order for us not to create any danger for ourselves,
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we need to evacuate. i'm 75 years old. i'm single. i don't have anyone to help me in a state of emergency has been declared in the roast off region. as shell was found to have landed in a residential area a kilometer from the ukrainian border. a 2nd shell was found nearby, which russian officials say was fired by the ukrainian army. with a window of diplomacy quickly closing saturdays nuclear exercises served as yet another example of russia's military straight. but as the security situation continues to rapidly deteriorate on the borders with ukraine, many see the possibility of conflict as increasingly inevitable. dorset party i'll to 0 moscow. canadian police say they've made progress in clearing protesters opposing pandemic restrictions from the streets in the capital also demonstrated started to leave after officers moved on those camping outside parliament. they've
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occupied the area for the past 3 weeks. at least 170 people have been arrested and trucks that were blocking streets, had been towed away. the officers on the ground have shown patience and professionalism. they are well trained and experienced and they needed all of that expertise to bring about the results that we were seeing at every step. they faced a barrage of resistance shoving and vitriol. we are, we all saw that this is the protesters were aggressive with the officers and we needed to use horses at one point. as a result, we responded this morning by adding helmets and baton to our equipment for the safety of our officers. hundreds of people have been celebrating in the streets. molly, off to the ruling military gentle ordered french troops out of the country. france had already announced its withdrawal after a 9 year mission fighting against groups linked to al qaeda. and i saw, i said, beg reports from neighboring single. 6 happy the french are leaving,
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but it's not soon enough for the modern military. there was the french to withdraw immediately, not in the 46 months that the french president emanuel micron says it will take the people in the streets and buckle agree. the bronze must leave molly frances here to steal the result of molly from fair to colonize money. leave the country without delay. they've been here for 10 years and could not solve the problem. in addition, if there is a broom, it means we don't want any more. we don't want any more bro means that that's why we put a stop to france. the french president says the countries fight against terrorism. the region is not over your bhaskar too, said was a say, i think all this must be done with respect because for 9 years now, france has been helping molly equip train and the company, the molly and military, as well as the military's of the region. and our forces were, we relocated a few kilometers from the border in the air. the security threat remains. the
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1000000 military says 8 of its soldiers were killed and 14 injured with force still missing in an back on friday. they say it was cardite by an icy linked group near the burkina faso boarder. while you said it killed 57 of the militants as relations between molly and france, which a new lo questions still remain. neuron security groups linked to al qaeda and i still still operate in the sal region spread across 10 countries. the french may be leaving molly, but as recent incidents show militants can still carry are deadly attacks. attacks the malia military must now face without french support. i said, beg, i'll jazeera docket. a still head on al jazeera, the fisherman in peru hit hard by last month's wilson. and as beijing prepares to put out the olympic flame, we looked back at the highs and lows for the last 2 weeks. ah,
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ah, look forward to brighter skies with sponsored play cuts on airways. hello. they will start in east asia and strong bitterly. cold winds have been causing problems in northern parts of china, closing some of the ski slopes at the winter olympic events. now around beijing, those winds were also found some of those gusts reaching 65 kilometers per hour and bitterly cold at minus $32.00 degrees. now the wind continues on sunday, but the temperature will pick up in beijing in the days to come. it's west, down in the south. this is where we're seeing the unsettled weather. we're gonna have a miserable few days, at least for places like hanoi and hong kong. we haven't seen temperatures this low for this time of year in about 3 years. if we have a look at the 3 day one, we're well below the average by monday, and it's going to be pretty wet until thursday for shanghai. however,
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the temperatures picking up, we got sunshine here and there's more snow. however, for japan, as we look up to the north, you got snow flurries here, some avalanche warnings out in han shoe, but tokyo stays clear and dry. it was a move across to south asia. it's a pretty clear picture for much of pakistan and india. we've got a few shar, was creeping into bangladesh, thanks to a circulation in the bay of bengal, some showers down in south, but lots of sunshine for new delhi. and that wind will be making the air much clearer in the days to come. for the weather, sponsored by casara ways to stop the clothes from rich nations, are formal to charities and sold to impoverished nations from an unprecedented scale. a massive industry sift through the unwanted garments to re so to some of the world's poorest to novices. but much of what arrives on fit for purpose and is fueling and environmental catastrophe. people have power troubles to garner to
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uncover the 3rd secret behind the wolves freshman addiction. that white man's clothes on a. j 0 lou . the me. you're watching, i just did a reminder about top stories this out. he clean military says russia back separatists have opened fire on more than 30 settlements in the east of the country . european monetary agency o s. he says it's recorded almost 2000 c spot violations on suddenly ukrainian president has warned that a rule with russia will have global consequences. valentina zaleski told the munich security conferences, country is committed to peace. but while powers are failing,
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russia says it's hypersonic missiles have been lost during strategic nuclear drills overseen by president for the future. criminal denies the war gains will further inflame tensions. a 12 truck drivers remain missing as emergency services baffled to control a fire on a greek ferry. the blaze broke out early on friday as the vessel headed to italy with 288 people on board. victoria gave b reports turkish passengers rescued from the euro ferry. olympia prepared to leave corfu. there boarding a boat. it'll take them home to stumble and it's for the italian coast guard helped us a lot. they brought us to coffee and put us up in a hotel. the turkish embassy also helped us along. we are very grateful to the italians and the turks. luckily, we didn't die. that is the most important thing. the race doesn't matter. also at
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the port is iliana guarantee bacchus. he's waiting for news about his missing father, mary mccully. mccall, merely i talked to the port authorities and they told me information about the far i've been to the other side of cor food. so i could see the ferry. i saw the fire go out on gray smoke appeared, then suddenly the bolt caught fire again. the weight tonight will be bogged on us. the arrows go by, my legs are trembling. the ferry caught fire of the coast of co. foo on its way to italy, the relatives of one truck driver on board say they're worried, he may not have had time to escape for hold on a good good only over them yet. he was afraid of corona virus. he had health issues and because he was afraid of catching the virus due to over crowding on the ferry, he often preferred to sleep in the truck, especially if it was not a long trip. emily, his rescue teams are unable to pull the ferry to look for missing people because the temperature is still to halt. relatives fear the authorities will cool off the search mainly from monopoly when we're going to bodily men,
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we spoke with the coast guard a while ago. they're waiting for the effects of the water being used by firefighters to create cooler conditions so that they can enter their doing what they can emerge. and they are concern, tory from the greek prosecutors of orders an inquiry into the cause of the fire. the captain of the ferry has been questioned and released victoria gate and b al jazeera. an exhibition showcasing historic treasures from been in has been held in the presidential palace to celebrate their return from france. president patrice talon opened the exhibition of the 26 artifacts which were stolen almost a 130 years ago. tens of thousands of african works are still in france. and in nigeria to been in bronzes have been returned more than a century after they were taken by british troops. a ceremony in been in city was held to celebrate the return of the artifacts. they were handed over to the
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nigerian high commission in october by universities. in aberdeen and cambridge. and o t o boys, a nigerian artist and consultants on art and culture to nigeria is a new state government. he says the exhibition is the combination of years of campaigning. women from has been building are still government announced to building up a new young been in city design by david a j. r. also the black lives movement events would happen across the federal government of my julia. i was also offering this writing directly to request a return of this the governmental wondering why it was supposed to be acting as we got. and i think collectively because of
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prison. my crow linden, his voice with all this come together to help to get mental to convince a lot of gallery jones and governments have been faxing a collection to them. basically, i think it's multiple mindset when my are going to being well to these items. we looked at him on house, in museums, in euro america, with consider themselves platforms for global 60 been view. we can display of this i guess the felt the company kept on to be seen. they're forgetting their way denine the original or us on the descendants access for this very valuable object. healthy. i will switch on the
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largest hydro electric power project in africa. in the coming hours, the grand ethiopian renaissance dam will generate electricity for the 1st time. they was egypt and sudan, now have long complained of water shortages and flooding caused by damming the blue not river. if you hope you're says the $5000000000.00 development will power it's economy, the clean up is continuing after a month, a month after a major oil spill and a rep. so facility in peru, the spanish oil giant says it could cost more than $65000000.00. it has to have cleared the spill by the end of march. but as money on a sanchez reports from lima, local fishermen say the damage will last much longer. the, the fisherman should be on the shore, casting their lines for their daily catch. but last month, old bill disaster has left more than 2000 or 2 snow fishermen without
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a livelihood. but i think i'm not going to let them in our life fund has been cut and we don't know what to do this turn to commercial kitchens for survival. oil giant reps or gave them a $130.00 in voucher. but walter of the, like lou says it's not enough. you know that the fees and it seems this month i will not be able to pay my bank debt. the electricity, water, everything in the house. we ask rep, sold to help us with more than 12000 barrels of crude spilled, impacting flora and fauna along 80 kilometers of the coast of lima expert say it's the worst ecological disaster and they do okay. some of you and we are in a position to confirm that theoretically we have collected almost 98 percent of the oil both from the sea and from land reps or has filed a lawsuit. blaming the oil tanker. the company says the pipes that tore off the main underwater pipeline, we're in optimal condition. an extraordinary force,
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meaning the ship moved, rip them, causing the fuel leakage. an expert in maritime accidents says the spill should have been minimal if volt that immediately blog the fuel passage when an accident like this happens, had been in place. but they were not that i'm, you know, if the terminal had those valve but separate feel that you maybe lead to spill doing a closing procedure. to me, that's a real cause. because breakage on these types of dominant comments and peruse environmental assessment and control agency could find reps of with $80000000.00 rep process. they will still be done with the clean up. but many fishermen say the damage done will last for years and they don't know how they will be making a living from now on shellfish. divers recorded under water showing despite what reptile says, the water is polluted, laughing, the fuel give the damage to the natural bank will be irreparable for a long time to clean. it is one thing, but to decontaminate is another story. for now,
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these fishermen can only watch and wait and wonder what will be the long term effects of the worst ecological disaster on this coast madana center. so just cedar lima b to a spain's government has approved legislation to increase protection for animals . anyone found guilty of abusing or killing them can be sentenced 2 years in prison . zoos will be turned into wildlife recovery centers under the law. spain's social rights minister says animal mis treatment, abandonment, and killing a major problems. the bill does not cover bullfighting in oscar by 6 years, then that is what i'm lacking in our country. there are 3 major anime look, uses mis treatment abandonment, and the slaughter of animals. and the aim of this law is to fight against the 3 main abuses. and to do so in response to what i believe is a social need, a very important social demand in a country in which sensitivity towards animals is growing all the time. a french
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modeling agent linked to the late sex offender and finance. the jeffrey epstein has been found dead in a parish prison. john luke brunell was taken into custody in december 2020 as part of an investigation into allegations of rape and sex. trafficking of minus one of f scenes main accuses virginia to fray, alleges brunel procured women for sex with epstein and others promising the modeling work. we now have denied any wrong doing. the winter olympics closes on sunday, against the backdrop of diplomatic boycotts and global protests from activists organize the say, the event ran smoothly, but strict code 19 controls as well as the doping scandal have left their mark on the event. katrina, you reports from beijing with the 2020 to beijing olympics soon coming to a close team. china is celebrating its highest winter metal tele ever. it was the 2nd time the chinese capital horses and olympic event. but gone was the festive
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atmosphere of the 2008. some it's very different now the said the novelty to some extent is worn off. it's a winter games, which by nature is a smaller event. it's winter so. so p people you know, on outdoors as much, and then of course we've had cove it so all of those things point to a more muted atmosphere here help is in protective suits. and morning corbett 19 tests were a part of daily life. olympic dreams ended abruptly for those who tested positive for the virus seems pretty unreal of all the people. what happened to myself, i have been doing everything in my power to stay free of cove. since the start of the panoramic, for some strict quarantine measures put too much to bear. many complained about heavy handed controls. i am, we are not even sure i will ever be allowed to return to the village.
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and obviously this is very hard for me. top competitors, what the only once the spotlight chinese tennis play, a punch. why appeared to stand with international olympic committee head thomas back after giving an interview, denying she made sexual assault allegations against a retired politician rights groups criticized the decision to use a weaker athlete to light the torch at the opening ceremony. and the featuring of a soldier who fought on china's border with india incense to new delhi. more aga was sparked after 15 year old russian figure skater, camilla valley ava, was allowed to compete after testing positive for a bad substance. we'll do everything to investigate this. these case broke belinda, the dropping gulf of children is to you, bill and unforgivable muscle, and take the i r. c field and difficult questions about time is human rights record, previous games held in russia. so cheap and brazil's rio de janeiro raised similar
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questions from here, the sun, the and winter olympics will return to the western world held consecutively in paris, milan, and was angela's venues less likely to attract process? the organizes of the beijing olympics hope to legacy of the event will be felt in a burgeoning winters, sports industry and confidence that the city can pull off a successful games. despite a global pandemic, katrina you out a 0, beijing. ah, this is urgency, le, let's get a round up. now the top stories u. s. president joe biden will convene a national security meeting on sunday to discuss the crisis in ukraine. or ukraine says russia back separatists of open fire on more than 30 settlements in the east european monitoring agency overseas.
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