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is that all of us should be a little more vigilant about what we put on our plates. ah be another huge explosion. rocks, a strategically important city, close to ukraine's capital as people deal with mass destruction. ah, i'm has, i'm thinking you're watching. i does. it is continuing coverage of the war in ukraine. they committed an act of nuclear terrorism while selling and seizing the upper east and nuclear power plant. ukraine and its allies condemn what they say
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was a russian attack on europe's biggest atomic facility. russia though blames ukrainian, sabotaged cues, growing bigger by the day food and medical supplies are on their way to millions of ukrainians needing help be delivered. what was known as the all of the century. the cricket world warns the shock death of one of the best shamore the sheer scale of destruction is getting worse as russian forces move deeper into ukraine. the strategic city auctioneer. just a 143 kilometers from the capital key of is coming under. heavy bombardment is the latest picture from the posse. how's a huge fireball lighting up the night sky. i wish any of homes have been heavily damaged in asterix. in the daylight, this is what people are confronting their ukrainian officials say. 47 people were
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killed in an early a russian asked like people were seen wandering through the wreckage of the bomb down apartment blocks and buildings. russia says it is not targeting civilians. an area of footage taken on friday morning from a village just south of kia, sho damage residential buildings and burn cars. after a rush, an air raid late on thursday, at least one person was killed and for injured in be ship. you cleaning authorities say they've opened up a criminal investigation into the attack to resort to get the i don't know what kind of missiles they were. it's a tragedy. you see what's happening and how mother russia is helping us so called friends, or ukraine's 2nd biggest city hard kid was one of the 1st areas to be targeted by the russians. once they began their invasion last week. it is very close to the russian border. blogger, in car, he was recording a video message when a miss are exploded above him.
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3, in fact, of the blast knocked nikita giving calls to the grounds, and he then scrambled to seek shelter faring more missile strikes. this foolish is from wednesday. and now russia has acknowledged that it last soldiers in ukraine during the 1st days of its military campaign. but there is confusion about exactly how many were killed. russian politician has now hinted that number, if that number could be hi, mila, not a soda who's been a vocal critic of the conflict, says the defense ministry has refused to confirm the number of casualties during soon agree with these people. it was an evacuation from the conflict zone yesterday of those very conscripts were either forced to sign contracts or had them signed for them. alternately, out of the company for a 100 people, only 4 were left alive. a russia has drawn worldwide condemnation off to being accused of attacking
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a nuclear power plant that it seized in ukraine. fire broke out of the facility on friday morning, but it was put out without any radiation spikes. russia blames ukrainian saboteurs . the un security council scrambled together an emergency meeting to discuss the incident. krista, salome has mall from new york ambassador from us or what so you'll hear thing in the polls or rushes un delegation under scrutiny. as it arrived at a security council meeting, hastily convened at the united kingdom's request, this is the 1st time a state has attacked a fueled and functioning nuclear power plant. and it is clearly outlawed by international law and the geneva conventions. nuclear facilities in ukraine, the director general of the international atomic energy agency briefing via video link from on board a plane confirmed a building adjacent to this operation,
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a nuclear plant was hit, but set its 6 nuclear reactors remain intact. russia blamed ukrainian saboteurs for provoking its forces in the area. so you understand the seductive, today's meeting as another attempt by key of authorities to kindle artificial hysteria around what is happening in ukraine. and they're being assisted in this by their western backers. ukraine accused russia of nuclear terrorism and warned that no one is safe. we have survived the night that could have stopped the history of ukraine in europe. indeed, every day provides us was a new, a new evidence that it is not only ukraine, honda russian, that back it is europe, it is the entire world. it is humanity. many countries demanded rushes. withdrawl expressed concern for the ukrainian crews left man in not only does apparition facility, but also the chernobyl site, also under russian control. so this imminent danger continues. we narrowly
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avoided a disaster last night. the international community must be unanimous in demanding rushes forces, stop their dangerous assault. the director general of the i. e. a is offering to meet with russian and ukrainian officials, add the chernobyl nuclear site in the hopes of reaching an agreement to secure all of the countries nuclear facilities. a mid dire warnings that the worst of this conflict is yet to come. christian salumi al jazeera, the united nations, a most of ukraine's electricity comes from nuclear power plants built during the soviet era. zapora asia is the largest with 6 out of the countries 15 reactors. according to the i, a e. a russian troops are advancing on another nuclear plant called south ukraine. there are 2 other plants, melanie etzky and river nate to the north west. the russian forces have
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control also have control of the defunct sure, noble facility and hasn't had any active nuclear reactors for more than 20 years. but large amounts of spent fuel and radioactive waste remain on site or target. rolf was a senior official with the i. e a, he says there's worrying word on how the supple, easy applause is being run. we really don't know whether it is safe or not, particularly if the operators of the nuclear power plant are sitting at that desk with the russian soldiers, with guns behind them. also, according to the state nuclear regulatory inspectorate of ukraine, which is the regulator which licenses and is responsible for the sake operation of nuclear power plant in ukraine. it is pointed out that many of these operators have been working very long shifts have not had breast. and therefore they may not be in
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a position to properly monitor the control room and to monitor the reactor that is running. fortunately, after the fukushima nuclear accident in 2011 all nuclear power plants were retrofitted with emergency measures back up our in case the main electricity supply fails and then a back up to the back to power. as well as emergency shut down. where bore on silicate rods can be dropped into the reactor by gravity, and it can shut down the reaction within minutes. but nonetheless, the nuclear fuel. and the reactor is both radiological hot to add heat hot, and the cooling systems need to be running. and if the cooling system fails, then we can have a meltdown of the fuel and a meltdown of the reactor and possibly explosions from hydrogen as happened at fukushima. of the u. s. world food program is trying to feed 5000000 people in
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desperate need inside the ukraine. director general david beasley says the people who can escape the plane of the lucky one. wi fi has set up distribution warehouses in neighboring countries to get food to people who are not able to leave the country. it's amazing just being here in poland. watch the people who do not even know many of these people. this may be the metaphors given the rise, where they need to make you certainly getting hot bills taken to where they want to go. it's really, really quite remarkable. now, on the other side of the equation, we planned to reach 3 to 5000000 people inside the ukraine for those who can't get out in those who are going to be needing to support immediately. the world health organization is sending emergency supplies to ukraine as well earlier. moscow and key of agreed to set up safe car doors to allow aid into ukraine for those choosing
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to stay. but it's not clear when they'll be set up. the 39 cubic dance had been shipped into city trucks, but the motor already that the next got it was and i thing from china and dubai, this more to place that we also are going to ship it to a truck. so the whole idea is if you have a safe quote to go that this would be a big new supplier to really ensure that everyone independent of that the lady has access to life saving treatments. the un security council will meet on monday to discuss the humanitarian crisis in ukraine. more than 1000000 people have now fled in the past week. poland has taken in half of them. they must ravi reports from the ukrainian, bought a town of skinnier. romano is from kirk he,
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a city and ruin from russia. he's at the border to let go of everything he loves, turned back alone and joined the fight. but feelings in his fear, confusion, hate anger. i don't even know what feeling is i need to send my family to safety for the next. next everything will be all right. we will win for sure. nothing else . we will save our country. everything will be all right, good. you don't have to know what he's saying. to understand how he feels. a country torn into small villages and towns like this. what are the last hurdle to safety? for the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children amassing at poland for the last checkpoint,
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the last line. alas, chance to say good bye. the lucky ones, board buses bound for cities in europe and others wait. this line is long, but it is still moving a week into this conflict and the crowd, the traffic, the, the line at this border crossing it's much smaller and the system is getting across into pulling seems much more organized, much more efficient, but no less tragic for the people that are leaving their country behind ukrainians trying to get to safety, say they feel abandoned by the international community. they know health is coming, but not enough to stop russian invaders destroying their cities, their homes, their lives, the mim, i'm for city not to. i'm not to my persist ukrainians are going to nato, but not to. it's not here in the ukraine. we need real help army weapons, thomas, toys, or army need to do. we need to weapons and there is no weapon in ukraine that would really destroy the russian. each of these women have
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a husband or father or brother fighting to defend their cities or on the front line . they say they will never leave and help other ukrainian, however, they kicked at a place that divides to countries. ukrainian families are being forced to divide themselves. women move forward to preserve the country's future. men go back to make sure they have a home to come back to the in basra b o g 0. she again, you ukraine and we'll have more on ukraine and later russia clamped down further on media with new jail terms, as well as benz for social platforms and foreign base news outlets. and in the us, we'll see how domestic gas prices could affect future sanctions on russia. ah
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hello winter hasn't quite done with us just yet across north america. we got a fair but a cloud just spilling into the western side of the continent. 30 distinct terrace of low pressure, just coming through here. and we're seeing how snow across the rock is southern parts of california is that the over the high ground could still see some when she weather. and that just runs its way up towards the great lakes pushing into one terrier into quebec. turning to rave is it pushes across the great plaza because we've got some want the head of that suddenly winds in kansas, pushing their temperatures up to around 21 celsius on saturday afternoon, falling back to 10 degrees on sundays. that system sweeps through the northeast corner rule out across new england tempest, new york getting up to around 19 celsius of that state, but some very wet weather around the appalachians, all the way down across arkansas. pushing across into a northern parts of texas. say some rather wet weather,
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recently into some areas of central america. some live showers just around costa rica into panama. joining up with some wet weather that we have around haiti, cross to dominican republic, was seen a few showers to into jamaica women island slee with arliss. not too bad to want to shout was coming and he was he go on through sunday, but where to where the transfer was eastern parts of caribbean dryer to the west. ah, gotta one of the fastest growing nations in the world. ah, the cause of needed to oakland and develop its pull international shipping companies to become a p middle east and trade and wanting skilful in 3 key areas of develop who filling up from it. so connecting the world connecting the future while need. cato causes gateway to whoa trade.
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lou. the me again, you're watching. i just had a reminder of our help stories this out, the strategic ukrainian city ocean near just 143 kilometers from the capital key. it was coming on the heavy bombardment. a huge fireball lit up the night sky homes had been heavily damaged, doing russian asteroids rushes facing condemnation off. it was accused of attacking a nuclear plant that had seized in ukraine by the philippines. on friday was extinguished without any radiation spikes. russia accused the west of hysteria over the incident during the un security council. the u. s. world food program and set
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up distribution warehouses in neighboring countries to get aid to people stuck inside ukraine. it is trying to feed 5000000 people in desperate need rushes government has blocked facebook, restricted access to twitter, and banned some foreign media websites. that's offered approved a new law against what it considers. fake news in response to bloomberg announced it will pull its journalists out of russia while cnn will cease broadcasting them on the social media front. russia's communications watchdog said it had documented more than 20 cases of discrimination by facebook's own meta platforms. since late 2020 facebook recently banned the accounts of state bank channels. our te and ria news agency from moscow door said your body has more on the new media law, which includes prison sentences. right. and yeah, and then you know, to war was the final statement broadcast on russia's last independent tv channel,
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tv, rain, all its employees, walked out and protests against what the c, a severe government censorship and in its final seconds on air. it showed this a nod to russian history. this one like ballet performance was broadcast on state tv in the soviet era, either at times of political crises or after the death of a leader. it was famously shown in 1991 during the attempted coup that contributed to the end of the soviet union. for many here it's now become a symbol of broken dreams and political instability. tv rain was founded in 2010, with the motto, talk about important things with those who are important to us. now, after the start of russia, so called special military operation in ukraine,
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this channel is no longer able to continue because of government interference. on friday, both houses of parliament pass, the new law aimed a targeting media outlets that are accused of spreading fake information. it is now a criminal offense to spread what the government considers misinformation about its military, a crime which could land journalists in prison for up to 15 years. members of the russian government believe this is crucial in protecting the armed forces mission, which you should daughter taking into account the situation that is happening in the media space. all right, the company starting for instruct them to say and others are located in the united states of america. it is understandable that they use as weapons. they're bringing hatred and lice, must counter it, and protect armed forces. the hammer of state censors have also targeted one of the most well known radio stations in the country echo of moscow took to the airwaves
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in august of 1990. shortly before the fall of the soviet union, the following year, its motto, all significant points of view about events should be presented no longer appears to apply to journalists in russia. tatiana felton gower was a journalist working at both tv, rain and echo of moscow. ethel rosner epl rosner at the cook. the it's terrible, it's a catastrophe, a true catastrophe. an absolutely terrific mistake by vladimir putin who decided to plunge russia into this. i will say it again. catastrophe. and i'm terribly scared both for my country and for ukraine. i'm terribly ashamed in front of ukrainians. it's incredible for me to realize that the president of my country started this and i'm afraid that there's nothing go ahead for my country. and for me, as a citizen, russia's independent media are slowly disappearing, accused of falsely depicting the war in ukraine. no, why?
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yeah, because that is one of the last independent newspapers here and it's editor through me to more a top who share the nobel peace prize last year. says his paper could be on the verge of shutting down. that's because, according to him, anything that's not propaganda is being eliminated. source of laurie al jazeera, moscow. ok. healy is with the university of missouri school of journalism in the us . she says, journalist no matter where they're based. we'll find ways to report news to russians. i think that's the thing, i think that's why putin is so frustrated because nobody believes his propaganda and, and so it's, it's very difficult for him to get his message across. and he thinks that by stifling other voices, somehow he'll be able to dominate the conversation. but instead, you know, it really shows him the gas lights are off. now. this is a guy who's been gas lighting the world through social media through spreading lies
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on social media. that's why i find the shutdown of facebook. so ironic. and now he's turned up the lights and exposed himself for exactly what he is, which is a strong man, a dictator. somebody who will brook now, dissent and doesn't want a free press and really isn't interested in the truth. but i think in the end it's a very sad day right now for journalism, particularly, and that part of the world. but in the end, truth is mightier than tanks. a matters head of global affairs. nick klegg delivered facebook's response to russia's new law via twitter. soon, millions of ordinary russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting with family and friends and silence for speaking. we will continue to do everything we can to restore our services, so they remain available to people to safely and securely express themselves and
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organize fraction ukraine's president water damage. lensky has thank your opinions for their support while urging countries to take further action against russia. address thousands of anti war protesters in european cities in a tape recording crowds gathered in places including frankfort, leon, and prague. yup. would that belong to the people of europe? i would like to call on you not to be silent. i would like to call on you to come out to the streets and support ukraine, support our efforts and support our fight. because if ukraine does not stand, europe will not stand. if we will fall, you will fall, so please do not be silent. do not turn a blind eye on this. come out and support ukraine as much as you can. at present, zalinski is maintaining a pressure on nato to intervene more forcefully on ukraine's battlefields and in the skies. but the alliance is foreign ministers, meeting in brussels, reiterated that such a move would engulf all of europe in war. is our diplomatic editor,
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james base. foreign ministers met at nato and then at the e. u to discuss what more they can do to help ukraine as their fears grow, that the russian campaign will intensify. the anal when the seeing a fully legible now of orders. a war leash by letting them put in a gauge of grain and completely unjustifiable. that's great unlawful civilian casualties. with the use over arms is strictly prohibited by the geneva convention, nato and e. u. countries already agree to supply weapons to ukraine and to put in place some of the toughest sanctions in history. but the ukrainian foreign minister who dressed them by video wants much more direct support including the imposition of a no fly zone. we are ready to fight. we will continue fighting but help us if
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you dont, i'm afraid you will have to share responsibility for their lives and sufferings of civilian ukrainians. this was the response from nato secretary general. our assessment is that her we understand her desperation. but also believe that if we did that will end up with something that could and in a full fledge war in europe involving many more countries on the earth, causing much more human suffering at a news conference with the president of the european commission, the u. s. secretary of state warned that the conflict in ukraine may well be a protracted one, unfortunately, tragically, horrifically, ah, this may not be overseen. and so these efforts that we're making together, we have to sustain them. we have to build upon here at nato headquarters. there is a section from the berlin wall. the history of the alliance can be divided into the
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period of the cold war. and then the period after this wall fell, the secretary general believes the alliance has now passed a new milestone. what he's calling a new normal and for the 1st time, foreign ministers have been discussing a permanent long term presence of many more troops in the nato countries closest to russia. james bayes ow jazeera at nato headquarters in brussels. by his leaders imposed tough sanctions on russia, they're mindful of their impact in their home countries. americans, for example, or see some of their highest petrol prices in years, even though russian oil hasn't been sanctioned. gamer, alexander explains why, from new york, the unprecedented sanctions are directly aimed at the russian economy of indiana was predicted there could be a wider effect on the global economy as well, particularly, and higher prices of petrol. and that's exactly what we're now starting to see here in new york, the price of a gallon of petrol in some places is over $5.00,
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or just over $1.25 a liter. it's a highest. it's been since 2014 just overnight thursday and friday, the price of petrol jumped $0.11 in the u. s. and it's gone up $0.29 since russia began its invasion of ukraine. russian oil has not yet been sanction. so the question is, why are petrol prices still rising then it's complicated, but the short answer is, is that oil traders are worried about higher prices of doing business in russia. primarily can they get oil tankers into russian ports? and also, how are they going to deal with exchanging money with russian banks that have been sanctioned as well? just a few of their concerns. this is why they're buying less russian. oil and prices are then going up, add it all up, and that is why we're seeing higher prices at the pump not than use. now south
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korea's military says north korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile tours waters east of the peninsula of japan's defense ministry. also believes it was a ballistic missile, if confirmed, it will be north korea is 9th weapons tests. this year. our launch wildfires burned close to nuclear power station on south korea is east coast. the firefighters stopped it from reaching the cmc. the place is now threatening a liquefied natural gas plant, where the cruise of pushing back the flames its force. thousands of people from their homes. dozens of buildings have been destroyed. the world of cricket is in shock and morning after the sudden death of former australian play a shane warne 52 year olds suffered a suspected heart attack in thailand. snohomish looks back on the career of a man idolized by fans ah.
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in 1993 shane warne delivered what became known as the ball of the century. gotta go for it. first ball. i wouldn't have to say that that is the perfect, like spin, delivery, curving and then spinning. it was one's 1st ever bull and an ashes test. and it was the start of something special said he breathed new life into the art of leg spin, bowling, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all types. incredible. he went on to take 708 test wickets. the total that put him 2nd on the old timeless, massive ah booster. and his legs still cannot believe it claimed more than a 1000 wickets in all forms of the game. after his international career ended in 2007, he kept in the rochester world to the very 1st indian premier league title in 2008
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. he was also a coach, and one of the most prominent cricket broadcasters, for channels all over the world, a larger than life character, one did much to take cricket beyond its normal audience, for such as my partner. and i helped to choose a shoes that's like, i think it was pretty good, the cricket community and why the sporting world has lost one of its most unique talents. ah, let's get around. now the headlines on al jazeera, the strategic ukrainian city ocean near just 143 kilometers from the capital. key of is coming under heavy bombardment, huge 5 or lit up the night. sky homes have been heavily damaged early on friday, ukrainian official said 47 people were killed here in a russian air strike.
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