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and then i don't want to go back to tourism, i want to continue to be a farmer as the island prepares to welcome visitors. again, many say the pandemic has taught them valuable lessons. never forget, ah, and evacuation from the besieged, ukrainian city of monte hope all is put on hold. doctor reports of shelling in the area. ah, no more about this and this is on is either life and doha, with extensive coverage of the ukraine war ready for combat. we meet the volunteers signing up to be foreign fighters in ukraine. it's more that i'm looking for to give to people little hope, but to see that not alone, this for the un says 2000000 people have now fled in less than 2 weeks of fighting
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. we speak to refugees pouring into romania, a push to end dependence on russian oil. we're going to be alive in washington, where president biden's expected to announce a ban on imports. to the days of the developments and the ukraine war and attempts to evacuate besieged areas that have felt the force of russia's invasion. but russian forces that, again being accused of violating a temporary cease fire that began more than 9 hours ago, a convoy of buses and humanitarian aid vehicles destined for mateo. paul, as turned the round because of reports of russian shelling the port cities surrounded by russian forces. fighting in the northeast has mostly stopped and bus is filled with civilians and leaving the city of sumi. that's for an overnight air strike. killed at least 20 people, including 2 children. your brains president loading the landscape condemned the
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repeated violation of seize fight agreements with russia. he says civilians need to be evacuated from the see cities urgently or upon the dorm of charges or they are consciously blocking food supplies. and water and switching off electricity in mary apple for the 1st time in dozens of years for the 1st time probably since the nazi envision a child has died from dehydration. listen here media partners. a child has died in 2022 of dehydration, but we have seen a lot of promises and agreements are namely about the creation of humanitarian corridors. but they haven't worked so far and i have no more time to wait in mary. awful. people have no time to wait the occupying forces want or people to die. more than glad. in addition to those evacuation efforts in the city of sumi and mateo, paul civilians are being moved out of 10 on the outskirts of keith mccraney. an official said there be moved into the capitol. charles stratford has this update
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from the zap alicia region that farms part of the corridor from multiple so after being stationary for at least 2 hours. oh, boy has now turned round and he's taking will be on the stand. we're trying to take a different route to variable the decision to turn around according to the cold nature of the cold boy that we spoke to was because of reports of heavy fighting along the initially planned route. 2 very awful. as we know, this is another attempt, after a number of boiled attempts in the last few days to try and get vital humanitarian aid into the pretty, besieged port city. to try and pull. what we understand could be up to 200000 people from out of mary opal. the fact that this call boy at that to troy, now to take a different route, does not bode well without endeavour. it's all stratford al jazeera south of south
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risha gray. some residents escaping mario polo heading to neighboring separatist control de nets. bonnet smith has more more about 30 kilometers east of mile pole in territory controlled by the self declared john exc republic. so this is really a very small reception center just over my shoulder, or a couple of tens, one more of a clinic and one of the people to sit and wait. there were only really a dozen people or so there earlier when we arrived a couple of hours ago. and since then another bus arrive is about $25.00 people on it. so it's shows that the corridor that must exist between marian pollen here is clearly working just on that many people coming down. we've only seen that one bus . there was some other people that came last night there. they're being kept in another school. but the idea of this place really is just as
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a center for people then to try and find elsewhere to go elsewhere. either in done yet score in the russian republic. remember, it's important that we point out that these people are escaping a city. that is surrounded by don yet, and russian forces and they're escaping into territory controlled by don yet. but for many of them, it's a practical matter of what, what is easiest way to get out of mary apple. and for those that have come, this is the easiest way. this is the safest place for them to be. they have been at give medical treatment here, those that need it. there are a couple of people in the hospital not far from here, who are wounded and others are waiting for family members to come and take them to take them further on. as i say into don, yet score if they wish to go into the russian federation. granting officials are reporting more bombing in cities in the east, in the center of the country. residential buildings came under fire overnight in
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the city of tier car communications lines and essential services like water and electricity supplies. the i'm also going to damage the city's mayor says a power plant has been destroyed along with much of the center reachable a lot of new stuff. they were to air raids on the town. there were 2 bombardments. the bombardments were with heavy bombs, aerial bombs that lead crated up to 20 meters or more in diameter and large area bomb. the center of the city is completely destroyed. many had been injured. as of today, we can't find several people. heavy bonds also fell on the thermal power station. it's destroyed, the substation is destroyed and we will be cleaning up. we will prepare for more bombing raids. take care. the enemy is turning it into a state of agony. providers are headed to the battleground in ukraine after the government established an international legion for those coming from abroad in bas avi, spoken to some of them, you report some ukraine's border with poland. as people continue to flee the war
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in ukraine, some rush to get to its front lines relax, bravery, or bravado mormon, like this one, are coming to ukraine's aid every day. inspired perhaps by a social media campaign. i'm in solomon right now, or a call to arms for volunteers by ukrainian leaders under siege in their own capital . from her home near cave, last year bustling. co says there is something to do for everyone coming to ukraine's defense. you are fighting the 2nd biggest on the and the world and the nuclear power that was on military resources are not enough. so we need more people here on the ground. we need more weapons here on the ground. we need more sophisticated weapons here on the ground to be able to span and keep stand as an independent free country. this is the struggle and the slide that we invite the
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bully, the worlds to join them. volunteers who contact ukrainian embassies are directed to the website for the international legion of the defense of ukraine. this is one of the locations recruits can find themselves signing up and boarding buses to cross the border. we met a ukrainian coordinator who declined to speak on camera or give his full name or even his rank. but he said he was there to help volunteers find their way to the fight. this roadside motel near the border has become a kind of unofficial recruitment point for volunteers wanting to fight in ukraine. we've been here a few hours and we've met people from europe, the united states, great britain, many more have already crossed over many more are expected to. julian is 22 and says he served in the dutch military and was deployed to have gone this time. i'm not looking for violence, but i say it's more that i'm looking for to give the people that i hope that they see they're not alone in this fight. he's still undecided unwilling to sign a contract to serve until the end of the war. whenever that might be,
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the open ended contract has also put our volunteers at the medical border crossing . if they say all you, you can stay in 5 by a 3 months. you can go home to see your families and come back if you want. oh oh even one year, but we know in one year we going we got home but and it's going truck does no dag does no. when we could go home you know, so yeah, that was the point for me to change mind others remain undeterred. jay is from portugal lives in london and says his motivation comes from his young daughters that he is fighting to defend their future, their freedoms, the lack of action by the west. i just personally don't think sanctions are enough and i understand the fear of world war 3. but as you can see, this is the beginning of world war 3. personally, i don't think i'm being brave. i'm just doing what i'd like people to do. if the u . k was under attack and far as johnson was begging for help,
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highly experienced soldiers are sent to the front line. less experienced recruits are kept back to help territory defense units and treat the wounded. j says he trusts ukraine will let him go home if he has family and is unafraid. as he commits himself to a war that could go on for years. zane basra, the old 0 at the ukraine border in eastern poland. more economy, you claim more on plus rate, tortured and abandoned. we're going to speak to iraqi women abused by iso fighters about what they are doing to rebuild their lives. ah, ah, look forward to burritos, guys. with the sponsored play cut on airways. that heavy rain tends to move around
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back in se asia more recently has been crow lumper than in su, march us with the biggest sunstone. it's been the last 24 hours. but in the next 24 or 48, this orange mass is moving of the west. part of phillip is probably one. and it might just touch the north of borneo the radical orange tops elsewhere. so flash funding is still potentially there in java or in bali or in west half you, but there's no source of flooding. so most of east asia is not even light to rain, very much as occasional showers in hum, shoot, slowly warming up. it is still on the ground of course i hampers it, but the tempt you to really rising in a good pot of central and northern charles not much to stop them after all those days getting slowly longer. that induced suddenly breeze means a bit more moisture. so a few showers are likely here or there, but nothing really very much that the big thing is from will hon. north was 10 degrees above average. and that shows up in the last day or so. it's warming in the western side of india to bombay. is about 3 or 4, but average and again,
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this increase in temperature means a few shower, locked down the west coast more significant re enough gas and, and northern pakistan. pretty dry now. they're in the south. and in most of lanka. oh, the weather sponsored by katara always. my name's a place where the zillow can truly call it. oh yeah. people and groups bring, you know, wanted made you want to know you all and just read money. managerial resilience. and it's just with who every know my nigeria on al jazeera, ah
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ah, watching on, is it a reminder? i told stories, this are ukraine's attempting to evacuate people from besieged areas that have felt the force of russian bombardment, but a convoy of buses and humanitarian aid vehicles. heading to multiple has been turned around after reports of russian shelling. buses filled with civilians are leaving the northeastern city of sumi or fight. it appears to have stopped an overnight air strike fair killed at least 20 people including 2 children. un says 2000000 people have not fled the fighting in ukraine and crossed into neighboring countries more than 290000 of them of arrived in romania on monday. the romanian government approved legislation allowing ukrainian children to enroll in local schools are the of the hamid reports from the border between romania and ukraine in the bitter cold waiting in
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a qc and feed longer than it already is. there's is a story of people fleeing award. they didn't expect mothers taking their children across the border. families being torn apart as men between the age of 18 to 60. i'm not allowed to leave ukraine under martial law. and marina, i'd never see who's traveling alone with her 12 year old son, stayed in keith for as long as she could. they didn't have thought of another point . so yet we stayed because we thought the wood and the 20 moment. it was relatively quiet in our way we heard the bombing, but we didn't think it would get to us until the very last moment. we'll realized we had to escape when we had miss asked why never all had. despite the warnings, few believe their ward breakout until it actually happened. they tell about how they were caught off guard not expecting to become refugees. and in the mid a group of indian students who arrived in how to keep only 3 weeks ago to start
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medical school. it was around 16 days. we were like, we time that there will be no war and they were there, i just argue. and all my to suddenly this happened and viva of you all went to the bunker and we had to, you know, we had a really hard time. there were no facility to which we, oh, we could skip from there. so we decided to go buy food. we traveled, i guess 20 kilometers by foot, and finally breezed, boiled ally and then we managed to move from there with the buzz a little further down the line. yeah, my husband is trying to cheer up. these are the last moments they would be together as a family, until who knows when she is afraid for me says, but i think she would be bored without me. she will have nobody to neg, they have travelled for 3 days from separately just in the east where the russian
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army is advancing. yep, awesome. awesome. yeah, that's great. at the law. i woke up at 5 am because i heard a huge, loud bang. i thought something fell down from the shelf from the real next door, but the airport being bombed her ru slona made the same journey, leaving behind her husband, sister nieces and nephews. she's begging them to move fast before they get caught up and are fighting. she's upset that your life has been up ended. it was a good, simple one. and she had plans for the future. and she rejects russia's president vladimir putin claims that civilians are not being targeted. you that, that you probably, let's do this. this is not true. it's full scale, we're being annihilated. people are dying, children, elderly, everybody, we had to run by foot as soon as there was an opportunity. it's not true, they're killing us off. many of the people here are russian speakers,
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those booting claim this war is aiming to protect their became victims of a conflict that started in their name. i don't that i mean edges you alone, the ukraine romania border. what a 150 children from all for june in the key region have arrived at the polish border, volunteers and police officers. if the children toys as they were carried from a train station been loaded on to buses, poland has taken in more than half of the 2000000 refugees, free ukraine, charity workers who've helped the evacuation. so they're trying not to separate the children once they arrive in poland. just 2 days ago we had a transport of 700 kids. ange, it's not easy to find a place for anybody, but it's even tougher to find a place for $700.00 kids in the same one place. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is to address british m. p. 's in the coming hours and it comes as prime minister ballast johnson continues his diplomatic effort to encourage western
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leaders to punish russia for the invasion. the host and leaders of the czech republic, hungary, poland, and slovakia. to discuss the conflict on james shell is stopping all purchases of russian crude oil and apologize for buying oil from the country. last week, the company released a statement saying the decision to buy russian crude oil after the kremlin invasion of ukraine was not the right one. charles says its changing its supply chain as fast as possible and its closing its service stations across the country. mute opinions times a cottage dependence on russian gas by about 2 thirds this year. you've been commission has published wide ranging plans, which it says will and reliance on russian energy. well before 2030. the strategy includes expanding wind and solar energy reply plants to replace our 100000000000 cubic meters of gas by december. russia has seriously underestimate the secretary general of nato. gen salt and bug says the
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alliances united in the face of russian aggression. he was speaking short time ago in the latvian capital, riga. preston pertains war on ukraine, has shattered peace in europe. it has shaken the national order, and it continues to take devastating toll on the ukrainian people. but to didn't see it is under estimated ukraine, and he's seriously under estimated that strength and the unity of nato and our friends and partners around the world. man, a quick look at some other news, a south korean naval ship is fired warning shorts or the north korean patrol boat that's briefly crossed the country's disputed western sea boundary. the north korean boat was chasing an unarmed vessel but retreated after wanting shots were fired. south korean military officials seized the vessel and questioned its 7 crew
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members. mama bryant has more from sole this incident apparently took place near bank young island. this is the west and most island of south career. it's out in the yellow sea that separates the korean peninsula from china, and it's right on the de facto maritime border between north and south. it is an area that has seen clashes and incidents before between north and south, according to the south korean military. this all happened tuesday morning. local time when they detected a north korean vessel had strayed into south korea waters, they say that it was apparently being given a tow to being young island. when a 2nd north korean vessel appeared and also crossed over into the south, possibly giving chase. it was at that point that the south koreans fired warning shots and the 2nd north korean patrol vessel disappeared back north. an investigation is now underway into who was on board this f 1st north korean vessel
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. according to media reports here in south korea, there was 7 people on board, 6 of them wearing military uniform. now the question is whether this was some sort of mass defection by military personnel from an old it doesn't happen very often, but military per personnel have been known to defect, to the south all weather as some other media here and reporting that the people on board the vessel if told or thirties that it was some sort of mistake, possibly a navigational error and that they somehow ended up in south korea, waters and women who suffered rape and tortured the hands of ice on a struggling to rebuild their lives in iraq. nearly 5 years after the armed group was defeated on tuesday, that's international woman's day. we're going to take a closer look at how a lack of law to protect them is pushing some women over the edge. let me give you a warning. some of you may find a summer binge of aids report from coke disturbing behind the facade of routine kitchen work, i had new stories of rape, torture,
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and abandonment. for years these women were abused by fighters, and now their lives are uncertain. what the one that we're basing us and raping off my children, live with that memory, and now suffer from injuries from the spawn to the neck. the shock of what she saw was so horrific that this child lost her ability to speak. we cannot reveal their identity as dana fierce risks from their own families. some were fried by being ransom twice, and others discovered after the and group was repeated in iraq. out of the thousands of abducted women girls and boys nearly half are still missing according to official statistics. others have been abused. it comes and abandoned by their families and tribes have gotten them to the i have this belief that if you have been raped, you're an awesome woman. my husband special me and started basing me with my
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brother. oh spade. and so bad that had to take me to the doctor. my husband dumped me. he says you are ashamed to me. i do not want you any more. you have given your body to us or militants, he left off alone. this suffering has not ended. in addition to being rejected by their families and tribes, even the law which was made to compensate them, seems to have forgotten some the easy, the survivor's law was passed last year. and rights activists say there's been little progress to implement that. it's focused on the disease, the minority community, which suffered some of the worst atrocities. but the law feel soon clued other ice victims, including sheer and sunni arab women, muslim ad of women who were in slaves by eisen and did not find a place to go back till they are still living in the shadows of the society. you know, as the organization runs separate shelters for his evie and other survivors, all of them she says faced societal challenges. ah,
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not less than 10000 women where, oh, where are the victims of the i so attack and this them aside is not really acknowledged by the international community or dealt with in a way that, that keeps the dignity on the respect or compensates those who, where the victims, da da 0 spoke to men whose wives and mothers were stoned to death, but they say because their muslims, it is no one to listen to their plight. they do not want to appear on camera because of the stigma and fear their community will shun them 2 years after they escaped on housing breaks down whenever her daughter begins to speak on her case. so via my mother told them do whatever you want to do to me, but leave my daughter alone do not marry her to one of you than they raped my mother before my eyes and leisure they raped me in front of my mother. there's no future, nothing is left still,
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they have not given up hope for justice. they called themselves invisible victims living in plain sight, but no one to call their own. and at the rate their families, tribes, and most of the international community continues to ignore them. the sum of the java down to 0 cur cook live in pakistan are rallying to demand. better rights. pakistan is ranked the 2nd lowest country in the world for gender equality . and that's according to the global gender gap index. but the government insists is doing more to improve their rights. while haida reports from islam about international raymond dead as being a memory, a dead head and bug, it's gone with the ordered march. as you can see, the women who are protecting have for dad, right? that it's, it's you live to the u. s. white house president joe biden's speaking now it's likely he's going to be talking about a possible band on russian oil imports. this is a move that has strong bipartisan support. congress and i believe in the country.
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america's of rally support had rallied to support their ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing put war this made, we made this decision in close consultation with our allies in our partners. round the world, particularly in europe, because a united response to putin's aggression has been my overriding focus to keep all nato and all the you and our allies totally united. we're moving forward this ban, understanding that many of our european allies and partners may not be in a position to join us. united states produces far more oral domestically than all of europe and kind of all the european countries combined. in fact, we're a net exporter of energy so we can take this step when others cannot. but we're working closely with europe and our partners to develop a long term strategy to reduce their dependence on russian energy as well. our
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teams are actively discussing how to make this happen, and today we remain united, we ran united and our purpose to keep pressure mounting on food and his warm sheet . this is a step that we're taking to inflict further pain on prudent. but there'll be cost as well here in united states, i said i would level with the american people from the beginning. and when i 1st spoke to this, i said defending freedom is going to cost. it's going to cost us as well. in the united states. republicans and democrats understand like understand that republicans and democrats alike have been clear that we must do this. over the last week, i spoke with presses lensky several times. to hear from him about the situation on the ground to consult and continue to consult with our european allies and about us support for ukraine and ukrainian people. thus far, we provide more than $1000000000.00 and security assistance to crane shipments of defense of weapons or arriving ukraine every day from the united states. and we the
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united states, the one coordinating livery of our allies and partners of similar weapons from germany to finland. to the netherlands, where a come we're, we're working out ross, providing managerial support to ukraine. people, both those still ukraine and those who have fled safely to a neighboring countries. or with mandatory organizations to serge, tens of thousands of tons of food, water medical supplies into ukraine and was more on the way over the weekend. i sent secretary blinking to visit our border between the border between polen and ukraine, animal dover. to see what the situation was 1st hand and report back. journal millie, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. our defense department is also what was also in europe, meaty with his counterparts and allies on nato. eastern fine to reassure them those countries border in russia. nato countries at we will keep arc nato commitment.
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sake commitment article of article 5. the vice president hares can be traveling to meet with our allies in poland and romania later this week as well. i've made it clear the united states will share in the responsibility of caring for the refugees . so the cost to not fall entirely on the european countries border in ukraine. and yesterday i spoke of my counterparts, france, german in the united kingdom. but russ is escalating violence against ukraine and the steps that we're going to take together with our allies and partners around the world to respond to this aggression. we are enforcing the most significant package of economic sanctions in history and is causing significant damage to russia's economy. it has caused russian economy to fight, frankly, crater, the russian rubel is now down to 50 percent. i 50 percent impudence, announced his war. one rouble is now worth less than one american penny. one
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roubles, lesson one american penny. and for any rush, the central bank from propping up the rouble and to keep its value up or not can able do that. we cut russians largest banks from the international financial system and has crippled our ability to do business with the rest of the world. in addition, were choking off rushes, access to technology like semiconductors that are and, and sap bids. it's economic strength and weaken, is military for years to come. major companies are playing out of russia entirely, without even being asked on by us over the weekend. visa, mastercard, american express. they all suspended their services in russian, all joining a growing list of american and global companies from ford to nike to apple. they've suspended their operations in russia. u. s. stock exchange is halted trading and many russian securities.
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