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to speed up the development of tests, treatments, and of vaccine keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the world and in the lab. now, more than ever, the world needs w h on making a healthier world for you. for everyone. ah, the know that you are fighting not only for your home, for your freedom, for your security, but also for a show of solidarity. 3 european leaders meet ukraine's president in keith as russia continues bombing several cities. ah,
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i've had them speaker, this is ally from the also coming up a 35 hour curfew is imposed in cave. as it's mer warns, ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. rescued evacuation efforts continue in the east as more civilians, flea the port city of mario requesting asylum while ukrainians and russians are lining up at the us border with mexico of the leaders of 3 european countries have travelled to kiev in a show of solidarity with ukrainians. even as russians sheylan continues to hit the capital, the prime minister's opponents, lavinia, and the czech republic of the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine since russia's invasion began. they took a long and risky trained journey from poland to meet president demons,
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the landscape. they say they are in ukraine to express. the european union's unequivocal support. you can lead us as their visit to kiev sends a strong message to russia. we should do. they are not concerned about themselves. they are concerned about us. they are here to support us. and this is a necessary friendly step, and i'm sure with these types of friends with our neighbors are partners. we will be able to win a polish prime minister mateusz more of yet ski said what's happening in ukraine is a european issue that needs a collective response. european union has to give very quickly accountability and more than this has to invite you to the european union and all the defensive weapons to defend your homes. we will try to organize or cared artist all over the world. we will never leave you alone. we will be with you
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because we know that you are fighting not only for your homes, for your freedom, for your security, but also for us. a 1000 people are escaping the city of mad you pole in the south east on an evacuation route that extends just over 260 kilometers two's appreciate, which is ukraine health. but ukraine is, deputy prime minister says a convoy with supplies for matthew poll is stuck in nearby bed. yancey, i said, beg, has more than evacuation efforts happening across east in ukraine. a survivor of one rush in their strike. and then this, the panic on the streets, all the uncertainty of what will be hit next. the onslaught against ukraine's 2nd largest city. her cave has been relentless. the city was home to
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1500000 residence. many have now fled lucille, georgia. yes, we have information that 2 people were killed, one person was rescued and we are clearing the rebel and we have just received information that may be more people under the rubble the robot. oh, meanwhile russia maintains a stranglehold on the southern port city of murray pl. another important strategic objective, a convoy of civilian vehicles, reportedly 2000 left via humana, terran corridors that held for a 2nd day. hundreds of thousands still remain inside. conditions are said to be apocalyptic reports of bodies lying uncollected in the st. supplies of food, water, and medicine near exhausted. for those that make it out of russian controlled territory. zappa richer is the 1st stop. people check to see if their relatives or friends escaped. this communist era circus building has been converted to receive,
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internally displaced. people fleeing the fighting once the here they are registered and they can receive vital supplies. people have donated close blankets, toys make an offer, get warm food. once they come here, they've been moved on and re house. ukrainians have mobilized to help their fellow citizens. and as they came on buses, they bought them once again to leave. it's been a tough journey. rossimer throws me by ye daughtry neutral naught you call. it was frightening. frightening said 81 year old marina been over with miss walker. she sheltered for 10 days in the basement of a psychiatric hospital before making get out of the city. those are 2. would you please leave us with the why did they come to our land? why did, why did they come to spill the blood of our children? nobody asked them to come. you all want to leave you with only their russia. why do they inflict this one asked robert. like so many other ukrainians. the homes now
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destroyed heading to an uncertain future. i said big al jazeera zabel risha or the mayor of ki, if has warned that ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. a 35, our curfews been imposed off. the russians strikes on residential buildings. and a metro station which killed 5 people washing forces have nearly encircled the capital. emerald han went to an apartment, there was hit in key. evans spoke to one of his residence. this is where it's light to be inside. one of the apartments in this bombed out buildings happened in the early hours of the morning. besides your child's remarks, sir, is the kid that normally lives her. she's actually been evacuated, but you can see the windows, the power, the bloss blew the windows and they've actually managed to tidy up a lot of the glass, get it all out a lot. there. the kids, books and things, and now i see on the balcony, there's still a lot of damage here. this is what is lot who lives here by slope didn't tell us
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what happened in the morning. 05 for. busy early in the morning our we a listener, very big boom and, and i a smell or 4 gun powder. and we slip in on corridor or like every 79 nights and i'm a jump on this place and so absolutely damage her room mo, wis, broken window glass all the way and her own. it was very, i was very afraid and but i try it will be in no, absolutely. in carl j a claim here and her because i understand my girlfriend to was very afraid and oldness too is derrick.
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and i'm must be clue claim, and i'm starting her. i call it to our things staff for, for me going out to the street a very traumatic experience. you'd not, you'd said that you've been sleeping in the corridor rather than the bedroom. yeah . will you told to do that or is this something you felt like you had? oh, it was sleeping every night and corridor. it was a like a self defiance. it because we understand it's a war and a bumper can happen every time because we are absolutely it was close to his shoes. her with her, our m. o baggage for south or
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samson. yeah. well it's lucky that you were in the corridor. a lot of people in these apartments are actually sleeping in the corridors precisely because they're afraid of an attack like this. others going concern over the power supply to be a commissioned chain novel nuclear pond. ukraine's nuclear agency says russian forces damage the cable in an attack there last week, knocking the plant off the grid. russian troops have also taken control of the upper easier plant, one of the grains for operational nuclear facilities. one plant still on the ukrainian control is in rush near bella. ruth tasha butler reforms dense forest of pine and silver birch trees lines the road to the remote town for ash in north west ukraine. close to the border with bella. rous, visible in the distance, is there even a power plant, ukraine's oldest nuclear facility. some people worry the russian forces could try to seize this plant because moscow's troops of already taken control of that
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parisha, one of ukraine for operational nuclear facilities, as well as to noble for 30 nuclear terrorism to noble is the commission. but it stores nuclear waste that needs to be cool and on this because there are power cotton that brazil appreciate it is your biggest nuclear plant. it has 6 reactors. so one russian forces in this sort of attach and there are many res, actual number reactors can be damaged and things can go wrong. these are things nearly went wrong here on monday after ukrainian troops try to water nearby attack by russian forces shit. if there was a missile above here to shoot gun an enemy drug or there. so this is happening here or there are risk supports in the washing shelling, also damaged in nuclear facility. and how keen last week oscar is targeting as nuclear sciences, a sinister and dangerous twist in the war,
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the could further threaten europe and his fueling anxiety here. more than 7000 people work at the power plant. so most people in this town are connected to it in some way, and nearly every one is acutely aware of what a nuclear disaster could mean. the mayor of rash is an engineer who worked to the reef ne, planned for 25 years. he says everything's been done to protect it, were farm the corner was parked when we know how dangerous nuclear energy is for the world, we st fukushima and to enable in fresh there's all sorts of work at the plant, many skilled paper like may an engineer understand the gravity of a nucleus saw it not been secure and controlled. it can be a catastrophe. whirlpool. a memorial in the town center commemorates the victims of channel bill. the world's worst nuclear accident took place nearly 40 years ago. people here want the international community to do more to help safeguard ukraine's nuclear sites. said that
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a grim part of history will not be repeated. natasha butler, i'll jazeera fresh northwest ukraine, r i. when we come back, washington signs off on a $13000000000.00 boost for ukraine as you, as president joe biden, a cruise new military and humanitarian aid. and sri lanka is worth financial crisis in decades. protests is inc. alamba taking to the streets to rally against the worsening economy. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello there, let's look to south asia and the pre monsoon heat is led to heat wave warnings across northern and north eastern areas of india. we are expecting temperatures to
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continue to climb in places like new delhi and mom by in the days to come. if we look at the 3 day for new delhi will be, will be edging up past the mid thirty's. by the time we get into saturday with plenty of sunshine around. and those bone dry conditions extend further west into pakistan up north into afghanistan. we've had above average temperatures in kabul, and that's expected to continue. and even the north east of india thing, a lot of that heat bangladesh as well as the edge further south, while f fine and dry warms, continues just a few showers popping off around coastal areas for the heavier rain. we have to look to sri lanka, but it is a largely settled picture across the region. now as we head to central asia, it's looking rather settled along the eastern coast of china, with above average temperatures for shanghai that is about to change. have a look at this as that wet mass move the cross, we're going to see a dramatic drop of more than 10 degrees. by the time we get into friday and for beijing while we are expecting snow on thursday and friday,
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again, you're watching. i just did a reminder of our top stories to sell the prime minister's opponents, lavinia and the czech republic and key is to show solidarity with ukrainian or russian. shelling continues to hit the castle. the 1st foreign latest visit ukraine since russians the invasion began. the man was warned that ukraine's capital is facing what he calls as difficult and dangerous moment. 35 out curfew has been imposed off. the russian strikes on residential buildings in a metro station which killed 5 people. ukraine says around 29000 people were evacuated to humanitarian car doors. on tuesday, most of them left the city of matthew hall in about 2000 and cause right school se desperately needed. 8 supplies are still not reaching the city. ukrainians are bracing for a russian bombardment of another for city. odessa,
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in the west of the country, satellite images have shown russian naval ships approaching the cleaning coast. how the, how many reports from their president followed me as a landscape has worn several times that russia is getting ready to attack odessa. and certainly people here have taken that warning seriously. coming into the city. the 45 checkpoints that you have to go through with really heavy security and then all over the city. what you would see is this kind of roadblocks. a lot of fat bags everywhere seems like half of the population maybe has gone away because this is a cause to resort. it's on the black sea. it is actually considered the jewel of the black sea. this is the opera house, and it's the crown of a day. or there is a city that has a lot of russian investment. it's a city where a lot of russian come on holiday. it's a city that has openly shows too poor to russia in the past. after the annexation
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in crimea, in 2014, there were deadly rise between 4 russians a pro ukrainians, and which 40 people died. when ever you look, you will see the ukrainian colors. you will hear ukrainian music. perhaps people here have been shocked of what they've seen unfolding in the capital q, but probably even more so. but what happened in the car key, which is considered also very pro russian city. the message coming out from the, at the moment from what we see is that they're supporting ukraine and that could bring them punishment rushes. the invasion of ukraine has now driven more than 3000000 people out of the country. almost half of them are children. the you and says that every 2nd, another ukrainian child is becoming a refugee, the 70000, a day, almost one and a half 1000000 children since the war began. nearly 3 weeks ago. the mexican border
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city of tijuana is seeing an increase in the number of ukrainians and russians trying to cross into the west. a small number of refugees from ukraine had been allowed in and that's raised the accusations of discrimination from immigration advocates. john harmon reports from the border. we're hearing to wander in the busiest, ma'am buddha, crossing in the western hemisphere in sunny field, keep united states behind us. and then you can see that there's a smoke curve or russia. and these are people that have led their country because they oppose the war with ukraine. they've been telling us a few stories is a family who had to clean up the father, joined an anti war protest. i got arrested and was told that he could go to prison for years. and so they immediately picked up the 2 suitcases and fled here. other people said, i've got relatively trained, i talk 5 against my coffee again since they felt they had to leave the country as
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well. and they headed here that these are these officials so white at the moment, obviously these russian or people that actually all the priority we have seen is ukrainian mother and her son sort of also come here a passport. and they were mediately let through in the united states. that wasn't, it must have been pretty crazy before. so there's obviously been some sort of order a big, big lead ukrainian group. now, why are the russians around us being here robin than someone else? they say that basically europe is close to them at the moment. there's no flights. this is one of the only places, mexico they can go to with no visa and then they just want to go from it get across the united states. possibly what we're seeing numbers of russians here and some ukrainians, trying to get the say. yes, president joe biden has signed a bill setting aside $13600000000.00 of humanitarian,
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military and economic. since for ukraine, it's attached to $1.00 trillion dollar annual spending bill white house correspondent, kimberly how can reports which calls for no fly zone over ukraine intensifying the white house announced us president joe biden will head to brussels next week to attend to a special nato meeting over rushes, invasion of ukraine. his goal is to meet in person face to face with his european counterparts and talk about and assess where we are. at this point in the conflict, the white house would not say whether that triple include any visits to the cranium, border, or meeting with ukrainian president vladimir soleski, who has been pushing for no fly zone over his country. nato allies, including the us, oppose the no fly zone as it would put nato and russian plains, indirect conflict, and potentially lead to nuclear war. still secretary of defense lloyd austin,
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is meeting with nato defense ministers for a 2 day gathering api alliance headquarters in brussels. earlier in the day, lensky addressed the canadian parliament and made his case closed. the aerospace police stop the bombing. how many more girls may sales have to fall on our cities until you make this happen? the u. s. continues to send more help on tuesday, the u. s president side to spending bill that included $13600000000.00 for ukrainian security and humanitarian assistance were moving urgently to further augment the support to the re people of ukraine as they defend their country are also going to be better position to provide for the rapidly growing humanitarian needs of the ukranian peoples, the money provides aid for ukrainian refugees in ukraine and in neighboring nations
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. it also gives ukraine military equipment and training. the ukranian president will make his case for a no fly zone. when on wednesday he addresses a joint session of the u. s. congress. kimberly held him al jazeera, the white house, the u. s. t v network fox news says it's camera man and producer have been killed near keith. the crew were news gathering on monday when the vehicle was hit by artillery fire, pierre executive to ski and alexandra covey. she nova were traveling with report to benjamin hall, who was injured in the attack. 5 journalists have not been killed since the war began. a court in moscow has find a journalist, $280.00 for dramatic. a televised protest on sunday evening. medina, i'll see annie cova broke into a live bulletin on state television, holding up a sign, reading stop the war. she's a senior editor at channel warm. earlier she released
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a statement saying she was ashamed for promoting what she called kremlin propaganda . becoming called her actions hooliganism up. i do want to thank everyone for the support, my friends and colleagues. these were uneasy days of my life because i spent 2 days without sleep. interrogation lasted for more than 14 hours, was not allowed to contact my relatives, although provided with any judicial help, i was in a rather tough situation and i'll speak more tomorrow. i just need to rest today. in other news, israeli forces have shot dead, 3 palestinians, and wounded several others in the occupied westbank and then called desert. one man in his twenties was shot in the head in the columbia refugee camp near tamala, in an earlier incident in nablus is ready for his shot and killed a 17 year old boy. $21.00 pallet killed in the occupied west bank since the start
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of the new land slide has buried more than 60 houses in the andes. in northern peru . heavy rain caused the hillside in the remote town of park or to collapse. people tried to help those trap by breaking down the walls of their homes. at least 7 people are missing. i court judges in the indian state of car nautica have upheld a headscarf band in schools and colleges. the ruling follows petitions challenging the decision. students and muslim groups say they'll take the case to the supreme court and his but per annum reports for new w. y. students in the southern city of chin. i protest against the judgment in kanaka high court. 3 judges, including a muslim woman, dismissed petitions, challenging a ban on headscarf from the state schools and colleges. they said wearing a headscarf is not an essential religious practice in islam therefore isn't
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protected by india's constitution, which guarantees religious freedom. the petitioners disagree. i. oh oh yeah. my mom was part of a group from cannot go, went to the high court after a number of colleges in the state began asking students to remove their head scarves, school staff to the young woman of violating the uniform code. they would tend stand offs between woodland students protesting against the restriction and hindu nationalist who rallied in support of the bad. the protest led to many schools and colleges of the state being closed for at least a week at the local government banning headscarf. while the high court made the decision, one of the students lawyers told al jazeera the ruling would imply that the wearing of hindu symbols known as been these,
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or christian crosses should also be banned. where will there be a government order that you will not have been these or you will not very broad when you come in coming to school and in fact, an order of past then be america. i would be bound by judgment. but how likely is it that the government will pass such an order? i mean, it seems extremely unlikely really extremely unlikely. i agree with the flip side of the lawyer side of ruling as a setback for women's rights in a society where the female workforce by dissipation route, has fallen dramatically from the 1900 ninety's. we cannot afford to shut the doors on young women. we're attempting to go to school. the students, lawyers, and muslim groups are planning to challenge the ruling and india, the supreme court. the cannot for governance lawyer says the ruling marks of
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paradigm shifted the interpretation of religious freedom. that's guaranteed in the indian constitution. there are concerns that judgment could set a precedent and lead to similar bands and other states, especially those governed by the hindu nationalist bazzi, a jumps, a party of prime minister marines, morty elizabeth, for autumn al jazeera, new delhi. the world banks as the number of afghans who can't afford food and other essentials, has doubled since the taliban take over last year. around 3400000 people now displaced. country was heavily reliant on financial aid, which was frozen when the taliban to power the high commissioner for refugees, for legal grandy is urging the world not to forget about the crisis. a sri lankan is have protested on the streets of columbia over the worsening economic crisis. the government is heavily in debt and struggling to pay for
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central import. may now fernandez reports from one of the main demonstrations. angry, frustrated, and desperate. she lankin surrounded the president's office in colombo, fed up having to queue for food, medicine, cooking gas, and vega, fuel think 30 to 60 percent more for many items. millions are struggling to make ends meet and blame president, go toby, roger boxer, and the government. what i mean, i'd imagine, i mean i get boy, reggie parks must be chased out. that's what this river people want. so me a pilot, i in the middle time to go. it will all become the i'm go to the go roach. and the report is the, is gone month, potential media, the opposition, somebody jonah, by the video, organize the latest protest following weeks of similar demonstrations around the country. the j. b is challenging the president to turn things around or step down.
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oh, wow. yes. are you ready to send this government home? it's the country ready to send it home? friends with his great people's power. we will begin the journey to trace out his government. shalana has had a worsening economy for the past 2 years. the 2019 eastern bomber tax on churches and hotels kill $270.00 people. and he vital tourism revenue pandemic which followed further. hampered recovery analysts blame unsustainable debt, new revenue of foreign exchange crisis, financial mismanagement and corruption for aggravating di problems that didn't have this government because now happening, you know, the children. they have no meal. they had this nothing. my dad, enjoying that light, shall anchors for in reserves have fallen to their lowest levels in recent history . fuel has run out to keep a steady supply of electricity,
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and the government doesn't have money to pay for vital imports. after months of rejecting cause to seek an international bailout, the government appears ready to seek help for months, reluctance have complained about shortages and price increases, but things have got so bad. now they say they don't have a choice, but to take to the streets. professionals, executive farmers, fishermen, housewives and day wage owners all hoping their voices will be heard. minute fernandez, audra 0, colombo. ah, this is al jazeera, let's get a round up of the top stories, the prime ministers of poland, slovenia, and the czech republic are in kia to show solidarity with ukrainians. as russian shelling continues to hit the capital that the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine
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