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everybody into someone's home, and me know, you need to know that in significant numbers, the insignificant, ideologically, the insignificant, even as a crime game. the very significance by dictating the government defunct, the policy shall not kill counted the radicalized youth series on our jazeera ah, people. i emerging alive from the ruins of a theatre in matthew pole, that ukraine says was deliberately bombed by russia. token. how many people were in the shelter all columbus, i'd say around 800. we were preparing food and i'd say only a 100 or so managed to disperse. and the rest are under the rubble. yes,
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most likely under the rebel, because there were a lot of people in the basement under the stage. and it's the stage that got hit ah, not having to speak of this is i just live from without continuing coverage of the war in ukraine. the united nation says dozens of health care facilities have been attacked in violation of international humanitarian law, bus pure doug, where you know, no more war against the people ukraine. the us president doubles down on his criticism of his russian counterpart, calling him a murderous dictator. and britain announces its sending issue anti croft mythos system to poland through a risky cruise in the cleaning. sit, maddie,
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you all say they found survivors after russian air strike hit a theater. more than a 1000 people, including children, were believed to be sheltering there. they've also been further strikes in the north, near the capital. keith rama bry reports from the viv in western ukraine after an unrelenting siege in days of being battered on all sides. the southern port city of mary. you hold one of the most port over targets in this grinding war and showing all the scars of conflict. thousands of people have now managed to escape, but they've left behind a depleted and dazed population picking over the ruins of their city and their former lives. you are years of here, we have nothing to eat. it's awful just awful. no light, no heat, nothing gloom wilmont who it was terrible. how can really, what was it for, for what? what are the yourself here for this key of neighborhood,
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another early morning awakening from the war. an incoming missile was intercepted with falling debris, killing a resident pillow. people in cities on the front line like here in cock eve, continue to bear the brunt. parents of children, they shouted school have come together to try and restore classrooms on the home for fever. so foot alice thought we came to help. we heard that such a catastrophe happened and i don't know how to describe it. it's and human and that the main church for the military in the western city of the be a funeral for another soldier, killed in conflict. while this war continues to arouse condemnation of the russian invasion on the world stage, here in ukraine, each death locally seems only to strengthen the resolve to join the fight. outside levin more training for volunteers. this soldier calls himself cream
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meaning crimea, says he left his home on the peninsula when it was seized by russian forces in 2014, and is vowing not to be moved on again. and is now the vive is my home that i'm more interested in a democracy than in a totalitarian state. 2011. these volunteers will soon join. others like former international tennis player, said, geese the kosky oldest, who says he had no choice, but to put on a uniform and pick up a gun, even if i will be capable of shooting, killing someone is marking you on your life. so i don't believe that any of the koreans are willingly doing it, but we don't have a job with both sides, seemingly unable to find a way out of the war, goes into its 4th week. casualties are mounting full around just about mcbride, elgin's era lives. i'd agencies describe the humanitarian situation in math, you,
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paul, as apocalyptic around. 30000 people have left so far, but more than 350000. i still sheltering in the city. i said, beg is ins, appreciate where he spoke with one family. he was able to get out there, managed to escape the horror, but are still suffering from the trauma of their days. talk to him, merrier postage, surrounded by the russian army person. did i want to do that? i can't find the words to describe that horror that we experience we've been given the school could. will it a little from ruth murray was on home i jesse to will destroy. my son was running on the rocket fire to collect water. we collected snow. p. lee, when they'd be boiled to drink 65 year old, you know chris dover,
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and her husband said a 20 days hiding in the basement from the raging back to above. fled here is to recheck. taken in by their friend constantine one as below. see, what do i do? believe we had only 2 liters, so water would drink water not meant for drinkin bolted on the fire and drunk. we only had time to eat the i'm not alone in this ordeal. over 400000 call the city home the so irina recalls the moment they made it out. i'll let you then we'll get him out to them, cross the corner. but as what shall we steal? it was a miracle when we heard that explosion in the center of mighty, we'll put close to the drama theatre much were jumped into the car and ran away from their living, who didn't really had a rude muscle who were just trying to get out there with me and then we happened by chance to joins a convoy of course, does a pretty shout, olivia lose another 40. they can't believe that this has happened to them from
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a people they once felt the new thing. my here on the schedule chief nugget was thinking wellness. let's see. many of our people have been married and stayed in russia. we maintained relation was when we have grew up here from it's our country, our motherland. we always thought that the russia is torn component for it, but not an enemy is not an enemy. and now wine at the nasa, just because family relations most those political conflict to them. we talk to each other with our relatives, came to us, was spent some time at the senior at all. and when the war broke out deck, and we just couldn't understand that it could be a war between 2 brothers as a chill. they can never go back, the pain is too much. her mother died when the house was bombed. hey, she could just go, we'll show it. and i want to tell you something more astellas in the house which was left my 86 year old mother. you person really missed, we just weren't able to carry her out. but you know,
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90 percent of my job is destroyed. there is nothing more there than you would the we don't have a place to go back to because they can now own a way to, to still for the future. i'm sure he's hoping the war doesn't follow them here, but he will talk to him when i said big data richer or russia worships, have been shelling odessa, which is bracing for an invasion. it's ukraine's 3rd largest city and home to more than a 1000000 people located on the black sea coast and host the ukranian navies headquarters, which moved there after russia next crimea in 2014. what that means has more sidney . this i mean, is waiting for it's churn. anyone you speak to here tells me, well that we are absolutely sure that at some point we are going to be at the
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target of do russians now over the past few days. also it had been a fleet of russian war ships that have been seen approaching the. busy coast of odessa and then retracting an enrique we approaching, there's also been some sit shelling, india this region about half an hour away from this city. all this to in the increases the tension among people here, the anxiety of what will happen next. and i have to say that the fact that this is a russian speaking city, that this is a city that has a lot of ties with russia historically. and even until really the beginning of this war, it doesn't count any more. people would tell you a look at what happened in my you, paul, what look at what happened in the parking? there is no safe place in this country at the moment. and united nations is calling for an immediate stop to strike on hospitals in ukraine. doctors working there,
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say staff on the extraordinary pressure, treating the injured him on con reports from the capitol. keith. this used to be one of the main hospitals and keep dealing with cove 19 infections. it's now been re purpose to treat war casualties. this ukrainian volunteer was shot in a plane of north of keep while defending the capital from intense russian attacks. despite being shot 3 times, he wants to go back to the front lines. yeah, belongs to those of course i want to fight again. i will join the territorial defense hearing keith as soon as i can by your most, i went to join my friends in the fight. when they pulled me to the hospital, they told me i had some shop known my lung, but it turned out to be a police move. does it define spirits amongst doctors, nurses, administration? so who say they already working round the clock? numerous good key will definitely sustain all medical services. on top of that, the ukranian army and the territorial defense are keeping the enemy from entering
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the city. we're ready to give emergency medical and rehabilitation services to all in any that are suffering from this horrible war. despite the defiance hospitals nationwide facing crisis, 43 have been attacked since the war began in the besieged city of mario pl staff and patience were taken hostage as russian soldiers use the hospital to fire when ukrainian forces similar things across the country of provoke condemnation. from the world health organization to attack the most vulnerable babies, children, pregnant women, and those already suffering from illness and disease and health workers, risking their own lives to save lives is an act of unconscionable cruelty. that's an incredibly strong statement from the w h o. but with the war intensifying around the capitol, many are wondering where the hospitals like this, and the ones that are left will become overwhelmed. emron khan al jazeera keith and
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u. s. president joe biden will speak with his chinese count by she jin ping on friday. it will be their 1st known discussion in months and it comes just days after the u. s. suggested china as expressed some openness to providing russia with military assistance. speaking the president, she tomorrow, remind me that i told him he remembers every damn thing i've said to our son. lock it inside. we talked about the idea he does. he does not believe about democracy can be sustained in the 21st century. rustling jordan joins us live now from washington dc. so rather than we're seeing more us pressure being applied now on china to not only warn them off or helping russia, but to get behind the us and its allies diplomatically to, to end this conflict. that's right. the u. s. has not been happy with china stance over the past 3 weeks,
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which is how long the russian war in ukraine has lost it so far. the us does not like the fact that china is trying to be neutral. the us feels that it could be looking for ways to get around us and e, u organized sanctions, regimes that are punishing russia for its invasion. the u. s. is also very concerned that russia and china may try to find ways of providing financial assistance to each other. that the chinese may be willing to provide the military assistance of some unspecified client, whatever the assistance could be, the u. s. is opposed to it. and so the expectation is that the u. s. president joe biden will say to was chinese counterpart cesium pang that he expects a more robust effort to pressure moscow to stop its invasion, to recall its troops and to try to broker some sort of these fire with the
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government and cave and ross, the divided administration has been keeping up its strong rhetoric against president putin was have listened to the secretary of state yesterday. president biden said that in his opinion, war crimes had been committed in ukraine. personally, i agree intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. after all the destruction of the past 3 weeks, i find it difficult to conclude that the russians are doing otherwise. so we have the u. s. president and his secretary of state. now using that word, war criminal, more pressure being applied to on, on the russian president rhetorically. now just of that, but you also heard antony blank in the u. s. secretary of state, say on thursday that child the u. s. i believes that tar russia might be planning
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some sort of a bio weapon attack, some sort of chemical attack perhaps, and is planning to do so by blaming ukraine for that actual attack. now the u. s. has been saying, even before the invasion of february 24th, that russia was planning military action against ukraine. and so far everything that the u. s. says it has revealed, based on its intelligence gathering has come true. now what you also heard antony blake and saying on thursday was not just that the u. s. believes that what they are watching is russia committing more crimes, but that they are providing assistance to local groups on the ground, including to the ukrainian government, to gather that evidence in order to bring moscow before the international criminal court. and to deal with the matter of war crimes. rosalind jordan lifeless in washington thanks. was a still head on edge azeta protests in argentina sentences to bait
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northern parts of japan, western areas to it's more the way of rain showers to the south of that in the shower will continue for central parts of china. southern china should be largely tri, got a fair, better try whether to into india, china, but southern parts the vietnam cambodia. little more cloud here that'll produce some pretty wet weather over the next day, or 7 in the usual rush of showers through much of malaysia and indonesia got some pretty wet, whether to just making its way to southern parts of the bad bin goes. he said he wants to watch, we could see some flooding coming into the nickel bar, odyssey, adamant islands over the next couple of days for india, though. dry. oh, the weather, sponsored by casara, always deny me of mud berry. 16 indonesian villages submerging the homes and livelihood. it's 60000 people. years later, local inhabitants still fighting for justice from the fracking company they blamed
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and the hot sludge continues to flood grating a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah, the me. again, you're watching. i just a reminder of our top stories. the rescue cruise in these ukrainian city of mario say they found survivors after russian and striking a theatre where civilians were sheltered. united nation says thousands of healthcare facilities have been attacked in violation of international humanitarian law. the u. k will deploy its miss sound defense system to ponens of nato news to
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increase the security of east and flank transfers. the ben wallace announcing the deployment during his visit to the owners capital was russia's invasion of ukraine has prompted a rush by european governors to bolster their defenses pre plan nato exercises in norway have quite a whole new significance with the military alliance. aiming to send a clear message to moscow that is ready for any assault on nato territory. nepa reports in sub 0 terrain troops from nato's very high readiness joint task force, a training for the coldest of conflict. many the soldiers are among the alliance is 1st responded currently on the french command and the place we leased we sleep and we fight among them. polish soldier private piazza, much unecc. poland is now found itself on nato's eastern flank, against
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a possibly hostile enemy. what does that mean for you? as a polish soldier? i was sure what i was finding for joining the army, but of course it's difficult as a for human human being, but we are, we are just doing our job. russia's invasion of ukraine pose is the biggest threat to european security in the generation. several nato states and now rushing to ramp up their defense spending and germany, europe's largest nato country has reversed his position on sending weapons into war zones in order to help ukraine alliance top brass fear russia stop playing by international norms. time will tell us whether whether the things that the russians are doing in ukraine are war crimes or not. it is sometimes difficult to think that it is all an action a,
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as especially if you hear that her now more than 30 her medical facilities have been hit the refugee stream and the fact that people are not allowed to flee. or even after, after an agreement or when they are fleeing, they're still being targeted. those are all things that, that shouldn't happen. this week, nato warned that russia's accusations of ukraine storing biological weapons could be used as a pretext for chemical attacks. these french soldiers tasks with handling the aftermath of a chemical attack on high alert, while seemed inconceivable only a few weeks ago seems chillingly possible. or you think these cold weather exercises are simply about nato bolstering it's east and flank than think again. in recent months, russia has been steadily reopening. it's cold, whole bases in the aunt, take a region that has 30 percent of the world's untapped natural gas. and 13 percent of
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its oil supplies. as europe tries to wean itself off, russian energy supplies more countries turning to norway to make up for possible shortfalls. until the evasion of ukraine began. no way in russia had been working together to explore ought to oil fields, but not any more. is feared competing claims, the natural resources will put russia and nato on another collision course. the invasion of ukraine has major consequences for european security. already, nato chiefs say the alliance must be primed to respond. the vodka, al jazeera in central noy as a war in ukraine and a war of words at the un security council. world body got an update on the told a conflict is taking on civilians. christmas salumi has more the security council gathered for its 5th briefing on the situation in ukraine in 3 weeks. the united kingdom, one of 6 countries called for it. we want to continue to hold russia to account for
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the war crimes. to being carried out there, we want to counter the disinformation and eyes as images of that bombed theatre, sheltering families and mary, a pol, circled the globe. 3, you and officials briefed citing at least $700.00 ukrainians killed so far and the conflict. dozens of them, children, 5000000 forced to flee their homes as damage to civilian infrastructure, including 43 health facilities mounts. russia, denied bombing the theater and targeting civilians. graham of global initials of liquidity of ukraine always was upon in the geopolitical struggle against russia and remain such upon still. western politicians couldn't care less about the suffering of the people in dunbar. so including women, children, and the elderly. the breathing took place a day before the security council was expected to vote on a humanitarian resolution put forth by russia. but nato online council members made
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clear they wouldn't support anything that didn't point the finger directly at russia as the source of that humanitarian crisis. so russia changed plans. we know if russia really truly cared about humanitarian crises, the one that it created, it could simply stop its attacks on the people of ukraine. but instead they want to call for another security council meeting to use this council as a venue for its disinformation and for pump promoting its propagate and russia. now plans to discuss u. s. bio labs in ukraine saying it has new evidence to share. we have this information will, which is raging much, much on the, on a much greater scale that the, than the battle that they're going to battlefield. and they will not be surprised at anything because who wins that the information was. the one with the war, intense diplomatic activity continues. i think we have to be very realistic. a
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lot of this is diplomatic game play is not actually going to have a huge impact on the ground. but the u. s. in its allies are looking for every way they can't put pressure on russia. lots of talk on the part of the security council, but still no action. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations, are the news now and rescue teams in peru are searching for survivors after a landslide. at trapped at least 8 people local authorities to say up to 80 homes were buried on tuesday when the landslide had the northern region of lally beth had at least 3 bodies had been recovered, including a one month old baby. a decision by peruse, talk. constitutional court could see former president, alberto, if would you more, he freed from prison. the court has reinstated a pardon food you more you received in 2017 but which was later revoked by peruse supreme court. the 83 year old is currently serving
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a 25 year sentence for human rights violations. committed during his rule. between 199-2000 large crowds have gathered outside argentina's, senate building as senators debate a controversial finance phil. they have 5 days to decide whether to refinance the countries $45000000000.00 debt to the international monetary fund. if not, they risk defaulting on the loan. many argentinians are against borrowing more money and protest every time congress debates. the issue that i suppose has more from one of those. well, there is a lot of stake for argentina's. government says, says that the agreement with the international monetary fund is crucial. just until a while ago, there were thousands and thousands of people here who are protesting against this agreement, saying that it is going to hurt argentina as most vulnerable argentina has a long history with the i m f. and many here we sent it because they fear be of sterility measures that the fun could make the more government with the agreement
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implement. so i thought i meant to have been announcing in this agreement that the main objective is the civilized argentina economy to argentina, right? now have very, very high inflation in february, the inflation rate was 4.7 a month. others exchange rate control and very high poverty rates. and there's a major concern within the administration. does not agree with the i m f. would deteriorate economic situation even further? a gunmen have killed 21 people in major. a bus was set on fire and a truck was attacked in the south western region of tila. barry near the border with bikini fossil fy people, including a policeman, were wounded in the bus attack. no group is claiming responsibility. nigeria is planning to spend at tens of billions of dollars to modernize its railway network. the overall could boost the economy and remote parts of the country are many drifts reports from lagos,
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containers cetera narrow gauge rail trucks awaiting delivery to lagos, ports for export. a few years ago there would have to make the journey by road but a multi $1000000000.00 investment to revive the countries rail system is beginning to pay off. thanks. $2000000000.00 at lowes from china. thousands of kilometers of royal networks have been revamped and put to use opening up opportunities for businesses and boasting the economy grid that m j. c one, cooperate freight services. so income grow steadily along which huge growth potentials we have money was crushed. the system we have a local cut it in passing the services i would love to perry imports even exports. movements of raw materials within the country is so huge. when you put
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a load on the train, just glassily. it will deliver volumes on time civ, lives in and employment benefits at this train station in lagos. these passengers who commute daily from bought off a walk and trading catch the last train whole just to year ago. there have to spend 5 hours on the road to get home. now they do that in 2 officious. now looking beyond passages services, they've launched an ambitious program to link up with my generous neighbors and see ports to post trade. we have developed or what to call for it. the as in, i'm back with her and her brother. so that's with a harvey, the toner on how where 2 people can go up exact montana this he says will deliver freight in time. and he's pressure or nigeria, roach, but the plan requires a lot of money and the government doesn't have enough. it's estimated that $80.00
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to $100000000000.00 is required to fix my generous re network which has been neglected for decades as a result, trucks i the main means of moving heavy loads across the country. and that has taken a heavy toll on the roads which need hundreds of millions of dollars of repairs every year. the decline of nigeria is real system followed decades of neglect. much of the tracks were late before the countries independence. in 1960 says then there was no major investment in the sector, expert se, reviving the sector wills per growth in manufacturing and create jobs. but there are concerns about whether the government which currently owns and operates the railways, is capable of sustaining it a decrease al jazeera lagos, nigeria. ah, this is edge, sienna, let's get round up now. the top stories,
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