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cold response nato's long plan to military, i'll take the thighs, the largest since the cold war has taken no new significance as the war rages in ukraine day without as they arrived for the latest development as 35000 feet from $28.00 nato countries demonstrate their abilities in a region already edge. ah, a people are emerging ally you from the ruins of a theater. and maria pull that ukraine says was deliberately bombed by russia with how many people were in the shelter all columbus. and so i'd say around $800.00, we were preparing food night, see only a 100 or so managed to disperse. ah,
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i'm darn jordan, this is al jazeera alive go. i also coming up the united nations as dozens of healthcare facilities have been attacked in ukraine in violation of international humanitarian law. yes, president joe biden will speak to china's leadership thing about the war and ukraine and support for russia. and ukraine is 3rd largest city. odessa, braces for invasion. as russian warships intensify their shilling from the black sea rescue crews in the ukrainian city of mario apollo said i have found survivors after russia mass drive hit fietta. more than a 1000 people, including children, were believed to be sheltering that they've also been further strikes in the north, near the capital cave. rob mcbride reports not from live in western ukraine. after an unrelenting siege and days of being battered on all sides, the southern port, city of maria pole,
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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 old here we have nothing to eat. it's awful, just awful, really no light, no heat, nothing gloom. hillman whom it was terrible. how can really, what was it for, for what? what are the yourself here for this key of neighbourhood? 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 hearing cock eve, continue to bear the brunt. parents of children if they shouted school have come together to try and restore classrooms on the home. you prefer officially so we
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came to help. we heard that search 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 big a funeral for another soldier killed in conflict. while this more 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 le viv more training for volunteers. this soldier calls himself cream meaning crimea, says he left his home on the peninsula when it was seized by russian forces in 2014 and his bowing not to be moved on again. and is now the vive is my home. i'm more interested in a democracy than in a totalitarian state. these volunteers will soon join. others like
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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 ukrainians are willingly doing it, but we don't have a with both sides, seemingly unable to find a way out as the war goes into its 4th week. casualties are mounting all around us . rob mcbride, al jazeera live full agencies, described the humanitarian situation in mario paul as apocalyptic around. 30000 people have left so far, but more than 350000. a still sheltering in the city, i said, beggars ins apparition where he spoke with one family that was able to get out of the manage to escape the horror, but are still suffering from the trauma of their days. you trapped him,
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mario povich, surrounded by the russian army for us. then did they slung into thought, i can't find the words to describe that horror that we experienced. we lived in a squeak of william's little smith. moody will break. we're still home. i jesse to was destroyed and my son was running under rocket fired to collect water with we collected snow typically will not get the p. boyles did to drink. 65 year old did he know progressed over and her husband sergey spent 20 days hiding in the basement with one from the raging battle above it fled here to his upper richie taken in by their friend constantine one as well as the one do i hit there monday we had only 2 liter, so water would drink water not meant for drinkin will boil it on the fire and drank him. that was the only had potatoes to eat. the am not alone in this ordeal. over
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400000, call the city home. the so irina recalls the moment they made it out. and 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 root left. so we 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 porsha. they can't believe that this has happened to them from a people they once felt the new thing in my heel, unscheduled cheerful, no good, old, stinky. wellness. let's see, many of our people have been married and stayed in russia. we maintained relations when we have grew up here, 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 nazare, just because family relations most those political conflict through them,
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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 chair. they can never go back. the pain is too much or her mother died when the house was bombed. we shall catch escape bullshit and i want to tell you something more astellas in that house which was bombed, you will left my 86 year old mother. you brought the new money we missed. we just weren't able to carry her out. this in 90 percent of money open is destroyed though there is nothing more there you think you're good there. we don't have a place to go back to the can now only wait till you will be still a foreigner. the future and search for a thumb issue is i'm hoping the war doesn't follow them here, but he was letting him with a start. baker, for him as jazeera,
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separate you. russian warships have been shilling odessa, which is bracing for invasion. it's ukraine's 3rd biggest city and is home to more than a 1000000 people. it's located on the black sea coast, most the ukrainian navies headquarters, which moved there after russia annex crimea in 2014. or abdul. hamid has more sense in this, i mean is waiting for it's churn. anyone you speak to here tells me, well, they were absolutely sure that at some point we are going to be at the target of did russians now over the past few days. also there been a fleet of russian war ships that have been seen approaching the coast of odessa and, and then retracting, and enrique re approaching. there's also been some shilling india this region about half an hour away from this city. all this surgeon, the increase is the tension among people here,
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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 doesn't count any more people would tell you or look at what happened in my youth on what to look at. what happened in the hurricane. there is no safe place in this country at the moment. united nations is calling for an immediate stop to strikes on hospitals in ukraine, doctors working there, say staff under extraordinary pressure, treating the injured image con reports on a capital case. this used to be one of the main hospitals and keep dealing with coven 19 infections. it's now been re purpose to treat walker's your tooth. this ukrainian volunteer was shot in her pin at north of keep while defending the capital from intense russian attacks. despite being short, 3 times, he wants to go back to the front lines. ya belong to those,
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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 shot known in 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 cars key will definitely sustain all medical services. on top of that, the ukranian army and the territorial defense are keeping the enemy from entering 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 scenes across the country of provoke condemnation. from the world health organization to attack the most vulnerable babies, children,
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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. m, ron kon al jazeera keith. yes, president joe biden will speak with his chinese counterpart. she, she ping late as a day ahead of that discussion. you a secretary of state, anthony blink, and says, china appears to be open to providing military help to russia. we continue to call on all nations, especially those with direct influence, with russia to use whatever leverage they have to compel moscow to end this war of choice. we believe shine in particular, has a responsibility to use its influence with president putin and to defend the
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international rules and principles that it professes to support. instead, it appears the china is moving in the opposite direction by refusing to condemn this aggression while seeking to portray itself as a neutral arbiter. and we're concerned that they're considering directly assisting russia with military equipment to use in ukraine. katrina, you has more now from beijing and what the 2 leaders are expected to discuss. this phone call could determine the trajectory of the crisis in ukraine with these 2 lee to speaking, biden leading the charge to pressure russia to stopping the invasion. and she didn't pig seen as one of the few international leaders left who does have the when with prison vladimir putin know china as we've just had since the beginning of the russian attack was refused to take aside. it said that it encourages dialogue, but at the same time paging has made it very clear that it intends to preserve its friendship with russia, which is described as rock solid. we had that in the future and visit china and
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speak with president. she's in pain in person just a few weeks before the invasion. on the 2nd day of the attack, they have phone call. we've had chinese foreign ministry of the past few days. spread these questions about us run bio labs in crane, which many considered to be russian cult gadda and moist crucially. we've had paging continue to do business as usual with moscow. something that many believe could be sending out a crucial lifeline or crutch for russia at a time when many other countries are trying to economically isolate this, us has wound staging that there will be consequences, for example, for evading western sanction. or even taking things a step further and supporting russia via military aid or equipment damaging, has denied that it has any intention of doing this. but at the same time, china is also thinking about its own interest here its own interest when it comes
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to doing trade with russia, its own interest when it comes to wanting stability and a very important political year for president. she didn't pay well for the time to come here and there, including facing decades behind bars for protesting more than a $100.00 anti government demonstrators. a jail in cuba senate has an argentine prove a controversial refinancing fail, and people tend to restrict more than ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello, if you can to my back just over a week we saw temperature here in doha, getting up to 40 degrees celsius. we're boy. has it freshened up? yes, they were struggling to get 21 degrees. friday we'll be struggling to get to 25. 26 is cool. and it's very windy that shamal wind continues to feed down the gulf. cool
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enough and still wintry further north up towards sir turkey was the caucuses. see some wet sand at time. some wintry, whether they're coming into syria, lebanon, and jordan, more of the same as we go on through sas day by sash. those winds around the gulf should begin to start to ease off getting up to around 30 degrees celsius next week . so we will find the warm heat returning. i am pleased to say that much more to recross northern parts of africa. he sees him lively showers, there are northern parts of morocco, or the areas of algeria could catch a shower, or 2 in 2. she nidia and the very strong winds continued to feed their way and across sea, so high lots of lifted dust and sand regatta temperatures at the 34 celsius. therefore lagos little try them. it has been recently plenty of showers. they're just around west africa pushing over towards liberia and sierra leone police showers to inter central parts of africa with some flooding there for mozambique.
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oh, the weather sponsored by casara always from the al jazeera london, bro cost center to people in thoughtful conversation, christine all about trying to get a superior reputation, unprompted uninterrupted, where we find the most profound similarities is not actually in our closest living relatives. in much more distant connection, hot wanda wright who will stool and psychologists, nick, la, honey, you're going to be a corporate species. you call to the beating each other up and threaten each other . all beside studio be unscripted on al jazeera with ah, welcome back. a good the modem on top stories here. this our rescue cruise in the
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ukranian city of molly up all say they found survivors after rush an air strike hit a theatre, hundreds of civilians where sheltering inside is not clear how many people were killed. years president joe biden will speak with his chinese counterpart sheesh and bang for the 1st time since the wooden frame began. usa is increasingly concerned about china support to russia. and 3, you and agencies, including the world health organization have called for an immediate hope to attacks on hospitals in crane, 43 facilities up and targeted since the war began. well, they've been scathing exchanges at the un security council. the world body got an update on the toll, the ukraine conflict is taking on civilians. kristen selina has moved 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 the war crimes that being carried out there. we want to counter that disinformation
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and eyes as images of that bomb theatre sheltering families and mary paul circled the globe. 3, you and officials briefed siding at least $700.00 ukrainians killed so far in 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 greatly. good, blah, blah, shows up 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 and gun boss, including women, children, and the elderly. the breathing took place a day before the security council was expected to vote on a humanitarian, resolute put forth by russia. but nato, a line council members made clear they wouldn't support anything that didn't point the finger directly at russia as the source of that humanitarian crisis. so russia
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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 propaganda. russia now plans to discuss us bio labs in ukraine, saying it has new evidence to share. we have this information. well, which is raging much, much on the, on a much greater scale in the than the battle. they're not the battlefield and they will not be surprised at anything because who wins did the information war? the one with the war, intense diplomatic activity continues. i think we have to be very realistic. a 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
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they can to 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. the u. k says it'll deploy its missile defense system to poland, as nato moved to increase the security of its eastern flag. defense minister ben wallace announced that appointment janet visit to the polish capital warsaw. u. k. will send the sky saber anti and missiles system along with about a 100 personnel. rushes invasion of ukraine has prompted a rush by european governments to bolster their defenses pre planned nato exercises . and norway have acquired a new significance with the military alliance. aiming to send a message to moscow that it's ready for any assault on its territory. lavaca reports in sub 0 terrain troops from nato's very high readiness joint task force, a training for the coldest of conflicts. the soldiers are among the alliance is 1st
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responded currently on the french command. the place we leave, we sit and we fight among them. polish soldier, private piazza, much unecc. poland is now found itself on nato's eastern flank, against a possibly hostile enemy. what does that mean for you as a polish soldier? i was sure what i was finding for joining me. but of course, it's difficult 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
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are doing in ukraine are war crimes or not. it is sometimes difficult to think that it is all an action a, 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. giving these cold weather exercises are simply about nato bolstering. it's east and flank,
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then 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 welds untapped natural gas. and 13 percent of its oil supplies. as europe tries to wean itself off, russian energy supplies wall countries are 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 me, bianca al jazeera, in central no way spring. and some of them use now argentina senate has approved a deal to refinance a $45000000000.00 debt with the international monetary fund. thousands of
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protesters gathered in the capital one as iris ahead of the vote. many argentinians are against borrowing more money and they've been holding regular protests for more than a year. they say the terms of the debt, a not realistic trees, a boat that's more than the auction on capital. well we're here right outside of a not at the state for the government funded medical mandate. today's vote to people here are processing mostly because they do not trust india. net from all your fees that have been implemented in tina over and over again in subsequent economic crisis for the government. a for a year over a year that did a loan. that was taken back in 2018 during the government of one of our president notices, with largest known never given to our country, $57000000000.00 in the end, argentina ended up getting it board think it is now struggling to repay. the government says that it has a agreement in place that it will help the government and establish
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a struggling with a very high inflation rate with exchange rate controls. i'm another thing that i'd like previous agreements. for example. it's not the man a reality. maybe more and pension reforms, for example. so that's why, but many of those for here today are not slots can be i and that they're saying that that the government could be a true, but supreme court sentenced a 127 anti government protest as to prison on charges of treason and vandalism. they fix upwards of 30 years behind bars. our latin america editor nicea newman report 19 year old orlando, kind of a high gover data has just been sentenced to prison for 20 years longer than he's been alive. meredith, you're the, it's what you get for defined to was one party state says his distraught mother
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with a c e o. i imagine it wants to saw people from continuing to protest so they won't take to the streets. all i know is that my son sentence is to extreme for a young man who only through a few rocks. he had a lawyer, but the sentence was already predetermined. take it. oh, that of a high was among the thousands of cubans who took part in unprecedented nationwide protests against the communist government. 8 months ago. amid a severe economic recession, they demanded better living conditions and freedom of the $790.00 per testers, arrested, an accused of vandalism, sedition and public disorder so far, $127.00 had been tried and sentenced to between 4 and 30 years in prison. in many cases, longer than for far more severe crimes. 19 year old daniela alexander the gospels,
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husband. yes. yes. is one of them. i live in the law. he's losing ali's you of is life. as a youngster. he says he feels like dying. the vast majority of the accused or young people so far, only one person has been acquitted of ne, a samuel. while the prosecution insist, the due process is being guaranteed. family members and actors charged that the trials like transparency and that the penalties are disproportionately long and harsh. not only for those young president miguel diaz canal accuses to united states of inciting them as protest. yamaha, the harsh penalties against them send an unequivocal message to disgruntled cubans that there is a high price to be paid for showing it publicly to see a newman al jazeera peruse. top constitutional court has voted germany's former president, alberto for g maury, from prison. the 83 year old is serving
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a 25 year sentence for human rights violations. the court reinstated a pardon for g more received in 2017. that part and ive been revoked by paris supreme court marino sanchez, the fort from a capital lima. oh, former president, i'll read before you, maria will go free of them. advisors, the homeland is celebrating in different parts of the city. they're celebrating the constitutional court decision to let go. the 83 year old commodity, frequent been in jail since 2007. we are grateful as berrigan people because he was the one who gave peace in despair, who there were never murders and killings in 2017 former president beto local genes keep pardons, wookey muddy, but the supreme court said it was illegal because the money was done victory for gross human rights violations, which doesn't permit a presidential pardon. so he was sent back to jail. now the victims defense is what
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he, marty has never complied with. the minimum conditions established by the inter american court for human rights and that goes from acknowledging the responsibility for the crime to our main, reparations to the victims. now the defense will have to go back to the inter american ford for human rights to as asking for provisional measures. the for the look, and we'll say 2. it's pretty though we have asked the inter american court for human rights for provisional measures and a hearing in accordance with the standards established by the court itself. the court should declare and order nobody of the resolution of the constitutional court talk. well now supreme court judges will have to comply with the constitutional court decision and overturn the decision that they gave in 2017 that put the money back in jail. they will have to do this in the next days or even hours for warmer prison. i bet to put the money to walk free and rescue teams and prove are
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searching for survivors. often landslide trapped at least 8 people. local authorities say up to 80 homes were buried on tuesday when the landslide hit, at least 3 bodies have been recovered, including a one month old baby. come and kill 21. people in nevada or a bus was set on fire. a truck was attacked in the southwestern regional tele, buried near the border with between a facet 5 people, including at least one were wounded. 7 other passengers managed to escape. now group is claiming responsibility. ah, to reach out to the headlines here and al jazeera rescue. cruise in the cranium city at mario polls say they found survivors off to a russian as strike hit, a theater. hundreds of civilians were sheltering inside at the time. it's not clear how many people were killed. the u. s. ambassador to the u and accused russia deliberately targeting civilians. russia has clearly violated international law
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by violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine.

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