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is not just on their suffering, but also on the more ability and inspiring story. people trust challenges and to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and, and by and i've been african, i couldn't be more proud to be hot and, you know, ah, russia is still selling the ukrainian cities of cheve and shelly, he that says foreign governments were wrong to assume a tax would be reduced. some people were quick enough to assume that we are withdrawing from key adventure niga, which is not the case. ah, i'm about to send this out as the rely from doha. also coming up under fire and own patrol all zeros in the streets with
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a special police unit in the city of cock eve. desperate for aid, basic supplies are running out in the port city. body of poll. shanicea as president dissolves parliament, 8 months after he suspended it's casey says politicians have been mounting a cou. rushes reported to be sharing ports of northern ukraine despite moscow saying it would pull back from the capital cave and the city of shell eve. these pictures of frogs, shana havens mayor, says, russian attacks have intensified over the past 24 hours. more than 800000 people are trapped there, believe to only have enough supplies to lost them. a week bombings have also been reported in the west, ukraine's president says, russian forces have only withdrawn from keith because of military setbacks. duck. yeah, put a whole warning. pacific keep it. there is an ongoing negotiation process, but for now it's only where it's without specifics,
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or also other words about the alleged withdrawal of russian forces from keep turning. he and about the alleged decrease of the occupied activity in these directions. we know that it's not the withdrawal, the consequences of explosion, consequences of our defenders work. and i'll let the course, but i was sure would see. but we also see at the same time russia as a massing forces for new attacks in the done the us. and we're getting ready for this. is it to me, we don't believe any one in there. flowery words out of this christmas loom is been speaking to russian deputy you and i'm bassett. dmitri, for young ski. he told me that the international community has rushed to conclusions about rushes, activities around keep angelic. have there were some signals from our negotiators and they are of course better prepared and better informed. they were cautiously optimistic, seeing that it was for the 1st time that's ukrainians gave something in writing. but actually after that,
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i think the ukrainians did everything to deny almost all the positions that. so let me go sheets as we're promoting as kind of positive because they said that while any agreement was a subject of referendum, so frankly, i don't think we shall trash into the conclusions right now. in turkey, russian officials promised to scale back bombing of keys and also shown a heem today. our colleagues on the ground are reporting more shelling. can we trust russia? what i heard from negotiations and key if was that we were scaling down our military activity. and some people work week enough to assume that we are withdrawing from key event unique, which is not the case. it was kind of regrouping. and the ministry of defense confirmed this that we, we have completed the 1st phase of our operation. now the objective is to,
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to liberates dawn best. yesterday the security council got a very grim assessment of what is happening in terms of more than 1100 civilians have died in ukraine. 10000000 of them on the move, forced to leave their homes on a personal level. how does it feel to sit in the council chamber with these people that you work with every day? pointing the finger at you and russia for the suffering. whether much sense and sympathetic with people suffering, we understand the situation in ukraine. much better in our western colleagues. we, we where aware of the war that was going on for 80 years. ukraine is very frequent topic of our discussions. so i remember quite well the frustration that were felt because we were presenting facts were presenting people,
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giving their evidence, accounts of what has happened in these split in the, in these places and our colleagues were pretending that nothing was happening. what is your thoughts on the secretary general's response and secretary general enforcement? it took the sod decides of the countries who web leaving russia for everything. he was saying, russian aggression, the war, everything. i don't know all the lexical was absolutely all the, all the vocabulary was, was forgotten by him on the similar occasions. and that was our approach to secretary journal if he wants to, to be useful in these regards. he shouldn't take sides, but that's unfortunately what happens on several occasions. michael boss ok, there's a former spokesperson for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. and he says russia has put significant pressure on ukraine's president. i think they're going to try and put mr. a lance can a very difficult possession,
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for example, trying to get him to capitulate. things like shopping that ambition to join nato, possibly in the u despite they said, that's okay. i think when it comes to putting aside the membership, that is something that will not bring ukrainians out onto the streets. but when you demand things like calling crimea russian territory for perpetuity or the don't boss dot will be something that will get ukrainians are. tom does it onto the streets and big numbers. he's in a very, very tight spot right now. i don't envy him, but he's going to have to navigate this very carefully and quickly. there's been no let up in russia stripes on cock heave. a 3rd of the population has managed to escape, but thousands of people remain trapped. the mayor says nowhere is safe as it is. us had begun rear access to a special police unit patrolling the city marquee burns at night on this number. also believe this is the reality for many ukrainians still left in the
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country. second largest city, other shelled by russian forces while they slept. emergency service is stretched to capacity guy as shelves. rain down in the middle of the night over here for you with our night starts with police as they patrolled the streets on the lookout for what they say, our russian saboteurs. we been given access to this special unit of the police force that the troll the city past curfew. making sure there's no threats behind those front lines. reassuring people that the police are still operating and taking care of her gift. but nothing has prepare them for what they are doing now. oh goodness, it is always. yeah. that the way that this is my 1st time at wal haven't
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experienced anything like this before. a been to donetta can lo, hunter. but what i've experienced here shocked me. we work with the people we to attain looters. we caught saboteurs them. we never did anything like this. if we were not guarding the rear, it would be difficult for the ukrainian military on the front line with what we come across a burning house. the constant 3rd from russian artillery is ever present at scotland. then we see a flash of light in the sky. look in coming, he shout. the police arrive on the scene. so the shell is just hit off until the the police have arrived during the war. the laying people know that they're here and making sure everybody is okay. i just want
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to just add one little look appropriately to ha, has it just hit? he asks, i knew that different this year than yes, i'm not crying. i'm not crying. she says quite quite. he says it's going to be okay . we're here now. what you were leaving across the street? windows blown out. be a nice lover. you are. yeah. are you alive? she shouts. yes, come to reply. i'm elijah. no. the unhurt either. it could have been far worse. please hear reports of another building being hit. where the 1st there, it's unclear if there are any casualties. his shots, survivors leave the block of flats. my mom, my mom and dad need to get out of their can somebody call them? the police tried to distract the children and make them feel better,
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a moment of laughter amongst the madness that ensues around them. one woman refuses to go to the underground station used as a bomb shelter. this is her home because she would burn the explosion here. my wife was thrown out of the bed. we came out on the entrance was on fire. more buildings burn. suddenly this more in coming shelling. ah, we make a run for it. oh, but for the people who live here, yes, there is no escape. oh. they faced being hit by russian bombardment at any time. and any place i said bake a da 0. plucky to mrs. president dissolve the parliament, he suspended last year,
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accusing politicians of attempting a crew that defied case are you by voting to repeal measures? they say allow him to assume near total power sort of highlight reports are the newly own the are the law, another decision likely to divide a nation based on chat to $72.00 of the constitution. i announced today at this historical moment, the dissolution of the rep counsel to protect the state. hi sigh. it acted after a $124.00 of parliaments, $217.00 members. held an online meeting on wednesday, their 1st since he suspended the legislator 8 months ago. a few hours later the president responded. now should a lesson. unfortunately, we are witnessing a coup attempt, but it is a failed one. the national duty requires today the protection of all the people and the homeland, based on the articles of the constitution. classic who is exactly what opponents
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has spent months accusing side of staging since last july, when he sat the prime minister for his parliament and granted himself new sweeping powers, he felt threatened and tried to get them arrested. the prosecutor general said, i want to rest them, i have no evidence. and now we sing ok, parliament finished. but this is, these are the acts of someone who is lashing out at any one. he considers a political opposition. he doesn't want to dialogue with those that don't agree with the 64 year old was a constitutional law professor before taking up politics in december he, nancy to point to committee to rewrite the constitution and put it to a referendum in june. meanwhile, the country is experiencing its worst recession since the 1950s. unemployment is high when ukraine has driven out food prices and months of political tension have
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done little to lessen the internal political wrangling and corruption that science claims force him to suspend parliament in the 1st place. oh, but what does seem clear? is it the latest stand off? is another blow to tennessee is shaky democracy. sar. height of al jazeera, but a hammer close a political scientist and researcher in tunis. he says, despite the controversy in parliament cited still has some public support. he is still popular. i'm not as popular as he used to be on the 25th or on the 25th of july. but i mean, even the recent balls from that he is still the most popular comment theory denisia . obviously the parliament dissolution or decision came very, very recently. so you dont know how people are going to react to this just yet, but for, for i mean even in the parliament today. but i'm in p if that, if this session, you know, the indians themselves, that if the session is about going back when the 4th of july, that's not what you want. even dantes do not want to go back. what was before.
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chinese is certainly and journalist accused of jeopardizing china state securities going on trial and beijing chalet was a high profile anchor and business report on the government's international channel, c g t n. she was detained in 2020, been charged with handing state secrets to foreign organizations. she's been in jail for 19 months. the sterling ambassador to china wasn't allowed into court for the trial diplomats last visited chung. earlier this month. she's been unable to talk to her 2 young sons in australia since she was detained. the committee to protect journalist says that in 2021 for the 3rd year in a row, china jailed more journalists than any other country that are 50 behind bars. with weekly concerning, unsatisfactory and little we can have no confidence in the validity of a process which is conducted in secret. we have no information about
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them. and that is, that is with no basis on understand why he's got any you has the latest from beijing. now if she's found guilty, she could face anything from few years in jail to life in prison. and it's important to note that here in china criminal cases have a 99 percent conviction rate at the time of her arrest. she was living in badging and working for state media broadcast as d c dtn as quite a prominent t v anchor. now her, she has 2 children who are currently being cared full by family in this trillion city of melvin and her relatives. and all her loved ones insist on her innocence. now this trial comes at a time of strained relations between badging and can bra,
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especially after, can be, had some quite vocal criticisms against china's handling of the pandemic, as well as it's human rights record. the has been some suggestions by analysts that this arrest could be politically motivated, but this is something about beijing has denied time and time again. still had on al jazeera as the warden ukraine, of parts economies around the world. truckle farmers in the us are feeling the pinch armed half anger on the streets of argentina. we're going to tell you why thousands of people are demanding a financial boost from the government and want to setters. ah hello, there will have a look at africa in a moment, but 1st to the middle east and this and very fine weather to come from much of the
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region in the days ahead. we're going to see temperatures across event, pick up to well above average. lots of clear skies and sunshine, extending from turkey down into iran and further afield. the gulf states are going to see things ease those winds dying down. we'll see temperatures pick up in places like saudi arabia, katara, and the u. a. by the time we get into friday is going to be lots of clear skies and sunshine to be enjoyed with a slight wind by saturday. that was we had over to north africa. it's all about the wet and windy weather once again for the northwest corner that thanks to a weather system. in the mediterranean, we're going to see temperatures. 8 down in places like algiers, thanks to cooler air that's blowing down from europe and some strong winds picking up in libya that's likely to push them. that's the horace and in the southern areas of europe in the days to come. but a laundry hot and dry pitcher is wetter, across that central band of africa, we're likely to see some heavy falls for angola as well as namibia and an eastern
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areas of south africa. by the time we get into friday. but it remained sunny in cape town through the weekend. that sure weather ah, the, from the al jazeera london broke authenticate to people in court for conversation is very intuitive. close to corporate, at local scales, unprompted uninterrupted, west, individually submit about any school freight with people outside our group and seen him not as members of groups as such, but as individuals. part 2 of we'll store and declare way, jaime cooperating outside of our immediate family is a major part of our human success story studio. be unscripted on elton they are out . ah
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ah, your child, is it a reminder? what top stories this are more russians? shalon has been counted as a northern ukraine despite moscow saying it would scale back attacks. starks have destroyed markets libraries in the homes and shell. have the northwest of key is also seen explosions and fighting rushes debbie to you and ambassadors been telling all to 0 that moscow's not with joint troops from keep on china. he reach a point, janski's says, forces are regrouping in the next objective is to liberate. don't boss should as he is president has dissolved parliament after what he says wasn't attempted to pay. sags announcement came off to politicians, held an online meeting for the 1st time since the president suspended parliament 8 months ago. the red cross says one of its facilities and mario pole has been shelled. agency says its building was marked with a red cross on
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a white background, indicating wounded people or supplies for civilians were present. it's not known if anyone was killed or injured. even if talks between ukraine and russia do lead to a cease fire cities like mario paul could take years to rebuild from live in western ukraine's in basra. avi has one woman story of survival only those who have survived it all over will ever truly know the terror young center. victoria is a hairdresser from mario, paul. when of bittman, missouri, she left the city on foot with her family, passed death, passed destruction. everywhere they went, she says they faced something horrible before didn't even appear in the relative safety of love. if she still struggles to hold back tears,
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she was at the coverlet slash. no i. i didn't understand what war was that i had food, water and a warm place for the 1st few days. everything was working. then something started going on in the sky. always be edward, other than that boom flew in for the 1st time. you are lost, let out. my whole house was shaking. this was so scary, lavish from the sound i knew they were very close up the whistle is something you never forget. a whistling sound, which instinctively makes you run a height that order. that was very scary. we ran into the garage and i was crying hysterically. i was praying to god to make debt instant, no suffering, no torn limbs. i didn't want to live with that. at that moment i thought these are my final minutes. victoria arrived in levine just days before another russian
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missile strike in the heart of this city. one of the slightest me at the middle of i got out of the bus and literally walked 10 meters and saw a flash. it was literally 10 meters from me. i started crying, not because i was scared, but because i was just sorry, i couldn't believe that the city was as dangerous as mine, which so many ukrainians. we've met here. victoria speaks russian. she's lived in maria, pull her entire life. and so she never felt threatened by anyone until russia invaded ukraine. and lumala sh. they only are that when it all started, i didn't think i could hate so much. i'm a mother, i have 2 children. i take care of my elderly mother. i know how to love, but because of what they've done to us. i know i hate these people who started the so much and specifically those that came to my land and started raping it. they
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rape our souls. i dream of meeting one of them and without any weapons tearing them to pieces. part of me, thanks. where is this coming from? but really i fall asleep with the thought of thinking my teeth into their throats and tearing them to pieces. victoria says she does not recognize herself any more angry at the loss of her old life, grieving for a place now bombed out of existence, herferth, videos of personal tragedy. now the only lasting memories of a home to which she can never return. jane basra, the older 0 love if or the warden ukraine is pushing up the cost of feeding livestock in the us. some farmers estimate that expenses will more than doubled this year. i'm dont could force them out of business. i little casual reports cool
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on farm. in fact, your county virginia is home to 2000 dairy cows who eat and eat and eat. each one goes through 80 kilograms of feed a day. i'm a 4th generation, very former migrant and it's suddenly become more costly for far more than smith to keep up with a demand. every product we use has gone, gone up more than twice if not, triple, not only has feed become more expensive since rushes invasion of ukraine, but the price of diesel fuel has slower, and it takes a lot of diesel to run for me. whitman and trucks depart away all that maneuver. it's gonna cost us an additional 106000 dollars this year just to operate at the same capacity is what we've operated in years past. justin actually diesel, and then you take into consideration the tripled price of fertilizers and petroleum
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products, stuff that we need, and animal health products. it's just, it's becoming very difficult. what good dennis pearson of the nearby soldier hill angus farm, is also feeling the pinch. this is going to be a very, very lean year. if we make any profit at all, ukraine exports about 16 per cent of the world's corn. now most of that goes to eastern europe, but the wars uncertainty has the price of corn going up across the globe. here in the us, it's trading at about $9.00 a bushel and that is the highest. it's been in nearly a decade. and these cows are hungry pray as a read the ask of the europe. ah, they did grow a lot of grain. they're those. so we export and import. ah, so that causes our grain prices that have gone through the roof
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o. e can prices haven't risen to match this 1000 kilograms? steer was auction for $2.00 a keeler. oh, we can believe what the economists are telling us. cattle prices are gonna rebound here in the very near future. ah, they need to, and are we hope that's true? ah, we can't go 2 or 3 years without a profit. ah, in this serene place, so distant from the violence, a world away. these american farmers say they stand in solidarity with ukrainians. but russia's war on its neighbor is sending ripples of trouble across the globe. the impact felt even here. hydro castro al jazeera walk here, county virginia police in chile have arrested at least 55 people during a day of nation wide protests demonstrators through fire bonds and stones of police . violence broke out in the anniversary of the killing of 2 brothers by police. in
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1985 there were protesting against the regime of military dictator of mr. king of c . at least 5 officers were injured. the government said this years, unrest was not as violent as in previous years. thousands of people march through the argentinian capital, demanding more financial help from the government. the country is rich in natural resources, but it suffered years of dent crises, inflation, and economic mismanagement that isabel reports from the protest. and one assemblies, ah, they are a symbol of a country crisis. socially movements representing millions of people in need. on wednesday, the march to the center of one aside is and paralyzed argentina's capital bilateral house works as a blacksmith. he says he makes around $50.00 a month, and it's the only job he has been able to find the whole thing. what are your, what are you? i'm over 50 years old, who's going to give me
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a job relate discarded material. nobody wants us. that's why we come here until the government does not forget about it. or there's entire families outside this ministry and offender of what outside of poverty rate have been growing steadily in the past years in argentina with an exchange rate crisis and soaring inflation that have had a huge impact on people's purchasing power. and that's why most of the people here are saying that they need to stay at least for 48 hours until they get a response on the government. these protests happen as the government announced the economy slowly recovering. poverty rates are dropping, but inflation continues to be the real challenge. last month, it was close to 5 percent. march is expected to be even higher money gasoline is part of an organization, negotiating assistance for the poor. she says,
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government programs don't do enough to fight inflation. it gets the way that what we know is that every time inflation goes up, it sends a 100000 people into poverty. and we can say that because salaries aren't high enough to buy food or workers know this. i feel now president elevator, the, for a man. this is trying to re launch his economic agenda. you'll get on this. i'm assuming your youngest argentina is like a big market. what do you need? lithium? we have it gas, we have it, oil, we haven't had food we habit. so let's get organized and take advantage of the opportunities, you know, and let's understand that everything the world. once we can provide road. ogden, tina recently reached an agreement with the international monetary fun to restructure, but at least $45000000000.00 in debt. the goal is to help stabilize the country's economy, but the war in ukraine and rising commodity prices could complicate the government
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plans. and that's why people he avow to keep up with the pressure. so the government does not forget, they are in desperate need. it is, i will, i'll to see that when a site is not as hubble telescope has captured an image of the oldest star ever seen light from the star call in dell took nearly 13000000000 years to reach earth researchers estimate l l is or possibly was at least 50 times bigger than our son and 1000000 times brighter. ah, this is our desert. these are the top stories russian forces of continued shelling and northern ukraine despite moscow saying it would scale back overnight, strikes destroyed buildings in sherlow. here the north west of cave has also seen explosions and fighting occurrence presidents as russian forces our own.

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