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for weight formation, men and women compete separately, but under the same flag, you know, i can't do a story about parachuting and not jump out of a plane as we climb up. the teams mentally prepare for their job. i try to do the same. then minutes later, once the earth is just a blurb below it's time to free fall with international condemnation grows against russia, with allegations its troops committed, war crimes in ukraine. ah, i'm sammy say that this is al jazeera live from dell hall. so coming up roches, you and ambassador denies the allegations of atrocities sang images of mass graves
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and killings and boot show a set out by ukraine. shanghai remains in lockdown to combat the laces. wave of cove at 19 a. china has been criticized for separating children. new test, positive from that parents and peru imposes occur few off to violent protests against high fuel prices. rising cost of living ukraine's president says he expects many more civilian deaths to be uncovered in areas abandoned by russian forces. follow me is that on ski travel to boot ch are a town near keith where russia is accused of war crimes. moscow insists its troops have done nothing wrong, should warn you. you may find some of the images. and im ron cons report from boucher distressing. surrounded by heavy security and the media
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president vladimir zalinski visited the town of butcher nick heave after witnessing the devastation, he made a promise that justice would be done. exclaim, which is war crimes that will be recognized as genocide by the world. you're here and you see what has happened. we know about thousands killed in torture. people with cut lamps em women who have been raped in children have been murdered. a couple we know there so much more. this is genocide from a march 10th people here began to bury the dead in a 45 foot trench dug in the grounds of a church, some 68 bodies at 1st, some victims of war. others who died of natural causes the priest of st. andrews church says he had to negotiate with the russians who occupied boucher to allow the barrels. but as the war dragged on more barrels in total, a $130.00 were buried her and the mass grave was needed all across. boucher, the dead lay in the streets for days even weeks. even now they wait to be picked up
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by overworked, undertakers. at the burial site, people had dropped some of the bodies in black plastic, a little dignity and death. the families took some solace in the fact that they were buried next to the church. many had come to be wed or attend sunday service before the war hunted a day. the men is full days, the priest liens on his faith to deal with what his witnessed. richard, there is a lot of hatred and injustice that people feel, but christians should forgive me, but to forgive, it doesn't mean to forget the conduct. judge only gut can judge. somebody's had been moved from the mass grove to morgues in and around the town. since boucher was retaken by ukrainian forces. wars warranty. i'm here looking for my brother. we were close. we talked every day and you miles but in town. now i don't know where his body shop. i'm going to tie the mog, someone sent me a picture and told me i need to come to identify him and i hope he is there. this
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is likely to be one of the largest burial sites in the town, but it's by no means the only one. in fact, a cross of this city, people were burying their dead wherever they could, in their back yards in common areas, anywhere where they might be able to give their dead some dignity. and some respect the ukraine's attorney general and keep gathering evidence of potential war crimes is now the priority. we started now investigations, egg, charlie, from our 24th of february this year. and now we have more than 4000 jost durke cases about war crimes. and near til 1000 cases which are connected to war cramps. now these days all hordes speak about boucher it appearing. hast doormen and in boucher justice for war crimes is a concern for the future. the dead of simeon, the war. but those left behind a desperate medicines and food are unlimited supply. and what is available is
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quickly grabbed by those who have little of their old lives. left, emerald con, our desert boucher or on mcbride joins us now live from live in western ukraine. so 1st of all, rob take us through the reports of new evidence emerging of massacres elsewhere. that's right, that is a grim anticipation here in ukraine. that is, russian forces withdraw ukrainian forces to take back this territory will discover more alleged atrocities. and indeed they are finding in adjoining towns to boucher such allegations of trucks. these having been carried out by withdrawing russian troops, for example, in the town of a to say this is another of the towns that was on the front line of fighting just around the edge of the capitol. keith, they have found allegedly bodies that seem to have been execution style deaths of civilians in the backs of gardens,
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in alleyways and so on. as the president zelinski has said as much that they expect to find more alleged atrocities. and also he has mentioned, along with the prosecutor general and ukraine, another type of product yankee where they say that also a trusted these have been carried out. we're waiting to get more details on that. these are territories that have been taken back by you create new posters, but of course there are still places where there's active fighting going on, where it's difficult to ascertain evidence. but there are plenty of allegations of atrocities being carried out. for example, not a you pulled down in the south of the country where we just seen some of the faces fighting according to ukraine's foreign minister in terms of scale. we're going to see far worse atrocities that being, being revealed. that because according to the mass of matter, you, paul, around 90 percent of the city is now lying in ruins. at the mayor has also been quoted as saying, 5000 civilians have lost their lives there. so that does seem as though that will
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be in the coming weeks and months and many more allegations of atrocities the russians of course say this is all fabricated. but from the town of boucher some of the video evidence that we are seeing this now circulating on the news agencies it makes for very green viewing. as bodies are cleared away, we see that zip ties have been apparently used to tie the hands behind the back of some of these civilians that have been killed being cut away. so it does appear as though there is a lot of evidence that has to be investigated by the ukrainians and president. he has promised that we'll, we'll criminals will be brought to justice. the says, asking for, is a full, as internationalists, transparent and in the investigation, as is possible, said that he wants to work with prosecutors in overseas in bringing criminal justice. i will leave that thanks so much from mcbride.
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but all of me is that he is expected to address the un security council for the 1st time on tuesday in the run up to that meeting, western and russian diplomats of trade. it accusations about what happened in boucher kristin salumi has more from un headquarters in new york. the united kingdom sat a security council meeting on tuesday would focus on boucher amid growing outcry over alleged atrocities there. it'll be the 1st opportunity the security counsellors had to discuss the images that we've seen in boucher, which you've heard widely over the weekend. described both his war crimes and his genocide said we really are facing the true reality of the appalling russian invasion of ukraine. but that wasn't soon enough for the russian ambassador who called his on press conference and accused ukraine of staging images of dead civilians. he pointed to social media video and boots as mer,
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smiling at the announcement of russia's troop. withdrawl said to be shot on march 31st. a day after russians pulled out in it. there is no mention of dead civilians . from the very beginning, it has been clear that this sir, is nothing else but yet another state pro occasion aim, the discrediting and different realizing of the russian military and leveling, political rational pressure on russia. his claims, however, were seemingly undermined by a new york times analysis of satellite images said to show the bodies present before russian troops withdrew. ukraine has again called for an independent investigation. this is why myself and my fellow parliamentarians, we did everything wonderful and impossible to get international journalists to woodshop and her 1st day of liberation. so it would be not to us saying what happened there, but it will be representatives off all the media, all over the world. respectable journalists, war journalists,
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who seen things and who would say what they have seen in boucher. meanwhile, the us ambassador, called russia's presence on the human rights council, a farce, and said she would introduce a resolution to the general assembly to suspend them. un officials have called the images from good church, shocking and horrifying. secretary general antonio terrace, and the high commissioner for human rights. michel boshoway, had each called for independent investigations. gutierrez will address the security council on tuesday as will ukrainian president, valero mere zalinski, christian salumi, al jazeera, the united nations. italy has expelled 30 russian diplomats and denmark 15 on. meanwhile, france says new e u sanctions against russia could be adopted on wednesday present to manuel. my cross says there are clear signs, war crimes were committed in boucher is also expelled. russian diplomats there roy
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chance has more. how is europe to respond to peaches, horror across the continent that seen so many atrocities in the past. the shock that such killing is happening again in western capitals is always complete agreements of what to call them. where all the pulled by the seeings in picture as the butchery, the clear evidence of sexual crime. all the talk to you that isn't civilians, that it's very clear the war crimes have taken place. the views of britons, foreign secretary echoed in most european capitals. we need to announce a tough new wave of sanctions. the reality is that money is still flowing from the west into peyton's war machine, and that has to stop. and this is where europe's response gets julio and recriminations get better. listen to podiums prime minister finance president,
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your micro mr. president, macro. how many times have you negotiated with putin? what have you achieved? have you stopped any of these actions that took place? and mr. more of it ski attacks germany's long standing business and energy ties with putins, russia, shavers, average growth, g, shy. we have to speak out here now condemn it. admit that it was the wrong policy because we are dealing with terrible crimes with the crime of genocide and the 21st century. germany is still not doing well. poland and the baltic states wanted to immediately stop buying russian gas. we have to put more pressure on food and we have to, to isolate washing to, to cut all it could not make relationship to russia. but at the moment it's not possible to, to cut as the gas supplies. we need some time. and so we have to differentiate
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between oil, cold and gas at the moment. while europe miles more sanctions, germany is declaring 40 russian diplomats undesirable persons, essentially as kicking the mount france when expelled 35 suspected russian intelligence officers. but that won't satisfy those who say you can't justifiably shake one fist in anger at russia's war mongering whilst handing over billions of dollars an energy deals with the other will reach helen's how to 0. well, the 1st trial addressing atrocities in sedan da for conflicts has begun at the international criminal court. altima daily up there are minus suspected leader of the government back. jen. joey fighters faces $31.00 charges of war crimes, which he denies dar for the conflict broke out in 2003. when rebels took up arms against sedans, previous government, the un estimates around 300000 people were killed. the more than 2000000 were
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displaced. cilla had on al jazeera, we made the families of those have been killed in a rush and asked dr. can weston ukraine? plus, find out what the u. n's climate panel had to say, and why it could affect every single person. ah hey there, thank you for joining sidney. saw it. sunny a stay in 3 weeks, believe it or not, but of course the rain has dance back in and look at this. we got some heavier bursts of rain for the south coast of new south wales. i think in the next day or 2 could see about a 100 to 200 millimeters of brain. tropical cyclone has formed in the eastern coral seas, so it's wobbling just to the west. savannah water and new caledonia will continue
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to drift toward the west. and this will become his story for australia in the days to come. meantime for new zealand, what weather continues to decide north up both islands, but i suspect an overcast stay in done eden with a high of 18 degrees. the ne monsoon still doing its thing, given us some rain for northern central parts of the philippines and coastal areas of vietnam, getting striked with some pretty solid bands of rain in the south. around him in city of this hong kong, your temperature has been going up your up to 28 on wednesday a few days ago. you're about 16. so central southern areas are above average, but we've had a big drop in those temperatures for beijing. 15 degrees and some cloud cupboard there. meanwhile, those temperatures have been coming up in japan, so tokyo now above average with a high of 20 degrees on wednesday. thanks for joining in catch you later. ah, the witness fe, witness bravery, witness, reader, witness,
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abandoned by russian forces. the new concern is what's happened in border bianca and region surrounding kia. there's growing outrage off to allegations russian troops killed civilians in the town of boucher video, shows st. scattered with bodies some with bound hands. you cranes, president says vladimir putin must be tried for war crimes. below them is the lensky is due to address the un security council for the 1st time. on tuesday earlier, western russian diplomats traded accusations about what happened to bootstrap rushes. ambassador says the evidence of atrocities was staged while the war in ukraine is that many young families morning that includes those in the west, which is largely been sped the fighting. but about 3 weeks ago on attack, an attack rather on a military training facility killed 35 people, al jazeera zane basra, avi went to
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a garage bitch to meet the family of one of the victims. it was too far from the front. nowhere near the parts of ukraine, where there was active fighting in the west of the country, ukrainian se they felt safe. an illusion shattered on the morning of march, 13th by 30 russian missiles. less than 3 weeks into the invasion of ukraine, russia attacked the offer of military base, a training ground for new recruits and volunteers. the deepest attack into the country, and only 20 kilometers from the polish border. ah, dozens of people were injured and killed. every coughing, carrying the weight of a grieving family. as the weeks passed, families across the country try to make sense of what happened. konstantin was a weapons trainer at the yarber. if they sold me a widowed at 19 says,
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all she can do now is be strong for her son. good. i'm calling to give you call me that morning and said not to worry. he said that the way being fired on, but he was safe. it was on another base, he said that everything was fine. this is 5 minutes later, want to call him again after you explosions. there was no connection. she knew her husband was gone. after seeing his name on an instagram post about casualties, grief stricken she was rushed to the hospital after the attack. so let me move to the herbage, to be closer to family, to share the load of loss, a soldier's wife and mother to be still visibly numb. a soldier's mother, unable to contain her rage. there's ever seen the weather show me that day as she, i really think we will forgive you all that is, if we won't forgive you, i will stand for my son. well,
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i'll take the weapons and we'll be shooting into our children. but if you don't stop your son, your children father is and husband. so we will, i'll take up arms and there will be no place for you in this wild will as each of us. and we will push you away to say billy had said that you will be and called sale about dead water foot like other children by them. konstantin was raised by his step father, who says he will also be joining the ukrainian military and deploying to the same base where his stepson was killed as the tale of the dead across the country continues to go. absent o, c, phil's many houses in ukraine where men continue to be called up to lay down their lives. and women are left to carry their memories. zane basra, v o 0 drawbridge. shanghai will remain in long down as chinese authorities review
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the cove in 19 test results of the cities entire population of 26000000. a to stage lockdown began last week to combat the latest wave. but officials have come under fire for separating children who test positive from their parents, sending them to quarantine facilities. our correspondent adrian brown is following the story from hong kong. well, this is poxel and cemetery one of the biggest in hong kong. and we're here because tuesday is the ching festival, that is the day when traditionally chinese people come to sweep the graves of their ancestors. and there is an added poignancy to this year's ching because of course, so many people have died from cove at 19 this time a year ago, the death toll stood just over 200 in 2022. it stands at just over $8000.00 and the bulk of those deaths have happened during the past few months. north of here in china's other big financial center, shanghai,
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people aren't able to mark ching, ming, that's because the cities 26000000 residents are now into the 9th day of a locked down. there's been a surge in infections, but most of them are asymptomatic. to back to the jittery mood in the city, the government has confirmed the children who are infected with cove at 19 a having to be separated from their parents. but to try and reassure the public state tv has been broadcasting pictures, showing parents with infected children, arriving at a new isolation facility. but it has unsettled not just local parents, but also expatriate ones as well. china seems determined to stick with its dynamic 0 cobit strategy because so many of its elderly people in shanghai have not been vaccinated. and also the city simply doesn't have the medical infrastructure to adopt a live. we've covered strategy in hungary,
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at least 5 people have been killed when a train hit a van as it crossed the tracks. several others were injured. the train was derailed fully. say all of the victims were passengers in the van to state railway service as the vehicle drove on to the tracks, ignoring a flashing stop sign to show lang now where the governing coalition is lost, its alimentary majority, after unprecedented protests against the worsening economic crisis. parliament convened for it's 1st session under a state of emergency imposed last week. the new finance says he's resigning a day after he was appointed. he's among 4 minutes to sworn in by president and go to bio roger pucks off to his cabinet. resigned on sunday. the opposition refused and offered to join the government, focused on supreme court, his resumed hearing on why the prime minister, mom cons decision to result. solomon was legal. it happened on a day and no confidence was to be held leading to political crisis. con supporters
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have been rallying in the capital. the court could or the parliament to sit again, all called for a new election by the mail so rule it cannot intervene in parliamentary affairs. come on high that has more from a slammer by under the border of the budget on day. again, i've come to a popular place for rotate there. considering this a week 3 saying that the dissolution of parliament was because of article 5, which pertains to loyalty to the country, saying that there was a foreign confederacy over to him on con government, which prompted him. ron com then for their dogs, they fall in the opposition of god. the thing that it is an unconstitutional move, but it is an important point in focus on the history that a prime minister has actually accused. the united states of trying to engineer
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jayden focused on saying that the country for quality has to be used for an independent. it is indeed a moment for everyone to reflect upon budgets on. i've seen political border ation, the opposition of college and now gone to the countries epic scored to rule rather than move by the deputy speaker of the assembly when they get their message. given the fact that they want to know how confident for against the prime minister, but the prime minister will be in the fall for the next 2 weeks. i've already given the name of the chief justice of august on if all my judge are to read and get him for a minute. he had already called a meeting of the national security committee, which was endorsed by the military intelligence chief. and he said that he has ample evidence, go back a claim that they want to consider to get rid of his government. it would be
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important to see whether the corporate take that into account and read that the letter that the prime minister had been showing at the rally will be rolled and that they're going to have to come out with the legitimate back by the deputy speaker. good, throw out the know gone for fortune against margaret on prime minister. m ron con. peruse president has imposed a curfew in the capital, lima off the violent protest killed at least 5 people. presidents have been banned from leaving their homes in attempt to curb a wave of demonstrations against the rising cost of living. sanchez, now, the food testers clashed with riot police and several cities around the country, burning tires, looting looking highways. the rising cost of living is affecting many peruvians, rocketing fuel prices have directly impacted the basic food basket. people are
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blaming it on precedent. look us to use policy. we have supported him. and how is he paying his back? he's raising the price of sugar flower. when is it been like this? our children are hungry, there is no work and we want to solution. the farmers blocked the pen american highway to protest against the threefold increase in fertilizer prices. the government says, fertilizers, fuel and grains imports from russia and ukraine, half shut up because of the war. last week. casting your anger protester staying there will be paid to protest. farmers and truckers responded by blocking the crucial central highway, which is the main food supply line for the capitals that in turn, cars, food shortages, the president has forgotten the people. everything is expensive, he should put on his pants and goblin. well, if not, he should go back to his home. government officials struck a deal on saturday with one faction of protesters, the post
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a 5 day deadline to address their demands. and on sunday, another deal with truckers. but that didn't piece people now rallying nationwide. thousands of jobs last to the pandemic have also been in this content for giving me most the saying of the people who are already again, to want to comically and castillo produced a revolution of expectations. just under normal circumstances, inflation would have produced these effects later on. but the pandemic worked as an accelerator in the face of nationwide protests, the government is to think, to buy social tranquillity with mr. money, if the ways the minimum wage and we do some taxes on fuel, but i'm only seeing that may not be the solution. and only seek us to use populace measures could eventually bring some piece, but they see a major crisis lose ahead for the precedent. last week, after you survived a 2nd round of impeachment proceedings after 9 months in office spearheaded by his
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political foes in congress. but now it is the people who 1st supported him who are demanding him to fulfil his promises or the medina center. so just see that lee might be doing a landmark. you and report on climate change says there must be rapid, deep and immediate carts and carbon dioxide emissions to prevent a climate catastrophe. the report was prepared by the intergovernmental panel on climate change. it says the earth is on track to exceed an average global temperature rise of $1.00 degrees celsius this century, beyond which the catastrophic effects of climate change like floods, droughts and super storms will get worse. the panel says greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 43 percent and methane by about a 3rd by 2030. to achieve that countries will have to rely less on fossil fuels, our environment, addison o'clock has more. the proposal about policies and technologies in finance
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is needed to cut emissions and we'll start with the obvious one that's the need to, as a report says to add to have a substantial reduction in fossil fuels as soon as possible that sells to me as if a member states have debated about that a more to down the wording because we all know we need to eliminate fossil fuels. i imagine the big petri states that formed that would change their portal. so talks about phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. this is critical. the i m f, i calculated $5.00 trillion dollars was spent on subsidies in 2020. imagine if that was just put into r and d for renewables and so forth. report also talks about ramping up renewables, including into alternative energies like hydrogen, nicole for cities to be more efficient. and net 0 emissions from the industrial sector, which is going to be very hard. that accounts for about a quarter of all emissions. and they just need to change their practices completely . it sounds very hard to achieve all of this, but factor in,
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