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and be able to attend the global action on climate change. cassini, the climate diaries, a witness documentary on how to 0. ah, ah, ukraine says it sounds more bodies of $900.00 civilians around keith as russia. it's a military facility near the capital. aah! club civil robin massage. they were like my headquarters here in denver, also coming up a costly military exercise. we take a closer look at the extent of russian equipment glosses in ukraine. also cause for com, up to violent confrontations of the allots and mosque in occupied east jerusalem.
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and saving twitter these social media. dr. did ops the plan to block. he lot must take a bit awkward to the breaker. we begin with the war in new craig, where police say the bodies of more than 900 civilians have been found. an area surrounding the capitol. the head of the key regional fall says more than 350 corpses were discovered in the town of butcher alone. russian forces fully withdrew last week, but the capital has once again been the target for russian forces. moscow sands that shalt a military plant, charles stratford has more from the capital, keith. the russian ministry of defense as this destroy building was a ukrainian weapons factory in the southwest outskirts of the capital. give. moscow says the plant made anti aircraft an anti ship missiles. people living nearby,
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say they heard at least 3 large explosions early friday morning was fall, marcia marie told us to actually park the car and the 2 rockets hit at 1 am. i did not realize that there are 2 rockets coming in, but when i went out afterwards, i waited indoors for some time fitting. motioning. we saw the 3rd one coming damage the car towed. the tires hid the windows and was people suffered to the walls fell out, which i, the attack came hours after russia said its black sea fleet flank ship. the moscow had sunk while being towed back to port after a fire cause an explosion on board. ukrainian military said it was responsible having targeted the vessel with ukrainian made net you missiles. people gathered at a memorial ceremony for the ship in the polt city of sebastopol in russian annexed crimea. the moscow was the largest russian naval vessel to have sunk in action.
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since world war 2 must quiet dental plan any more than that, even for those who have not been impressed. moscow was a symbol for every one option at the mill of our power. our hope, you know, the revival of the fleet in the 19. well, it is the symbol of engineering and scientific achievement. all comes to the force of our arch. ne ukrainian army says it repelled russian army advances on at least 2 towns in the east of the country. russia has redirected its forces from cave in an effort to seize more territory in the dumbass region. he also knew that volunteers help ukrainian soldiers pack food to be distributed to some of the many thousands of people fleeing. although still living the worst affected areas. i stay here because this my home and so we felt people delivering food, her chemistry, and our town just destroying her
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voicemail. good. know what to say? i want to move this drone footage shows destroyed residential buildings in mary opal. the besieged port city on the as off see his suffered 7 weeks upon barbara by russian forces and pro russian separatists repeated attempts at securing humanitarian corridors. to rescue thousands of people trapped inside have failed. the mayor of the city estimates thousands of civilians may have been killed in the fighting ukraine's ministry of defense as russia has for the 1st time used long range bombers to attack the city. resist yoga pants and flipping out on us, david, russian occupants keep carrying out ariel strikes. i'll marry helpful though. they use long range bombers over the enemy's land forces are trying to capture the seaport, is filter feature. the strike on what the russian defense ministry describes as a weapons factory on the outskirts of kia is the 1st major strike by russian forces
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on a target, around at the capital city. since russian forces left the area more than 2 weeks ago, major military operations now for the time being have moved east, where there are increasing reports of an effort by the russian military to close in . around the strategically important city of sla vianza. the un says that more than full point 7000000 people have flayed the fighting and with no indication of any d escalation. that number is expected to rise. char stratford, al jazeera keith, former ukrainian president petro shanker, has spoken to al jazeera in keith. he is called on the international community to give more weapons to ukraine, saying it's the shortest way to peace in. that's why, from being there sunk a community, we need 3 things. labrenz weapons. and once again, weapons, weapons number one. this is just bear up as necessary. for your grain,
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for game changer, we need just 300 tanks. 1000, i'm personal carrier, and 100 dead fighter. this is completely changed the whole character of the war. or number 2, we need the sanction and embargo. and that i recoiled can play here very important role by increasing the oil production and to replace the absence of the russian oil on the road warble market. with a true expert estimate, the russia has lost almost 3000 pieces of equipment in the ukraine war. the losses are being blamed on advanced weapons that nato countries have given ukraine and russia's miscalculations. russel's other reports now from keith. thanks. had a crop theirs. personnel carriers tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment
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all destroyed. and these are just a small portion of the losses suffered by one of the most powerful armies in the world. when russia began is offensive, it hope to capture your brains capital, keep within days. but you bring his army wrist to the assault. evidently, the russian army and ethnic problems with moral, with its equipment, with its training and his doctrine. and as a result, rational trans, your question directly. russia has been defeated in the field to a point where it was effectively routed from the north of the country. ukrainian armed forces have taken advantage off an ambush. russian troops and columns in less than 2 months since russia invaded ukraine. it's military. he has lost houses of soldiers, according to ukrainian officials. it's more than the united states did in his 20 years of what in afghanistan, and nearly a decade in iraq combined. they say russia has lost at least 479 tanks,
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496 infant and fighting vehicles. 28 crafts for shapes. 32 helicopters, 784 tracks, vehicles and jeeps. in total, the russians have lost nearly $3000.00 pieces of equipment. and these are considered conservative estimates. the highest profile last to date was the mosque was the flagship of russia's black sea fleet, losing a plant shibley's enduring a war is well really bad. it said that p r is bad. it's going to expect band increase of the morale of the ukrainians at the time when they are on the verge of losing her, mary, who both, when many things can be said to have gone wrong for russians. general valerie says the grain and on forces had a secret weapon. no,
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it may be your meryl at least brought him yet my shore, the mobilization of our society and people's resistance, especially a pilots who are older than 60 years old. come out and asked for jets. they retired from the on ports as a long time ago and asked, give us planes and we will destroy the russians. so moral is our formula for success. within your forces, heavy employ, new technical weapons given to ukraine by nato allies. chief among them are portable, antique and guided missile systems, such as the u. s. may javelin, and his lighter cheaper cousin and low, which have been used against russian tanks with their state in effect, in the, in the turkish me to be to by dr. thrones have carried out both recognizance and strike operations. portable stinger, anti aircraft. missiles have also enabled you cleaning soldiers to take out lawful i, an aircraft. as technical miscalculations, misjudgment of the cleaning resistance and low morale have all contributed to
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russia military vulnerability in this war. these weapons are leveling the playing field. rezo said that al jazeera give care giles is consulting fellow of the russia and eurasia prego, which has mouse now. he says it's difficult to gauge russian opinion about the war because of government efforts to stop polling. russia's state propaganda has found itself in a dilemma because on the one hand exclaiming that the sinking of them was nothing to do with ukraine. it was a fire broke out on board, spontaneously which you might think is pretty bad news for any navy anyway. but at the same time, they seized on this as an excuse to weak revenge on kear. and they leaking this to the attacks on the capital. now, ridiculous attacks targeting missile building facilities, the ones that are supposed to have been capable of building these neptune missiles that ukraine used. so russian propaganda is telling itself not that at the same time whipping up even more hysteria. there are also talking about now maybe as the
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time for russia to go over to full scale war against ukraine. a lot of people might have worked that, that was what was already happening. but it does give russia the excuse to step up domestic efforts in what it was previously calling just a special military operation. it's very hard, as always, to get any reliable information about what people really think within russia. because after all, russia has seen opinion polling like that as a vulnerability in this information complex and have tried to prevent it for a long time ago. but the way in which it had been portrayed on russia state television will have to diverge seriously from the previous propaganda efforts to actually make any kind of impact on how russians see the war as a whole. and at the moment, it is pushing very much toward exacting a greater toll on ukraine itself, sparing on the military to even greater efforts in trying to conquer or rico those eastern provinces. a senior us politician has warned china must pay a price for supporting russia's invasion of ukraine. beijing haven't condemned the
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war. senator lindsey graham made the comments in tie one during a meeting with president saying when graham said me the taiwan nor the us was conflict with china, which claims the island of its territory. here's my promise to you and the time with nice people. we're going to start making china pay a greater price for what they're doing all over the world. with taiwan producing 90 percent of the world's high end semiconductor products. it is a country of global significance of global consequence of global impact. and therefore, it should be understood that the security of taiwan has a global impact for those who would wish it ill while trying to meanwhile, as accusing the u. s. of inflaming tension. that says it's going down a dangerous path by sending politicians to the island. made asia will go in the
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united states and taiwan are colluding with each other. and some people deliberately compare taiwan in ukraine to very different issues in an attempt to confuse the public and take advantage of the chaos in georgia. this behavior of playing with fire is aimed at changing the current status quo of the cross straight relations. while still had here on al jazeera, more than a 150 dad. others missing in the philippines will have the latest on the devastation left by store. but becky also pulled from the homes the gates. i will. why covered 90 restrictions in china a leading to protests? they stories after the park. ah well, the blizzard has ceased. yeah, i said blizzard in north dakota and you might think, well, you know,
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it's only april. yeah, but that was temperature is about 17 degrees below. no will even know the snow's gone north. it is now really in the arctic part of canada. but that code has tucked in behind and a good part of the u. s. he won't only around the coast and it certainly got cold in the appalachians. and that's heading towards east coast to co comes against the warm in the southern states. big thunderstorms are likely now the sun follows all attempts have dropped, and a bit of a breeze. the sun at least is out here. and the rain and the snow that's coming in to california, oregon and washington. it's there, but it won't last much beyond saturday. the sun comes out here too, and things warm up a business, thames up to plus one degrees. so really about 12 degrees below average by this time. but we are below average. now, there's a lot of rain forecast for the bahamas for cuba. for hispaniola in puerto rico, this unfortunately is going to continue for a couple of days that takes a lot of the shells away from mexico, honduras, not in columbia,
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but as weather is pretty wet as it is for a good part of northern brazil and still in this eastern side of brazil, ah, in 2018, a journalist lead 40 days of civic action against the armenian government, and president sockets yann's great home power. i'm going to liberate this, where a new documentary follows his non violent campaign to bring down a corrupt regime, tarnishing outcome with a democratic. i am not alone, arminius, velvet revolution on al jazeera blue.
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ah, welcome back to watching al jazeera with me the hell rovner. remind to of all top stories, place in ukraine, say the bodies of bolt at $900.00 civilians have been found in areas surrounding the capital. the head of the regional coal says more than 350 corpses were discovered in the town of boucher allowed. russian forces fully withdrew from regions surrounding the capital. last week, russia hesitant de military plant may ukraine's capital on its warding good step of attacks on keys. your credit is also being warned of a heavy price to pay if russian cities are attacks. a, c, d, u. s. politician is worn, china must pay a price, the sporting rushes invasion of ukraine. beijing hasn't condemned the war. senator lindsey graham made the comments in taiwan during a meeting with president site. when that israel has been accused of
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a silent fray, flagrant, putney violation after its forces confronted palestinians at alex at mos compound it occupied east jerusalem. 300 palestinians were detained by israeli soldiers, and more than a 150 were injured. as john holding reports ah, the scenes inside the alex and mosque in occupied east jerusalem early friday morning. fighting between stone during most men and his railey police who fight stung grenades and t guess. around 150 people were injured. this palestinian camera man, was there something wrong that they brutally emptied the compound? they were attacking the musk stuff, normal people, elders, and young people. what of in there were many injured people. they fired trouble,
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bullets inside. alexa must compound. they were beating everyone. even the paramedics, they hit the israel's foreign ministry tweeted, dozens of mass men carrying hammers, and p. a flags marched into alex and mosque. the crowd collected stones and large rocks. police were forced to enter the grounds to disperse the crowd. ah, the alexa mosque is his lamps, 3rd holiest place. it's also revered by jews, is the site of the original temple. as such, it's often an epicenter for tension between israel, which controls movement to the site palestinians, especially during the muslim holy month of ramadan. this time, last year, fighting around the mosque and axis restrictions lead to an 11 day war between israel and palestinian armed groups in garza. so far this year, a series of attacks within israel of left 14 dead and his railey security forces killed 20 palestinians during raids of the occupied west bank. after the violent
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confrontation, israeli forces restricted access to alex a mosque within a few hours later they did reopen the damascus gate. where we are now, which is one of the main entrances to the old city. alexa mosque and its compound a deeply important and symbolic, and we've ramadan easter, i'm pass over all happening right now. tensions in this city and it's holy sites, a set to remain high. john homan, our visitor, occupied east jerusalem. now some of the most volatile periods in the israeli palestinian conflict, half centered around a hill in occupied east jerusalem. all city and muslims call it the harmon sharif or noble sanctuary. because it contains 2 of islam. holiest places. the alex, a mosque, and the dome of the rock and jews call the hill the temple mount and revere the area as its base, known as the western wall, with 70 important religious sites in
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a small space. the situation often around the hell is often tense. now any change to the status quo war, a threat to one of the holy sites can quickly lead to trouble. and is there a senior political analyst smile on bushera says we are likely to see further escalation in the coming days. i think a whole generation of palestinian use is simply taking advantage of every possible charity every possible stone, every possible guns every possible throat in order to shout their way against the occupation and right of political and diplomatic analysis in light of the weakness of the palestinian authority and the indifference of various representatives, but just recently were in bed with these really government and like all of that, i think we could see more tension on possibly another uprising at one point when
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there was contact between settlers and seniors. and when there's always don't that you will see it, but the thing is resisting non violently. why the 2nd about attacking ryan. but now that there is more forces, security forces being the buffer zone between those and these rated forces received the palestinians, aggravated some of them getting more violent operations within israel all in war. if you look at at the grass, if you will, you will see more about us been years are getting a violent or peacefully enforcers. ready. and we're seeing that inside is as much as in dr. by 30 days. i think we have moved beyond occupied 3031 state apart a reality. let's just turn our attention to some of the inclement weather that pass
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the world we're experiencing right now. in south africa, the army is being called in to help with rescue and clean the path. it's after the worst flooding in 60 years, troops bringing a 2000 people left without power water. 3400 people are being killed and dozens more injured. government official say entire families are missing homes and roads have been washed away and several power plants have been damaged from the miller has more from durban. people across the province of cousin natal had perhaps a day of to, to try and recover, retrieve some of their belongings, bold re, bold, holmes that were destroyed by the flooding and mud slides. but now we are really experiencing heavy and potentially damaging winds in this province. in the city of durban, and it's expected that the rain will return perhaps in the evening and into saturday . and this is what's really concerning for people who have already suffered with the floods we've seen in the last few days in that bad weather could potentially be
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destructive and they have barely had time to recover so far. there about a 40000 people have been affected. some of them entirely displaced. many have tried to return to their homes, to salvage whatever they can also protect their positions are, but it has been difficult. there is still water and electricity out the number of areas. that's all in the philippines. from tropical storm maggie has risen to more than a 150 people. at least $200.00 of us are missing from a store made one fall on sunday, triggering land slides and flooding in eastern and southern coastal areas. drill. alan duncan reports now from the city of bye bye contact north was a typical rural village of a few 100 families. it had rice fields, a church, and his school. now it's the scene of some of the biggest devastation in the philippine province of late moon. but i'm not gonna let him out with the window but
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sounded like an explosion. we ran up to the hill to see what was going on because it was awful. we could hear people crying, calling out for help and tropical storm. maggie brought incessant reams in the eastern, vist sayas region. many areas of lost power and communication lines, but can diagnose was the most devastated survivors. here tell us there were 2 landslides. the 1st one was at around 5 am, which gave some time for some families to evacuate. but the 2nd one, they say they saw how waves of mud came rolling down the mountains burying hundreds of civilians. this is all what's left of it now. ah, on the other side of the hill for body sick been pulled out from the rubble. government responders are doing the best they can,
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but their efforts have been hampered to by more rain. the mud is at least 5 meters deep, so they will have to wait before they can bring in heavy equipment all busy more than that either barren or we could only get bodice into perry. pity because it is dangerous. even for our men. i think this process of betray bundled big pain, flowers and incense arrive for it all into prayer for those who remain buried. and an accounted for lent is meant to be a week of gratitude and grace for millions of philippine families. but for the survivors of the landslide inc and badness, this period will now remind him of their overwhelming grief. to melinda, again, i'll jazeera by bailey to province central philippines. while staying in the region, shanghai decision to convert some apartments into quarantine centers. as infuriated
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tenants who have been evicted, as the looked on in china's largest city goes on peasantry, june pink has ordered every one to stick to the 0 cove at 19 policy. tribute has both beijing police in protective gear struggle to control an angry crowd. these young high residents, a protesting against being pulled from their homes. their apartment blocks are being turned into temporary quarantine centers. some are kneeling on the ground, begging the police not to take them away. this city of more than 25000000 people has been brought to its knees. by the worse corin of ours outbreak, china's face since the beginning of the pandemic. 300000 infections have been recorded since march a lockdown, which was supposed to last a few days, is now stretching into its 3rd week with no end in sight. the once bustling
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commercial center is now quiet and empty, with most of the city's population, forced to stay home. supply chains are frozen. many say they're going hungry or lack necessities. great chen has appealed for help online to get access to urgent, hot medications for her father grazing too. we know it's a difficult period and the pandemic were willing to cooperate with the government and with each level of city management to fight the pandemic. or we also hope that our lives can be respected restrictions in some neighborhoods east on tuesday. but with kate is continuing to climb. people allowed to go outdoors are being corpse to back inside this community work, a bus allowed speaker repeating the words, return, horror. those who test positive are sent to make shift hospitals, conditions, insight, some appeal bleak and crowded families authority say they're released thousands of recovered patients this week. but thousands more remaining quarantine,
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dating has modernized other provinces to help get more fresh food and other necessities to shanghai. the situation in shanghai, a theme as a disastrous failure of china stick to 0 kinds of 19 policy. but authorities are sticking to it despite growing cause to change. this approach presidential in paying has caught on the country to strengthen restrictions in order to win the battle against the virus. katrina you out a 0 aging? well twitter says that it has unanimously adopted a so called poison pill plan that could block elan mosques, take over bed. the social media giants as the move could enable its investors to realize the full value of their investment and forced musk to pay shareholders a premium for the company. musk who owns tesla and space ex recently increased his stake in the social media platform to 9 percent. he claims that twitter fall short of its free speech principles and needs a complete overhaul. while jim anderson as
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a technology expert on the social media sector, lead for glass wing ventures, he says twitter executives have been forced to react to elan mosques, comments. it's a very uncomfortable position when the world's richest man says he doesn't have confidence in the management team. at the ceo specifically that's probably a pretty uncomfortable position for the ceo to, to be and, but he's, i think done a nice job, at least in his messaging to twitter employee saying look, there are a lot of distractions. but our day to day job hasn't changed. we have customers, we have a product, we need to keep doing what we're doing. and it's that's easier said than done for sure. but ultimately, you know, this is a little bit of a side show. it's an enormously consequential sideshow, depending on how it turns out, or it could just turn out to be nothing. and you know, one thing we have definitely seen about you on mosque is he loves the spotlight and he's shown an ability to effectively hijacked the new cycle by doing these things, making these tweets, making these offers. and i think he very much enjoyed being
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a provocative tour in that regard. and twitter is not defenceless, but they're, they're certainly at the mercy of whatever elan mosque is going to do. they're going to have to react. kelley, just say a mysterious sarcophagus discovered and parents is not to them. cathedral will soon be opened. workers discovered the well preserved crate last month during efforts to rebuild the church is ancient spire. now the discovery was buried 20 meters under ground, the brick pipes. now the body is believed to be from the 14th century. ah, touching officer with me, civil robin, reminder of all the top stories police in ukraine say the bodies of more than $900.00 civilians have been found in areas surrounding the capital. the head of the regional fall says more than 350 corpses were discovered in the town of butcher alone, that russian forces fully withdrew from the regions.

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