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i no matter where it takes us a fearless year ago and power impartial. we tell your story. we all your voice, your news, your net al jazeera. ah . russian missiles strike kills 6 people in live a city bordering poland with thousands of ukrainians have taken refuge and hoping to rise from the ashes. ukrainians returned to their homes destroyed by russian soldiers pulling out of areas they once took control. ah hello moneys value. this is out there alive. joe hall was coming up, trying to calm, rising public anger. shoreline, because president appoints
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a new cabinet to tackle the worst economic crisis in decades. john is economy grows higher than expected, despite stiff coven 19 restrictions for the outlook is likely to be way down by continuing lock downs. at least 6 people have been killed in russian missile strikes in live if it's policy attacks on western and southern ukraine. 11 others were injured. russia has continued hitting ukrainian cities with missiles and rocket attacks, despite withdrawing ground forces from parts of the country. hold the i've done hamid has moved from live if. well we do have an update, some the mayor of levine, who said that actually they were for missile strikes, not 5 as earlier believe now one of them hit the car serviced, a facility that overlooks the railway tracks as sort of on the outskirts of really
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viva would say, and the 3 others actually were aimed at military targets. now a deputy of the mayor has just said in an interview here that actually he believes that those were a guided missiles that were initially set to target evangel francisco from gifts. that a which is south of leave and then we're rerouted towards the 3 a military target. it targets here in and around lives. 6 people have died and 11 others were injured among them. one child that's oh, that's the update we have so far. oh, we also heard from the mayor, he said that one of the blocks he didn't specify which was so strong that it actually shattered at the windows of a hotel near by where a number of displaced ukrainians from other parts of the country are. where as
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staying, that's what we know at this stage. or ukrainian soldiers have ignored a russian deadline to lay down arms and mud a pole. moscow says his forces have always seized the port city and what would be as big as capture that near to month or a tory gayton be reports. mary, a poll is a city almost completely destroyed and from where thousands of civilians have been unable to escape. the last major battle is happening here at a giant soviet built factory in an industrial district. the remaining suddenly a crayon army and large group of civilians are basically, ah, encircled by the russian forces. they continue their struggle. but it seems from the weight russian army behaves in mario vote. they decided to raise the seat to the ground. at any cost, bodies lie on the streets in the besieged post city, ukrainian forces ignored a russian ultimatum to surrender by one p. m,
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local time on sunday, ukraine's prime minister says its forces will fight to the end. the outcome will likely affect talks to resolve the wool. the air positions are all in go in the opposite direction. out rush captures, marable because lensky made it very clear that of russia carries at another massacre in mary. apple was comparable to what was on boucher on the remaining forces. then they'll be beasley, a dead stop vertigo. she agency grinning. foreign minister said that there's really been no dialogue between ukraine, russia over the vasta, 48 hours. russia's own slow continues elsewhere in the east. this is the aftermath of yet another russia missiles strike in hockey. this mainly russian speaking city, ukraine. second largest has suffered some of the was shelling since russia's invasion, more than 7 weeks of the paramedics treat, the injured. but the danger isn't over yet. aah!
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ukraine says russia has stepped off its attacks in the region as its full seas prepare for a new offensive in the east. the president zalinski says he remains steadfast in his determination not to concede any territory. victoria gates and be al jazeera of the scale of destruction is becoming evident in some regions of ukraine following russia's withdrawal for souls. santa visited china have one of the cities honda's heads by russian forces, and talk to people who have been rebuilding their lives. this is all that remains of 80 year old hannah's house. she lives in the neighbourhood of barbara pizza on the outskirts of jem here, the man you, ne, hostile, nearly that has no water, electricity, and gas, it is no one comes here and asked,
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no one does anything too. and she is not the only one to have lost her home. her neighbor will, i see said other shows us what was once he is pride and joy. all that's left are the ashes of a previous life. his home was 1st hit by russian bombs in the early days of the war . and again on the 10th of march, a letter from june. we had a live bottle, keeley, now i have nothing. he was like a seating of flaws of burnt, but the most painful thing is that all my memorable documents have burnt week if i didn't need them, but i kept them as souvenirs. i'm retired pilot and i kept all my pilot logs there . despite having lost all his possessions, he looked to the future with hope that will present the roku. did his lawyer come back in 2 years? i will rebuild everything. we will have a barbecue together. can each go chattin? he woke up to the rocket attacks on the 1st day of the war when russian troops
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crossed the border from bella rose. despite being besieged, it did not surrender. and finally, on the 30th of march, the russian forces retreated from the region. by chance, he has paid a high price on the answer. lana's home was here 3 times, and now they are trying to salvage whatever remains her own. as murdidlier. let us said the montage very favorably, but there we are killing in this mass under. it tells me what can we do wanna we dont need help but others do up in law prohibits somebody actually swept on as identically. you see how our russian brothers have help us? the family. let's see. for the la la la la, we met hannah again in a nearby shelter. dot com. when you poke, i suddenly kim, you know, they are showing me my room already. it is a nice room. i will stay here as long as i can. i don't have a choice yet, isn't why you continue gaskets? and through the draw trina in our center was created for children with psycho your
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logical difficulties when the bombing started, many people came here as they were looking for shelter. we became a shelter for those who needed a total. his 2nd little geek skipped good for hannah, it might not be an ideal set up, but at least she now has a roof over her head. not only these rehab center for children has changed after the war in ukraine, civilians are now become frontline workers helping to rebuild the country. and they say in this process they are more united than ever. chris who said that al jazeera chem here teach for lincoln. now where new ministers have been sworn in 2 weeks after the entire cabinet resigned to com, anti government protests. new and younger faces have been drafted into a much smaller council of ministers. but the prime minister may hinder roger boxer on his brother, president got to buy a raja pasco, remain in power. shlang has been struggling with its worst economic crisis since
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independence. it's led to severe power fuel and food shortages. been l fernandez. has the latest from colombo, the president, as much as he's trying to bring in a sort of a new wave with new faces and sort of relatively junior members of parliament, or he is going to face some pushback is sort of initial sort of reaction so far seem not to really be accepting of this and just to give you an idea, i mean the president's houses down the road and to the right, just maybe 200 meters away. this is as far as where being allowed to go up. but when that's wearing and happened, it's happening under fairly tight security and reports that even some members of the cabinet that came in for this wedding and use different entrance roads. because obviously the protesters are a few 100 meters down the other way. and they don't want to be seen coming in all done on the lot of security. but also if you're disturbing elements that we're
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hearing, prime minister, my hinder roger pox are real old handed politics is not reported to be very happy with that sort of choice of the new cabinet. i did speak to a source in his office who told me that the cabinet is going ahead with the president's choices, but the prime minister is kind of largely out of the whole process. so it remains to be seen how they'll take up things in the coming days in coming weeks. but the protesters are digging in. the turkish military has launched a cross border offensive against a kurdish arm group in northern iraq. comes belonging to the p. k. k. were hits by artillery ahead of ground operation. encore says the on group uses the spaces in northern iraq for attacks on turkey. the operation comes just days after meeting between president han and the prime minister of the kurdish regional government tension is high at the alex and most compound and occupied east jerusalem and
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jewish worship as gather at the western world tomorrow after the holiday, the palestinian israeli rom policy has suspended its membership of israel's coalition government because of vaught as at the sight. 20 palestinians were injured while being forcibly dispersed on sunday. hurry forth. it has the latest from occupied east jerusalem. though with thousands of jewish worshippers at the western will during the course of the morning for a very important prayer, one that happens twice a year during jewish festivals. and at the same time, of course was much is wanting to get into the alex and most compound and they were about a 100 who stayed within the mosque itself. overnight. other worship is. busy were allowed and, but anyone on the 30, the ready forces were preventing getting in or at least people of that sort of agent who these ready security forces deemed could be potentially someone who might be coming into the must compound with confrontation on their mind. and at the same
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time, the usual sorts of jewish visits to what in judaism is known as the temple mount. usually these people are from the israeli right religious nationalists, often settlers. and according to the walks, these are michel 30, that controls the most compound. they say about 560 people came in on those terms. the israeli medias reporting a slightly higher number, nearly 800. and so that is a relatively low number for passover. but of course that happens during ramadan. it happens during a time of increased violence and tension in the run up to the holy month as well. and these images of people being prevented from getting in to the compound itself that could despite the relative calm this morning, that could prevent further response going forward. meanwhile, number of palestinians have been injured during dawn raids carried out by israeli forces in the occupied west bank more than
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a 1000 people have been arrested in villages near janine and local palestinian n g. a group say they were detained on charges of resisting the occupation and taken to investigation comes iran is warning israel. it will face military action if it makes any move against the country. the uranium presidents, as israel's being watched closely, and television would be targeted by the armed forces in response to any aggression . he may, the speech ahead of emitted she parade to mark ron's army j dot rogers from r as the the need. who are you even you slightest move is not hidden from the eyes of our intelligence, security and armed forces. beware that if the tiniest move is made for you against the iranian nation, that the target for our armed forces will certainly be the center of the zionist regime. still ahead on the al jazeera, praying for peace that a time of war ukrainian celebrate easter, as a conflict rages,
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alms town. welcome to babylon. we look at how tourists enjoying iraq's cultural treasures wants to get ah hello there. if we have a look at se, asia, we can see the blossoming storm clouds across much of the region. we are going to see some heavier rain effect. indo china for the likes of thailand with some sharp, a thunderstorms here, edging down into parts of the malay peninsula as well in the days to come. we'll see the rain pick up as well by the mid week for borneo as well as java and indonesia. but east of this for the philippines, it is a lot dryer than it was this time last week. now as we moved to australia, much of the focus is in the south. you can see that cold front, sweeping across the bike taking storms and showers. once again to that southeast
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corner, we are going to see the rain edge into sidney and temperatures dipped down here. but for perth, we are seeing temperature. pick up lots of sunshine coming through. we have a look at the 3 day. however, for sydney it is still a little bit of a wet week. we are going to have showers all the way through the weekend temperature dipping down slightly. now as we move across the tasman to new zealand, we've got some severe weather warnings out for the very north of the north island. we could see the possibility of a small tornado or 2 as well as flooding, rains, and stronger winds. but lots of sunshine for christ church at 20 degrees celsius aah! from the al jazeera london, bro, cost center t people on prompted uninterrupted witnessing. a much more humane response to what subjects with great news than what has been meet with out to these non european tawanda fab do. is that gonna offer you out to aim?
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if somebody comes to gone from europe, then never call an immigrant, even if they go through exactly the same processes that we go through to come here . they're always known as an x path studio. be unscripted on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back here watching out. is there a reminder on top stories the sour russia has carried out miss solid tax in parts of weston and southern ukraine. for rockets hit the city of live, killing 6 people and wounding about 11 ukrainian soldiers have ignored a russian deadline to lay down alms. and mateo poll moscow says its forces of
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nearly taken over the port city. what would be the most significant capture in the near to mom? and shall i and can you cabinet ministers have been sworn in 2 weeks off to the anti cabinet. resigned to com, antique government protest. i minister may hinder roger pox and his brother president go to bio roger pox remain in power. touches across the ukraine have held services for easter sunday despite the war, many of the countries, 1200000 roman catholics have been forced to flee their homes. all this have remained with the conflict dominating their thoughts and their pres charles stratford reports from keith. there is a cold silence before easter sunday service at this catholic church and cave worshippers neil and crossed themselves as they come in. some take confession, while the congregation gathers many of the people here have family members and
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friends fighting in the east. most never expected. they would have to live through war, british of us, the south. i see the other one is living for their own personal pain. and they know some of the people they know may not come home and are coming here to look for belief and hope because maybe there'll be nothing left ah, there more than a 1000000 roman catholics. in this predominately orthodox christian country boxes of donated, food and clothing, stuff along the aisles. ready for volunteers among the worshippers to distribute to those in need. father? pavlov. the scope sky prepares to give communion the congregation wait in line. like i said, were you several only gets you when the war started. i started coming to the church
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more often because of the anxiety. when i hear the father's preaching, it gets easier. i find more faith in myself in our society, and our victory of the better man. in a corner of the church stands a moral of an army post with ukrainian flag. recently, services had to be held on the ground in the church crypt until a few days ago, church services in recent weeks have been held here underground because of fear of potential russian shilling. now, despite the fact that russian forces have withdrawn from areas around kia, there is still great fear that that shilling could start. again. the head priest here says that he estimates up to 80 percent of the worshippers in this parish of fled since the war began. the priests resisted government prussia to close the church on probably the 24th. when the russian army invaded glass of the for the day,
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the war started. officials told us that we had to close the church, but we refused because we had to supported the people. we have since help evacuate children and the elderly from areas of the parish outside give the atmosphere in the charge has changed since the war started. people are more united and we help each other more. ah, a priest collects money to go towards renovations of the church damaged by fire last year. because without this place of worship, many of the people who would find living through war even harder than it already is . cha strafford al jazeera cave turn is economy grey by 4.8 percent the 1st quarter, 2022, exceeding expectations. the large world largest economy is under enormous strain the war in ukraine and a new current of ours outbreak. opposing a challenge. katrina, you reports china's economy beat most expert forecasts and expanded by full
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point 8 percent in the 1st 3 months of 2022 strong manufacturing activity and a boost in infrastructure. spending early in the year drove much of that growth, but major challenges threaten the outlook of the world's 2nd largest economy. sure g through the global situation has been complex on the fluid domestic way. coven 19 continues to have impact. that's why some major indicators was low down and there's a pressure i can army performance other china is battling, it's worse corin of iris outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. and tens of millions of people nationwide has been confined to their homes, look downs and purse march across major industrial and commercial hubs, including shanghai and sion, gen have crippled supply chains and assembly lines. analysts say the damage caused by shutdowns will be further felt in future economic data. but retail spending has already contracted by 3.5 percent. unemployment has also risen. foreign business
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leaders say badges 0 tolerance approach to corporate 19 is harming both the domestic and global economy, the west and, and japan, korea, all the big economies have strong interests. the china changes to one because it said percent of all goods and china manufacturers have some sort of china in there . so of china actually sneezer, you know, the world catches a cold. we need child to succeed. we need china to open up in order to actually maintain also good the global economy at a certain speech. speech and grove economy needs china now to succeed because we have a war and ukraine which as a rebel on effect. and this is like a perfect storm coming altogether. unfortunately, rising inflation and a cash crunch in the property sector are also dragging on growth. the government has set a g d p target of around 5.5 percent this year. it's the lowest in decades, but many believe this figure will be tough to achieve without the rolling out of
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more aggressive stimulus measures. still, china's leaders insist on maintaining the most heavy handed pandemic measures in the world. the cities of she ad, pseudo and john jo have joined shanghai in imposing restrictions, followed local outbreaks over the weekend. katrina you out 0. beijing tan weighing is the chief economist that hangs saying, bang china. she says there are concerns about the sustainability of the upturn. the number has to be the market citation by a very wide margin. so people do have fear that this may not be sustainable. and when you look at the breakdown of the data, it's quite obvious. there are some structural issues on the growth or bolstered by infrastructure, spending, manufacturing lesson and an export. but the weak spot is consumption. it actually turn negative growth in march, and in many people says fact in the coming month. and the weakness in the consumer
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market was sustain closing the 2nd quarter. my slow down quite significantly on not so much from the ukraine war because the commodity price has somewhat stabilized, although still out of their high level. but the corporate control, especially the repetitive pattern of the city locked down, has been the biggest challenge. when my look at a period of time, a 2nd for a few dozen of chinese cities could implement their lots on measures simultaneously . which can be a big damage to transportation, production, consumption and international shipping. and that could be a very big chaos. number of people who have died from flooding in south africa is rising. at least 443 now di, dozens are missing. morgues is struggling to keep up with demand after the heaviest rains. in 60 years. the disaster caused nearly $700000000.00 worth of damage.
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deep sea divers, up and down to check the rack of a tank carsa leaks after it sank of the coast of camecia. no pollution has been spotted so far. the fishermen all concerned alexia, brian has a story. hitting out into the mediterranean sea from the chain is in port city if gave us the dive teams part of efforts to prevent what activists warn could be an environmental catastrophe. they were sent to inspect the hall of the sunken tanka the z low. it went down on saturday, along with 750 tons of diesel the vessel flying the flag of equatorial guinea was sailing from egypt to malta. it. 7 man crew issued a distress call on friday evening and sought shelter from bad weather. but the vessel began taking on water. the crew were later safely brought to shore june, as he is environment ministers, helping oversee the response. she says the situations under control of it and
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getting his own the muscle tone. this is cargo of fuel oil or diesel. it's very different from oil in the fuel. oil is much less dangerous and tends to evaporate fairly quickly. we think the hall is still water tight and there's no leakage at the moment. no little she authority say barriers are being set up to limit the spread of fuel and any spillage would be mopped up. but local fishermen angry, their livelihood relies on the waters where the tanker is lying. the world wildlife fund says the areas of fishing ground for $600.00 sailors with the white gulf providing jobs for around $34000.00 others. i think we demand that specialists go down into the sea and unload all the materials inside. if a leakage occurs, we will not have anything, as we already only have a little part of the see left to live on. janasia says several countries of offered to help out to prevent any pollution. alexia brian al jazeera,
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a tourism is making a comeback in iraq to spy years of war and the destruction of ancient archaeological sites, visitors, and now returning to see the remaining cultural treasures at one destination proving popular has long been known as the cradle of civilization from babylon magnate, abdur rahim, reports in the ancient city of babylon, tourists are trickling back. that follows the iraqi government, ending the needful, pre arrival visa from dozens of countries. this is erica of babylon, as it's thought to have looked like in 600, be see. little is left of the original a structure, but tourist is, are fascinated by 4000 years of missile. pretty me as cultural heritage. a lot of people back in ireland don't even know that babylon is in iraq. they don't even know. it's still a real place. you know,
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so it's so incredible to be able to come here. this is what remains of the hanging gardens of babylon, one of the 7 wonders of the ancient war. it. the original and renowned as tara gate was shipped off to berlin by european archaeologists. at the beginning of the last century, archaeologists say numerous, his seroquel treasures are waiting to be discovered across iraq. here in this area, for instance, there are ancient ruins. beneath these surrounding pol mcgrooves and villages there threatened by oil pipelines running through them and encroachments by local residents all was the cultural, half planned of ancient mister per tamia. it's revered as the birth of the place of prophet abra harm and gained international attention following glassed. he is a visit by the head of the catholic church. pop frances?
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yeah. i think even more from from my parents, they were, they were quite nervous. they were, they asked why you go into iraq and, and is going to be safe. and, but the people been so friendly, very welcoming. and so for my point we, it's a great country to with us. so, sans of priceless artifacts have been looted or smuggled out of iraq ancient term pills, palaces and tombs either destroyed by i sell or damage it under the watch of consecutive governments. bar alysia fil happy play. annika. cultural tourism was blooming before the 2003 us live invasion. but we've recently received several western excavation missions that have helped a lot on discovering and protecting mini sites. they've also highlighted the importance of or as the center for inter faith and destination for tourists from various backgrounds. resurgence of tourism means creating new development projects and job opportunities for many here. highest and arthur for harl center, rocky,
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these pieces a hand crafted by young people who have no other jobs to do so we count on the government to help bring to a spec, so that we can keep the business afloat. dorothy a 3rd, a shot jojo, and continue to maintain the immortal memory of ancient and were super tamia. even though much of its magnificence has been lost to decades of case and neglect my mod up through a had algebra in babylon, city, centrally rock. ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories. russia has carried out missile attacks and parts of western and southern ukraine for rockets hit the city of live, killing 6 people and wounding a father 11 or that are handmade has the latest from the viv. deputy of the mayor has just said in an interview here that actually he believes that those were
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a guided missiles that were initially set.

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