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and new documentary follows he's known boiling campaign to bring down a corrupt regime, astonishing outcome with i am not alone on munious velvet revolution on al jazeera. ah, russian missile strikes kill 6 people in live city, close to the border with poland, with thousands of ukrainians. have taken refuge, hoping to rise from the ashes ukrainians returned to their homes destroyed by withdrawing russian soldiers. ah, hello, why money site is down there, a line from doha also coming up. oh, sure,
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lincoln's keep up that protest against the government, even though when you cabinet is appointed to tackle the economic crisis. a month of hardship migrants in libya, struggle to make ends meet during ramadan. and he, 6 people have been killed in russian missile strikes in live it's part of attacks on weston and southern ukraine. 11 others wind it. russia has continued hissing, ukrainian cities with miss solid rocket attacks, despite withdrawing ground forces from pots. hold that hamid has the latest from live. 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 overlooked the railway tracks. as sort of on the outskirts of
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really viva would say. and the 3 others are 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 even of 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 in modern poll. moscow says its forces have almost seized. the poll says he, what could be its biggest capture the near to month war, tory gates and 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 saw, the cranial army and large group of civilians are basically, ah, encircled by the russian forces. they continue their struggle. but it seems from the way russian army behaves in mario vote, they decided to raise the secret to the ground. at any cost, bodies lie on the streets in the besieged post city, ukrainian forces ignored
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a russian ultimatum to surrender by one p. m. local time. on sunday, he cranes, 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 my 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 your grand russia over the vasta, 48 hours. russia's own slow continues elsewhere in the east. this is the aftermath of yet another russia missiles striking hall. keith, this maley, russian speaking city, ukraine's 2nd 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. ah,
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he crane says russia has stepped off its attacks in the region as its forces 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, with scale of destruction, is becoming evident in some regions of ukraine following russia's withdrawal. but saw sada visited china have one of the cities hardest hit, i, russian forces and talk to people who are now trying to rebuild 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 chem, here they mine, you wouldn't be hostile. nearly there is no water, electricity,
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and gas. no one comes here and asked, no one does anything true and she is not the only one to have lost her home. her neighbor will, i see said other shows us what was once his 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 little bottle keeley, now i have nothing heaps like a ceiling and flows of burnt. but the most painful thing is that all my memorable documents have burnt. we keep, i didn't need them, but i kept them as souvenirs. i'm a retired pilot and i kept on my pilot log, sir. despite having lost all his possessions, he looks to the future with hope that represent the roku. did his lawyer come back in 2 years? i will rebuild everything. we will have a barbecue together. can you check, 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, andrey and sweet lana's home was he 3 times, and now they are trying to salvage whatever remains. oh don't worry for your letter, said the montage very favorably, but there we are killing this mess on the italian me with the what can we do blood we dont need help but others do up to know cookie semarino actually. so atlanta, as ironically, you see how our russian brothers have help us. the palmer, let's see for the la la la la. we met hannah again in a nearby shelter. dot com when you put cousin leak in the here shown you my room already. it is a nice room, i will stay here as long as i can. i don't have a choice yet and isn't why you continue gaskets. and through the draw trina,
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it even are sent to was created for children with psychos your 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 neurology just kept going. for hannah, it might not be an ideal set up, but at least she now has a roof over her head. not only this 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 in shall anchor new ministers, have been sworn in 2 weeks out to the entire cabinet resigned to come anti government process. some new and younger faces have been drafted into a smaller council of ministers. the prime minister may hinder roger pox on his brother, president, god, to bye roger pox or remain in power. shank has struggling with its worst economic
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crisis since independence has led to severe power fuel and food shortages. now 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 and 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
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a few disturbing elements that we're hearing. prime minister my in the roger proctor real all hand in 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 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 and coming weeks. but the protesters are digging in vonny fonseca is from the center for policy alternatives . in colombo, she doesn't believe the changes will be enough to satisfy protesters. if she really to change or government, we need change from the president and the prime minister that need not happen to be . so i don't see much change on the ground and there for and the see in the country, so on. christie didn't. did he konami crises, so really fight some changes in facing abbey. now,
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when you to see we're being taken to address the konami crises and heating the cause of the cause of the purpose. so really not much is change other than some appointments to cabinet. people have been haitian and this is something we need to take. note of. people have been houston for a couple of years now. and diva call me so much more when this government was elected by the protest, have been there for several weeks now. and the professor being very warm, roger, a truck that has used to happen. so i don't see how changing some needs theory or to really address the cause of the people. and this is mean come to the street easily produced in the last few weeks. and the not me my best not really being addressed by any of these changes. the turkish military house
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launched a cross border offensive against the kurdish armed group in northern iraq. camps belonging to the p. k. k were hit by artillery ahead of ground operation. encore says the on group uses its faces in northern iraq for attacks on turkey. the measure campaign comes just days off to meeting between president edwin and the prime minister of the kurdish regional government. so head on al jazeera, an economic boom, the china is still under pressure from the warning crane and coven 19 downs. and welcome to babylon. we look at how tourists on enjoying iraq's cultural treasures once again. ah, he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle. wookey will travel package to the hello there. it's all about the scorching heat in south asia,
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but before we get there, let's have a look what's going on in east asia, and it's an improving picture of northern areas of china. we're going to see temperatures pick up in cities like beijing, though the winds are likely to pick up as well. pushing out further east, we are going to see temperatures touch up well above the average for beijing. we have a look at the 3 day. plenty of sunshine on thursday as well, and we are going to the sunshine across the korean peninsula was so clear. skies the temperature at $21.00 degrees and it's an improving picture for japan. lots of pleasant warmth to be found here, that there will be some rain in tokyo later in the week. and the rain continues the southern areas of china, quite a bit of cloud as well, working its way east, over shanghai. but still a lot of wants to be found here. and as we moved to south asia, it's all about the heat across northern areas and temperatures. edging up into the mid forties, we've got warnings out for some hot dry winds blowing across rajah sun. we could
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see some dust storms here and the possibility of some thunderstorms up in the north in the days to come. but for the wet weather, we have to head down to the south and to the north east. with some fierce thunderstorms for bangladesh. i saw official elling of the journey a a with with
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the working out their mind. stories of russia has carried out missile attacks and parts weston and southern ukraine for rockets hit the 50 of live in killing 6 people and wounding 11 ukrainian soldiers have ignored of russian deadline to lay down on the modern pole. moscow says the forces of nearly taken over the city in what would be the most significant capture in the near keith military has launched a cross border offensive against the kurdish homes group in northern iraq count belonging to the p k. k, one by artillery ahead of ground operation. attention is high at the ox that must compound unoccupied. east jerusalem as jewish. what
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does it worship has gather at the west and wall to mark the past? i have a holiday. the palestinian israeli rom party has suspended its membership of israel's coalition government because of violence at the site in recent days. 20 palestinians were injured while being forcibly dispersed on sunday or the 4th it has moved from occupied east jerusalem. there were thousands of jewish worshippers at the western will during the course of the morning for a very important prayer when 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, 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 writes religious nationalists, often settlers and according to the walks these article authority 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 the 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. a number of palestinians, meanwhile, had been injured during dawn raids carried out by israeli forces in the occupied
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westbank than a dozen people have been arrested in villages near janine and ramallah. they go palestinian n g a group say they were detained on charges of resisting the occupation and taken to investigation. camps they did. abraham has moved from jeanine in the occupied west bank. so important to point out that why is eyes are on the west bank and on detention that is going on here. it's really a quiet night in the west bank when it comes to these really rates since the beginning of the year. and this hospital behind me 55 years, we're going to then we're treated in this hospital alone. 5 of them are still in the hospital getting treatments. 3 of them were injured just today. now there is one of the injured who's an 18 year old palestinian who was shot in the had. so it can give you an idea that while we are looking at the situation now where it is high to intention when we have intensified in the occupied. but and specifically in
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jeanine, but people want the word to know that even before this high suspension, the rates didn't stop illegal, is really something that didn't stop. and neither did the facts from these really settlers. just this morning, accompanied by these really are groups, large groups of settlers have rated and entered different areas in the occupied west bag, which as you can imagine is adding to the current tension. iran is warning israel, it will face military action if it makes any move against the country. the radian president says israel as being watched closely and tell him he would be targeted by the forces in response to any aggression. he made the speech ahead of a military parade to mom, iran, all me do. satellite. okay, so long as the, the new. oh yeah. even you slightest move is not hidden from the eyes of our
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intelligence, security and armed forces. beware that if the tiniest move is made for you against the iranian nation, the target for our armed forces will certainly be the center of the scientist regime. ramadan is being marked throughout the muslim world, but the holy month is a time of hardship for african laborers in libya. a lack of work makes it harder for them to make ends meet, to provide for their families. back home malik, china, her story. the elfish, lo roundabout, is in the heart of tripoli. on most days, during the year, hundreds of african labourers can be found here looking for work. but during the whole, the month of ramadan, things slow down and the crowds thin abdur rahim is a painter from niger. he says he came to libya 2 years ago to find work and provide for his family back home that was done during ramadan. work is hard to come by,
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many of us don't make enough money to be able to buy food. i have friends who haven't eaten for days, but some people do tried to help the horse. the un says there are more than 610000 migrants in libya. it's long been a transit hub for african migrants trying to reach europe. the international organization for migration says at least 660 people died, risking the dangerous journey in the mediterranean sea. and nearly 900 are missing . some migrants, such as of yan from sudan are not interested in going to europe. they seek economic opportunities in libya. hi, lana, run, ha, ha, ha ha. some of us have family members who are sick and need to make money for their treatment. there is little work during ramadan. it's hard for us. i need to work so i can eat and send money to my family. the lead on the holiday from a bon is the holy month for muslims. they fast from sunrise until sunset,
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and believe at the time for giving an act of charity. many migrants depend on the goodwill of libyans, such as hamlet, al dbhdd, who started the full u. s. and charity organization 7 years ago. oh, during ramadan, laborers don't find work, so we try to help them give them food. it's our obligation is muslims to help those in need. libya has been engulfed in conflict and political divisions for more than a decade. but migrant still risk coming here because there are no job opportunities at all. although difficult and at times dangerous. for some it's their only hope to provide for themselves and their families. mo, trina ultra 0 tripoli. chinese economy has exceeded expectations by growing by 4.8 percent in the 1st quarter of this year. the world's 2nd largest economy is under enormous strain. the war in ukraine on
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a new corona virus outbreak. i'll crating challenges. katrina, you reports. chinese economy beat most expert forecasts and expanded by 4.8 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 threatened the outlook of the world's 2nd largest economy. sure. g. sure. the global situation has been complex and a fluid domestically coven 19 continues to have impact. that's why some major indicators were slowed down and there's a pressure icon 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 have been confined to their home spot lock downs and per se much across major industrial and commercial hubs, including shanghai and sion, gen have crippled supply chains and assembly lines. analysts say the damage caused
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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 leaders say badging 0 tolerance approach to corporate 19 is harming both the domestic and global economy. the western and japan, korea, all the big economies have strong interests. the china changes to one because it said percent of all goods and china manufacture could 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 a global 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
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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 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, following local outbreaks over the weekend. katrina, you out a 0, beijing. dan wang is the chief economist that hang the thing bank. china, she says people are concerned about whether the upturn can be sustains. 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
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turn negative growth in march. and in many people as fact, in the coming months and the weakness in the consumer 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 cobra 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. dozens of refugees and migrants have been rescued nearby canary islands. 61 people including 9 children,
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picked up by the spanish coast guard. they were brought to port on grand canaria human rights groups say at least 4400 people, including hundreds of children, died last year, trying to reach spain from africa. tourism is making a comeback to iraq despite years of war and the destruction of ancient archaeological science visitors. and now returning to see the remaining cultural trashes and one destination proving popular has long been known as the cradle of civilization from avalon. my food up there while he reports the, 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 structure, but tourist is,
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are fascinated by 4000 years old. mister per to me as a 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 been a real place, you know? 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 wars. the original and renowned as tar gate was shipped off to berlin by european archaeologists. at the beginning of the last century, archaeologists say numerous historical treasures are waiting to be discovered across iraq. here in this area, for instance, there are ancient ruins beneath these surrounding parlor mcgrooves and villages. they are threatened by oil pipelines running through them and encroachments by a local residence. all was the cultural, half planned of ancient mesopotamia. it's revered as the birth of the place of
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prophet abra harm and gained international attention following glassed. he is a visit by the head of the catholic church. pop frances? yeah. i think even more from from my parents, they were, they were quite nervous. they were, they asked, why are you going to iraq and, and is going to be safe. and, but the people been so friendly is very welcoming. and so for my point, we, it's a great country to visit us. thousands of priceless artifacts have been looted or smuggled out of iraq, ancient term pills, palaces and tombs either destroyed by i sill or damage it under the watch of consecutive governments. for par alysia, feel happy if annika cultural tourism was blooming before the 2003 u. s. 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
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backgrounds that he surgeons of tourism means creating new development projects and job opportunities for many here i assad her for holl center rocky. 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 respect so that we can keep the business afloat, hoppey, a 3rd ashanti and o e, and continue to maintain the immortal memory of ancient missouri tamia. even though much of its magnificence has been lost to decades of case and neglect mahmoud abdulla had l. j 0 in babylon, city centrally rock. lou . this is our dessert. these you told stories. bushes carried out miss all attacks and parts of western and southern ukraine for rockets hit the city of live,
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killing 7 people and wounding 11. hold out the hamid has moved from live if deputy .

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