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and the street asks how societies can respond to global warming the climate emergency a season of special programming. anal josie ah, more than $500.00 will hinder escape from an immigration detention facility in northern malaysia. a search is under way. ah. we want to now to 0 life from a headquarters in ohio deadening obligates are also coming up tension. and india's capital is officials begin demolishing shops on stalls at a muslim dominated area after violence during a hindu festival. more western military aid for ukraine,
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while russia steps up its military offensive in the east. and a former hong kong radio host who took part, an antique government protest, his sentence to 40 months in jail. ah, hello more than 500 ro hinge refugees have escaped from a temporary detention center and malaysia. 6 were killed when they were hit by vehicles while trying to cross a highway after the escape in band are bow haru in malaysia's northern kiddos state . police are saying almost 400 of those who got out had been found and they've been re arrested. let's get more from florence louis. she's joining us from kuala lumpur . so tell us more about this breakout and how it happened. when police have confirmed that there was a riot that preceded the breakout, detainees broke down doors and grills, and they escaped. now,
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this detention center, a temporary detention center caught soon. i back up detention center was holding around 650 detainees, and they were 23 immigration offices at that time. they were completely overwhelmed . more than $500.00 detainees sled now. but he said that's no further information about what caused the riot. but the cadet state police chief did concede that they could have been feelings of dissatisfaction among detainees, but he did not elaborate. he said police are investigating the cause of the riot. now we know that at least 6 people have been killed, including 2 children while attempting to cross a highway in the early hours of wednesday morning. and this incident took place around 6 to 7 kilometers from the detention center. the police say they are still searching for the detainees were still on the run. they've setup road blocks. they've asked villages to be on the lookout for detainees, and they've also activated a volunteer paramilitary force or
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a torrence. thank you so much for until we're reporting from hold on for in new delhi city officials of use bulldozers to raise sharp stalls and constructions, they say are illegal. their actions continue despite india's top court, ordering a whole to the eviction drive. most of the people living in john get repore are muslims. 4 days ago, there were violent confrontations in that area between largely hindu and muslim crowd during a religious recession. let's get more from elizabeth or on joining us from new delhi. so the supreme court has intervened. it's ordered the demolition to stop, but we understand they are ongoing. elizabeth, what more can you tell us? hello darling, we will just heard that more than 2 hours after india's top court ordered the north delhi municipal corporation to stop the demolition. the local authority has now stopped, but not before destroying many home and shop in the neighborhood
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. now, those who went into the neighborhood at 10 o'clock in the morning, they were accompanied by hundreds of police and military personnel. and all deli municipal corporation is run by the hindu nationalist, bought a c, a jump the party. and they say that this is part of their regular, what they call encroachment drive against illegal structures. but as you mentioned, it is taking place just for days off to violence in this neighborhood between hindus and muslims. and just 2 days after the b j. p, the bad, the party chief of the group, the wrote to the north deli mayor, asking him to take action to destroy in fact, illegally constructed homes. of anyone arrested in the violence that it's related to saturday. now this is a very dominantly muslim neighborhood. unlike many poor neighborhoods, countless neighborhoods in delhi and around india,
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there are often of what are considered and legally construct, construct, illegally constructed holland in such neighborhoods. so the supreme court, liz was already hearing a case against the demolitions and as you're saying, it's not the 1st incident over the past week. what does this mean for raising religious tensions in india? while there has been a very worrying space of such incidence in the country over the past 10 days, saturday's violence in delhi follows a spade of similar incidents the previous weekend that all resulted in violence from very, very similar circumstances. we had many hindu groups that were leading procession, celebrating the birthday all day god rom, there were leading professions through some neighborhoods, in many states, going past mosques and chanting him, do nationalists,
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slogans. and that lead to violence between him do this and muslim the worst of it took place in the state of mother and following that violence, the very next day, local authorities and just one district to the state of mother for they destroyed 45 homes, mostly belonging to muslim and over a week later, the body of a muslim man who had been missing since that violence was found. there are many opposition. politicians and civil society groups in india who, ringing the alarm about, the rising religious polarization in the country. and they as accusing the b j. p of not just stoking the tension, but targeting muslims and impose and collective punishment destroying holland. they point out that the boom, dozing of home only happens bulldozing columns of muslim suspected of violence only happens in states which are controlled by the b j. p. the supreme court is going to hear a case against such demolition on thursday,
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and that software muslim group called the jamal lama and asked them to stop regional governments from destroying homes of people suspected of violence. all right, thank you so much. elizabeth corona reporting from the deli now the u. s. british on canadian leaders are all promising to send more artillery, an anti tank weapons to ukraine. keith is defending its eastern region from a new assault by russian forces. if moscow was successful, it could essentially slice ukraine and to the pentagon has given further details about the weapons being sent. we have helped deliver not just from our stocks, but from stocks of other nations, more than 50000000 rounds of small arms ammunition of various calibers 50000000. and that's the kind of stuff that the ukrainians are literally using every single day instances invasion began. so all of that will also be factored into these this
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package going forward. allen fisher has the latest from washington d. c. to weeks, his joe biden announced that the u. s. was going to send any $100000000.00 package or military aid to the ukrainians. that's already started arriving in country. in fact, the pentagon, seeing it is somewhere between 40 and 72 hours to get those weapons that material across to ukraine. this has been drawn down from existing u. s. military stalks. now joe biden was asked in the last few hours of there was more military aid going to ukraine and he said yes, there would be. and in fact, the talk in washington over the last few hours is that in the next day or so, we could expect another $800000000.00 package to be announced by joe biden. though he's been speaking to a funeral to allies over the course of the last few hours, he spoke to the canadians to germany and also to the united kingdom. the of all pledge to send more weapons to ukraine. among the things top of the list will be
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artillery pieces and artillery guns. that's what presidents lensky says, he needs most, but they're also going to send anti tank and anti aircraft missiles as well. no, you remember at the end of last week, the russians were said to have sent a diplomatic note to the u. s. concerned that it was sending weapons to ukraine along with its near to allies. and that could lead to unexpected consequences. it looks as if the u. s. is not backing down or might even be sending more weapons to ukraine or russia is focusing as offensive on to eastern ukrainian provinces. char stratford has been seeking to people in the province of don. yes, he sent this report in the area that we visited at close to here for cross go call a long area along the front line. some of the heavier shelly, if not the heavier shelly so far since the invasion started out according to some of the military and people that we've spoken to in this area. and our understanding
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certainly what we were listening to today was an evidence of grad missiles, rocket launchers, heavy artillery being used over sustained a period of time. and as a say, a very large area. what's also so incredible in town like this is that there are so few people here seemingly any more local authorities, barcroft saying they're made around 70 percent of this. the population of the city have already left businesses. homes boarded up, people told to close their curtains at night and avoid putting their lights on. so we'll see as you can imagine, people in this area taking this, pushed by the russian forces very seriously indeed. and we also visited the train station here in pa cross. they have a, a daily train now taking those that wants to leave the area out into safe
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areas. and as i say, very few people on it. i spoke to one young mother with her 10 year old son. she said that she basically couldn't, could, could, could, can contain her fears any, any longer living in the area that she was a that she'd escape from. and she said that she didn't want her son to become a victim. like the many people we saw killed in boucher a hong kong court has sentenced a pro democracy. activists under former radio host to 40 months in jail. tom tuchee was convicted of sedition last month. who's a prominent face in the mass protests that sweat through hong kong and recent years . ham has been in custody for more than a year and a half since his arrest and september 2020 brick clinic is in hong kong with more it is seen as fairly heavy handed, especially considering that he's already been in custody for $588.00 days and he will be facing national security charges later down the line as well. hong kong
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define sedition in a quite a broad term as words that generate hatred, contempt, or dis, affection towards the government or it you have to encourage disaffection towards other residents. so it is quite a broad definition and that does worry legal experts, but we have to understand as well that at time was not charged under this national security level, which was implemented in 2020, which caused hit global headlines, which caused a lot of controversy. this was under a little known colonial law that hasn't been used since for hand over when hong kong was handed back from a british rule to chinese rule in 1997. the judge in ruling down his sentence today said that tom showed little remorse and that he didn't appear sincere. and as time left the course, he said, take care mother. i shouted that as he was leaving the court case. we have to know
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that in hong kong time is known as this very big figure. his show was very popular and he was very critical of the government, which is ultimately what's got him in, in hot water with the government. here he was saying, cursing police yelling at police shouting political slogans, including down with the communist party, which as you can imagine, is extremely sensitive here. still ahead on al jazeera, a city ins for a lanka is under cur, to demonstrators resumes to down after weeks of protest against the government. and the war and ukraine takes its toll on the world. economy will have more on the ins, latest roof forecast. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package to day. hello, we have lovely blue sky in spring sunshine across st scandinavia. warm sunshine at
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bat, but elsewhere across europe we have got some rather lively downpours area of low pressure bringing wet weather out of the western russia through bowers eating i which was pony than another. the nasty system still swirling away across the good part of spain is making his way towards the valley. eric's corner for snow here over the high ground of spain over the next couple of days. at wet weather that windy weather, large ways will continue as we go one through the course of wednesday. there's that sherry rain up towards that east side of europe still some wet weather therein to wear western parts of the region. madge is pushing over towards sir ukraine. we have got some snow too into bulgaria, just sliding across the hungarian plains and wet and wintry weather. still in place here. that whether we have across the western side of the met, that will not his way towards sandia corsica pushing across into italy as we go through thursday and 30 does see the return of wet weather into spain and portugal
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up towards a north west. it's fine and dry with plenty of sunshine, never northwestern parts of africa. we have wet weather coming in here, of course. with that system in the western side of the med and sahara das pushing into central pass for thursday, katha, airway official, and i know the john in the 30 lans of whom amiss tamia were the 1st settlements boomed, the cradle of civilization, iraqi people. his depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by will and pollution. out of their world reveals how the man made decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments, leaving its peoples struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. lou,
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the me again to help stories on ultra 0 this our city officials in new delhi, destroy that they say were illegal structures the fight in the top court ordering a whole to the eviction drive. it follows violence between hindu and muslim crowds and then jangle cory area on saturday. more than 500 rough winter refugees of escape from a temporary detention center and malaysia. 6 died after being hit by vehicles when they were fleeing across the highway. police say nearly 400 have been rear lesson. us has begun delivering more artillery to ukraine. the u. k and canada are also promising to send additional military aid. keith is defending its eastern dumbass region against the new russian assaults. while ukraine's nuclear agency has released a video showing positions abandoned by russian forces in nature noble exclusion
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zone, moscow's forces to control of the facility and nearby areas at the start of the war . the site of the world's worst atomic disaster is still highly radioactive, including the soil that russian soldiers dug trenches in ukraine. government says this would have expose them to significant doses off radiation or ukrainians who fled or being war and to wait longer before returning. even if it seems things are safer in even western parts of the country, the faster in berlin spoke to some of those who decided to go home. these ukrainian refugees have made a very difficult decision to go back home. they're taking a 25 hour long journey, not knowing what they're going to find. although they will warmly welcomed here after the russian invasion. they now can't wait to go back. and we were in the cellar, barry, or lodge. well, where are they? they are home, but is it
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a okay and way and i'm very glad today. ok that i feel alive. it's really it's really it's can read that some. some parents are dying and some children stay alone and like terrible the security situation and seems to have improved in the past few weeks. but these last few days, the price again, that's why the mayor and actually asked people not to return. yes, but that doesn't deter these people. there isn't any live of your own griffin tinder. we're afraid him, but the fighting is mostly in the east of the country, but there are still playing. so i, you know, the keys had been fired people running for their lives and children disturbed when they sleep, alarm. sure. and then kinda a bunch often of them, after living as refugees for nearly 2 months here in germany, they're now going on a long and uncertain journey back home, hoping that it's safe enough to state and they're not going to be forced to flee again anytime soon,
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or the war in ukraine is being partly blamed for netflix as 1st decrease of subscribers in 10 years. if your value has plunged by 25 percent, the streaming service last 200000 subscribers worldwide from january to march. and that fueled by the loss of 700000 accounts after the company pulled out of russia. netflix has also blamed increased competition as well as password sharing. tensions remain high the looks almost compound after the incursion of jewish ultra national groups into the holy sites is really forces have stopped some young miss lynde, from leaving the compound earlier, is really troops fired rubber bullets at one of the masks windows. after someone threw a stone at a soldier, since friday, a number of palestinians have been injured and is really raids on the occupied compounds. let's get an update with harry faucet, who's joining us lie from occupied in jerusalem. so further raids and encourage ins
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taking place right now harry, what are you hearing about what's going on at the holy sites? i will. yeah. not right now during the, the entries by jewish groups were between 730 and 1030 local time. so they finished about 45 minutes ago, but once again, in order to facilitate them, the israeli forces cleared the compound. they sealed the doors of the mosque itself, in which there were again several, several dozen people inside. and as you say, there were exchanges between the people inside and the forces there was stones being thrown at one point, the molotov cocktail appeared to be objected from that window. and so very close to the most entrance, it seemed to catch light in the window sill in something else, a blaze was thrown out, one person reported to be lightly injured by a rubber bullets. so in terms of the confrontations themselves,
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they were in relative terms from recent days, pretty minor, but the numbers of people coming in need these and can solve ultra nationalists, religious zionist often set to use these kind of people that but see country and the majority of them to the must compound itself and what the palestinians find so provocative. and today they were much higher numbers than we've seen in previous days during positive a positive and ramadan of course, coinciding this year. the walks, the, as i mc trust, which has the custodianship of the site, it says that nearly 1200 such people came in during the course of the day. now on friday, it's been announced or at least been let known by the israeli government that no, not muslims will be allowed into the site for the rest of the ramadan period. up until the 2nd of may. so that could be seen some attend to the escalation, although it is a regular thing that the, the final days ramadan,
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see that kind of entry being bod. but at the same time, there is a potentially escalate. remove in the form of right wing groups call for a flagged march. aus is ready flags and again far right and the ultra nationalist types likely to be trying to get access to friction points around the old city and occupied these curious them. the police say that they won't facilitate that, they won't allow them to get to those places, but there is potential, again for the temperature to be turned up by that activity. later in the day, hurry, tell us about some of the international reaction that has come through to try and deescalate tensions and also what the israeli authorities are saying as well as the palestinian leadership. well yes, there would be attempts, especially by the americans to try to to, to cool things down a number of schools by the secretary state lincoln yesterday, both with these ready foreign minister and with the palestinian president. with our
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boss, there are reports that will be further attempts in the coming days, us officials traveling to the region. we've also seen a great deal to protest from the arab world, even from the normalized countries that have signed a chords. recently, with israel, the united arab emirates pulling out of its plans to join in a fly past during the israeli independence day celebrations in a few weeks time in protest. what they say, the escalade 3 measures being taken by as ready forces at the sight behind us. israel for its part is saying that the, the, the violence has been caused by people storing rocks inside the mosque and using them to, to throw at both is ready forces and civilians. in recent days, they are blaming the, the palestinians for this. the palestinian leadership, of course, is calling me is ready, raids unacceptable and has expressed as have many palestinians fee is about the direction of travel in terms of the,
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the status quo on the site. worried that in the future that could be further restrictions placed on muslim freedom of worship. that is something that the israelis of course say, would not happen that they would guarantee, but these fears are profound and long standing on the palestinian side. thank you so much. harry. hoss reporting from occupied east jerusalem lessons for lanka, up at a city near colombo, under curfew after anti government protest against the growing economic crisis. professor zone rambo cannot open fire at a protest on tuesday, killing one person an injury nearly 20 others. officials say police started shooting to stop protest starts from setting fire to a fuel tank, her durbin widespread anti government demonstrations as to her length faces soaring fleet. fuel and food prices are de zeroes. man al fernandez has more from colombo. sure. and terry is police open fire against anom protesters in rumbled punish elonka. the protested had blocked de railtrack, ours,
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after the government raised fuel prices by more than 130 percent on tuesday. $24.00 people were injured including 8 policemen. many of them bleeding heavily were taken to the hospital in an audio statement. police spokesman me hotel, do a blame protesters for the violence on your own. don't you answering are either can, i mean was they were want repeatedly to disperse, but protestors did not listen. they tried to set fire to a tanker burnt a 3 wheeler taxi and damaged property. the police used to your gas to break up the crowd. at which point the crowd responded by throwing stones in order to control the situation. the police opened fire. police say they used minimally forced to stop the globe from trying to set fire to an oil tanker full of fuel. but rights activists have expressed skepticism at this explanation. dca, there is no justification for using live ammunition against protesters. similar
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protests were organized across the country as protesters barricaded access roads against the worsening economic conditions. present good albert roger, patsy's facing increasing demands to step down in a campaign called go to go home, which is seen thousands of protesters around his office for more than a week. he's refused to quit, but appointed a new cabinet on monday. but that doesn't seem to have worked. senior doctor's joined colleagues outside the largest children's hospital to protest again, shortages of medicine and other medical supplies. depleted for in reserves means the government has no money to buy basic medical requirements. we have an order to commit you to right now. so you had to go do some surgery. so we had to keep the whatever the available who may be the only for you my just just a example. list is very long. thousands of people joined a protest march organized by the national people. as paula coalition that reached
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columbus from barrow lane, the south reno, nevada idea that these things are getting worse day by day, and it's affecting the kitchen and we can't face it any longer. a position party said they're working on a no confidence motion against the government and considering introducing a constitutional amendment. seeking to reduce the powers of the executive presidency, protested, say they won't be fooled by quick fixes. bonaire fernandez urges era colombo, the international monetary fund. the says the warn ukraine is driving a global economic downturn. it slashed its growth forecast from 6 point one percent to 3.6 percent this year. she had a chance. he has more from washington. very most projections for the world economy have worse and significantly since its last report in january, when it predicted a post pandemic recovery. the reason is clear, global economy prospects of been severely set back, largely because of russia's invasion of ukraine. this crisis unfolds as the global
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economy has not yet fully recovered from the pandemic. from an estimated 6 point, one percent and 2021. the m f now says economic growth will shrink to 3.6 percent in 20222023. the phone says that inflation already surging due to the pandemic will be amplified due to war related supply shortages and its world economic outlook says increases and food and fuel prices could lead to social unrest. however, the i'm, i've also said inflation for advanced economies may 4 to 2.5 percent next year. some economists say that should mean a change in cost prevented devastating global recession. threatening to do what it's done many times before, which is to increase interest rates unnecessarily. and that affects a whole world because interest rates of other central banks tend to follow the fed in the world. and that makes it more difficult for developing countries to avoid
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crises, economic crises that push millions of people into poverty. but such as the uncertainty about the war and ukraine, further energy sanctions on russia, future deadly covert variance, and more supply bottlenecks in china, the m f says its latest predictions may be too optimistic to coincide with the m f spring meetings oxfam has released to study predicting a pandemic and the war and ukraine could push more than 263000000 people into extreme poverty. in 2022. the charities calling on the i m. f to stop increasing a hardship due to its insistence on conditioning loans to the developing world on implementing austerity policies. while it was rich nations to avoid cutting spending, to reserve what economic recovery there is one to forget the 1st of us. but we don't see the same in countries.
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i mean, oxfam says there's a disconnect between the i'm s research which discusses increased social unrest and more hunger because of the pandemic in the war. and the, i'm as actual policy prescriptions for the most needy nations, which demand the slashing of the social safety and the subsidies on cooking gas, increasing taxes on food and freezing public sector pe. she ever can see al jazeera washington. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, more than 500 rou, hinder refugees of escape from a temporary detention center and malaysia. 6 died after being hit by vehicles when they fled across a highway. police say nearly 400 have been found and re arrested for instantly has more from kuala lumpur. police have confirmed that there was a riot that preceded the breakout.

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