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above starting with the living creatures, the planning to resurrect an extinct species, i could visit freights, save our wild witness the zimm of hypothesis on algae era. ah, russia steps up its operations. an eastern new crane by the key of government's western allies, send more weapons. ah, i'm parry don't missus al jazeera life and also coming up a town in ruins. we report from an area near ukraine's capital devastated by russia's assault. it's actually difficult to describe the amount of destruction that you see in this village. civilian targets are houses,
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lives of people completely destroyed. city officials in india's capital tear down shops and properties they say were built illegally after wave of criminal fathers during a recent hindu festival. and more than $500.00 wrangler refugees, escape from an immigration detention facility. northern malaysia. a search is underway for the 3rd time, a russian deadline for ukrainian soldiers to surrender. the besieged port city of mariposa has passed. moscow has demanded ukrainian forces, hold up in there as af starlette. steele thought give up their arms, but they haven't surrendered. then that's another. somewhat not for me. this is our appeal to the world. this could be our last appeal of our lives. we are may be facing our last days, if not,
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our enemies outnumbering us 10 to one. they have advantage in the air in artillery, in their forces on land equipment and in tanks. we are only defending one object. the adult cell plant, where in addition to military personnel, there are also civilians who are form victim to this war. we appeal and plead to all world leaders to help us rushes defense ministry says it hits more than a 1000 targets across the country over night. as part of its renewed operation in eastern ukraine, ukrainian millet, she says its troops fighting back not the report internet with a little high school blessed day over the past 24 hours in the territory of jeanette scan hom squeegee. and stan attacks by russian invaders were a belt was tanks 28 armored vehicles, 2 vehicles and one artillery system were destroyed and western powers offending new shipments of heavy weaponry to help you crane defend the east charles strapped for that is near the front line in cost anton guy in eastern ukraine's dumbass region
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with more suddenly around this area has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the last 48 hours or so. and that was up until this morning. certainly around here. we've heard sporadic shelling in this area. we've been to a village, basically the closest bill as you can get to the frontline, ukrainian military advising heavily on us. not going any further. we've met a woman in that village. i suppose. you could really describe it more of a hamlet and 4 or 5 houses. aha, a shell had landed very close to her home. and basically much of the home destroyed . we asked her why she hasn't joined the hundreds of thousands of other people that have left this area. and it's often the same response that you get from people still here, which is literally, i have no where else to go up. meanwhile, we understand that there has been shelling in various different places along the
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front line. we can hear stuff going on both to our east and west, and the rumbling of what sound like can possibly air strikes, possibly heavy artillery. we cannot confirm either side whether whether it's incoming or outgoing. and interestingly, there is this sense of a renew confidence if you like, in the ukraine, in military amongst the ukraine and officials who are saying that there has been, well they describe as an offensive to try or at least repelling success in repelling russia's moves. russia falls, his moods on a number of different areas. while we have correspondence following developments in the u. s. u and russia. kimberly how kurtz is standing by in washington dc. step lawson is in lin 1st let's cross. so with her door search jabari, whose life was now in moscow. and also how does russia view these arms, the shipment ukraine we've been hearing about
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well, the officials here and believe that this is certainly not helping the situation. we have just heard from the foreign ministry spokesperson, who i said that said this latest shipments that is now on its way in some of it is already in ukraine. part of that should been, includes 11, am i 17 helicopters, which are russian made. and the united states purchased these helicopters from the russians in order to provide them to the afghan army. and now, according to the countries foreign ministry here, and they believed that this will be used by the ukrainians, i am possibly, and they could carry out a tax on a russian soil. this is just an idea. it gives you an idea of how complicated the situation has become. we had heard from the russian defense minister earlier, who said that at the west that is providing these shipments of aid, military aid to ukraine. their aim is just to prolong the war at the conflict that
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is ongoing with ukraine and that they will fight until they will continue to send at military 8 until the last ukrainian soldier. and we understand also that last week the russian embassy in washington had passed a note as to the officials in d. c, saying that there could be unexpected consequences as a result of the decision to a continue to send military aid to ukraine. and also what's the latest on the somewhat strained diplomatic efforts to, to try and in this conflict yes, these talks have been ongoing for weeks now as since the starts of this so called special military operation on february 24th. a few days later, they were ukrainian and russian and negotiators who were meeting and that the last round of meeting that they had in person was it is stumble at the end of march
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at that time at the ukrainians presented to a, an a draft agreement. and the russians as well, their version of one and the both sides agree to some kind of language for this as future agreements that will come. now the russians have said that as since then, the ukrainians have changed some of the language that they agreed upon. and now the russian and the spokesperson for the kremlin. dmitri pascal said that the russians have sent back a version of an agreement with very clear text to the ukrainians. and we understand the ukrainian negotiators have received it and are now looking at it closely before they will respond. but there isn't a lot of hope for these negotiations. and the russian president, vladimir putin has said that as far as he understood it last week, these talks had reached a deadlock. and the russians have been accusing the ukrainian negotiators of stalling and changing their minds continuously throughout this process. and of
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course, the ukrainians have their counter accusations saying the russians are using these talks as a pretext to continue this conflict. and they're really not interested in seeing it end any time soon. though such of our in moscow. thank you. was staying with us. let's go to our white house correspondent timberly. how could now kimberly tell us more if you can about the us plan for more military assistance to craig. well, we know that the state department has confirmed that another major package in terms of military aid is under consideration by the biden administration. this comes on the heels of an $800000000.00 package that was approved and all ready is being dispensing has been dispensed to ukraine. this was a very detailed package that was put in place some weeks ago, included radar systems, coastal defense systems on man systems as well as small defense,
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arms and ammunition. and we suspect that their package that will be supplied this time around will be somewhat similar, including personnel carriers, humvees, and also the ability for soldiers to defend from chemical biological and radiological attacks. now, in terms of this new package that is being considered, this comes on the heels of a lengthy video conference call that the u. s. president participated in one day ago with his western allies and partners. and this is one that he has been consulting with sort of ongoing, in terms of the russian invasion of ukraine, the u. s. president saying for a very long time now that the foundation of his foreign policy was one that would be in coordination with western allies. and that is exactly what he is continuing
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to do with regard to these consideration of this aid package. now, in terms of this package specifically moving forward, we know that the u. s. president is going to be meeting today with the chair of the joint chiefs as well as his defense secretary, lloyd austin. that is set to take place at 20 g m t. and just prior to that, we know that the defense secretary lloyd austin will also be meeting with the polish defense minister about 15 g m t. so this is certainly something that we expect is going to be discussed as this package is not only weighed, but also we expect is to be announced imminently. kimberly, how could all mark house correspondent with update their or germany's foreign minister says berlin will ramp up aid for ukraine as soon as possible. and we'll provide training and help to maintain weapons that are sent to give another hot, not defined yet capacitor. other partners and now supplying armored vehicles. i would like to say he and clearly this is not to be for us either him,
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even if it's sometimes sounds like it in the german to basia. but we have already a gray to such deliveries. but we don't have anything available at short notice that we can now deliver really quickly and immediately or steadfast, and that joins us live now from berlin. that was more, has the german government said than about providing reference to ukraine? well, not so much and that's the problem. there's a growing criticism on the german government for not doing enough to help ukraine. the government has sat there not ready to send these heavy weapons on the lena bear bab, excited to the foreign minister, but also all of shows. so the chancellor sent it yesterday. he said that the government and the army simply doesn't have enough equipment to be sent to ukraine . he says, what they can offer is financial assistance for ukraine to buy weapons. apparently
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there is a list that ukraine and can choose from. but the ukranian ambassador here in berlin said that the weapons that they actually want, which are tanks are not on this list. ukraine has specifically says specifically are for the 2nd hand german tanks. a leopard one tanks have been mentioned, but also a martyr. personal carriers and the government has said that they simply can't be sent an an arm supplier side. they have them ready, but they need a few weeks to be sent. but i also suggested that the government send them to ukraine, which they have in their possession. and then the arms company can basically replace them. but even that the chancellor has sat is not possible at the moment, which has led to disappointment from your grade was at the method of said it's a very bitter message to hear from germany. stevenson that thank you very much indeed for that update. most of the heads on al jazeera
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israeli troops fire rubber bullets inside the accent must compound. we have the latest on rising tensions occupied the site and sri lankan ramp calls for the president to step down for the police killing of an anti government protest . ah hello, we've got rain clouds gathering across southern parts of japan over the next couple of days. it's largely fine and dry at the moment with high pressure in charge, but not high is pulling out of the way this massive cloud will slide its way in this weather system to the north of us here. that's going to just east down across northern areas of china, pushing towards the far east of brush. but as that where to where the coming in across q shoe for thursday,
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big down pause. they're pushing towards tokyo close through nicely as we go on into friday. warm sunshine coming back in 27 degrees celsius. personally wet and windy weather gale force windsor into hawkeye for a time. she make her way through the remainder of the week. heavy showers meanwhile, will continue across central and southern parts of china. sinking a little further south, which as we go through the next day or so, pushing further south, we got plenty of showers there across southeast asia, in the china seeing some live the showers. cambodia. allow seeing some wet weather thailand, looking a little unsettled as well. and the usual rash of showers across malaysia, and still staying unusually wet across a good part of indonesia over the next couple of days. meanwhile, the unusually wet weather will continue to southern parts of india and blanca for a time, some very wet weather to the northeast and bangladesh. hot from the west, india. ah.
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passed. moscow has demanded ukrainian forces. hold up. no, it's off stout steel plant. keep up their arms, but they haven't surrendered. ukraine's military says it's fighting back against a new russian assault in the east. moscow's defense ministry says it hit more than a 1000 targets across the country. ukraine says it repelled several attacks while most of the fighting has been concentrated in eastern and southern parts of the country, the full extent to the damage in ukraine's other regions is still unknown. although abdul hamid is in for, with the anchor, a town near key if that's been reduced to rubble. well, the situation is just as you can see behind me, i mean it's, it's actually difficult to describe the amount of destruction that you see in this village. a boy danica is not bigger than a village. this, these are private homes actually earlier. the owner of this home and old lady
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called valentina, was here trying to salvage anything she could from to wreckage. and i asked her, what did you get out of it? and she just showed me a few pillows that she had put in the car. and now she told me she spent a whole war. so until the 29th of march in the basement of her house. and when she came out, this is what she found. her whole life reduced absolutely to rubble. and then if you have a little walk around here now the, the, it has been some work to clear out all this area of piles and piles of rubble. but look at this apartment building is quite impressive. to see you can see just one block of the apartment. not there any more. everything charge. i don't think anyone can come and live here. maybe those buildings will have to be torn down and brought up again. now, driving here was about a 2 hour drive from kim. what you do see is pockets of exactly that same scene.
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civilian targets are houses, lives of people completely destroyed. and there's no way they could come back and live in this village, at least for the foreseeable future. and as i said, you see that in village after village all the way from here to kim, just to give you an idea of what happened here. and when you look at this, you can imagine what's going to happen in a dumbass. you can imagine what's unfolding at the moment in where you pull, where the fight is, even much more virulent than what has happened here. the u. n. it says that more than 5000000 people have now fled ukraine. they're mainly women and children because men in order to stay behind and fight morgan, half of the refugees of ended up in neighboring holland for the government has given them access to health care in education. fighting as their to europe's biggest refugee crisis since the 2nd world war will glide humanly fear what we cry
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. we all have the feeling that we've no home. we've no idea where to go what to do, where to run. it's very scary massage readily. we wanted to go immediately because all the houses around were destroyed. we sat in the seller's, afraid to go out. everything was plundered, hello, people wanted to east. we also had no water. in new delhi city officials used bulldozers to raise shops, stores, and properties. they say are illegal. their actions continued despite india's talk . court ordering a halt to the eviction drive. it happened in the jer hung inquiry neighbourhood where most of the residence on was them. 4 days ago, they were violent confrontations in the area between largely hindu muslim crowds during a religious procession. it's a conspiracy against muslim, so muslims don't live in this area. but why can must them stay here? are muslims terrorists? whether this was my shop, they were writing there and did other things, but it's asked the shop owners who are getting crushed this. alice dick was for so
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many years, nothing happened for so many years to the government or any one else not know of. there could be fighting between hindu and muslims. did. they only realized after stones were thrown during the religious procession. child, they are just troubling the common man, elizabeth moran, him is in new delhi. now with more on this, the definitions in the neighborhood of john get put in northwest delhi, have now stopped. but that took the north deli municipal corporation which was carrying them out more than 2 hours after the supreme court asked them to stop pull doors and structures to do so. in other boulders, with all those. this was centered at 10 o'clock in the morning. they were accompanied by hundreds of police and paramilitary forces, and they worked full 3 hours destroying many dozens of properties, mostly shops, and mostly belonging to him, those but some mostly belonging to muslims, rodder, but some belonging to hindus, as well dales were destroyed, the gate to the jahan gate 40 mosque. now the north dela municipal corporation has
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lun by the hindu nationalist by the agenda party. and it says that what happened on wednesday was part of their regular, what they call encroachment drive to remove illegal structures, but it didn't take place as 4 days after the violence between handlers and muslims in this predominantly muslim neighborhood. and just 2 days after the battle, he jumped the parting of the ship is deli, teeth asked the north deli, may i to destroy any and legally constructed structures and belonging to people that were arrested in connection to saturdays violence. now 24 people have been arrested so far, most of them have been muslim, and we spoke to our team, spoke to people, and john gave pooley who said that they feel that muslims are being disproportionately targeted and are both hindu and muslim shop liners whose structures were destroyed, said that they had nothing to do with saturdays, via a jacket, and sorry, as a journalist in new delhi, he says the demolitions are being used as
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a political to buy prime minister marines remote his party. no. could body elections. i sure do for later that in they are in new delhi, the b, g, p, and 2 successive assembly elections and has been routed. and they are trying to use this as a means to try and get back to the board. those it has now become a sort of an election mascot for the boxes to be viewed as a means to try and polarize last. rent is very clashes took place between the members of the 2 communities. tension has been sitting there and now they've used this as an excuse to, to try and get rid of encroachments if that indeed was the case. then half of teddy is just full of include twins and illegal structures. so believe one of the forces companies in south sandy farms is that's where the rich and famous are very state. that's wholly legal. why not begin from day? why begin? where the, where the,
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where the poorest people stay. and most of them happen to be from a particular community number slims more than 500 or hanging refugees of escaped from a temper detention center in northern malaysia. they say more than $360.00 of those who got out have already been re arrested. so in st. louis has more from quantum for hundreds of detainees on the run, nearly 530 people escaped off to riot at a detention center for undocumented migrants in malaysia's kodak state, police say the detainees broke down doors in grills and fled. 23 immigration officers on duty were overwhelmed. at least 6 people, including 2 children, were killed while attempting to cross a highway. more than $360.00 have been re arrested and an operation is under way to recapture those still at notch. the cause of the riot is still not knowing that we have set up a team to investigate this thoroughly. we take statements from all those involved
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to determine the cause of the right. several rights groups have long criticized conditions inside malaysia's immigration detention centers. citing overcrowding and poor hygiene, a ro hanger, activist who was a refugee malaysia, told al jazeera a people will never choose to take such a risky journey unless the situation and the detention center as dire. so my knowledge, i'm aware that it is often very difficult to have adequate and appropriate access to food or medications or other basic needs. please say those who escaped are ringer, malaysia is a popular destination for the mainly muslim bringer. seeking to escape persecution, myanmar or life confined to refugee camps in bangladesh, they pay human smugglers and risk their lives on dangerous sea voyages for the chance of a future somewhere else. yet, those who arrive here aren't necessarily better off. malaysia does not recognize
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refugee status. so they can't work legally and their children have no right to education. malaysia hosts more than a 100000 ringo who are registered with the u. n. refugee agency. but there are thousands more who remain undocumented. after arriving here illegally florence li al jazeera kuala lumpur. people in sri lanka are again protesting in a city near colombo, where police shot and killed the protest. her yesterday offices in that rumble kona opened fire to protest on tuesday, killing one person, an injury nearly 20 others. these with the city on the curfew, with a protest as are defining the ban. they've been widespread. the anti government demonstrations as shrunk of faces, soaring a few and food prices. note fernandez has more now from colombo. here as you see, back in colombo, outside the president of the secretariat, it's quite busy. or you can see a march actually going back. and this is the general torn of things for the last 10
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or 12 days. this group of protesters i sort of give or take, you know, a couple of 100 have pitched in. they refused to move until their demand. that water go home or reference to president, gotta be roger proctor, the prime minister, my in the roger proctor and his government go home. could they say they're not going anywhere until such time that there's a clean sweep? no matter whether the government appoints a new cabinet or does cosmetic changes. hong kong court has sentence to pro democracy act to this and former radio host to 40 months in jail come attack. she was convicted of sedition last month he was a prominent face and the mass protest swept through home quite recent years. by that time has been in custody for more than a year and a half since his arrest in september 2020. 0, good credit is in hong kong with more and handing down the sentence,
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judge stanley chan said that tom touchy showed very little remorse and sincerity during the court proceedings. time was a very outspoken figure. he ran a very popular talk show and there's some concern about what this sentencing might mean for media freedom press freedom in hong kong, which is meant to be guaranteed in the cities. many constitution. the basic law, when hong kong was handed back to chinese rule from british rule, there's also some concern about what the new leadership might bring into hong kong from july. there will be a new liter taking over from chief executive carry lamb. and that's expected to be the one horse race, which is a john lee. the former security chief, john lee led the response to the 2019 protest since he's expected to take a more hard line approach to leadership. so there is a renewed sense of unease and apprehension about what this new era of leadership in hong kong might mean. reckless al jazeera hong kong tensions remain high. the alex,
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the mosque compound after the incursion of a jewish ultra nationalist groups into the holy side is very forces have stopped from young wisdoms from leaving the compound. earlier is ready. troops fired rubber bullets, one of the masks windows off to someone through a stone as a soldier. since friday, a number of students have been injured in israeli res only occupied compound, or a force that is in occupied through them with the latest. well, it's been calmer relatively than what we saw over the weekend, for example, but it still remains the case that the alex, the most compound, saw israeli forces on it in large number early earlier on this morning they cleared the compound, they restricted entry to it by young was the men and they sealed the doors again of the mosque itself with worshippers inside all to provide the circumstances in which
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they could bring in these the, these jewish, many of them politically motivated, often far right. often settlers and we have seen people chanting, anti arab slogans. that's the kind of thing that is extremely provocative as far as palestinians are concerned. and what we saw were stones throwing out from the inside the mosque, as well as out at least one molecule cocktail. and another burning object was thrown from an open window. police firing rubber, bullets, 2 injuries, one in the hand, and one in the back of the head. we are told by palestinian sources. the results are in from the east timor elections, and the country is chosen as 8 ramos horta, as its next president, nobel laureate, got more than 62 percent of the vote defeating incumbent. francisco terrace, who received about 38 percent, is the 2nd time at ramos horta will lead east timor. he was also president from 2007 until 2012. now india is using cow dung to power
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rural industries and homes in order to lower its reliance on fossil fuels move could also give poor farmers a new source of income. rural households burn cattle droppings to heat stoves in the house. the government has tried to phase out the practice by subsidizing gas. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories now for the 3rd time, a russian deadline of ukrainian soldiers to surrender. the besieged port city of marrable has passed. moscow has demanded ukrainian forces, hold up and as af store steal plan to give up their arms, but they haven't surrendered. ukrainian military says it's fighting back against a new russian assault as a focus of the cause it moves eastward. oscars operation has been described as the back.

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