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but it's raining where he stays on, settle for iberia, and of course to very unsettled across west africa. now sierra leone, liberia gonna. but he tojo southern parts of nigeria, seeing some very heavy down pause over the next few days. linking up with the weather comes back him behind, but lossy fine and dry. i'm pleased to say the south africa. ah, i think him stories from african perspective. i'm the marine biologist. i business with a short documentary from african. he'll be, i'm going to do this from south africa, ethiopia, and nice to send heavy weapons to ukraine. ah, evicting of corruption. and some of them didn't just die
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in new. you have nothing to just, she did them. and i mean, mom's all day, millions of people in the horn of africa, or at risk of salvation due to the worst drought should stay tuned. gas company in rubles, instead of dollars and euro's both countries refused to accept the do terms. bulgaria says that it's made alternative arrangements of this got insights, a political magazine, he joins us now live via skype from also good to have you with us. so what are the implication? hello, this move by russia for both poland and bulgaria gas prices, but poland has invested over decades now in gas diversification. it can acquire gastro, allen, g ports. it is completing its baltic pipe together with denmark to provide a provide gas supplies from the nordic c. there is a prices for bulgaria, it's much more difficult situation because bulgaria is depend,
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see on one source is much higher. it's close 90 percent. and for bulgaria, a mean it will mean that they will desperately look for reverse flows from the rest of europe. part of the european solidarity to provide gas supplies to this country on, on the edge. ok, so who is this going to hurt more poland bulgaria or russia this is going to have supplies. but is this also a warning charge to the rest of euro, specifically to germany? that is now it's slowly shifting its policy on sanctions, especially sanctions on oil, where poland is able to provide assistance to supply oil through special part delivery, you know, enter to weaponized, energy supplies, and to hurt your a. but her europe is much more resilience than, than russia, as expected. one of the political implications, the in poland, especially if this goes on into next winter. well,
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poland is despite the cut of increasing gas storage, the plans are to continue increase in gas storage. so poland will be secure, will be an element of why their european energy security. the only uncertainty is about gas prices. that, of course, will be impacted by that move bond. this is a risk that because talk to somebody thinks that it's being with us for check. she will ski the, the editor in chief of visit grad insight. germany depends heavily on russian gas and has come under fire for failing to support ukraine with heavy weapons. but that's changing for the 1st time since the war began. germany will now send anti aircraft systems to the ukranian army out here. steadfast reports. now what's being seen as a major policy shift after his surprised visit to key it last weekend, u. s. defense equity light, austin told more than 40 defense ministers and official of countries worldwide,
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but they needed to do more for ukraine to win the war. we don't have any time to waste the briefings. let today, laid out clearly why the coming weeks will be so crucial for ukraine. so we gotta move at the speed of war. and i know that all the leaders leave to day more resolve than ever to support ukraine in his fight against russian aggression. an atrocities used ramstein air base in germany, the largest u. s. air base outside of the u. s. to bring ne to ministers, but also those from the middle east, africa and asia. together, the location was significant because especially germany had been reluctant to st. happy weapons to ukraine, not any more. the hum guest on and she'd and does via the okay. we decided on monday to support ukraine with capehart anti aircraft systems, which is exactly what you cry needs right now to security. a space from the ground
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from this has become clear again today which google the gay part, or cheater anti aircraft systems are not the combat. thanks. ukraine had asked 4 weeks ago, but it is c as a breakthrough after the german government was worried about being drawn into a war with russia. and chancellor olive shoals warned a few days ago for the possibility of a nuclear war. while many in europe are looking at germany to lead efforts to support ukraine to united states has now stepped in. with this meeting on german soil, united states as managed to convince countries like germany who are still reluctant to st. happy weapons to make a turn around. but the main question now is how nervous this will make people hear that the war will expand beyond ukraine. step, fasten from the ramstein air base in germany. the un secretary general onto antonio garages, on his way to poland, which is hosting the largest number of ukrainian refugees. on tuesday, he met russia's president vladimir putin at moscow way, pushed for
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a cease fire. russia agreed in principle to allow the you and red cross to help evacuate civilians who are trapped in a steel plant in murray or poll from moscow. torso jibari reports the world's most senior diplomat is in moscow on a mission. un secretary general antonio terrace says he has come to the russian capital as a messenger of peace. his audience, the most controversial world leader at the moment of russian president vladimir putin who received the secretary general with high praise for his organisation. russia, as one of the founding countries of the united nations and a permanent member of the security council has always supported this universal organization. and we believe that it is not just universal but unique in its kind. there is no such organization in the international community, and we strongly support the principles on which it is based on we intend to do so in the future. good,
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harris seemingly not missing any words about how the united nations seize russia, so called special military operation in ukraine repeating, i, i understand these grievances, but from our perspective, the grievances must be solved according to the different instruments that the un charter has at its disposal. and the one thing that we firmly believe is that the violation of the territorial integrity of the country is completely out of order in relation to the charter. earlier in the day. but harris kicked off his trip with a meeting at the russian foreign ministry and a working lunch with survey love robin version the 2 officials discussed for nearly 2 hours. their situation in ukraine. they emerged from what was described as a frank conversation. it is clear that there are due to different positions on what is happening in ukraine, according to the russian federation. what is taking place is a special me 30 open ocean with the objectives of what a loss,
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according to the un in line with the resolutions fast by the general assembly. rushes invasion of ukraine is a violation of his very thought of integrity and against the charge that of united nations in the russian foreign minister once again defended his country's decision . we're going to show show, but it shows show, conceal this was happening as a result of the actions of to us and its allies, and unipolar world to the guns. as for our geopolitical sphere, it was done in the interest of containing russia and to read and through. for many years green has been used as a springboard to restrain our country english. one of the main initiatives put forward by the secretary general involved entering the humanitarian crisis in the besieged port city of mary opal. the city is now under russian control. according to the defense ministry, but thousands of civilians are unable to leave it. something vladimir putin dismissed as mis information, cuz harris has proposed setting up
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a contact working group made up of russian, ukrainian, an un members to ensure that all residents wishing to leave can do so. and to allow aid into the area. after a 2 hour meeting with the russian president, the un says latter me are putting has agreed in principle to the involvement of the agency along with the international committee of the red cross to overseas. the evacuation of civilians from the as of self steel plants and mary opal, the un secretary general seemingly managed to achieve what many world leaders have failed to do so far. as he travels to ukraine, he will be looking for officials there to approve this plan as well. all the while to nearly 1000 civilians continue to wait to get out of the underground tunnels in one of europe's largest steel plants. doors such a bari al jazeera moscow was a call to man, law has sentenced, ousted leader also answered she to 5, he is in jail,
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said she was found guilty of accepting $600000.00 and $7.00 gold bars and bribes. 76 year old trial was closed to the media. she's facing 10 other corruption charges the could she has sentence to more than 100 years in prison. she's already been sentenced to 2 years in jail for him sent to the intent to incite a tubal for breaching with 19 rules possessing, unlicensed walkie talkies and sharing secret information. she charged with influencing the election commission and faces 11 corruption cases which each carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison of stoke to phil robertson, who's the deputy director at human rights watches, asia division. he joins us now live from bangkok. phil, what's your reaction to this? well, on songs of cheese life as a free woman as effectively over. ah, it's quite clear that the military junta there is going to do everything they can to keep her behind bars. she's 76 years old. now she's at 11 years in prison and
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there's going to be more coming with other criminal charges and other court trials coming later this year. i think that they're trying to a locker away for life that they do not want to see her or her political party ever surfacing again. and this is part of their effort to destroy our popular democracy in human rights. in myanmar you are in no doubt that this was a sham trial. ah, yes, it's actually sham. i mean, these are kangaroo courts. they are waiting for the instructions from the military who don, how to rule there. there's no iota of independence. a of these courts, do we have any idea about her well being where she's being held on it, what conditions there's nothing really that has come out that it clearly indicates where she's being held. ah, we suspect that she may be held in some sort of
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a government guest house, some sort of remote area of the administrative capital, maybe not. but we really don't know. we have not seen her in any major prison are. we believed that if she was in a prison, we would probably hear about it. so she's been locked away in some remote corner of myanmar. ah, to remain out of sight and ensure that the, the people in myanmar don't get any encouragement from her from seeing her or seeing her face on, on the tv or in anywhere. so she, you know, they, they're really trying to throw the cover over on sanctity and prevent her from being seen by anyone want. should governments around the world be doing in terms of pressure upon the gentle well, what the shows is that the, the, the woman who won the november 2020 election a landslide is now a prisoner on country. this is another argument for sanctions against the,
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the military and military companies to really increase the pressure on myanmar. increasingly, myanmar has sort of fallen out of the headlines with other things going on in the world. it's time for rededication of effort by the international community to pressure them. jamara honda to restore democracy and to respect human rights. good still chief. how many thanks. did phil robertson there from human rights watch? speaking from bangkok, still to come on al jazeera, searching for justice investigators in ukraine, or uncovering clues that may point to war crimes committed by russian forces or mothers, last ditch legal challenge to save her son from death row in singapore. fails. ah.
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hello it's warming up nicely. now we're cross southeast and parts of europe are lots of lovely, warm sunshine, clear skies here, blue sky, beautiful weather that the central and eastern parts of the mediterranean pushed farther north. we have got a week where the system just making his way across scandinavia. high pressure still influencing the weather is where the system not producing too much, right. but it will introduce some cooler air across scandinavia, falling on mat, recent hot spell in between low pressure keeping things very unsettled, aren't essential parts. so if you have some wet weather coming in across austria, sliding down through hungry easing over towards the black sea, there's that hot sunshine down towards the south, east 25 in athens. not too bad. a tool. good deal cooler farther north temperatures now struggling to get up into double figures. therefore, all slower is push a little further west. scout and ray once again coming back into the full cost. therefore, spain and portugal, not just on wednesday, thursday, slides a little further east was more wet by the coming in. and that is that where to
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whether also feeding into west southern parts of ukraine as we go on into the latter part of the week. the wet weather that we have across the western side of the mediterranean, bringing some live showers there into northern pass morocco. and algeria and sundry showers right across the gulf of kinney. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks of banning russian oil, a gas for western leaders or sanctions on russian energy exports? christopher was informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jeddy, still resumed the area we're going to be attacking from missouri and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. germany says that it will send anti aircraft systems, the ukranian army, that
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a major shift and policy berlin had come under pressure for refusing to provide heavy weapons to ukraine. the un secretary general is heading to poland on his way to ukraine's capital. on tuesday, he met russia's president vladimir putin in moscow. hootin agreed in principle to allow the u. n. to help evacuate civilians from the perceived city of money. a whole ukraine's government is investigating more than 500 people who are suspected of committing thousands of possible war crimes. evidence is being gathered across the country. all zeros hotter abdel hamid travel to villages north of kiff. just a warning that you may find some of the pictures and halters report disturbing traffic. ever since the russians pulled out a few weeks ago. detective victoria namir rover and her team have been zooming buddies. at least 10 day luke a task. she never thought she would be doing when she fling around the body, trying to figure out how it's positioned
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a good morning to the who. these are the feet said the head is over there. she says . at 1st assessment reveals it's a man who appears to be in his sixties. it's only when they flip the body over that she finds a clue into the cause of death. more. what awning on your thumb, not for foolish nature senior. his go to wanted the back of the hat, most likely it's from a bullet because he had blood coming out of the mouse. the body is the composing and the skinny, stuck to the clothes. so in order not to damage it more, right, we will take him away and then the forensic expert will investigate further. we found his fawn, we will charge it and hopefully find out more about him. the full scope of what happened when the russian soldiers left the towns north of keith is still not clear, but the trail of destruction left behind is evident. civilians have been telling about how they were bagley targeted as they were trying to flee. they had
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bullet holes all over this windshield, but this car was hit by some large caliber ammunition from the side here. and you can see still the remains of what appears to be a white flag marking the fact that they were civilians in this vehicle. and then here on this side of the car, you see the point of exit, of where they ever rip through the car. and inside it's mayhem, you still actually have blood stains everywhere. and in the middle of all that, a passport it belongs to a young man who was born in september 1990 children who, who killed. oh, this is number in char children. but again, we don't. it's another example of a ledge war crimes. among the thousands of cases that investigators have been documenting says, ukraine's prosecutor general assembly mom, she has dispatched teams around the country to gather evidence here and borrowed
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yankee. they're set up in a classroom and it's full of people telling their stories. again, hill and civilians, samo them over after tortured torture civilians. we are now started to prosecute sexual crimes raping. we see eat, unfortunately with thee then they talk o property officer the lance. oh, we see again there they bombed again and again they bumped civilian restructure. hospitals came to hardens schools more than 1000 into kish or institution destroyed in ukraine. what is this? of course it's military. it is what crime knew by boucher do. mortgage overwhelmed, refrigerated trucks are also overflowing with bodies. olga finally found her husband after coming here for several days. he was killed while she was away in poland, upper to move her to sit there for the rest of the neighbors called and said me,
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he was shot on march 20. so he was going to the garage to get some foot. 2 russian soldiers saw him ran after him and shot him twice. the russians didn't allow the body to be picked up for 3 days. brush denies committing any atrocities suggesting they've been staged. but do you and human rights offers says, there is growing evidence of war crimes committed by russian soldiers and fears. many more could emerge as the fighting continues in the east and south of the country, where the little hamid elder z route north of keefe hospital in the korean city of cromer tours has stretched to breaking point due to staffing shortages. most of the health workers left the city when russia began its invasion, only a handful of staff remained to help the wounded, comatose has been targeted by russia several times at least 53 people were killed when missiles hit its train station earlier this month. yes,
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mister burns on the hulu. so which is warm as you go out? the hospital is in a very difficult situation. we don't have enough staff, it affects the professional support we can provide here. however, the people who have stayed understand that if we leave, there will be nobody to provide medical support and a huge number of people will simply die without this support or as a withdrawal make a d. j, i as become the 1st chinese tech company, the halt operations in russia since the start of the war. it's also suspended operations in ukraine, d. j. i says it wants to ensure that the drones aren't used in combat. most chinese firms have continued their operations, taking cues from beijing's official stance of opposing sanctions against moscow. while much of the world is feeling the impact of the war in ukraine in areas like the economy and food prices. people living in the horn of africa are experiencing some of the worst effects of climate change. 2019 brought extreme rain on flooding, followed by swarms of locusts. now the region is experiencing its was drought in 40
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years, and 20000000 people are at risk of starvation the conditions of destroyed crops and killed millions of livestock forcing people to leave their homes in search of food and water will in kenny about 3 and a half 1000000 people are suffering because of the drought on to 0. how to matessa reports now from massive bit county in the north, lo chico and her including young, are worried about the baby boy. he 7 months old and sick, weak and hungry. there isn't enough food because of a drug. his mother con gauge nothing to eat and con, produce enough milk for him. they lost another child in february. they say he stopped a lot to look to. he got sick and died. i don't know what to do about this other child. she might also die because she's hungry. millions of families across the horn of africa, a hungry and desperate might. it might not be facing the worst drought. the region
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has seen in 40 years in kenya, more than 3 and a half 1000000 people need immediate help. agencies say nearly 800000 of them are children. the animals too, are dying as it gets hotter and dryer. people out here tend to move around a lot, looking for food and water for themselves, and the animal of many areas are remote to come to the nearest hospital can be hours away. some of the women have say they can lead very early in the morning and only get to the clinic late at night. cases of malnutrition, arising at this local health center, health workers are struggling to cope. they say when some of the children get here, they are severely malnourished. my teacher and i've been here for so long myself, i can say it is her pony, my position, but it wasn't because of a drought. for the last 2 years, we have not received winful grace gibbons, his many children are going to school hungry. she says this drought is the worst
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she has ever seen. some of them. they're just die. and we have nothing to just feed them. and i me more all day. good, good. just depend on you. what a little water is left in streams and rivers may soon run out. desperate families stressed the little that's left and can only hope the rains soon fall again. and i'm a toss a joint to star live from colacho in northern kenya. give us a sense of just how wide scale this problem is harm or we're in massive county and give an idea of how big this place is. once you cross the sign that says, welcome to massive it, you will drive for hours and hours and hours, and it's not a tod road to get to some of these remote areas along the way. you will see caucuses of camels and cow that died from the drought. if i the only animals that
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seem to be surviving out here are the goats and donkeys. i suppose it's because they are built for this environment. but to get to remote villages like the one here, for example, you need to get off the road. the roads are pretty bad when you reach the people here, they'll tell you how desperate they are. you mean mothers will say my child is about one year old and you look at the child and the child is extremely thin, too small for their age. you look at the here, it's a fine fine texture. you can tell the child a lot nourished. you look at adults, a grown man, he's naturally thin, of course, but he's skinny than usual because he is just hungry. the place is dry, it's desolate. it hasn't rained a long, long time, nothing much is growing here. and a lot of people complain about how they are losing their animals. you can see the enclosure over there, it's empty. they used to have the camels in there. they say a lot of them have died. that means no milk for their families. and the children that i lot of children, i'm on nourished. you asked them, are you getting help from people?
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and to be honest, we been here for a few days and i thought i'd seen a lot more aid workers and government officials on the ground. but i didn't really see much, we bumped into a fairly small group of international aid organizations and some government officials, they're literally just arrived in there were assessing the situation. they had come to give some food rations to the children who are monarchist. and because areas are remote, they need to try and reach these people in these far flung places where there are no roads in some cases. so they send out word to communities that will be here on such a day. i left me to the river or a lake and we'll tell you what's what we're going to give you and you will tell us exactly what you need. and the network system here, the phone, it systems, and i was non existant, so it could take days to get word to people to come out and get the help that they actually need. and this is not just here in kenya, it's across the horn of africa, also in ethiopia and somalia. family savvy are really struggling, and the ones here in kenya that we're making a few days been around are saying that some are getting some help, if not enough,
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and they need more. all right, how many thanks and date out as here's how to matessa reporting live there from colacho in northern kenya for syrian soldiers have been killed in an israeli asked reich serious defense ministry says that at least 3 others were injured. local media reported to exclusion was being heard over the capital, damascus. in the early hours of the morning, a malaysian man with intellectual disabilities found guilty of drug trafficking in singapore has been executed, naga and from darma lingam had been on death row for more than a decade. after being caught, bringing 44 grams of heroine into the country, governments, groups, and celebrities. a call for his execution to be stalked. a final legal challenge filed by his mother failed the war to wealthiest university, harvard in the us plans to spend $100000000.00 making up for its extensive links to slavery. the university says the money will go towards research and plans to find
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and support the descendants of enslaved people who work on the ivy league campus. harvard's release to report on ways that it's benefited from slavery and showed that it had at least 70 black and native american captives at the school. in the $16.17 hundreds, the report avoids recommending direct financial, reparations, or support for that the sentence, ah, it's pathetic whether it's hello adrian. so they get here in doha with the headline . so i'll to 0.

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