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is of develop, filling a promise of connecting the world, connecting the future. won the cato, cortez gateway to whoa trade. ah, a cease fire allows around 20 people, including children to escape a steel works in mario paul besieged by russian forces. as fighting continues in eastern ukraine, were very close to the village of butler vin cubic. which is south of is you represents english fixedly a new front. ah, i'm a jim,
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jim. this is al. does your alive from door ha. also coming up ukraine's 2nd biggest city hark eve comes under renewed shelling after weeks of bombardment, close to russia's border for the search for justice in argentina led by the survivor of a massacre a century ago of indigenous cotton, plantation workers, russia and ukraine. se 20 civilians have been allowed to leave the as of stall steelworks and mario paul, including women and children. thousands of ukrainian fighters and civilians are thought to be trapped underneath the complex with conditions worsening. i assume unusual to the teresa wouldn't, puts wallace to one level of the entire night. enemy artillery was shelling the plot which led to more rubble and destruction. the silence was supposed to begin at 6 am, but it only began at 11 am. it's true now both sides are adhering to the regime. we
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have been waiting for the evacuation convoy to arrive since 6, but it didn't arrive till 625. a 740 we 100 over 20 civilians who are able to be reclaimed from the rubble. they are women and children, and we hope that these people will go in the agreed direction, namely to supervisor and territory under ukrainian control. the un is trying to negotiate the evacuation of civilians from mary paul alexia. brian has more on the plight of those trapped in the still works. ah, in a basement below mario pulse as of style steel, plant, ukrainian border guard, sing the national anthem. ah, they say they defending the last bastion of ukrainian territory in the besieged port city. rumor has it deliberately they say to me to the finals and ukrainian fighters sheltering and the plants, vast network of tunnels and bankers, as well as a 1000 civilians. the focus of you in efforts to broker
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a humanitarian corridor. the ukrainian regiment, known as the as of battalion released these pictures, a woman said to be a doctor tells of, increasingly, di, conditions must not which i know. imagine your source guys are literally dying before our eyes because we don't have any possibility to evacuate them. there is no way to heal them properly. we just ask, we beg to give us at least slightest chance to save life of these fighters above ground on the ruins of a city that's been described as hell on earth. mary, your pole has been pummeled into submission. it's people facing what city officials say is a catastrophic shortage of drinking water and food. long cra, healey, blue. i had a beautiful house, a good apartment, and now i have no apartment, nothing that you could hillary tool. i live alone and no one can help me from watching it. oh, further north and how keith local fighters do what they can to protect their
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neighbors program when your city is being destroyed or when you're close, people are being killed. there is no other option but to defend them. greenwich between them, but they say they feel helpless against rushes, fighting power, forced to stand by as miss isles, rain down. russia's been intensifying its operations in the east. but weston intelligence suggests moscow's troops are only making minor advances that the offensive is days behind schedule. walk as of the of the enemy is inflicting air missile and artillery attacks on civilian and military infrastructure, deep in ukrainian territory. the regrouping and strengthening of the occupying forces continues. the u. s. accuses rushes. president vladimir putin of depravity and his invasion. but russia's foreign minister, sir guy leverage, says the west is at fault, and nato countries are doing everything they can to prevent a ceasefire by sending weapons to ukraine. until a deal is reached,
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the fighting rages on alexia brian al jazeera. while russia has not released casualty figures since late march ukrainian president vladimir zalinski sat on saturday, but more than 23000 russian soldiers had been killed. he called the war senseless. a coupon thing, but i share the occupiers gathering additional forces for new attacks against the military and the east of the country. they brought reinforcements to the hockey region, trying to increase pressure on the don bass, and they've lost more than 23000 soldiers in the battle of the senseless war for russia. but they do not stop to ukrainian soldiers have been fighting the village by village in the east of the country against russian forces who been bombarding the dunbar region. the russians are in control of the town of idiom, there trying to advance south inland to surround still beyond sc and cromer dorski . having failed to progress down the m o 3 highway,
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they're showing towns like lehman to the east and barbara culver to the west where charles stratford reports from me. we are very close to the village of bottle vancouver, which is south of elysium and represents in this war, effectively a new front, a new attempt by russian forces to push south in order to surround the city of slow sc. now, we can't film the soldiers of this position, but one thing i can tell you is that they are very nervous. and the reason that is, is because this particular position came on the far artillery far earlier today. it's all known how many people are still inside, but of ink away. we have not seen any civilians leaving but since we arrived yet again, a lot of heavy shilling, we believe targeting the east of the town.
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savanski is the target. it is the big urban centre with neighboring cremmit tossed in this area. and so far, at least the ukrainians have managed to keep russian forces back. but there is a fear amongst the soldiers here that the closer we get to may, the 9th, and a day that vladimir putin, it's believed once something to show for their efforts, the russian efforts in this war. the closer we get to that date, the more tense and the more dangerous it becomes in areas like these shall stratford al jazeera outside the village of but of inc over eastern ukraine. the 2nd largest city in ukraine harkey is coming under yet more russian shelling after suffering sustained a bombardment during the war. i'll just hear as much in him is there. and then we
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are now inside one of the industrial districts of car keys, which has been reeling under incessant showing since dawn. many of the manufacturing plants had been destroyed and caught fire like this one. it was a plant that produced machinery lubricant spite the ongoing bombardment. fire crews have been trying to contain fires and a number of location across the industrial city. these plants were hit by artillery shells. here you can see some of the devastation let you me can sit down with her. so and then again, it seems that targeting fuel and lubricant plants has become routine for the russian forces as they tried to destroy all the facilities that can be put to military use the fuel, how it took a number of hours for cruise to contain the fire before it reached the nearby plants with whom he had done, mama total applied to the as you can see, the fire teams are ensuring that nothing is left that may retrieve the flames. the skies of car keys were shrouded in dark smoke. as a result,
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the russians are showing car keys indiscriminately, especially the small towns close to the front line. he thought the mafia and it should be noted that the ukrainian forces have regained control over 3 towns over the past 2 days. that it's a symbolic victory, since those are towns which are located to the east and north of where we are. and we're used as a launching pad for the russian forces. i'm a couple, although the ukranian advancements in these towns are relatively small, it carries a massive significance in terms of their moral bank until this day car keith, almost surrounded by the russian forces still being shells. as the russians tried to advance from the southeast of the problem, ukraine's military says a russian missile strike has damage the runway at odessa airport, and it can no longer be used. capturing odessa would allow russia to link territory . it's seized in southern ukraine with trans mystery of a pro russia breakaway region of neighboring. moldova cave is accused russian
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forces of seizing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grain from ukraine's east. the agricultural ministries has half a 1000000 tons of grain crops have been taken as your new modem. i am up to date, we have confirmed the fact that several 100000 tons of green crops were taken out of his apparition. how san donation and lohan screeching store in total in these areas. farmers of about one and a half 1000000 tons of such grain crops already the stalks were formed. first of all, for sewing, we also formed the structural processing into flour for baking bread, flew trainings, living in these territories. of course, this is a significant reserved product. it's worth looking at the high international prices to day is hundreds of millions of dollars total. and there is significant risk that it will simply be stolen and taken away in favor of rush o u. u. s. film star and special envoy for the united nations refugee agency, angelina. julie has visited the ukrainian city of levine in the west of the country
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. she met people displaced by the war as well as those helping them. joly was told that some are being given psychiatric help with children as young as to among those being treated as well as adults. we spoke to unicef spokesman james elder, who was in denny pro. he explained how many children had been killed or hurt since rushes invasion of ukraine. hundreds now of children who've been killed hundreds. i think it's really important that sometimes we forget what that ultimately means is well thought that people like parents and grandparents who going to be consumed by that grief for years and years to come. hundreds of children, they all had stories. i had dreams, the drains of vain killed, and as i say, in these cases, the children have been killed this morning. not far from here in april or this morning. there was another civilian, a palm and block. on a saturday morning was shelled 3 young children. all under the age of 10. now in hospital seeking age of medical care in a hospital its desperately lacking doctors again because doctors aflame this was
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a variable is of course, absolutely critical. wherever there is a child in that situation is absolutely critical. and the she had duration that they been there and that said, but of course there are children in awe. jenna, have their children hockey, give their children in venice, all of whom are hiding to night in a cold, dark basement somewhere under under fire. maybe they've seen a family member attacked or killed recently, so unfortunately, not many places feel safe for children right now in your crime, particularly in the south and the sofa. unicef, our focus here is very much on every corner, whether it's a train station, whether it's a while, whether it's a refuge center or shelter a hospital. we are seeking to reach every one of those places. and from what i've seen, we starting to do that, but not in places. i'm of the most of the bombardment like a hockey or a married couple. in other news, israel says it's arrested. the suspects being sought for killing and his railey
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security guard in the occupied west bank. israeli army video shows the men being arrested in cutaway, but it has been a palestinian town south of nobliss. the shooting happened on the illegal arial settlement between that a mala and nablus on friday. the israeli military says palestinian gunmen open fire on guards, then fled the scene. there been confrontations between villagers and israeli forces in the hometown of the arrested men. tension rose after police rated the men's homes. political analysts and author akiva elder says the incident appears to be an isolated one. the israeli government doesn't have actually an answer to any conflict, especially not in jerusalem because of the political constraints, as they have to maneuver between the red line back to the islamic party headed by
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a mr. abbas and on the other side of the opposition from prime minister bellas on party. that is a following him very closely. and it asks to be even more aggressive. so the good news is that it doesn't look like that. but a c indians, this the way the israeli seed have an interest to escalate. and what happened today, emily, in reality, you mentioned before is seen as an individual attempt to cause some trouble in the settlements, but not something that was august rated by the hamas. and of course not the palestinian authority. hamas has warned of heavy rocket fire if
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there is any further israeli incursion at the alexa mosque compound and occupied east jerusalem. the groups leader in gaza. yes, and war said israeli forces deliberately provoked worshippers at the site. israel accuses hamis of inciting violence and says security forces intervened at an officer to stop stone throwing palestinians accuse israel of not doing enough to enforce a ban on jewish prayer, and the comp still had on al jazeera, the premier of the british virgin islands is arrested in the u. s. on drug trafficking charges fronting more questions about garage and we look at what's behind a sudden increase in hepatitis among children. ah . the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package to day there where it's not been rating and
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that's to be honest. most of the rabbit, please. sure, it's been cloudy, windy and dusty. recently the cloud is moving slowly northwards. the tail end though, represents big showers, who is saw around the high ground, even the capital of yemen. now those shouts could be repeated during sunday, and monday again to be a rare event. the more obvious radius from turkey to northern parts of iraq and to was iran. and then in between is that occasional windy and dusty, whether it's been nursing, cat, us, or the house at 36 high side of average jerusalem. so representing the lead time coast is cooler average than on shore breeze that will warm up to bagdad, warming up to 40 well above the average will stay dry and the window tend to die away. that rain, which represents the northern bit, is moving across the stands and might even just get into the north of pakistan where course there is also very high, very hot weather, very high temperature that moment, approaching record values. tuesday, as
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a bigger picture sees the rain tend to disappear, the temperatures rise in the lab, lance i said, and still dust in the by the dryer for the south sub nascar's. nonetheless, it was a few shells around the eastern cape. i'm beyond in bazaar big otherwise. fine hatta air with issue and line of the journey the stage is set and it's time for a different approach. one that is going to challenge the way you think was wor, inevitable. i just want to started to please though that they're not doing the right thing. let's leave simplicity to the headlines. join me as i take on the lies, dismantled misconceptions and debate. the contradictions do we have a real democracy here in the united states? this novel, political hoarding, that's a radical insurgency, are mark lamond hill, and it's time to get up front right here on out 0. ah
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ah, you're watching on the 0. a reminder of our top stories this our russia and ukraine . se 20 civilians have been evacuated from the other stall, still works and mary appall, including women and children. about 2000 people are believed to be living in the network of tunnels and bunkers. ukrainian soldiers are fighting village by village and the country's east to hold off russian forces who been pounding the don boss region. but western intelligence suggests russian troops are only making minor advance. hamas is warned of heavy rocket fire if there's any further israeli incursion at the end of some mosque compounded occupied east jerusalem. the groups leader in gaza. yes, in war said, is really forces deliberately for both worshipers. at the side a trial has begun in
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argentina, which has taken nearly a century to come to court. judges are trying to determine accountability for a massacre of indigenous people. there isabelle reports from argentina's northern chuckle, province she is the last witness of a massacre that killed hundreds of indigenous peoples in argentina, almost 100 years ago. process the law is a member of the warm indigenous community. when she was around 7 years old, when her father was murdered during a protest, now she's over 100 years old and says she still remembers the day her community was attacked. the caf dose and walk up when i was given water. i got home and looked up and saw a plane flying overhead. there were children on the ground. this is the pain i have carried forever. i was not able to speak. ross had lives in the northern province
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of jackal and his part of a truth trial that seeks to investigate the crimes committed against her community and the people here continue to remember. the massacre that happened in this place when hundreds of members of indigenous communities were killed. by security forces and ranchers, they were protesting and demanding an improvement of the semi slavery conditions they lived in. they were killed their bodies, dismembered, buried all around this area until recently, until apologies. have been digging in this place, trying to find proof of what's been argentina, the systematic persecution of indigenous people know what will be to know the, the now for the 1st time i trial seeks to establish the facts of the novelty massacre. even though the perpetrators are long dead, this is an opportunity to begin a long sought reparation process for the killings, but also decades of discrimination against indigenous in the country. plato said you got me says the trail is important for that abuse against
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a minority group. never happens again, but all of this is based on the legal parameters of the time. argentine i had already signed international agreements that allow us to sit in a panel trial that crimes against humanity were committed and do not prescribe. came out of the lady and as one of them has been investigated the massacre for years, she says the killings in napa, the were not isolated. indigenous groups were for many years, a source of cheap labor in the country and or venice as violence against them was justified as necessary by the ruling class policy. also, c, i 80 ethnic groups have been discriminated against. persecuted and the massacre shows that for a very long time in the state tried to fuss indigenous groups to blend with the rest of the population in fairway. part of a structure that had done as cheap labor interference, only about a 1000000 of argentina's $45000000.00 inhabitants are descendants of the original
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$39.00 indigenous groups. most of them are among the poorest in the country. many see their trial as a unique opportunity to begin a long awaited process of acknowledgement and reparation. that will be a good example. i'll just eda cheko i jin tina. but scientists around the world are looking into an outbreak of unexplained and severe hepatitis cases among children. mostly under the age of 5. the symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, and yellowing of the eyes and skin. the u. k is reported a total of $145.00 cases. at least 11 other countries have also reported them. the world health organization says the unknown strain is causing liver failure. 17 children needed a transplant, and one has died. an investigation has ruled out speculation. the illness was caused by covered 19 vaccines. none of the children had received a jap, graham cook as a professor of infectious diseases at imperial college. london. he says is not yet
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clear of a vaccine to prevent this strain of hepatitis can be found. paper type is in the general terms. it's already just information and deliver. we see that very commonly, no whole range of infections in children, a ticket, but what's different here is the severity of that information. i have to talk. this is a whole is caused by a range of viruses. and once people are most familiar with b, c, and they're all vaccines peptide to be which are very effective. but in this case, we think maybe a different virus is causing this. and the most likely candidate at this point is no bars. and it's not clear that we will have a vaccine that will be able to prevent this. so, until we know more about the cause of this, it's hard to be confident that the moment doesn't seem that that's most likely for absolutely no evidence of any length of explanation. but when something like this is emerging ticket, this time that it's always possible. this is related in some way coded 19. we know there's a lot of wanting in the community, but it doesn't seem that they are. there are more more children who have got this severe disease. you've got my teacher, it's probably not
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a direct effect. one possibility is to try and understand why it is that my birth is causing this at this time. so could there be changing the virus or could it be something about children, particularly young children, age 3, to $5.00. that is difference. and one possibility that really is any possibility is that they haven't been exposed to as many versus as they would have been younger, an age as a result may be behaving differently. but we don't have the evidence to really be strong about that. fighting between rival gangs and hate, he has killed at least 20 people, including a family of 8. during the past week, thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the violence. medications are angry and frustrated with the situation and are demanding action from the prime minister. the acting head of the british virgin islands has said he opposes plans by the u. k. to reimpose direct rule. it comes after premier andrew fe, he appeared in miami court on friday, charged with cocaine trafficking, and money laundering. the u. k. government has sent a minister to the british overseas territory for talks following say,
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he's arrest and released a report which found corruption concerns. sony, a guy ago is in london with more on the corruption allegations. the report really has been casting doubts to put it mildly on how exactly that territory has been governing itself. for example, the lead on the report form a judge gary hakan bottom has been saying that in the report that really the level of corruption that is, is too big and it needs to be tackled directly from london. it has been very critical of the elected officials and how they've been running the territory. and also reminding that those elected officials, having have a loss of power, of a huge sums of public money that they're the ones who get to decide which contract gets which contract they're, they're the ones who will to get to decide on the public budget as well. and they
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also have control of the sale of crown property as well. report does states that even though they ought to be a direct rule from london, in fact, he did mention the, the judge gary, his boss. and he did this with a very heavy heart because he said in order for the territory to really be considered and to comply with all the norms of democracy, it has to comply with all of that, including getting a handle on corruption. and if is to venture to them in the future, whatever that may be, whether there is to have the crown has had a state or not, then it really has to prove that it can handle those issues. the family of pol recess a beginner is suing. there a wanton government in the u. s. for $400000000.00. they allege he was lowered from his home in texas and returned to a wander where he was arrested, tortured and kept in solitary confinement. a reward and court sentenced him last year to 25 years in prison on charges of terrorism. his life inspired the hollywood
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film hotel for wanda, and he is credited with saving hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide. u. s. journalists, government officials and celebrities attended the annual white house correspondents association, dinner on saturday. the event wasn't held for the last 2 years due to the pandemic . it's the 1st time in 6 years that the president has accepted an invitation to attend the event as it was boycotted by donald trump. i know there are other questions about whether we should gather here tonight because you cobra. well, we're here to show the country that we're getting through this pandemic. plus, everyone had to prove there are fully vaccinated and boosted. so here at home watching this, when you're wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite fox news reporter. they're all here vaccinated ambushed . oh,
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the loudest lantern festival is lighting up south korea this week. tens of thousands are celebrating the upcoming birthday of buddha. an artist who has helped revitalized a 1000 year old tradition tells al jazeera his story. taylor moon tongue young. my name is tom young, ill. i'm a lantern artist worker in cuz you pay don't care. i started my work in 1998. i studied art in college. i've always thought about tradition and modernity, as well as social realities. thornton jogging home are lanterns, had the potential to expand, even though it was still in a traditional format. it had a unique place. as i studied traditional technique and spirit, it occurred to me that those were the ones that dominated in one area. and they were the most modern, at that time, it done the underwriter, it was a good decision to bring the low to slant and festival into the arms of our citizens again and getting a festival recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by unesco was
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an achievement, however, in the process of pushing for this recognition, i think the festival got caught up in a lot of formalities. we got 100 years ago and i don't think the greatest strength it's allowed. the lotus lanton festival, to pass down for 1000 years, is because it constantly breathes with the people if we want to continue taking this tradition into the mainstream culture of our time, we'll need to consider how the tradition can communicate better with today's society. i believe that's the essence of tradition. we've got the corolla, we've been through the coven, 19 pandemic indian, around the upcoming buddhist birthday, that many people will feel a sense of liberation at this time. i believe we also need to look back a bonner, among lantern pieces that are installed. this time is a candle shaped lighthouse. candles represent individual wishes. the piece
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represented 3 fires in one house. it seems that we are burning as one, but each has its own color. so can temperament in language. we've seen a lot of hate and cold heartedness during the pandemic, and i think this stems from a lack of respect for each other wooden door. if we are one community parliament, i believe we should recognize and respect each other and make a wish and become one pretty flame. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. russia and ukraine save 20 civilians have been evacuated from the as of stores still works, mary paul, including women and children. there are as many as 2000 people living in the network of tunnels and bunkers. ukrainian soldiers are fighting village by village and the countries east to hold off russian forces. but western intelligence suggest .
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