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level, and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like flew me in rows now need to find another way to get out of the city. but for now they, like many others, would have to return home, hoping tomorrow is a better day. ah, russia says 46 civilians have been evacuated from overseas steel plant in the ukrainian city of mary oppose. ah ha, you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the back table also ahead a show of support for ukraine. u. s. house speaker. nancy pelosi becomes the highest ranking american official to visit. keith america stands with you. we stand with ukraine until victory is 1000 zane sri lanka,
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protests against the government handling of the worst economic crisis in decades. this country, it's never been done before. there's a big tele, boost government, boost resident, go home thank you for joining us. ukrainian women and children are among a group of civilians allowed to leave the besieged steel works in merrier poll, it's been bombarded for weeks by russian forces trying to seize the city. the ukrainian se 20 civilians left the ruins of the steel plant, the russian faith, $46.00. the u. n. is continuing to appeal for the release of hundreds of others, alexia bryan. hatha details flanked by un officials and russian troops. bosses carrying evacuation from muddy pulse as of styles. steel plant arrived in a village outside the sissy. more than 70 by says were made available,
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but not many people were brought out. and after days or even weeks below ground, they were smiles of relief. i'd soon, one issue with the report we handed over 20 civilians who are able to be reclaimed from the rubble their women and children. and we hope that these people will go in the agreed directions, namely to suffer roger and territory under ukrainian control. on trapped beneath the steel works are said to be up to a 1000 civilians and 2000 ukrainian fighters. the industrial complex is the last bastion of ukrainian territory in the port city, surrounded by russian forces. satellite images show, how much of it now lies in ruins. in the capital cave, relatives of ukrainian fighters hold up and the plant of rallied demanding the un and the west negotiate their freedom. is now. i don't know if my son is alive, but i will keep coming here and standing year until marya paul is liberated. putney
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on saturday, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski hosted us. how speaker nancy pelosi in cave, in a major show of support. she's the highest ranking american leader to visit ukraine since the start of the war mitten. this one, so 5. 0, when that will be, remains far from certain in her song where they've been repeated protests against the russian occupation. it's new. russian backed administration says it will now start using the rubel instead of the ukrainian currency. russia's been intensifying its operation in the east and south with relentless rocket artillery and mortar attacks. these people are escaping the conflict zone and a new front line near the town of lee mon. they should have been enjoying a gentle retirement instead of contemplating a very different future. luigi the liberators. the russians have come and have
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freed us from was our lives. and now i am an elderly person, and i have to run away from home. this war has uprooted more than 12000000 people in the past 2 months below ground and marry you paul. hundreds more, a waiting for their chance to escape. alexia brian al jazeera live to al jazeera her dr. hamid who joins us from sa, parisha waste. beneath many of the vacuous from marian poll are headed out. what's the latest on those evacuation? so people starting to arrive there when no one has arrived yet the attend behind me is going to be this sort of the reception point for dose coming, but it's still empty. volunteers are waiting. now as we understand it from them, are you from city council? there is an appointment for civilians near the board at 4 o'clock today. juice
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tried to do an evacuation that doesn't clarify what happens to those who are coming out of the as steel factory, which is quite a distance from a d d meeting point of this city. council of what we do know is at 20 did come out yesterday. they still haven't arrived in the upper region. we actually have been asking the question where they are, but nobody's giving us an answer at this point. and then to 46 that alexi has mentioned in her package there. well they are, they headed to, towards the end of good a separate is control areas in don't yet sca they have been interviewed by russian media. they have been telling their story, some of them say that they come from the as of style steel factory. they described that there's hundreds of civilians still there. they said there's a lot of wounded and a lot of people with disabilities. how complicated honda is all this to organize these evacuations? it is really
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a logistical challenge further un, andy, international redcross. if you recall, i mean there's been so many attempts at evacuating civilians from maria pull, and most of them have completely failed. the ones who manage to leave most of them manage on their own initiative. ah, it is a very difficult road to come out. oh, those who came out in the past has talked about up to 18 russian checkpoints before reaching the ukrainian checkpoint at eat stop. they get thoroughly searched a mobile phones get search, some pictures get deleted, or does a lot of mistrust also between the 2 sides and the u. n. and the i see i see i have to sort of mediate between the 2 sides and try to find a compromise. so is going to be extremely complicated. also ensuring that they're safe passage if and when the civilians come out. and if they come out in large
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numbers, so certainly a very complicated situation as situation. we spoke to the you an earlier we asked you think is going to be any evacuation today. they said, oh, there's progress made underground, but most unlikely we won't see any one farmer you will hear in there for roger in the coming hours. harder. thank you very much for that update hard abdel hamid life or a say in sa parisha. meanwhile, russia is intensifying, it's offensive in the east of ukraine out, his ear is char stratford is in dorothea, where there's been shelling. we're in the town of gabriella. now all ask right, just to pay roll to show you this residential blog. this sir, this residential blocker and a missile land basically next to it. yesterday morning, around 20 families living in there. the majority of them had been evacuated in the, in the weeks her previous weeks, miraculously only 7 people injured,
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apparently receiving early, suffering, minor injury. this was one of 2 missiles strikes that hit this tail yesterday. and what's interesting is, is that it is at least 50 kilometers away to where the active front line is. and it strikes like this, that a consistent with what the ukranian military is saying is evidence that they have of the beginnings of a serious push by russian forces to take as much territory as they can in the coming days. potentially, as i say, up to that date, that silent important date of may the night in the eyes of vladimir putin. because we're getting increasing hits attacks on towns that are to say a long way back from the front line. we wall over night. there were lives on going shelling heavy shelling in some of the areas that we've been reporting from in recent days. areas like papa's now, which is east of here lucy chance,
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which is also east of here, that push that empty push to try and surround the big urban centers of slave yonce and kramer tools still goes on a 2nd account, some of the days at a news now and a 6 day protest march in sri lanka has ended in the capitol colombo whitmore demands for the resignation of the president. and his brothers, the prime minister, opposition parties organized what they called a unity force. march, 115 kilometers from the central city of candy. she lanterns are facing aware secret on a crisis in 70 years with through shortages, power cuts and sewing food prices. in our fernandez is in colombo, she says the government has to be feeling the passion. what you see behind me is the latest protest, marja 6 day march by the main opposition. s j b party. ah, it's called the unit in march to basically push the government ago. and i have with me a parliamentarian from the debbie and become a ratner. oh hello am i?
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can you tell us you've been marching for 6 days from candy, over 100115 kilometers. i mean, what i had all these people asking for started with a few 1000 people. it's turned out to be more than a $100000.00 people are marching today. they're asking for the basics of life. they're asking for gas without kitchens. petra, lend visa there where he goes. this country has never been in this position before this and therefore they are really boost government booth. residents go home. that is the message that these people actually bring it. how do you change things in it's not going to happen overnight. does this debbie have any solution? finance minutes of the country has just been washington talking with the i am it has come back empty handed without any solution because even as her community on the market don't, don't have any trust in government. when you look at the proud setting, i have gathered to hear they have gathered up class, you know,
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that you have less expecting. lovely joke. do you expect him of any customer differences there have gathered and they have confidence in this debbie forming a government and therefore even a 3rd community has confidence during our track record and you are the people behind it full review. negotiate with the i am. if you feel restructured, i would it be a really good bridge and kind of thought that the sunday dinner but economic was it and that as you heard, was it on the criminal the from the as j. b. and as he says, people are requesting and asking for a systems change. now whether they look to the s j before that change in general as to whether they accept the plan to put forward by the su b. how the government actually comes for in dealing with the immediate crisis will have to be seen in the coming weeks and is rallies and marches are being held around the world to market international labor day with an occasion to call for better working conditions. trade union members in greece or protesting against time
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freshen, and soaring energy costs and france people are on the streets, protesting against newly reelected present ammonia in my home. security is expected to be tied to prevent a repeat their violence during previous may day rallies. demonstrations already underway in the southern city of marcell and in the still ahead on august the israeli forces around hundreds of palestinian miners every year. we meet from the keys of doing something. he says he did a fine balancing act in the netherlands, power circus performance from ukraine. ben, a roof and russia, keep it together under the big t ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to the catholic group. your travel package today. it has been a soggy forecasts for hong kong. have one great to see you, but the heaviest of the rain now starting to pull away, but temperatures leave
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a bit to be desired. here are 22 that's below average. and this comes after you said in april temperature, record in some spots of hong kong about 3536 degrees into a china, a lot of what weather here. so keep in mind the dark, the colors on the map here, the more intense the rain is, but it's really this southern corner of vietnam, cambodia, just edging into thailand where we will see the heaviest burst of rain. now if i take you toward japan, another wave of some showers moving west to east. so that's going to play tokyo with the height of 19 degrees. temperature is on the way up, was young joe, 28, beijing 26. and we're going to dow that up even more in the days to come. we are cooking up some thunder storms around. what spend gall bungler dash over the next little bit. some of these could actually produce some hail scott that south wind off the bay of been gall. that's adding moisture. that's adding humidity. so that's going to spark some of these storms. then a wave of precipitation for the mall deeds, just clipping western areas of sri lanka and the south west of india. the heat
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starting to let go a bit in the north of india, new delhi, 43 degrees on monday. i saw official airlines of the journey. a guest with lou. ah,
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the me welcome back re capital i top stories on al jazeera this hour at least 20 ukranian women and children are among civilians have been allowed to leave the besieged field work scenario poll. it's been bombarded for weeks by russian forces trying to seize. russia says for the 46 people were taken to separate his house territory, a you and convoys in maya paul to negotiate the evacuation of more civilians from the plant. hundreds more thought to be trapped along with ukrainian soldiers were refusing to surrender across the city, food, water and medicine are running low. and the speaker of the us house of representatives has thank you, great prizes for what she described as his fight for freedom. during a visit to keep nancy pelosi told me to lend his battle for everyone and reassured him of continued support. and us film star and un special envoy, angeline actually has visited the western ukrainians to be of live have. she met
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people to space by the war and those who have been helping them surely was told that some have a being given psychiatric help with children as young as to among those being treated as well as adults always spoke to unicef spokesman james elder, who is in disney pro, he explained the tall rushes invasion is taking on children. 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 are going to be consumed by that grief, ease and used 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 the park this morning. there was another civilian. an apartment block on a saturday morning was shelled 3 young children all under the age of 10. now in hospital seeking edge of medical care in a hospital that's desperately lacking doctors again because doctors of flaying this
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was our 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 in 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 so the unicef, our focus here is very much on every corner, whether it's a train station, whether it's a are 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 the most severe bombardment like a hockey or a married law. britain is accusing russia, paying people to flood social media sites with crammed in propaganda. the british
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government phase has evidence of what he calls a cho factory in st. petersburg, an organization called type of fund. v reportedly pays workers around $600.00 a month to spread criminal lies on youtube. instagram and other websites as circus performers have joined some of the millions of ukrainians who fled the war. some have ended up at an international focus in the netherlands, alongside from bella, ruth and russia. a correspondence that boston has been to see how the show is going on in doughty 15 year old ilya milan golf study in acrobatics at the circus school in kiff until the war broke out. he's now living as a refugee in germany, trying to continue his studies. he sent the videos of his exercises to his coach, was still in keith mania. that was there for that. i really enjoyed going to the circus school and to rehearse the response from the audience made me happy that
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everything has changed since the start of the war. on my bringing ukrainian lucian and other international artist to gather this dutch circus direct to hope that a long tradition can be continued despite the war. the messages. let us help at one time, the whole world's going to be a circus world because we are to prove that it's possible to work live together with so much different nationalities together. i all gamma who giovanni from bella. ruth performing under so called russian bar with 2 ukranian colleagues. it's one example in that he's been dealing with artists who remain professional, who still have a good relationship rations, biller actions. it doesn't matter, not sure. so that it seems to be everything. i lost a lot of friends. i worked in russia for a long time. we don't communicate with each other.
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ah, this has long been an odd form that has brought ukrainian or russian performers together because of the war that's not only possible in countries as far away as the madeline. but for some sharing a stage together, it's difficult but own that's been going on. and us pass yes, a 40 and managed to flee the ukrainian city of which was heavily attacked by russian forces. she says, well now she can't perform together with a rush and colleagues. but i can't do this now. i would feel i would betray my people because they are fighting for my country. people are dying at a moment. yep. that will not be possible for me. oh, yeah. a few days before the show, several russian artists cancelled. despite their trauma, anastasio and the other performers hope that one day circus can again bring russian
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and ukrainian performers together. step, fasten al jazeera door, dressed in the netherlands. now the news, the family of the wanda man whose life in spite of hollywood film is suing the government for $400000000.00. the lawsuit in the us says paul was by geena was cleared from his home in texas and returned to gali, then tortured and kept in solitary confinement. last year, a court sentence him to 25 years in prison for terrorism is credited with fading hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide. the story became the fam hotel wanda cade gibson is a lead legal counselor for football, which again, as she says, there are strong legal grounds for his families case. it's been over $600.00 days now. still, poll, reseller gina was illegally, came out and rendered back to wonder his face trials in, in a proceedings that sort of been universally condemned,
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has been on there. and this lawsuit is one in a series of legal complaints that have been brought against the one the government that all have at their center is sort of the same idea that governments aren't allowed to do this. governments aren't allowed to deal with political highlands or activists through kidnapping all a legally rendering or torturing people who, who say things that aren't favorable to the rain. and the role in government knew that it didn't have a legal basis to have whole extradited back wonder. so they made a decision in august of 2022 to kidnap him. and this lawsuit is a way of saying that they weren't allowed to do this. this lawsuit has a really strong legal basis essentially because there were one in government itself has admitted to the conduct on this network. last february, there one, an attorney general johnson, the ca admitted that the one the government did this,
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that it, that it paid for the plane that was used in the kidnapping. and in the united states, sovereign countries like wanda and immune from sue's, when they engage in acts like torture and kidnapping guineas to return to civilian ball. in 3 years, the head of its ruling, military government, announced a transition period of 39 months. the move is being put to parliament, the army overthrew the elected president, alpha con they last year after he pushed a new constitution, allowing him to run for a 3rd term. his really forces have arrested 2 men, suspected of killing a security guard in the occupied west bank. army video shows their capture in a palestinian town near nablus. the shooting nearby on friday was at the legal arial settlement. the israel military says palestinian gunmen opened fire on settlement guards before escaping the hundreds of palestinian children are arrested
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by is really forces every year. human rights organizations say they're subjected to abuse and lack of legal representation. 14 yoga tal alizae was detained by israeli soldiers for 12 days before he was released al jazeera. neither abraham follows his family, his journey from protesting his detention to his release. ah, a melody of love for the homeland is how these young palestinians see their protesting against the arrest of their friend. offended as this is really soldiers detained. the 14 year old and mid april. he was charged with throwing stones at the army near bethlehem. and the occupied west bank, but his father denies the charges. big soldier was on me. i am a spirit. so he is a spirit. if i really only saw ethel a couple of times from a distance in the court, he was not able to make my contact in case he will call. and you know him, our coming to, to quote, it's always this point though, crying is a strength point. and so this is the feeling we have been suffering,
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lack of sleep as he is like no sleep. when we, if we start thinking with one of our fellows eating soon after the protest at l was released on bail. he is breaking the ramadan fast with his family and says the soldiers beat him up a country i cough? oh, well hopefully i was shaking out of fear the interrogators asked if i was cold. i said no, i asked if i was scared by sid. i was a strong person a while ago. what changed either they wanted me to confess to doing something. i didn't do. a 1000 release follows a pleaded lawyer say it's often the only way to get young palestinians out of jail as fast as possible without a plea. deal court proceedings could be lengthy, as is often hard to prove innocence in medical records. this is why 99 percent of cases and the conviction. there are 2 legal systems that occupied to us bank. palestinians are tried in military court while it's
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a really circular stand in civil court. in 2009 is well established juvenile military records. just like this one behind this, but lawyers say it's done very little to protect the rights of children. these really army has to the disease. all the rights of under h dependents are protected throughout the rest investigation, prosecution after that thing. but to human rights organizations disagree, children as young as 12 can be convicted in his records. the credits are completely failing because of elaine. the rest takes place at night without the presence of parents or legal counsel. the interrogation has done in a vault hall environment that doesn't allow children to be safe. after the confession, the child is taken to a military court to extend the arrest without a lawyer. f l says his eager to get back to his violent classes and palestinian folk dancing. he wants to escape reality, even if it's for a short while. but he knows he'll never escape that experience with him eligible
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eda occupied westbank. a trial has begun in argentina, which has taken nearly a century to come to court as traceable reports from chuckle. problems in the north judges are determining accountability for the massacre of indigenous people. she is the last witness of a massacre that killed hundreds of indigenous peoples in argentina almost 100 years ago. ross saturday 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 is over 100 years old and says she still remembers the day her community was attacked. the cost i was, i woke 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. i lived in the northern province of
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jackal, and he's part of a truth trial that seeks to investigate the crimes committed against her community . 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 and 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. now for the 1st time i trial seeks to establish the facts of the nap. i'll be 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 they didn't call me and says the trial is important. so 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 plan 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 daughter vanessa's violence against them was justified as necessary by the ruling class policy. also, sy, 80 kidney groups have been discriminated against persecuted and the massacre shows that for very long time. and the state tried to force indigenous groups to blend with the rest of the population in fairway. part of a structure that had them 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 acknowledgment and reparation. that will be a very several. i'll just cedar chuckle, argentina. ah ha, again, i'm fully bathsheba. with the headlines on al jazeera, i group of civilians as left the besieged steel works plant in the ukrainian city of merrier ball. russian forces have bombarded for weeks trying to seize the city. ukraine says 20 people got out. russia says 46 were taken to separate his hell territory. hundreds more believed to be trapped along with ukrainian soldiers who are refusing to surrender. a you and convoy is invariable to negotiate. the evacuations of more civilians from the plant across the city, food, water, and medicine are running.

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