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report on the big events going on, but we'll say, tell the stories of people generally don't have a voice. and then whenever a child that's never be afraid to put your hand up and ask a question. and i think that's what obviously we're really does. we ask the question for people who should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. ah, the crane says nearly 500 civilians have now been moved from mary paul while russia continues it shelling in the east. desperate to escape russian occupation, we talked to people in the castle region using bikes, primes we'll chaz, them even wheelbarrows to get house. ah, hello laura, kyle, this is alex, is there a live from dough? also coming up. a such is underway in israel after 3 people
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a stop to death in the city of a lad. and nationwide strike and shall i called to weeks of protests against the government's handling of the economic crisis. new humanitarian corridors are due to open to get more people out of ukraine's besieged city of mary apple. but you great in official say russia is still attacking the as of stalled steel plant. that despite a ceasefire, the report nearly 500 people have made it out of the port city, but around 200 civilians and 2000 ukrainian fighters, a trapped in the industrial area. well, here's how the war is looking on the map in red. all the areas held by russia and it's separatist allies that are on the offensive in the east. and the south crimea was annexed by russia in 2014. and these, the areas that show where fighting has been the heaviest to in the past 24 hours.
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ukraine says moscow wants to annex it's southern region, of course on that would create a land corridor between russia and crimea. hot abdul hamid travel to the villages along the southern front lines desperate to leave the russian occupation they cycle then walked for hours under cover of darkness is on us. we got up with you. going to kill me says this women suspicious as the ukrainian police register new arrivals . this was their 4th attempt to feed the kind of southern region where life had become unbearable, says vladimir yet his and i wanna go make no the air is different here. he says that what's a thumb below? sure, but we're bring it in to furnish another escalade to stay there was more dangerous . we decided to take the risk when there were attempts for humanitarian car doors and people went to the meeting point with white flags. but the soldiers dispersed
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us instead of you on a corridor, then go to crimea for what the would love. that's when people started finding other ways to reach the ukrainian side. what's the level of support the court will the forward to be all gets it sooner shows as the warehouse were bikes, wheelchairs, primes, and even wheelbarrows are held. people used, whatever they had. she says. so the russians of our 3 kilometers away from here don't come with region, crossed the lines and no, no man's land between the 2 armies and hope not to get in the crossfire. it's a treacherous passage, but is to only escape route to see about globe vermont. thank you guys, we're waiting for you. he says, the armies holding is defensive position, but ukraine claims the russians are preparing for a major push here. and this fear that the soldiers could be out gun, while most of the western weapons had to dumb best region in the east of the
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country. and was congress clara to feminine. we need heavy weapons artillery javelins, drones, because they have a lot of weapons. the russians don't care about saving their soldiers lives and the advance like works. we who hundreds of them lie in the field work. nobody collects the bodies, but they have a lot of weapons. the villages along the contact line come under shelling the rumble of artillery sounds at regular intervals, but is the fear of an imminent annexation. just like what happened in crimea and in dumbass, 8 years ago that i pushing people to cross front lines on their own. her dr. hamid algebra in southern ukraine. humans actually general says he hopes coordination between moscow and keith will allow the evacuations in mary a pull to continue. so flooding total, nearly $500.00 civilian strong, found long way to awaited relief after leaving and the relentless shelling and sketch availability of water,
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food and sanitation. the factories of shared moving tales with un stuff, mothers, children, and frail good parents spoke of that trauma. somewhat urgent need the medical attention. i hope that the continued coordination with more squint key will lead to more military balls and civilians safe passage from the fighting and 8 to reach those in critical needs. we must continue to do all we can to get people out of these l scapes. officials in the sense, if you have chromatography say at least 25 people have been injured and russian shelling several homes of school and other civilian infrastructure were damaged. the city is near the frontline of fighting and ukraine's don't f province. charles trafford, reports. the explosion left a crate to around 3 meters deep flat and the surrounding residential apartment blocks were destroyed. the blast shredded trees in the park where children usually
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play. this was one of a number of attacks across criminals. in what was the largest symbols have years barrels of rockets in the city since russia invaded ukraine organ 2 months ago we were sleeping in wakened by a series of explosions before there was one master laughed. thank god, no one was killed. a couple of kilometers away this parade of shops and small businesses was also hit. the city men says that 25 people were injured in the attacks. it's miraculous that nobody was killed. soldiers have collected shrapnel to try and identified a weapon that was used until i heard it was a rocket attack. there was a siren and then huge explosion. my apartment is about 100 meters from and all the windows are blown out on the scale of the destruction here shows you just how powerful the explosion was. there are tens of flaps that have been pretty much
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completely destroyed in the bloss ukrainian police say that they believe that this was a russian as strike. and it comes at a time when the ukraine in all me say that russian forces are trying to push into was cremmit source and they bring savanski from the north. we drove north towards the russian control city of discarded blood soaked bandages, and a stretcher, wounded. ukrainian soldier had been transferred to an ambulance. only minutes before us really so much in a pretty big show. when all calls go along the road, they start shutting. is it an issue, any ambulances, vehicles you say, it doesn't matter? ukrainian soldiers hide in the forest from russian drones above. hillary shell casings, litter the ground. the soldiers won't let us fill me with a claim they have repelled. 3 waves of russian attacks from the last week they gave
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us this video, they claim shows them retreating from russian. all hillary far, you'll say, well now holding good friendship position. what they currently called do is stop cities like criminals from coming under russian sharks, charles trav at alger 0, criminal tools, police and israel, a searching for 2 men suspected of stopping attack in the central city of atlanta. i have released pictures of the past. 3 people were killed and several others injured and thursday's attack. nothing decor reports from west jerusalem. oh, the attack happen in a lad and ultra orthodox city in the center of the country. a lad is very close to the occupied west bank residents came out to protest in the aftermath. it's the latest in a series of attacks carried out by individuals across israel, which is left at least 14 israelis dead. a spokesperson for hamas reacted by saying
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these attacks were the result of israel's occupation. the palestinians un middle east envoy tor venice land tweeted saying he was pulled by the attack and that it was deplorable that hamas and others continue to glorify and encourage such acts. with the one with opening the le bahati mostly the lot is really media replayed, a clip from acid leader in gaza. yes. in war, who in a fiery speech last week called on palestine was to protect the luxembourg compound . referring to the recent escalations at the site by the entry of jewish religious ultra nationalists and encouraging individual attacks. defense minister, many guns met with the military chief of staff and these weighty prime minister naturally bennett, was being updated on the situation. the border crossings from garza and the occupied west bank had been closed since tuesday afternoon, due to memorial day and independence day. and what is standard procedure doing events like these in israel? the west bank closure has now been extended until sunday. as a result of this attack, stephanie decker al jazeera west jerusalem. britain's governing conservative party
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looks on track to lose heavily in local elections. or as johnson's party has lost control of several key areas of london, all rivals labor and the liberal democrats have gained ground about the 1st major tests for boris johnson following the so called pasi gate scandal. and his summons is alive for us, an at westminster undertaker. through just how significant these local elections are. well, you'd think little elections would be pretty or not relevant, particularly to the, the big searches in the political sways and in the u. k. but this is very significant as an indicator of how things go. perhaps the biggest since 2019, when forest johnson swept to victory with an overwhelming majority. and in london, we've seen, well, the conservative part has been decimated in 3 key areas. 3 key for us,
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which are very important to the status of the conservative party. one of them is here in westminster. it's always been held by the conservatives, and it's been taken by labor not only here, but ones with also that dates back 44 years of consist served of role margaret thatcher used to harold that counselors being very well run that has fallen to labor and also barnett another barrel. so there is certainly a message here and we're already hearing from conservative some of them quite senior, that they're pointing towards party gate. and that dishonesty, it appears allegedly of boris johnson in saying he didn't really realize he was in a part is he visited part is he's had, are already out of a fine for one of them. so this is weary on the agenda. it's a national issue. beyond that, a, well, there been moderate gains for labor in the north. they've actually lost out on
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bolton's bit wafer, thin majority of their, for the conservatives. they've held it a furthermore in how the liberal democrats have taken that off labor. so they're not necessarily doing that well, they will have the biggest share of the photo would seem was still in the early days of counting the would still be many more results coming from in england and scotland and wales. but the situation is that there is a real push now on bars johnson will there be a move against him by conservative empties? that is small possible. now that doesn't take much as 54 people 50 for members of parliament, have to put in a lex's asking for a vote of confidence in the prime minister that would trigger a leadership contest. and his emmons at toni is that from that london, thanks very much. andrew. stella has hair on al serra no one islands look set for a big change in political leadership in the world that could mean for the future.
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and happy to be home its mission accomplished. national, just back from the international space station. ah hello, welcome to look at the international forecast. there are going to be more very heavy showers, summary down pause, continuing, just around indo china thailand. it seems a very heavy rainfall recently. and also been enhanced by the system just around the adam and see that's been drawing in some showers across c area. that's gonna continue to be the case as we go one through the next couple days. i spoke with difference for sunday, more big down pause coming through here. central and southern parts of the philippines. also seeing some live dish out, particularly into southern areas of the philippines. that is the usual rash hours for malaysia and on into indonesia for australia. it's not too bad for many,
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but we have got some rather wet weather just around that eastern side of queensland . down towards the southeast, i need to draw your attention is a perry of low pressure has been producing some wintry weather across the southeast of australia. tightly packed ice, abbas has some very strong winds coming through and has been stuck here for the last day or so. and is not moving too quickly, move a wet and windy weather potential for some flooding there to come into tasmania. in particular, as we go on through this, we can at wet weather will slowly make its way a little further eastwards we'll see some very heavy right into the south island, new zealand. ah, the conflicts between india with captain one and one east, the kashmiris i miss lives on al jazeera,
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mainstream coverage of big stories can sometimes deliver more heat than lights in any water scenario. there's always a push to simplify narratives, the listening pace covering the way the news is covered on al jazeera. ah ah. again, you're watching out there a his reminder of our top story is this our, you humanitarian corridors. want you to open to get more people out of your coins. the seeds city of mario full lot ukrainian officials say russia is still attacking me as of self steel plant. despite a cease fire police in israel, a searching for 2 men suspected of stopping attack in the central city of atlanta.
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3 people were killed and several others injured. attack happened as israel celebrated 74 years of independence. and persons governing conservative party looks on track to lose heavily and local elections. the votes is the 1st major test, of course, johnson following the so called policy gates scandal on the crane war now and i'm scenes. national says it's gathered evidence of war crimes by russian forces. it includes the use of cluster munitions, abuse of civilians and extra judicial killings. we know they are part of it back to him, but as characterized rush. yes, conduct of the steely tease from the outset. a repeated pattern lodge in scale, and they by stating in impact. authorities in fiji, have seized a super yacht owned by a sanctioned russian business man. after a request by the u. s. $300000000.00 vessel is believed to belong to solomon
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caramel is made billions of dollars in fossil fuels. whitehouse says it will use every authority. it has to go off to russia's russian suspected of corruption. moscow is preparing a military parade to mark the 77th anniversary of victory day, the end of the soviet union's war against nazi germany. and of the commemoration veterans of the war have been meeting the public has been reported press. russian president vladimir putin wants a major victory in ukraine in time for the parade. on monday. counting is underway in elections for northern islands, regional assembly, where a party that wants to leave the u. k. could come out on top. champagne was once the political wing of an armed movement that opposed british rule that says general hull reports from belfast and stream of a united ireland is still a long way off. a win for the nationalist shin, feign as opinion polls predict, would make history in northern ireland. it up ends
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a century of dominance by parties dedicated to the union with great britain putting on top a republican party that exists to forge a united ireland. that is going to happen imminently, and many voters were swayed instead by more immediate concerns all united the islands on the cards, new database on up to important to me. what do you think the chief think capable of boss for forget the rates will get better better hospitals? so just to be open again. she frame was once the political face of the irish republican army that waged a decades long conflict with the british army and pro british loyalist paramilitaries. its electoral success with struck fear into the hearts of many unionists who already feel marginalized by westminster as handling of breakfast negotiations with the you and a new trade border in the i received that they say undermines northern islands
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place within the united kingdom that need to get a wake up call my. nobody wants to shouldn't be a minister in the union, and people don't want him to be a minister coach for 1st, 1st and foremost, if we have a day and you're going to call for a border poll, i don't know if there's even a question mark over whether the democratic unionist party leader will take up his position as deputy 1st minister behind shin feigns michel o'neill. jeffrey donaldson says he wants to see border protocol removed 1st. in northern ireland symbolism matters hugely. so while power sharing enshrined in the good friday peace agreement ensures that the positions of 1st minister and deputy 1st minister shared between the largest unionist nationalists parties have exactly equal powers. the changing of places in the storm assembly in this election carries enormous symbolic way. unionism isn't a very place northern ireland had it's and teen re last year,
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the celebrations of rather muted and there was a sense of the future of the union, very much being at stake. and partly because breaks it and what that means. the northern ireland change relationship between overland and the u. k. with all agreements in the protocol. and that also what's going on with in unionism itself. it's very fragmented. and with that fragmentation comes the uncertainty over political stability in the short term and longer term questions about the future of northern ireland itself. joe al jazeera belfast has been another nationwide strike and shall anchor the natives protest demanding the government's resignation. millions of workers stayed away from work on friday as amounts against the worst economic crisis in 70 years. they have been months of power cuts and food shortages while a few and medicine shortages. mil fernandez has more from colombo,
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the trade unions that are behind the organizing of the strike say that it is very successful. i'm standing here in the heart of one of columbus mean commercial districts. it's a wholesale and retail capital. and if you can just see over my shoulder, it's almost sort of a deserted all the shops pretty much are shuttered and bear in mind this is very much an area that does millions of rupees or dollars worth of business a day. and everyone has extended support to the strike or hartsville, as it's called a locally where it means a complete shut down, in addition to people staying away from their jobs. now, on our way here, we saw a number of processions of government workers. workers of banks basically going in procession. some of them are joining those old ready outside the president office in the gold face to add their support to that campaign for president roger boxer.
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or his brother, my and the roger parks and the government to go home. i still calling for the resignation of the governments of the strike in itself of from what we're seeing in certain capitals, in certain town centers, black flags, poster slogans are being sort of put up a little pockets of demonstrators coming together, shouting slogans. and it's believed to continue for the rest of the day. elections in the philippines will be held on monday. the pole is being described as the most important in the country's history. the top 2 contenders are frontrunner funds and marcos junior and vice president, lenny robledo, macos is the son of former president ferdinand macos who was ousted in people's uprising in 1986 from an a front. louis has bought more and what's at stake. it's been described as a battle for the soul of the nation, a make or break moment for this country. now, during the last 6 years under president rodrigo detect
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a philippines are seen as having backslid in democracy. rodrigo, they had, they carried out a war on drugs which saw an estimated 6000 people killed. and that's just according to government figures. he writes groups estimate that the real number could be 5 times higher. now, his war drugs is being investigated by the united nations in the international criminal court for human rights abuses. not only that president, you get a was accused of targeting critiques and opponents, using a combination of trumped up to no charges, threats, and intimidation. his political party has endorsed marco's junior, so there are concerns that marco's junior, becoming president could mean more of the same thing. now, not only that, there is also the mark or the family name. now, granted markers junior is not the same person as his dictator. father couldn't mol course, but there ought signals or small indications that his rule could mean could, could really be quite similar. not only as he sidestepped issues of his father's
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corrupt and authoritarian rule, but he's attempt to portray that period as a period of prosperity for filipinos. and he also has an apologize for rights abuses committed during that time instead praising his father for his genius and leadership. so the question, i think for the philippines and the final outcome of this election is, well, it put philippine on the part towards more authoritarian room movement has been restricted in china's capital for a full day. as it tries to contain the spread of coven 19 subway. stations and bus routes have shut down across parts of bay ging thousands of people or q in protest . the each day. the city of $22000000.00 is trying to avoid a shanghai sol lockdown, which lasted more than a months. hundreds of people have been protesting in australia's biggest city to send a message to political leaders on climate change. ah,
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the mostly student demonstrators are demanding more action the head of the national election in just over 2 weeks time. they gathered outside the sidney headquarters of prime minister scott morrison sent a right liberal party. a record heat wave in india has increased demand for electricity and lead to power cups. the crisis is highlighting is dependence on colon ports as power stations face their biggest sources in 6 years. liver elizabeth chronic reports from new delhi my. his command was supposed to start preparing his fields for planting rice 3 weeks ago. but this is the 1st day that the water supply has come. after weeks of power cuts resulting in a lack of water, mahash doesn't know how long to day supply will last. damn go kit plan i. we bought a buyer, but we have to tell the field ad manure use the tractor, and for all this we need regular war to supply from the time it's soon to. it's
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harvey's. i will, if there is irregular supply, either the quality of rice will deteriorate on all the blonde will die. the former will suffer if any of this happens. bonnie miller, homes and businesses have also been suffering power cuts for weeks. this hospital and author per the has been without, alack tricity for at least 6 hours a day for some staff to use diesel generators when the price of the fuel is that a record high also, but it's only going to be a little bit longer than that of the laboratory, we are spending more than $150.00 every day on diesel. we're not passing the burden on to the patients right now, but the fees power outages continue will be forced to increase patient fees. among the carts are due to a severe shortage of coal at power stations. experts blame the huge demand for electricity during a heat wave coupled with bottlenecks in transportation and sky rocketing prices of imported coal with climate change exacerbating heat waves environmentalist say the
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answer to meet rising electricity needs. isn't to open more coal mines as india's doing, because that will increase greenhouse gases that trap more heat. 70 percent of india's electricity comes from coal fired power stations. analysts say the latest crisis is a reminder to invest more and green energy. when i say renewable energy, the whole ecosystem needs to be dev, loud because renewable energy is intermittent. so it's a follow. again, the rely on imported models and says for, you know, building up solar capacity or wind capacity in there. so we need to barely across the value chain. the international atomic energy agency says demand for electricity in india is expected to increase more than anywhere else in the world over the next 20 years. as the country develops, as mahash uses the scarce water to clean himself and cool off, he says his livelihood depends on the supply. continuing to flow, elizabeth moran of al jazeera
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u daily world health organizations. as we may only just now, be realizing the true toll of the cove at 19 pandemic and chop the revised up the number of deaths globally with a warning to governments. but it's not over yet. how did you, castro reports the world health organizations estimate of close to 15000000 global deaths due to coven 19? is nearly 3 times the official death count of just under 5 and a half 1000000 as reported by governments. the w h o says it used statistical modeling to arrive at the expanded number, which includes deaths directly from cove it and from other medical conditions that went untreated due to the pandemic strain on health systems. this is extremely important information for any one to have, especially policy makers and the public. we need to know the true cause of the pandemic. they have to remember that behind these numbers are people,
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according to the w h o 's report covered related deaths in india or nearly 10 times higher than the official count. indian health officials pushed back against their report thursday, attacking the w a chose use of statistical modeling. please be sure that these kind of assumptions to reuse for the national park size. norfolk argument size, i am to pull doesn't board light is not desirable. other countries with large discrepancies include pakistan, where, according to the w, a jo, excess deaths were 8 times higher than the official covert death count. in egypt, it was 12 hire. and in mexico it was double. i think on the experts all along were very aware of the allot, say shortcomings or tools that were not available from the beginning. so, the amount of testing and cetera would mean that there were many debts that went on on, accounted for the w h o says most of the excess deaths were concentrated in southeast
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asia, europe, and the americas. and we're in middle income countries. they also confirmed the global death toll was high year for men who accounted for 57 percent of deaths. the w h o is the 1st to caution that it's report on global covered related deaths is an estimate in thus imperfect, but the agency says it is nevertheless important to get an accurate accounting of those head demick toll to better prepare for future threats. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. the 3rd team of astronauts sent into all bit my space. x has landed in the u. s. a dragon capture will splash down after florida coast after a 23 hour return journey from the international space station towards that before astronauts conducted hundreds of research projects during that 6 month mission. it was a welcome to the 1st civilian crew to the space station recovery team. ah
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