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ah, oh, yeah, with issue and i have the john this is al jazeera. ah hello, i'm emily anglin. this is the news i'm alive from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. ukraine declines the mission to defend the as of style steel plant. alva. as hundreds of injured fight is a brought out from the facility in mary, a po o establishment, candidates make significant gains in lebanon's election. his bela and its allies
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lose their parliamentary majority. a heat wave in northern india and pakistan leaves pool vulnerable work is in scorching temperatures. plus the small company in california causing a big headache for the multi $1000000000.00 solar industry in the us. i'm joanna roscoe with sports is all smells hopes of playing in the champions late next season . take a big blow and the sale of chelsea football club could be at risk over dispute about where the proceeds from the deal. we'll go with it's, we start this news, our in ukraine where the military is attempting to evacuated last remaining soldiers from the as of style. a steel plant late on monday, more than 260 ukrainian fighters were brought out from the last stronghold of resistance in the city of marion home. but hundreds more remain inside the vast
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complex. but so did he deem great his cause, thanks to the actions of the ukrainian military, the international committee of the red cross and the you in. we hope that we will be able to save the lives of our guys, the us severely wounded soldiers among them. they've been given care, i want to stress that ukraine needs ukrainian heroes alive. that's our principles. i think that any reasonable person will understand these words. the work continues to return al, guys, home. and this work requires delicacy and time of day. let's get the view from moscow now where the door said jabari door. so just wise is evacuation so important for the russian military at this stage in the wall. well that's because mario poll, i was pretty much in full control of the russian military as of april 21st. and the
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last remaining pocket of resistance was at this large as of style steel plant structure within the areas surrounding the city. and the russian military had decided at the command of the president vladimir putin, that they were not going to storm this facility to force out their remaining fighters. in late april, there was about 2000 of them that were seeking shelter in the underground tunnels of this facility. now, since then, there had been sporadic fighting on going and it was only over the past 24 hours that we understand it with the assistance of the united nations as well as the international committee of the red cross. they were able to and get the injured fighters out finally, and we understand there were still many of the ukrainian federalists fighters still left, but most of them are injured. and now this is a process that is ongoing. according to the russian defense ministry. of course, mary, opal, it is a very strategically important as port city. it is an area that russia claimed they
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were in full control of in late april 8 links, crimea, which russia annexed in 2014 to the dumbass region. and then on to russia, it is a land quarter that this country was looking to establish. and this was one of the final remaining issues that these fighters were a prolonging their full and victory for the russian military in mariel. pal, now it seems that the evacuation is underway. and so it really is going to be a victory for the russian military to say that they have now full control of mariel, which then means they will be able to establish that much at needed land corridor from crimea all the way across to russia. or i thank you very much dosage of ari with that update live for us in moscow. let's head to ukraine now where i sad bag is standing by for us in denay pro. i said, what more do we know about the evacuation of the steel plant from a ukrainian perspective?
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well, what we're hearing is that 260 fighters were vacuous, did not 53 of them are wounded. they were evacuated to russian controlled territorial russian back separate case control church about said, did you tell me, at least of mario and another 211. you've got creating a monetary car again to the territory that it's controlled by the, by russia, ukraine, and are definitely differentiate that says that these individuals that these white as will be returned to bring had surgery late the day. they haven't told us exactly . and the deputy problem in the exchange has been done. in fact, it will be routed your training soldiers in exchange for wounded russian soldiers. now mary is significant for ukraine fighters. i've been holding extremely popular. yeah. but they have say, and some of the online video addresses that they've done by the physicians and
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those that remain this. so they holding that for wanting to intervene and in some ways. so that may not be russians. i'm saying to them and they done that. and they refused to do that, so it's uncertain what will happen next. again, mario, significant ukrainian because of those wipers they've seen. but neither you thing and i'm, except that doesn't matter. and i sat elsewhere in ukraine. we're hearing of attacks in the v. what more do you know about that? well, you know, the hours of morning explosions to be even that region. i'm going to send the russians are military facilities, uncertain about casualties so far we haven't heard any kinds of things, but we also hearing the relevant risk has repeatedly warned the west about supplying ukraine with weapons and that they would target those. and what it also
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shows the rest of the trust ukraine and be within western ukraine. russia has low range and you can plug it there. but it also shows that it's still not over time. that means has been, have been regardless of what nature is saying, that would be bringing about the russians. but making gains and amusing this battle, russia demonstrates still able to hit targets actual across ukraine, and that is troubling. not just for the politicians both for also for the bringing people in many cities, life normally as return to normal, but this still the direction of missiles stripes from russia. all right, thank you very much for that update. as always, aside by live for us in a, in a private ukraine check if president says delegations from sweden and finland should not bother coming to ankara to convince him to approve the national bids by jeff type accuses the nordic countries of being, quote,
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guest houses and terrorist organizations that's in relation to sweden, reportedly hosting members of the p k. k kurdish group. ben linden swayed in our ending 200 years of neutrality to joined nature, after russia's invasion of ukraine. for me on this, let's bring an diplomatic editor, james spies who's in brussels. james, what are you hearing about weight and food? linds beads and turkey's opposition to those plans. what we got here today is a meeting of european defense ministers of the european union. not a nato meeting, but nato's taking part in this meeting, the deputy secretary general will be joining the e u foreign ministers. that's because the secretary general young stockton berg has had cobra and still hasn't tested negative. and as you say, the issue of the 2 countries joining nato is overshadowing everything. clearly, it would be a very, very important move. it would, seriously, i think, worry russia because the border of nato and russia will,
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more than double. these are more effective militaries, with a lot of capabilities, a lot of aircraft that they be bringing to the nato alliance. the problem though, is that to join nato, it needs to be anonymous and turkeys, and a 2 member turkey right now has problems. it says that these countries and it's words hard, but terrorists, i think it's talking about kurdish nationalists. it's talking about the p. k. k is still give up members of the colon movement that turkey in some cases would like to see extra dr. particularly from sweden to turkey, and that's something that sweden and said no to. so how do you get over this blockage? well, the u. s. secretary of state he's going to be meeting the turkish foreign minister in the coming days in new. ready york whether having a food and i'll be discussing this on the the side lines. and i also put the point to the e. u foreign policy chief joseph barrell, asking him how he saw the situation right now. i'm sure the country will show port
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extremely strong support. dig biggest boucher groups report the membership of a street in a feelin grenade. i know that turkey has put some objections. a whole nature will be able to overcome them. but from my side, from the side to the defense counsel, a strong support to these membership what's already being agreed by the european union is even more money in terms of military aid for ukraine, ukrainian from a companion defense minister joining by video link. this meeting, we have over $500000000.00 in the net latest amount of aid. and that brings to a total over 2000000000 that the u is given to ukraine since the russian invasion. i think some of the things are going to be talking about here is exactly what to do with that money and what right now ukraine needs. all right, james, thank you very much for bringing this up to speed. chance bangs add to per manic
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edison brussels reformers, candidates in lebanon, have might be gains in sundays, parliamentary elections. official results have confirmed to run back to his bola and its allies have lost their majority. saudi lined lebanese forces party have also made games to become the biggest christian block. it's the 1st election since the economic crisis and the bay wrote port explosion. santa ha eas, live for us in that bay route. hello. they sang out, run us through these results. what picture is emerging? many of the old faces are back in parliament, but also a meaningful number of new faces made it into parliament. but overall, the balance of power has shifted. the iranian back has bella and their allies have lost their parliamentary majority. but at the same time, no political grouping, no party, no alliance has the majority. this is a very fragmented parliament,
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and it's still not clear in the days and weeks and months ahead. how alliances will emerge were whether or not there will be a new alliances. but there's also a 1st in this election, really a 1st and lebanon's post civil war politics. you have pro reformers, people who are not allied with any of the mainly sectarian political parties, making significant gains 10 percent of the seats, at least 13 seats. these are newcomers. these are people who want to bring about change who want to run the country differently. but they're not strong enough, but at the end of the day they could be king makers because they are a sizable number. but the question is, will they ally with other groups? so a lot of uncertainty on how the alliances are going to work in the coming days. but the old divide is still there. you still have this anti has been law pro, has bella alliance and part in dividing and di polarization, which really is gonna make, make it difficult for the politicians to agree on
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a new government and to elect the president in the coming months. and xena, obviously one of the most pressing issues is deliveries, economy, how will a fraction parliament impact that well, for some time now, the economic crisis is now in its 3rd year. those in power have been unwilling, unable to carry out the reforms needed to fight corruption in order for this country to be able to get that much needed for an assistance. and i am f bailout package. they're refusing to reform because they could be held accountable for the corruption and the mismanagement over the last few decades. will they be willing to do that this time around? and if they don't, the economy will just collapse even further. already the local currency is losing value just in the past 3 days, and many people are struggling to make ends meet. indeed, thank you very much for that update. zayna ha, to live for us in that, by route for more analysis on this. let's bring in that, sammy naida,
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who's the director of the lavon to institute for strategic affairs. and he's a columnist at l. monitors 11 on pulse. he joins us by skype from beirut. sammy, thanks so much for being on this news. our lebanon was hoping for a new beginning, but they've ended up with more instability. how fragmented will this parliament bay? it's not fragmented, however, the political divide is very deep, which will make the governing the country and forming a government, electing president very thought. the situation is very similar to that preventing today and iraq where the forces opposing it on on the election. but it can not translate that into a governance. why? because those who are on the line do it on r. e b, a power blocking a power as long as they want national unity government. this is the rule of the
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minority. this is a bit of the minority, as long as they want to soon are both set for any decision, whether in the parliament or in the government. this would give a block any kind of decision, any kind of a democratic of functioning off a proper to state. so it's true that the access that existence access or that this group support in iran have been does it blow, however, and this is a major transformation of that political scene. all the more as zeno are saying in the hurry for the new faces that are presenting that evolution that are presenting they use made that entry into the parma. however, the political divide is deeper. and as long as you have
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a sources that don't abide by the democratic rule of a majority for decision process and not to turn on and, and at the level of the executives not translate into a proper functioning of the state. and this is for the country that is still a suffering, a very tough economic crisis. and i'm not seeing how a government will before any time. so and how and indeed was i am asked to be signed because this is the only way out of the crisis. so good news is, despite all odds, the election took place at the constitutional date for the election
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as part of a constitution. that doesn't mean that expected, however, that this will not translate and follow a way out of the crisis and send me. i wanted to ask you about those doesn't and also independent and pays that one states. what does that say about the public's anger towards the previous government? this, you would say that those people wear and demonstrating against it in front of the parliament and they have b a water and now made that they did away inside the bottom and as m. b as in present, that of their people. and this by itself has a lot that has a very important symbolic value. and it's, and boosting new generation that did not hesitate to take it for this 32 years ago . and in order to bring about to change in my view,
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if they play well, they can be really good makers, whether for to to vote for some badly needed blow, or even to elect a new president if the election of the president will take place on the constitution and they turned in september, october of this and funny, what are we likely to say in the coming days and weeks ahead when the sort of different issues are put on the table? empowerment. yes, this is very important. good question. there are some key forms to be voted to one in the sense pertaining to the forming the banking sector. another 11 tool for restructure the century bank. and it's really important to note this
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dead, the old alliance of, of the banking establishment and political class. it's very important that they will not have the upper hand in order to enforce the, the forms that country need in order to get out of the crisis while we will watch this. thanks it interest. thank you very much for your analysis and the night that the director of the lavon institute for strategic affairs plenty more. i had on the news hour, including the battle in libya, over 2 prime ministers. we've delighted dawn fighting and tripoli, kim jung own blame. he's health officials, as north korea struggled to deal with him. major corbett, 19 l. frank and in sport,
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tiger woods. returning to the spotlight for the 2nd and goals, major of the season will have all those details coming up in sport. ah, extreme weather is affecting millions of people across south asia and the middle east. health warnings have been issued in northern india, with temperatures have reached 49 degrees centigrade. millions of lives and livelihoods are being affected. officials warn the hate could cause health problems for the vulnerable, including infants, the elderly, and people with chronic diseases. have me, mitchell has this update from new delhi fluids absolutely unbearable. now temperatures in the national capital has climbed down slightly after touching nearly 50 degrees celsius. a day or 2 ago, but it's still very, very hard and much higher than what is normal for this time of feel. and you know,
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i'm coming to you from an air conditioned office, but there are hundreds of millions of people exposed to heat wave that don't have that option. i mean, many of them, a daily wage walkers have to walk outside and can't really afford to take a day off, millions of all those farmers. and i'm really stressed about what this heat is doing to that crops and also their livestock. now, you know, some of an india, especially northern india, can get very hot, heat waves all combine, but x plus point out that what you're seeing right now is basically a larger change of changing weather patterns. and in pakistan, unprecedented temperatures have led to water and electricity shortages. people have been to remain indoors during the hottest hours of the day. while a rock has been hit by another sandstorm, sending hundreds of april to hospital with breathing problems, flights have been suspended in baghdad. and in the jeff and some schools and
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offices have been forced to close. it's the 8th sandstone since april. some saying it's never been this bad in living memory. the weather is being blamed on climate change in the destruction of agricultural lands from on this. let's bring in that much more to up dell a while head, who is in baghdad for us. just tell us how people's lives being impacted by these repeated sandstorms. well, 1st of all, life as you can see in the back ground is getting back to normal as this sanderson has it has been recently dissipating. this is totally different from yesterday when huge, heavy hayes grid hayes over heavy dust and sand storm was sweeping over many areas across iraq, including 7 major provinces, including the capitol by the bed and forcing shut down
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a state institutions including the 3 major efforts across the country now, life has become back, has come back to normal. ugh, people are going back to their jobs. but as you know, that 4000 people according to that has that ministry. i received a medical treatment because they suffered breathing suffocation, breathing reading difficulties because of their because of the sand store. now material, just say that this is because of the climate change. it has taken a heavy toll on iraq, especially according to the united nations. iraq is one of the 5 countries hard hit by the climate change, as you know, that the lack of rain in recent years has resulted in dry soil dissertation. and also degradation of soil has held but at sand and dusts spun around with
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any wind coming and sweeping over iraq. all right, thank you very much. shamar more de abdel why had life for us in baghdad. thank you to the us now in a small company in california is causing a big headache for the multi 1000000000 dollar solar industry. oxen sola has accused china of avoiding tariffs by routing their operations through other countries in the region investigation into those crimes is now forced a number of projects in the us to be put on hold. john hendrick explains from santa monica in sunny southern california. the soul of the american solar industry, mark smith can't find solar panels at any price. yesterday. we put it in order for solar panels for the product that we use. and i being told august, this is unheard of for my company. so this is really detrimental. how long would normally take 2 weeks? the u. s. solar power industry has been nearly frozen in time since late march.
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that's when the u. s. commerce department started investigating whether china was evading us tariffs by shipping solar panels through for other countries. and because 80 percent of the panels in the us come from those countries, cambodia, malaysia, thailand in vietnam, almost no one is buying them. they're afraid if they buy them. now later they'll have to pay stiff, retroactive tariffs. and they are a few other options. we can almost not tolerate this and survive. many companies will go under in industry survey, found companies are now considering laying off $38000.00 americans more than a 3rd of the solar workforce and could lose $30000000000.00 in last projects. the man who asked for the government prob knows what his rivals think of his company, most hated solar company in america, moon rashid, founder of the tiny silicon valley panel maker, oxen, solar, says he's trying to save the u. s. solar industry from chinese domination. an unfair competition, if it's 6, that means
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a 2 thing cheating was going on. and number 2, it highlights how dependent we are on foreign suppliers. and we need to get off of that dependence because these panels are coming in lower than our bill of materials. so the u. s. worker hasn't even had a chance and they've lost the race, never even entered the race. something is very wrong with that. the christoffel is undermining president. biden's ambitious goal to have solar make up 40 percent of the nation's energy use by 20. 35 members of congress are furious. the powerless, we shoot ourselves in the foot by allowing this kind of stuff to happen. the longer the situation persist, the more severe the damage will be. the u. s. commerce secretary says the probe will take as long as it takes my hands a very tight here i am required by statute to investigate a claim that companies operating and other countries are trying to circumvent the
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duties. and i'm required by statute to have a fulsome investigation. a preliminary ruling is due in august, a final decision could take a year. another trip around the sun that might bring precious little progress for the american solar industry. john henry and al jazeera santa monica, california. still ahead on al jazeera, another political roadblock in northern ireland, how it's at odds with the u. k. prime minister on a breck that agreement on the alerts. why us truths to being sent back to somalia and a d. j. 10. the tables, like one of the worst pitches ever seen in basal but will coming out with joe in ah, it's feeling more like summer cross central parts of europe,
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everyone. so for the 1st time this year, parts of switzerland hit 30 degrees, but we do have a lot of activities and particularly heavy downpours around the balkan. so bosnia creation, serbia rate into hungry and tact, we could power up some severe thunderstorms here capable. some of these cells are producing hale and torrential downpours. any we could see some flash flooding. now the thunderstorms also cool the atmosphere, so it's harry eva goes from $26.00 down to 20 degrees after those thunderstorms pass through for turkey, some showers central portions toward the south, but a beauty of a day and is sample with a height 25 degrees. other side of the med rate. now dialing up the heat here. seville 35. but we're, we've got cloud cover that's putting a cap on temperatures in lisbon. 22. some chairs not too far away from porto, into the northwest of spain. pretty good run of rain wobbling rate between the islands of ireland and britain. but i think eastern portions of the island of ireland are going to get it worse. and we've got some heat here to paris 29 london
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getting in on this to the high 26 degrees that is active through the gulf of guinea on tuesday. and for south africa, it's feeling more like summer in cape town with a high of 29 degrees c later. ah. the full of struggle is full of pleasure to santa rosa will credit also pick out a pedestal. yeah, it was an intimate long life in cuba. to make a media and me dallas hammock dag filled me was a lunar going to once a year. my cuba on al jazeera ah al jazeera,
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where ever there was eliminated for most of australia decades ago is killing young women in the most indigenous community. one or one east investigate on the al jazeera. oh i hello you, what changes 0. i'm emily ang, when he's a reminder about top stories this ukraine military command says the mission to defend the as of style steel plant is over. more than 260 ukranian fighters have been brought out from the last stronghold of resistance in the city of mary. a poem
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result from sunday's election show has paula and his allies have lost their majority in lebanon's parliament. visual results show the savvy aligned lebanese forces party. a christian group has made huge gains and extreme weather is affecting millions of people across south asia and the middle 8th. iraq has been hit by another sandstone, sending hundreds of people to hospital with freight, and a prime minister appointed by libby as eastern base. parliament has now left tripoli after fighting between rival armed groups. 30 bush aga and several ministers arrived in the capital earlier in the day. they came to take control of the government from the west and administration. but the unity government, led by the tripoli base to prime minister abdul homie, the debate has refused to can say power. like trying to is following developments from adama's in southern libya,
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said he besought arrived in the early mornings. today around 3 am locally, according to his press office. later on around 5 am, 6 am. we saw clashes on the coastal road. the coastal road is on is a major, major road that are crossed as through the capital r clashes between groups that were supporting fatigue sugar that were protecting him and those that are against him. and this is something that we, that libyans here know all to well to different governments. we have the internationally recognized government by led by prime minister of the hammer, baber basin, tripoli, and fet. he bosher, who was appointed by the eastern base parliament. he has some support from various countries, but for the most part, libyans are sick and tired of having these 2 governments. we were libya was supposed to have elections in december. they were postponed. the,
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the current prime minister, after having the baby and tripoli has said that he has been working to bring a bottle bring elections in june. it doesn't look like that's happening. and it's important to note that this is happening. while there are talks in cairo between libya's 2 legislative houses, the parliament in the high council state, they're supposed to agree on a constitutional basis to hold elections as a really very disappointing for many libyans and, and as the people and the residents here that are going to suffer from these political divisions, it's bringing cardiac zeeny, who's a senior libya analyst at the international crisis group and joins us by skype from ryan. korea, thanks so much for being on this program. it's certainly a complicated political story, their arrival administration. so what impact does this race an escalation have on the political landscape? i think it will be a, it will have a negative impact in the sense that as long as fatty bush argo,
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who's backed by the military factions in eastern libya and the parliament, as long as he sort of refrain from using violence to enter tripoli by force there was room for a negotiation between the 2 broad camps, but now that he has once again, this is his 2nd time tried to enter tripoli and establish himself there in his government there. and yet again, failed and was pushed back. i think the patience of the tripoli basal authorities, has, has run thin. it means that they will be less likely to embark and talks or accept talks. they would be hardened towards fuzzy bush, yoga and his allies. and i think honestly the chances of a sugar to claim that he will come to power and he will take over triplet, at this point, a dim, it'll be a blue hole. so for the u. n. lead talks taking place in the, in cairo, where certainly tensions will have increased this morning because of these
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developments in, in, in tripoli and claudia, all this, when an election was supposed to be held back in december last year. and obviously that didn't happen. and then a vote was likely for next month. is that will that happen now? well, i live in factions are at loggerheads on the path ahead actually they're, they're still the baby camp. so the tripoli base camp has proposed starting parliamentary elections as early as next month. i think with today's developments they will even show that initiative because probably they feel stronger and they do not want to put on the table a negotiation to to have this road map that they support accepted by all their affections who still say they want presidential and parliamentary elections and that was what is being discussed in cairo. and there are other factions that
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say that they should be negotiating a 3rd way. so another government neither to baber nor norbish, i got. so bottom line to answer your question, i think the odds of elections happening now to you know, in these next few months are today less likely than they could have been only yesterday in dave. and i guess all this political complexities happening with libyans and how frustrated would they be? what impact is that having on them in a day to day lives? will you know levin's unfortunately, over the past few months since the failed election of last december, when, when it was called off, i really grow no less confident in the political future of their country. they are disappointed. they don't see even a benefit in engaging politically because they see the future of the country in the hands of
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a small elite that is taking the country in one direction on another. they see the country on the precipice. also another financial disruption because political crisis means closure of oil terminals, it means that, you know salaries will be delayed, it possibly means inflation rise. and this is happening already against the backdrop of raising living cost because of the war in ukraine, which has pushed up grain prices and basic commodity prices. so overall, a very grim outlook for your average libyan who will be affected financially by this and probably security wise as well because the chances of clashes and institutional divisions are certainly going to arise in the upcoming months if there is no consensus on, on a way forward and just briefly on claudia, what impact could this recent escalation have on oil production in libya?
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well, we've seen already closures earl oil production in the past months. this is because the military faction led by general halifax, huff 3rd who is allied to a to bush. aga used the closure of oil terminals under his control to, to exercise some form of leverage. a loyal production went down by almost half of what we saw in the past. now, with this failed attempt to take tripoli, i think we'll see even more a closures. so a downfall in oil production from, from the almost 900000 where we were yesterday. probably back down to 500000. so it will be in the long run, a neg, it will have a negative impact on all the production and oil exports, which is what european countries i have been seeking to reverse in order to compensate for the loss of oil and gas sales from, from russia. obviously,
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so this is d, stabilizing in terms of the strategic interests of european countries, certainly not ideal, but we appreciate your analysis. thank you very much. claudia cassini, a senior, libya endless at the international crisis group. thanks for your time. note korea is scrambling to deal with what's believe to be a major coven 19 outbreak. 6 new deaths were reported on tuesday with the 270000 people showing favor like symptoms. it's later, kim jung own is blaming his health officials, who, being responsible in their handling of the crisis. really one and a half 1000000 people have tested positive since the end of last month. and 60 people have died. rob mcbride has moved from some less than a week ago. this wasn't officially a thing. it didn't officially exist in north korea. now we're talking about a total number of cases of people with symptoms with fever. some people who have
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recovered around about one and a half 1000000 and it's very difficult to really get a grip on just how far this might have spread throughout the population. because of course, there is a real scarcity of testing in north koreans. famously, this is a country that is said for 2 and a half years that it hasn't officially existed. and an awful lot of focus is now being put on some of these events that we've seen in the past weeks and months where north koreans have been going out. they have been holding a mass, military parades through pill gang for important anniversaries, gatherings of party members, and people looking at those. and wondering whether, if this virus has been spreading through the community, maybe as the on the con virus silently with out any symptoms that these of all the mass spread or events that are now coming to manifest themselves. certainly kim jungle has now declared an emergency has been seen to be chairing meetings. there's been official video of him visiting pharmacies, criticizing his own health officials, calling in the military and calling for more pharmaceutical products and
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therapeutics had to be passed out to the population. but obviously, what would have helped, would have been vaccines and, and north career is one of the 2 countries in the world that has not had vaccination campaigns. and his course is very vulnerable because it has a population already somewhat weakened by malnutrition and relying a problem upon a medical system that is shaky to say the least. there are concerns of a possible trade war between the u. k and the european union. it's all because of a political style, nice in northern ireland and a threat to scrap of bricks at tail. china home reports from hill from forest. johnson's visit to northern ireland meeting separately with nationalist and unionist party leaders hasn't done much to encourage a return to power sharing government. it was, it was a lively meeting with us. he said tough, i think is the word. i mean, we're not, we're not here to to be around the bush. sure to, to try and sugar coach. i mean,
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this is a very serious situation. she fain say they're willing to get back to work, but the democratic unit, his body is boycotting the store. mont assembly over post breaks in trade arrangements known as the northern ireland protocol that imposed border checks on goods leaving great britain for northern ireland. the protocol was introduced to prevent a hard border on the island of island, and some unionists say it undermines northern islands place in the united kingdom. johnson's government has threatened unilateral changes to the protocol if negotiations with the e. u. fail his plan to introduce legislation to make that possible effectively undoing and international treaty was described as reckless by sinn fein and received a noncommittal response from the democratic unionists as well. i want to see northern arms placed within the united kingdom, fully respected, and fully restored. i haven't seen the proposals yet,
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so i'm not making any judgments on what the government may do until i see what it is they're going to do. we've heard the words now we need to see the action that the problem is a majority in northern on it actually support the protocol even if they don't think it's perfect. including shin fane and moderate unionists who see the economic advantages of northern ireland remaining in the european union single market for goods effect. the prime minister appears to overlook. we would love this to be done in a consensual way with our friends and partners are now the problems i stopping from these the barriers east west. but to get that done, to have insurance, we need to, we need to proceed with a legislative solution at the same time. if lawrence johnson came here hoping to achieve consensus and restore power sharing government, well, he hasn't done that. but he has set the stage for a potential breach of international law by his government and for the further
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upsetting of a delicate balance of power that exists here in northern ireland. turner hall, jones is live now from belfast. join at the prime minister. his visit was apparently unsuccessful. so what happens now? what it seems, the british government is preparing to take its next step, a rather more tentative next steps. going back to the recently been planning certainly based on the language that had originally been deployed. the foreign sex list crosses, preferring in the next hour or 2 to make a statement to the house of commons in which she will set out. how the government envisages that in legislation will eventually come about that would give it the ability to unilaterally undermine the northern ireland protocol that not go to publish that legislation. they're not going to say what precisely will be in it. it will be more symbolic action rather than actual action to problems with that. the 1st that the democratic unit is part in its leader,
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jeffrey donaldson said after that meeting with bar is johnson, that they would only be drawn back to power sharing government on the basis of actual action. they want to see the legislation. they simply don't trust this government at its word that they see as having a betrayed unionism in northern ireland by agreeing to the protocol in the 1st place. and the 2nd problem is the e u. however symbolic this action, the e. u is likely to see it as a threat, and that is not likely to set the conditions for successful negotiations. mister johnson, you heard in that say, he says he wants a consensual way forward and that legislation is merely an insurance policy. but it is hard to see under these circumstances how any sort of compromise is arrived at under the shadow of a threat and moving pads to that story. thank you very much, jen. how left for us in belfast? us president joe biden is sending troops back into somalia to help with the fight against armed group al shabani. the reverse of the decision made by donald trump
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follows the election of a new somali president, how son shake mahal mood is taking charge. he was wanting on sunday, i mean a security lockdown to prevent rebel attacks. patty calhoun has more from washington d. c. the bottom line is this. at the end of his presidency, he'd already lost the election for president. donald trump decided to move all of the troops out of somalia. now the commanders had to follow the president's orders as commander in chief, but they kept the mission going. according to them. they simply re base the soldiers in other in other countries nearby. and they said they continued the mission by basically putting people into small, you're taking them out, putting them in. but now what they're going to do is just basically put all of the soldiers right back in and base them in somalia. now here's how pentagon press secretary john kirby described the mission. i want to remind that those forces, as they have been, will continue to be used in training, advising, and equipping partner forces to give them the tools that they need to disrupt.
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degrade and monitor our bob. our forces are not now, nor will they be directly engaged in combat operations. the purpose here is to enable a more effective fight against our ship by local forces, which and bob has increased in their strength, imposes a heightened threat. and really all of the discussions though, from the pentagon and the white house, the focus wasn't so much on helping the somalia, somalia, it was about counter and al bob, which john kirby said was growing in strength that their emissions were not just in the region, but they wanted to target american interest as well. and so they're really just focusing on the fact that in this time they believe that they've lost situational awareness. and that al shabani has gotten stronger and they need to counter that in the region. now one thing i think it's important to point out, kirby said that they would not to get involved with direct military combat. that's sort of a nuanced way of looking at it because the u. s. does launch military strikes
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against allister bob targets and they are sending, if you are troops and it was $700.00 now it's going to be less than $500.00 and drug smuggling tunnels been found under the border between the united states and mexico runs for half a kilometer long from tijuana to mexico, toward san diego, california police arrested 6 people and phased close to a ton of illegal drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroine still in the us and families of the victims of the latest mass shooting our new in coals for restrictions on gun ownership, 10 people were killed in buffalo on saturday in a racially motivated attack. there have been nearly 200 mass shootings this year in the u. s. that's 10 awake. u. s. president joe biden has praised the bravery of police officers ahead of a visit to buffalo on tuesday. he m
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my breast for and how do you, how beer you? this is to be fixed as a pain. mom, we love you. sport is still a head on al jazeera and will explain why the sale of chelsea football club could be jeopardy. that's coming up next with jack. ah.
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mm pool. ah ah, it's pineapple spot. he's jeff emily. thank you very much for the sale of chelsea
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football club has reported been thrown into down by dispute between the u. k. government and russian arraignment, abramoff, which i have a where the proceeds will go. i consult him. led by ella dodge is co owner. todd boley is in the process of trying to purchase the club in a fight $3000000000.00 deal and needs to be completed before chelsea's temporary uprising license expires on may 31st. abramivitch, who is sanctioned by the british government following russia's invasion of ukraine, is not allowed to keep the profits from the sale. or for more on this we can speak tis, i see it press global sports correspondent, rob harris. rob. so where does the u. k. government want this money to go and why is this causing such a machine? well, this is a really complicated take over one of the most complicated and rapid in the history . the premier league and the government wants to ensure that robin of rome of it, in no way, profits from the sale of chelsea or gaines any funds from the sale of the club. and the russian oligarch has insisted in statements that he won't do. and he will
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respect that process a lot does hinge on the loan, the loan of molden woolen a half $1000000000.00 that chelsea has benefited from over the last 19 years. that's helped to fund so much success. and i from of it had said that he would not be calling that in himself. the government doesn't seem to have the assurances yet legally bonding there. actually, that is the case. and just what will happen to them the money. and indeed the, i'm the fight to these funds money initially what the government wants is this money to end up in a frozen account. the 2500000000 pounds that is being paid by the consortium led by the la dodgers. i rena, there part aiyona told by lee. so this deal can be done by may the 31st. and then what happens if this deal can't be sorted by the may the 31st deadline? could chelsea be in real trouble? well, there is a threat to the future existence of the club, and that has always been the case since brokovich will. thanks. and at the start of
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march over what the british government says was links to vladimir putin, the links to the, the russian stage of the invasion of ukraine by russia. and the license could be extended beyond may the 31st, the license that allows chelsea the frozen asset to continue operating as a business. but there is another deadline looming early in june, which is the premier league issuing the licenses for all clubs to operate the next season. so there is that element of jeopardy and defense as well. this is information the government does want to out in the public, to some degree, perhaps to put some pressure on abramoff, which much healthy i to speed up the process to speed up all for a noise assurances. the very least ensure that this money does go into the pros and account. ultimately abramivitch has said he wants the money to go to a foundation to initially he said the victims of the war and ukraine. he's not being specific type of which victims and more recently, the later statement just talked about the money going to charitable causes. so the
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government needs to know that he will not in any way have any say over where that money does go. and it purely does go to a foundation, but setting up our foundation where 2 and a half 1000000000 pounds can go to it's not a quick process as well to you have to sort out all the mechanisms around that. all right, road. thank you very much for helping us understand that very complicated takeover ro, paris there from a p. liverpool will be without top score. mm hm. at salad for that premier league game against south hampton, later, where defeat would mean the end of that title. chances. if live up a winter night, they would move a point behind lead as much city with one gain to go. but seller and defender virgil van dyke are both rolled out or to picking up injuries during levels f a cup when over. chelsea on saturday that much went to extra time and penalties and with only 3 days for his place to recover manager, you can hop admits is taken it out of his squad. but can promise indefinitely. unfavorably did one of the team only for one reason to try to win the game itself.
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m as difficult as it was. because that obviously is the job to do and be able to see who's able to help to 30 extra minutes made a big difference. so livable need to rely on city slipping up, which is exactly what arsenal need taught him to do if they want to secure champions league football next season. i'll snow remain outside of the top. for off they were beaten by new castle. the home side went ahead in the 2nd half through a ben wight own goal. and with 5 it is to go greener. good, my good manish made it to nil to round of a miserable night for arsenal. it means tottenham will secure forth sports will draw against already relegated. norwich on the final day of the season, we need to women. we need to feed on them and we know that in full voice, that's always possible. and if anything happens,
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you have to be there know that you want to have to be your head down, swallow, or the portion the we'll feel awfully and good to morrow. signing him. tiger woods is preparing for ghost 2nd major of the year, which starts on thursday and says he's feeling a lot stronger than he did at the master's last month. was, has been practicing at southern hills in oklahoma, which will host the pga championship tiger won the tournament the last time it was held at this course in 2007. this would be would 2nd competitive appearance since a serious car crash last year. steph curry and the golden state warriors, bearing for game one of their western conference finals with the dallas mavericks on wednesday. but the n b a star has finally done something. he's waited 13 years for. he's graduated from college. the 3 time m. b, a champion earned his bachelor of arts degree in sociology from davidson in north carolina. off to re enrolling he left in 2009 to pay for the n b a draft, but it always promised his mom he would graduate. when i left, i knew that was
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a huge part of oh no. see, it's something to do was eventually finish my degree. that's why i made that promise to our i would. she made a joke though. for the last 10 years, she's got to brag that 2 of her 3 kids, girl college graduates who are from liberty or sorry weren't for my elan and war from duke. and so i fall, i got to join me or my siblings on that front. so i'm not die one out anymore. well, we've seen some pretty bad ceremonial 1st pitches from celebrities over the years, but this one i thought to be out there with the worst. and this d. j. stevie key had the honor ahead of houston's gang with boston on monday. but he turned the tables with the throat so bad that it went into the back stop. net way behind home plate. all right, it said one. all right, that is the yes port for now. we'll have more relate to emily. she settling shouldn't quit her day job. that's for show. all right, thanks jerry. that same for this news hour. i'm emily angland,
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but volleyball will be here in a moment. with more of the days, sir. do stay with us. ah, ah frank assessment, what are the political risks of panic? russian oil, a gas for western leaders, pull sanctions on russian energy exports for such informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed media debt, going to be acting from nisha and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines
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inside story on al jazeera, the heart wrenching goodbyes, loved ones, not knowing when they will unite again. women and children heading west to relative safety, often leaving men behind among them. foreign is also trying to give out train rise of a free, but it's on a 1st come, 1st serve basis here at the bus station that only a few rides available. and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like for 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 reach in hoping to morrow is a better day. in november 2020 a strand security services carried out operation luck. so if i open my eyes and so a machine gun pointed at my head out there,
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well goes to vienna and grants to examine events and allegations of islam of phobia . this is a terrible mistake because it affect it from said to young feminine austria operation luck. so on al jazeera blue ukraine attempts to evacuate the last soldiers from the as a sound steel plant. in mary, a ball more than 200 were taken to russian control. territory on monday. ah, are you watching al jazeera lie from doha with me for the back? people also ahead. oh, anti establishment candidates make significant gains in lebanon's election.

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