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is select new generations. this indigenous community has lived off of what the rain forest provides. but when they discovered that their territory was being invaded by gold mining projects all along their river, the community brought a lawsuit against a po, doors government. you've won, you want the unprecedented ruling, apply just the state to consult communities over oil and mining projects that impact their land and to seek their consent. the tiny cine annoy community has won a huge battle, but it may not necessarily have the last word. the court ruling does leave room for exceptions in the name of overriding national interests ah, addressing the world's political and business leaders, ukraine's president calls for billions more in aid and big sanctions against russia
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. ah, and i why money inside this is out? is there a life dough? so coming up, the palestinian foreign ministry formerly asked the international criminal court to investigate the killing of al jazeera journalist. sharina block. don't underestimate all result. china responds the u. s. president's comments that america would intervene militarily in beijing, invades taiwan shortages, rise in lanka, as a severe economic crisis. threats to push the country into going back ah, ukraine's president wants billions more in financial help from the international community. the law demand zalinski made the appeal before the world's richest and most powerful individuals and organizations that the world economic form in doubles
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jemima daniel, out of the holy shit, musician you, cree needs funding at least 5000000000 us dollars per month. this is why we established a fund for rebuilding greenville, and you called united 24 to call upon everyone to join this look, i'm on the antibiotic editor james base has more from their the audience here. and i was a top media of professionals, top business professionals, top political figures from all around the world, all listening to yet another call from president lensky because he didn't come here . he is still commanding war efforts back in ukraine and keith. but he was beamed in and i think pretty similar refrain for what we've heard in the past. let's discuss this further with john chipman. he is the chief executive of the international institute for strategic studies. john zalinski. again, i need more. i need more. is he going to get moral? after all,
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the billions that have been given in the weapons in the given it can begin to start dry up. i think he delivered 2 messages. first, that ukraine is still fighting the will to beat the russians back, is there, and as a consequence, heavy weapon should continue to flow. certainly, nate, who is now beginning to provide nato standard weapons, which means there might be a little bit of a delay between the delivery of the weapons, the training of the ukrainians on them, and then their ability to deploy them in battle. and of course, the 2nd appeal, he made it for financial support not just immediate financial support, but reminding people that whenever this war and however the war and to be an enormous reconstruction cost of ukraine and reminding people that there should be an appeal for that. as well and support plan for those reconstruction, for many observers believe it could now become a war of attrition going on for some considerable time. is there a problem there for ukraine that the momentum begins to go? the media move on to other matters,
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the public move on to other matters. eventually, political leaders move on to other matters. this in enormous european war and putting, having failed in his initial objective of grabbing, keep in 3 days and installing a puppet regime. there has now moved almost into a, a warm and lation where civilians are the principal targets. many of the military efforts that our television screens in europe in north america every day. i don't think they'll be exhaustion on behalf of all of the west. what is clear is that there is an ethical reason to help ukraine wind quickly, because if it does indeed, continue in this fashion for months and months, they'll be millions of people who will have lost their lives and their livelihood. also speaking at the world, economic forum was catalyst amir, he called on journeys, lives to be respected, no matter where they came from. al jazeera journals, sharina black lay was fatally shot by his rally forces on the 11th of may shoot in a walker. a christian philistine american journalist was killed 2 weeks ago in
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palestine and then robbed of a dignified burial. she was covering the suffering of the palestinian people for decades and all our hearts are broken. her death was just as horrific as the 7 journalists continue claim. since march of this year, and 18 other journalists til, and palestine since 2000. well that statement came as the palestinian foreign ministry announced, it's formally asked the international criminal court to investigate the killing of serene blackly. israeli forces shot the al jazeera journalist while she was on assignment in janine earlier this month. as well as military prosecutors called on the army to conduct an in depth investigation. let's go to needs abraham, his life rest in ramallah and the occupied west bank at talk us through the details
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of this filing of the i see see the posted in foreign ministry has said that it's referred the file of should in a block, liz, casing killing to the international criminal court, we know that in 2021, the prosecutor of the i c. c has said that it's opening an investigation into potential war crimes in the palestinian territory. and palestinians say that the killing of should in a broccoli, is a war crime indeed than that has pushed that file and referred to the i c. c. in addition to dozens of other fires that have been filed over the past a year or so, including extra judicial killing. the indian is really settlements and a palestinians hope and say that the international criminal court could be the only way to get justice for serene and other israeli crimes. and nit a, what more can you tell us about eh, this member, the israel israeli army coming out and saying that they should be investigation?
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now these railey military prosecutor has said that it b as ravia army should be conducting an investigation urging one. this doesn't mean that an investigation would be open or. 8 that, that has already been opened. this only means that the circles within the israeli army are talking about the potential of opening an investigation. now, if you ask palestinians, it's perceived here as a way for israel to absorb the anger that has been following the remarks by the israeli army, that it's not going to be criminally opening and investigation. so for palestinians, they believe that this is a pure campaign by israel to absorb the anger and to say that it's investigating the issue from our experience. it's been very vague that these when the military opens investigations into killings of palestinians and in their faces. and does, it almost never leads to an indictment and when it does lead to an indictment, the light at the sentence is usually lights and palestinians say it's this
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proportionate to the crime. that's why they're hoping to get justice from the international criminal court. thank you for that, nit abraham that for us in ramallah, while al jazeera media network continues to demand a rapid, independent and transparent investigation into the killing of his journalist in the occupied westbank. sharina block lay was shot in the head by israeli forces. while she was on assignment in janine earlier this month, on the day of a funeral, israeli forces storm the procession and started beating mona's, causing pul barris. to ne, drop her casket. it didn't stop thousands of palestinians from marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in her funeral. members of the international community of condemned her killing and all cooling for investigation obliquely was with al jazeera for 25 years covering the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. china has warned the u. s. president not to
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underestimate beijing's resolve on taiwan. j. barnes said he would intervene militarily to defend the island from any invasion. he spoke in tokyo on an aged trip that he hopes will firm up relations with allies. from there, robin mcbride reports president joe biden came to japan to bolster one of the u. s . is most important alliances in the asia pacific at a time of multiple challenges across the region. but he may have worse and one of those regional flash points with less than tactful answers at the main use conference as he's done in the past. it came in response to a question about whether the us would respond militarily to a chinese invasion, to take the island of taiwan. that bay ging regards as a break away territory. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes, you are the 2nd member,
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we may the u. s. dance on taiwan has been far more ambiguous in the past. and the white house immediately had to release a statement, trying to clarify the u. s. position. but what sounded like a threat to china brought this response. hello, monkey, crucial the taiwan issue of purely china, the internal affair, which won't stand for any foreign interference issues bearing on china's co interests, including the serenity and territorial integrity that is normal for compromise or concession. no one should underestimate the chinese people's firm resolution. this has turned into something of a distraction in what is meant to be a strong show of unity against russian aggression. and also against increasing military threats from china. as well as increased missile testing from north korea . as the only nation to have been subjected to an atomic attack, japan is deeply concerned by north korea's development of its nuclear arsenal. but
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it's also troubled by the increasing assertiveness of china with ongoing territorial disputes in the east china sea. yardi title touched it as a major power. china has significant responsibilities, also in the economic field to live up to that responsibility. i think it is important for japan to work with united states to encourage china to fulfill its responsibilities in accordance with international rules. i think such attitudes are important. biden has also used the trip to launch the indo pacific economic framework. an initiative aimed at safeguarding and developing production of critical commodities like advanced semiconductors and setting universal standards for labor and environmental protection. it's very, very clear that from america's perspective, china is now the biggest competitor on all fronts. and as a result of that, what america is doing now is building alliances across the world. this visit will culminate in
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a summit meeting of the leaders of the so called quad security alliance, led by the u. s. and seen as a further attempt to constrain china militarily in the region. rob mcbride, al jazeera, tokyo flood voices are receding in ne bangladesh. baretski work is struggling to reach millions of stranded people. many with us is still flying about dangerous levels of the half days of heavy rain. these 57 people have been killed in the west flooding and nearly 2 decades. can be chatty, has more. you can see a similar sense for miles after miles and sure. i'm gordon's distinct, where a village homes are submerged. schools are inundated with water. the villagers we have been talking to in this area. so davin in flood like this in many years, most of them are desperate need for freshwater dry food and even financial assistance. they said so far, they have not received anything from the government or from the local politician or
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any angels right now what the need most is medicine, fresh water and dry food. they're desperate need for those sit were shown, have somewhat improve the water level has gone down. there has been no rain for last few days on the village. i was hoping it stays this way. however, if the rain continues and coming days and on rush of water from not this, india comes in to bangladesh. again, the situation could again deter it. meanwhile, some of the major rivers in bangladesh have been swelling and flooding in the north, central part of bangladesh. well, they slide what is, are affecting the north, east indian state of som, 2 hundreds of thousands, a homeless by check. he wrote his gas and they're running out of fade puffy. metal has more with flood waters submerging the homes and drown in their fields. hundreds of thousands of families across the state of asylum in north east india had been forced to flee. we're in a gov district. the was effected district in the state,
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and thousands of people have come here to these railroad tracks. it's one of the few stretches of land that elevated and till dry. they've pitch tens and are making do with whatever little they could grab. so some food, knitter clothing risking their lives as trains go up and down these tracks. they said they've been here for days and don't know when they'll be able to return. regardless. yeah, i have been bothered. our homes are submerged in flood waters. so we have come to live on the real tracks again, we are facing many problems with our children. we haven't received any relief nor in toppling sheets. we have no drinking water, no food. we are facing a lot of difficulties across the state. more than 90000 people are in relief. camps and rescue and relief operations are ongoing, both by air and by boat. monson season is said to arrive in the region in a few weeks, and usually these bring heavy showers and heavy flooding exports. the climate
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change is ordering weather patterns in south asia, making extreme weather events like this one more common and more severe. still ahead on out is era. a summer time for north korea's leader will explain why the funeral service for senior figure man so much to him and finding comfort a long way from home when he refugees in what's called brazil's little ukraine. ah, ah, hello and place to say we have got some dry weather coming into bangladesh and in the northeastern. possibly in the over the next couple of days. more of that. in a moment, we have got a large, you try, we're across the korean peninsula was you try to across the main islands of japan,
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but follow our front round as seasonal rise. they are continuing to pummel down across southern parts of china. furthermore, generally try some heat as well. 34 celsius in beijing, but this weather system that will sink further south with so that's going to make its way into north korea. south korea generally drive fine for wednesday. alrighty . fine and try to across a good parts of japan wanted to show was a possibility. heaviest re we'll continue across southern parts of china, georgia with a heavy rain that we do have caused much of indo china, which choice up with the a monsoon trough here. big chain of showers in across sir vietnam through cambodia, thailand, heavy showers, possibility to pass of the philippines, but generally more the way of sunshine than those heat of the day. showers that brew up. and that is the case across a good part of the region. now we are seeing more the wire showers developing across northern parts of india, breaking the heat for good part of pakistan. still a few showers into bangladesh into the north east of india, but not as white bread as of late.
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welcome back to watching al jazeera mind. if i told stories this, our ukraine's president has urged the international community to provide more financial aids, rebuild his country off to russia's invasion laws. ms. lansky was addressing the world economic forum in dallas. the palestinian foreign ministry says it's formerly aust, the international criminal court to investigate killing of out is there. a gem is sharina lockley. so any forces shaw? the journalist, while she was on the assignment in janine earlier this month, israel's military prosecutors called on the army to conduct an in depth investigation. china has won the us not to underestimate beijing's resolved on taiwan. u. s. president joe biden says he will intervene militarily if china tries to invade taiwan. he was aust, during an official visit to japan, asian regards taiwan as a breakaway territory. a denmark is the latest country to confirm a case of monkey pox. it joins
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a list of several european countries along with the us, canada, australia, and others have detected infections in the past few days. the infections spreads through close contacts, causing body sause and fever, but its rare rarely fatal. german health ministers quoting for quick and decisive action to contain the spread of the buyer's debate about the old school, often broken and pixel in the world wide outbreak of monkey pox. infections is so unusual that it's a cause for concern. and the question is whether it will developed like previous monkey pox outbreaks. rather we must take into consideration that the way the virus spreads could mean it changed. so we must react quickly and decisively now to contain a global outbreak. we are in close contact with national and international authorities as well as scientist in english. let's get more from gina hall in london. jonah, how worried all the europeans about this virus?
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health agencies in general, including the world health organization or not sounding particular notes of caution or alarm at this stage over a disease which generally produces pretty mild symptoms will be sometimes unsightly symptoms that generally go away on their own. there are called high risk groups, immunocompromised people, to some degree, the young. so there is a level of concern. certainly, this is the largest outbreak of bulk monkey pox ever outside of countries in which it is endemic in central and west africa. and they will be indeed looking as the german health news to they were suggesting very closely at what makes it so has there been some sort of mutation in the virus that makes it more transmissible? has it, for instance, become apple and they'll be very keen to rule the possibility out that it has become able and they're not just concerned about the geographic spread nearly 20 countries now that have registered cases, most of them in europe, it is particularly the evidence of community transmission that is of concern,
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that is individuals contracting the disease from others who are symptomatic, but with no direct connection to those endemic countries in central and west africa . the european center disease prevention and control is taking steps. they are expected later this afternoon to announce in stock home. the member states that you should begin to prepare for a potential vaccine program using leftover stockpiles of the smallpox vaccine that was eradicated in the eighty's. it's been shown to have some cross protection for monkey pox, and presumably that would be in high risk cases. but you know, generally we are still living in a panoramic well, 2 years through a pandemic. now, societies across the globe, very much more better versed in the idea of viral spread and the idea of viral prevention, things like testing content, tracing,
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self isolation and even basic hygiene are now kind of very commonplace household terms. all of that will make it very much more, much easier to contain something like monkey boxer, that bill 30 here in the u. k. say that the general public art extremely low risk from this virus. thank you for that. china hall there for us in london. north korean leader kim john and has attended a funeral service for the man to help train him to be supreme leader. the muscles death comes at a time when skeptics wonder about the true impacts cove 19 is having on the country . they holding reports the, the only man not wearing a mask mourning the loss of his mentor. north korean leader kim jung own, helped carry the casket of the army marshal, who groomed him to become supreme. leader kim's essentially came down on the current guy. his essential wasn't guaranteed, there are other possibilities. there are a lot of people that there might be a military to, for example,
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because he wasn't really very well known. he'd been living outside of the country for a while. and so my sense is that this is somebody will help them along and probably, you know, what was the patio, which this is one of the most senior military leaders to have died in north korea. since the coven 19 pandemic began, north korea denied the very existence of the pandemic until last week. now it's the media reporting. millions of people are sick with an an identified fever and that 65 people have died. north korean defectors and aid groups say it's health care system isn't ready for an outbreak of the size i've been in. are going to seen that i've actually seen them like cranking trucks with the crank back in 1937. you know, i'm really they, they still use that kind of stuff in there and enough road. so even gave them the vaccines that they need, having him get him there. so it's just going to cut through the but the bottom here that society is a site, i mean it's going to, it's going to kill an enormous amount of people in north korea has resisted all
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international offers of vaccines, including from neighboring south korea. was going on because we don't know what the consequences of this on the cron variant will be when it spreads to a large number of people who have never been in contact with coven 19. there are enough reasons to pay attention to this with interest. analysts say the virus is surgeon, while north korea says it's cases are subsiding, mass events like this funeral come at a time when people are being encouraged to stay home. as the leader morn since the health of his nation remains unknown. leo harding al jazeera iran, the president is vowing to avenge the killing of a senior revolutionary guards officer into her on gunman, on 2 motorcycles shot dead, colonel hudson, who died in his car outside his home. the attack is still at launch, pga. i emphasize the serious pursuit of secure 2 officials into the killing of the call nel, and i have no doubt the revenge for the blood of the great marcher against the
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criminals will definitely be taken that amir cartel is attended a panel discussion on sports at the world economic forum in w shape to be in been adult. tony says, the football cup will benefit the entire region. hosting the world will give hope to the youth across the region and making the lasting contribution to the world. the impact of such sports vote is not limited to fun, but goes far beyond that to achieve mutual understanding between different cultures and different backgrounds. shlang cause economic crisis is leading to a critical shortage of essential drugs. doctor's warning could lead to the deaths of cancer patients. the government has to spend a debt payments as a grapples with its worst economic crisis since independence. ben smith reports
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for many patients, it's rank as main cancer hospital. the recent economic crisis has become a matter of life or death. 80 percent of medical supplies are imported, but there's hardly any foreign currency to pay for them. if we're in a queue for fuel. ultimately, the people will look a few fuel than the queue for the guess i'll demand, they lose the guess. but if pearson's her on q for the ducks, they will lose their life. doctors at the hospital said they've been forced to suspend tasks and postpone procedures and even critical surgeries, abby, he thing. and while mommy thing a lot, our lives are at risk because of that we are always living in fear. we don't know whether we will have medicines or not saying the hospital is short of injections for dialysis patients. some cancer drugs and medicines for people who have had organ transplants, foreign donors including japan and india helping. but it'll take 2 to 4 months for the drugs to arrive. much of the blame for sure lank as economic collapse is being
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laid at the feet of president got to buy a raja paxis. he's on the right is swearing in new ministers under his family. chill anchor borrowed heavily to fund a large bureaucracy and military and vanity construction projects. elder brother may hinder roger paxis resigned as prime minister nationwide for in his place. renelle whitley, i'm a senior has been appointed tasked with forming a unity government wickersham. a singer said that when the roger paxis returned to power in 2019, there was $7500000000.00 in foreign reserves. now, the government says as nearly nothing left burnett smith, al jazeera, now as a war and ukraine drags on refugees of finding solace in the most unexpected places . monica yanna cave reports for imprudent palace in sullen pizelle. ah,
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it had all the comforts of home ukrainian flag, the national anthem, and concert dancers wearing embroidered shirts. but this celebration is 12000 kilometers away from kia in the small brazilian town of prudent properties. a pleased to welcome 63 ukrainian refugees. but we wanted to show them that they can feel at home here. put in topless, is brazil's little ukraine pastor vitale out of show dick moved from ukraine to put in thought police 4 years ago. only to discover that almost every corner of his new home reminded him of his old one from the architecture to the bible in cyrillic, and the catholic mass held in his native tongue. 3 quarters of the 50000 people living in berlin thoughtfully, still speak ukrainian. and maintain the traditions of their ancestors was started my greeting to brazil as early as the $1800.00 yeoman labor group. i remember my father in the 1940s taking in
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a couple who had fled. the 2nd world war was that it was the hustle now, but then thought police is preparing for the new wave of ukrainians, fleeing from the russian invasion. they were brought over by global kingdom worldwide network of churches and promote humanitarian causes is to proceed with asia seen. we started preparing to taking refugees last year after seeing the shocking images of people hanging onto a plane trying to escape the taliban regime in afghanistan. we did the paperwork to bring afghan families over, but by the time they were able to reach brazil, the russian and vision of ukraine had started. we moved rapidly to bring the ukrainian refugees on board or so 11 ukrainian families were taking to what up wampa, a city, just 80 kilometers from put them thought bodies. they were housed in separate apartments in the same building. oh org martine choke fled with her husband and children from madison family was traveling to poland when they received a message that brazil was taking in refugees were held about brazilian coroner
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halls. and we thought about matches here which showed about amazon in forests and that it is a green country. c and, and a beautiful people actually, we didn't know march 27 of the 36 ukrainian refugees living here in what up waafa our children. and they're already studying in brazilian schools like this 1 august sun. manuel is in the same classroom as another young refugee. when the teacher has trouble communicating with children, she uses her phone as a translator. all g a has no immediate plans for the future. her house in had a son is now being occupied by russian troops. back him put in thought what his brazilians and ukrainians are praying for the war. twin before that monica, you're not give al jazeera for them talk with.

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