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no limitations this decade is the most consequential decade in the men. ccc da fought to many companies that are doing bad things in the front. in part 2 of human rights activates q me 19 and environmental if we known and a keep the systems that are not working. but the longer that you fight them. the more that things change studio b. unspent paid on al jazeera ah al jazeera, with no news. the 1st war crimes trial of the ukraine conflict, a russian soldier sentenced a life in prison.
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ah, law darn jordan, this is al jazeera live from dell, also coming up as well. leaders meeting, douglas ukraine's president appeals with billions and funding to rebuild his war torn country. a wool of sand, plains grounded schools close. i'm thousands are hospitalized in iraq as a severe cloud of dust sweeps across the country and solar rivers in parts of south asia, flood waters in bangladesh, all starting to receive. but tens of thousands of people still use a russian soldier has been jailed for life by a ukrainian court for war crimes. 21 year old buddy. she married and admitted killing an anom civilian in the northeast on sumi region. it's the 1st such trials since russia invaded ukraine 3 months ago. same was robbie has more in the trial from the capital. keith. what we have here is a gentleman named him just marin,
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a 21 year old tank commander in the russian military. he was accused of killing a civilian, a 62 year old resident of a village and assuming the region in the initial days of the war. now, what shall marian was saying during the trial is that he was ordered to carry out the shooting of this man. who was riding a bicycle near his home, he said during the course of the trial that he refused initially to carry out the orders, but was threatened if he did not. and therefore took the shot and killed the 62 year old resident in assuming region. now he was faced with the wife of the victim . during the trial, the wife of the victim asked him how he felt at the time of carrying out these orders. he said he felt fear, and he expressed regret. nonetheless, he was given a life sentence, something the wife of this victim had requested during the trial, either a life sentence or that this russian soldier be exchanged, a prisoner swap for ukrainian captured ukrainian soldiers in russian custody. now
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what we are likely to see is many more such cases as this conflict continues. we've got 2 pilots, possibly being seen in court in coming days. that's the next case. on the horizon and ukrainian prosecutors are investigating more and more cases of what they're calling a legit war crimes on a near daily basis. so this is unlikely to be the last time that we see some kind of a court case. quickly, adjourn with regards to russian soldiers being accused of war crimes. in this, in this war, ukrainian president vladimir the landscape, accusing rush of creating a blood bath in eastern ukraine. he says that been 4 and a half 1000 miss solomon strikes in the last 3 months. the vast majority aimed at civilian targets. louis de la la. mean, they created a bloodbath and tried to destroy everything. everything, everything alive and literally loved them, no ones destroyed dumbass on the way that the russian troops are doing. now. i'm
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grateful to everyone, all our warriors who hold positions and have the bravery to counter attack. lay blish, it didn't even the bullet, the coming weeks of the war will be hard a week and we need to understand this one, but we know him, other alternative and to fight him to fight and to win or to liberate our land. and our people will, as the landscape spoke to some of the world's most powerful individuals on day one of the world, economic forum and devils. he appealed for billions, more in financial help. our diplomatic editor james bay, his reports from devils. the 1st main speaker at this year's world economic forum meeting was not in devil's precedence. that sky continues to direct military efforts in teeth that has not left his country since the russian invasion. he appealed for more funding for the defense for his country and to pay for its reconstruction to minimum bed. out of the ukraine needs funding at least $5000000000.00 us dollars per month. this is why we established
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a fund for rebuilding ukraine called united 24. we call upon everyone to join it. president lensky, called for russian assets in the west to be seized and given to ukraine. the head of a leading think tank told me it's proposal. it's now likely to be discussed in capitals . an interesting debate that will emerge soon is whether the europeans in north americans will move from freezing, rushed from state assets to seizing those state assets, and using put into war chest as ukraine's reparation fund. and that is a debate that we haven't yet had in the international norm community because of co that this is dev also isn't happening in the snow in january. it was cancelled last year and postponed earlier this year. normally, russian officials attend, but this year the building used for the russia house exhibition center has been transformed to highlight human rights abuses, has been renamed, the house of russia and war crimes. the war in ukraine will continue to reverberate
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around dive also as meetings continue here this week, not just the events on the ground, but the economic effects with a similar tiniest global energy crisis and global food crisis. james bays al jazeera devils or john quickly as professor emeritus of international law at ohio state university. he explained how russia could be forced to pay for reparations. it was attempted after the 1st world war of payment in money. it didn't work out all that well. and eventually not much of it was actually paid after the 2nd world war, something different was, was attempted. assets were see both by the soviet union and by the united states that is factories, you know, german concerns of one kind or another. and also of prisoners of
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war were kept as forced labor for a period of time both by the soviet union and by the united states. nowadays with assets being held in banks abroad, it's actually a bit easier to find something to use as reparation. while another speak at the world economic forum has been the head of the well food program. david beesley, he said, people don't realize how big an impact ukraine's was happening on hunger. we're facing the worst humanitarian crisis just war to just when you think it couldn't get any worse. over a year ago, you had ethiopia, then you had that kind of stand and then the bread basket of the world. this now got the longest bread lands of the world. and so now because of this price is we're taking food from the hungry to give to the starving is absolutely a crisis mode. what do you think is going to happen when you take a nation that normally grows enough food to feed 400000000 people? and you sideline that. what do you think is going to happen?
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so look what you see in sri lanka, indonesia, peru, pakistan. i keep going on that is only a sign of things to come. and so over the next 10 to 12 months, we probably will have a significant, as we are having a pricing problem is a perfect storm within a perfect storm. if we don't get the port of odessa open, it's only going to compound our problems. the u. s. department of defense as 20 countries of pledge, new military aid for ukraine. the donations include ammunition tanks and coastal defense system. i'm especially grateful to denmark which announced today that it will provide a harpoon launcher and missiles to help ukraine defend its coast. and also like to thank the czech republic towards substantial support, including a recent donation of attack, helicopters, tanks and rocket systems. and today, several countries announce new donations are critically needed, artillery systems and ammunition, including italy, greece, norway,
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and pole. the cranium military's capacity to defend their homeland against russia. attack is directly tied to the quality and quantity of the assistance they are receiving. a senior russian diplomat has resigned in protest over the ukraine war saying he's never been so ashamed of his country. boris bunder, have worked at russia's un mission in geneva, and a statement posted on the line he said president putin's aggressive war was a crime against the ukrainian and russian people. he added the foreign ministry was now only about war mongering lies and hatred. and starbucks is the latest western multinational to confirm that its pulling out of the russian market in the wake of the war and ukraine, the seattle base coffee, john will shut a $130.00 branches. it will continue to pay its work as for 6 months. a move comes a week after mcdonalds decided to pull the plug on. it's rushing out this. also speaking at the world economic forum, the mayor of katara called on journalist lives to be respected no matter where they
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came from, out as they were generally serene, abruptly was fatally shot by his when he forces on may the 11th sheet. in iowa, i could esteem palestine in american journalist was killed 2 weeks ago in palestine, and then robbed of a dignified burial. shitty was coveting the suffering of the palestinian people for decades. and our hearts are broken. her death was just as horrific as the 7 journalists continued crane. since march of this year and 18 other journalists killed in palestine since 2000 will that come in came as the palestinian foreign ministry announced its formerly asked the international criminal court to investigate the killing of sharina buckley is when he falls, his shop, the al jazeera journalist while she was on assignment in janine early this month, as well as military prosecutor, has called on the army to conduct an in depth investigation. neither abraham has
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more now from ramallah in the occupied westbank. the posted in foreign ministry has said that it's referred the file of shit in black, las 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. and 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 to show killing the indian is really settlement 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. now these really military prosecutor has said that it be his radio. we should be conducting an investigation
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urging one this. does it mean that an investigation would be open or that it has already been opened? this only means that the circles within the israeli army are talking about the potential of opening an investigation from our experience. it's been very rare that these really military opens investigations into killings of palestinians. and in their rare cases it 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 proportionate to the crime. that's why they're hoping to get justice from the international criminal court. more than a 1000 people in iraq had been hospitalized because of a severe sandstone airport. some schools have been closed in several cities and also in neighboring kuwait. it's the 9th sandstorm to hit iraq since mid april. will far to say the increased frequency is related to climate change and rec, old low rainfall. backward up to why it does more now from a capital factor. life is getting back to normal in better that the streets
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following the sandy storm that hit the country on monday, forcing a closure of a to spaces in airports also are forcing a closure of the state institutions at schools, universities, and many other state facilities. now, many people were central hospital to receive medical treatments because they suffered from suffocation because of the dust. tones of in fact, dozens of tones of dust were carried over by the de sandstorm over many provinces across iraq. this is the 9th sandstorm to hit the country since the beginning of april. it has been worsening in iraq for many reasons that is related to their climate change dissertation up. also lack of brain at lack of or sorted of water level because of the damage problem programs by both turkey and iran that have dead springs of the main sources of water in iraq. the tigris and
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euphrates rivers. but also to come here in al jazeera, including we'll have more on the power players behind, shall anchors, economic collapse, as millions gravel with food and medicine shortages and detain, but defiant will have more on what opposition politicians in uganda, according to one state. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to cattle book your travel package to day hello 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 were across the korean peninsula once you try to across to my knowledge of japan, but follow our font round, our seasonal raise. they are continuing suits, pummeled down across southern parts of china. furthermore,
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generally try some heat as well. 34 celsius in beijing, but there's where the system bat will sink further southward. so that's going to make its way into north korea. south korea generally drive 5 for wednesday are defined and try to across a good parts of japan with one or 2 showers, a possibility heaviest re. we'll continue across southern parts of china, georgia with a heavy rain that we do have course 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, possible to see to pass to 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 flipping 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 widespread as of late. cats are airway official airline of the
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journey. their plight emitted from history kept alive only in the family. tales of those who survived. it's hard to believe for people who didn't fit the astonishing story as the polish women and children who endured the siberian glass and saw refuge in africa, never to return again. an epic odyssey of resilience memory is our homeland on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back, a good amount of the top stories here, this our russian soldiers and jail for life by a ukrainian court for war crimes. 21 year old buddy mission,
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marion admitted killing an unarmed civilian. it's the 1st such trials since russia invaded ukraine. 3 months ago, allison officials have formerly asked the international criminal court to investigate the killing of sharina barclays. the out 0 journalist was shot in the head by his ready forces while she was on assignment in jimmy earlier this month. and her son stole not blanketed parts of the middle east, at least a 1000 people in iraq had been hospitalized. airports and schools have been closed in several cities that now the u. s. has russia's war and ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly des space people around the world to more than a 100000000 for the 1st time ever. mom at val has more. the united nations has sounded the alarm bell on the issue of world refugees. it says the number has exceeded 100000000 for the 1st time on record. in the words of the you and hcr commissioner philippi granted, the figure is sobering and alarming in equal measure. but since the war broke out
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in february, the rate of refugees and displaced people has been accelerated as early as march 2 point 5000000 ukrainians left our country. the u. n. is expecting the figure to exceed 8000000 by the end of this year, grantee says the new crises should not distract us from the old ones. i think an important message and you mentioned it yourself is that there is not just ukraine, that we should not forget all the rest. first of all, because ukraine has an impact on many other fragile situations, making it more for making them more fragile food security, energy crises, price increases in stability. and then this, in turn, can cause more displacement by the end of last june, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide rose to word 90000000. it's the result of violence in ethiopia, or can a fossil myanmar nigeria, afghanistan,
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the democratic republic of the congo and other countries. as the number of refugees across the world increases relief agencies become less capable of handling the situation. the un humanitarian office, o. c, h, a warns nearly 18000000 people are going to face severe food shortages in the next 3 months across the african side region. the officers appealed for $3800000000.00 for relief. has generated less than 12 percent of that amount so far. ah, the palestine, one of the oldest refugee crises goes on with no end in sight. other fiji crises have been around for decades as well. governments and international organizations. what now need to think of a new way to address this an antique problem? palm at fun, alicia. the un says at least 4000000 people have been affected by floods in
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bangladesh and rights. groups of warning children in the region have been severely affected by the devastating pre monsoon rains in bangladesh. 419 schools have been damaged. another 350 had been turned into makes of shelters for at least 8 and a half 1000 people along with their cattle and goats. and the indians are some state. more than 300 homes have been destroyed. schools and child care centers have been destroyed across all 31 affected districts. well, while those flood waters in bangladesh have begun to slowly recede, tens of thousands are still stranded and struggling to get help. tanveer charger ports from saddam gouge in northeastern bangladesh. sooner a big and struggles to cope after days of widespread flooding in this region of bangladesh. she said it's hard to feed her 2 children by herself. her husband is a migrant worker and militia filling the water that if any data, well there is water all around my home. it has become very difficult to live under these conditions with my children. can't cook wash, take a bath,
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and my children can't go to school. i can't even feed them properly. but i said that if our knee nearly to a 1000000 people have been affected and not distant cillit region and what officials described as one of the worst floods in 2 decades. most of the villagers we have been talking to in the flood affected areas, have complained that they have not received any kind of relief from government or aid agencies there in desperate need for fresh water, food, and financial assistance. the government has set up more than $200.00 shelters for flood victims and has started disappearing relief in some of the worst affected areas in philip. but some of the shelters provided by the government are inadequate and over crowded. those who have been displaced by the floods a much to complain about the russians and the living conditions. we're dying of hunger, a hymns all got washed away because the politicians had hardly done anything for us . that too busy feeding themselves. and over here,
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we just getting some meagre rations that barely feed us the floods have washed over thousands of actors of farmlands and hatcheries. many people like a la med, i'm not worried about their future to the other day. what about the i'll sell motto bomb. most of the harms round here, including ours, are all inundated with flood water. we have not received any kind of relief or help so far. no one even came over to see our situation with a few days of sunshine. have brought some hope to many of the farmers here who are trying to drive their petty's by the roadside implementing that. he's not, he's listed for adequately my. it's been almost 2 weeks. is a homeless flooded now the water is receding a little bit. so now we're trying to salvage some paddies. the flood situation may have improved in some areas, but some of the major drivers like jonah and put the have started to swell in on dating low areas in the south and not central bangladesh causing worries for local
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farmers. tundra chaudhry al jazeera, should i'm gonna bangladesh. dozens of passengers have been rescued after jumping into the water in a fairy court fire and the philippines. 7 people died. mad. alan, doug, how's the story? the philippine coast guard says it received a distressed call around 6 am. on monday, a naval vessel called m theory were craft to carrying more than a 130 people had caught fire near the water as a result, cousin, province, north of the philippines. and by mid day, more than a 100 people were rescued, including 8 of the boat's crew members. some of those injured were taken to hospital. the fire has been put out, but authorities are also checking for traces of oil spill. and usually the search on the far as target of the engine room, but ill try to get to the bottom. we have that all the passengers,
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including the cool. oh we have to stop already the search and rescue operations. and we just probably proceed to the destination. this company has another incident in sometime in 2017. at least 6 other vessels help the coast guards, search and rescue operations. the vessel is being towed towards bellucci island in 2017. another vessel owned by the same company was carrying more than 250 passengers. when it capsized in the same region, 5 people were killed. the philippines is an archipelago of more than $7000.00 islands. often battered by frequent storms and poor enforcement of safety bulls, which have led to several maritime disasters. in recent years, jamal ali dougen al jazeera manila shall anchors economic crisis is leading to
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a critical shortage of essential drugs. doctors worn it could lead to the deaths of cancer patients, the government suspended debt payments as a grapples with its worst economic crisis. since independence bernard smith report 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 cruel than the q for the guess. ultimately they lose the guess. but if pearson's her on q for the ducks, they will loose delay doctors at the hospital. so they've been forced to suspend tasks and postpone procedures and even critical surgeries, abby, he thing. and while mommy, they know 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 are short of injections for dialysis patients. some cancer drugs and medicines for people who
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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 language, economic collapse is being laid. the feet of president got a by roger pac sir. he's on the right to swearing in new ministers under his family . sure lanka borrowed heavily to fund a large bureaucracy and military and vanity construction projects. elder brother me a hinder roger pack, so resigned as prime minister nationwide in his place. runaway room, a thing has been appointed tasked with forming a unity government with ram. a finger said that when the roger packs is returned to power in 2019, there was $7500000000.00 in foreign reserves. now, the government says there's nearly nothing left. bernard smith, alger 0, an opposition politician in uganda has been arrested while protesting against high
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food and fuel prices. for the 2nd time in a week. the presidents refusing to introduce subsidies or reduced taxes on feel. welcome web reports. i don't know if you can to no position politician keys bessie j is used to being arrested more than 20 years. he's demonstrated against the government of president, uri mas 70, and challenged him in 4 elections. his protest on monday was against the rising cost of living that the fuel pumps. prices have gone up. 70 percent in the last year. food prices are climbing to motorbike taxi writers or among millions whose livelihoods are affected and they got what used to be $5.00 while ago is now $14.00 . they should reduce the price of fuel president 70 has ruled uganda ever since he met a rebellion and took power by force in 1986. he's rejected some of the ideas to bring
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down prices, moving taxes, or subsidizing many of the inputs is you said though and a blunder. how then we fund our budget for the roads, electricity, schools, medicine, security to see better, jay who also protested last week and says it's corruption rather than public spending. that draining government coffers at rest. and those who are taking our money in the fields, they are no return to the property. so that exams the people in crisis. if we're able to rule certain things, then we can immediately pick tapes that we can release the his attempted demonstration also promptly ended in his arrest for more than 10 years. you can, the government has tried to stop street protests before crowds can even gather.
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meanwhile, the cost of living keeps rising as it is in many countries, but about 40 percent, if you can then live on less than $2.00 a day and can't afford to pay more. malcolm web al jazeera, the biden administration says it will appeal a recent court decision that blocked its plans to remove a trump. here a bought a policy on friday, a federal judge rule. the title 42 should stay in place, allows us officials to deport asylum seekers to their home countries or the last country of transit. many rapids report some to honor on the mexico us florida. little bit routes out of a health care facility that provides health services to migrants and asylum seekers . many of the folks that you see behind us here are haitian migrants, but we've also run into folks from central america. many folks from here in mexico, migrants from the southern part of mexico who are hoping to get their chance to plead case their asylum cases, to us officials. we should know that just about everyone that we've spoken to since
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we arrived early this morning here outside of the health facility in c. one is well aware of the news and the debate playing out on the other side of the border in the united states over immigration, specifically over title 42. and the word that keeps popping up consistently is disappointment, disappointment, for a lot of people who had their hopes that very high, the title 42 would be lifted. that's the traditional asylum process in the united states would be reinstated. and that folks would have an opportunity. many folks have been here for months, some even years waiting for an opportunity to take those asylum pieces and plead them to you as officials last week is when that judge that district george judge decided to block the bite administration's attempt to lift title 42 since then we have seen demonstrations play out here on the street of tiquana just last week before the announcement of a judge that was demonstration outside of the u. s. consulate here in the want to.

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