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late night dale sees european union leaders agree to ban most russian oil imports by the end of the year. ah, hello, i am an inside. this is out there alive from day or so. coming up. fences come down and life returns to the streets on to china. ease is coven 19 restrictions in 2 of its biggest cities. as well as defense ministers as far right is rarely groups which incite violence against palestinians could be deem terrorists. and the people joining police on night patrols to catch criminal gangs, robbing south africa of electricity.
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european union leaders say rush as a war effort will take a significant financial hit after they agree to ban most if it's oil. they reached a compromise to overcome objections from member states, which a more dependent on russian energy are diplomatic. as i said, james base as his report from brussels, european leaders arriving in brussels for a crucial meeting on ukraine. at the start of the crisis, they'd surprised many with unity and strong sanctions. but a 6th package of measures, including a ban on oil from russia, had been stalled for nearly a month because of objections from the e. u leader, with the friendliest relations with vladimir putin. even at the start of the meeting, hunger is recently re elected, prime minister victor oberon seemed deposed the whole agreement. of course, what the problem is, you know, the be out in a very difficult situation. ah,
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basically because of the responsible behavior of the commission, the head of the commission didn't address such criticism, but she to suggest it, there wouldn't be a breakthrough during this meeting to. we're not there yet, but has mature for shawn my expectations. i know that it will be solved in the next 48 hours as ever the formal sessions at these summits are close to the public. but president zalinski is off his release part of his speech when he joined the meeting by video link. and that is to my problem, is this woody key to wire. finally, all corals in europe must end it internal disputes that only encourage russia to put more pressure news on the whole of europe. now that the sick sanctions package must be agreed unseen, it must be effective or including oil to make russia fill the consequences or what is doing to ukraine. and the whole of european was a bit. it's not clear where the presence zalinski is, intervention change things, but there was a breakthrough soon afterwards. the final sanctions package agreed,
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but this is not the original oil been proposed by the european commission. it's been watered down. it now covers just russian oil that is shipped into the e u, not oil that is pumped in by pipeline, an important concession for a landlocked country like hungary. well, after midnight in brussels and the european commission president, along with the president of the european council, we're back to mark the fact that a deal had finally been done. thanks to this. and count so should now be able to finalize a ban on almost 90 percent of all russian oil inputs by the end of the year. this is an important step forward and the remaining 10 percent on these one. we will soon return to the issue of these remaining 10 per cent pipeline oil. the leaders here also know that while this action punishes russia, the economic consequences will likely be felt hard inside the e. u to james bay's out sarah brussels. all the new measures announced in brussels,
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belled on significant european support for ukraine. e says it's mobilized at 4 and a half $1000000000.00 and financial, and he, a terry and aid, and has put up about $2000000000.00 and military assistance. individual countries have also donated large amounts of arms and heavy weaponry. include france, whose foreign minister has been in ukraine discussing what else its forces need. while she was that emerge that a french journalist was killed in the east of the country. saint bizarre avi reports from keep the old friends, his new foreign minister catherine calona, began her visit to ukraine by paying her respects to the dead in boucher ukrainians . describe what happened to civilians at the hands of russian forces as war crimes suggest us and we must hello felt that they should never have happened here. and it shouldn't happen again from stands for that friend and its allies to do what ever
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possible to bring back peace support and solidarity likely to help paris reset relations with keith. ukraine has accused france of siding with russia as the war carries on. the hope is france, diplomacy with moscow, will help ease russia's blockade of ukrainian ports and restart the export of ukrainian crops vital to the global food supply. but that is not all ukraine. the whole 6 chavonee sure. i stress today during the meeting that ukraine's need of additional artillery systems of $155.00 caliber remains extremely important to win the battle for don bass. we need to significantly strengthen our artillery potential to be done by a clear message from cologne, his counterpart, ukrainians who have been paying the price for russian aggression in lives for years
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. need more help. her trip was underlined by a cruel coincidence. the brutality of the war brought closer to home with the death of a french journalist covering the war. frederick la clerk im haas from b f. mtv was killed by showing the law husk region while accompanying an armored mission to evacuate civilians. colona called for an investigation into his death. the number of journalists killed covering the war now stands at 20 for the war and towns and villages in the east and south has become a patchwork of fighting. the spotlight is currently on separate the that's one of 2 cities in the husk region, still barely under ukrainian control. the russian siege of the city has come at a high price in lives and military assets on both sides. the phone alone for america, weapons and ammunition left behind on the battlefield. this russian soldier says, are from ukraine's western allies, even as they collect trophies and conquered territory. what they considered
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decisive battles may not be over what your friends is sending ukraine more help. during her visit, the french foreign minister said that her government will be committing more essential equipment to ukraine, fire trucks, and ambulances to help cope with in your daily bombardment of rushes, villages, towns and cities, but more crucially heavy artillery, long range howitzers that it is hoped will help turn the tide of this war in ukraine's favor vain. basra b o 0 give nearly elected lebanese politicians marching from bay report to parliament where n p a gathering after this month. selections, 13 independent newcomers. one states building on a protest movement born out of the devastating port explosion in 2020, and the crippling economic crisis that's followed. let's cases in a hollow whose life for us in bay root zanan. let's start with the march. what are we expecting today? whoa those that newcomers,
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men and women who for the 1st time one see thin lebanon's parliament, really a 1st and lebanon's post civil war politics. not just one or 2 seats, but a handful of seeds. and if they make the rights coalitions with other blocks, they could be king makers. but still, there is a long road ahead to bring about real and radical change in this country. earlier today, these newly elected m. p 's as well as their supporters gathered outside bay with ports, which was really the site of one of the biggest non nuclear explosions in history in 2020. they chose that location because it is really a symbol of what is wrong in this country. how play mobile material was unsafely stored for years. there hasn't been accountability for that explosion. there hasn't been justice and even the truth hasn't been uncovered. and people blame the political establishment establishment that has been in power for 3 decades. in fact, even before the post civil war era, some of these leaders were militia leaders,
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sectarian militia leaders during the civil war. so for many, this is a new beginning, a new dawn for lebanon. but after talking to them, they all realize that they're facing a tough battle ahead, difficult challenges. because even though they managed to make cracks and penetrate the system one way or the other, the political establishment, the ruling class, is still very much in control of this country. and then the parliament elect sinise speaker later what is that gonna involve? ah, yes, they will make their way to parliament, which is just a kilometer from here. this was really the epicenter of the protest movement, the late 2019 a lot of symbolism. they're going to go to parliament and there will be an election for a new speaker, but the incumbent speaker, not be a birdie who has been in this position since 1992. that's 30 years, i'm interrupted. he is expected to be re elected. but with much less votes than
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in previous election, which in many way is a symbolic blow. yes, he will be re elected. but again, not with the same number of votes in the past that used to be more than 1000 more than a 100 votes and a 128 legislator. this time it is not expected to exceed 6570. but what he managed to do was make deals with the other traditional parties, and this is what the newly elected empties are trying to tell us. yes, lebanon is a parliamentary democracy in paper, but in reality, it's a consensual democracy. and it's as a democracy whereby the traditional parties make deals behind the scenes and underneath the table operating outside the framework of the constitution to ensure their grip on power. thank you for that. they know hold on that for us in beirut. corona virus restrictions and china's to biggest cities of finally ending for millions, who've been stuck in doors sign caused lifting. it's to month lockdown for midnight
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on wednesday, many businesses can reopen and they'll be fewer restrictions on going out working in beijing. james museums anthea says also reopening with limits on the visitors, katrina, you is the latest from beijing. this is the busiest. this area has been for weeks way invading eastern young district, the biggest district in the city where people have been told they no longer need to work from home. authorities in beijing say the current grown of ours outbreak is basically under control and many restrictions are easing. public transport has resumed here after almost 3 weeks of being florida shopping centers moves, libraries in june can also opened back up thought a limited to 50 percent capacity resident say they're relieved that the capital has managed to avoid a hard lockdown and are looking forward to getting back to chance, she was a prevention control measures policy,
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which was really tough. that was difficult. time. now i love you back to normal. what a good feeling i'm going to with being waiting for this day for so long. yeah. finally, we can walk really on the street, but in some parts of the city, especially in the cities west that also some restriction in place and throughout all of the aging schools sort of fall remain online and restaurants can only offer take out services. there are still a few core of ours cases being found in the community. and because of this, residents need to take a corvette test every 2 days in order to enter the public areas. still ahead on algebra, dozens missing in ne brazil where they have been days of flooding and land line. i'm kind of former rebel 5 to commit another electro adults when columbia's president ah,
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it's the last day of may, here's your forecast for europe in africa. have one so it was just a few days ago rome set a temperature record for the month of may. and once again we're seeing those temperature is hot out over the next few days. so i think when again, rome won't break a temperature record for the month of june, and it's going to happen probably within the 1st day or 2 of the month. so the number to be 36.8. we've got yen at 36 on wednesday and up to 37 on thursday with wall to wall sunshine. lot of sun for greece and turkey settled conditions here, but we'll see some showers pop up for central portions. that includes on camera with the height of $29.00 degrees. other side of the mediterranean right now. we've got some in light grey, moving in central northern portions of portugal into the northwest of spain. at times this will be heavy stuff, northwestern. europe right now, shower, zipping across the islands of ireland and britain into the low countries gloomy day and london with a hive. 17 degrees and then those showers that were in the baltic states. moving in
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to southern finland, top and of africa. it's a sandy and dusty day across mauritania that includes new ox shut with a high, 36 degrees and windy for quite zulu no tall in south africa. but the worst of those winds will remain off shore temperatures just a bit below average. in vint hook at 19, ah frank assessments, what are the political risks, automatic wash, nor the gas for western leaders pull sanctions on russian energy force? i was informed opinions, he's not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed media. yeah. going to be packaging from leisure and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera
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lou? ah. oh, come back, you watching out. as a reminder, thought top stories this allen, european union leaders say russia's war effort will take a significant financial hit after they agree to bond. most of it's a will a reach to compromise, to overcome objections for mistakes, which are more dependent on russian energy, nearly elected lebanese politicians, marching from bay report to parliament, 13 independent newcomers. one seats in this month's elections, part of a protest movement over the 2020 fort explosion. and the economic crisis followed and current of ours restrictions for millions of people in china's too big assess,
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he's all finally ending sank eyes lifting its 2 month long locked downs. and james museums and dancers, a re opening invasion. israel's defense minister says it's time to consider designated extreme right wing is ready groups as terrorist organizations. it follows an ultra nationalist march through hebron in the occupied westbank on monday, leading to an incursion at the ibrahim most compound, the day before violence broke out during israeli flag day, march is in the western quarter of occupied east jerusalem. and ron con, tells us more about who may be targeted in the terrorism designation. the 2 groups he's talking about ali hava, and i'm la familia, la familia, is a football, hooligan organization. there's no other way of describing them. other than that, they follow jerusalem by tar, but they've been accused of races behavior of attacking palestinian israelis,
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arabs, and they both have been accused of criminal activity. the other oh, a religious osha, nationalist organization that dedicated to the purity of jewish blood. they don't want any arabs, any palestinian israelis in historical palestine at all. and they were rid of them all and they espouse things like attacking people. if they find out that they're in a mixed relationship. so that's those, the kind of groups are talking about. but this message, it doesn't mean that those groups will be designated any time soon. a, in fact i should what might happen is that this could take quite a while because there has to be a wide agreement between all of those members of the coalition for it to go forward . and that's very difficult. the other thing that natalia bennett needs to worry about is the language we saw. the jerusalem flag marks those insults that hate speech. death, arabs insulting the gymnast cooling and terrorists, you know, we, i was there. that's exactly what i experienced all of that. naming that. another
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palestinian israeli member, the kinessa key member of the coalition, resigns. if that happens, the coalition falls to pieces. the government falls on this early elections. while al jazeera media network continues to demand a rapid, independent and transparent investigation into the killing of its journalists in occupied westbank, sharita, our block layer was shot in the head ice really forces while she was on assignment and jeanine on the day of her funeral, israeli forces storm the procession and starts at bes, it beating mourners, causing poll barris. thomas, drop a casket at 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 continue to call for investigation. a walkway was without reserve, a 25 years covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. the search is on a ne, in brazil, the people fed missing after landslides and flooding, almost
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a 100 are known to have died on the k janiking reports from rio de janeiro. oh, wow. i rescued teams or working around the camp. recovering bodies in searching for those still missing, thousands have been displaced, losing all of their belongings. heavy rainfall began on wednesday in brazil's northeastern state of been a book, flooding streets and triggering mud slides. entire house is collapsed with the force of the water, while desperate neighbors helped fire fighters dig up their loved ones. under the rubble, this man lost his sister requoted for law. the search party found my sister's body there this evening. but i found her and 4 other bodies, they're still looking for my brother in law. this is the 4th major flooding event in 5 months in brazil, in february, more than $200.00 people died after torrential rains. if the city of patropolis,
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80 kilometer is from rio de janeiro leader ologist say a phenomenon called la nina, which cools down the pacific ocean waters helps explain the excessive rains and been on bulk or in other parts of northeastern brazil. a nikiya vocal there is no doubt that climate change in the rise of temperature in the atlantic ocean are also responsible for these extremes. cold weather, hot weather, droughts, and rainfalls, they've all become more severe than it is sides bad weather. poor urban planning and low income neighborhoods in many brazilian cities is also responsible for the number of deaths and the mud flights. hearts of slums built on hills were swept away by water in my. c this woman saw her neighbor's house collapse, hold on me, that body won't buy the whole family dyed the father, the 2 children, the wife all died. president j able sonata toward the region in a helicopter,
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but was told it was unsafe to land. when the 1st one was to visit pesa, we express our sorrows to the relatives. our main objective is to come to the relatives and to help population. also matter said the government can make available $200000.00 was dollars to help victims of natural disasters. meteorologists expect more rain and been a bulk or a neighboring states in the coming days. the danger of war mudslides in the regions, is far from over monarchy anna, give all jazeera rio de janeiro. powerful storm is hit the mexican state of war, haka on the southern pacific coast. a gap as strongly as hurricane ever seen in that region in may of arrived at the category to storm but essence weakens. some residence in taurus have moved to shelter. canada has moved, impose the national freeze on hand guns sales. the proposed law would also counsel
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gum licenses held by those involved in domestic violence or harassment from ins to justin trudeau says, outside of sports and hunting, as no reason for anyone to own guns. canada is looking at its laws after the latest mass shooting over the border in the u. s. when 19 children were killed in a school in texas, we were introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on hand gun ownership. what this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell transfer or import handguns anywhere in canada. in other words, we're capping the market. results from the 1st round of colombia as presidential election on sunday took money by surprise to see establishment candidates will now face off from the 2nd round. on june 19th, i was on the run pits your reports from downtown book. i was com the day after one
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of the most consequential presidential results in column in history left his former rebel fighter who have a pedro came on top, but will now face and unexpected appeal battle against the surprise. second place candidate, the result of that. and there's a right leaning populist anti corruption. crusader managed to capture an important section of voters disenchanted with the status quo, and monday he spoke to a supporters. yes. social media. every day they will come up with something that's already been that i am at patricia or that i am neutral, that i am being investigated. but the truth is, my only allegiance is with the colombian, people that many working class colombians who were thrilled that left hope of any story takeover of the presidency felt deprived. i say this, i mean you that what you're projected on. i'm sorry. i want to petra to win because he defends elderly. some people say he is bad,
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but we don't care. we're not interested in this past life. we're interested in the present. well trailing 12 points behind that and then that could spoil the left hope by capturing the majority of the conservative voters that back to the establishment candidate on sunday. and whose biggest fear is the possible arrival of a true less the spin power in this rosen? the pulls with an orthodox campaign and social media focusing on a single message against corruption. some see him as a colombian trump in fear. some of his proposals are undemocratic or simply awkward, like promising to close embassies to pay off student loans. in saying, all colombians will have the right to visit to see at least once at the government expense, his chief communication strategist says in this straight talk appealed to many voters disgusted by politicians mendoza. we prioritized the candidates truthfulness,
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a candidate without any makeup, without any distractors and a candidate that spoke frankly about all the matters and obstacles, the country needs to overcome it to move forward. good. hey, throw, had counted on a change versus the establishment narrative to win the presidency in the 2nd round . ho he now as 3 weeks to radically rethink his strategy, hoping to convince enough of none. this voters that he doesn't represent real change in that he will fall in the hands of the old establishment. it could prove to be a difficult challenge. allison and beauty and says eatable with these spanish coast guard has rescued more refugees and migrants from the atlantic ocean. nearly 50 people, including women and children, have been made to port grand canaria spades canary islands. off africa, north west coast have become a frequent destination. people trying to reach europe, south africa, and struggling to keep the lights on crumbling,
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infrastructure and power stations are overwhelmed by demand. and it's made worse by thieves ripping up electricity cables. for mr. miller reports from janice bag. students at the university of johannesburg and sweater. demonstrate following weeks of intermittent powers, which have hampered their studies. the university's management plane, he's stealing electricity cables for the black us enforce lurise east of johannesburg. more power cuts because of crime. nicely. the shopping owns a small food business, which is costing more to keep open because she has to buy gas to replace the electricity supply and saw already because that might be more so we normally start at 5 am and that's when we get most of our customers we have to tell them there's no power and so we lose those morning customers, school children and commuters landed by the passes in thieves have been video
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ticking up cables, sometimes in broad daylight much of the theft takes place at night during the electricity black house. while south africa battling to keep its lights on because of issues like aging facilities, the problem being worse and by ramp and crime, electricity cables are being stolen at an alarming rate. and officials are trying to stop as much of it as possible. in sorento, frustrated people and police go on night patrols to try and stop the vandalism. but they're hindered by the lack of light with thieves are off to copper which sells for up to $20.00. a kilo on the black market. new toner. sun is shipped overseas in the severe hook, plaza casing, but the minister get through it and they take the copper out strains of copper cable, it is, and they burned dead and plastic casing to get to the actual company. power company say the demand for copper is higher than ever,
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and crime syndicates control the trade gayden, sell it to this is sort of a scrap metal deal us sometimes we get this, what we call bucket shops, which are anxious. that is scrap metal to last, that would be at level 2, then from level 2 they didn't take it to like, do i router cyclists in rather fine? fine, others and other guys then would glad relate this thing in biker and relating it a deformity. while official patrols happen about 3 times a month, residents gather nightly at their own risk, often facing heavily armed feeds, keeping an eye on power lines in an attempt to please keep the lights on, and the community saying that meet amola al jazeera, so wet of south africa hollywood is celebrating the return of sold out cinemas after tom cruz's top gun sequel blasted to talk of box office. chops 48.
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a 3 long awaited follow up to the original action film hit and more than a 100. $50000000.00 in 4 days, and he was status at the box office record for the memorial day. holiday weekend films release was delayed by one last 2 years because of the pan tobacco managed john morays, a tv present 10, a pop culture expert. explain why that film is throwing audiences back to the city . why to tell you this was my 1st time in the theater since colbert, myself, you know, and i felt safe. i wore my mask in the movie theater, and people are looking for good entertainment. but this is what happened will top gun map. they had a great story, an excellent marketing campaign, and people were intrigued by these fresh faces. listen, tom cruise is what you've got. bow cameras back. what? there are some great new characters by jennifer connelly and harris charles panella, john ham. what the fresh faces.
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