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its rush hour at the local community center in lou batch of 15 kilometers from the border with ukraine. that new dot got. jack is a retired russian language teacher and is collecting goods donated by people from all over europe. we are helping people on the other side of the board do once the state behind can plead. since russia invaded ukraine, the new to has been driving across the board every day. crossing the border is always tricky, but the women say that today they have a lucky day because the border guard, if someone they know it's going to be hopefully much easier to bring the goods in. the notice we leave to find a less chaotic situation. and in the past few days, people seem less exhausted. this time i'm not crying. as you can see. the notice mission has been accomplished for now, but she will return with more goods as long as russia missiles and buckets force people out of ukraine. the.
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ready brazilian police confirm that remains found in the amazon rain forest. all those of british journalist dom phillips. ah, i'm not about this in. this is all 0 life and don't have also coming up. president vladimir savanski welcomes the european commission support for ukraine's e u membership. oh wow. accordingly, soldiers killed in rwanda escalating tensions between the 2 neighbors and western europe. swelter in an alley, heat, wave scientists blame climate change. ah,
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brazilian police say human remains found in the amazon rain forest. all those of missing british journalists, dumb phillips, they've yet to identify other remains thought to belong to indigenous expert bruno pereta. it was traveling with phillips, investigate, to say, a suspect in custody, confessed to killing the man and burying them in the rain forest. but local, indigenous people insist organized crime groups were involved on okay. inaccurate reports from rio de janeiro using dna matching, brazil's federal police identified the mortal remains of british journalist, don phillips. he was travelling with indigenous expert bruno bid ada, when both men were killed. indigenous leader batt, to my reuben told us his people need time to mourn the loss of 2 men who defended their cause. he says the union of the indigenous people of the job id valley will continue patrolling the reservation. working to stop illegal fishermen and poachers
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. for gum august, don't you give that to so, but it's a question of survival. we live in an area which is home to the largest number of on contacted indigenous tribes in the world. they don't go to the local market to buy food. they depend on fishing to keep their families alive. abdulla they did, and phillips were found 10 days after they went missing. when the local fishermen, a mighty la costa confessed to their murder, he led police to a burial site in the rain forest. more than 3 kilometers from the river, where both men were ambushed. it was not the 1st time he and biddy i had met. we witnessed this encounter between him in that costa last december. the police call the murders, an isolated act. they said there is no proof, they were commissioned by some one else, but my role was says he believes illegal. fishing is directly linked to money
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laundering from drug cartels a lot on others, eyes, kepler's and blasting for muslim quality products to say this was an isolated crime is a mockery, not only for the families of both men, but for all those who have died defending the amazon threats, she diginero, expert sidney persuadable, says present j boss. so matto is responsible for empowering people to we're trying to legally exploit the amazon. the real visual liver in history has been a worse time for brazil's amazon like now, not even during the military regime, the murder of dom phillips, them but a little bit it. i happened 4 months before brazil's presidential elections. casting a spotlight on a remote area of the brazilian amazon forest. there's nobody valley is the size of austria and home to the world's largest number of isolated indigenous tribes. monica not give al jazeera, rio de janeiro. ukraine's
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bed to join the european union's got a major boost with the european commission saying that both it animal dover should be granted candidate status. it's an hourly step forward and the lengthy process to achieve full status within the e u. commission president us of on the lion says that ukrainians have shown they are ready to die for the european dream. in the view of the commission, ukraine has clearly demonstrated the country's aspiration and the country's determination to live up to european values and standards ukraine before the war had already embarked on its way towards the european union for 8 years now, it had already been gradually moving closer to ours union, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, who's called the move, a historic achievement was she and i, she is at his nike either recently. now we are only one step away from fully
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fledged integration into the e. u. we have a positive assessment from the european commission concerning candidate status for ukraine, and it is a historic achievement for all who work for our country. we just have to wait for the decision of the european council next week. i think ukraine made everything possible for this decision to be positive. russian president vladimir putin says it's ukraine's choice. if it wants to join the block, bought it risks, becoming a semi colony. if it does, it, will it use kimball, ultimately shirt enough to pay them when we've seen the, the use not a military alliance, unlike nato. but that's why we've always said our position here is consistent and clear. we have nothing against it. it's a sovereign decision of any country to join an economic alliance or not. and it's up to this economic union to accept new member states or not. well, it could take many years for ukraine to achieve full e u membership. countries submit a membership application to the e council, which then collectively assesses their ability to meet the so called copenhagen
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criteria. this includes a functioning market economy stable democracy and the rule of law, as well as the acceptance of an all e u legislation and the euro. that's expected that ukraine will need to implement judicial, an anti corruption reforms if the commissions opinion is positive. the council then begins to negotiate membership often on a subject by subject basis, and that can take years. 5 nations currently have e u candidacy. albania, north macedonia, montenegro, and serbia, and turkey, which has been on the list for more than 2 decades, while ukrainians in the capital keyboard express optimism about the e. u. membership bid. oh, the business name, crash business will be better and education will be based on the european standards of medicine will be based on the european standards and services. i believe that every area of our life will be better. that's what i think. no, no, sir. it is very ambitious for the economy and for the development of ukrainian
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military systems under the current circumstances taking into account ukraine may be losing a lot because of the war. when we spoke to you as president joe biden says, he's not going to meet saudi arabia's crime, prince one on one during his visit. next month. biden's been facing criticism after the white house announced his trip to reared in one's vote to make saudi arabia a pariah. stayed after the merger of journalists, yamaha, sushi. i'm not going to be with them yet. i'm going to our international meeting. if you're going to be part of it, just like there were people part of the discussion the day, gregory gus is a professor of international affairs at texas a and m university and he says, soaring gas prices and high inflation. a put president biden in a difficult position. i think that he's climbing down from some pretty tough campaign. rhetoric. calling on the ground, prince pri,
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saying he was going to isolate him. and you know, the fact is that he's going to be in the same room with him. and i'm not sure why he'd be going to saudi arabia except to talk to him. but obviously he's gotta, he's got to work the domestic side of this and, and, and back away from some very strong language he used during the campaign. the president wants to show the american people that he's doing everything. he can even at the margins to bring down the price of gasoline. the ukraine issue just brought into very start release the fact that saudi arabia is still the major player in the world oil market. and even though the long term goal of the by the administration is clearly the reduce, the importance of fossil fuels. that's not going to happen in the short term. people are still driving their cars and they still need gasoline. and so combined with these other geopolitical issues in the middle east, the ukraine war and the fact that chad on energy markets is really driving the by the administration back into a relationship with saudi arabia. former us president donald trump is criticized
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his vice president mike patten's saying he liked courage during the final days of that administration. is collins come up to the us house committee investigating last year's attack on capitol hill? howard the trumpet pens his life at risk. mike pinch had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be frankly historic but just like bill bar and the rest of these week people mike and i say it sadly because i like them. but mike did not have the courage to act rwanda's foreign ministers calling for the d escalation. intention along the border was democratic republic of congo. after conquering soldier was killed in an exchange of fire at the frontier. tension has been rising between the neighbors who have had a strained relationship for decades. alexia bryan reports ah, angry crowds in democratic republic of congo pushed towards the border with rom
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wonder they chanting slogans against their london president polk. army. oh, it's too much. now, this provocation, for the people of rwanda, it's not the 1st time that we've seen the situation with the crowd had gathered after a calmly soldier walked from the city of goma towards rwandan territory, firing his weapon. rwandan soldiers shot back, 2 of them were injured. the congolese soldier was killed and when his body was brought back across the border, the dead soldier was given a hero's welcome here with spruce the courage of real sold you by giving his life to feeding the respect and honor of our country. we're asking our government to support us so that we can defend ourselves against poor, gummy, and his people people here blind their wandered,
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president for recent escalation of violence between connelly's forces and the m. 23 and group. d. r. congo accuses, were wonder if supporting funding and adding the growth something kigali denies the analyst very wide again. 23, which has its extraordinary new energy and accompanies a certain suspect that rwanda is living at new weapons. new arms i. every one is worried that it's going to seize goma, and that would change the balance of power in the region. on wednesday, thousands and going up march towards the border, ransacking shops and searching suspected of carrying my wanderings. this mineral rich frontier has been unstable for decades, but the un says hate speech directed to water. abundance is fueling mistrust between the communities. all of that moralist, ha, create out as created by today gets it kind of a temperature that you have on body streets to day in gama or you become well with
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people basically taking stones and believing that they are able to go it crossing. rhonda and what to get you under basically take her gummy by hand. oh dear congo is now limiting border crossings. it's president felix chester. kitty is accusing we're wonder, a trying to occupy his land. military commanders who do to meet on sunday to discuss the deployment of a regional force to try to keep the peace. alexia bryan al jazeera. some of the us government says it's 70 also. bob fighters, including 3 follow nurse, have been killed after the army foiled a terrorist attack. now group was attempting to ambush an army base embargo in the gar go do region. some aaliyah's information minister says a man who was intending to conduct a suicide bomb attack has been arrested that are casualties among the army and civilians, but none has been identified so far. still had on al jazeera ah
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anger in india, protesters demand, the government withdraws its new recruitment policy for the military. and why palestinian say the symbolic acts are a risk worth taking in the face of israeli occupation? ah. another story of heat throughout the us. now, admittedly on the pacific coast, it's not heat is probably welcome right now in some places too much of it on the east coast is rain, 2 fatty storming conditions, but a long way away from the major population. so you can forget the word storm, and think of the word heat now as the major, driving force. luckily down in phoenix and fat in this corner, the southwest does the south west does more in the way of showers, but if you're anywhere else and i read to be virtually anywhere else. this he, she's moving north was through the midwest right across the canadian border watch. we pay a 20 on saturday up to about 38 on sunday. that's knocking on the door of it's
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sitting reco. clearly it's cooler and in the higher ground, further west and say, you're lucky, you get some rain. there's. well, they're not in california. as for this part of the americas. yep. big shout again. jamaica cuba, the bahamas. back through a good part of this was and then a good look at some mexico. huge amount of rain seems likely they with potential development of a tropical spin off offshore in south america. once again, this familiar line is shout through paraguay is moving out, but still living a residue of shout potentially for rio. ah, cutter, one of the fastest to national shipping company to become a key, middle eastern trade and money skilfully knocked down $3.00 key areas of
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development. who filling up from it, connecting the world, connecting the future, won the cost cutters. gateway to whoa trade, lou ah ah, you want to go to 0 reminder, my top stories, this are police in brazil as a human remains found in the amazon rain forest are being confirmed as those of missing british journalists, dumb fellows, a yet to identify other remains thought to belong to indigenous experts. bruno pereta. it was traveling with phillips. it had been commission is recommending ukraine, and moldova as candidates for e. u membership, all 27 you leaders could vote to grant the countries candidate status as early as
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next week. democratic republic of congo has limited border crossings with lawanda bobs, or congolese soldier was killed. lawanda says he crossed the border from the city of goma and was shot dead after opening fire. don't police officers and civilians. let's go to india now, but at least one person has been killed and violent protest against a new military recruitment program. demonstrators blocked roads and burned buses, as well as trains across, settled states. they're angry with the new scheme offering employment only for 4 years after which a majority of recruits will be let go without pension or benefits of natal reports from new delhi angry protests set the strain on file across india. some had vandalized ation block road and torture boxes demanding the government withdraw a new recruitment policy for the military 9. does a lot exams have been postponed at least 19 through march 2020. now this exams will
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be canceled because of the new scheme. why are the executing the same? what will be due after 40 years of service on your side as if those who are medically and physically should be examined again? and the order of recruitment would be started. we completely object to the tour of duty real pickles. india has one of the largest military in the world. it employs nearly one and a half 1000000 people. a new recruitment policy is to bring down the average age of soldiers from 32 to 26. and reduce expenditure on salary. soldiers will now be hired for 4 years. only top recruits, we get a permanent job with health benefits and a pension regarding this, i'm sure the government says this will improve the military. i'm going to potter yoga and me are under the new scheme, the indian youth will get an opportunity to serve in the indian armed forces. this scheme has been brought in for strengthening national security and to proven opportunities for military service for our use. it chuckle, my god,
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me. but the backlash has been growing in peace and do. one person was killed in the violence. official have shut down the internet in some areas. the government says off to the service recruit will be given a preference for jobs insecurity. forces like to police experts point out this policy comes when it nomic recovery is slow and unemployment remains. hi. analis davis overhauled with help upgrade equipment, but have criticize its timing and implementation. it's not altogether a bad step, but there are problems with the way it is being implemented. and the biggest of the problems seems to be that they will still to be left with the unemployment problem when these foyer, so bisbee book retired. the end of foyer recruitment under the new scheme is set to begin next week. but after the backlash, the government has now raised the maximum is $223.00,
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but only for this. yes. pardon him at that out. as the rock you deli who's president pedo castillo has appeared before. national prosecutors for questioning in a corruption case is accused of receiving bribes for public work contracts. 6 current politicians and a former minister are also being investigated. a seal is the 1st peruvian leader in recent times to be investigated while in office. it was one of the most notorious crimes committed by chillies, military dictatorship, in 1973 decades later, the supreme court has issued a ruling 11 former soldiers and police officers have been jailed over the execution of dozens of farm workers in the community of pine. most of the victims were poor, rural workers whose families couldn't afford to seek justice latin america added to lucy newman reports from finer. oh, the rural community of piney is home to a brutal statistic. the largest number of victims per capita of chiles,
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former military dictatorship. yahoo! we really mama, 65 year old sonya valensuela still lives in what's called widow's lane. she was 16 when soldiers rated the street and took her father, her 4 uncles and her husband of only 6 months, you know, and then i me, they run the winter. i saw that they were taking away a line of people with their hands up like this ski emmy bureau wash. my uncle cried a lot. he said sonya, they're going to kill me. and so it was yes he whip the majority of those who lived here in 1973 were poor illiterate farmers had benefited from a land reform program. until a military coup turned the clock back. in all 70 men were taken from here and disappeared, leaving their families penniless portion of any i'm or no, you're right and we were destitute. my grandmother was left to care for 16
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grandchildren. they asked for milk for bread. i'm privy unless you for days with us . but the worst part she says was the search for their bodies and for justice lucy, aim in all group justice was finally served this week, the 38 of the 70 victims who are honored at this memorial. after numerous appeals, the supreme court has ruled to imprison 11 soldiers and policemen, with sentences of up to 20 years roar hello from of the now flood. last, last 2 brothers to uncles and her father, she says she's waited nearly 50 years to be able to sleep in peace carrier compliant. i think of my beloved mother who died in december. i can say that i completed my mission for her. she fought for so many years for this. oh yes, only 33 percent of the victims remains have been found. 24 of them were executed and thrown into a ravine. hill sync went to la la la, lengthy nearby,
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and they only found my father's glasses and a bit of clothing for the rest of his remains, had been thrown into the se you're into like rappel and what that dictate ship called operation removal. c, m, all over the somebody really the loo, saudi 17. other victims were executed closer to home. this is the hill where the soldiers brought them, shot them dead, and then left their bodies to decompose. the squadron was led by a lieutenant colonel magna, but he will never spend a single day in prison. he died a year ago, peacefully in his bed before he could be sentenced. many of the victims families have also died. that's why sonia valensuela still feels sadness. justice that take so long, she says the skill feels like injustice to see in human al jazeera by nature unified with them. we can find her juliana songs will appeal a decision by the british government to extradite him to the united states. washington wants this trillion to face spying charges for his role and releasing
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hundreds of thousands of classified military documents in 2009. we're gonna fight this. we're gonna use every appeal avenue. and we're going to fight. i'm going to spend every waking hour. fighting for julian until his free until justice is served was sanctions high and they occupied westbank. many people responded to local initiatives to fill the streets for the palestinian flag, but his really satler's living illegally on palestinian territory or organizing a counter initiative to block the flight from being raised it able to print reports . ah, it's a simple act of flying a flag. but in the occupied westbank reading, the palestinian flag could get you shot or arrested. the symbolic gesture has become even more important in recent weeks. indeed,
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the tone of her water on the north of the west bank has become a battle ground. and the fight here is all about the flag, palestinian men breeze their flag on the mean streets only to have as really suckers take it down under the protection of these where the army is ready, forces usually shoot at palestinians and the confrontations that follow they have been one and was shot twice during the past few weeks. one of his injuries was caused by a rubber coated bullet to the head. save says the flag represents a sovereignty. palestinians are yet to have gone to him breathing. the flag is a risk worth taking off of the shutter issue of your air. i expect anyone to be shot by a soldier at any time. i remember when i went to alexa most company recently, my father was scared. i will be easier in the confrontation done properly, but it was chopped here. all these really army and settlers came to a place need my household is ready for is, is have since brought in more troops,
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the for water. we're sending the tension in the area. one day there are no palestinian flags. the next estimates are filled with them. it's a dean if white tear ned the boy young men who were not even worn, wendy israeli government 1st the cleared the palestinian flag illegal after the also the accords of the early 19 nineties between the palestine liberation organization and israel. the bound on the palestinian flag was lift but on the ground it's becoming much harder to express any type of support for the palestinian cause. a 3 year old was recently forced to take off his shirt because it had a picture of a rifle use of hub. how was crossing. this is really military check point when soldiers stopped him. g. the soldiers were running towards him, pointing their rifles at him, while a sniper was stationed on the military tower above. if we adults were afraid. how do you imagine a 3 year old feels more he's traumatized? he was wearing would have become known as the m. 16 shirts. they were produced here
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in response to is really rate that followed palestinian attacks against israelis earlier this year. uber, no, it seems that the palestinians don't even have the right to have symbols. palestinians can't even dream that they can be victorious or reach an in to the colonial state. in the west bank, the struggle is not just for the land but also for the symbols and images that are present. palace fine. need that but he l. just eda, the occupied westbank, legacies eurovision song contest will not be held in ukraine at was to to be hosted in cave after ukrainian group color shore. castro wanted this year's competition, but the european broadcasting union says ukraine can't meet the necessary security and operational requirements. because of the war that are told not to hold it in the u. k. since it was the one rob parts of europe are experiencing their hottest
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hourly summer temperatures and decades with scientists blaming climate change for the heat waves. parts of spain had highs of above 40 degrees while one area france has banned outdoor events and heat alert has been issued in southern england leave bark reports from london. the british capitals grappling with june temperatures rarely seen the united kingdom ha, a questionable time, perhaps, fatigue, building exercises in the park. for others, though, it's a chance to do as little as possible and for some, an opportunity to dust off membership to the cities. most exclusive pools, ah, away from the stifling heat of the capitol. this is bryson of the south coast, where thousands jostled for a patch of beach and a space to cool off. i'm from cyber is and now in cyprus, is raining, and i'm in london am. i'm boiling here, so something must change venus or take precautions about the climate change
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for country. this made an art form of complaining about the usually wet weather. this heat gives people here something else to grumble about that there's a seriousness about the soaring temperatures. real concern about how climate change may start to affect people's everyday lives. the french capital sweltering heat speed worse and by pollution, making it dangerous for the vulnerable to go out. and in the spanish capital, madrid were temperatures of exceeded 40 degrees celsius for several weeks. the government issued an extreme weather warning due to the presence of santa dust from the sahara desert. little comfort for though struggling to work outside climate scientists are in no doubt about why this is happening. we're warming our climate generally, so the average temperatures have risen by just either one degree celsius since the pre industrial period. and that means that the hot extremes that we see every
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summer are becoming at least one degree hotter. and that will say becoming more frequent and also lasting longer in climate activists are threatening, more decisive action to proceed in action by governments, a big business similar to the extinction, rebellion protests that shut down parts of central london a few years ago were fed up of of here in the rhetoric when they've meaningful action. and if our leaders are incapable of doing that, they're not capable of getting off of a fossil fuel addiction, we're just doubling diet and continuing to pursue new fossil fuel investments. continue to subsidize this home for industry than we have. the core of we have to call them out and education is kate. the public can also understand in a row of non violent civil resistance in this moment because everything house is found, climate scientists say the next decade will be defined by greater extremes of weather . but the.

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