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it 6 months to the day since russian forces rolled across the border into ukraine, what russian president vladimir putin called a special operation has cost thousands of lives and turned more than $6000000.00 people into refugees. it coincides with muted celebrations in ukraine, marking 31 years of independence from soviet rule on the same day ukraine marx, this milestone the u. s. has pledged an extra $2980000000.00 in military aid, bringing a total spent so far to nearly $13000000000.00. while a small number of people have turned out onto the streets of caves, my than square, large gatherings have been banned in the capital and curfews imposed in some other cities and half a world away in new york city. the united nations security council has been

weighing in an open session that unit secretary journal antonio terrace, called for accountability for the human suffering caused by the war mister president of ukraine excellencies, to they marks the south and frederick milestone. 6 months since russia's 24th of february invasion of ukraine. during this devastating periods, thousands of civilians have been killed than the injured, including hundreds of children. and countless others have lost their family members, friends, and loved ones. do of their sin grow violations of international human rights law and international. my father in law committed with little to no accountability or christmas looming, joins us from the united nations and while more money for ukraine. what's happening?

well, we're getting a very grim assessment of the situation. 6 months into russia's invasion of ukraine . united nations leaders are giving their assessment of the situation and in the words of rosemary, decarlo, who's the under secretary general for peacekeeping for political affairs. there's no end in sight, and there's talk of increasing global divisions which we're seeing on display in the security council meetings. as a speakers make their case, an appeal for russia to withdraw on one hand and for the un to intervene on the other. the united nations is really highlighting the global impact that this conflict is having while of course, also paying tribute to the thousands of ukrainian civilians who died as a result of the situation. there are some 13000000 ukrainians have been displaced about half of them inside the country and other half into europe. but the rep

percussion go even farther in terms of the impact on food prices, globally, an instability and markets, and even according to decarlo, there's a growing signs of instability in many countries around the world where hunger is on the rise. all of this in part attributable to the war in ukraine. and we also heard from president vladimir as a lensky of ukraine in this meeting, speaking remotely from ukraine. i capitalizing on that in and talking about the fact that ukraine's future is tied to the rest of the world. he said, our independence is your security, and it's in ukraine that the future of the world will be decided and certainly from the different speeches that we've been hearing around the,

the security council chamber, those divisions right now seem as intense as ever. and in the words of the carlo with no end in sight. again, a rather grim picture. ok, we'll leave it there for christmas. let me thank you for that. update to raise a bow has more from kiss on how to days being marked by ukrainians. where here in my down in the center of cave, not far away from independence where, where people have been coming here steadily in a way to remembers those. they have lost to talk about the war of something that has been very, very traumatizing for them. we're here writing a memorial that's been put with flags right here. it's with people that have been killed during the war. thousands of people have been killed and injured and millions have been displaced by the conflict. and people are coming here. and they're writing on this book that you can see right where i am there are stories of

personal loss and what have been happening to them all this month. pictures of soldiers that have been killed and other types of stories when they're telling us that they want this to be a part of history of what has happened in this country this past month. and right behind me, all of those russian tanks that have been destroyed in this past 6 months. they have been put here as an act of defiance, governance for it. if we're saying that there, russia was hoping to be persuaded their troops through this plaza when this war began. and this is what they got instead destroyed, hang. so suddenly there's lots of meaning on this day for people here. and when you talk to them, they say that independence day for their means being closer to europe, being closer to freedom, being closer to human rights. and they want to be further away from most schools. we carry on rules. that's course live to our white house correspondent now. kimberly, how could kimberly,

can you tell us more about this pledged aid for ukraine? yes, the u. s. president just landed here at the white house. we thought he might have something to say about it himself, but he slipped right into the residence and had very little to say. but in a statement, what the u. s. president said earlier, was that this is really about helping ukraine defend itself for the long term. in other words, this is going to be about allowing ukraine to purchase the weapons. it needs to defend itself in the medium and long term. what does that look like? well, it will be anti armour, anti aircraft missiles to use against russian tanks and helicopters. but what this means is that as this is going to be, in addition to the 10600000000 that the united states has already provided over the last 6 months. and initially the security assistance was really the kind of the ammunition and the other equipment that the pentagon had in stock and was able to

ship very quickly over to ukraine. but now the pentagon is going to be utilizing some of its contracts that it has around the country and around the world in order to equip ukraine moving forward. so this is significant because as we've been reporting, not only does this mark the 6 months since the russian invasion of ukraine, but this also marks the $9001.00 at 1991 anniversary of the split of ukraine from the soviet union. but this also marks are really significant moment for the united states in terms of age shift to have support and signaling that essentially u. s. troops and u. s. soldiers are likely to be in europe for the long haul. can be, how could to in washington dc, thank you for that. ukrainian president vladimir lensky, use the gravity of the day to remind the europe in continent of the impacts of the war go far beyond ukraine's borders. yeah,

lots of them. i was just and they should be leaving the and i don't want someone said europe is no longer player. we're not united pet, sleepy ukraine integrated the whole continent. europe takes 2 squares in europe. introduce a tough sanction of europe, unanimously. recognizes that green future member of the p and union in mala, but the business realized that money still smells of blood loss in their death. because let's take a closer look at the changes this war has forced on the european union, about 12000000 ukrainians have left their homes and more than half of them have gone to europe as refugees. the e u has created special legal accommodations for them. ukrainians have access to medical care schools and housing in the block for up to 3 years. inflation has hit a record high of about 9 percent. energy bills have skyrocketed leaving people angry. they governments as prices rise. european cities have also been forced to

kept the temperature of government buildings and turn off city lights to conserve power. and before the war, only 8 nato nations were hitting the 2 percent of g. d. p. defense spending target . and in the 1st 3 months after the invasion, even nations bumped up their defense budgets by $200000000.00 and set new spending . goals of nato also accepted to new members, the historically neutral sweden and finland. but for bringing frank upon now, he's a professor global history at the university walks in the u. k, and joins us now live from the very welcome to the program. first of all, what's in your view has been the biggest and potentially most long lasting impact of this war on europe. whether it's, it's fractured, the world's means not just a european problem. this one, what the invasion of ukraine has done is to completely transform verbal geo politics in ways that i think it's hard to see anything similar happening since the

2nd world war. i mean, the seismic scale of the economic shock to europe around electricity and energy prices is quite well covered. so q is the degree to which the breakdown of ukrainian food supply chain wheat, but also fertilizers are coming out of ukraine. are going to impact life choices and life's all over the world. so this has been something totally seismic. and although the russians are talking about this marking, a multi polar world where it shows that washington, united states are to global superpower on its own, able to do as they like. one, i think, really has to stand back and wonder what it is that russia is gaining from doing this other than to create fragility for all of us. we, we, in europe as a develops region of the world with high incomes, will be relatively resilient. but the implications of this in low income countries is potentially catastrophic. and it's very hard, i think, to see what it is that,

that putin in russia stands stands to gain. well, yes, you mentioned russia there, how damaging has this been for russia financially, and militarily? well, i think russia has shown quite clearly that it's not constrained by any international legal order. and i suppose in some degrees that shows russia's independence. it shows that it's able to act as it sees fit. and i think in, in so far as what is able to read through what is being said in the kremlin, i think that's quite a powerful way of russia saying it needs be taken very seriously. the problem is that that comes at a very significant price. so in the 1st instance, the price it comes out is a collapse of the russian middle classes. so there's been a total breakdown of imports into russia because of western sanctions. and in fact, although those have been imposed by the european union and united states that have been followed by many countries in the world, including by china, that the great deal of care i think, to not try to go on the wrong side of,

of the western world that has implications, rushes, economy, rushes military is performed far worse than not only we in the west for expecting, as before, far worse than russia is expected, and that will require a great deal of russian capital to rebuild the russian armed forces. so i think that the problem with this is that as we become more fragile, that things get worse and worse all of us, including the russians. the question is, how do we find a way out of this and what does any kind of settlement look like that might get us back on to an even keel. but i think there should be no doubt that going towards the 2nd half of this year. and into 2023, a particular back of pandemic in the economic course. that's had a we all over the world are a very, very dangerous and fragile place. do you think russia may have been counting on nato countries to fall apart over this and to what extent has it actually had the opposite effect? well, i think in many parts of the world's a withdrawal from afghanistan, that was completely chaotic by the handle, by the, by the administration, but also by other western countries that showed this unity,

the chaos surround, breaks it, the allegations about the elections being stolen, no states or macro on calling nato brain dead. and the germans not putting their and in their pocket to pay for defense. as you said at the top of the report, i think would be quite persuasive way of making it look like the west is all do that. the problem is what we do, we do lots of things very badly in the west. we do those things quite well and we're quite good in a crisis because we have lots of stakeholders who come together and are able to align themselves. we don't mind sending bad news to our political leaders. in fact, part of the system that we have in the west is that bad news is constantly being telegraph the media and that can look very bad. it looked like a sign of weakness. as it happens, nato has now a significantly and holds its reputation. it's decision making and it's expenditure . some of those old ties in europe that had loosened, breaks it being part of that, but also it dentist movements in italy and so forth have really pulled your

together in a way that is probably very counter productive from the russian perspective. so i think that it's had, like, often happens in life, sometimes aggressive decisions that you think are going to exploit opportunity and making things much harder for you than they were in the 1st place. and i think one of the real challenge is now is how do we in europe, in britain, in the west, in the middle east, likewise, in russia itself, how do we find a way? is there a way of, of sitting around the table and trying to find some kind of solution that is the, that not, not the worst of all possible worlds, which is what things look like at the moment. i mean from, for example, this morning, having seen a battle, i'm plans since the middle of june, the russians have gained up sort of 0 territory in 2 months. and that comes with an enormous cost of fuel, of food, of conscription, of lives, of material. and it's very hard, i think, to see what it is that russia gets out of this. and by, that's the thing i think many of us are trying to figure out right now. what's the best way to try to diffuse the situation and try to find that kind of settlement

with the francophone at university of oxford. thank you very much. d for input today. now think more ahead on the news hour, including oh, african union strike for higher wages and a lower cost of living palestinian father for on hunger strike says he feels like he is close to death and is demanding release from his rating detention in sports one in place calls most trouble. franchise is goes up for sale details coming up. ah, israel says it can't accept the revival of the nuclear deal with iran warning it will be used today, stabilize the world. it follows accusations from iran's nuclear chief that israel has been waging psychological warfare to sabotage

a return to the 2015 agreement. iran has denied us media reports that had dropped some key demands from the deal. israel is not against any agreement. we are against this agreement because it is a bad one because it cannot be accepted as it is written right now. it would give iran a $100000000000.00 a year. this money will not build schools or hospitals. this is $100000000000.00 a year. that will be used to undermine stability in the middle east and spread taro around the globe. santa town by john the joint comprehensive plan of action was the result of years of negotiations. the final agreement was meant to end all allegations under the deal around except to restrict his nuclear program and give broad access to inspectors from the international atomic energy agency in order to restore trust. and at the same time, all sanctions imposed under the pretext of the nuclear allegations was supposed to

be lifted. now a criminal regime which has illegal nuclear activities and doesn't give access to the i has stage psychological operations against iran over the past few days. we don't expect the i e, a continuous demands and it's not acceptable for it to do so. though such a bar is live for us in her own. so here we are. israel says to deal shouldn't go head as it is while iran says israelis waging psychological warfare. yes, and this has been ongoing for many, many years. it's not anything new. and as iran gets closer to as reaching some kind of an agreement with the united states and european powers, israel opposition becomes louder and louder. we've just had some breaking news coming in over the past few minutes. we understand, according to the foreign ministry spokesperson here in sara, that the united states government has officially responded to the suggestions that

the radiant pad around that final text put forth by the p 5 plus one. a few days ago, the united states government has pass on what they believe to be their answers to the u coordinator. that is joseph brown. and de joseph ro has him turn, given that response from the american government to the reigning officials, who are now studying what the americans have come back with and will respond in due time. this is what we've been waiting for over the past few days since the rain is also responded to a text that was according to officials in vienna. a final text about iran coming back into full compliance along with the united states under the 2015 nuclear deal. i think you'll be very, very telling in the next few hours and few days what the united states come back with and what the iranians will respond as far as we understand. one of the main sticking points about coming back to that nuclear deal for iran has been some kind

of a guarantee that we're looking for in terms of if, when there is a new administration in washington. if the next president decides to do the same thing that donald trump it then they will have to pay some kind of a penalty to the iranians. there's also of course, the issue of those outstanding safeguard investigations that are ongoing with the i . e a that they are not satisfied about 3 undeclared sites that they claim there is nuclear activity at some points around those sites that they were on hasn't responded to. and we've heard just now from the folks at the head of around the time again, organization mohammed s on the same day, sufficiently answer those questions and does investigations have to be closed before any kind of an implementation under a a deal would come into play around $120.00 days after they decide to sign and you agreement and amendments under the 2015 years. so things are very much off in the cell, but it seems for the time being now the re news have received that response from

the american government and we'll be setting it what we will come back with. we'll have to say in the door. so thank you for that. let's bring in any say it by syria breezy. she's a senior research fellow and lead of the middle east program, the royal united services institute, while she joins us now from persia in italy. well, thanks for joining us. head. do you think that ultimately a deal will be agreed? well, we are definitely closer to what we have been the for quite some time. and i think there was a lot of pass to me some that actually things were happening in the wrong direction and the deal was no longer to happen. but i think the development over the past 2 weeks actually indicate that both sides are very much keen to have video happen. it's just a matter of negotiating the details of it and making sure that also the domestic constituencies, both in washington and they are wrong. do not push back or too much back to

unravel. video that has been agreed. but i think if there is anything that they speak now from the past few days in the optimism compared to what we have been hearing and seeing over the past 2 months. well yes, you mentioned detail that what do you think this deal if there is one will look like will it be concessions from any party? definitely, i mean for both parties, if we want the a deal to be agree that there needs to be profession. and i think we have seen some of the details already, but we don't know until i think nothing is agreed until everything is great. now we won't know exactly what will be the final shape of the deal. i think we are very close to the final draft, but as we have heard the iranian, i just received that us response. and i think both sides have agreed that there will be a fine wrong in vietnam before any deal is signed. so i think still things can

change until the very last minute and the final form will be revealed just at the very end. and how important is it it can only clea, for iran that a deal is agreed? i think it is important, i think definitely it is the administration by rice, the was the not prioritizing the negotiation as much of the previous administration . the goal for this ministration is very much to improve ties with regional countries and with other countries such as russia, china, and so forth. but even if the priority is from the radiance i now is no longer a strong engagement, economically with the west. so with europe or with other countries in the west, i think still sanction lifted is an important component to make sure that whatever is an improvement the ties with the countries in the region and beyond the actually translate into some sort of economic benefit or investment in the longer term and

without function already, that is not possible. ok with that and he said siri to breezy, re appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. the u. s. military says it's carried out a strike near the assyrian city of debt. as all, it says it targeted facilities used by groups affiliated with iran, revolutionary god, us central command says the strikes were to protect its forces from attacks that carried out by iranian backed groups to iran has denied any links and targets hit by the us. workers are striking across south africa, angry because of the rising cost of living and unemployment. miss miller has more nor form rhetoric. well, we have at least 2000 protesters affiliated with. various unions have come out in pretoria and they're marching towards the seat of government. the union buildings where they want to hand over a memorandum to the government around the high cost of living. as i mentioned,

they are a number of unions or number of issues that they want to address. but the common theme really amongst these unions is just the high cost of living and how the working class specifically are struggling to survive in these economic conditions. we know that the rate of inflation is at the highest. it's been in 13 years and that staples foodstuffs, that many people rely on. i've gone up by 10 percent of the last year alone. and so they're having a difficult time surviving. and that's given the periods that they went through during the cold, 19 pandemic where there are a number of restrictions. thousands of jobs were lost and the economic conditions just haven't improved since then. one of the, one of the other issues is that africa has been plagued by rolling blackouts. so not only do they want the cost of electricity specifically to be addressed, but they also want a stable electricity supply. now the number of people who see today go down old

down this road through pretoria, making their way through the city to the union building. they've been marching for about an hour and we expect them to congregate at the unit buildings any time in the coming hour. so millions of people in and go there have cost the balance to pick their new president. and it's expected to be the most closely for collection. since the countries independence, who 975, the party, that's a government for nearly 50 years is facing a growing wave of discontent reports. this could be the 1st step towards major change for the 1st time in 47 years, opposition party when ita, dance, a strong chance to contest the ruling and pill. a party as govern. done. go lawson's independence and portugal in 1975. but i'm with them, graham, we expect a big day and i believe and colon people will look at it as a celebration because it is a democracy. many people say democracy does not exist in color,

but the effects of democracy will be seen as all and garland head to the poles. presidential maria su, cost his vote early on wednesday, surrounded by tight security. as did opposition leader back to clusters union voters are electing a new parliament in president to titus race and his 1st multi party election in 1992. and why is that an increase in the disillusioned youth fed up by not seeing and goals? petro dollars improve their lives. here's why. youngest people, we need more change. we know that we need more. that bad luck was doing it to be president of gola. i believe that really changed to this country. the countries africa, the 2nd largest producer, but levels of poverty remain high. i think that's definitely contributed to a sense of disillusionment with the ruling party. the other thing is that when president would answer in 2017, there was

a kind of renewed optimism in the country that perhaps he would open up the greater civil society space that he would hold local elections. that perhaps the board was brought to macro economic stability that might start to trickle down. but of course, that hasn't entirely happened. some of it has been a lack of political will. other things have been just global shocks, but this is really contributed to this feeling of delusional. and, and this is, this is what you could potentially see the emperor late and not fair as well as it has had previous elections. the ampio lays been accused by human rights groups, if corruption clamping down on descent rights groups have also expressed concern about the transparency of these elections. the votes will be counted through a new centralized system in the capitol due to a recent change in the electro law. pushed through by the ruling and play. results are not expected for a few days. stephanie decor. well g 0 o. morehead,

aaron altos air, including as russia's energy war with europe gets worse. it's cold, not gas, that's causing a crisis in poland. i'm andrew simmons. and cuz of it's at all the explaining why trucks are standing in line for days on end, outside the coal mines. cracking down on the car, tell us, skyrocketing murder, right, and civilians caught in the crossfire from to state of emergency in ecuador, and find out what formula ones. well, totally, that has been up to the sports mid season break. ah. of the city of dallas in the u. s. state of texas registered. it's 2nd. what is stay in its history? every one here's the details. i think the flooding threat now moving further toward

the east on wednesday. so the problems spot will be central, mississippi. so it's going on here, we're tapping into moisture from the gulf of mexico and these storms have stalled out over this area. just bringing out all of that moisture as a pivot further toward the east are, are flood warnings in play for parts of mississippi state. after the west, we go still high temperatures for california, los angeles, at 30 degrees, and we're also seeing those temperatures come up across the pacific northwest. so for example, portland, up to $34.00, and it's been in active weather pattern across, so the great lakes, there's been some dry spells, but also out rakes of sundry rain. there's been some flash flooding around toronto as wall that weather pattern will continue for central america. heaviest falls of rain will be along the pacific coast of mexico, guatemala, and el salvador, and a wash out of a day and to gucci culpa. with a hive $27.00 grease top end of south america, that is white as it has been select slide further towards the south. and we're seeing those temperatures come up once again in associate with the high of 31

degrees on wednesday. that's a snapshot of your weather. we'll see you next hour. take care. ah frank assessments, how much support is there at st protest that we've seen in hotel across the rest of the country? the street has been, has been very good at tapping into the core. confound people across the country, informed opinions we will say, morphine. what is happening is that climate change it making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines draw, he is credited by somewhere really restoring italy's credibility this critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story? on al jazeera, examining the impact of today's headline is that both hotline is what then happens . setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. i would likely is of that ukraine is actually going to get the rebuilding support that it be international filmmakers and warcraft journalists. bring programs to inspire, protest, her government,

i all think i can return to my life. any more fault is eroding some of it's almost 5 freedoms. on al jazeera, lou ah, the watching out as a reminder of our top story now, ukrainians are holding muted celebrations to mark the 31st anniversary of independence from soviet rule. it coincides with 6 months since the russian invasion, u. k prime minister boris johnson is visiting keith in a show of support. he went secretary journal and tony gets harish has called the day a sad and tragic milestone. and an open session of the security council,

ukraine's president with him as lensky use his speech. to say russia should stop what he calls nuclear black mouth. israel says it can't accept to a revival of the nuclear deal with iran. boring. it will be used to destabilize the world while iran's foreign ministry says it's received the u. s. response to european union's draft agreement and is assessing it now. israel's top court has rejected an appeal to release a palestinian detainee who's been on hunger strike for several months. while day has been protesting his detention without charge under what israel referred to as administrative detention. he was moved to a hospital 2 weeks ago because of his worsening condition. that cit, bring an uneasy cassim. he's a palestinian legal advisor. he joins us that via skype from a man that thanks for being with us. what, let me ask you 1st that what has led to this desperate act of hunger strike.

first of all, we have to recognise what an administrative detention is. it is very brutal. a punishment inflicted by is right up and then it's penny and denise. and this is i left over from the british mandate period and the british should devise this took well the 1st any of the, both in 1956. so, israel is using this in violation of the geneva convention. and in violation of the international civil and political rights convention. so this is absolutely legal of crime and punishment

because, you know, the, the reason that you have, we have administrative detention is that because the occupy, you, or the photocopies does not have enough evidence against the cues. so the military commander, if he suspects just the mere fact that he suspects a person, it can send him for 6 months detention. and this 6 months can be it in you indefinitely without a maximum period. this is what happened with our wild d. it has been renewed and the extended 6 months after 6 months. he never, he doesn't know the charging sheet. he doesn't know the evidence. he doesn't know why he was arrested or detained. he can be presented

to a military judge who is a friend of the military prosecutor who is the friend of the military commander. so it is, or the same mafia ruling above a but it's still in the knee. and that's why there is no way for a palestinian did he to object to this except by using this method of hunger to strike. ok, we'll leave it on these cars seem with thank you very much for that. we appreciate your time. sure. families in poland are bracing for a tough winter. the country is facing wide spread coal shortages after russian imports of fuel where band. unlike the rest of europe, poland relies on coal rather than gas for power and eating. andrew simmons travel

to cat of it's up to see how people are preparing for the cold months ahead. poland prides itself on its potential for being totally independent of russia for its energy needs. but there's a problem. it's a shortage of coal, not gas, like the rest of europe, rough, our rules, coal seller, is normally stocked up for winter by now. but he can't find any call to buy. and if he could, he'd pay almost 4 times what he used to use them and you couldn't again, i'm not a minor orange urologist, but the coal is right here beneath our feet. and i've been trying to buy it for 3 months with 0 results, an average been, he's right, this region is rich with coal, but polish production is limited. and the government has banned imported coal from russia, even though it's cheaper and more suitable for domestic use. we didn't invest in nuclear power yet or we cannot rely on natural gas. so all we have is gold when it

comes to the heating sector, the situation is even worse because we were heavily dependent on russian. ready co, poland burns, a lot of coal, 87 percent of the total for households across the european union. coal mines surrounded by cues of trucks can't meet the demand. and if people knew the level of profiteering going on, they be even more alarmed. there's a reason that truck drove us from all over poland or spending days on end and cues like these. it's because the loads may be small, but the profits of big drivers are known to make at least a 100 percent profit from a coal yard dealer who will then raise the price by at least another 100 percent. this driver admits the 2nd old will suffer for the nearby tag. what the government should do is get pension as a special allowance on coal delivered to their door and it's sick. i don't want to profit from human misery, but that's how it is. the government says an annual coal allowance of around $630.00 a year will help

a ministers say companies are importing coal ahead of the coming winter. polish companies are now importing call from other countries from colombia, indonesia, south africa, and replacing with that does the quantities of called and we're coming from ocean. it's a bit of a different logistics, so it creates challenges. but right across poland, people like this homeowner feel the government isn't doing enough. andrew simmons, al jazeera cats of it, sir poland on thursday. andrew will report on challenges facing another eastern european country in the coming months. i'll be reporting on a different type of crisis here in hungary. it's 85 percent reliance on russian gas and that's causing many problems. a group of e u countries is pushing to ban the russian tourists, russia borders, european union members and industry. you know that fairly weighing in poland. o 5

want an e wide ban on the russian visitors, the book band, russian plains, from its s base following moscow's invasion of ukraine in february. at turned countries with land borders into pocket holiday destinations for russian tourists fusion license plates on the luxury cause or common fight at finland's biggest airport. it's foreign minister says finland has become a transit country. a band is expected to be disgusted. next week's meeting of you, foreign ministers. not sure if we should should not be able to travel. i think everybody should travel because when you see how other peaceful countries leave, then you become more peaceful to we all. busy weight these up and one. ready or more iteration in all the world

and in. busy countries into ukraine to i could those port signs week institutions have turned it into a key transit points for hundreds of tons of narcotics, hammock, benighted states, europe, asia, and russia who see a newman explains how that drug trafficking has been causing unprecedented violence in the fort city of why a q a little. so i kind of, if it's been more than a week since an explosion, destroyed the homes and the lives of many living on chi yet, or chal, a street in a poor guayaquil neighbourhood. me her down in the royal apostle. my daughter was sleeping with her husband when they heard machine gun fire. they ran to the window when the bomb went off in front of our house. yeah, he said his daughter and his son in law each last deny. yeah, the magnitude of the explosion left 17 people injured and 5 dead authority suspect

. it was directed at a drug trafficker, nick named cockroach, who reportedly had already left the scene. to the 6 year old roxane, battery, else died almost immediately. think i could put a key on the old one when we got denied my mother's body was found over there for you are young. are you? that explosion has been followed by 2 smaller ones this week in ecuador, z, largest coastal city. where in the last year the murder rate has doubled. i am. the government has responded by declaring a month long state of emergency, which allows the police and the army to work together to crack down on criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking, cartels. about a year ago, 2 bodies were found hanging from this bridge here in the durant district. it marked the beginning of an escalation of violence here in y. yeah, kill. and since then, there have been decapitations, dismemberment of bodies of rival gang members,

all of which have becoming more and more common in a country that had never seen those types of crimes before. but if the national police director of investigation says ecuador, geographic position is mostly to blame, a case stumbled into a intervals bicycle, or we are waged between the world's 3 largest stroke, produces columbia in the north and peru. in the south africa, we've become embroiled in logistics networking as a transit country. what we're seeing a crime sort of copied from colombian and mexican cartels. in order to generate tara and panic, the name of various weapons, police have identified at least $26.00 criminal gangs. some of them, small armies, who are fighting each other for the privilege of distributing drugs from here to the rest of the world. in the last 3 days, police have confiscated more than 4 tons of pure cocaine. in banana shipments that were earmarked to europe split that small consolation to the people of guy or child

who say the police can't control the violence, which is why they're still living in fear. when a latin america editor than see a newman is in warranty and joins us now. so how are people coping with this bodies in their neighbors? hello, carrie. we're with a lot of fear. people are afraid to go and speak out. we're still inc. i or cio as you can see, the destruction behind us, and in fact, this was not just an exceptional event. early this morning, there was a dynamite explosion at a mechanics workshop. luckily no one was killed, but there was again destruction. i had meant to send a message that the police that the authorities are not in control of the streets, but rather the drug gangs and also the cartels because this country is becoming very, very quickly, not just a transit point, but also

a sanctuary. a sanctuary for drug trafficking. cartels from mexico, from other countries. aisles of columbia, of course, as far ways albanian fact and, and the u. s. dollar is the currency in ecuador, and that makes an even more attractive and an easier place to launder money. so all of this combined is, is, is becoming a, something that the, the people of ecuador believe the government cannot handle at this not quickly. and in the meantime, their safety is at risk every single day. the numbers tell it, all people are dying twice as much as they were last week or the year before. and right now we're surrounded actually by police. you can't see them here. they're hiding for a camera. there is a lot of police here, but they'll probably be gone by next week. and the neighbors are telling us, well, what are we going to do then? okay, we leave it there, live, see, and human lives in the grant. you thank you. on thursday hanging refugees will

march the 5th anniversary of the exodus from me in the hundreds of thousands of people from the countries minority fled a violent military crackdown in 2017. well, now nearly a 1000000 lives in one of the wells largest refugee comes in cox's bizarre freedom of movement is limited and they're kept on the increasing the hard conditions. bangladesh is pushing for that. we patch creation for the un. human rights chief says it's too dangerous them to return to the charge in cox's, and he tells us more about the situation that 5 years on a 1000000 reparative living in the largest refugee camp in cox as bizarre. when you walk in the straits and talk to the rowing, as you can sense of frustration and sense of hopelessness. most know they are going back to me on my anytime soon, many of the rowing refugees re spoke to said that there was increase restriction in the can those barbara all around the need permission to move around. there's also gang violence within the time between growing our gangs. there's also killing of

many of the camp leaders in recent months, as well as in the last couple of years. there's also period of incidence of fire across the come, many joining us tried to flee the camp and had taught se asia for better life on the process, hundreds of died. more than 50 percent of the total don't hang out, refugees are children. when he walked across the camps, you see children everywhere. this is one of the major concern for their families. they want education for their children. there is no formal education school, there's only informed school run by the unicef and other agencies. all the home based schools are shut down by the government. this is one of their main concern right now. nearly $1200000.00 homes come in and they're on the refugee camps. now they're also frustrated. bunger, there's government, it's also finding, it's difficult to manage the camp 5 years on that is no tangible movement. the lot of vivid by diplomats un representative,

but nothing concrete or tangible has happened so far. there has been 2 fail repair creation process. many bilateral talks between me on moran bangladesh, the banker, the government blames man for rigging on its promises not making any effort to take back the throwing us to their homeland indirect kind. despite all the diplomatic effort bangers, government says that while community has not putting enough pressure on man to take back directly just to their homeland. the former head of security or twitter says the company has no idea how many fake accounts operating on the social media platform. peter co has the father whistle blow a complaint with us officials in it. he alleges the company miss lead regulators about its on the security defenses, and was negligent and trying to root out fake accounts for it says the allegations are false. narrative riddled with inconsistencies said i had her on al jazeera, ukraine's of champions league. hopefuls fail in an effort to cause you enough

details coming up in a few months. ah . ah

ah ah ah ah, i was going out with all the sports news. carrie, thanks so much to time. have a weight boxing while champion, ty, centuries, says whole come out of retirement for $500000000.00, for he still holds the debbie. the c title, despite officially announcing his intention to quit, the sport now said of september 1st deadline for an offer to take on sandra, risk and unification, fight. the craning has just been antony joshua for the 2nd time to retain his world

title for dice. bailey searchers are very want to make the fight. i'm going to give you all 7 days till the 1st of september took about with the manage. if not, thank you very much. has been a boss. boxing broadcaster, gareth a demis police theory will return to the ring for a fight with i think people will always, regardless of whether tyson fury likes to know. will always say that if he doesn't fight, you say that he talked to him or they should have full to him. and i think there's an obligation almost in a way the theory to fight you sick because he knows the history of the division and to have an undisputed champion now which we can house on the 1st since lennox lewis in 1999. it's an amazing thing to the school. so i think it will happen and i think he will come back and say she is sick and also has

something to prove. the great chief sick, who twice now in 24 hours has looked brilliant against a baker who had the a stronger heavy weight in anti joshua. and also the 2nd time they proved fight. so who's up against him? serena williams has stepped up, her preparations for what could be the final tournament of her career. the 23 time grand slam champion has been practicing at the arthur ashe stadium had of the upcoming us open. williams recently announced that she would be evolving away from tennis after the last grand slam event of the year. the draw for the us open takes place in new york on thursday. 2020 years. i've been champion, dominic team is back playing an american from 1st time since that title, when injury and a loss of form has seen the australian lie to 231 in the world rankings. he was

lucky to be kreger dmitri off in this warm up event, the major off was forced to retire midway through the match because of illness. there's nothing much to say, you know, just all the best agree or i hope that, you know, he's getting healthy very soon again, that he's healthy also for to use open and that's obviously not the way i wanna win a match, especially against him. it says it's such a great guy such a great player. so out it's that's all to say, dino keith have failed in their effort to pull off his footballing miracle. the cranium team were beaten by bon feca and their champions league play off more g side, one of the 2nd leg of this ties renal to them into the group stage of the competition . the animal will now go into the ro believe the domestic league has just resorted in ukraine by the ongoing war with russia. the mos coach says footballs return is

an important symbol of the countries spirit. we have to to think it'll be difficult for both to one yet. if we don't know where we shall play, how we will play, not condition or separate if it will be kept on, not likely will be bomb bomb. but we have to continue to play. it is so important for us to all the people. also through our mac, how the heifer of israel and the check team, victoria police and after goal is 1st leg please. and came from a goal down to be f k car bag of azerbaijan, to one there into the group stage for just the 4th time in their history, vincent color. but all 3 more ties are coming up later this wednesday, including ranger's versus p. s. the eindhoven, the 1st leg in scotland, finish and the to, to draw the last season 0 believe finalists amy to return to the group stage for the 1st time in more than a decade. dsp have their weekend game, and the dutch lee postpone to give them more time to prepare for the pillow. the

journey that we've taken over the last 4 years. and it's been amazing. but at the same time we've all had the big nights together. the group would look at the run that we had last season, and we always say here and said, well it became a big achievement and he's just another big game for the football club. the we know with a team that we have to try and produce england a cricket captain. ben stokes feared he might not play again after taking in extended break to focus on his mental health. 31 year old stepped away from the sport for 6 months last year to prioritize his well being. stokes is still on anxiety medication. last month, the all rounder announced his retirement from one day cricket fighting the unsustainable rigor, playing all 3 formats of the game. something now that i looked back on and just didn't had to feel like that. unfortunately, that's where so that's how society is give off this provider being

a big like tough northern lad with the fly, we're going to break into that now constantly to the un security council meeting, where russia's ambassador is speaking. let's listen in physician regarding the usefulness of in person participation of guess at the very least out of respect for them has become clear as a result of this to those falling today's meeting. when you go to mr. president, yesterday we gathered here yesterday in connection with a concrete threat to international peace and security, namely kids ongoing bonding of the region. nuclear power plant. just putting euro on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. putting it in, we took note of the applications of the secretary general for why he did not take part in yesterday's meeting. for today's meeting, however, is formally not related to development on the ground at all, and is meant to demonstrate the unfailing support of western delegations for any actions of the q regime. we have predictably heard plenty of mon trends about

russian aggression. as we have already said over the past 200 years, no other explanation for european security issues except for references to russia's actions as emerged in the west were new to day. we also heard many claims about the catastrophic consequences of 6 months of hostilities for the civilian population of ukraine. no one is arguing that it is difficult for ukrainians today. however, the responsibility for this lies with the key of regime, which came to power in 2014, as a result of an anti constitutional coup carried out with the help of a number of western states. from the very beginning, the new my don authorities have been steadily leading the country to disaster, choosing the path of resa foby and the glorification of nazi criminals. thus, according to the most conservative estimates, more than 60 percent of the population of ukraine was deprived of the opportunity to realize their russian speaking identity. contrary to all relevant international

conventions and ukraine's obligations, their western backers blinded by the g. a political goal of weakening russia made it clear from the beginning they would cover up any crimes committed by the keep authorities and turn a blind eye to things that they would never allow in their own countries. really, the key of regime fully demonstrated its criminal nature when it burned to sensor is alive in the house of trade unions and does sandra bombs and shells on the civilian population of don barza, in this senseless crusade against of ukraine last crimea. who and provoked armed resistance from don, gnats, and logan's presidents who took up arms in the name of freedom and the future of their children. this war, which claimed the lives of civilians for 8 years could have ended if key of head fulfilled to minsk agreements. look in your great, however, you little neither the ukrainian authorities nor their foreign patrons needed this . they openly stated this once again at the beginning of this year while

threatening to abandon their non nuclear status in such a contact in order to establish peace in the don boss and to prevent the obvious threats to russia emanating from ukraine. we had no choice but to launch a special operation to d not to fi and demilitarize ukraine, the goals of which are being successfully and steadily fulfilled. i repeat once again. if the minsk agreements had been implemented, no special operation would have been needed. but the regime and key of decided otherwise through the criminal shelling of republics have done. bask, continues in the donuts people's republic. more than 840 people estimates have died on the line of contact since the beginning of the escalation, february, about 2800 injured in the law. hans people's republic. 80 people were killed in more than 250, were injured. approximately 100 civilians have been killed in just 4 weeks since the previous meeting on.