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russia and ukraine carry out their largest prisoners swap since the war started more than $250.00 people of freed. ah, unrolled madison, this is our 0 live from doe hob, also coming up protests in a rush in russia after president vladimir putin and answers plans to call on hundreds of thousands of reservists. verdict, upheld or un backed war crimes tribunal upholds the genocide conviction and life sentence of cambodia. last surviving come, our rouge leader on banks and lebanon will remain shut indefinitely after our seas . holdups my customers demanding their money. russia and ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war and the biggest swaps since the war began. at 7 months ago. the trainees have been freed include

u. k, u. s. and morocco citizens, as well as commandos, from ukraine's hours of battalion, which held against a prolonged russian seas in multiple in return, keith set free all gone. victor, men for chuck is an ally of black. we're putin. and he's facing charges of treason and $54.00 russian prisoners die us millennium. congratulations in your return, our guys, our heroes. it's good to see everyone. it's nice. after all the time we've been on the phone, we're proud of you. what you've done for our nation. proud of each and every one of you, and i'm very glad that the team got you out of russia. i'm glad you made the 1st step you are safe in turkey. on the 2nd step is of course, to get you homes and in a separate deal negotiated by saudi arabia. 10 foreigners who fought for ukraine have been freed by russia and sent to read. among them is 8 and osland. a citizen sentence to death by moscow back separatists. okay, for morning. let's speak to gabriel elizondo. he's joining us live not phone keith

. i'm how the ukrainians, reacting to the steel gate in a word ecstatic. this is a big victory for most ukrainians who wake up this morning getting this news. and they are thrilled, quite frankly. and the reason is, is because these soldiers that were released by the russians in his prisoners swap, any soldiers would have been considered a victory for ukrainians. but this is particularly bitter sweet for them if you will use that terminology because of who they were. more than the majority of these $215.00 for prisoners that were released or soldiers, as we mentioned, from the as off regiment that held out for weeks and weeks at the as a stall, a steel plant in my to you full. they are considered and have been considered for many months now national heroes for what many ukrainians consider their incredible

bravery. during the early and middle stages of this war, you can see it all over the city. in fact, right behind me, you can actually see this is the city hall building here and keep and they've had this huge banner. it's been on the front of this building for many months now, reminding ukrainians every day on how they wanted to free these soldiers from this regiment. so this is considered a very big day for the ukrainians. they feel that this is a huge victory because of these soldiers that were now released. and gabriel, that we were talking about the, the keep has also free the all the got victim meant the chuckle. who is this, the high ranking politician that ukraine's releasing to russia? yeah, he's a former, a politician here, and ukraine. he was released. he has an interesting sort of a shadowy history here and ukraine. he's an oligarch, he's 58 years sold and he's been part of the pro russia opposition. but not only

that, he is very close on a professional and personal level to vladimir putin. in fact, their extended family members, if you will, because a mid bit checks, a child that he has died, a mere putin is the godfather to his child. so they go back many years and he said he was in the opening stages of this war. he was arrested by the ukrainians on treason charges and held under house arrest. he fled house arrest and then was re re arrested by the ukrainians. and so he is a figure that now ukrainians will be turning over as part of this deal to the russians. gabriel, thank you very much indeed. gibber alexander bringing us up to date from keith protests of broken iron rush in response to president vladimir putin. partial military mobilization, dozens of people have been arrested demonstrations, a monitoring group, as reported detentions, and at least 36 cities,

including moscow and saint petersburg. on wednesday, president putin announced that thousands of reservists would be called up to fight in ukraine. speaking of the un general assembly ukraine's president's told world leaders, russia must be punished for invading his country. of la zalinski. he said, moscow is not serious about ending the war. unofficial reports from new york. it's rare for a president to shoe up to the un general assembly and attack another world leader directly. but that's exactly what you bite and decided to do. let us speak plainly . a permanent member of the united nations security council invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase the sovereign state from the map. russia has shamelessly violated the court tenants of the united nations charter has comments coming just hours after vladimir putin announced the biggest military mobilization in russia. since world war 2 and a nice mint, which warned of

a nuclear responds to threats to russia, is raul should see these outrageous acts for what they are putting claims he had to act. because russia was threatened, but no one threatened russia. and no one other than russia sought conflict biden's address set the scene for perhaps the most eagerly anticipated speech of this general assembly from ukrainian president vladimir zalinski. it was prerecorded and that had to be approved by a separate vote. president zalinski demanded the un itself, do more to punish russia for what he called its aggression. arrange yet the right to wold deprive delegation rights remove the right of vito eve. it is a member of the un security casa, in order to banish, then racer. within that institutions, so lensky said the russian mobilization was

a sign. it was not serious about peace as he laid out his 5 point plan to end the war. what is true then? the military m immunization in russia is true. sham referendums are also true. russia once war is true, but russia will be able to stop that course of history men time and that international law a. so again, then, wow, terry, see the russian delegation listen to the speech, but sat unmoved at the end. as the ukrainian president received a lengthy standing ovation, no one in his 25 minute speech. did president zalinski mentioned vladimir putin's name, but he believes ukraine can win the war with increased international support both here at the united nations. and in ukraine itself. alan fisher, i'll just either at the u. n. in new york or you and backed war crimes tribunals

rejected an appeal by the last surviving come our rouge leader. the court in cambodia has upheld the genocide conviction and life sentence, and it to 91 year old who some fun in 2018. it was head of states during the rule of the come, our rouge went to 1000000 people, mostly minority groups were killed. will florence louis following the story force from holland poor france? is it a sense that this is the end of this story? that's right, this is the 2nd, but it's also the final case to be heard by this u. n. back tribunal and tucson pon, he was initially charged with 3 others, but one was found unfit to stand trial and one died before hit. the hearing could commence that he was convicted in 2018 together with known che, who was known as brother. number 2 in the career rouge regime, and he, this is the, he is appealing that conviction and j died before the appeal could be heard. but

the on thursday, the appeals chamber of the community tribunal dismissed nearly all the, all the arguments put forth by to some, pon prosecutor say he was one of them. a one of those was most responsible for the crimes during that period. even though to some point had sought to portray himself as a mere figurehead. he was the head of state. he was the public face of the camille rouge regime. and he had tried to argue that he had no real power. and the court was not convinced of the arguments, and they said even though there were some areas that were found at charleston, it was not enough to overturn that conviction. and so they have affirmed the life sentence. now practically, it actually makes very little difference because he's already serving another life sentence for conviction handed down in 2014, also for crimes against humanity for the forced evacuation of non pen a phone system going on for some time with his tribunals. did you people feel that it's actually been worth while? well, it's hard to say, i mean, it's hard to say this. i mean,

the hearings have taken 16 years. it's cost $330000000.00. they prosecuted 5 people . they've only managed to secure 3 convictions. the 1st was in 2010 of a prison chief, who ran the notorious wholesaling prison in chrome pen. his name was kang, a go egg, and he was known as dike. and 14000 people died in that prison after being held there. and the other 2 convictions were, of course of am tucson pon and also brother number 2 known che. so there is a sense that this tribunal really could have done a lot more. it may, i provided a small sense of accountability but really could have done more, but we'll go from the very start. i think there will concerns that this tribunal would be in a way vulnerable to political interference because of the hybrid nature of the court. it has foreign judge sitting together with cambodian judges, and those concerns proved validated in a way after who and send the prime minister said that there should be normal cases after case 002, which is this case now. but having said that,

there are also many who feel that this court provided a space for national reconciliation because during those hearings, survivors of the camille rouge regime, relatives of people who died during the cruise regime were able to testify directly in court and their testimony has been that they're being kept on record in a way memorializing the sufferings of those cambodians. so in a sense, i think even though some feel that this court could have done a lot more, perhaps its legacy goes beyond the convictions that it's handed down for ins. thank you very much indeed. thorns louis talking to us from column for still hadn't all deserved you on one's recall outbreak in syria. we're going to explain what it could mean for the middle east. ah, there's been a cold shock in central and particularly eastern europe with snow falling on all

the high ground over the last few days from germany down to well currently most likely bulgaria. but to the west of it all things quite nice and settled on sunday . it's reasonably warm and a good part of france, spain and portugal. there is rain coming in our frontal systems valley across the british isles, london's down to 18 in, in the rain on friday, also about 14, but the real cold. i think it will be tempered by the wants of the black sea. actually it'll give showers to the north coast all the way round to what is current if fairly warm, southern caucasus. but that i think we'll see temperatures drop sunshine to the south as you can see, sunshine through most of the mediterranean boat fortuna 0. now jerry, the still lot you have on shore rain and big chairs will slowly die out over the canary house. now this is the case for thursday and friday, dropping south or into africa. the picture is still one of looking for the big thunderstorms. been a very wet season, was flooding in nigeria and the share chad sudan all over the place. writes us to

help, and it's still going. and every now again, that rain becomes a big clump as far north as banjo and winds up into a hurricane. ah, the welcome a with canada, a us mexico, puerto rico, a on al jazeera. ah

ah, the watching or does it remind her of her top stories this are hundreds of russian and ukrainian soldiers have been released and a prisoner swamp. 10 foreigners fighting for ukraine have also been freed through a deal mediated by saudi arabia or un backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by the loss of island cml rouge leader. the court in cambodia is upheld the genocide conviction and life sentence added to 91 year old to some fun in 2018 lebanese banks will remain shot indefinitely after at least 7 were held out last week by people trying to access those savings. a woman who held up a bank in beirut with a toy, gunners told journalists, she's not a criminal. seller huffy says she needed to withdraw money to pay for her sisters.

cancer treatment banks and lebanon have restricted withdrawals since 2019 due to a foreign currency shortage. lab owns prime minister as, as, as administrations working on financial and legal solutions to tackle the cookie can on a crisis. nancy ma hottie made the comments at the un general assembly officer yaki is you would wanna settle as much claudia, to address the economic crisis. our government is working on a financial and economic recovery plan. we're also working on a package of comprehensive structural insect oral reforms that meet the requirements of the lebanese people that it also provides them with a social safety net. we are also developing laws that ensure absolute transparency and combat the scores of corruption that let's bring in zenato is joining us live from bay roots. the banks are going to stay shot. how are people reacting to this? a banks are closed, but to a certain extent they are maintaining services. for example,

depositors are able to access money from atm machines, but only in the local currency it's, they're finding it difficult to access dollars. now of course you can access dollars on the, on the black market, but at a much higher exchange rate. as you can see, security measures have been stepped up. it is still not clear what indefinite means . now the banking association is staying there, waiting for quote concrete measures from the authorities to ensure the safety of the employees and the customers. they're saying that they're, they haven't received enough assurances, but the interior minister is saying that he's not advising banks to remain closed. and it is also their responsibility to put in place strict security measures. now the problem is, next week, the public and the private sector employees are supposed to receive their salaries . will there be enough cash in those atm machine when, when, when that happens,

or will people still not be able to access dollars because people are given a certain amount of money in dollars. strict rules really have been put in place capital controls since late 2019. and that is why depositors are so angry. they say that they're desperate, they're desperate for their savings because the economy has all bought the collapse . many people are not finding any, any jobs, and they really blame the banks of who are imposing these controls on the citizens and not on politicians who they accuse of transferring billions of dollars outside the country. santa thank you very much and he's in a halter. bringing yourself to date from beirut or color is making a comeback in syria. the world health organizations reported at least 23 deaths in the past 3 weeks. the un agencies says the source of the outbreak is likely to be the euphrates river, which runs from the turkish to the iraqi borders. millions of people rely on the

river for drinking water crop irrigation. the u. s. says river levels are dropping in drive like conditions leading to build up of sewage and pollution when it's bring in. and dr. armand alman, danny, his regional director for the eastern mediterranean a world health organization he's just returned from visiting siri. and he's joining us now from co very good to have you so on al jazeera and can we just be get some clarification if you can on the number of people who've been affected by this. and the last figure we had was over 23. i was wondering what you were hearing. thank you very much for giving me the opportunity. and as you have mentioned a little that i haven't, i completed a 3 days mission tool. silly. i just came back yesterday and when it comes to colorado, as you have mentioned, you know, and comp it numbers wise at darrow are 253 cases. have been concurrent of having cholera, according to statistics that we have so far as they are a 5 to a 23 deaths. but um,

you know, the said are wanted cases and i mean, no caller id bought it in 6 out of the 14 men governor. it's in the country as you have the idea also mentioned, you know, it is linked to with the drinking water that you know, the quality of the drinking water from untreated sources. and at the same time, also it is linked to a consuming, contaminated food due to irrigation and unsafe water. so it is really a very serious situation and that's why in fact, when we're doubled out, you have been stepping in from the 1st moment. this is sort of a cool, totally daily habit aborted this a lot. and whatever it river levels have dropped in the past. how does this situation compared to previous circumstances when the river water has fallen? exactly. i mean the, in the boss do, you know, we used to have the, at least the basic infrastructure built. like, for example, let get think, you know, clean the sources of water and busy week system is their own most,

you know, to deal with these sort of changes. but now it does say, you know, 20 years of war led into the destruction of the infrastructure. and, you know, the economic status of the community there is really, very bad will be what cannot tolerate buying. so for example, you know, our clean water cannot tolerate to buy ink a or having healthy lifestyle, including in the food. in addition to that, you know that there is no electricity, you know, your regular interruptions, so that the war affected all aspects of life. you know, including the infrastructure, like alex's electricity, water, there's you, system, which has an impact on the health system as a home in general. and vent status of the people is the health system in syria able to cope if these numbers start to increase because office as you were talking about, the war has had a significant impact on the medical facilities that are available in the syria. a

definitely it will not be able to cope alone. you know, that's why i'm not sure i've been calling a, you know, authority in the government to deal with this outbreak. or, i mean, this did sort of disease it with the concept of the own of government and the own of society. in addition to that, you know, silly unknown, regardless of it, as the resources will not be able to deal with such, you know, crisis, it has to be supported by the international community. that's why w show, in fact, from day one they have mentioned, i've been working closely with dental authorities and with one agencies, language agencies, donors, i'm partners and women will ice resources for 3 days, 4 days back. you know, we managed to get this applies for the owner of the 30 tons. and yesterday we manage to get the secondino supplies of 50 tons. this will definitely enable dental authorities to didn't. and 3, for example, 2000 corner cases, it would be able to deal with the almost $200000.00 acute, what's already diarrhea. and we started training gay, you know, these response teams at the central and governor governor. it's living our android

and are teams in the country as so we have been providing to, you know, community awareness programs with unicef and other on agencies. he mentioned before that they contaminated water was also being used to irrigate crops as well. how concerned are you that this is going to make its way into the food chain and you basically have to wait until there are more rains or somehow the water level rises in the river. exactly. that is dory, in fact and, and, and they give the authorities, they are, you know, as i said, i was there every north for 3 days. they have the brought it did, they was off say for exam, believe that they get happens and thoughts on the sort of things they have, but limitations or response to ensure that, you know, food is really clean to avoid any sort of algebraic outside the areas and content that is his daughter, amanda armonk, hardy, regional director for the eastern mediterranean at world health organization. so we

appreciate your expertise. thank you very much. indeed for genius. uncle wiggly the u. s. central banks raised interest rates to the highest level in almost 15 years. as it tries to bring inflation under control, the key rate jumped by 3 quarters of a percentage point taking the target range to be between 3 and 3.25 percent. hydro castro reports from washington, d. c. u. s. central bankers announced the federal funds, interest rate will increase buying another 3 quarters of a percent. for the 3rd time in a row, it was an aggressive the widely expected move in an effort to bring down stubbornly, high inflation. still soaring at above 8 per cent. a 40 year high and the u. s. the price of gas is down across the country. but in nearly every other category, the cost of living like food, medical care and rent remains high me while the job market is strong with the unemployment rate at just 3.7 percent. federal reserve chairman jerome powell

signal that the central bank will continue to tighten its monetary policy despite the risk of economic pain in the form of job losses, or even a recession down the road. no one knows whether this process will lead to a recession or if so, how significant that recession would be. that's gonna depend on how quickly wage in price inflation, inflation pressures come down, whether expectations remain anchored. and whether you also do, we get more labor supply, which would help as well. the u. s. federal reserve says it will likely raise interest rates at least another 2 times before it's done. that's while central banks around the world are taking similar measures. despite this week's warning from the world bank that these synchronized moves could trigger a global recession. indigenous groups in australia been holding rallies, and several cities calling for the monarchy to be abolished. organized to say they're taking a stand against crimes committed against 1st nations people. they're calling for the return of land and recognition of the atrocities against indigenous australians

. during british rule, the protests are happening as the from it observes a national day of mourning for britney's queen elizabeth the 2nd sarah clark has more from cambra. we had the national memorial service behind me in parliament house. that was this morning that started with a minute sonnets. it was led by these trailing prime minister anthony albanese and was attended by a politician's dignitaries, diplomats, and some invited guests. now that was official proceedings to night at the national day of mourning. it's a public holiday here as well on thursday in australia, but outside and around the capital cities of estrella. we have these abolished the monarchy. i gatherings and these are being led by indigenous australians and they calling for the past atrocities to be acknowledged. the demonstration is against a racist colonial imperialism in the 1st nations. people are driving that movement . they sign the injustice of the past have not been dealt with. and at the time under the monarchy has represent a valid part of our history. the cleans death has re ignited that debate about

australia's future. under monica, you might recall in 1999. the last referendum we had on whether or not the strategy should become or a public. a stallions voted overwhelmingly to cape the monarch. at one poll, the most recent poll that was conducted nationwide suggested 46 percent of australian population. i wanted to amend the constitution and abandon our links with king charles and the monarchy. but certainly at the moment how the support is still lay at to maintain or to continue to be a constitutional monarchy. estrella. that's certainly what the, the polls are indicating, but the conversation has definitely started about stratus future. nearly 200 wales stranded on a beach in australia have died. the positive pilot whales was found on the remote west coast to touch many on wednesday. 35 of the mammals survived rescue operations under way to get them back into the c. more than $1000000.00 households in the netherlands are struggling to pay energy bills that have doubled,

or tripled and recent months. increasingly, people have decided to cut themselves off from gas, even the winter is coming. benevolence has the highest gas prices in europe. a step fossil reports. the only gas, wilma, a still uses, is for the t lights used for info via stove. the tara quarter pots retain heat, which helps keep her a little warmer. as the cold weather approaches, the shop owner decided to have her gas cut off after her bill double to $345.00 a month with a warning from her provider that it could reach 700 dollar and out of ankle. and he said he'll buy home. my shop has hardly any income. i lost customers during the curve at 19 pandemic. and now inflation is so high. people don't have money to buy children's clothes. so my income has really dropped below minimum. i know i can't pay these high energy bills while it's getting colder in her house behind these doors, millions of cruise antonyms are thriving in warm temperatures,

but greenhouse farmers depend on gas to continue operating during winter, and many have decided to stop the flowers and thank the bulls in the next few months, something that could seriously affect dutch exports. normally, if we have like every, like 10 percent or cost, no problem, but there's now like $10.00 times more than 2 years ago. it's crazy. in this way, if nobody can survive, no company, no people with a household, no nobody with new techniques that use less fossil fuel flowed to divers st. hope to be able to continue his business. although he's worried that the prices of flowers will climb so high that the month will dry up that pay twice as much forget about your opinions. you to have the energy tax and dependence on gas to generate electricity. and while other you members have kept their energy prices to dodge government is being accused of doing too little. too late for testers,

carry in flags upside down boot royal family oper. king william alexander delivered his annual budget address, promising a price cap on energy, an $18000000000.00 to compensate poor families. a recent survey to jeff at 7 and 10 dodge citizens have lost trust in the government. if you get problems of whether you can pay your food in energy because that's where you're talking about, even if they work full time, if they can still bay the basic necessities then. yeah, that's the best way for voting. trusting your own government for the opposition party, saying that the governments a package has not been thought through and fear won't be enough to keep the country warm this winter. and that plant to support entrepreneurs to keep the businesses running, to fake and have come too late. that fast and al jazeera hooks on holland than adults. ah.