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the u. s. threatening new sanctions against moscow, as ukraine says, people in russian controlled areas are forced to vote in succession referendums. ah mccloud, this is out there. a life relatives grieves at least 77 people die in the boat capsized of syria. they were fleeing leopards, economic crisis. thousands of government supporters take to the streets in iran and counter demonstrations after days of protests or for the death of a woman in police. custody and independent investigation finds that social media, john matter sense of palestinian and arabic content through the $2021.00 a wall. so ukrainians reporting that armed soldiers be gained door to door, getting people to vote on whether or moscow controlled regions of eastern and

southern ukraine should formerly join russia. officials say some residents have been threatened with punishment if they don't vote. referendums are taking place over 5 days in law, hence the nets, the preacher and castle. they cover about 15 percent of ukraine's territory cave in its western allies. so the vote is a sham and an unlawful land grab carol it is under reports now from the ukrainian capital in the den esque region of ukraine, a russian appointed election official tours, a polling station. this is one of 4 regents where people are voting to join the russian federation, the young girlfriend also it's young. we grant the right to vote to all citizens of a donita people's republic as well as abroad. becky is where you put you in a nearby park. people under the watchful eye of the russian state. say they welcome the referendum for sierra. russia has always been our mother let. without it, we had no one left ukraine abandoned us long ago. languishing, yes, you must have us. there. no international lecture monitors,

only those invited by russia. media have been tightly controlled. many western analysts say it's nothing more than an exercise by the kremlin to shape how people think about russian occupied parts of ukraine. look, this is no referendum, this is no expression of will do, but at the same time, they want to say face a meaning, getting observers meaning, filming stories of work when voting of pulling stations, the protocols being written and so on. this is kind of an invitational democracy bottle where pictures are important in some areas can russian installed officials said they would be going door to door with police to invite residents to vote. critic say it's clear intimidation. under international law. it is illegal to hold referendums during conflict and where people are under threat. most countries, as well as international bodies, such as the european union and united nations,

have said they won't recognize the results. the head of ukraine's election commission has told us the vote violates the institution received. there was a rip, there are no legal mechanics in the ukrainian constitution to give up territories. this is completely unconstitutional under martial law that we live under. now. it is prohibited by ukrainian laws to organize any referendum on our lands. in 2014, russia held a referendum in crimea, in which it alleged 96 percent to the people voted to join the federation. 5 days later, the annexation of crimea was signed into law. it now appears that same process is happening again. but in a much larger area, in the middle of a war, and with more at stake for both ukraine and russia. gabriel, it's on doe al jazeera keith. well to get a sense of how people on the ground,

a feeling about the referent themselves or whatever. having traveled to the crating control part of the dynette screeching in these. and she brings us this report from a near pop rock, which is close to the front line. it is difficult to get the full picture of how is this referendum that was only called for about 3 or 4 days ago. how in the, in that short span of time, they were able to put all of that together specially that is happening in 4 different regions in the south and the east of the country. now from what we understand and from the limited information we're getting in some areas like in his own, for example. and apparently, according to the governor of lugens, the ukrainian governor of lou ganske day, people are going around with these ballad boxes, 2 flats, 2 houses, telling people to vote. he says that there's also a lot of intimidation that whoever says no, then has his name registered in

a different note book for further repercussion. so it seems that you know, people are either staying at home because after all, this is a referendum that is happening in a war zone and the shelling is continuing or people simply don't want to vote that a few people who are left because you have to remember that by and large, the populations as civilians in those areas have fled because of the danger of being there because of the explosions because of the war. and many of us told us also because they did not want to live under russian occupation. now anyone i spoke to was coming out from those regions to me that they believed anyway that the result will be yes. i didn't believe that they would be a vote. they said that we haven't even heard about it. no one came to tell us, there were no preparations, nothing under ground. the u. s. as it's prepared to impose more sanctions on russia if it moves to annex pulse of ukraine. a white house correspondent,

kimberly health reports now from washington. d. c. the white house calling the referendums, shands and illegitimate. now it is the belief of the white house, according to white house press. secretary, korea, jean pierre, that these will be manipulated in terms of the results. as a result, the white house will not accept the outcome of these referendums, and also they believe that they will very much be manipulated. now we can tell you that as a result, the white house has decided in consultation with allies to impose economic penalties. but the weight has not saying specifically what those penalties will be . we do know, however, that this comes on the heels of escalating rhetoric from vladimir putin, the russian president who has threatened to use nuclear weapons. and we, i also know that the white house has set at this time, that it is not adjusting its nuclear posture,

its own nuclear posture in response. or you investigate to say they found evidence rush, committed, war crimes, intern trees that occupied in ukraine early this year. investigate is visited at $27.00 towns graves and detention centers around northeast and ukraine, and interviewed a $150.00 victims and witnesses. team says it found crimes of rape, torture and children being detained. violations happened around keep chinese khaki and sue me. the crane is downgrading diplomatic ties with iran for allegedly providing russia with attack drones of president vladimir zalinski says iranian drones were used and strikes in odessa and elsewhere on friday at around has denied supplying the drones to russia. absolutely. with louis smith, mid air. we are instructed the minister of foreign affairs to strongly react to this facts. the world will know about every instance of collaboration of evil, and it will have corresponding consequences. besides this,

all the forces of the air command center down the russian assault jet and a helicopter to day while, and just now i'm being told by the downing of another. iranian strike drawn by air defenses of the south command scenes. not at least that 77 people trying to migrate to europe, have died off their boat capsized off the coast of syria. rescuers did manage to save more than 20 the migrants, but many more are still missing. survivors told officials a boat left from northern level and on choose day and was bound for europe. lebanon is seeing a rise in migration in recent years with a growing number of lebanese syrians and palestinians trying to flee the country by sea. ah, marching, magical had a little al, a matter that there is no more fear. your meat just feeding away. let the fish just eat us. it's better than living here. those in charge are eating us alive here. the shakes the different palestine infections, the un, these no one is just the people around you here, but no one to support us. well,

lebanon has been in the grip of a mounting economic meltdown since 2019, the crisis pushing more than 75 percent of the population into poverty was in a hot, has been speaking with a family members of some of the victims and sent this report from northern lebanon . emily sam is in shock for sons family was on the boat that sunk off the syrian coast on thursday. they have buried 9 year old me, and 6 year old maya. but there are 2 brothers and mother are still missing. it really didn't them, they brought me the 2 kids did. what about the others? will they bring the others to me? i can't say more than this. my heart is broken. it's the deadliest migrant both tragedy and living on in years. passengers were hoping to reach europe and a better life. families and friends waited at the border with syria as the dead. and few survivors were brought home. not all were lebanese,

some were palestinian and syrian refugees, but all share the same story. one of poverty and desperation telephone number, the law if i get the chance, i will lease if there is a boat here right now, i will get on with my 2 children and i am the one i've been at. lebanon's economy began to spiral 3 years ago. the political elite blame for decades of mismanagement and corruption have still not agreed on a recovery plan. and i know she was out of poverty is what pushed with some to sell a property and his house to go on the boat and then he lost his wife and children. our government doesn't care about the people and they're living conditions. oh, just a few months ago, a migrant boat sank well being pursued by the lebanese navy. thousands of people drowned. many of them are still missing with some risk, everything knowing that there was a 70 percent chance the boat with the sink. that's how desperate he was football.

many of those who attempt a journey or from the impoverished norse, which has been neglected by successive governments. despite the dangerous migrants continued to leave from the shores of northern lebanon, the united nation says the number of people who departed or tried to has nearly tripled since 2020. it says so far this year. the number is nearly 3500. but security sources tell us that's a conservative estimate and it's no longer just young people. whole families are trying to escape what many hearsay is a hopeless situation. center for their al jazeera, northern lebanon. aaron's army is warning that it will confront what it calls enemies as protest continue after the death of 22 year old women in police custody masa. i mean, it died last week after big arrested by the so called morality police for religiously violating the countries headscarf policy or on state tv is reported that at least 26 people have been killed during young rest. well,

pro government counter protests have also been taking place across iran. the rating government says these support rallies were spontaneous so had her anal 0 pound plunges on the u. k. government gambles and sweeping tax cuts were rescued economy from recession. ah hello there, let's look to north america. i'm. we're watching a hurricane fiona, as it works its way north out to see across the east coast of the us aiming for east in canada. now before we look at that, let's have a look across the u. s. and things are looking at much calm and tara across more sensual areas. temperatures have been yo yoing down and back up again for the likes of kansas city, much of the wet to where that can be found from the cold front,

working its way across the great lakes and joining up with that system. now this could become the worst storm to hit this region of canada. since records began, we're talking hurricane force winds, as well as very rough seas and large amounts of rain. we are expecting damage and we have got warnings out here that system weakening, but still bringing those conditions to newfoundland and labrador, certainly by sunday. now elsewhere we are seeing a lot of heats across more southern states, places like houston and new orleans seen attempt just continue to pick up as we move to central america, it's getting wet for the likes of jamaica. thanks to a wet and wendy system. that swirling its way towards the north north bringing heavy rain here and likely to work its way towards cuba that to weather update. ah.

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reported the soldiers have been going towards door getting people to vote on where the fortified regions of eastern and southern ukraine to join. the russia keep says a vote through sherman and unlawful. landra ne, seventies of migrants were killed when the vessel capsized off the coast to syria. deleting crises had 11 or 20 people, been rescued, but many more still missing. the arabian army is warning that it will confront political enemies as most my protest continue of the death of a woman in police custody. while so many died last week has to be arrested for allegedly violating countries, had got policy. well, b, c, e o of space ex mosque says it will activate it. satellite, incidence of a stalling in iran, that soft of u. s. government announces easing export restrictions to help improve internet access and help people avoid state surveillance to run has limited internet services is protest spread across the country, wasn't jordan, it's more not from washington dc. the u. s. government has announced that it is

going to try to make it easier for iranians to do just that by imposing what they're calling a general license to make it possible for attack companies based both here in the us and overseas to provide this sort of software. these sorts of platforms and other material to iranian citizens so that they can not only access the internet, but a try to do so without being detected by the iranian authorities. this is everything from cloud based platforms, to social media platforms, to virtual private networks, or v p ends all of this sort of technology that has really developed in recent years. the u. s. is allowing these companies to make this kind of of equipment and software available without running the risk of being sanctioned by the us treasury department. now it's fortuitous that this announcement is coming right now in the days after the death of mos on nini. but

u. s. officials have told reporters that they were working on this policy with tech companies for the past us several months, really trying to get a sense of what was available, what could be provided, and what things needed to be put into place in order to make it possible for these tech companies to provide these services to iranian citizens. or a las vegas home, we can bring in jim addison. he's a technology analyst joins us now from new york in the u. s. a job. welcome to the program. good to have you. first up, could you explain practically how this works? how, how does an easing export restrictions help improve internet access and iran? well, i can explain it if you have 3 or 4 hours. but to give you the very short version a minute, this thing is complicated, right? exactly, the internet is a very complicated thing at the connection of wires and cables, and routers, and devices and software. and that's even,

that's just terrestrial. now we're just talking about startling, you've got satellites and receivers. so the short way to understand this is there's a tremendous amount of complexity and when you impose something like export controls, as the u. s. has done, you very much locked down a whole lot of things, whether those are what you intended to lock down or not. i think it's fascinating though that the u. s. is now saying, we want to ease that. we want to try to allow the internet to be in the hands of the people and it's obvious why they would like to do that. and so i think the practical implications is something like star link, which involves satellites of course, that are up in the sky. but also receivers on the ground. now you're starting to think about ok, things that might not have been possible before with the export controls. now may be possible, and that's very much something that the u. s. government is going to want to encourage, you know, citizens to be able to get, get information at a time when they are, there is certainly protesting what the government is doing. so it just means that people on the ground can access platforms, say like instagram, that they otherwise wouldn't be able to because the government has shut it down.

well, whether they can or not. i mean, then the technical question in a legal question, what the export controls and by the way, when you're talking about export controls on the other side, you have import controls. so, you know, whatever the iranian government has done or will continue to, to do it remains to be seen. but it's, it's like a cat and mouse game. what you do is you ease the export control and say, i want to put the equipment in the hands of the citizen, say, a star link receiver or some other kinds of routers, or other internet equipment that was illegal before this to be exported by u. s. companies, but now it's legal now it may still be illegal in iran because they operate under a different set of laws obviously. so that's the cat and mouse game. and i would expect to see i ran start to try to counter those kinds of things and then the u. s . will counter the counter moves so it very much ends up being a cat or mouse game, whether any individual citizen is able to look at instagram on any given day or any given device. that's very much an open question, but clearly what we're trying to do here is fight

a battle effectively over access to information. the u. s. would like for access to be more open. iran, at least at this point in time, would like for it to be more restrictive. yeah. because platforms like in scram become kind of the virtual st. they say. so shutting it down places down channel. so protest. oh, absolutely. it's part of the authoritarian playbook, right. if you, if you've got an authoritarian government regime, you're going to want to constrict access to information. that's why it used to be in the authoritarian playbook. the 1st thing you would do is go take over the radio and the tv stations that may still be in the playbook. i'm not familiar with that playbook entity detail. but now the internet is clearly a different kind of vehicle. you can, you can access the internet from your phone, you can access it from a, from the satellite by a satellite receiver. you can access it over the terrestrial phone lines. and so it's one of the harder things to restrict whereas before, if, if you wanted to restrict access to television, you go take over the television station, you can control what's being said, you can't do that on the internet. so it's a very significant challenge for any kind of authoritarian government to try to

restrict that internet and then the corresponding applications, whether it be instagram or twitter, facebook or any of those kinds of things. they're all your different platforms with different types of content. and also also returning governments want to control cyberspace and the physical space. and in this case, it's not just about the internet alone is it is, was about surveillance and censorship. or without a doubt, i mean, so now you're getting into another layer which is ok. i want to see as an authoritarian government who is accessing what, who are the instigators? who are the insiders, who's organizing the protests and the rallies, who's accessing the information? i don't want them to. and so now we get into an issue of privacy, and i mean, that's a big topic on social media. well, outside of iran, right now, if you're on twitter and you're anonymous, should you be allowed to be anonymous on twitter? there's a lot of reasons why that's a bad thing in terms of, if i'm publishing hate speech or illicit content or things like that that people don't want. but if you imagine, if i happen to be a citizen and iran and i have

a twitter handle and i'm anonymous, a, i have a very strong interest and very self interested reason to want to remain anonymous . and that's that tension between privacy and, you know, accountability for, you know, people should stand behind and be able to name be named with the content that they're associated with. that sounds really good and a free and open 5. it does not sound so good in the fight like around. that's a pretty good job in 4 minutes. madison appreciate that. thanks very much. thank you. now policy and president, margaret vasquez used his address to the general assembly to challenge the us to prosecute those who killed delta to join us through our workload to michelle. it's while on assignment in the occupied west bank in may. an independent forensic investigation found that israeli soldiers deliberately kilter israel denies that. look on the top, you have all heard of sharina of acclaim, and that she was shot and killed by a sniper, the sniper, deliberately kilter,

and israel recognized that the sniper killed her, and as well as her palestinian nationality. he was also an american citizen. idea of the united states to prosecute those who have killed this american national, but they weren't. why? because they really got an independent audit of social media. john meta has found that services facebook and instagram home the rights of palestinians report investigated matters handling of content. during the 2021 garza war and orders is found that facebook deleted more arabic posts than hebrew ones. it also restricted content with a hash tag. i'll accept because it's the name of an on palestinian group, but it's also one of miss lambs. earliest sites. i met initially blamed a software malfunction, but later added that there was human error last year and oversight board recommended a review ard to face, but remove the post sherry and al jazeera story. during the 2 week war digital

rights group, humbler found that from 500 instances where content was taken down, 85 percent was removed by facebook and instagram. many more were labeled insensitive and last year in gram apologize for removing a picture of a passport belonging to the father of american palestinian supermodel. bella had deed that listed his birthplace as palestine, but eliza campbell is the former director of cybersecurity and emerging technology program in the middle east institute. and she says, the report shows that discrimination is systemic on matters platforms. this really just confirmed findings that activists and journalists in, in our own palestine have been telling us for on, upwards of a decade at this point. and so in many ways, i think this is really just showing us what we already know. but it is validating to understand that this is something systemic and i am excited by the idea that we're starting to consider some of the linguistic implications of discrimination on matters. platforms matter is incredibly non transparent about the nature of its content moderation system. this is the system of human,

an algorithmic actors that's responsible for flogging and deleting posts that end up getting taken down. and we simply don't know enough about how they work to really know whether this was an intentional or unintentional, technically. but what i would say, and what many palestinian activists and journalists, human rights groups have said repeatedly, is that you know, at some point if you're making the active choice as meta is being such an enormous company with so many resources not to invest and really taking the seriously not just an arabic language, which is systemically and discriminated, and you know, translated in really poor ways over time and in other languages as well. that shows where your priorities are. and that shows that you're intending to not take something seriously and intending not to make investments in things that really impacts people's lives and safety. so to me that is intentional. in some ways, the british pound has sunk to a 37 year low against the dollar off to the u. k. government, emergency budget in response to the rising cost of living. i faucet, is this report now from lot gum and call this a fiscal event as opposed to

a budget, which means that it didn't require the kind of independent analysis and to what it would do to public finances, but it might otherwise have needed. but whatever you call it, this is a massive change to the regular way of doing business. when it comes to fiscal and economic policy, the government says that is what's required. old orthodoxies need to be challenged in order to stimulate growth. that is how we will deliver higher wages, greater opportunities, and crucially, mr. radio fund, public services. yeah. now and into the future. that is how we will compete successfully with dynamic economies around the world. and that is how mister speaker, we will term this vicious cycle of stagnation into a voucher cycle of growth just over 2 weeks in office. and this new government is making pledges on spending and taxation and borrowing on a historic scale. the chancellor said that the already announced assistance for household energy bills would cost in the region of $66000000000.00 us dollars. but

that is just an estimate. and it's just for the 1st 6 months, there are many analyses that suggest over time, it could go north of a $100000000000.00. as for the new taxation announcements, they're going to cost some $50000000000.00 us dollars and they'll be heavily weighted in favor of the highest honors. the basic rate of contacts will come down by a percentage point that talk rate for those earning more than a $168000.00 us dollars a year. that is to go entirely, the prime minister less trust says she's not overly worried about redistributing wealth. she is worried about growing the economy, the target 2.5 percent a year up from the current negative 0 point one percent. the opposition labor party says that the plans aren't fair and they won't work. but so achieve that sort of road and for that sort of growth to be sustainable in need a credible plan. and the truth is that this government does not have won the prime minister and chancellor, i like to desperate gamblers in a casino saying

a losing run all of this to be paid for by government borrowing at a time when government borrowing is getting only more expensive than the bank of england says it could also stimulate inflation re pressure, but it's been trying to fight through interest rate rises. so as a potential for a tug of war between the central bank and the government. the orthodox economists that the chancellor has been so publicly calling out, or also striking back one former bank of england policy chief, the sayings could end in tears. this could end in a run on the pound that hasn't been seen since the 19 seventy's. and indeed, the pound has dipped significantly since the chancellor spoke inside the house of commons. a government has been elected by a few tens of thousands of conservative party members is making very big changes to the way economic policy works in this country. mistakes are extremely high read. hearken, warnings are in place for is in canada forecast to say, hearken, fiona could bring extreme winds and a large storm surge when it makes landfill. the storm has already cost lives and cause widespread damage across the caribbean. medical hypothesis. hurricane fiona

made 1st landfall in puerto rico, last sunday, where half of the u. s. territory is still without power. it marched over the dominican republic, destroying homes and businesses, as it went. then brushed the bahamas and sweat by bermuda on friday. and now it's on track to make a very rare hit on eastern canada total rainfall amounts. again, we're looking at some of the same numbers we were looking at yesterday with the 10250 was some localized amounts that could exceed honored and 15. and the gray area that you see on the map here in nova scotia is for, for areas that potentially could exceed a $150.00 millimeters. currently a category for storm it may lands a post tropical storm bringing potentially dangerous storm searches wins and likely massive power outages. people shouldn't.