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ah for you on general. assembly votes, a $143.00 to $5.00, with $35.00 abstentions to condemn russia's annexation of full ukrainian regions. ah, i money inside this is out there, lie from doe house of coming up us radio show host alex jones must pay almost a $1000000000.00 to families of victims of the sandy hook mass shooting for his lie that the masika was a hoax. you energy minutes does fail to agree in a strategy for storing gas prices. as russian president vladimir putin blames europe of the crisis. and hell, the fatal play some shooting of innocent blackman chris comma by london's

metropolitan police means a new low confidence. hello, welcome. the un general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's moved to annex parts of ukraine. 143 countries voted in favor of a resolution that reaffirms ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. and the 4 countries joined russia in voting against it. those were syria, nicaragua, north korea, and bella, bruce that he 5 abstained. that's including russia strategic partner china. kristen salumi has more from the u. n. a new york. well, this is the 4th vote in the general assembly since russia invaded ukraine on the situation in ukraine in this one past, with the most support of any of the prior resolutions. it's an attempt by ukraine and it's backers to keep russia under pressure. keep the spotlight on the country

and show that it's isolated on the international stage. there were some abstentions 35 of them. that's similar to the right previous votes among the abstentions to very large and influential countries. china and india. china said that of the resolution reflected a cold war mentality and in their view, was not conducive to bring the parties together for peace talks. but the united states and other countries that back ukraine said that quite simply, this is a matter of preserving international law. and the un charter arm message is loud and clear. it does not matter if you as a nation or big or small rich or poor, old or new. if you are a you and member state your borders are your own and are protected by international law. they cannot be redrawn by any one else by force. well,

this is certainly a morally significant victory for ukraine, but the general assembly doesn't have the same weight of international law behind it that the security council would, in a similar resolution condemning the illegal annexation of these 4 areas in ukraine, failed in the security council. because of russia's veto. so it's worth pointing out that back in 2014 when russia annexed you a crimea, a similar situation evolved here at the united nations where a resolution failed in the security council, but then was passed in the general assembly in that case, by 100 votes so it's a moral victory, but it doesn't have the weight of international law. a jury in the u. s. has ordered the right wing conspiracy theorists, alex jones to pay almost a $1000000000.00 in damages of to falsely claiming that the 2012 sandy hook school

shooting was a hugs. the radio host who founded the website info i was claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away americans gums. he's been ordered to pay damages to families of 8th of the $26.00 victims. the fail move that i've been associated with for 10 years through this tragedy. are new worlds. beautiful people you'll ever encounter in their children. if your mom's in their wives even was beautiful, people you could ever get to know. oh, i can really say is that i'm just now that what we're able to accomplish is just to simply tell the truth and it shouldn't be this hard. it should be the scary. a jury representing our community in our nation rendered a historic verdict, a verdict. it is alex jones's lies in their poisonous spread and averted for truth

for common humanity. for over a month in this poor house, this jury bore witness to alex jones 10 year attack. okay, less tend to rosalind jordan, our correspondent, live in washington. d. c. was and how did the jury reach this figure of almost a $1000000000.00? well, you have to go back to this past summer when the judge in the case issued a summary of finding that alex jones was in fact guilty of defamation. and that's because he basically flowed at the courts rules. he did not make available his financial records and other material to comply with the conduct of the trial. so the judge found him guilty. and after 3 weeks of testimony, the jury decided that the families did not deserve the $550000000.00 that they had requested in their law suit. they decided that these families deserved much more

money, $965000000.00. now what this means is, is that they will defied the funds are not equally. there's also an f b i agent who is also going to get about 10 percent or so of the money that i was awarded. but because the state of connecticut where this trial took place doesn't place a limit on the amount of punitive damages in civil law suit. that's really how the jury got to this figure. they basically said, we need to send a message. it was a very immersive trial, wasn't it? some hot breaking stories being were counted of how families is sandy hooks. victims had been harris years as a result. if alex jones lies, what was the reaction from the plaintiffs to the jury's decision? well, as we all saw from a couple of, of the plaintiffs after wednesdays of verdict, there's

a real sense that child justice has been achieved, but it doesn't bring about that word closure. these people suffered very, very horrible losses. 10 years ago in december, when the gunman went into their children's elementary school and killed 20 of them, that is a loss that these people say they will never get over, but to hold accountable, those people who doubted the tragedy that happened to them and who essentially turned on them, people who threatened their lives threatened to harm them, threatened to burn down their homes, accused them of lying. they say that this is some justice for the ongoing pain that they have had to endure for the better part of a decade. rosalind jordan that for us live in washington d. c. let's get more on this. we can speak to ronald sullivan, he's director of the criminal justice institute at harvard law school. we joined

this from newton, massachusetts. thank you for your time, sir. nearly a $1000000000.00 in damages. we expecting such a result double what the plaintiffs had requested. i can't say that i expected a $1000000000.00. i expected a really, really big verdict, but this is unprecedented. this is the largest verdict against an individual that i've ever ever seen. so i expect a lot, but not this much. what i find extraordinary is alex jones made millions of dollars over the years falsely describing the shooting is a high accent. keesing, the victims families of being act is complicit in the plot. but there appeared to be questions now around whether he can actually pay out these families. well, i don't have the sense that alex jones is a billionaire. that is, has multi billions of dollars and can actually afford a $1000000000.00 verdict. what will happen though, is that plaintiff's council will go after all the assets that he does have in those

assets will get split up between the parties. the plaintiffs consistent with the way that the jury a rule. so we don't know how much he has. my understanding is that he is a wealthy man, or was a wealthy man. he's an incredible debt now, but that they can do things. an american court system, like i put his house up for sale, sale his cars, a sell his belongings or at work that sort of thing. and then from that they can a mass money to pay the plaintiffs. and what options this whole have. i mean, can he and as low as appeal this without yes, we have several options. first, they will file what's called the motion of remitted tour remitted or is a latin word in the american judicial system. that simply means that the judge can remit or lower the verdict without ordering

a new trial. so you can ask the for this remitted tour on the theory that the verdict is outsized. if that doesn't work, he can ask for a new trial. if that doesn't work, he can appeal in most states and i don't know about connecticut, but in most states you have to put up what's called an appellate bond of around 10 percent. so if he appeals, he will have to put up a lot of money that will sit in escrow until the appeal is resolved. now i don't know if he has a $100000000.00, so he may not be able to may not be able to afford an appeal, but we'll see. but those are his 3 main options at this point. now this child in connect connecticut follows a similar trial in texas back in august and 2 separate path sandy had parents. and that rad james was ordered to pay $49000000.00, which is significantly less than this result. so, so what, why this,

that he's difference in was elf? well, it's a different different jury in this jury wanted to send an unmistakably clear message that what joe's did was not okay. when it comes to a verdict over and above what the plaintiffs ask for a jury's ab enormous discretion. so you can have essentially the same facts presented to different juries in different jurisdictions and get radically different results. that's what happened here. i figured this would be a larger verdict because this is very close in space to where the event happened. this is on their home turf, so to speak. so the wound, i presume, is still quite fresh in the mind. the hearts and the souls of the people in newton in the sandy hook area. so i'm guessing that that had something to do with why the

verdict is so large. and what's the big picture here did is childs and the result of these foul set. any kind of precedent will have a deterrent effect on other can specify i think that you hit the nail on the head with deterrent effect. this message is so loud and so clear that i think it will deter, are not only individuals who have these cookie conspiracy theories, but the networks that promote these theories, they are not immune either. and there are some lawsuits now pending against a few of these networks in the, in the u. s. not necessarily about this issue, but about the voting. a conspiracy issue that president trump, former president trump is champion. but this is a message that jury say, look, we live in a free country where there's freedom of speech and freedom of expression. but what you don't have the right to do is lie and maliciously horen people with your lies

that is actionable. so i think people will think twice and 3 and 4 times before they go off the rails. and the way that alex jones did ronald really good to get your thoughts, ronald sullivan, director of the criminal justice institute and harvard law school now returning to the ukraine war, the country's president has appealed to the international community for more money . the rebuilding after months of russian bombardments. a lot of miss zalinski tell the world bank and the international monetary fund that around $55000000000.00 is needed for reconstruction. and for the countries funding needs and official reports . the recent russian attacks on ukraine hit 12 cities as well as the human course. it's estimated it devastated a 3rd of the countries infrastructure. that'll take money to rebuild,

which is why president vladimir zalinski asked the international financial community to step up as when someone is arrest or she's only me, the more assistance he crane gets. now, the sooner we will come to the end of the russian war, the estimates ukraine will need significant injections of funds just to run the country in 2023 and billions more to rebuild. it. did see a $38000000000.00 to make up for the deficit of our budget for next year, including salaries for doctors and teachers, and other $17000000000.00 to rebuild critical infrastructure schools, hospitals, critical transport and energy infrastructure. and also housing in the united states has already pledged $15000000000.00 in support for ukraine and the international monetary fund hosting this meeting on ukraine with the world bank says, understands the urgency of action. our team is going to be with ukrainian

a team immediately after daniel meetings to determine the macroeconomic framework and also what that would mean in terms of budget that he implications. our preliminary estimate is that somewhere between 2, a sorry tree and $4000000000.00 are necessary on a monthly basis. the ukrainian economy has been devastated by the war with russia g d, p gross domestic product, which is the normal way to judge the financial strength of a country is don't buy more than 30 percent inflation. the cost of goods is soaring and there is unemployment because 47 percent of companies have closed their door. the international financial community is aware of the impact, the war is having globally. and it sees the needs to help you cream to bring stability back for it. seek. and there's alan fisher out is europe at the i m. f meeting in washington. western allies have vowed to deliver new air defense systems to ukraine as quickly as possible. russia has intensified as strikes across ukraine

in recent days, killing at least 26 people since monday. targets have been mostly civilian infrastructure in 12 cities. the defense systems announcement came from a meeting of nato defense ministers in brussels slats on al jazeera. if they are saying that everybody is the title belt and also taking their belts, greatest in gonna demand change to state mean sales tax pushes many businesses to the bank. ah. hello there. we've got something of a change going on across central parts of north america, easing outs of central canada or rolling down the prairies through the northern

plains, fresh weather tucking in behind. and that will just run its way across the lakes where we will see some very heavy rain for a time. he's inevitable. pennsylvania new york. casing it to new england, ontario, quebec, tony increasingly wet as we go through the next couple of days. there's that fresh weather digging in behind. quite a key northly north west me way, little. even half this one was known as a lazy, wendy won't go round you. this has got to be bitterly cold. and as we go through the next couple of days, temperature struggling to get around 8 or 9 celsius in that brisk when still some went to where the way which was used inside of canada. ne, passive us drying up, brightening up what the u. s. fine. and trying to save it towards the west. not too bad at all. here actually $21.00 celsius there towards the northwestern corner. and we have got some very wet weather. we have a tropical storm car making its way around the by of can patch a. so just to the east of mexico city, some very heavy, right? southern parts of mexico seeing big down poles flooding rise, the possibility of much slides landslide over the next hour. so plenty of showers.

they require south central america elsewhere. it's sonny with frank assessments. if the united states that you're running a good program, why does here to build a nuclear weapon they would assign to view by informed opinions. i believe that armenia and other virginia should have bilateral negotiations. we've been holding that for many time. critical debate is the commonwealth now still something that king charles we'll take in depth analysis of the data global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. ah,

welcome back to watching al jazeera minder on top stories at this hour. the un general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn roches moved annex parts of ukraine. 143 countries voted in favor of the resolution that reaffirms ukraine, sovereignty and territorial integrity was the allies have bound to deliver new ad defense systems to ukraine as quickly as possible. osh has intensified as strikes across ukraine and recent days, killing at least 26 people since monday targets happened mostly civilian infrastructure in 12 cities. the defense systems announcement came from a meeting of nato defense ministers and the conspiracy theorists alex jones has been ordered to pay almost a $1000000000.00 in damages to families of the victims sandy hook school shooting jones off to falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting was

european union energy was ministers, have again failed to agree on a package to tackle high gas prices. 15 member states want the price of wholesale gas to be kept to cross the block. all those want different strategies, including a limits on gas consumption and subsidy packages for businesses and consumers. you are being commissions proposals are due to be unveiled next week, dominate kane has been following the meeting from berlin. the interesting thing coming from this meeting is the unity of purpose that pretty much everyone involved in the meeting said that they wanted to bring to this problem. they all want to try to resolve the issue. they want something to take forward. the european commission says it has proposals to do precisely that we will propose and our proposal and ain't the tougher october. it will consist these kinds of proposals where we have

maximum consent, child support and her and dad. we will see over the weekend how he can proceed escaping the gas for power cannot ation. if this is said at that stage that it can say that does is he, he prod, majority of 5 member state supporting this man. but the problem here is there does appear to be a degree of disagreement, as it were about the nuts and bolts. but clearly the view coming from the european commission at least, is the need to come up with something tangible now, rather than perhaps wait months for winter to take hold and the urgent need for gas, given high prices to become even more of a difficulty for everyone who has been discussing the issue at the summit in prague . russia's president has blamed europe for its energy crisis lad, man,

patience and gas could still be supplied by the noise stream che pipeline. mohammed val has more for moscow. the prisons lodging and put and gave a long speech in front of the year. a conference, sir about a russian russian energy. it's called the russian energy week conference. and he basically said that the energy should be kept away from politics and that the europeans should make sure that without security, there is no continuation of russia, a concentration of supplies of energy from russia to other countries. and but the americans, the ukrainians, and the polish in a he mentioned those 3 countries by name are benefiting from what happened to north stream pipelines. let's listen to more of what he said. rashid mitchell, to dick pasto. russia is ready to start the supplies. the ball is in the e use court. so to say if they want to just let them open the tape and that's it.

but here, we're not restricting any one in any thing, including our readiness to supply additional volumes in the awesome winter period. basically, president putin is a sort of giving suggestions. the prussia is ready to talk again about energy with your 3 europeans. but despite all the problems of saying that energy should, should be kept away from our politics, that it is a quote that it is a completely economic, a project that is a beneficial for the tool sides. they should talk about it separately. russia is ready to talk, and russia is even ready to start in the pumping with gas to western europe. we're through the secondary line of the north stream, number 2, that has not been damaged or, and he's basically saying that this is something that needs to be talked about and to be settled between the 2 sides. if the europeans want to continue to benefit by a russian energy outsource, british prime minister,

less trust has come under fears, criticism from the opposition during her fast prime ministers questions. a p. m. defended had countenance recent mini budget when shook financial markets last week . try san, her finance minister quasi quoting, we forced to you turn on plans to count tax. the high son is for since the economy of he is heading for recession with the latest dates are showing, it shrank by north point 3 percent in august, developed the fatal shooting. if an unarmed black man in london last month lead to large protests and calls for police reform, chris kaba, was killed by an officer at close range. destination is on the way, but trust in london's police force is at an all time low. the buck reports a makeshift shrine at the sight of 24 year old chris cowboys, killing in a case that gripped the british capital. he died from a single shot to the head by a police marksman through a car window at close range. the wrapper and construction worker was unarmed and

weeks away from becoming a father. police say the car was linked to firearms offences, but they weren't given campus name because the car didn't belong to him. the kidding spunk to desperate search for answers from campus family, and calls for criminal charges against the officer who pulled the trigger. that officer has been suspended while the independent office for police conduct carries out a homicide investigation. how can a young man sit in a car on, on the shore, in their head by police while the independent investigation into what happened on this london street continues the killing of chris cabra, his re open questions of police competence, and even allegations of institutional racism. and for others who have lost their loved ones as a result of police action cameras, death is reopened. old wounds. marcy rigs, brother, shaun escaped sir phrenic, died after being restrained in police custody. he was arrested for the theft of

a passport, which was actually his own. and at g. louis whose 23 year old son shanie, died when he was held down by 11 police officers. while he was a patient in a mental health hospital and anna, so santa mother of 17 year old jack, he drowned after being chased into a river by police. yes, the young men have one common thread, none willing to crime. who were ethnic minorities all desperately in need of help? my generation, the oldest and retired and were exhausted. the problem is they're doing it to i youth and so we are double traumatized. why can't the government ceases close to humanity. mustard matter was previously the most senior asian women in the met police before quitting over racist sexist abuse. she's demanding urgent police reform. what happens internally is then replicated externally. so in at sexism, the racism such any that it paths displayed internally certainly does

get carried out into the community. stereotyping in policing, particularly stop and search, particularly when it comes to young. black males is live and kicking and it's very real. the met police and the national police chiefs counsel declined to speech wells on camera. the met police issuing this statement saying we continue to fully support the independent office for police conduct investigation. as they work to establish the facts and try to answer the many questions mister cab, his family and others have around his tragic death. it could be 9 months for investigators to come back with their findings. in that time distrusted the police amongst the city's black communities deepens. while cab has family who view the police body come footage of the killing, continue to demand justice. the park al jazeera london. iranians have kept up protest against the government despite an intensifying crackdown and nearly one month since the death of a woman in police custody, which began the demonstrations. security forces have fire tear gas to try to

disperse protesters in the capital to iran on wednesday. protest to say 22 year old nasa many died after being beaten by morality pennies and not wearing a headscarf properly supreme leader, ayatollah ali. how many has dismissed the nationwide process saying had been planned by iran's enemies trade isn't gonna have been protesting against a new sales tax. many worry they could be driven answer business. gordon robinson has more. the traders in gun is ashanti region are closing up their shops, their ceiling, their stalls with a red band, a symbol of their protest against new taxes. merchant saved the new 18.5 percent b, a t o a value added tax on sales isn't. it was that on one part of government, it target it compounded packet them and it puts us over the paid the

the company government. that's pretty me who isn't commodity to pay the same rate of but the traders were already feelings. we used gun as currency the cd plummeted, 40 percent against the dollar over the past 9 months. it's pushed up the price of imports at a time when inflation is already soaring. food prices have more than doubled in the past year. this week, before we even went to this close down, something was 100, then that's momentum. got us. if one of the been 110, is about 200. how good to somebody in this condition. these stalls are closed in protest, but some may end up closing for good traders worn of knock on effects to the whole infrastructure of food distribution with their man distribute that in the us on through them. and and i said there is a help is to be really helping to set the middle part that is the northern part of ghana and in.