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the un general assembly overwhelmingly condemned moscow's latest annexations in ukraine. only 4 countries spoke with russia. ah, hello, i'm darned, jordan, this is out as they are alive from dell are also coming up. you energy ministers failed to agree in a strategy to bring down soaring gas prices. u. s. radio show host alex jones was pay almost a $1000000000.00 to families of victims of the sandy hook mass shooting to his line . but the massacre was a hoax. and wildlife expert sound the alarm of a massive biodiversity loss. as a new report reveals a steep decline in animal populations.
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the un general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's move to annex spots of ukraine. 143 countries voted in favor of the resolution that reaffirms ukraine, sovereignty and territorial integrity. only 4 countries joined russia and voting against it, syria, nicaragua, north korea, and bella roost. 35 abstained, including china and india. saudi arabia accused by the u. s. of siding with russia of opec oil cuts voted against moscow. kristen slim, he has more from the you. any 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
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very large and influential countries, china and india. china said that the resolution reflected a cold war mentality and 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
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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, middle ukraine's president as appeal to the international community for more money for rebuilding after months of russian bombardment flooding his lensky told the world bank and i m. f. that around $55000000000.00 is needed for reconstruction and for the country spending needs. alan fish a report from washington d. c. the recent russian attacks on ukraine hit 12 cities as well as the human
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cost. 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. when someone is lachelle or she's on the me, the more assistance the ukraine gets. now, the sooner we will come to the end of the russian war yesterday, ukraine will need significant injections of funds just to run the country in 2023 and billions more to rebuild it. see $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. the united states has already pledged $15000000000.00 in support for ukraine and the international monetary fund hosting this meeting on ukraine
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with the world bank says it understands the urgency of action. our team is going to be with ukrainian a team and 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, sorry, $3.00 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 world is having globally, and it sees the needs to help you create to bring stability back for it. seek. and there's, i'll and fisher out is eat up at the i m f meeting in washington,
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e. u. energy ministers that again fail to agree measures to tackle high gas prices . 15 member states want the price of wholesale gas to be kept across the block. but others want different strategies, including a limit on gas consumption and subsidy packages for businesses and consumers. europe, ian commissions proposals are due to be unveiled next week. dominic cane was 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 would propose and our proposal and ain't theater. that october will consist these kind of proposal that we have maximum and some sense child support and her and dad leave it is see over the weekend how he
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can proceed escaping the gas for power generation. if this is said at that stage, that it can say that there's he, he prod, majority of their member states a bug in this me. 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 . the czech republic will turn away russian tourists holding shank and visas issued by any member country measure comes into effect on october 25th. up to $200.00 russian citizens have been entering the country daily since rushes worn ukraine
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started. russian nationals had already been barred from entering poland, finland, and 3 of the baltic states. a during the u. s. as ordered right wing conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay almost a $1000000000.00 in damages for his false claim. that the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. the money's compensation for relatives of the 26 victims and an f. b, i officer who was called to the scene. article hate has the latest latent job in the jury. please listen to your verdict as it has been recorded. they have been through so much the emotions of this moment clear in the court room. the man who publicly denied their children were slaughtered in their classroom, who called them actors, and unleashed his followers to harass them with death threats. that man, alex jones will pay for what he lands damages past future $25000000.00 be a most little disrupt them. the past and future. there are 2000000 600000 jones is
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already facing one judgment for $45000000.00 for this conduct. but this was by far the biggest penalty, $965000000.00 to the families of h students and staff that were killed in their sandy, her classroom. and in f b i agent who was also targeted by jones. i can really just tell them what we are able to accomplish. to simply tell the truth. it shouldn't be this hard isn't very clear during the trial, jones didn't help this case telling the family he's done apologizing. something he defended a fight. of course, i've apologized for passing. i said to her feelings, but i wasn't the 1st person the question. and i apologize, years ago it's estimated jones in his companies are worth between $135.00 and $270000000.00. he is trying to shield his assets by declaring bankruptcy, but that's not always guaranteed to work still and will say this could make future
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conspiracy theorist think before attacking victims of hers a crimes. again, these families last young children see and 7 years old, 6 teachers also died that day. jones was in court that back on the airwaves using this trial to raise money. not for those, he hurt double, but for himself, we're not scared. and we're not going away, and we're not going to stop and literally for hundreds of thousands of dollars, i can keep them in court for years. i can appeal this stuff. we have stand up against this travesty against the billions of dollars a one. it's a joke or so please go to him for war store, dot com, unrepentant still. but now potentially eventually he might pay a very steep price. particle, hain al jazeera washington, but ronald sullivan as a professor of law at harvard. he says it's unlikely alex jones has the funds to pay the damages. plaintiff's council will go after all the assets that he does have
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and those assets will get split up between the parties. the plaintiffs, consistent with the way that the jury a rude. we are several options 1st, they will file what's called a 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 he can ask the for this remitted tor want to theory that the verdict is outside of that doesn't work. you can ask for a new trial. if that doesn't work, he can appeal this jury wanted to send an unmistakably clear message that what joe's did was not okay when it comes to verdicts over and above what the plaintiffs ask for a jury's hab enormous discretion. so you can have essentially the same facts
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presented to different juries in different jurisdictions and get radically different results. so the wound, i presume, is still quite fresh in the mind. the hearts and the souls of the people in newton and the sandy hook area. so i'm guessing that that had something to do with why the verdict is so large conference or break here. not as eric when we come back it be. i think that everybody is that i think i belt and that is not what i think about right isn't gonna demand change after still new sales tax, which is many businesses to the brick and research from sweden that could help farmers around the world across climate change more not ah and tis a patient is rising. and so is the atmosphere. are you ready with
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sponsored my cattle aways? hello, its cooling down nicely now across much of the gals turning a little more pleasant as we go through the next couple of days and temperature struggling. if we can say that to get into the mid thirty's. not too bad at all. look a little further north, we have got some showers just around the black sea around the caspian sea, just around the caucasus. maybe one or 2 there shall sleep cook slipping. a little further south was, as we go through rough friday, maybe those showers just popping up around our media azure by john, maybe into georgia as well, letter, eastern side of but care could see some wet weather. that's certainly the case. a little further west over towards greece, casa northern parts of africa. it's generally fine and try we do still have a little more crowded. northern algeria, northern parts of morocco could see with a bit of wet weather over the next couple of days. central africa saying some heavy showers, we have flooding concerns still in place across parts of southern nigeria. those shall stay in place as we go through were thursday, easing
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a little further westward, running into benny togo, grassy pushing across into we're gonna joining up with a heavy showers that we have just around cameron gabon. where to whether they're into the democratic republic, congo shows they're still around the lake. victoria southern africa is generally dry, although we'll see a little more in the way of re a southern and eastern parts to with sponsored by cat on a ways a country with high youth unemployment. one organization helps turn school children into entrepreneurs who can tell us what i mean by that wide fundraising, empowering them to we cleaned their futures, reduce them out of this sewing machine, learn how to make the best and build more prosperous community. some of them invest the money into other businesses, school from life, uganda, and part of the rebel education series on al jazeera. ah
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ah, welcome back to come out about top stories here. this, our, the, you and general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's move to annex parts of ukraine. 143 countries voted to reaffirm ukraine sovereignty and its territorial integrity. plenty for nation supporting moscow. he claims president as appeal to the international community for more money to rebuild. after months of russian bombardment flooding, nist, lensky told the world bank and i m f that around $55000000000.00 is needed. and conspiracy theorist alex jones must pay almost a $1000000000.00 in damages to families of the victims of the sandy hook school shooting. it's compensation for the lie he'd promoted for years planning the 2012 massacre was now
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a new report from the world. wildlife funds says animal populations around the world have declined sharply over the past 5 decades. it says that overall monitored populations of mammals, birds on phoebe, of reptiles and fish. i've seen a 69 percent drop since 1970 populations in a bio diverse regions of latin america and the caribbean declined by a staggering 94 percent over the same period. alessandra pet reports from chin garza national park in columbia. these are dark times for wild life around the world. the w. w. f latest living planet report says wild animal populations are in sharp decline, and that no worries. the loss or concerning, been in latin american, the caribbean, were monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined by 94 per cent since 1970. the this in one of the most bio diverse regions of the world,
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the accuracy of the region are changing very rapidly. and unless we do something quickly, we can, based on a catastrophe. humans are mostly to blame since 970 the region as seen dramatic habit at last, due mainly to agricultural expansion. the 1st station in the amazon to make space for cattle ranching, straightening the entire world's climate. even here high in the indian mountains, the expansion of the agriculture frontier has greatly impacted the environment potato an onion feels dot the landscape well over 3000 meters of elevation, endangering animals like the spectacle. bear with their silver lining. juggled with dana, this is the player with the anna colloquially known as cardon, is the, and the embarrass main source of food restoration efforts like this when in columbia,
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ching, as a park aim to replace damage environments, but the, the park has prioritize areas that before the coming protected were heavily altered by agriculture and capital, and that haven't been able to recover, learn. we're slowly recovering them now with native plants. similar programs elsewhere as proven successful helping restore once threatened species like guerrillas in africa, and brazil's dollar turtle. it is important to understand that even though the figures of so dramatic and the stakes are so high, we believe that we still have time to make this change the world's leaders that are due to meet at the 15th convention of biological diversity . december. once in a decade, oppertunity experts say to implement those changes before it's too late. allison and the just the king gaza columbia. not
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a fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in london last month lead to large protest, some cause for police reform. chris cabot was killed by an officer at close range. an investigation is now underway, but trust in london's police force is at an all time low. lee bark, a report from london, a makeshift shrine at the sight of 24 year old chris cabbage 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 killing spunk to desperate search for answers from campus family. the cause 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 come a young man similar caught on on the shore in their head by police,
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while the independent investigation into what happened on this london street continues. the killing of chris cabra has 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 sean escapes, a phrenic died after being restrained in police custody. he was arrested for the theft of a passport, which was actually his own energy. 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 fe 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 older retired and we're exhausted. the problem is they're doing it to our youth
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. and so we are double traumatized. why can't the government sink this? where is the humanity? if all police officers had guns, it would be like america because they'd shoot 1st and think after, well, it whether if they think, you know, but they shoot 1st is quite disturbing. they are there to protect themselves. they closed their ranks. they act with impunity. i don't trust them at all. the man police and the national police chiefs council declined to speech wells on camera. the man 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 cabbage, 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
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amongst the city's black communities deepens. while cabbage family who view that police body cam footage of the killing continue to demand justice. the park al jazeera london runners matter as a former metropolitan police officer, she says, minority communities trust the police has broken down. and there's evidence and data to show that if you're black, you're more likely to be stopped and searched on the street more likely to be tailored. because the perception is that black and black young men a more of a threat. and the evidence shows that evidence from the mare's action plan from the i p. c's investigation in 2021 hate him. i see investigation that there's racial profiling and stereotypes because there's a real problem here and they can't be any denials. you can change the leadership that doesn't change the problem. and the problem is embedded. it's within the systems and processes. something has to be done and what does it take?
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we've had review after review. first was about the 30 years go, you know, 23 years and the macpherson report that was the public inquiry. you've had the law me review that looked at injustices within the criminal justice system, barrenness mcgregor smith, another review making recommendations. and we've also got to the race action plan that's been put together by the college of policing and the national please chiefs, counsel in by view, what needs to change is that there needs to be a royal commission. that's the strategy because none of these are the reviews have a strategy foot thing. so we need a rural commission, a that's independent and the findings actually go straight to the government. so the government can implement change, but it's by minister less. trust is commander fierce criticism from the opposition in a 1st debate in parliament from some major tax policy you turn me concerning. the p . m defended her governments recently budget, which shook financial markets before a tax cut for the rich was reversed,
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was given the money during her leadership. comtesse, the prime minister. 3rd, my quotes are exactly, i'm very clear. i'm not planning public spending reductions. is she going to stick to that? oh, absolutely. wow. we're spending almost a trillion pounds of public spending. what we will make sure is that over the medium term, the debt is following, but we will do that. not like tossing public spending, but by making sure we spend public money, well, iranians have kept up protests against the government despite an intensifying crackdown. security forces fire tear gas to try to disperse protest as in tehran on wednesday. it's been nearly a month since the death of a woman in police custody, which began the demonstrations supreme leader. i told her ally, harmony has dismissed the protest saying they've been planned by iran's indies.
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traitors in gonna are protesting against a new sales tax. many worry that could be driven out of business. golden robeson has more traitors and gone 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 or value added tax on sales isn't fair. it was that on the one product government, it target it compounded taxes demo purchased already paid their bucks. the company government has pretty me who isn't kumasi to pay the same rate of, but the traitors were already feeling squeezed. gone 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
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past year. this week, before we even went to this, close down. some there was ton rest of it. then the momentum got us. it's going to be $110.00, it's. 7 up to 100, how good to somebody in this condition. these stalls are closed in protests, but some may end up closing for good traders worn a knock on effects to the whole infrastructure of food distribution with their man distribute that in the center of them. and i said there's a help is to be really happy to set the middle part that is the northern part of ghana. and in this case, if the government doesn't come in to us is coming in to relate the implements on us . it's going to get some offense leaving their markets. the protest like these are spreading to other regions as merchants lock up shop in solidarity with those in a shante tax authorities have held talks with the traitors. but so far the 2 sides have not the compromise. robinson or new zealand is set to introduce
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a scheme that require farmers to pay for the agricultural greenhouse gas emissions . the controversial scheme would be the 1st of its kind in the world and they come into effect from 2025 gases naturally mentioned by livestock or among new zealand. biggest environmental problems. all money rise from charges on a missions will be recycled back into the system to fund through the research toes and technology as well as pharma incentives in order to help reduce emissions. initiative actually seems the wrong signals to the wrong sector and isn't sufficient to address the climate emergency that were in that war. drought and extreme weather have cause world wide wheaton grain shortages and an increase in food prices and sweden though warmer temperatures of little record breaking harvests. a countries spearheading research that could help farmers around the world protect their crops from climate change on race reports from smaller
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it's the last day of the harvest in small live in southern sweden. but this week isn't destined for the nation's bread baskets. this is the test field at the lunch men and farming cooperative. where management tina hendrickson has a mission to breed crops that have future proof. we develop new variety of week to make sure that the right discounts, they'll produce a big yields as possible. even if the climate change is what we really want to produce is varieties that are robust to a lot of different climates for her team. it's been a decade long process. 45000 types of wheat have been whittled down to an elite sheaf of just 10 resistant to extreme heat, drought, and floods. the knowledge could be crucial further south. the worst droughts in 500 years of caused crops to fail in italy,
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france and germany. farming here used to be challenging because of the cold. not anymore. 2022 has been a bumper harvest for sweden. an indication perhaps that the agriculture industry can benefit, at least in the short term, from the effects of climate change. as the heat moves north, sweden's growing season has become longer and warmer. september's in the south have been 2 degrees celsius above the average in recent years. but farmers are aware that the good times might not last long. this fall has been record breaking really . and we've had all the, all the great components related to a good. yeah, we will probably see more extreme weather, so it seems like in this region that ones, the rain comes, it comes more. and once the dry weather comes it's, it's for longer periods. changes in climate bring changes and disease. the course is a top.
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