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ah, why has them seek this is as it alive from the also coming up, the world's richest man, ellen musk closes a 44000000000 dollar deal to a quiet twitter and sacks its top executives a possible 2nd election within a year on the horizon for northern ireland, after the collapse of a power sharing agreement to pans, government announces a $200000000000.00 spending package to lighten the burden on households from the rising cost. ah, but we begin in ukraine where the russian and ukranian forces are fighting each other to recapture last territory rush as it. relentless shelling has hit the cities of nikolai, of, and baffled, leaving a trail of destruction and ukrainian cities are plunged into darkness after moscow
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struck energy infrastructure and power facilities. reducing the electricity supplies to lily a 3rd. ideas as had beg is in clamor tours in the don yeske region where russia is stepping up its attacks. this was hit in the early hours on yesterday morning, and it's not far from where we're staying. in fact, we had the air raid sirens go off. we had the loud thuds, and then we felt the shock waves, who was staying the wolves actually shook or that team was woken up. then we came here in the morning and the fire was still raising. now, if i could just show you that this seems to be a factory a warehouse, it was hit by 3 missiles. just around the corner from here is a massive crater that one of those missiles has left. no one was injured, but we were just being told by the owner that the damage goes up to about $10000000.00. now we're not sure exactly what the russians were targeting hair,
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but what we can tell you is when we got here yesterday morning, the fire was ongoing. and the 5 services here trying to distinguish that we saw about 35 engines trying to bring that under control. but this is what's happening were about 50 kilometers from one of the front lines of russia. still able to strike targets deep within ukraine with the missiles and rockets. the russians are claiming that they're making gains the ukrainians are saying that their report, the tax on back moves from several angles on that safety. but what i can tell you that we were there yesterday and we had to leave because the rockets were going over our heads and we were forced to leave the city. now, i was also there back in may. and the situation since may has definitely changed. there's more destruction in the city, the few people, many people have left and where we had gone to in the city before back in may. we can no longer reach that area. in moscow president letting me putin has warned the world is facing its most dangerous decades since the 2nd world war. it is the west
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of inciting the conflict in ukraine and said he had no regrets. who can also denied russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons. with a steady just we stand at a historical frontier ahead is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable, but also important decades since the end of the world war to reach you when we have never been the 1st to ever say anything about russia possibly using nuclear weapons . we have only made allusion milk, and while answering to the declarations made by the leaders of western countries, attack 1000000000 a long mosque has completed his takeover of twitter firing at least 4 top executives in the process. they include the ceo and chief financial officer, must changed his twitter bio to chief twit and announced the acquisition by tweeting the bird is freed mosque had until friday to complete the $44000000000.00 deal he signed in april, he was seen walking into twin his headquarters on wednesday carrying a sink
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a brings to an end. the 6 months are filled with accusations and legal challenges. i must began questioning the acquisition within weeks of its agreement, accusing executives of misrepresenting how many uses the platform has. in july had asked he was abandoning the deal with the sued musk in response, and a trial was set for october. he tried and failed to negotiate a lower price, but must finally said he would go ahead with the original agreement. if twitter dropped its lawson, the judge put the case on hold until friday, giving him 3 weeks to close the deal. a mach einstein is an artificial intelligence specialist and chief analyst for telecom and digital services with the i t. r corporation, an i t focused research and advisory firm, he says, this is a huge opportunity for twitter. i believe that you want us want to ultimately make twitter into a super app. like we see in china and southeast asia and korea and
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japan. so i think that eventually twitter will have new features like e commerce, right, sharing to delivery, you name it. and on top of that, i also wouldn't be surprised at all if the introduced script currency even makes his own craft, the currency, which could really drive, you know, the block chain and you know, the digitization of a lot of industries. what i think he can and will do this is really a very difficult thing to do is i think he will introduce more a into content moderation. but more importantly, i think he will make these algorithms open and audited by 3rd parties. and so i think if everyone in the world would be able. ready to see, you know, what actually can trolls what content and individual sees what content is removed. i think that would go a long way in promoting dialogue as to whether or not social media is indeed bias. if anyone would be able to, it would be him and i think making algorithms and software open source or,
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or at least 3rd party audited would set a benchmark for the industry and could really, really change how all social media operates. so i'm cautiously optimistic that he will do something along these lines on, on islands, regional government is on course for the 2nd election in the year. that's off the politicians were unable to restore. a devolved government in the province, which is part of the u. k. before a midnight deadline, we challenge explained the situation from belfast. they added hearts, the problem is breaks it really and how breaks it relates to the 998 good friday agreements which brought an ends to decades of political violence and set up power sharing. in northern ireland wise breaks the problem, well, it's because of the border essentially. where do you put the trading border that has to exist between the republic of islands and northern islands
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and the united kingdom. now under the good friday agreement, that cannot be a hard border on the islands of islands. recall be a trading border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland. but parties like the d p which wants to preserve that indivisible link between northern islands and the rest of the united kingdom. say that it's unacceptable to have a trading border between northern ireland and the rest of the u. k. but that's exactly what we have of them over into the form of the northern autumn protocol, which is part of this post breakfast deal reached between brussels and london a couple of years ago. so in february they pulled out the power sharing the d. u pay. and since then, they've basically been scattering any efforts to try and build a new government in northern ireland and move the process along the time has just
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run out on that process. and that's why we're hearing talk of an election of the us world food program is scaling up. it's a to lebanon, as the country suffers, one of the world's worst economic crises, really, to 1000000 lebanese. and syrian refugees depend on food and financial aid. and with the political vacuum looming, the financial meltdown is expected to get worse. zanna harder reports on, on our food options are limited for many in lebanon, affected by the collapse of its economy. many items are now crossed off from their shopping list. i used to buy 3 or 4 kilos of tomatoes. now it's one or even half a kilo everything changed. i can't afford me to a chicken. we are only buying essential the collapse of the local currency has affected people's purchasing power. the world food program says the average salary in lebanon now covers 24 percent of basic food needs. it's helping feed one
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in 3 lebanese and what are the market for the past 2 years? the situation is catastrophic. the currencies deviation hurt us. we used to eat 2 meals a day now we barely can afford one. ready of the potatoes, most of the time, we spend 3 times more than our income. cheaper goods have since flooded the market . but despite that, food prices increase 30 percent this year, and more than 1500 percent since the economic crisis began in 2019 gammon g. but ball or b, we used to buy goods from the west, but people couldn't pay $1.00 for a chocolate bar now. import from turkey and syria because it's cheaper. the political class blame for decades of bad policies and corruption is failing to address the crisis. the situation could get worse as the country heads to what could be an extended political vacuum. parliament fail to elect
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a successor to president michelle oun leaves office at the end of the month. it will be the 1st time the country has been without a leader, but this time around there is likely to be no government to take on executive powers. this is no longer a middle income country, and there is little social justice. many like i'm at symbol, have no social protection and are forced to find any way they can to survive the new reality. santa, for their al shahita, beirut, or i'd still ahead on al jazeera will tell you why. tens of thousands of people in the democratic republic of congo are being ob, rooted from their homes on a baron sh misinformation targets voters online before a hotly contested presidential run off in brazil. ah, anticipation is rising. and so is the us
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with wanted my cattle aways. however, whether slightly quite across a good part of china. but we have got some bits and pieces of cloud and rain, some thick cloud just coming into central parts and where to where the to into japan area of low pressure here. just bringing more the way of where to whether into ha kado into han. she was to go on through the next couple of days, toko, at around $21.00 celsius. it'll freshen up as a cold front, goes through for sunday highs of round 90 degrees at brightest guys to come back in for many a few showers towards the north showers there into we're central parts of china, but a little further south. it's largely dry and fine hong kong around 30 degrees celsius with a good deal of sunshine. a good deal of sunshine to am please to say across much of in the about southern areas. we'll see some very heavy rain as we go on through the next day. or 2 saturday, cecil ivy showers into those southern past time will not do corolla, seeing some big downpour, southern parts of under the dash to move into the early part of next week. larry of
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low pressure is pushing in from the bourbon. goal will feed more, re, ne, the winds now cause setting in their heading towards astral anchor. as for the raven peninsula, here it is lottie fine and roy, pleasant sunshine temperatures into the mid thirties here in doha, but showers, making their way into northern parts of iran. to with sponsored by cats, are they always after world war 2, frances great empire began to unravel and vietnam to moses. everybody was taking themselves into the stream, bursting with joy, kissing each other. and algeria he lives until she knew. if the indo chinese that managed to beat the french army, why not? i declined, continues an episode to blood and tears french di colonization on al jazeera. ah
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ah. again, you're watching. i just did a reminder of our top stories this out fighting and the don bass region is intensifying as russian and ukrainian forces fight to recapture last territory rushes continuously. shelves, cities, nikolai of embalmed tech 1000000000. a long mosque has completed his take over twitter and fired the companies to top executives. $44000000000.00 deal ends a 6 months saga of mosques attempts to buy the social media plan. northern islands regional government is on course for another election. politicians were unable to reach a power sharing deal before the deadline. the democratic unionist party has been blocking the move in to protest the posts briggs trade arrangements known as the
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northern ireland protocol. a former pakistani prime minister eminent farm has started a protest march with his supporters to call for early elections there, starting in the eastern city of la whore. and heading to the capital islamabad, come on, hider has more from the horse, along with the provincial capital of the money. go now and bring it been made. there was a different government. there were dropped them order them in on from getting a sama, a dime, a debit regarded as of august and i had one job that they will not be around on a government and a thumb. abad. however, had made elaborated in their board container. daniel with
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the updated air dam to modern or some odd maggard with nob redwood boys, armando to bug you thought that everybody had the right one broad day and i did exactly what im ron on and don't do a new bid will be pretty good. and i'm dying when i'm ron bonham. read them a lot or did reload them importantly right. it may be it gone on the fighting between government troops and rebels in the eastern democratic republic of congo has forced more than 40000 people from their homes, catcher, lopez holl, diane has more. ah, these families have nowhere to go. their possessions reduced to the items they can carry. there among tens of thousands of people in democratic republic of congo
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who been forced to leave their homes. it's now too dangerous to stay in their village as fighting between troops and m. 23 rebels comes closer to the museum. boom, gonna massage the m 23 fighters were shooting bullets all over our village in north keeping province. that's why we had to flee. we had to, to stay alive. the for many a makes of shelter is now home, and it's difficult to find food. the stories of violence are shared every day. don't get much asked when it was 1 o'clock in the morning. when we 1st heard gunshots, we had to flee because the situation became unbearable. the fighting has the stabilize the central african country. it has accused its neighbor, rwanda of packing the rebels to gain control of strategic regions. the group is one of many and eastern your congo. it's resurfaced and sees more territory. after
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years of being torment, forcing people out for the call. for this, we estimate that at least 40000 people are already displaced and that just accounts for people coming from the town of route shoot. right now we're in a cap not far from goma, but as we speak, people are still arriving. we see families on the motor bikes with their children, with their cattle and goats. it's very difficult situation. the government is no longer just facing the threat of the arm group or with coping with entire villages of people was lost. everything. katia, little missile, the young al jazeera, her raj, groups in south africa. outraged off to the states dropped all charges against 14 men, accused of the gang rape of 8 women in western johanna. but they were filming a music video in an abandoned mine in july when they were attacked and raped by men who i believe to be illegal minus state. prosecutors say there isn't enough evidence to proceed with the case. the alleged re spot bottom protests and
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townships in the area with people saying, police are not doing enough to protect them from the small scale minus at least 39 people have died in the philippines. as for me, now guy approaches. heavy rains and strong winds cause floods and my much slides in and begin to now province. several people were trapped on the mud and rescue operations. ongoing. japan's pad cabinet has approved a stimulus package of $260000000000.00 to counter inflation. the new spending plan includes measures to encourage wage growth and support households with energy bills and the rising cost of living. japanese prime minister, whom jo casita says he will do his best for people to feel supported. the fatty salami has more from tokyo. it's a very comprehensive beckers full of measures to aim to help the live hoods of people to help the employment environment to help. also businesses,
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especially small and mid sized businesses, who have been suffering very largely because of the after effects of 2 years of proficient. because of the band to make and again, because of the increasing prices of energy and also many consumers now are facing the problem of decreasing the value of the in again, the measure currency is especially the u. s. which japan, japan had hit the levels that it hasn't seen for almost 30 years. so all the materials that are being important to japan are becoming more very expensive. the household now are there being that, that energy bill, which are almost double what they, where a few months ago. and that also has been effected by the invasion of a russian invasion to ukraine. so the, but i mean that has a now almost $260000000000.00,
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the comprehensive beckers that would be distributed on delivery, which i've just mentioned, the employment, the environment, the household and also the businesses. and that could be another becker's that was going to be within the few months. again, i may just sell off early this week, hit chinese markets following present. she didn't things move to pack his in a circle with allies for authorities have since sought to reassure investors and brought back some com. but many analysts believe they could still be a rocky road ahead. patrick rock reports business operations hobbled again. this week, universal studios resort in beijing was shot to comply with pandemic controls. it's the 2nd time it's close because of curve cubs since opening and september last year . at brakes across the country of triggered a new wave of luck, dance and cities including won't. joe, who han, and here in the capital for companies, it's crated ongoing uncertainty. but there's still plenty of support for the
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governments 0 curved approach. civil final because it's a stable policy. society's progressing swiftly and there is prosperity everywhere. investors don't appear to share that sentiment. a day after china unveiled its new leadership markets plummeted. on monday, hong kong hank st. index sank. it's furthers since the 20 o 8 global financial crisis the one week into a 14 year lo, with people weighed the prospects of prolonged curved restrictions. now, there was always an expectation that the politburo standing committee, remember that china's highest love of government would be packed with individuals aligned with change in paying, who has repeatedly defended his 0 curve and policy. but what was disappointing for many people was that wasn't even a hint of how the country might move on from it. since monday's market meltdown, china's central bank said it would keep come to market steady bringing back some. com. there was a small sign of easing border controls as well. authority sent from this weekend,
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china would boost international flights by more than double the current levels. still totaling only about 800 a week, just a fraction of pre pandemic numbers. or the increase of slides is basically message of the go for virtually nothing to nothing. it's not really gonna swing the needle in particular, as the rotors not waiting for china covered curves of also kept fresh on the countries in debt. developers and prices fell for 13 straight month in september, according to official data. actually this is the one of the key areas that we would like to see some news or, or policy details on. i think it would definitely help. we get some stability in terms of the ah, you know, the death situation, the ability basically the ability for some of the travel companies to, to get access to capital. many fear chinese new leadership would prioritize ideology of the economy. but for now, it seems their biggest concern may be
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a lack of any change in policy direction. patrick, fog al jazeera beijing in brazil, a stream of disinformation is spreading online before the tide before presidential run off on sunday. teams of fact checkers are working to verify or debunk social media posts for the sheer volume of the means. it is hard to keep ahead of the fake news cycle or latin america editor luciana reports for sao paolo social network. hungry brazilians are being targeted with disinformation, some of it to ludicrous to believe. and yet many people do no one from claims that incumbent candidate, jade bull sonata and his rival lula da silva, have made packs with the devil and satanic cults. to unsubstantiated claims that bull sonata is a pedophile, and that lula has where did churches to be burned down. fact checkers and brazil can't keep up with you from
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a condo rover. a nation wide coalition of investigative journalists is fighting this information and helping brazil's electoral court identify it from it. i remember another montage uses an unidentified voice to say that lula ordered this boat destroyed because he owners hadn't voted for him in the 1st round. i ever heard this one uses an old interview with bull sonata taken out of context to claim that he's a cannibal young with. the electoral court has banned at least $500.00 social media posts for quote, knowingly sharing and distributing untrue or gravely. de contextualized information was another on this day alone. fact checkers here are analyzing 1600 dubious tick tock, postings. my thank what thank you. does it can escalate? it's important to say that while there's more disinformation spread from the pulse, narrow camp, that is dis information on both sides. indeed, both sides are playing dirty. spreading this information into just about every
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household. luna has been struggling to shake the social media slander campaign in claiming he's a drug trafficker. this after a recording of a leader of south america's largest drug cartel, the p. c. c was leaked, suggesting he supported louis campaigns before our request for clarification from lawyers representing leaders of the p. c. c, were denied, but sources that are close to the criminal syndicate tell us that they don't pick sides during national elections. only local ones as to the video, it turned out to be from 2019 and was clearly manipulated. and so the electoral court ordered that it be removed, but only after it had spread like wildfire. also now to supporters or accusing the electoral court, judges of censorship. but disinformation, expert, alexander, a particular disagrees. they're trying to, to actually fight against this in my view,
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this harmful phenomenon. because this information could actually not only influence voters, but can actually lead us to it's also a wireless ha violence that has already shown it's ugly face. while this information fuels the most poor rise to election campaign in brazil's history to see a newman al jazeera. so paolo formula for ball a pablo marty was one of several people injured at a supermarket, stabbing incident name, a lamb. the spaniard is an arsenal player, who's on loan at the italian side. mazda 46. your suspect is in police custody. they've ruled out terrorism as a motive, say the attacker has mental health problems. ah, a caught out is investing in its art sector with a plan to stock construction on 3 new museums after the fee for 2022. well cup.
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it's part of doll has 2030 plan to transform its water ponce and it wants the scale of the projects to rival that of cities across the world. and 0 got a sneak peak at 2 of the new museums designed by world renowned architects, laura, but manly reports from doha off to helping to feed carter the decades. this mill on dough hot water front will be given a new role by replacing flour with ot these towering fi lows are 35 meter tall, 8.5 meters wide. now the relationship between artists, curators and industrial faces like this isn't new. however, what cotton museum names to do is to create a gallery while keeping the industrial integrity intact. we wanted to keep as much of this 6 thing structures as possible, but there's also history. there's memory that bread full. doha comes from here. the
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project is expensive covering more than 80000 square meters. is this a big building or is more safety? because when measuring the side compared to other institutions, this is several times the ben is vienna or the tate. so the answer is polls in india by galleries, j, her mary, m. a penny tells us the entire waterfront area will be transformed into a cultural hub about us being ambitious. and we're trying to show international art collections on regional our collections on the current ease and for them if they do come back in 2030, are able to see the realization of these, of these dreams. and these plans that we have as a country and causes cultural plans, don't stop them. this temporary gallery called tales of a connected world, gives a peek into the design of the new museum in the brand new city of lou sale by pricks, the prize winning architects herself and to be earl. insight. each room is defined
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by color, sound scapes, and looks at the influence of middle eastern and islamic heart in the wider world. which try to come from a point of view, which is not the usual point of view of museums because museum tends to be very drawn or foster on your it was very important to bring to music to bringing a tree. we're going to work on the workshops to be able to bring food on for a few more. so with big ponds, the transform it's waterfront into cultural hubs. cut us goal is to extend its impact far beyond the people walt cup. lore about man, the al jazeera, doha. ah, this is edge, is it? let's get around up the top stories fighting in the don bass region is intensifying as russian and ukrainian forces fight to recap for law.
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