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let people share amongst in full stories as sales sat is helping bring the world closer together as sales space to deliver your vision. the united states border patrol a law enforcement agency with controversial tactics. oh, i don't face down and beat him repeatedly. we'll pull him. emboldened by a culture of impunity, they keep doing it, knowing that they're hurting people from cutting to fault lines, investigate secretive units accused of concealing its agents. crimes are like the men in black. they really don't, didn't see them that they're just there to clean up the mess and to cover impunity at the border on a j 0. ah, the battle for don bass intensifies as russian soldiers edge closer to seizing the ukrainian city of buck moved,
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threatening care supply lines. ah, sammy's a band. this is al jazeera alive from dell halls are coming up like songs, ousted prime minister on con, holds his long march on the capital to force another election. the world's richest man, a long mos closes a $44000000000.00 deal to a quiet twitter and fax it top executives reading the game cutter is hoping it's national library will become a focal point for football fans the world. ah, we begin in ukraine where fighting is intensifying in easton. don bass rushes, shelling the cities of nikolai of the bahamas, where there's a fierce battle for concur all going on right now. it's forces edging closer to
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seizing the city. mercenaries from the russian free company. wagner group are also involved and across the ukraine, cities and towns plunged into dogmas after russia attacks energy infrastructure and power facilities. electricity supplies have been reduced by nearly 2 thirds. the government says more rolling power costs will be made, damage facilities are repaired ahead of winter or the capsule kit is among areas where there have been power cuts. huh. jump june, joins us live from based on how much. i guess it's not long to sunset that what will people be facing tonight? well, it'll be very interesting to, to, to witness what's gonna happen in the city of tonight. sammy, people are concerned they are, they are nervous because you've now had the largest power company in ukraine detect . they're saying that the electricity grid in keith, the key region,
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which also includes of course, the key for the city of keyboard capital in the country. that there is a 30 percent capacity deficit due to these attacks the russian attacks that occurred on a critical power infrastructure site in the key region on october 27th. and that there are additional measures that are going to need to be taken to ensure that energy consumption is reduced. we've also heard a little bit more from energy providers here, a saying that the schedules for rolling blackouts for keep the region and the city will be reviewed. and that restrictions may increase to up to 6 hours. that's a big change from where we were just 24 hours go 24 hours ago. you were still on a schedule where there were parts of the city that could be removed from the grid for up to 4 hours. and late last night we were told, perhaps it would be up to say 5 hours. now today they're being told it could be 6 hours. that all being said, though, i must say that when you go out in the city's day, i have gone to different neighborhoods. i have walked around. yes,
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there are parts of the city that do not have power. and yet people are out in about . they are trying to live their lives normally as possible. you have children that are still playing on in playground, in parks. you have families that are out. you have people at cafes and out shopping . there's a produce market not too far from where we are. people were out getting fruits and vegetables. so this goes to show this resilience that we keep experiencing and seeing and witnessing here in ukraine during this war. that all being said also though, sammy last night when we're out in the city, you know, there were large portions of the places where we're walking around not too far from where we were, where it was an utter darkness where street lights weren't working, where there were traffic lights that weren't working as well. so it will be interesting to see if there are more parts of the city that are in darkness to night. again, a, you know, i keep saying this, but it is true. people are concerned because right now you have winter approaching, you have temperatures dropping, and there is a lot of concern that russia will try to weaponized the winter here in ukraine. sammy, all right, thanks so much. i am a jim jim that i said,
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beg has more from back mote. there's exchange of fire taking place between the ukrainians and the russians. the russians have made some gains, but they still not in back what the ukrainians are said, that they have managed to repel those attacks. and everywhere around us is signs of destruction. you can see the car burnt out behind me. there's buildings on the other side. you can see that they've been damaged the chalet, shuttling and rockets the powers out in the city as well. and constantly we are hearing the battle and is fighting, taking, taking place. now what we do know is that we were here back in may not the route that we took into back with. we can't take that routine anymore because that roach, the russian forces have eyes on that roads and can target it. so we have to come through a different route. there's definitely few people act in the streets. many people have already left. there's no electricity at, but there is
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a significant battle taking place. we have seen increased military activity, at least from the ukrainians here in this earth. in this city, but also um, many people are choosing to stay in the sellers inside. even here you can see that the are, the power cables are down. the world's richest man, a long mosque has taken control of one of its most influential social media platforms. his 1st move of the head of twitter was reportedly firing at least 4 top executives, including the ceo and chief financial officer. the billionaire tech control center changed his twitter bio 2 chief twit and announced the acquisition by tweeting the bird is freed mosque. had until friday to complete the $44000000000.00 bill he signed in april. he was seen walking into twits his headquarters on wednesday carrying a think it brings to an end, a 6 month saga,
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filled with accusations and legal challenges must began questioning the acquisition within weeks of its agreement, accusing executives of misrepresenting how many uses the platform has in july he announced he was abandoning the deal with a sued mask in response and a trial will set for october. he tried and failed to negotiate the lower price mosque. finally said he'd go ahead with the original agreement. if twitter drops its full suit, the judge put the case on hold until friday, giving him 3 weeks to close. the deal kristin salome has more from new york deal on mas has indicated in the past that he wants to roll back restrictions on the platform. even in reinstating former president donald trump, who was kicked off it for violating policies regarding misinformation. and that's really a concern for some civil society groups here in the united states and around the world. you want to see more content moderation on twitter,
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not less. they're worried about have speech and spreading misinformation, but you must seem to attempt to calm those concerns a bit on thursday when he sent out a, a letter to advertisers saying that the last thing he wanted to do was create a whole scape of misinformation where there were no consequences for this information. he talked about the need to have a public square where people can debate ideas and also be free to talk about ideas and not have a society that is so polarized in siloed that people have different opinions aren't talking with each other. of course that's created some concerns also for, for people around the world. because as his basis must, has said that he would resort to what the law of the land is. former pakistani
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prime minister on con and his support is marching on the capital to call for the elections. they started the 380 kilometer walked with slam, abide in the eastern city of la hor, officials say the protest this will be borrowed from entering the capital con, step down off to losing confidence votes in april. been charged with corruption, but has the allegations are part of his opponents efforts to keep him out of politics? come on, hider has more from the whole a lot of money now or bring it to me. there was a different government job to order them in on a job that they will not be a
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government in a dum abad. however, a they did a negative dog with boyd a. everybody had to write broad day and i did exactly what im non to do with read it to me. it's gone. northern islands regional government is on calls for its 2nd election in the year. that's after politicians were unable to restore a devolved government in the province, which is part of the u. k. before midnight deadline. one of the main reasons no government has been formed is because of a dispute over the northern island protocol. well, what is it?
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well, when the u. k, left the you, a new system was needed to regulate trade because the ear requires strict checks on some goods from non e u countries that men potentially creating a hard border between north an island which is part of the u. k. and the republic of ireland, which is in the e u, that would rip apart the peace deal that ended decades of violence. so the u. k and e, you signed a deal that included a protocol which effectively move the border between northern ireland and the rest of the u. k. some goods arriving from britain and now checked at northern irish ports, a unionist policy, the d u p says is undermines the place in the u. k. it's refused to that northern island form of government until the protocol is scrapped. report was presented that view in general assembly on thursday saying these railey occupation of the
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palestinian territories is indistinguishable from sattler colonialism. it's from the special repertoire on human rights in the territories that they pre assess the youth, a different term. apartheid that code statements from amnesty international earlier this year and human rights watch in 2021. israel and others have criticize the un report and accused itself is of the anti semitism america that the james space reports. israel for many years is said is a victim of unfair criticism that the united nations, it says it singled out where other countries are not israeli officials repeatedly criticize the un human rights council. it's inquiries and it's investigators. but the criticism from israel has never been a strong as this a tweet from the israeli prime minister. yeah, the peed criticizes a report by relatively new body. the commission of inquiry on israel and the palestinian territories. he says its authors have shown themselves to be purveyors
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of their learned anti semitism with one go de legitimize thing and defaming israel . the commission is chaired by the former high commissioner of human rights now of a pill. a she used to be a judge in south africa appointed by nelson mandela. and this was her reaction to the criticism of the prime minister. and i'm 81 years old. and this is the 1st time i've been accused of anti semitism. and we, we send messages to the city general and to states that he has 3 of us who are, i mean, without any remuneration of our web asked to serve. we didn't, we didn't apply for these positions. and we giving allowed time energy because we so committed to justice, rule of law issues and human rights. and we should not be subject to abuse such as this was just totally false. she says she's planning to protest to the un secretary
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general antonia good terrace, about the israeli criticism. i'll francesca albanese is the un special rumble tore in human rights in palestine. she says, criticism of the un report prevents engagement with the actual substance of the report. they find it very convenient to dismissing any one who raises criticism against the current practices of their israeli government. early as on to semitic, these is convenient because it allows them or not to engage with the substance of a fully well as solidly documented reports. and again, i'm 10, i mean i want to stress said that this is a new anti semitic, the anti semitic label. he's been used for human rights mechanism, or, and reputable, and yours are and international are and domestic level against palestinians and
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israelis. so this is why i'm saying it's very convenient, but i, i hope that others can see, can see that it's a natural consequence of the fact that israel maintains as settler colonial occupation in their occupy territory. because it's a, it's a value laid. so territorial solver, any of the palestinians, eat, acquires natural resources of the palestinians. it too oppresses any form of palestinian political activity and activism. mozilla had i al jazeera fears. chinese government is placing ideology over hard reality. and japan is set to pump $260000000000.00 into its economy. the reason might is getting expensive for just about everyone in the country. ah,
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hello, the weather set fair for the korean peninsula. we will see some showers. meanwhile, just pushing into japan, cyclical northern western parts of the country, little larry of ro pressure just coming in across the sea of japan. i will bring some rain into western parts of honshu, wetter widia, whether they're into qaeda as it moves through cooler air pressure weather does come back in for the 2nd half of the week. and so we'll see it taking a little less warm. should we say into tokyo that meanwhile, across sir se, asia, the story really has been about the very heavy rainfall that we have seen making his way toward the philippines over a 100 meters of right to northern parts of the philippines in significantly higher right now towards the south as we go through the next couple of days. we'll tropical storm now gay will make its way across the northern philippines, bringing more heavy and sundry downpours and the likelihood of widespread flooding . we have seen flooding in the south recently, hopefully a little dry here as we go on into our sunday. but a rash of showers. there still tools north has tropical storm will make its way out
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into the south. china sea eventually running towards vietnam brings a very wet and windy weather. you can see if a large system this once or that would be watched by the flooding here as well. just have a little bit of flooding out. we'll southern parts of india cheaper hope further north is fine and dry. ah ah, ah ah ah
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ah. the me back you're watching out this time to recap, our headline finding in a dumbass region is intensifying as russia and ukraine. the impulse is fine to recapture last territory. russia has continuous the shell. the cities and nikolai oven by tank billionaire mosque has completed a takeover of twitter and find the company's top executive. $44000000000.00 deal. and the 6 month saga must attempt to bind the social media platform for my foster son, the prime minister on con, and his supporters. on marching on the capsule to call for the election. they started the 380 kilometer walk to some of them. the eastern city of la haul con, stepped down after losing
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a no confidence both naples in brazil. a deluge of this information is spreading online ahead of time before presidential run off on sunday. teams of fact checkers are working to verify all the bunk. social media posts for the sheer volume means it's hard to keep ahead of the fake news cycle or latin america. the tele see and human reports from sub follow social network hungry brazilians are being targeted with disinformation, some of it to ludicrous to believe. and yet many people do the one who 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 both sonata is a pedophile, and that lula has warded churches to be burned down. fact checkers in brazil can't keep up in a condo on proven a nation wide coalition of investigative journalists,
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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 the owners hadn't voted for him in the 1st round. by herbert hoover, this one uses an old interview with bull sonata taken out of context to claim that he's a cannibal 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 . those are not on this day alone. fact checkers here are analyzing 1600 dubious tick tock, postings. my think what thank you, does akin essay. least 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 plain dirty. spreading this information into just about every household. lunar has been struggling to shake
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a social media slander campaign 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 lulu 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 syndicates 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 as on 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, by check or disagrees. they're trying to, to actually fight against this in my view, this harmful phenomenon. because this information could actually not only influence
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ah, voters, but can actually lead us true. and it's also violence why violence that has already shown its ugly face. while this information fuels the most polarized election campaign in brazil's history see a newman al jazeera, so follow japan's cabin has approve the stimulus package of $260000000000.00 to tackle inflation. the move aims to encourage growth in wages and support households with energy bills and rising cost of living, prime minister from you, because she says he'll do his best to support people. chinese markets were hit by a major sell off earlier this week. after present, she ging thing filled is in a circle with allies authorities have since sought to reassure investors. many analysts believe there are a tough times ahead for the chinese economy. patrick, fog reports from beijing business operations hobbled again. this week universal
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studios resort and beijing was shot to comply with pandemic controls. it's the 2nd time it's closed because of covert curbs. since opening in september, last year, at breaks across the country of triggered a new wave of locked ends in cities, including won't joe, who han, and here in the capital for companies, it's created ongoing uncertainty. but there's still plenty of support for the governments 0 curve approach. level $500.00 kids. 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 sang sang index, it sank its fur this 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
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aligned with. she jumping, who has repeatedly defended the 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 mondays market meltdown, china's central bank said it would keep capital market steady bringing back some. com. there was a small sign of easing border controls as well. authority sent from this weekend at 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 a message of the go for virtually nothing to nothing. it's not, he goes through the needle in particular, as the road has not waiting for china. covered, tribes 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 that key areas that we would like to see some news or, or policy details on. i think it would definitely help. we get some,
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some stability in terms of the job. you know, the death situation, the ability, basically the ability for some of the travel companies to, to get access to capital. many fear china's new leadership will prioritize ideology of the economy. but for now, it seems their biggest concern may be a lack of any change in policy direction. patrick rock al jazeera beijing, at least 31 people have died in the philippines. the storm now gay approaches, heavy rain and strong winds caused floods and mud slides in mcclendon our province . several people were trapped on the mud. rescue operations are ongoing. the government says the number of casualties is likely to rise. a tiny island community off the coast of england says its future is being threatened because of proposals to ban fishing. heavily island is home to dozens of species which the government says the protecting m a. hayward explains laden with lobster and crap. the
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crew up with the freedom comes into the harbor to unload the morning's cache. a job that they've done for decades, but could lose the fishing is bound to holy island. it would just devastated completely. it was no way we could possibly carry on fishing from holy island would have to move the boats and all the gear to other ports. and of course, the trouble waters the vall, the guys working from different port, so mean conflict, straight away. and this is what's left of one of this part of england's oldest fishing plates. just a few boats including richard sco out now. all of the sea of love oliver drove. it's amazing and you get some beautiful days out there. or you see dolphins swimming around. you, holy islands is already protected landscape, one rich in bio diversity. the u. k. government is hoping to create
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a number of highly protected marine areas, including here, where fishing would be banned. they say the scheme would allow nature to fully recover to a more natural state, allowing the ecosystem to thrive and that they will take the views of the local community, fishermen and environmental groups on gold. what happens out at say really does the fact that the entire community, because once this tidal causeway floods, holy island is cut off hours at a time. meaning it's difficult for people living behind me to commute over for the mainland loving father. we pray for this holy island, for our fishermen and their families inside saint mary's church prayers. aside for the islands community, some of the fishing families work in hong fatality. the other main industry on the island, the economy is not just about losing the fishing and the, the money from the fishing it's, it's losing all those other people who, who do really vital jobs in the community. there has been fishing here for
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thousands of years. we know that it would be the absolute death know of this village. it's just got run clinger. when i go to bed at night, i can't sleep muscle next, turning on liner thinking no one's is no end. what reason is the for this is just devastating. some wild light campaign is say, the protected areas will offer a lifeline to the see. many here a hope will they'll be able to carry on. i'm remain part of the silence future. emma. he would al jazeera in northern england after the world camp cutter plans to start construction on 3 new museums. the doe, 2030 plan will transform the countries water fronts laura burden. manley has been taking a look at what's next for the countries cultural landscape. after helping to feed carter the decades this mill on dough hot water front will be given
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a new role. by replacing flour with art, 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 cut me their names to do is to create a gallery while keeping the industrial integrity intact. we wanted to keep as much of this 6 things structured as possible, but there's also history. there's memory that bread full. doha comes from here. the 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 miriam of penny tells us the entire waterfront area will be transformed into
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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 of these plans that we have as a country with us culture plans don't stop there. this temporary gallery called tails of a connected world gives a peek into the design of the new museum in the brand new city of lou sale by prick the prize winning architect herself and to bureau. inside each room is defined by color, sound scapes, and looks at the influence of middle eastern and islamic art 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.
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