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a flight made 17 that kill 289 people and 2014 ah, you're watching on to 0 my from a headquarters and i'm debbie and obligate also coming up the okay, hikes taxes for hire earners and energy companies. the finance minister says the countries in recession, which will deepen next year. more russian strikes hits cities across ukraine, the latest in a series of attacks on energy infrastructure and the impacts of climate change, madagascar, millions of people affected as the country faces. it's 5th consecutive year of drugs. ah, hello, a court in amsterdam was sentenced 3 men to life imprisonment for the downing of malaysia airlines flight. i made 17 in 2014 and the passenger jet was flying from

amsterdam to kuala lumpur when i was shot down over eastern ukraine. all 298 people on board were killed. the convicted or through russia and former intelligence officer, xanda, ukrainian separate this leader there, fugitives believe to be in russia. so if you did say this, on 17th of july 2014, the injured parties were suddenly faced with the death of one or more loved ones as a result of the image. 17 crash. it is incredibly hard to take for the injured parties that they must live with the ongoing uncertainty of what must have happened in the last moments in the craft. and to what extent the relatives and loved ones were aware of the fight. a 3 and stuff os entrance. she's joining us from schiphol airport in the netherlands. tell us more about how this verdict was reached up in the reaction to it. well, it was quite an emotional verdict for the 100 self relatives that had travelled to have to amsterdam some as far as from australia. and even though most of the

victims on the plane were dutch, there were 16 nationalities on board of and made 17, when it was shut down over east and ukraine, added chat, chat. he had no doubt whatsoever that what the investigators had found. and also at the prosecutors had brought to trial that the plain was shut down by a book miss sile from separate this pro russian sap with this area that that was what happened to the plane. and also, a de 3 suspects are a former russian officers were involved and responsible for the transport of the book to that location. one of the suspect was acquitted because the judge said there was no evidence locally evidence that his role was also enforcement in this transport of the book for the relatives who have been a real suffering according to the judge for these past 8 years. this was quite a great relief. a dead. there's no

a guilty verdict and i'm joined by one of these relatives. it's a beat blow. he has. he has lost 3 of his relatives, a son? oh no, sorry. his brother alex and his wife and also a nephew, so he's here with me. how did you experience this for a day? oh, this was of course are quite emotional. but you know, it, it's all, sir, uh well considered a well balanced, well motivated to further from her from the course of the director of the, the russian state. it is confirmed by the corps, the butcher's son was also, i was a russian books. his dad is, was fired from a separatist area. and so this, this was very important for us and the 3 highest ranking officers and they got a lifelong sentence. so yes, would you want more? it was groundbreaking in sense that the role of russia was explicitly or a detailed by they charge. how important was that fear?

very, very important. you know, when a country is, are responsible for facilitating the shooting down of an airplane. it can't be show that they can get away with it and they may have to be held accountable in public. and that's what happened today. the judge sounded emotional when he was talking about the fact that this foster suspects didn't show any respect. he sat also for the trial also, of course we haven't seen them. he had happened attended a trial. does it still give you that sense of justice? ah, yes, of course. i also also sold it. the suspects were quite indifferent, quite indifferent, fairly indifferent. they didn't care at all, and that's maybe that's why this further is so important, so that, that impartial dutch gord find them guilty and i know they won't go to jail. but the world,

no snow who's responsible for the down flight there much have seen it. so for reporter, for us, is this now an end for you? is this the closure you've been looking for for 8 years? no, no, because her, if we're not ready as her, there's still an investigation going on to the book or the crew of to booker directing her people who are a false or we get to, we more about that. and i hope in the beginning of next year, there also were she thinks that the european court of human rights and i cayo. so for me and a foundation wilkie busier than the coming years. thank you so much for joining us here. a life on al jazeera, we have still to hear from the prosecutor because there was one person acquitted if there will be an appeal. and also, even though they haven't attended the trial or have shown any interest in this court case, that 3 people have now been convicted, who are probably in russia, have also still

a right to appeal. and we will have to hear from that from them or in the next coming weeks. all right, thank you so much. step awesome to the u. k. now of the finance minister, jeremy hunt has officially declared that his nation is an a recession. he expects the economy to shrink even further in the next fiscal year, hunter laid out his plans for a tackling raising inflation or we challenge reports. for weeks, jeremy hunt has been playing the plane, speaking medic, for the case economic malays like root canal surgery, the treatment, he's all the white be pleasant, but he insists as necessary and the moment has come. in the face of unprecedented global headwinds families, pensioners businesses, teachers, nurses, and many others are worried about the future. so today we deliver a plan to tackle the cost of living crisis and rebuild our economy and

jeremy $166000000000.00 plan increases taxes and government spending. but the tax rises will come now, most spending cuts deferred till 2025 after the next election to help soften the blows state. pensions and benefits will rise in line with inflation and the national living wage will rise to it's the new chancellors attempt to clear the wreckage left by his predecessors. many budgets have just 6 weeks ago, quasi quoting, said the pound, plunging, and interest rate. soaring with billions in unfunded tax cuts, it cost qua tang and previous prime minister lives trust that jobs. jeremy hunt is trying to be a safe, a pair of hands. he's trying to make the case that the conservative party is going to generate fiscal credibility for the country, but not damage public services too badly with another round of sterility. so he's

kept in cash terms, spending the same over the next 2 years and pushed back the pain to 2025 for the next election. so a bit of a trap for the, for the labor party. the reality of the situation is that britons will have less money in their pockets as the country enters recession. even in the wealthy english town of saffron walden, the need of food, thanks. his soaring cost of living crisis and the impending recession again, or effect people from all types of society. ah, and what we find is that when you live, so my affluent, if you are struggling, it's the poverty hair. it's hidden and it's invisible. so he says, demand for food is outstripping, the amount they receive, the she seen the light down the tunnel. ah night, definitely no, nothing, no light at all. the chancellor says global financial pressures are a storm that britain must face into that, whether the origins are foreign or domestic. the u. k is entering

a new age of austerity. rory challenz al jazeera cranes as russia as targeting critical facilities across several cities in a new wave of mythos strikes. at least 2 people have been filled and overnight strikes. the president followed the resolutions k posted this video footage, apparently shot from a car camera of a blash in the central city of any problems. there are reports of explosions in the southern port if a desa and capital keyed several cities reported blackouts. as russia stepped up its attacks on ukrainian energy facilities in recent weeks. and the deal that ensured safe passage of millions of tons of grain from ukraine has been extended by a 120 days. the agreement brokered by the un enter kia, allow grain shipments through the black sea. it's been in place since july and was set to expire this week. shown a whole how's more from keith? it wasn't clear until the very last minute where the russia would agree to renew the daily and talks broken by turkey, bringing on,

bringing in the un as well as russia and ukraine. but this afternoon, 1st the ukrainians, confirming it, and then the u. n. and turkey doing so as well until the good terrorist, the un secretary general talking about a triumph of discrete this diplomacy. he said in finding much multilateral solutions, president, one of turkey confirming that the deal will be extended by a $120.00 days from saturday on its current terms, no change to those terms. hailing the deal, he said, talking about the 11000000 tons of grades that have been transported in nearly 500 shipments in the last 4 months of the 1st phase of the deal. he said it is a deal that is important and beneficial for the world's food and security supply. the polish president, andrew does visited the site of tuesdays. miss al, strike at a town near the ukrainian border. tensions ran high after the hit kill 2 people in a village. indications or it could have been

a ukrainian air defense massage. both poland and nato say the strike was not intentional. i said big because more from the polish border towns were in the polish village of super this just kilometers away from the ukranian border. this is a site where 2 people were killed in the middle landed on a farm. now the president under do the, has visited, he's offered, he's condolences and support to the local community both and show them that the investigation is ongoing and will be thorough. but this has come a major shock for people here in this community. they've been used to the war taking place on the other side of the border. they've been used to seeing an increase of people crossing that board and the traffic, but they didn't think that something like this would happen upon you to know the obviously when it comes to the 2 villages, the 2 places where the 2 men who are killed the situation is quite difficult. they were very much like within the community and it touched people. they're very much more. what's more important, is it awareness that this rockets could have fallen on any other direction,

either side. it can have killed any of us. my book so far the ukrainians, i don't much that it wasn't one of the mythos from the defense system that struck poland, but a russian one presence. and then he says he has spoken to his command and those discussions have taken place in private. but ukraine wants to be a part of the investigation and hand over evidence, but what the ukrainian, the thing is contrary to what we're hearing from the polish here, the united states and nato said that it's unlikely that it was a russian massage, but more likely that it was one from the ukrainian defense, but we are waiting to see the results of the investigation. but even if it was a russian missile, this seems to be a consensus that it was not an intentional attack by russia against poland, with natal member in iran strikes or continuing to the 3rd consecutive day on the 3rd anniversary of anti government protest that followed fuel price increases on wednesday, at least $7.00 people were killed, including a 10 year old child in the southern city. if you say that after gunman open fire at a bazaar, officials or call and get a terrorist attack,

but protest or say security forces open fire on them. as they were gathering to demonstrate dorsey jabari has more from ron, the demonstrations have intensified here are since tuesday when calls were made for people to i go on strike. to commemorate what is known as bloody november. that took place in 2019, where hundreds were killed, according to human rights groups at the hands of security forces. here, since last night in the past 24 hours, it in one of the deadliest in the country. at least 15 people have been killed in various incidents across the country. and we just heard from officials that another 2 security forces have been killed in the city of mashhad. that is their own 2nd biggest city in the country at this is certainly at now become a very serious situation in the country. and it's one of the most serious the country has witnessed over the past 24 hours since at that protest began about 9 weeks ago after the death of 22 year old massa media. what the officials are saying

is that those businesses that have been closed, i've been forced to close by various elements that have been present inside the country. and many of the private businesses that have spoken to say they've chosen to close for 3 days. now, what will happen in the next few days remains to be seen. what is clear is that there is a tremendous amount of tension across the country. and the security officials have said that they have arrested a number of people that have been charged with inciting unrest and linking them to various terrorist groups. still ahead on al jazeera conservation versus development . the challenges facing the u. n's cultural agency unesco is at marks. it's 50th anniversary and katara heads back at continued to allegations of mistreating migrant workers for the world cup that and plenty more from footballs. show piece event right after the break. ah,

anticipation is rising. and so with the atmosphere, you ready? a ways as heavy rain arrived southeast asia now, which is to be expected, there was a focal point, particular central and southern philippines. and a line that you can take trust to foss has a vietnam that curves down into malays in part of born year. and i think across was pontiac as well and beyond us, heavy rain, it is seasonally wet and i but look at this life of singapore, up to southern thailand, right? of the western b. amanda and sumatra. this is fairly heavy, rain driving it all slowly, science was in concentrate. he is the ne monsoon which is going to be the dominant feature for the winter months or east asia. it means cold air comes out. the interior got snow showing up now. well i'm petoskey really called a high temperature of minus 10 on saturday. this disrupt is those held a long way? no, it's not going to come down to north korea's was the last belt. this is dry now with

temperatures where they should be. there is some rain south of the anc c, which is brooklyn's temperature, down from $30.00 to $20.00 thereabouts. which is again where it should be at long last. and the ne months in the bay of angles wanting of a low pressure area, which i think will bring heavy rain more to sri lanka than to camel now to the rest of india. if a violation pakistan is quiet and cold and sunny, but very poor calls the new delhi and the whole the with sponsored by can a commitment to continuously conserve its wonder is vital with providing breakthrough solutions to renewable energy for an environmentally responsible future with transformation and collaboration, indonesia urges and leave the world in moving forward as was recover together,

recover stronger with the me again, the top stories on al jazeera, this, our a cordon. i. mr. down has sent in 3 mental life in prison for the zoning of for leisure airlines flight m. 8. 17. in 2014. the jet was flying from amsterdam to fall on core when it was shot down over eastern ukraine. ukraine says russia is targeting critical facilities across several cities. president vulnerability posted this video footage, apparently shot from a car camera off a block from the central city of the british try. and i'm trying to stay. jeremy hot said his government will expound windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas

companies for the next 5 years. it's part of the government emergency budget aimed at stabilizing the economy. republicans have won 218 seats in the us house of representatives. this gives them just enough to control the chamber with 6 other seats still being counted, the democrats have 211 seats so far. president joe biden has graduated the republicans and promised to work with them. but this, when in the mid term elections could give them leverage to block his agenda. let's bring and she returns to joining us from washington, d. c. so they've lumber house that she had, but in fighting seems to be escalating amongst republicans. tell us more. yeah, i mean, that doesn't consensus. one of the reasons why the republicans didn't do as well as they probably should have in the mid terms. because so many independent voters, the swing voters, were alienated by the antics of the make america. great, again, trump wing, wing of the party. but the irony is because the republicans sort of marrow majority

in the house. it's exactly that same way. no, it has enormous amounts of leverage over the establishment of the parties. so we don't even know whether the current minority leader, kevin mccarthy, for example, will have enough votes to become speaker of the house in january when the, when the new session session begins. and so he's having to, he's having to bend over backwards to try and try to clean the sides of the party, but that i may as may and is alienating very parts of the establish, bring of the party. and the question is, how far will we have to go to, to retain that support, to have some semblance of, of governance within his own, within his own caucus and will about them turn off the same swing by just an independent voters in 2024. the next round of elections and these are the, the issues being wrestled with currently because, you know, but that side of the body is saying, look, we, we want to impeach, job bite, we want to in pete, the department of homeland security secretary. and so, and i mean, you know, what, this is going to be about what the new incoming majority will have there is,

is the power to investigate the bite administration as a, as democrats did into the trump administration when they had the majority in the house were already hearing some of the, the, some of the lines of inquiry that are coming out. notably, we just had a press conference where there is on the oversight committee saying we're going to investigate joe biden. and his is some hunter biden's business dealings. i mean, there's a lot of evidence the hunter biden was, was using jo biden's position as vice president to make a lot of money. the question is for the, for the incoming house, i was like committee, how much bye know, what did these foreign dominance people, what group paid all the money to home to buy the one in return for the money and so on. so perfectly legitimate lines of inquiry for committees, but this is what we're going to see. there is lots of house committees, lots of investigations into the by did ministration, trying to make life as difficult as possible for joe biden. and not much legislation actually being passed. all right, and just briefly she have we understand that we expect to hear from the speaker,

nancy pelosi and the next hour or so who's meant to be addressing her future plans? what are we expecting her to say? i mean, she'd promised that she would step down in 2020, 2022 as i speak of the house. but because the democrats do better than expected on the house, she has that leverage. and she's pretty loving. you see that this is the person who really loves power because you know, her age, i've told everyone, look, you have 2 versions of a speech that you went home with last night. we don't know what she is going to do . will she step down when she step down? this is she loves the power chair. if she doesn't step down, they'll be able to, people in the younger generation of democrats will be pretty missed, but she does have the. she does have the se, se, now she can say that in fact, i do want to stay, and there's very little that anyone can do about it. and this isn't it. i get an article change. it's a generational change that some calling for it will still be that, but right. we incorporate wing of the party democratic party. it's probably in control. but the question is, is it time for a new generation of leadership for the democrats in the house? yeah. all right. thank you so much. you have a chance to reporting from capitol hill the u. n. a. celebrating the 50th anniversary if it's world heritage sites program. unesco convention was designed to

help protect cultural properties and then international conferences underway in greece. johnson, robert says more from delphi in ancient times, this remote place on mount upon asses and central greece became the most important article. this is where city states would send emissaries to find out what they should do when they were faced with the difficult decisions such as whether to wage war. it is here that the athenians sent heralds to ask whether they should fight the persians at what later became their triumphs at the battles of maris and salus in the 5th century b. c. the pissy of the priestess who lived in the temple of apollo behind me would become ecstatic by breathing in birds laura leaves. and she would after various phrases, the priests would later interpret and write down for those emissaries. and here also the people of delphi lived, attending the theatre above us and attending the delphic games which were as famous

in antiquity as the olympic games that took place every 4 years. for all of these reasons, the unesco organization has named delphi one of its key worlds heritage sites. and it chose this place to announce on thursday that it was also trying to broaden in the next phase of its history. the mixture of sites to include more african sites among the world heritage list. so it is going to invite 12 countries among the smaller and less wealthy and african countries to go through the application process. and gradually, by 2030 list, at least a dozen of their sites in the world heritage list, which already numbers almost 1200 sites worldwide. water supply for the world's poor is a major issue. this year is un cop $27.00 negotiations. millions of people in madagascar are facing their 5th consecutive year of drought. as nick clark reports were driving through madagascar gran suit. it's supposed to be the rainy season

with the fields of bone dry. this is the footprint of climate change. one year of drought is bad enough, but 5 and road is near impossible. fear is hot winds turn the soil to dust crops stand no chance in the village guerara like everywhere. it's a struggle for survival, water and how to get it is on every one's minds. and suddenly it appears from nowhere. i mean, a water tanker on route for far off destination has stopped even from its leaking pipes. there's a rare chance i every can container and bottle and can be laid on is filled out. quickly soon will the car will go. we have a needed a demonstration to some desperate people. this is it. this is

though hot breaking because normally that not those can so plain those kids so live that childhood. but right now that are wanting us, would you look at that kind of landscape? you can feel ha ha, the situation is yeah, in, in this region. and this is really everywhere in this median nearby amongst fields . once filled with maze and sweet potatoes lies a village waterhole has been dry for 2 years. i was on unaccustomed athens, and that's why people are thirsty and they can't do anything about it. oh, there's no cassava, there's no maze loading. like there are no crops at all and life is very, very difficult. our daily life in the village is about rain. but right now there's nothing to sit on. we're really suffering, sang himself heading back. we stop put a roadside market that may commodity for sale water. it's got to the stage now where water trade is had set up in the cellar water. the side of the road is

a commodity. each one of these jerry cans costs about $0.50 and they're brought by people who perhaps don't have the wherewithal to go to the river themselves. the thing is even $0.50 too much for most often. the pool grow up fast here, scavenging for survival. this is the human face of our changing climate, developed countries, stalling on finance for nations like madagascar. we do well to look into those eyes . nicholas al jazeera gerardo madagascar. so workers' rights have been under scrutiny and cats hard since at one the right to host the world cup. the international labor organization says the working and living conditions for hundreds of thousands have improved in the past decades. a category official say the issue has been misused against them. a solid bon jovi

reports. how can we accept such a narrative of hate speech and racism directed at us? this has got this minister for labor showing the european parliament what he calls slanderous allegations and a malicious campaign against his country. the football world cup has put other under the microscope, especially on migrant workers who provide almost all of but as labor rapid infrastructure growth for the entire country with investment over $200000000000.00 . the quite millions of workers. those states have relied on this transient workforce for years and often economic opportunity came at the cost of many human rights. so the worked up was a catalyst for change. it can say, certainly as accelerated, the labor reforms, the ilo works all over the world, and rarely do we see change happening at this pace. max union had the international labor offices of the chapter, emphasizing the need to do more. he said others made strides to amend laws and the co follow or sponsorship system and provide compensation for victims. the

sponsorship program barred employees from changing jobs or employers. but he also admits criticism of migrant issues such as booker debts has not always been objective. this relates to the total number of south asian nationals who have died and guitar over 10 year period. it doesn't make any distinction between whether these a work related death or non work related death. in fact, it even includes people who are not even economically active. so it's really important to understand a little bit more the context in caught are the workforce is incredibly diverse. south asians are working in every sector of the economy across all income levels and they make up a huge proportion of the overall population. 50 to 60 percent of the population. the figure of 6500 is certainly misleading. but that misleading number keeps being quoted on the media. someone talks about 6500 victims. another says 10000 and a 3rd one talks about 15000 as if there was a competition. there shouldn't be any politicizing or using misinformation. so we ask that you refer to official sources like io workers have told us anonymously

about some companies not paying them on time and problems, changing employers, officials acknowledge gaps and pointed response times getting better. but the also on the media to make the distinction between companies that rig the law and the reforms being implemented by other in addition to workers related issues. thousands of single men have been forced from the accommodations. although this was a means polity issue, rather than a labor one, for many workers trying to make ends meet, it's difficult to make that distinction. labor union say in order for more gulf states to make necessary changes for migrant workers, the world must acknowledge the reform while pointing out the gaps. they're concerned, the vicious campaign against cutter could quote, decapitate the good work done over the years, some and drive it under the ra dog. the organizer is katara 20 chance to have rejected accusations. there are a fake paid football fans at the world cup. it's after videos like this of india x cheering on.