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ah ah, russia says it's open to more prisoners swaps with the us after the exchange. a basketball star, brittany griner for arms dealer. victor boot ah, haven't seek this is al jazeera alive from the house or coming up. you are senator chris, that's a name elise. the democratic party reducing its majority in the senate friend would
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extension several marine animals have been added to a red list of endangered species. and a 1st woke up what a final match is into extra time by time champions, brazil taking on croatia. ah, russian president vladimir putin says future prisoner swaps with the united states are possible. that's after the release of american basketball star, brittany greiner from a russian prison. she was freed, in exchange for convicted alms dealer victor boot, who was released from the u. s. jail. patty calhane reports and with this w, n. b, a basketball star, brittany grinders 10 month long ordeal, and she is back on us soil. she didn't speak to the media, moved to a military hospital for evaluation, and to be reunited with her wife and parents. griner was arrest
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a russian airport in february after authorities found traced amounts of cannabis oil in her luggage. she was sentenced to 9 years in prison. but after months of negotiation, she headed home on thursday. in exchange for the u. s. releasing the tories russian army dealer, victor boot. this video reportedly shows when it happened, the very tall griner recognizable. she walks away and a man who appears to be boots walking in the other direction. on the tarmac in the united arab emirates, written state media release, this video of grider making the journey from russia. the relief visible on her face was president joe biden announced the news in a tweet showing himself grinders wife and the vice president and secretary of state, speaking to the basketball star as she made her way on the long journey home. after months being unjustly detained in russia, helen under on tolerable circumstances. britney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and, and she should have been there all along. the,
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the americans exchanged her for victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death. he was halfway through a 25 year prison sentence, for conspiring to kill american export in anti aircraft missiles and providing support to a terrorist organization. and that is one of the reasons biden is facing some criticism of the swap. we traded a basketball player for a known terrorist, a criminal. another concern that this could get other americans are arrested overseas. but most of the complaints are that greiner is coming home alone. the u. s. fail to win freedom for former marine. paul wayland, convicted of espionage in 2020, and sentenced to 16 years in a russian prison. president biden says they'll continue negotiating for his release . greiner had written a letter to president biden, where she worried she would be forgotten to day, making it clear that wasn't the case. she's home. patty, gal, hain,
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l 0. washington. ali hashim has more now on putin's comments from moscow. present truth and said that there is a possibility for other business swaps, and it seems that the russians are after the release of vadim cross, he calls these russian calling that's in prison now in germany for being convicted of killing chechen fighter during the talk says the russian media was reporting that the russians were offering that boot and grassy call be released for well and, and the basket both there. so what happened is that the, the, the americans didn't have this possible because this needed for the negotiations with the germans because greg cove is on that and german custody. so this was the issue that made this swap the way the russians want. and the way the russian media
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is reporting complicated, so it happened and that was one russian for one americans. so this is what the, what put in said in general, that the whole russian reaction towards the release of boot is celebrate to re they think that this is very symbolic. a lawrence called as a former assistant us secretary of defense. he rejects criticism that the u. s gave up too much by releasing victor boot, i think is wonderful that we got an american who was unjustly imprisoned, you know, back home. and it also shows that even at the height of terrible tension between the united states and russia, we can still work on some other areas. mr. booth has about 6 years left. he could probably get out early for, you know, time saver good behavior. the other thing is we don't imprison russian people for
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no offences like, you know, they did with brit brittany greiner. so we're going to trade. obviously we're going to be giving some pretty hard criminals. and i think the same thing with for whale one or more fogel, the other 2 that we've been trying to get released. they didn't do anything very serious at all. i mean, in terms of compared to the russians we have. so that's been the nature whenever we have had risen or exchanges. the ones with the russians watch are pretty hard and criminals. us democrats are clinging onto their fragile control of the senate right now after sitting senate to announce plans to leave the party or zone. as christian sonoma has decided to register as an independent, she says you no longer wishes to participate in the bi partisan structure of the u . s. government. and that comes at a delicate moment for the democrats who lost control of the house of representatives in the midterm. elections, he returns he has more from washington. he says he called be fit into
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a party box. he doesn't want to go into work each. stan have to fulfill the, the orders from democratic party high command. she wants to find solutions, no matter where they may be, whether with republicans or democrats, he had the usual bipartisan stock. but actually the reality of she is an immensely unpopular figure in the democratic party. she has been standing in the way of key and legislative items on the biking and democratic gender of the last 2 years, particularly progressive issues. i mean, she would, she stood in the way of trying to and various tax breaks for wall street bankers, for example. she was standing in the way of renegotiating pharmacy school drug prices, while while raking and cache from wall street and, and pharmaceutical companies didn't make any friends. and so she was going to be primaries for the nomination, democratic party nomination in arizona, before the 2024 election. she hasn't said if he's running or not yet, but the expectation is she might be. so now that she's going into the now it should
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be on an independent, she no longer face is a primary challenge. i know me that she stays relevant because now the democrats have to wonder, well, do we now have a democratic party candidate in 2024 to to, to face sir, but then potentially having a 3 way race, which may be risky. it may split the vote, it may be, and the republicans get them so it actually stays relevant. and i think that's, that's her main. main goal here was her head off a challenge that she was likely to face in the democratic party before the next election, assuming she's running the was longest serving president has been sworn in for 6 term in office. tauriel guineas, your daughter, or young, and grandma took the presidential of the for inspecting a military for 8. the a 2 year old declared he was and always would be the leader of all equitorial unions. he sees power in a coup in 1979. and jerry and politicians have summoned the governor of the central bank over a new policy, restricting cash with tools. it aims to promote cashless transactions in africa,
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the largest economy. last week, restrictions were imposed on over the counter and atm cash with doors. the new policy meant to take effect from january. but legislators wanted suspended a funeral has been held for a palestinian teenager who was killed in an israeli raid on thursday. 17 year old molly and 4 others were killed by israeli forces in 2 different raids in the occupied. west thank has been the deadliest here for palestinians since 2006, with 217 have been killed by israeli forces, including i just need a journalist shilling. i walked in a demonstrators in peru have fought with police after the arrest of impeach president pedro kasteel, the former lead his supporters in lima and demanding his relief. kasteel was detained and removed from power on wednesday, after attempting to shut congress. and rule by decree is now facing charges of
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rebellion and conspiracy. a perusal new president vina bought a watch, was sworn in shortly after castillo's removal. mariana sanchez, reports from the captain marching for the former leader, supporters of physical gathered outside the policeman was his being held from the heart of the capital city to the south of the country. the porter say they won him priest. it is the latest political places and who bid on wednesday when you're working peach by congress. when he left the presidential palace the order to arrest him had already been issued. he was on his way to the mexican embassy to seek asylum at garcia's own escorts. were instructed to detain him at gunpoint. he was flown to this prison on the outskirts of the capital, where he'll stay for at least the next 7 days as an investigation into allegations of rebellion and conspiracy gets under way. his lawyer has rejected the charges and
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says, can be used attention is illegal. i outside angry supporters blamed the new precedent the know what the focus the years down. yeah, that's the missing as yet. until a month ago, she was saying that if they say she custio's, that would go with him. now she takes over the presidency and says she doesn't agree with a crew to talk. but what they've been 6 precedent in 5 years. and the 1st woman to lead the nation on her 1st full day in office. she appealed for a political truth, but refused to rule out the possibility of early elections. just take a walk, some voices are calling to have early elections and that is democratically respectable. i think that after the assumption of the presidency, it's time for a bit of a reorientation of what needs to be done with the country already. in the opinion, polls say 87 percent of peruvians want fresh election,
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frustrated by years of political turmoil. most of the 2 former leaders are being investigated for some form of religious corruption, a senior being held, the sink prison as former precedent on but the system already fail. gusio and i left the whole he, marty, who is serving a 25 year sentence for human rights abuses. they are the only 2 former residents are fatal. closed congress. you legally, you know, lot of the wants to bring an end to the political feuding which has paralyzed the country for years. as she chooses those who will be in her cabinet. she wants to show poor peruvians, they will not be forgotten. adiana sanchez helped us. he dont lima, me to i still ahead, alexander were in northern australia to see how scientists are using ancient knowledge to save the great barrier reef. and millions of south koreans are set to become a year or 2 younger thanks to
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a new law. ah hello, we've got some rain in the forecast for the middle east over the next couple of days. little band cloud here is a week bad of cloud is quite hard on the spot if the truth be no, but it is likely to bring some wet weather into central parts over saudi arabia, just around re i might even catch a share or 2 here in doha for a time, i think they will be fleeting. and they should be like quite a brisk wind, though, blowing through in that brisk wind. still there is a go on through sunday. it will feel noticeably fresher as we go through the next few days. further north, it is generally dryly dusting of snow over towards afghanistan's and cool enough into central parts of asia. one to 2 showers there to just make in the way across the kia as we go through the next few days. show us to across the north west of
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africa, northern parts of algeria, seeing some lavish out to knitter, also seeing some lively showers wet and windy weather to making its way across the far north of morocco, but from much of north africa. well, marshy drive, hamilton wind, bringing some mad dust haze into central and southern pass just around us. how we have got a few shall shit around. coastal parts of west africa, but nothing too much to speak of. they are weakening plenty of showers. meanwhile, across sir tropical regions of africa, right down to the south and these shouts becoming increasingly widespread this week . ah
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ah ah ah, hello again, you're watching. i just need a reminder of our top stories this. our russian president vladimir putin says future prisoner swaps with the united states all possible. it follows the release of american basketball style. brittany greiner from a russian prison, arizona senator kristen sonoma has decided to register as an independent means. the democrats now have 50 seats in the 100 seats. senate vice president carmella harris holds to tie break. police improve have for with supporters of in peach. president
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pedro castillo, he was detained and removed from power on wednesday, after attempting to shut congress and ruled by decree. people in the philippines are protesting plans by the ruling party to use money in government banks to create an investment fund. the fund is to be managed by close allies of president ferdinand marcus junior. many fear their savings might be a risk. barnaby low reports from manila, many filipinos are up in arms over a proposed investment fund that would use a public money. now, most of the outrage has been online, but there have been small protests like this out on the streets. now the initial objection was because this fund was going to draw pension money from government corporations, handling both government employees and private employees, pensions. but proponents have already backed down, now they say that they're only going to use funds from government banks,
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but still these protesters object to the proposal, my g and that is that my, me up the deposit doors, are they going to ask permission for a dose? the policy thought that maybe or not they will use their mind me for, for investment that the, i'm not sure of. but legislators and economic managers insist that this fund is necessary. and in fact, it is long overdue because the national budget just isn't enough to fund all the necessary document projects. and they said successful examples such as singapore, in indonesia, malware earnings from these kinds of sovereign wealth funds have been able to fund with infrastructure projects on the shipment. so we're in wells fund trying to get an investment. jo, that has been used by government both the 1st world and developing countries. yeah . but there are also trust issues here. the main on the bill that comes in on the
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current president recording on global mark is junior, the speaker of the house marketing. while this week and one of the co authors is his son, representative was angel marcos, the press, the parents of the president, clinton and marcus senior, and e mail demarco's, former 1st lady, the whore and power back in the seventy's and eighty's are believed a 100 and estimated a $5.00 to $10000000000.00 from government coffers. you know, so there is fear that this be good. go the way a malaysia's one and the b where $4500000000.00 where they are more diverted for long shall companies and officer bank accounts. former malaysian prime minister now g result is in fact serving a 12 year sentence in connection with the one. nb takes a 9 people have died in an explosion at a coal mine in indonesia. it's not known what caused the blast in west too much, but authorities believe the mind is filled with methane gas. rescuers are trying to evacuate. one person still trapped south koreans will get
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a year or 2 younger in january, at least on paper. the government has passed laws to scrap the countries to traditional counting systems in favor of an standard international one. this includes the tradition of counting people as one year old at birth and adding one year every january. first. unit kim, reports from sol. dear stay here is often left with a little bit of anchor and that's because on january 1st one year is automatically added to everybody's age. much like it was for our ancestors. this means also for babies. was there a boy? there are automatically one year old, making the korean age, often one to 2 years older than the international standard or world around the sun, which is being used in legal and health matters. which again, we use international age when banking. so i often get confused. that said the
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change at least on paper, starting in the middle of 2023 president you sonya is set to sign a bill that was nearly unanimously approved by a parliament to standardize age and south korea to align with international norms. so how do south koreans feel about getting younger next year from a from 72 years old? now that means are we 70 years with the change? i also think it'll be great news for people who are getting married later. people over 40 years old voices, they're reflecting what was found in a september survey, 8 out of 10 people that they agree with the change. only 6 percent said keep the status quo. but given the hierarchical structure of south korea society observer say it will likely take some time before the international age. truly seeks into the social structure. how reports has revealed the devastating impact human
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activity is having on marine species across the globe. the international union for conservation of nature has put some populations of the plant eating do gone on its red list for risk of extinction. its numbers of dwell dwindled in east africa and new caledonia with only several 100 left. a pillar corals have been listed as critically endangered, shrinking by 80 percent since 1990. 1 of the most urgent threats is stony coral tissue loss disease, which is infecting up to a 100 meters of reef every day. and nearly half the world's avalon species are risk of disappearing their suffering from over harvesting and poaching, as well as climate change disease and pollution. a craig hilton taylor is the head of the red list unit with the international union for the conservation of nature. he has more on the report. this is the court, staggering reading. so currently with this update of the read us, we have over $150000.00 species assessed. and of those about 28 percent of
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threatened with extinction. so that's making setting itself over the years. we've been trying to improve our coverage of different sticky differently on the waitlist and the marina, or that they've got to be pushing hard. now it's time for them to marine gaps. and as them leverage are getting assessed. this is trying to reveal the story of what is really happening to, to marine life, that it is the hidden under the ocean water country. see what's going on. the people think it's all fine and they don't, they, but really and reality. we are having a huge impact on our, on our marine environment and on the see and see that we depend on for our food. and that is, it is a challenge, but it's also a great opportunity. we've got all those countries gathering among through right now to discuss the new plan called the world and said this is been up to you to highlights what is happening to ccs and to really press on the government that they need to develop a strong ambitious and really balanced framework for by diversity conservation of the next 10 years if not longer. so if you really want to hold and reverse the loss
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of adversity around the world, for a team of 1st nations, people is working with the scientists on a restoration project. on australia is great barrier reef. the custodians of the coastline are sharing 60000 years of traditional experience in history with research is using new technologies to accelerate coral growth. so o'clock reports now from far north queensland it's an annual natural phenomenon when millions of carls across the great barrier reef released bundles of eggs and spoon in a mass sporting event. researches capture some of those bundles and rhythm and a floating nursery as part of a carl regeneration project. it allows us to put those baby corals after a week of development back down where they're needed. most are neighboring reefs that are struggling. it's one of several reef restoration initiatives being child
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in a collaborative program. the teams identify degraded reefs and try to kick start the recovery process. what's different about this project is that 1st nations ranges are working side by side with scientists, sharing knowledge handed down over generations. we have this generational connection with the gripe, our roof, and it's armor symbolic. so whatever happens to reef happens to ross, whatever applesauce absolute results will your indigenous ranges are also working with 2 groups. cheering lessons from the ancestors through storytelling at so many people are, are working here a span of about i think it's nearly coming up to 6 years now since i was about 15 years old. we actually die original people i with the nation with the guy barry, we knew obviously the aboriginals, the families that connections the land overseas that they have um and how they tell the stories. but we never knew about the he climate change from psych loans to
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warmer waters, driven in part by rising greenhouse gas emissions has devastated some of the 3000 coral reefs that make up the unesco world heritage site. this team is trying to buy time for the great barrier reef by combining ancient knowledge with new technology . there are at least 70 traditional owner groups along the great barrier reef. not every one of them is involved in risk management, but it's hoped over the next 10 years. these conservation projects can be scaled up to include more ganges to so also came to share this skill set. it's a really unique partnership to work across different groups like this. it really hasn't been done in this way before. and i think there's an object opportunity with this project to bring it up and down the great barrier reef in this different catchment. the team has released 30000000 co lovers since the project began 3 years ago. it's a small step, but one in the right direction for a reef the united nation says is in danger. sarah clark outers era can ah, i,
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let's get an update from the opening a well cub court. a final, a cut our 2022 brazil are in front against croatia at the education city stadium. the match went to extra time after it ended goal us 90 minutes, but in the 1st extra period, brazil's name are, has put them one nail up and there's around 10 minutes to plate. monica inaccurate joined us live now from rio de janeiro and monica. i would imagine there is more than a few relieved and happy fans there, at least for now. oh yes, it was an enormous relief. we were standing here waiting to come up, alive, and well. everybody was very chance they were waiting for that goal that never came . and finally, the mar sport and everybody was jumping and just throwing around our water in the air. a very, very active, very, really, it is the 77, all in the,
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for the brazilian. do much equal the number of goals that bella did. and what the commentator you were saying that they didn't even have time to do the little, little dance of victory dance that they usually do when they score god. because it's been such a tense game and it's so hot. all right, says so as there's less than about less than 5 minutes to go. now i think on that game. so it's almost almost at the end, monica yanna, kiev live 1st. they're in rio de janeiro now in less than an hour. argentina faced the netherlands, victoria gate and b is following the action with fans. how soon work if victoria victoria, what's the atmosphere the way you are? a well, there's a couple of places that show the games live down here in the seat, and there was a huge roar of support when brazil got that goal. that very late go with one of the supports is now who persuaded to to just leave that match. for the last few minutes
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and come and talk to us. are you watching that much? you're a lifelong brazil fan. how they've been playing this evening? absolutely good. so i've been expected to have in usually, but i did crush. give them a good slide. under living one little and who else grow scored goal by now mom. the heater of brazil. yes. i think this sill be dedicated to believe day conflict to victory because belly has been for coming from element answer. and definitely this will be a great movement or having come to the, i've been qualified for your friends. now you telling me i daughter lives in doha. you've come here from india. why do you support brazil? been a brazilian fine because you know hockey field, hockey, but india really artistic. individual brilliance. they have it's shark bosses and all that. i see seem relevant. cindy game bits, brazil, phyllis. so i've been a childhood friend of brazil is what ball. although i played hockey,
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cricket and baseball never played football but great fan of brazil. right. some of the similarity in the games. yes, i won't keep you any longer. i want you to catch the last few minutes of this match . sure. as i know we, we interrupted it to come and talk to him. i said, thank you very much. i really appreciate it. so i name on getting the 77, go pull brazil for him. he equals pallet's, a brazilian. suppose his here thrilled for him. thrilled that brazil look at the moment as if they're going through. yeah, that's certainly the way it's looking right now for the moment. victoria game, the life west there. and the suit lakisha in doha. lou. this is as it always get around now, about tops, toys russian president vladimir putin says future prisoner swaps where the united states are possible,
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follows the release of american basketball style. brittany greiner from a russian prison. kimberly how kit has more from the white house. the white house is taking the signals from russia and is actively considering them a, in the context that this is a good sign for paul whalen, the american that was not able to be released as part of this exchange between brittany griner and victor boot. what we know is that the feel is here in the united states is that there is now a certain atmosphere that has been created. and there are now active discussions underway between the russian diplomats, the u. s. diplomats for the release of paul whalen. i was on a senator, kristin sonoma has decided to register as an independent. it means the democrats now have 50 seats in the $100.00 seat. senate was president carmella harris holds the tie break vote.
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