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all with it, we don't mothers reject it by their own communities. if you think that people are going to welcome them after that, of course, now we hear they're chilling and traumatic stories. the children throw stones at me, iraq's loss generation on al jazeera. ah, whose new president pushes for early elections after a nice violent demonstrations. ah, hello, i'm emily angry. this is al jazeera alive from dough house coming up. china continues to move away from its 0 carbon policy. it's zack sing, a travel app used to track close contacts,
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a grinding battle in south in ukraine. the russian controlled city of melee topple that comes under attack. and nasa is a step closer to sending humans back to the moon as the ottoman space craft splashes down safely. ah, we begin the program in peru where the new president, deena blue ha, says she will submit a bill to congress to bring the elections forward to april 2024. had 2 people were killed on sunday during protests calling for her resignation and early elections. demonstrators are also demanding the release of former president pedro castillo. he was impeached and detained. last week, marianne san has more family violent protests have wrapped it in different parts of
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the country. the process is flashed with way of policing the center of the capital on sunday. they locked me near congress as the police force them with tear gas. now processor said they won congress to be close. many of them are supporters of former president and many are demanding new election lever. i'm here to the man, the media release of our president, president and the closing of congress in the and the city of the why last 2 people were killed. 18 and 15 year old. the regional governor there said that at least 30 people were wounded. protesters took over the airport, they destroyed parts of the landing strip and prevented nearly 50 people from leaving the airport premises, including police officers who remained a hostages. protesters then burned the local police station. the governor of this
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region called up with the mac has demanded the closing of congress and new elections. this happened, a social movement in that region had declared themselves in insurgency. inside, congress wire's rotted. a law makers were debating whether to suspend the former president feels immunity president. do you know what they have sent her condolences to the families of the 2 youngsters dead in the protests and asked for com or quit . it's are saying that there is police repression and that the president was the and the interior minister must order the police to stop the use of force. a senior japanese politician says his country needs to boost its military spending because of what he calls the grim reality of threats from china and north korea. coaches who grader who is the policy chief for japan's governing party, made the comments during a visit to taiwan, which bay ging claims as chinese territory. japan is already planning to increase
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its military budget to around $80000000000.00, which would make it the 3rd largest in the worlds you grew up in san june, gone. over the past 30 years, china has increased its military spending by a multiple close to 40. north korea has a ship conducted miss saw launches in defiance of you and security council resolutions. with unprecedented frequency. in the face of this grim reality, in half measures in response, have absolutely no meaning that china is raising more. coven 19 restrictions, and moving further away from its strict pandemic rules. by jing says it will scrap a tracking app on tuesday. the service records it uses travel history through their phone signaling. if a person has been to a high risk area, the government run app has monitored people's movements for more than 2 years. for more on this. so let's bring in that richard kimber, who joins us live now from hong kong. hello there, richard. tell us
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a little bit more about this app and the significance of the move by banking. well, this is a really big deal for your average chinese citizen, because this app has been a cornerstone of china's efforts to try and stop the transmission of code 900 over the last 2 years. it effectively has kept a record of exactly where you've gotten prevented you in many cases from being able to travel from one province to another, which has been especially a big deal for chinese families who are trying to reconnect over the lunar new year holidays. now those are coming in just around 6 weeks time at the end of january, and it could be the 1st time in almost 3 years that many families are going to be able to get back together without any kind of cobit 19 hurdles gets again away. so that's really how big a deal this is your average tiny citizen. this app is being dismantled from a midnight monday when effectively no longer be a requirement for people who are trying to move from one province to another. or in some cases, just go in and out of major cities like beijing as part of a series of efforts from the government in recent days to basically dismantle their
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so called 0 cove, its strategy and trying to open up society once again. certainly is a significant move rich. it how people reacting to the easing of these restrictions, particularly after literally news, every 0 coven policy? well certainly in the large part of course, these have been welcomed because the amount of things you can now do in daily life, in china and to a lesser extent, also here in hong kong, has now become much, much easier. this of course, comes after a very rare and even unprecedented set of protests calling for an end to these regulations on the street from the public. and in some cases, even calling for the resignation of president, she, jim pink, this type of social pressure, really unheard of in this modern age or with the way that the communist party has been ruling china. but there are concerns that despite all of this opening up making like much easier. there are also concerns of course, of what could be a spike in cove at 19 cases and potentially in depth and international health
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experts. a warning that china may not be prepared for this. and that's why in the last couple of days over the weekend, particularly there's been a run on local pharmacies, people trying to stuck up on what they hope could be useful medicines to help them if they fall ill over the coming days. and the chinese government in response to that, urging people not to panic. certainly not to go and do a run on pharmacies and try to remain calm because they say they have 10 steps in place across all local districts in china. to make sure that this transition out of this 0 tolerance approach is smooth and efficient and will not result in the types of warnings from international health experts of this spike and unmanageable covey cases, which and appreciate the update to which he came to live for us there in hong kong, thank you. he was president joe biden has promised to prioritize efforts to strengthen ukraine's air defense. the president made the comments during a phone call with ukrainian, laid out for letting me zalinski on sunday. president zalinski tweeted the ladies
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also discussed maintenance of ukraine's energy sector, which has been a target of russian attacks. meanwhile, the ukrainian port of odessa has stopped operating after russia huge drawings to hit the local power grid. the city is a vital transport hub for grain exports. russia blocked, ukraine's ports in the region until july, when exports were allowed to carry on under due broke by chakiya and the us. many of the shipments going to famine stricken areas of africa and around $300000.00 people in odessa, right. in the odessa region, i still without electricity rushes to strong hit through power side electrical supplies gradually being destroy restored, but many houses and businesses remain dark and cold. in freezing winter temperatures, ukraine's president says, emergency crews have been working to try and ease doors, power shortages. why do i wouldn't restore ration works continue in the south of
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our country? we are doing everything to return lights to odessa. at this time, it is become possible to partially restore supplies in odessa and other cities. we are doing everything to reach the maximum number possible in the conditions that developed off to the russian strikes. the governor of the lou hands courageous says ukrainian forces have heater hotel that was being used by mercenaries from russia's wagner group. so he, hi, jane says fighters were killed in the blast in the town of b. come. the wagner group is a private military contractor that is closed. that is said to have close ties to kremlin. the kremlin rushes defense ministry hasn't commented on the attack. and rushes invasion has both thousands of ukrainians to put their lives on hold and defend their homes. are a challenge, spoke with a group of antarctic scientists post their research to fight on the frontline,
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a frigid landscape of snow and ice, the natural habitat for repose specialist. but this is kiera war scarred alpha suburbs, not the antarctic wilderness, elena and our colleagues should have been exploring this year. ukraine's national antarctic scientific center expedition was due to set off last february till rushes invasion froze their dreams. instead, they've hung up the polo air and their lives have taken very different parts. some of our scientists operate in and in different kinds of france. so some of them and, and bought some of them in the south. but the one group of the scientists form the old unit and they called themselves military pimpton. i believe it's a characteristically ukrainian flourish of humour to help seed him through these dark times. they even have their own badge can see that it's been been in cause like style,
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his angry reservation. this penguin battalion of arctic scientists is doing real fighting in some of the was toughest battles. the guys also on they, when they found the near bottom with again, this was for sure. involvement come back, which is tough for bath motors. i lena can see what the war is doing to friends and colleagues. she's known intimately for years. i see how he becomes old and older, and also he becomes sentimental when race and mental about motions. she like, she could start crying, watching some, some more fields all saying and, and what is it also important that we start to said, i love you. i care about you much more than before. we just march anchor is the antarctic centers technical director just out of a key of hospital following a close call and back move to the fighting. he describes the hellish krakowski of pounding, artillery and hand to hand combat the muzzle initially. be what we had
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a very difficult night battle. if i were stormed by 24 of them, they broke in from part of the building. we did not control. and the fighting was at 5 or 6 meters grenades flying every one. shooting grenades fell just one and a half meter from my head as i was in a pit under the stairs locked mikka. luke, with fiddle with, for now we are just love, can't afford to think of what he be doing. if russia hadn't attacked the are only how completely focused on the war, but i really wanted to anything. sure, to return to a peaceful life again, i want to crate something, not destroy a deal with it for now i have to destroy. unfortunately, alena is busy helping to, she's raising money and supplies food helmets, drones to send to the front lines, the things that might end up saving the lives of her colleagues, the story of ukraine's antarctic scientists and how they became the penguin legion of frontline warriors crowdfunding is one of millions of similar transformations
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everyday lives indefinitely put on hold. so they can help their country in its hour of need for each. allen's. how does era, if still a heads on al jazeera will tell you why ethnic serbs, blocking roads in northern kosovo, is tensions run high in the region. and in libyan manns in us custody accused of making a bomb that blew up a plane over scotlands. ah more rain on the way for a flight hit areas of portugal that includes that capital. lisbon and it's not just rain, but the winds as well. just seems like it has been round after round of rain for this area. we'll continue to keep tabs on it. got some snow drifting around central parts of europe. we've seen this snow, certainly a good helping of it in warsaw,
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but have snow round the balkans as while. but sophia bulgaria with a temperature of 9 degrees. it will be rain for you. snow over the higher ground, disturbed weather for southern turkey, surround talia with the high of 18 degrees, so low temperatures. let's talk about it toward the northwest. we've also seen some freezing fog here as while that's created some treacherous driving conditions. i think also treacherous driving conditions across the baltic states with this snow and wind here. blizzard like condition seemed likely on monday. let's go to the top end of africa right now. so all of that activity in the beerin peninsula is dropping down into morocco. so it's got some damp days ahead. for example, in robots, your temperature will fall off as wall to more average for this time of the year. for southern africa, south africa, not only stormy, but windy, especially for the eastern cape providence, wind gusts here, 70 kilometers per hour on monday. that's it. that's all. see you soon. ah.
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with from propaganda and managed manipulation to the colossal consequences, the listening post reveals the powers behind the media and the impact on, on life. it's one of the biggest reasons why iraq is back out of democracy. there's no accountability. oh now to sierra lou ah ah,
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hello you what you know just 0. i'm emily ang, when he's a reminder of our top stories, the sal peruse, new president will ask congress to bring elections forward to april. 2020 full, a mile to retain ages, humping, killed in projects, demanding the release of allies to toma president. pedro castillo. china says it will scrap a co good 19 travel tracking up on tuesday. the decision comes is by jean continues to relax, its strict pandemic and the u. s. has promised more, i just strengthen ukraine's age, offends president joe biden, made the promise when he spoke to you carney, late at the lonely zalinski in a phone call on sunday. so his president has held a national security meeting after unrest in the northern cause of own they've been explosions, gunfire and roadblocks, in an area where the majority of the population are ethnic serbs, barbara, and go. fha reports for a 2nd day trucks, a block in 2 main roads,
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leading to border crossings between crossover and serbia. that softer overnight gunfire tantrum has been rising in northern crossover since the rest of a former policeman. he was part of a mass resignation of serbs from crossovers, police force last month. they were protesting plans to bind license plates issued by serbia and replaced them with once issued by the cost of government. the serbian president is demanding their release was monitor. it's important that asian panted and many of the serbs are released because they do not have any evidence against them whatsoever. that is the key point. they manufacture the indictments against them. caceres prime minister has warned, violence won't be tolerated, or to put an ambient to tear the peacekeeping mission in kosovo is supposed to create a calm and safe environment. which also means to have freedom of movement. the
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blocking of public roads with heavy machinery by criminal gangs that shows at police officers is not acceptable, and should not be repeated again in the future. serbs living in northern casa, have mounted armed attacks over government plans that consider anti serbian, the european union mission in kosovo, says a stump grenade was held at one of its armored vehicles on saturday. the blocks rule of law chief called for dialogue. this new proposal, her husband, people who by the european union support in france and germany, most of the united states and the focus of young before was real torsional negotiations. casa, were declared independence from serbia and 2008. after a war from 1998 to 1999, but some serbs in the breakaway republic said they're being marginalized. caceres president postponed local elections in the majority serb northern region until next
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april. after sab said that boy caught the pulse. barbara and gave her out to sarah a living man is in us custody. suspected of being linked to the so called lock of the bombing at 34 years ago. i bought a gala masoud is accused of making the explosive device that blew up the pam, an flight one or 3 of the scottish town of lockerbie in 1988. all 259 people on board. the flight were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground. knew as justice department says, he'll appear at a federal court in washington dc. all. luckily, bombings, nocka, the bombing rather is the deadliest ever such attack in britain. and fisher has no other gillum assert was originally indicted with offences linked to the lockerbie bombing 2 years ago. he's now an f b. i custody. how that happened will only become clear when he makes a court appearance. here in washington, dc. it was reported that he was being held in
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a libby in jail on unrelated offences. another report from libya suggested that just last month, he was kidnapped by an armed militia group. and the intention was they would hand them over to the americans for a ransom. only one man has ever been convicted of involvement in the lockerbie bombing. that happened at 34 years ago. this month when the pana jet clipper made of the seas was blown out of the skies over a lockerbie and scotland. 270 people were killed. one international law expert says the apprehension of mustard is a significant development. since a very, very clear message to, to the victims that this matter hasn't been forgotten. and those are we held accountable. the one man convicted of involvement in the lockerbie bombing was libyan abdel bassett on the ground. he was charged by the scottish authorities in 1991, eventually appeared before a panel of scottish judges in 2001, and found guilty. he was serving time in a scottish jail when in 2009,
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he was diagnosed with cancer. he was released on humanitarian grounds, and in 2012, he died in tripoli. now there are many families of those who died in the panel bombing, who believed that al mcgraw, he was wrongly convicted, that the libyans had no involvement with the pan am bombing know the americans and tend to put on trial the man that they believe built the bomb the don't the jet over lockerbie, 3 democrats from the u. s. congress have a meeting cuban government officials in havana to discuss migration. it's estimated the number of cubans arriving at the us. mexico border has gone up 6 times since last year. the congressmen spoke with cuban presidents miguel diaz canal leaders of congress, and the foreign minister on michael shifter is a senior fellow at into american dialogue. i think tank focusing on latin america and the caribbean. he says the u. s. and cuba have to cover
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a lot of ground for any effect on migration to be felt. well, this is a huge issue and it's a historic issue. it goes back many, many decades. and obviously there have been moments when that trust is really a serious attempt to overcome it in the opening under president obama. but then with president trump, the trust obviously deepened as president biden really hasn't made any significant changes to the trump policy on the margins here. and there, but fundamentally the, the sanctions, very tough sanctions that were put in place under, under trump, a, have remained. and of course, there's the historic embargo or blockade of cuba, which is an act of congress. and i think there was an expectation when there was the opening in 2015 uh, with the obama that there would be
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a move towards greater political reform and economic reform in cuba, on and greater attention to, to human rights. and if anything, the opposite has happened, there has been increased repression. and there have been some demonstrations and protest in cuba that have been put down and squashed. and so the cubans haven't helped having given the us any thing that would be helpful in terms of making a shift in policy, a significant shift which would help alleviate some of the acute a, you know, humanitarian conditions in cuba. ah, more than 100 former football players will return to the pits for the faithful legends cap into ham, or better. carlos and david torres again, and micah massa rossi conducted a drawer for the 18th. who will can pace in the day to day tournaments. it will
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take place in the days leading up to the final. after for work, the legends world camp with far incredible legends with vol champions, with players who have written the history of football, the history of the world. because we know football is the most important thing in the world. so it's the history of the world that these guys have written. they have made us fall in love, hundreds and hundreds of times with the game. the organizes have contact 2020 to say they've proved critics wrong. who said the country are fewer than 20000000, couldn't handle an influx of more than a 1000000 fans with rooms available in hotels, cruise ships and fan villages. they say concerns back capacity have been debunked. victoria gayton b has moved with fans from all
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over the world having descended on doha to which they teams compete in the world cup to thirsty weeks if the tournament ways going to be the biggest challenge who organizes particularly in terms of accommodation tele speaking alongside one of 3 m . s. c. cruise ships, which are operating as floating hotels. the person in charge of accommodation for cat or 2022 says critics concerns about capacity have been proven wrong. based on what we got from the 1st a number of people we are in a very good shape. we have even during the tournament, we have enough number of room. oh for extra fun. if we, if they would like to come throughout the tournament, fans have been staying in all suits of accommodation from hotels to tense to fan villages. like this one rasmussen, his friends from denmark. they booked a room in this cabin nearly sale stadium for $200.00 a night. we heard
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a lot of rumors about the room, sir. honestly, i'm pleasantly surprised. it actually looks decent so far so good. the fan villages have a pharmacy and are the shops complementary. buses take guess to the nearest metro station. it has everything a fan would meet you know, the cabins are clean, we have a supermarket up. we have, you know, different copies hobson. ah, places to eat is like a big screen to watch the games as well. and the atmosphere on the vibe here is great. i like having all the friends from all over all over the world. lucille marina is a 15 minute drive away. this private house boat is operated by 974 cruises. david and sam have rented it for 2 nights. that's the bed and air conditioning, which is very important. and then we have a little kitchen, which i think you can even cook in which you know, i don't plan on doing. it's proximity till the sales stadium was a deciding factor for the couple who flew in from dubai. it was his idea. i was
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skeptical, actually, and now i'm realizing he was completely right. so i actually did this once in finland, helsinki and my friends rented a house boat and i thought the idea and i heard from word of mouth it was thing existed, demand for accommodation was highest during the group stage. when 32 teams were playing 4 match his a day, the organizing committee says that in terms of bookings on the official cattle 2022 portal, the top 3 countries so far have been the united states, mexico and argentina. on peak days, there were more than a $100000.00 bookings with less than a week left of the tournament. organizes say they're ready for new visitors to arrive, especially from the countries whose teams have made it to the semi finals victoria gate and be al jazeera doha. the u. s. has been asking the question for decades. can it return to the moon and explore beyond it? now they have a cautious answer. as petticoat hey, holmes, splashed down,
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and this was the moment nasa knew success. a 1st step toward putting human back on the moon completed the latest chapter of nasa's journey to the moon comes to a close. on november 16th, the artemus one rocket lifted off and left off of order this one taking a journey deeper into space than ever before. coming within 120 kilometers of the moon. but the hardest part, getting the unmanned module back without burning up, it would re entered the atmosphere going $32.00 times the speed of sound, the heat surrounding it. more than 2700 degrees celsius. we're going to do scientists tried a new techniques to help with that and do a nominal maneuver will rest of the going to bounce off once we have 3 fully inflated main shoots, the parachutes deployed and the u. s. navy was ready and able to retrieve the capsule and the tests inside. next up, they hope to have a crew complete with
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a woman. and a person of color make the journey in 2024. but the end goal is much bigger. getting astronaut on the moon, able to build a kind of way station for further exploration. that's why this is a defining day. it is one that marks new technology, a whole new breed of astronaut. ah, a, a vision for the future. but big challenges remain before an american can step foot on the moon. the private company space x has to develop a kind of series of gas stations in space and build a lander. and there will likely be pressure from congress. these launches are costing 8 times more than was forecast in all expected to cost more than $93000000000.00 until you actually look at the earth yourself through the window. still susan kurland, the youngest person and only the 2nd woman to pilot a spacecraft tells al jazeera that she believes the eventual off is worth to have
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a private way from. i think the most important is we're inspiring, the, our, to miss generation. we're inspiring kids to wanna go into stem cells to want to shoot for the stars if you send. the landing coincided with the 50 the anniversary of the last time an american was on the moon, leaving quite the impression high was growing on one day. 60 years later, scientists believe they are one step closer to making sure some day. soon someone can take a stroll on the lunar surface. again. particle haine al jazeera. ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera. these are the headlines to south korea. new president will ask congress to bring elections forward to april 2024 following violent demonstrations. 2 people were killed in protest.

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