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was somehow abandoned by the international community. we listen, we are paying a huge price for the war against terrorism. what's going on? and so money we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the story stuck on out . you, sir. ah . iran hangs a man linked to anti government protests since the 2nd execution in less than a week. ah, hello, i'm emily and gwen. this is al jazeera alive from dough house are coming up. peruse, new president pushes for early elections after night a violent demonstrations. china continues to move away from its 0 coven
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policy, axing a travel app used to track close contacts and paving the way for clean energy. scientists in the u. s. claim, a breakthrough in generating power through nuclear fusion. ah, welcome to the program. we begin in iran, which has executed a 2nd prisoner linked to the anti government protests that have engulfed the country. magid reza raw, nevada was publicly hanged on monday, and iranian court convicted him of fatally stabbing sir. security force members during protests last month. demonstrations have swept across iran since master and many died, while in police custody in september. dorsey jabari has more from tehran, the 23 year old magic rosara navarro,
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was convicted and his sentence upheld in the country supreme court. in late november, he was arrested on november 19th, 2 days after an incident that allegedly took place on the streets of masha, which is iran, 2nd largest city in the north east of the capital. this incident where authorities alleged that this young man stepped 2 members of the best, each military forces to death and injured another for a day ruby cctv footage of the incident. as while he was very swiftly arrested, convicted and tried in court. and then that sentence that was handed down to him was upheld in the supreme court and carried out on monday morning and much had the incident that we're discussing now is very significant because public hangings are not that common in iran. this is only the 2nd that we've heard of in the country to take place this year. the 23 year old run of ours was one of the many who
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had been sentenced to death. he's at least another 10 people that we know of that have received a death sentence for their role in the demonstrations which have led to at least 60 security forces at being killed. according to officials. here, there is also, according to human rights groups, at least $488.00 demonstrators that have been killed during the unrest that has been ongoing in iran since camber after the death of nasa. many, what we understand now is this is certainly being broadcast very publicly the scene still images of the scene of where the hanging took place on the streets in mashhad with the very much a, an attempt by officials to deliver a very clear and stern warning to demonstrators that are still continued to go out on the streets across the country. let's into some breaking news now. out of afghanistan and a series of explosions, followed by repeated gun fire,
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have been heard in the capital cobble and eye witnesses told al jazeera, the explosion took place that a building rented by chinese investors. armed men stormed the building in central cobble, and opened fire. it's not yet known who's behind the attack or if there are any casualties. a palestinian teenager has been killed by his rally forces during arrayed in the occupied west bank. his riley army carried out the operation. janine, on sunday night, 2 people were arrested. israel's been increasing military raids in occupied territories. the united nations is 20. 22 has been the deadliest year for palestinians in 16 years to peru now where new president dana blower tay, says she will ask congress to bring the elections forward to april 2024. ah, 2 people were killed on sunday during protests calling for her resignation. and
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early elections, demonstrators are also demanding the release of former president petro castillo. he was impeached and detained to last week. mariana sanchez, reports now from lima. violent protests have arrived in different parts of the country. well, protest is flashed with way of policing the center of the capital on sunday. they locked new sleep near congress as the police force them with tear gas. now protestors say they want congress to be close. many of them are supporters. a former president and many are demanding new election. leiber. i'm here to the man, the media release of our president, president. he's your and the closing of congress. in the, in the city of the why less 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
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strip and prevented nearly 50 people from leaving the airport premises, including police officers who remained hostages. protesters then burned the local police station. the governor of this region called up the mac has demanded the closing of congress and new election. this happened, a social movement in that region had declared themselves in insurgency. inside congress, buyers also erupt. it of law makers, we're debating whether to suspend former president feels immunity person in the you know, they have sent her condolences to the families of the 2 youngsters dead in the protests and asked for comb or quits or saying that there is police repression. and the press isn't, but the and the interior minister must order the police to stop the use of force. china is eating more. coven 19 restrictions. and moving further away from its strict pandemic rules. by jing says it will scrap
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a tracking up on tuesday. the records travel history through use is phones signaling. if the person has been to a high risk area, the government run app has monitor people's movements for more than 2 years, which is kimbo has more now from hong kong. 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 cove in 1900 over the last 2 years. it effectively has kept a record of exactly where you've gone and 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. so those are coming in just around 6 weeks time at the end of january, and it could be the 1st time and almost 3 years that many families are going to be able to get back together without any kind of cobit 19 hurdles. guessing in the way, so that's really how big a deal. this is your average chinese citizen. this app is being dismantled when effectively no longer be a requirement for people who are trying to move from one province to another. or in
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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 so called 0 cove, its strategy and try and open up society once again. the amount of things you can now do in daily life, in china, into electric and 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 ping this type of social pressure really unheard of in this modern age with the way that the communist party has been ruling china. but there are concerns that despite all of this opening up making life much easier. there are also concerns of course, of what could be a spike in cove at 19 cases on potentially in depth and international health experts. a warning that china may not be prepared for this in the
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us president joe biden has promised to prioritize efforts to strengthen ukraine's a defense. the president made the comments during a phone call with ukrainian later, a lot of me landscape on sunday. present the landscape tweeted that the late is also discussed maintenance of ukraine's energy sector, which has been a target of russian attack. meanwhile, the governor of the lou hands region says ukrainian forces have heater hotel that was being used by mercenaries from rushes. wagner group, so he heyday says fighters were killed in the blast. in the town of kat eve, the wagner group is a private military contractor that is said to have close ties to the kremlin rushes defense ministry hasn't commented on the attack. and the invasion has forced thousands of ukrainians to put their lives on hold and defend their homes. for a challenge spoke with a group of antarctic scientists who have paused. they were search to fight on the front line. a frigid landscape of snow and ice.
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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 signed to the extent expedition was due to set off last february, till russia's invasion froze their dreams. instead, they've hung up the polo air and their lives have taken very different parts. some of our polar scientists operate in an indifferent kind 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 humor to help seed him through these dark times. they even have their own badge. you can see that it's been been in
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contact style. he is angry by the way, this penguin battalion of arctic scientists is doing real fighting in some of the was toughest battles. the guys also on the, on the somewhere near boston with, again, this is for sure. in buffalo, come back, which is tough for bath motors. elena 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 or saying and, and what is also important that is tied to said, i love you. i care about how much more than before you actually love. march anchor is the antarctic centers technical director just out of a key of hospital following a close call and back moved to the fighting. he described a hellish coffin. he of pounding artillery and hand to hand combat the muzzle
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initially be what we had a very difficult night battle. if i were stormed by 24 of them, they broke him from part of the building. we did not control. and the fighting was at 5 or 6 meters grenades flying every one shooting but it brought grenades fell just wanted 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 laugh. can't afford to think of what he be doing. if russia hadn't attacked the r only, i'm completely focused on the war, but i really wanted to end with you 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, just the things that might end up saving the lives of her colleagues, the story of ukraine's antarctic scientists and have a became the penguin legion of frontline warriors crowd fund us is one of millions of civil or transformations everyday lives indefinitely put on hold. so they can
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help their country in its hour of need for each highlands. al jazeera, here still a hair done al jazeera cruising through a hotel crunch. how carter is accommodating football fans for the world come and will tell you why. farm is in afghanistan as struggling to export a major spies. despite a bump, a harvest su ah, anticipation is rising. and so as the atmosphere a, you read away, sponsored my cattle aways. it's getting colder and colder in east asia. what's been sitting on the side be really cold airs, finally flowing out across the open waters and that tends to generate snow showers . so you've got snow in the mix for the korean peninsula and for japan that gets
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even worse during wednesdays as an avalanche wrist about developing you know home, sheila, mountains and hawk harder leaving behind largely sunny but cold weather. if you look at the temperatures are well below average, shanghai add some wind to it and you get cold rain for taipei, joe, and hong kong. 60 in hong kong. again, he's going to be described as cold, despite the fact that it's 60 degrees. now, tropical cyclone, remember, came on board in india, china expanded itself. so the remaining thunderstorm, the stirring range is funnels nag, pull, possibly into good. you're out in by the space you'd be dry this time. yeah. but least we know why it's happening. the northern plains of india, well typically they are static and increase in the full of pollution in the cities in the winter every winter. and this winter is no different. so this is where it is like in new delhi. and unless you get something like a wind west disturbance, which is thunderstorms coming through, it won't improve. well,
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hello, are you watching al jazeera? i am emily anglin. he's a reminder of our top stories this. our iran has executed a 2nd prisoner linked to the anti government protests that have engulfed the country. magid reza bron nevada was publicly hanged. on monday, he was convicted of stabbing 2 security force members during protests last month. a series of explosions, followed by repeated gun fire, have been heard in cobble and eye witnesses. the explosion took place at a building, rented by chinese investors armed men, storms. the building opened fire. it's not yet known who's behind the attack, or if there are any casualties and peruse new president will ask congress to bring elections forward to april 2024. meanwhile, 2 teenagers had been killed in protests, demanding the release of alfred former president pedro castillo.
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let's get your latest woke up news now and the semi finals will kick off with a new official match bull. it's called the al him, which translates from arabic to the drain. it replaces the current bowl al rizla, which means the journey, brazil's kafka and spain's eco cassius led the presentation ceremony. pakistan have never qualified for a world cup, but for years most of the world's footballs have come from its northeast region. the city of cl cut makes about 2 thirds of them, including the official ball on the 2022 tournament. a summer, binge of aid has more from karachi. ah, more than 70 percent of worlds footballs are made in sal codes. $1000.00 plus factories and inflatable rubber. bladder is created, inflated, checked, and tested to make the bolts cor, ah, workers carefully attach each panel before the final product is heat sealed into
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shape. ah, the official 2022 match ball is equipped with the motion sensor inside the track to please location the moment the ball is kicked. combined with technology at the stadium, the video assistant referee are v are fixed the movement and positioning of the ball instantaneously. the ball is made with recyclable and water based inks and blues. the 20 panels, moulded together, have dimple like features to make the most aerodynamic ball for any world cup. exporters of sal court are the truly ambassadors of the pakistan around the globe. we have a wide range of product line, which is from surgical industry to debra or to sports fia, whether it is a from said larry to music instrument. this city offs shall court, which is having only a small population of 600000 people. we are contributing more than $3500000000.00 every year into the national economy. despite their manufacturing
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paris augustine has never qualified for the world cup. for many people in pakistan, the ball depicts did representation in the world cup. and some of these young players are hopeful that one day it is going to be them representing back his son in the football world cup final. you'll gain our custom made footballs being used by faithful. it's a great honor for us that the whole world will be playing with al football's never had a choice. of course, i feel really good because football is not very famous here, but now it's becoming popular in pakistan, gales, rossi playing now. sharma, jour. without a 0 karachi, let's get the latest to out of doe ha, now and head to the sick. what kiff, where victoria gate and b is standing by for us. vague, we've had a couple of days to recover since those now biting, quote, a final matches. what's the atmosphere like? they're ahead of to morrow semi. emily, normally when we're down at sea walkie,
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if we talk to the fans about by teams how the matches have been going, but because it is a rest day as much for fans. i think as for players, we have been taking the opportunity to ask them about the accommodation provision during the world cup or when you ask them where they're staying. well, talk about crew ships, desert camps, cabins and fan villages. ad b and b's is a whole host of answers that you get. now that was a lot of concern ahead of this well cut by some critics that a country of fewer than 3000000 people may not be able to cope with an influx of that. many people we've been talking to the organizing committee over the last few days about the accommodation revision, and they're really happy with how it's gone. they tell us that everybody, he wanted a room for the castle, 2022 well cup with able to get one and they say concerns about capacity have been proven wrong. mm. oh. with fans from all over the world, having descended on doha to which they teams compete in the world come the 1st 2
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weeks of the tournament. ways going to be the biggest challenge organizes particularly in terms of accommodation tele speaking alongside one of 3 m se cruise ships, which are operating as floating hotels, the person in charge of accommodation for cattle 2022 says critics concerns about capacity have been proven wrong based on what we got from the 3rd, a number of people we are in a very good chip. we have even during the tournament, we have enough numbers for her 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 tents to fan villages like this one rasmus and his friends from denmark. they booked a room in this cabin nearly sales stadium for $200.00 a night. we had a lot of roommates above the room, sir. honestly, i'm pleasantly surprised. it actually looks decent so,
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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 with me. oh, you know, the cabins are clean. we have a supermarket. we have, you know, different copies hobson, of places to eat. it was like a big screen to watch the games as well. and the atmosphere on the web here is great. i like having all the fans 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 to the sales stadium was a deciding factor for the couple who flew in from dubai. it was his idea. i was skeptical, actually, and now i'm realizing he was completely right. so i actually did this once in
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finland, helsinki and my friends rented a house boat and i thought the idea and i heard from word of mouth at this thing existed, demand for accommodation was highest during the group stage. when 32 teams were playing 4 match is 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, that were more than a $100000.00 bookings with less than a week left as the tournament organizers say, they're ready for new visitors to arrive, especially from the countries whose teams have made it to the semi finals where there is huge excitement about the semi finals down here, particularly about morocco's match on wednesday, morocco is it's hugely well supported here in doha, there, tens of thousands of americans who work here and live here all year round, but there were thousands, you've come in, all these matches and they are absolutely true when you talk to them about how well
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that team has done, they think they can go all the way when the world cup. there are also a lot of a continuum fans here that very well represented about 50000 came in from the start of the tournament, and they will tell you that they will not leave until the team is either kicked out or they, when he talked to argentinian fans about how important it is for them. they say yes, it's important because they want their country to win. but they also always mention leonor messy. they want him to be able to lift that trophy and what is likely to be his less woke up. appreciate the update, as always, victoria again, to be live, press there in sick what you saw, the world news now an as 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 kareem coach, he had grey dye, who is the policy chief of japan's governing pod. he made the comments during a visit to taiwan, which beijing claims as its territory. japan is already planning to increase its
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military budget to around to $80000000000.00, which would make it the 3rd largest in the world to grow up in san june on there. over the past 30 years, china has increased its military spending by a multiple close to 40. north korea has a ship conducted missile launches in defiance of your and security council resolutions, with unprecedented frequency. in the face of this grim reality, in half measures in response, have absolutely no meaning a living man using us custody. suspected of being linked to what's known as the lockerbie bombing from 34 years ago. abu a gala masoud is accused of making the explosive device that blew up the pan am flight one or 3 over the scottish town of law could be 988, all 259 people on board. the fly was killed as well as 11 people on the ground to rescue boats carrying more than 500 migrants and refugees have been allowed to docket ports in southern italy. the jib rents arrived in delano and the 2nd vessel
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at the port city of fiery italian authorities granted permission because of poor weather condition to the u. s. now, where the u. s. department of energy is expected to make a major announcement about creating clean energy by using nuclear fusion. us media says that for the 1st time, scientists in california have created more energy that may have used in the process . fusion has been claimed as the holy grail of clean energy. it produces little radioactive waste, no greenhouse gases, and makes lots of electricity. fusion works by fusing 2 atomic nuclei. scientists in california have been far in powerful lenses as a hydrogen pallet until a fusion reaction, cars and releases energy. scientists say one small cup of hydrogen fuel is enough to power a house for hundreds of years. rafael, her, she is a professor of a nuclear ester physics at keel university. he says the nuclear fusion is
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a key asset to renewable energy resources. this is critical. i mean, one of the major changes on the fusion. it has to take place at bay high temperatures, you know, probably in the sun that then you can fusion is what power the sun does. so at 50000000 degrees. so in order to start the fusion process, we must reach such high temperatures to be able to enable the nuclear reactions. a fusion is basically taking small nuclei, choosing them or merging them together, producing energy, whereas nuclear fission destroys a very large nuclei into small fragments. and isn't small fragments have too much neutrons that makes them radioactive and therefore hard to store and how to deal with. whereas fusion does not have create those radioactive way, so it's much cleaner. we are producing nuclear energy. i think it will require a large investment from international community governments, private groups funding agency. but in couple of decatur,
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when things are ready, it will be more productive than you fissions. so it will be a key i've sent or addition to renew my energy sources and really power the world going forward. farmers in trade is in afghanistan are struggling to find international buys for their staff from sales have been difficult since countries 7 times without going this time when the taliban returned to power last year. have me missile explains it's been a bumper season for saffron group, say the weather conditions in western have gone. it's dawn are ideal for cultivation. international agencies have trained farmers for years and it's paying off many switch to saffron off to the taliban band. their crops, he said he would make me see a lot of farmers who are earlier drink, bobby, don't to suffer. and this is one of the reasons for the increase in production also
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suffer needs less water. farmers have worked very hard to increase the quantity and the quality of cetera. saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. a kilogram can fetch nearly $2000.00 and have got to stand is a leading exporter. inherit province, it's a major source of employment, especially for women who make up most of the workforce. but this year traders are struggling to move their produce most country sever ties with the finest on when the taliban took over in august 2021. cutting off access to traditional markets. receiving payments has also been challenging. there is limitation is recon to receive our money and time and we should bring from our own our money in case we have run enough to run it through has a bank account and do buy it from ether. i'm sorry to do very i'm been brand good in here. i throw the selfie on it is a most a 100 percent of losses and transaction and wiring pharmacy doing business
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domestically has become easier. and there's less corruption, john. well no more. still hush for the yeah, some old problems have been solved. for example, it becomes faster to process people work than during previous governments. we have about 100 hectares of land under cultivation program in missouri. it's become easier to access it and look after it. transport facilities have improved. it's easier to get to cobbled by rod them in and by an recently of gone a stand revise some export it ship dried fruit, and saffron was $2000000.00 to the ear. this month grew as hope the taliban government will do more to revive industries to uplift the struggling economy. pardon him, then i'll just see that. ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera, these are the headlines this our iran has executed as.
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