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let's go to court the case for the climate on a jesse. we know what's happening in our region. we know have them get the place that others cannot. as i said, i'm going the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. ah, the u. s. house select committee recommends charges against former president donald trump for the january 6th capital riot. ah rahman, you're watching on desert life headquarters here in doha. also on the program you energy ministers reach an agreement to contain soaring gas prices. in order to reduce imports from russia or
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u. k. court rules that plans to st. silence he goes to rwanda are legal that people said, but people taishan must have that cases reconsidered. hurd, argentinians gear up to welcome home that team after nail biting world cup when ah welcome to the program. the u. s. congressional palo investigating last year's attack called the u. s. capital was called on the justice department to bring criminal charges against former president donald trump. the unprecedented move follows an exhaustive 18 month investigation into his role in the january 6th riot . trump denounced the charges as fake and said it was an attempt to block his white house run in 2024 by color, has moved from washington dc. without objects, it was the committees 11th and final public hearing. she already intention to
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summarize that whole report that we made public on wednesday and to highlighted belief that the former president's actions were criminal. no man who would behave that way at that moment in time. can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation. again. he is on a fit for any office. a video presentation 3rd, as a reminder of the events on january, the 6th 2021, and further extracts from some of the hundreds of interviews. the committee conducted in an attempt to find out what happened and how to prevent that happening again. as one fact to add, lee is most important in preventing another january 6th accountability. and the committee made clear to opinion. trump must be held accountable, and we'll send the letter to the justice department outlining reasons for recommending criminal prosecution. mr. chairman, on this vote,
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there are 9 eyes and 0 knows. the motion is agree to the justice department to so far prosecuted more than 900 people in relation to the events of january, the 6th. and today some $300.00 had been found guilty on the 1st charge recommended against donald trump obstruction of official proceedings. the justice department is conducting its own investigation into attempts by donald trump to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. and the committee hopes that its findings will provide a roadmap to the special council who's in charge of that process. the committee has also recommended that the actions of several republican members of congress be referred to the ethics committee for defining subpoenas, including to who will be buying for the how speak a position when the new congress convenes next month. but with the republican
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majority in the house, that recommendation is unlikely to be accepted. and any decision to attribute accountability for the insurrection now lie solely with the department of justice. mike hannah al jazeera washington. it also frank is a republican strategist and lawyer. he says the mission by the congressional puddled sets about president donald trump never had an opportunity up to present anything other than what he said, which is less. march peacefully let our voices tuttle, trying her to pin and so parent the committee a subpoena that he to 5 that the committee is not a court of law. it is saying it was 1 july did, but donald trump refused to appear. donald trump refused to appear because he doesn't recognize the legitimacy of this committee, and neither to the republicans in the house of representatives starting with its liter cameron's. i remember that most of donald trump's in a circle did testify including his daughter and van control, including his class,
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trusted aid, rudy giuliani. i not contesting the fact that people have responded to the subpoenas because they feared persecution themselves. but many members of congress, the leader mccarthy and other members of congress and president trump have defied the subpoenas has have other individuals. that's an individual choice. i'm just saying that the house of representatives is not a court. a wall. it is not to bridge. it isn't, that is what the dangerous precedent has been said here. let's move on to department of justice. that is conducting his own investigation into the capital riots. will you recognize that one, the justice department can investigate anything? i don't, i'm not contest that, but there has been no conclusions or charges right against president trump by the justice department. my colleague laura kyle speaking to at also franco,
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earlier in the day with your now and the u. s. supreme court has put a temporary block on the removal of a trump era immigration policy. the restrictions were put in place in 2020, to reduce a spread of coven 19. they allow for the swift deportation of asylum seekers caught out the us mexico border republican that states have been calling to keep the policy in place. public alaina's move from washington dc. this is the chief justice don roberts to say, let's put a pause. let's keep this in place for now, and he wants the rest of the justices to weigh in on this and you want it done pretty quickly. it seems like so, as you mentioned, title 42. this was, it's beginning of pandemic. donald trump, who was very anti immigration, i used a health code to say we can stop everyone coming to the border. i've been caught at the southern border instantly gets turned around and they're not allowed to apply for asylum. so there have been a lot of different leo lost, a lot of lawsuits about this. but a judge recently said, now this isn't human is inhumane. it ends december 21st. so as you mentioned,
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the state of the states red lead by 19 republicans. they sued and they suited to the, the appellate court. that said, no, you've waited too long. so it's day just to day they took it to the supreme court and by 5 o'clock the cheese chief justice had put out this order, basically given it a temporary stay for well hollywood film producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault at los angeles, the 70 year old is already serving 23 years in jail after being convicted of rape and sexual assault. at his 1st trial in new york, wednesday was found guilty on monday of other charges involving an accuser known as jane doe, one more than 8. he women have come forward with accusations of sexual assault or misconduct against weinstein spending several decades. energy ministers from the european union have agreed to implement a cap on gas prices. from february, they'll be kept below $190.00 per megawatt hour. even bizarre,
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the pressure to bring down high energy cost because it concerned about shortages. the blog has been trying to reduce its reliance on russian gas supplies. it's the invasion of ukraine, dominic caden, berlin. you get a sense of how unlikely this agreement seemed fall many weeks. in fact, some would say several months when you hear what the relevant check minister, the check government has the presidency of the ear at the moment. and they have been driving these negotiations. you get a sense of their reaction to this agreement. when you hear what use of secular had to say to reporters after the meeting broke up. and other mission impossible accomplished and as it is in the movie series. this last was probably the most difficult one. i am proud that the chick presidency finally solved the
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last piece of far the of the energy puzzle. once again, we have proved that her, the equal can deliver points here to remember is that there were several different sides to this. on one side, you had the germans, the austrians, the dutch, who really were not sure about the value that a price cap. could have him would bring this idea of a fixed financial value for each megawatt hour. and then on the other hand, you have or is one of the other sites you had several southern mediterranean e, u member states who really were as it were crying out for some degree of help. the greek minister, last week in brussels, had said this was ground 0 for greek citizens, but also e, you citizens, the commission. the ear commission had wanted $275.00 euros per megawatt hour to be the price cab. the fact that it has been dropped to 180 gives you an idea of the lengths that everyone has had to go to to find this compromise. the
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high court has rule the government plan to send asylum seekers to wanda is legal that people taishan policy was suspended in june after a last minute challenge. but the court also said the cases of a to fall and seek is due to be deported. must be reconsidered. hurry, full set has moved from london. i gathered london's high court refugee campaigners awaiting the ruling on legal challenges to the british governments. stated, aim to send the vast majority of people seeking asylum in the u. k. automatically to re wonder, to have the claims processed and if successful to be settled there. for the most part the judges found in favor of the government. though just as louis writing, we have concluded that it is lawful for the government to make arrangements for relocating asylum seekers to her wonder and for their asylum claims to be determined in rwanda rather than the u. k. however,
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the home secretary must consider properly the circumstances of each individual claimant. the court ruled that had not been done in the case of 8 individual asylum seekers whose deportation, her wonder was cooled off in june. after the european court of human rights intervened, people will have watched su as we carefully to day. and i will no, no doubt that is a legal route open to them to challenge any of the decisions made by the home office. and between that situation and the possibility of appeals moving forwards, no one should think that this litigation is going away any time she certainly allowing individuals to challenge deportation to ruined up would undermine the government's claim that the policy would deter them from trying to get to the u. k . in the 1st place, this year, the number of people making the short but dangerous crossing from france is up more than a 3rd at around 45000 people. speaking in latvia, britain's prime minister, welcome the ruling. what i want to deliver is a system whereby if you come to the u. k, illegally, you will not have the right to stay and we will be able to return you to your own
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country if it's safe or a safe alternative. like rwanda, that's a common sense position. i think of the vast majority the british public. it's my position and that's why i want to deliver as prime minister, the various organizations who are challenging the government policy have of course expressed a deep disappointment at this ruling. but they're also saying that the road is far from run on an individual basis. asylum seekers will still be able to challenge that deportations to rwanda. and as far as a generic decision is concerned, they may well be grounds for appeal. i welcome the judges from the high court today . the british, i'm secretary, has in the post cold for britain to leave the european convention on human rights to allow it more freedom to act. if any appeal against this ruling were to succeed in the european court, it would leave her colleague the prime minister, who studiously avoided that question with a difficult decision to make harry faucet al jazeera london, well still had hail. now to do the dutch prime minister apologizes to the country's historical row in slavery, calling is
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a crime against humanity unsafe guarding the planet to buy a diversity a month agreement is reached by almost $200.00 of the world. ah, here's her headlines for the america is good to have you long. this is what it's looking like. i think we're gonna see some weather alerts for rainfall in rio de janeiro. we've got this constant feet of rain coming off the atlantic just feeding into the city $25.00 degrees will be the hot for you. some storms just east of the bolivian empyrean andes. moving into brazil, there's that line of rain and showers, just pushing toward the east coast. we go to central america. most of the action is in the gulf. so let's go for a closer look because we've got some pretty severe storms, cold air meeting up with that warm and moist air out of the golf. all of this wet
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weather is going to run into florida, where i suspect we will see some fighting over the next day or so. the southwest fairly quiet, but this batch of moisture here is going to spread some snow into oregon and washington state. there's been some snow for bc's lower mainland vancouver saw on months worth of snow in 24 hours. december is your snowiest month. about 6 centimeters gives you an idea of how cold it is, minus $37.00 in white horse that is $25.00 to crease below. where you should be this time of year, some snow through the great lakes and still breezy for canada's maritime provinces . that that snow starting to wind down some spots probably about 30 centimeters ah. calling attention to inequality, pollution and extra judicial killings in kenya's low income communities, one brother killed by they don't dismiss all voices,
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but they want as the one basic an organizer on the rapper how old they need to keep off with the gun. the promethean, bothell anyhow, you saw one that could be put down the bus that he go. food brought in. generation change. can you change is coming is no doubt about it on a jessina. lou ah, both of us here what geology? 0. it means that whole robin are aligned to of all the top stories. a congressional panel has called for criminal charges to be brought against donald trump over his role last year on last year's attack on the us capitol. the former president denounced the charges as fake as that it was an attempt to block his watch has run
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in 2024. the supreme court has put a temporary block on the removal of trump era, immigration restrictions of the mexican bold. it follows the challenged by republican lead states to maintain the measures. do you energy ministers of a breach, impose a cap on gas prices from february? is the latest attempt to cab an increase in energy prices since russia reduced base of its cost sports to europe? dutch prime minister mark rota has issued an apology for countries roll in 250 years of slavery. it comes as the debate. i have a reparations intensifies as 30 call reports since nearly 150 years after abolishing slavery. the netherlands has apologized for its role in the state of trade. from the 17th to the 19th century dutch colonize was kidnapped and estimated 600000 african men women and children, and ship them to south america and slaving them on plantations. they were not alone
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. several european empires traded in millions of human lives for humbler from the ne lunch today, i apologize on behalf of the dutch government for the actions of the dutch date in the past, for my post them asleep to all enslaved people who have suffered from that act worldwide to their daughters and sons, and all the descendants thought he had an apology comes month after the recommendation of an advisory panel set up by the government after worldwide protests against the murder of american, george floyd, and 2028. described the slave trade as crimes against humanity. the ongoing impact for descent and the netherlands formerly abolished slavery in 18. 63. but the practice lasted another decade in its territories, including sir in him to day. 60 percent of the population of the tiny caribbean country lives below the poverty line. groups from former colonies have criticized
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the timing of the apology. a calling it hurried and her father, it was a lack of consultation writes campaigners say, more needs to be done to address racism in dutch society. they point to the practice of blackface during the festive season, where people dress up as the christmas characters warranty peace, which translates as black peas. prime minister rata says more than $200000000.00 will be allocated to awareness campaigns and $29000000.00 to opening a slavery museum. for many descendants of slaves, it's just not enough. human rights watch says, a true reckoning requires reparations, including restitution compensation and rehabilitation. but for now, the dutch government isn't willing to go that far. ferdy, a car out, his era protest is have gathered in sudan capital, call him to make the alarm the 4th anniversary of
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a revolution that toppled former leader omar bashir. but also calling for an end to military rule security forces that report would be 5 tick absence done grenades to disperse the crowd that the presidential palace, the protest come 2 weeks after military need assigned to deal with parties to launch a new political transition. so the african presence will rel, oppose a, has been reelected to lead the governing african national congress. it means hell lead the party into national elections in 2024 delegate. the conference in johannesburg chose on the opposing over former health ministers wally the hazy. the president has been embroiled in a burglary scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. and one china has reported 5 caves related deaths the 1st since it began raleigh by strict pandemic controls this month. the country is facing shortages of drugs to treat the virus. this trying to import more from abroad. global health experts have all these situations in china is worth the data officially suggested. richard kimber has more
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from hong kong. the procurement of internationally made cobit 19 vaccines in china is being seen as an acknowledgment that domestically made vaccines are simply not available enough or efficient enough to deal with what is largely understood to be a widespread and fast growing outbreak of co good 19 across the country health authorities have been reluctant throughout the pandemic to rely on or procure overseas made vaccines. the fact that they're now saying they're doing so is adding to international concerns that the real level of cove at 19 in the country and say talented associated with it is comma, serious than that, which the health officials in china actually reporting. not necessarily because of their reluctance to do so, perhaps because of their difficulty and actually monitoring what is thought to be a very fast spreading outbreak. research here in hong kong. we're trying to model what happened here on china by looking at the way that the exponential growth of cases occurred here. when rules relax, say the could be up to
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a 1000000 deaths in china in the coming weeks and months as a result of this fast rule. relaxation if there is not a quick and efficient vaccination drive, and that's why there are serious concerns about whether or not the data being reported in china is a true reflection on the ground, especially when there's increasing anecdotal evidence being reported in international media suggesting that the situation being faced by the public is i'd say more serious than the data that's being presented by china's health officials. the argentine is champion football as well. no, i have up to one of the most thrilling, well cut finals in the told him it's 92. yeah. his cause a catherine to greet them in point as ari's the squatters guarantee to rep, just resent she will a 2nd line to festivities in the capitol following that victory. eva. well, monica is now to capitals as he's international airport. enjoy this now live. i can
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only assume monica great anticipation and jubilation awaiting that team when they learn. yes, it seems their tireless here. people have been celebrating yesterday and they stayed until the early hours of this morning. now we're still seeing people walking down this highway. the highway has been shut down in many areas by the police to protect the airport where the team will land, which is right behind me. and right next here to this side is the building of the argent time football association. and that is where the players will stay tonight and all these people are year waiting. it is said that the plane will arrive in about 2 hours. the plane with their families has already arrived. they've been greeted by the fans. the fans have already signed the national im and they're still
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chanting and many people have been waiting year for many, many hours. it's been a hard day and, but they're very, very happy because they're happy with the victory. there was so anticipated and they're happy that you know now mfc who has been always trying to win a cup, finally made it. it's a dream come true. now the government has decreed a holiday tomorrow, and the opposition has criticized it because it says that why have a holiday there are people that want to work. so this is a divided country and that is the reason why we still don't know. he won't be received in the presidential palace or not, because many people you don't watch football, which unites the whole country to be divided by politics. indeed, of course, sir, we will continue to monitor events bear with you throughout the day and our al
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jazeera teams, mulkey, and again, there. in finance. iris korea has been living through a political crisis since phone present. petra castillo was impeached and detained last week, after attempting to dissolve congress. but aside from the immediate causes of protest, though a deeper underlying issues, a quarter of the population live in poverty, and many outside of the more prosperous districts of lima feel ignored. jehovah went to when a vista on the outskirts of the capital to find out more. we met ebert cardinal, or one of the marches the iraq to improve since impeachment and imprisonment of ex president pedal castillo. but those protests are about much more than one man. many peruvians are angry at their entire political clause ever wanted to show us why he invited us back to his neighbourhood. this is born of easter,
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on the outskirts of lima, where he lives with his wife. she'll beat her and their 4 children just 40 minutes from the high rise buildings and chic restaurants of the capital. here, there are no sewage pipes, no hospitals, no schools, no paved roads. there's no running water either. this is the family system. they have to pay for a water truck which comes once a week to fill it. it's seldom in the say the days in which the children can wash and days because when the normal water will help each other between neighbors. afterwards i sat down with them in the family home, the room partly made a pool in one of the walls in the side of the hill. it's a small monument to the country's gaping inequality. and i think when you say this morning or if it rains, this hill could collapse at any moment that i could fall and hurt my children. but what can we do? and it's the only home we have. i mean, it's obvious that children in their education to the center of this house ever
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works in construction 12 hours a day to keep them fed and uniformed the re, school for his son stephen is an hour away by the moat to taxi and bus. my son, the community desperate for a local school. they've set aside this land paperwork. they say authority even agreed to build it. they say that was 5 years ago. the plot still looks like this is a fully decor. solomon petitions come just to get our vote. do say we're going to get your water health clinic and it never happened this. nothing happened. look at our community. this is the reality for so many peruvians who has gone out to marja a quarter of peruvians live in poverty. the same pleasing complaints play out in a multitude of shanty towns and forgotten ru villages. why do you think the politicians? i'm an answered the call for hospitals. the schools are the things that you need who bought
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a k. because those who govern us have always been corrupt. they start to project and hold them up for years to complete them and fleeting the budget. they've always done it, we have resources, but they take them and the people are left forgotten. that's why they're angry by allow the bank is still spilling out onto the streets in a nation that's felt let down by the politicians for too long. john holman, out is either leaving us media say the founder of the clubs, crypto currency exchange f t. x has agreed to be expedited to the united states from the bahamas. some bank when fried is facing several criminal charges related to one of the biggest financial frauds in us. history is accused of stealing billions and f t. s. customer deposits to cover losses at his hedge fund that he $200.00 nations agrees. a landmark deal to protect the planets at the u. s. sculpt 15 by a diversity conference in canada. the cornerstone of the agreement of the pledge to
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protect 30 percent of the world's lands and oceans by 2030. christine salumi has more. i do not see objection, the packages stopped it. it was 3 30 in the morning when representatives of about 190 countries finally came to an agreement to protect biodiversity. after 2 weeks of tortures, negotiations and montreal, there was reason to celebrate. we're really thrilled to see this. we see this is the only nation of not only this up, but really years of efforts with ah, the results being a framework that makes clear and dishes and measurable goals and targets coupled with review efforts as well to track progress. the agreement pledges to protect 30 percent of the planets, land, and oceans by 2030 and increased funding for conservation efforts. but some african nations and environmental advocates wanted stronger commitments on funding for poor
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countries. at stake, 1000000 species of plants and animals, which studies say are at risk of extinction due to human activity like farming and fishing. biodiversity lasting climate change, their 2 sides of the same coin. and we need equitable funding and it's, it's just not clear from the framework if there is new money for conservation programs. another key breakthrough is the inclusion of indigenous peoples, right, says an essential component of conservation throughout the to we conference, protesters brave the montreal cold to raise awareness of endangered species and keep the pressure on delegates. the un secretary general praise the deal, but warned even more needs to be done. these is not the time to sit on the sidelines. it's a time for resolve the termination. and yes, even hope. because the spike, the limitations and long odds,
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we are working to push back against the spare to fight back against this illusion. and to find the real solutions. not perfect solutions. now it's up to individual governments to follow through on the agreement and figure out how to implement it that will involve getting rid of subsidies that are harmful to nature and essentially doubling financial resources for conservation globally by 2030. kristin salumi al jazeera ah your job deserve be so robin in doha, reminder of our top news stories, the congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the u. s. capital is called for criminal charges to be brought against donald trump. it follows an 18 month investigation into his role in the january 6th riot. the former president denounced the charges as fake.

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