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these evacuation now placed 3 day journey to a shelter we wished, great, so on, destroys our country. someone needs to rebuild. ah, the us house select committee recommends charges against the former president donald trump, for the january 6th capital riot. ah, phillips and robin, you're watching al jazeera life by headquarters here in the day. also coming up eve, energy ministers reach an agreement to contain storing gas prices in order to reduce imports from russia. a u. k. court rules that plans to sent asylum seekers to lawanda are legal,
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but people set for deportation must have their cases reconsidered. ah indulgent indians garrett to welcome home that team after nail biting fifo world cup waiting. ah, welcome to the program, the u. s. congressional panel investigating last year's attack called the u. s. capital has called on the justice department to bring criminal charges against former president donald trump. trump denounced the charges as fake and said it was an attempt to block his white house run in 2024. mike, hannah reports now from washington, dc without objects it was for committees, the 11th and final public hearing. she already intention to summarize that whole report that will be made public on wednesday best. and to highlight his belief that the former president's actions were criminal. no man who would behave that way at
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that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation. again. he is unfit for any office of video press station served 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 its opinion. trump must be held accountable, and we'll send the letter to the justice department, outlining the 3 sins for recommending criminal prosecution. mr. chairman, on this vote, 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,
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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, the 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 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.
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mike, hannah, which is era washington. the supreme court has extended a controversial trump era. immigration policy which restricts asylum claims. the rules were imposed in 2020 aligned the government to use coven 19 protocols to block the entry of biography of the border with mexico. restrictions were due to be removed on wednesday. the supreme court decision follows a legal challenge by republican lead states to maintain the measures particle haynes reports from washington, d. c. this is the chief justice don robert to say, let's put a pause. let's keep this in place for now. he wants the rest of the justices to weigh in on this, and you want that 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, used a health code to say, we can stop everyone coming to the border. i've called the southern border instantly gets turned around and they're not allowed to apply for asylum. so there have been a lot of different legal last lot of lawsuits about this. but
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a judge recently said no, this is in human, it's in germane. it ends december 21st. so as you mentioned, the state, the states read lead by 1900 and republicans. they sued and they suited to the appellate court. that said, no, you've waited too long. so today, just today, they took it to the supreme court, and by 5 o'clock the chief chief justice had put out this order, basically giving it a temporary stay. for hollywood film produce harvey weinstein has been found guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault in los angeles. the 70 year olds already serving 23 years in jail after being convicted of rape and sexual assault. and as far as trying to new york one steam was found guilty on monday of other charges involved going to keys known as jane doe, one more than 80 women have come forward with accusations against him, spending several decades energy ministers from the european union have agreed to
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implement a cap on gas prices from february, and they'll be kept below $190.00 per megawatt hour. the members on the pressure to bring down light energy costs because they're concerned about shortages. the blog has been trying to reduce its reliance on russian gas supplies since the invasion of ukraine. w kane has both berlin. you get a sense of how unlikely this agreement seemed for many weeks. in fact, some would say several months when you hear what the relevant check minister of and check government has the presidency of the year 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 secret, i had to say to reporters after the meeting broke up and other mission impossible accomplished, and as it is in the movie a series. this last was probably the most difficult one. i am proud that the chick
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presidency finally solved the last piece or far the of the energy puzzle. once again, we have proved that her b e. o. 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 and would bring this idea of a fixed financial value for each megawatt hour. and then on the other hand, you had 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 e u commission had wanted $275.00 heroes per megawatt hour to be the price cap. the fact that it has been dropped to 180 gives you an idea of the lengths that everyone
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has had to go to to find this compromise. the case high court has ruled the government plan to send the sign and see cause to one that is legal that he partition policy was suspended in june out for a last minute challenge. the court also said the cases of 8 asylum seekers due to be deported must be reconsidered. hurry false reports from london. i gathered at 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 rwanda, to have their claims processed. and if successful to be settled, for the most part, the judges found in favor of the government. though just as lewis writing, we have concluded that it is lawful for the government to make arrangements for relocating asylum seekers to wander and for their asylum claims to be determined in
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rwanda rather than the u. k. however, 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 they 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 suddenly allowing individuals to challenge deportation to rwanda 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,
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you will not have the right to stay and we will be able to return you to your own country if it's safe or a safe alternative. like rolanda, 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 the 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 her equals it al jazeera london, still had him on his ever living in dark birth. how ukrainians dealing with daily
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power outages, following russian bombings and dangerous drawings. why those dive into poke fun at the president. and one of the biggest democracies could face jail time. ah, off we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa. nice to have you long. so the big story on tuesdays those when starting to finally taper off through the gulf. actually i think wednesday will be the better day. but you will notice an improvement by tuesday 24 degrees for us here in doha. up and down pakistan fairly settled out much to report 30 degrees in karachi. there's been some cloud cover at times, but that's drifting further toward the east. a disturbance for the southern end of the caspian sea means it's going to generate some showers in baku 7 degrees. right
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. not too far away from tehran at 11 off to turkey. we go and watch cooler era here really entrenched 9 for assembles, still breezy, still cloudy. here, just 3 degrees in the carpet of capital on kara. and even that cool spreading across the grease single digits for assets, central africa. so we've got these solid bands of rain around gab on coastal sections of congo, and we can trace it right through zombie as in bob way and moves and beat that's crack crossing over the moves and be channeled into madagascar. this is going to be quite nasty and still bursts of rain for the eastern side of south africa. meantime in the west and improvement in those conditions. keep town coming in at 24 degrees on tuesday to later. ah ah
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ah ah welcome back, you'll what you'll just leave it with me. so he'll robin in doha, reminder of all top news stories. a congressional panel has called full criminal charges to be brought against donald trump over his role in last year as a tank on the us capital. the former president sensitive attempt to block his
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whitehouse run in 2024. the supreme court has extended a controversial trump, the era immigration policy. the rules imposed in 2020, allowed the government to use k v. 19 protocols to block the entry of migrants on the border with mexico and energy ministers of agreed to impose a comp on gas prices from february. it's the latest attempt to cab an increase in energy prices since russia reduced most of its gas exports to europe. my teaching is ordered security to be strengthened in regions of ukraine's annexed ukraine, annexed by russia. he says, is to protect the local population. the president was speaking hours after meeting with the bell, a russian leader, alexander lucas shank, on his 1st race. since the invasion of ukraine said, any attempt to violate russia's borders would be met with all forces at his disposal fall under the wave of russian attacks has hit the ukrainian capital keys
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. if his military standard shot down 15 drones on monday morning, the government is rushing to install powder several cities after strikes destroyed parts of the energy grid shall stratford has more from the capital. torchlight guide shoppers along with shelves, rushes almost nightly bombardment of ukraine, electricity and energy infrastructure leads millions of ukrainians. spend much of their daily life in the dark victoria shopping with a 3 year old son daniel. they flit fighting near their home in the care of san region in april, given a keel establishment. the authority is tell us, they've stabilized the electricity situation and then there's another attack. it's been like this for the last 2 months. this week. he's got used to the darkness he's and importantly, he's not afraid we have no choice. we have to get through this emergency
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services battle fires across cube and various locations throughout the country after another russian bombardment, early monday morning. this home was completely destroyed in a village close to caves by one of 30 so called kamikaze drones. ukrainian military says it intercepted, miriam quickly shook out if a cat, okay, we got used to what is happening. it's scary. thoughts of possibly becoming homeless is terrifying. every one is scared, but we are bearing at sampling with it again. maria and denise have to carry their 2 and a half year old son david, up the stairs to their apartment on the 13th floor. because electricity is down again. so the elevator doesn't work. give us 10 days after the invasion, as russian forces advanced towards their apartment, blocking your pin, they fled to the netherlands, and then france. they have only recently return. maria comforts her son in bed.
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she tries to send him to sleep. denise has put plastic sheeting over the windows for additional protection against the sub 0 winter temperatures. the saxophone? no just no. it's pretty hard. but we try not to complain because we think of our soldiers living in the trenches in dismal conditions. but on one occasion, we didn't have electricity for 2 days at the last thing at seattle. yes, it's cold. sometimes the child is coughing. it's winter. but we can get through this and we wait for spring and victory war. no frontier that nearby is one of thousands of heated tents with generators put up in recent weeks where people can get warm and charge their devices as work continues around the clock to fully restore electricity and heating across the country. russia drone and miss, i'll attacks targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure are happening with
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increasing frequency. and that means that many people in neighborhoods like this one face another night without heating and in the dark, cha strafford al jazeera give. 3 police officers have been shot dead junior aid and the southern jordanian city of mon. the offices were looking for people involved in the killing of a senior commander during protest against rising fuel prices last week. these initial say, one of the suspects was killed during the re 9 people have been arrested and funerals have been held in garza for 8 young men who died trying to cause the mediterranean relatives blame. the israeli blockade for falls in palestinians to make the risky journey to europe in search of work. you've natalie said went to meet one of the families who lost 3 children in the, sinking the various greece and angering gods. 8 palestinian migrants who died when they're both sag of the canadian coast in october. have finally been late to rest. thousands of mourners came out to support the families
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as they received the bodies. the young men were heading to europe in search of a better life. union as yet in my course the necessary state. his father died when he was a child and he said, i will work. i may come to you all the years you spent raising me. i didn't want him to leave by. he insisted on the 3 of the victims, eunice, sammy and mohammed were members of a shy family and 20 year old man. here is still missing relative say they were tricked by guzman smuggler who lives in france. they say he promised them safe passage to italy. instead they crossed to egypt and libya. then in october, 6 months after the young men left the shars last contact with their children in legitimate de lynn, he deceived them with promises of work and brought future. what they found was
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torture and captivity. they were bait and tortured and robbed, and in the inland they died. and the smuggler said they were in prison in libya. but coast guards found the body of eunice. a shy, plotting off tunisia, the search was broadened and the others were recovered. the families pleading with authorities to keep searching for my hair and to bring him home, even if he is in a coffin. before a 100 bill felicia filling, after the suffering man, the other families have seen unexperienced in the past months. i said, staying half a 1000 years, jobless is better than migration and the torments that hold and the price you pay. poverty is pervasive in god's cell. the us says more than 80 percent of the population relies of food assistance. 15 years undoing israeli located has destroyed the economy,
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import and export restrictions have led to the collapse of both the private and public sectors. and although there are no official stepping media reports suggest that more than 860000 palestinians left the gaza strip between 272021 did not return a generation, especially of the young who sees no future at home. you must see it al jazeera garza ah, laying carry. argentina's champion footballers is about to land in as is your airport in what is iris at at one of the most thrilling fee for well cut finals and the tournaments 92 year history crowds been gathering to greet them in but his irish, the squatters guaranteed a rapturous reception in the capitol, following their victory over france, trees bo has more from buenos aires or right outside the arden time football
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association training center. and this is where the team is going to arrive. and this is where they're going to spend the night. let me show you what's going on here. we have 100 of people, maybe thousands. i'm not sure because all these there have been completely isolated because i didn't find out that have also arrived here. you so there. so i didn't national team for unit messy. they're saying that the team i've made them proud winning the world cup has been away, taught everybody's heart in this country. and also i was told you had more what we've been seeing here. there's lots of preference of the police. there are security concerns. there's hundreds of thousands of people we have seen in the past hours on the street. so there is concerns that there could be some kayla's on the streets of argentina, but that has not happened just yet. we're seeing people chanting, thinking,
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dancing, lots of demonstration stuff happening is that we have seen this country have been struggling with a huge economic crisis with a very high you lation, with exchange rate controls are complicated people lives with high poverty rate. i did away they so well come, what has happened in katherine has given people here a reason to celebrate the sick he live to his easy port where the plane is about to land at fort as i raise international airport. when it does, as we can see, it is now it will taxi and touch down, touch down in taxi, and then make its way to especially cordoned off area where the players will then bull disembark from the plane and border bus 2 especially controlled area with l. sleep overnight and then they will move from the airport to the city center. whether of course we'll expect the 33 lines,
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with millions of people that greeting them with the world cup crew have been living through a political crisis, and for president better castillo was impeached. and detained last week, after attempting to dissolve congress. but aside from the immediate causes of protests, there were a deeper underlying issues. john home went to one of his on the outskirts of the capital to find out more we met because in us, one of the marches the road to improve the impeachment and imprisonment of ex president pedal castillo. for those protests are about much more than one man. many peruvians are angry at their anti political clothes ever wanted to show us why he invited us back to his neighborhood. this is when a vista on the outskirts of lima, where he lives with his wife. she'll be to and therefore children just 40 minutes
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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 water truck, which comes once a week to fill it. it's seldom enough with a the echo under a days in which the children can wash and days the cat when there's no more what are we help each other between neighbors? afterwards i sat down with ever in the family home where the rece partly made of toppling. one of the wolves is the side of the hill. it's a small monument to the country's gaping inequality on i seek wonder. you may say this monona eat if it trains this hill could collapse at any moment that could fall and hurt my children. but what can we do? and it's the only home we have them and tell them in to you. it's obvious that children and their education at the center of this house ever worked in construction 12 hours a day to keep them fed and uniformed for the mary school for his son. stephen is an
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hour away by foot motor, taxi, and bus. my from the community desperate for a local school, and they've set aside this land on file paperwork and they say authorities even agreed to build it last year. they say that was 5 years ago. the plot still looks like this. again, at a fully because element level to petitions comp, just to get our vote, they say we're going to get your water house clinic and it never happens. nothing happens. look at how a community is, is the reality for so many peruvians who have gone out to margin a quarter of peruvians live in poverty, the same, please, and complaints play out in a multitude of shanty towns and forgotten rural villages. what do you think the politicians, i'm an answered the call for hospitals. the schools are the things that you need who bought 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
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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 home and al jazeera lima. yes, media say the founder, clubs, crypto currency exchange f t x is agreed to be extra related to the u. s. from the bahamas, son, bank and fried is facing several criminal charges related to one of the biggest financial foods in us. history is accused of stealing billions. f takes customer deposits to cover losses at his hedge fund. and human rights activists in indonesia are concerned. a new criminal code will stifle free speech in the walls, 3rd largest democracy and you will receive be insulting. the president could face trail time. jessica washington reports not from jakarta. for more than a decade, tony milwaukee on his painted sum of indonesia is best known politicians for
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national newspapers and magazines. he's known for his unflattering depictions of political elite, including the president. i can draw an i have a perspective about human rights in a niche as all i just oh yeah. i show her my feelings, my expression, my speech sir as of freedom. oh, as my as human rights are fillings? yeah. just short with drawings, cartoon caricature. but work like this could land the artist in trouble in coming years under the new criminal code ratified earlier this month, any one perceived to be insulting. the president, vice president or state institution could be imprisoned for 3 years or longer if the offense is on a digital platform. i think this is, you know, a series term to worse, the dos i often denise and policies,
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which is an authoritarian term. so we have to, i think, how to rollback how to push back. ah, this, this a maneuver many fear critical reporting will be construed as an insult. so activists journalists and political commentators have raised concern the vague wording of the law might contribute to selective enforcement. and create a climate of fear, unclear what can and cannot be the ministry of law and human rights says the government welcomes criticism and has promised to clarify uncertainties about the hundreds of articles in the code during what it calls a socialization period. under the moral people will need permission before organizing a demonstration or risk 6 months behind bars. journalists can also be jailed for distributing news that's considered unverified, exaggerated, or incomplete. some human rights lawyers are planning to challenge the law. the
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exercise of a freedom of expression, which is, oh, it is also critics through our government. it whether it's, it's bad performance is it's bad services and so on. which also done by the very glass, the people in indonesia. even if attempts to change the code are unsuccessful, tony says he won't stop speaking out. his latest comic shows how those who challenge the criminal code may become its victims. jessica washington, out to sera to carter. ah, your geology 0 lisa, horrible in doha, reminder of all top stories. the congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the u. s. capital has called for criminal charges to be brought against donald trump. it follows that a.
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