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a little house be surprised with what is what it was more than 3 and a half on the wall. i buried on time, ah, ah. euphoria in argentina, huge crowds gathered to welcome home there before world cup champion. ah, hello, i'm emily and gwen. this is al jazeera alive from jo house are coming up china races to install more hospital beds and the u. s. warrens. the searching corona virus cases is a concern for the world. and us panel recommends criminal charges against former
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president donald trump, over the january 6th riots and traffic pollution. and to many people week school, how unchecked development makes bangladesh capital one of the world's most unbelievable cities they woke up when is arjun taina and their captain at leim l messy. are hon ah, they arrived at the international airport in born series around 2 hours. the guard argentina won the football world comp abating france on penalties what is considered to be one of the best finals ever attainable parade through the center of the capital light. on tuesday, millions are expected to be out in the straits on what is a public holiday. let's get a look now at the live pictures coming out of the capital bonus areas you can see them there. it is a c, blue and white,
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and that tame bus is edging ever closer to read for bull association accommodation . i certainly incredible is saying that there and keeping in mind it is for a am in the morning. tens of thousands of people are lining the streets and they're trying to catch a glimpse of their champions. as we mentioned on sunday, argentina, bate france, in one of the most thrilling world cup finals and the tournaments 92 year history. captain leonor messy stepped off the plane and he's on board that boss with his teammates in the open air on top of their opening, an open air bus at crowds of singing and dancing and no more. no, certainly waving suit their players and the fan certainly are adoring it. this isn't the official victory parade though. that's happening much later today in about 8 hours time. choose day to day has been declared a national holiday unit celebration and those things are certainly incredible.
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before i am in the capital them or the team is making its way to the football associations training ground. although it's unlikely they're going to get much rest there. it's part of several days of non stop celebrations across argentina. on sunday address, tina bate france on penalties. and their 1st woke up when since 1986, they shattered frances strings of back to back triumphs and we'll cross back to argentina throughout the morning they were doing with as gets more well news now. and while bank has slashed its growth forecasts, the china stating it's due to coven 19 outbreaks and economic flow downs. it also blames weaknesses in the property sector, but says this is likely to recover next year as the economy reopens. on monday asian stock market tumbled off to try to feed recession as the reserve the federal
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reserve, and will banks raised interest rates in order to time inflation. and the us state department says it's concerned for the rest of the world after cities across china, scrambling to install hospital beds and made reporting just 5 clothes were lighted debts this month, begging abandoned strict pandemic control after years of locked downs, mass testing and travel restrictions were also on its way to shortages of drugs to treat the virus and it's trying to import more from abroad. global health experts have worn the situation in china is worse than officially got as the jets which akimbo has worn out from hong kong. the procurement of internationally made cove at $900.00 vaccines in china is being seen as an acknowledgment that domestically made vaccine was simply not available enough or efficient enough to deal with what is largely understood to be a widespread and fast growing outbreak of cobit 19 across the country health
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authorities have been reluctant throughout dependent 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 talent is associated with it. as comma, serious than that which the health officials in china are actually reporting. not necessarily because of their reluctance to do so, perhaps because of their difficulty and actually monitoring what it's 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 weight at the exponential growth of cases. a ton of to here when rules relax, say the could be up to 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 as
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i say, more serious than the data that's being presented by china has health officials u. s. supreme court chief justice john roberts has extended a controversial trumpet era immigration policy which restricts asylum claims. the rule known as title $42.00 was imposed in 2020, allowing the government to use covered 19 protocols to block migrants entry on the border with mexico and the restrictions were due to be removed on wednesday, the supreme court decision follows illegal challenged by republican lead states to maintain the measures. patty calhoun has more now 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 to 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,
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we can stop everyone coming to the border. i will call 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 loss. a lot of lawsuits about this, but a judge recently said no, this is and human is in germane 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. and heidi j castro has more from el paso texas near the us mexico border temperatures here in el paso vall dipped below freezing. meaning that people here are digging in for it will likely be a restless night. there recently arrived asylum seekers from nicaragua, venezuela columbia,
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who crossed the us mexican border and have just been granted temporary permission to stay here in the u. s. while they fight for their asylum cases. one man i spoke with says he had to leave behind his 7 year old son and he got our gua, he describes what he felt the moment that he turned himself into us border agents. i don't know. so in late when we arrived at the border between mexico and the united states and turned ourselves in, it was a huge relief that we were finally out of danger. where the worst was behind us would be a bus out look for all the people who are camped out by this bus station and at local churches, and at the el paso airport. there are still more waiting in mexico since the year 2020 the u. s. has use a pandemic related rule to quickly expel some 2000000 border crossers without allowing them to seek asylum. that will have been set to expire this week. but now the u. s. supreme court says, not so fast, the rule will remain in place for now,
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as the court considers whether to hear case wrought by republican let states that argues that an overwhelming tidal wave of migrants will come if the border restrictions loosen. and indeed, there has already been a historic surge of migrants with more than 2000000 people trying to cross the border into the u. s. this past year, shattering previous records still in the u. s. and the congressional panel investigating last year. capitol hill attack has recommended criminal charges against former president donald trump. it comes after an 18 month investigation into his role january 6th. the riot. trump says it's an attempt to block his 2024 white house run. my cabinet has details from washington dc without objects it was for committees, 11th and final, public hearing charity attention to summarize, the report that we made public on wednesday best and to highlighted belief that the former president's actions were criminal. no man who would behave that way at that
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moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation. again. he is on fit for any office. a video presentation 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 reasons 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
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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 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, i'll just 0 washington. still ahead on al jazeera, we look at how poverty and inequality has deepened, peruse, political crisis. and why those daring to criticize the president in one of the world's biggest democracy it could face and jail time. ah, the rain is pouring into flood had areas in portugal in spain. however, one, here's the details on tuesdays. it spreads further east and really see the divide between this right in the thick of it, lower temperatures, madrid 13, but ahead of it and a bad day in valencia, suns out the high 20 degrees. that wet and windy weather also funnel lean into ireland and britain. but again, energy is moving eastward into france,
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a low countries in scandinavia, some downpours around paris, and look at that scandinavia temperatures on the plus side. but a week ago, we were talking about snow storms in this area, quite the wind through the g, and that's knocked back temperatures in athens to single digits, run of rain through cyprus, because he has coming in at 21 degrees on tuesday. central europe then and there, so showers, moving eastward, some showers in warsaw, but i think it's going to be snowing kids with a high of to decrease top end of africa. quite accept sandstorm mornings across a huge swath of mauritania, including the capital walk shot. and some pretty nasty weather across, not only madagascar, but through the moves and big channel central most in be. and then there's been a lot of rain falling in her rory and lusaka starting to dry off though for the western cape providence in south africa kicked down 524 degrees for you on tuesday . see later. ah,
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ah, [000:00:00;00] a lou. oh oh. hello. are you watching al jazeera? i'm emily anglin. he's
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a reminder of our top stories this hour. let's head straight to argentina. is a live pictures of the world cup. when is we're just arrived. harm. tens of thousands of fans aligning the straits to great. the champions we bait france and penalties we are in contact in making their way from the airport to the football association where they'll try and get a little bit of breath before today's celebrations. it's just after 4 am local time on tuesday and it's been declared a national holiday and, and, and, you know, they don't messy and his team of 2 of the capital one a series later as part of the official parade where millions more are expected to attend the u. s. state department says it's concerned for the rest of the world after a surge of corona virus cases in china. washington says the virus could mutate, posing i, renewed global trash and a u. s. panel investigating laskey is january 6th. capitol hill attack says tom should thank criminal charges for his role in the riot. the former president says it's
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a move to block. he's 2024 run for the white house. russian president vladimir putin has ordered the strengthening of borders in moscow's, annexed regions of ukraine, saying it's to protect the local population. the president was speaking hours after meeting been a russian leader, alexander lucas shanker, on his 1st visit to belarus. since the invention of ukraine, hooton's said any attempt to violate russia's borders would be met with all forces at its disposal. name while ukraine's government is rising to restore power to several cities. after ration strikes, destroyed parts of the energy, great shall strap. it has more mat found keith torchlight guide shoppers along with shelves, rushes almost nightly bombardment of ukraine,
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electricity and energy infrastructure leads millions of ukrainians. spend much of their daily life in the dark. huh. victoria shopping with a 3 year old son, daniel. they flit fighting near their home in the care of san region in april. even akila, establishing and 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 is week . he's got used to the darkness and importantly, he's not afraid. we have no choice. we have to get through this from emergency 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 cam ecology. drones. ukrainian military says it intercepted. we read for a vaguely shook out at a cat. okay. we got used to what is happening. it's scary. thoughts of possibly
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becoming homeless is terrifying. everyone is scared, but we are bearing and sharing 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 about 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 returned. maria comforts her son in bed. she tries sent him to sleep. denise has put plastic sheeting over the windows for additional protection against the sub 0 winter temperatures. the festival? 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 as large. they had to be at the foot. yes,
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it's cold. sometimes the child is coughing. it's winter. but we can get through this when we wait for spring and victory. no from here. the mere boy 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. rogers drone and miss oil attacks targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure are happening with increasing frequency. and that means that many people in neighborhoods like this one face another night without heating and in the dark, jaw stratford al jazeera, give energy ministers from the european union have agreed to implement a cap on gas prices. from a february they will be kept below $190.00 per megawatt hour. e members are under
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pressure to bring down high energy costs because of concern shortages. 3 police officers happen shot dead in a ride in the southern at jordanian jordanian city of man. the officers were looking for those involved in the killing of a sag commander during protests against arising fuel prices. last week, police officers is say one of the suspects was killed during the right. 9 people were arrested. anti terrorism judges into nicea have sentenced a former prime minister to prison just hours after his arrest. ali laredo is accused of sending fighters to syria opposition and not a party denies the charges calling lorraine imprisonment, political attack. the parties among those demanding the resignation of president site 4 was facing a political crisis. after a former president pedro castillo was impeached to entertain. last week,
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the peruvians have long been angry about inflation and the cost of living. a quarter of the population lives in poverty, john home and when to when a vista on the outskirts, the capital lemme to find out when we met. because enough, one of the marches the road to improve impeachment and imprisonment, the vex president pedal castillo, for those protests are about much more than one man. many peruvian to angry at their anti political close. 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 from the high rise buildings and chic restaurants of the capital. here, there are no sewage pipes, no hospitals, no schools,
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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 days in which the children can wash and days because when there's normal water, we 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 and the side of the hill. it's a small monument to the country's gaping inequality. and i think when the, you a say this morning or the eat, if it trains this help 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 works in construction 12 hours a day to keep them fed and uniformed to the nearest school for his son. stephen is an hour away by foot motor, taxi, and bus. my son, the community desperate for a local school. they've set aside this land paperwork. they say authority even
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agreed to build it. they say that was 5 years ago. the plot still looks like this. in the course element. petitions come just to get our vote. do say we're going to get your water health clinic and it never happened this. nothing happens. look at our community that this 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 ru villages. what do you think? the politicians? i'm an answered the call for hospitals. the schools are the things that you need her 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 done it. we have resources, but they take them and the pupil are left forgotten. well, that's why they're angry. while allow, the bank is still spilling out onto the streets in the nation that's felt let down
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by the politicians for too long, john home. and i'll just say to lima. from a hollywood producer, harvey weinstein has been found guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault in los angeles . he's currently serving 23 years in jail, after being convicted of ripe and sexual assault. at his 1st trial in new york, one state was found guilty on monday about the charges involving and accused and known as jane jo. one, well, the asian women have come forward with accusations against weinstein spending several decades. they have demonstrated that empowered and courageous women are able to make powerful men accountable for the injustice is that they have inflicted on women. we should all be grateful to them for having made this a safer world for all of us. human rights activists in indonesia concerned a new criminal colored will stifle free speech in the world's 3rd largest democracy . anyone perceived to be insulting the president could face jail time if one of
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several articles in the controversial new law as jessica washington reports from chicago. for more than a decade, tony milwaukee on his painted sum of indonesia is best known politicians for 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 serve as of for them. oh, as my as human right. so. feelings. yeah, to short with drawings garten veteran, but work like this could land the artist in trouble in coming. he is under the new criminal code ratified earlier this month. any one perceived to be insulting that president vice president or state institution could be imprisoned for 3 years or
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longer if the offense is on a digital platform. i think this is, you know, a series term. to worse the darcy of indonesian polities, which is an authoritarian term. so we have to, ah, the think how to rollback, how to push back. ah, this, this a maneuver many fear critical reporting will be construed as an insult. some activists, analysts and political commentary who have raised his son, the vague wording of the law might contribute to selective enforcement and create a climate of fear. with 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
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a demonstration or risk 6 months behind bars. journalists can also be jailed for distributing news that's considered on verified, exaggerated, or incomplete. some human rights lawyers are planning to challenge the law. the exercise of a freedom of expression, which is, oh, it is also critics through our government or whether it's, it's bad performance is it's bad services and so on. which also done by the very glass little people in, in, in nisa. even if attempts to change the code are unsuccessful, tony says he won't stalk speaking out. his latest comic shows how those who challenge the criminal code may become its victims. jessica washington out to sera to carter in malaysia, flooding has displaced more than 60000 people. to states have been affected. residency the worst flooding and more than 30 years. 5 children have died at 3 of
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whom were electrocuted while waiting through flood waters. over the past 20 years, bangladesh is capital has lost more than 2 thirds of its wetlands to land. graham's unregulated development is raising the risk of floods and is tamya challenging reports. it's making data one of the world's most and livable seasons. with the population of more than 20000000 people, dark as a mega city and the economic harbor bangladesh. the rapidly growing economy has led to high demand for land. but it comes at a considerable cost to the environment and estimated 70 percent off its wetlands have been lost to unplanned development. in the past 2 decades. doc, i used to have canals and wetlands all around it. now they no longer exist. it's all concrete. many people have moved from rural areas to city. 3 rivers and circle decker, but they're polluted and the surrounding forest are gradually disappearing. as the
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city limits expand, environmental experts say, in many instances, land grabbers fill up wetlands with waste and sand. then to get a lease agreement from the government and gradually build commercial and housing projects on it. the process eventually legalizes. what start says something illegal . urban migration is also increasing as a result of climate change. more people are migrating to darker from low lying areas which are prone to flooding. a sea levels rise very low. do i go i left boiler island a long time ago. my ancestors fumbling in homes got washed away by the sea. so i moved to dark. awful. work one study suggests 2000 people movie or every day. authorities said there is a shortage of adequate housing infrastructure and water and waste management systems, which is increasing the spread of diseases. yes, land grab yes, land grabbing is a problem in the canals and river are narrowing and losing their desk due to the dumping of pollution,
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which causes flooding. the government has taken the initiative to fight against land grubbers and those who occupy parks and other spaces are been planner, said development projects in it to be regulated. if the government wants to reclaim wetlands and expend sustainably, cocora denominated, there are laws and a plan for the development of the city. but these are hardly implemented or enforced by the city development authorities, district administration, or law enforcement agencies. the category of the un says doctor could become the world's for most populous mega city by 2030. but few believe it's prepared to handle this growth tanveer children. i'll just leave out darker. ah, you're watching al jazeera, these are the headlines. this allen, the woke up when is argentina have arrived in one is series. these are the lightest

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