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this also being spied by the fee for world carp. this was made in her small dense room. you know, so coming here we had to adapt and try to feel the energy and the history of the monuments and to connect to me when you move. ah, the ukranian president is said to visit the white house on wednesday. his 1st trip abroad since russia invaded ah hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up. the taliban prohibits university education for female students across afghanistan. ambulance workers join at u. k. nurses as they
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strike over low pay and patient safety. and it was a country and chaos, no food medicine, all fuel. we take a look back at a year of economic and political crisis in sri lanka ah, bottom to the program, ukraine's president is heading to the united states, but talks with president joe biden in his 1st trip abroad since war broke out in february for letting me is the landscape posted on twitter, he hopes his visit will strengthen ukraine's resilience and defense capabilities is due to address congress and hold at several bilateral meetings. washington has been caves and biggest supporter providing about $20000000000.00 and assistance so far. shall stratford has more on the story from keith i ukrainian president followed him. zalinski seen, hey,
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it's whole thing to troops in the front line town of buck moot on tuesday. hadn't officially left his in battle country since russia's invasion nearly 10 months ago . and his visit to the u. s. ukraine's chief baccha. throughout the wool comes at a critical time. russia continues to target energy infrastructure, causing millions of people to ensure rolling blackouts and freezing winter temperatures. ukrainian military officials pointing to the ongoing joint russia bowers, military exercises as evidence that moscow is preparing for a winter offensive, possibly targeting cave. the u. s. is expected to announce another $2000000000.00 worth of assistance. and a bill currently before congress would give ukraine an additional $40000000000.00 for 2023. there is also speculation. it may supply ukraine with a highly sophisticated patriot missile defense system. despite concerns,
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among some us officials, the supplying patriots may push moscow to escalate. i think he's less concerned about congress than we were. you know, 33 months ago. it looks like congress is going to continue the same policies toward ukraine on, on weapons, and particular republicans are solid where republicans are not solid. and where i'm worried is budget support. and this is the category of money. it's billions of dollars. the tax payers are giving to make sure that the ukranian state stays afloat, and that is controversial among republicans. whitehouse says zalinski is visit on the schools, the united states commitment to supporting ukraine for as long as it takes present . lensky says the monthly costs, the defending his country is around $5000000000.00, but standing side by side with president biden in washington, and they expect you to announcement to billions of dollars more in aid, will be a very powerful signal supply that may putin. indeed, all right,
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but i'll just 0 keith estrella and china have agreed to more high level talks on trade. human rights and security is probably as foreign minister penny wong is in beijing. talks with the chinese foreign minister to try to mend relations between the 2 countries. if the 1st visit by a top astronomy in diplomat, in 4 years time between china and astronomy, i have been strained since paging, imposed tried barriers and refused an independent inquiry into the club. at 19 pandemic. i did sit at all positions on issues which are now also important to strengthens and are important to the government. relevant called compliment messes, tried blockages, human rights, as well as regional security, international security, and the norms and global rules trying to pin our prosperity. we have agreed to maintain high level engagement and we've agreed to further dialogue in arrange
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those areas. and richard kimble has more from hong kong about the china is strongly a foreign ministers meeting. certainly, leaders from both sides made it very clear that they're absolutely committed to improving this long standing difficult relationship. china's foreign minister, when he said he's prepared from his side to completely reset the ties as though the last few years haven't happened. he's blamed australia unilaterally for making this relationship so difficult under the previous administration of scott morrison in particular. but when listening to penny wong as feedback in the question and answer session after these meetings, it was clear, there's still a lot of major difficulties for this relationship. and none of them seem to have been immediately addressed. whether it's the trade sanctions that we'd imposed on australian exports to china, whether it's accessible, australian consular officials to detained australian citizens in china. whether it's australia's view, which is a western view in large part of human rights concerns in china with regards to the northwest region. of sin, jang or tibet. none of these things have been immediately addressed as
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a result of this meeting. and so it's not really clear how many steps could be taken in the short term to find a resolution on these issues. but for the time being from both sides, a commitment to more discussion and more constructive discussion and to move beyond the difficult types of diplomatic disagreement that was really commonplace during the last 3 or 4 years of australia. scott morris and leadership. thousands of ambulance staff are going on strike in the u. k. on wednesday, a day after similar action by nurses up to 100000 nurses walked off the job for a 2nd day this month, calling for better pay and working conditions. the government says it can't afford the 19 percent wage increase. they're demanding china how reports from london through college of nursing. the nurses union used to be avowedly and t strike action. oh not any more. its members now feel they have no choice. i think the pace is ridiculous,
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basically it eva time inflation. you can see that your pays actually decreasing. i would the cost of living cars as well, which is another one that i had a question about doing extra shifts function we call it make ends need, but got a good because it would need to renew. it wasn't long ago that nurses were applauded on doorsteps. up or down the country for their work saving lives during the pandemic. now they're quitting it, record numbers. i cracked because prepping as they chant doesn't pay the rent. and nor does the 4 percent pay rise currently on the table. the nurses are demanding substantially more as much as 19 percent to make up . they say for years of low pay that's failed to keep up with inflation. the government says the money just isn't there to give the nurses what they want, as well as giving the national health service what it needs to survive. you can't have one without the other the nurses say. and unless the government engages in
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people in the coming days, they board will be more of this in the do you think the progress come to a point? well, it's an excellent threats. oh, shortages on the under collect from around me and i trust is an extension for it to feature a chest well now. committed to fort not just the basic plan or sustainable nature to live and work in london. opinion polls suggest the public her on the nurse's side. yeah. getting there support despite the inevitable disruption being cause to know nurtured patient care . and that's uncomfortable for the government. determined not to give in to strike workers when increasingly being blamed for bringing the national health service to the verge of collapse. joe hall al jazeera london, it's bringing rory challenge now, who's also live for us in london. hello,
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de rory. what sort of disruption are we going to say now that ambulance workers are also walking off the job? well, i mean, and it has bosses basically saying that there are potentially going to be some emergency calls they get made today that go on all said with obviously a significant hit potentially on people's lives, whether they survive in emergency situation or not. now, we are being told that the most severe of emergency calls absolutely life threatening situations. ambulances will be dispatched to go and offer assistance. that's what category 2 calls. now, that can include someone with a suspected stroke or chest pains. those calls are going to be true, which means that an assessment will essentially be made on the phone about how serious that situation is. and if it's not sufficiently serious and there won't be
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an ambulance dispatched. so an h. s. chiefs are saying that they cannot guarantee patient safety for the next 24 hours. consequently, there is advice being given to people in england and wales at the moment about the kinds of things they shouldn't, shouldn't do. don't sort of engage in risky things like contact sports, don't go out and get particularly drunk. they're all a out of 10 ambulance services in the, in the england at the moment, which of declared critical incidence. now that's the sort of administrative thing, which means that they can offer help from, for example, the army to come in and take over some of those jobs. 10000 ambulance workers be they paramedics technicians or call handlers, are walking out today, or vital lifeline for this country in severe disruption today. so, rory, what's this all about? what to work is want well,
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for the ambulance workers, yes, it's about money, but it's not about specific. they haven't put a figure on a pay rise that they want what they are off the rates for over the whole of the entire system by which public sector pay deals are made. and then made by these things called pay review bodies as opposed to be independent organizations which are made up of the governments made up of unions made up of other stakeholders which independently assess inflammation and come to a pay recommendation. now that system is coming under increasing strain in an area that were in a moment of high inflation and tighter government spending. so that's what the union wants to overhaul, is leading to an incredible bitterness between the union's and the government. the barclay who's the health secretary has said that the union's looking author ambulance workers are deliberately doing this to cause harm to patients. that is
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something that the unions of said is very insulting. they just want essentially a conversation with the government, the government and the union say is hiding behind these pay review bodies and avoiding a direct $1.00 to $1.00 dialogue with the union. the union's want that to change, they want some kind of conversation with the government and they say, look, this difficult decision to go on strike. it comes out of financial cost as well. every strike when they walk out is losing a day's pay, and that's not something they take lightly. right, rory, make sure you keep us updated as to how the day unfolds. rory challenge live 1st day in london to afghanistan. now whether taliban has banned all female students from attending universities, the latest order cracking down on women's rights takes effect immediately. girls have already been banned from middle and high school. many countries have said a change in policy. a women's education is needed before formally recognizing the
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taliban government fill ahead on al jazeera, the challenges incoming israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu faces as he tries to form a coalition. government and germany convicts the circle secretary of evil in one of its la holocaust trans. ah, western japan has been hammered by snow. however, one years the pitcher is off the top, about 7 to 8 feet of snow on the ground here. so the setup is you get that cold air out of the barrier running through mongolia running over the water here because the waters are relatively warm. this is see effect snow so that moisture bumps into colder air. and this is the result here, but of an interesting set up though,
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on thursday, tapping into some more pacific air. that means things will be warmer, so the snow will be higher elevation. and it's going to be a washout in tokyo with a high of 16 degrees. seeing that colder air were seen the effects through eastern china as was shanghai. just the high of 6 degrees, bit of a breather through southern thailand, after picking up more than half a meter of rain as of late. still severe flooding advisories in play. the around sebo city on thursday. after india we go and around the bay had been going as this system just wobbling around here at times it will throw some foundry outbreaks though, to sri lanka. but over the next few days, it's gonna stall out in that area. they're fairly quiet through pakistan, karachi at $31.00 degrees and off to the middle east. we go, we're going to see some big rains develop for saudi arabia over the next few days that your weather see later. ah,
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ah, meets the minimum is a tough is helpful and the daughter decided to quit the rock race hoping to live better with. let's just throw everything away. hours there will exclude the simple living movement aimed at reducing personal consumption, credit and clutter, and i hope to be here as a result. a simple life on al jazeera lou . ah, ah, how about you watching al jazeera, i'm emily anglin. he's a reminder about top stories of his alum ukraine's later is heading to the united
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states, the talks with president joe biden, in his 1st trip abroad since the war broke out in february. but let me zalinski will also address congress and hold several bilateral making thousands of ambulance staff going on strike in the u. k. on wednesday, a day off to similar industrial action by nurses up to 100000 nurses, walked off the job for a 2nd day this month pulling to better pay and working conditions. and the taliban has band or female students from attaining universities in afghanistan. girls have already been banned from middle and high school. obey della bye. here is a university lecturer and founder of the campaign. let afghan girls learn. he stays . the decision to ban them from school is a huge set back for women in the country. this is a recurring nightmare, a recurring nightmares stretching over generations. the same 990 s over this is
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august 15th again, this is march 23rd when the band girls from going to high school all over again. when you something like this was going to happen almost 2 months ago, there were rumors going around and rumors that had a lot of a verification to it and authenticity to it that something like this was going to happen, which is why we did our campaign and and kept going with our campaign and the point was to show the toilet on show the world that there were going to be repercussions of for such a bad to happen. but honestly, it's just, i wish i was wrong. i wish we were all wrong. and we've been sleep walking through the day and waiting for it to sink in. so we can at least figure out what to do next. and the problem isn't that, that this is a temporary done or a change in conditions going to occur because this excuse has been running since
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the ninety's. the reason women are banned from parks, from, from schools, from a public bots, from jim's, even when they're segregated, is always some or another logistical excuse. and time is asked for and seems like the more time we give them the worst things get. i mean, i was put into shackles a few days ago and told that my crime was campaigning for girls education. and the reason was that they were very soon going to resolve it. that's what the authorities were telling me then. and look, even those people didn't know what was going to come next. and so, i mean, yeah it's, it's time to re evaluate what we've been doing. it looks like every move done by the international community towards the taliban has only appeased them, only embolden them. and it's, it's time to discuss difficult options for all of us. the deadline is looming foe
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the formation of a new israeli government in coming prime minister benjamin netanyahu has until midnight local time. to finalize his coalition from mcbride has moved from west jerusalem. this does seem to be going down to the wire for a number of different reasons. it proved to be very problematic in dealing with his new partners. because of course, there has been this shift in the right woods in the makeup up the connected. so benjamin netanyahu and the could are not only dealing with other mainstream right wing parties, but also these much smaller parties way over on the fringes of the very edges of the political spectrum at the right wing of the political spectrum. people who were considered to be on the verge of politics. now finally, they have with a few see, teach great influence over the formation of this coalition. and they have been using that exerting pressure on natural yahoo to demand various ministries and so on. in addition to that demanding special extra powers for the ministries that they
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have been promised, which is meant that netanyahu has, has to push through various bits of legislation in the connected to make all of this happen. now it does seem as though we, he has now a 10 day extension which runs out today, wednesday. it is expected that by be well before midnight. he will be able to make that all important phone call to isaac hurts. i'll be president to say yes, he does have in place his coalition and a will then have 7 days for the formal swearing in. but we do know from the makeup of this extraordinary government, that this will be the most, the, the most nationalistic, and also religiously orthodox government, that israel has had to date, israeli government is refusing to return the body of a palestinian prisoner who died in custody to his family defense when it's tiffany, again said the remains of nasa who needs would be held as a bargaining chip. there were 10 of israeli captain, i mean, had been serving multiple life sentences after being convicted for the death of 7
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israeli. he died of cancer and german court has convicted a 97 year old woman in nazi war. crimes and guard forced night was as secretary as a concentration camp in poland. between 19431945, the court found a complicit in the murder of more than 11000 people. dominic came reports, i am god softener is a frail, old woman whose elderly years have been spent in a nursing home, but whose late teenage years was spent working for the commandant of the shutoff concentration camp. as his secretary, she would type out orders for the miss treatment and then eventual murder of many thousands of people who then was the enough either of us had seriously. and we had to prove what she wrote. we analyzed all the documents which still exist from the concentration camp, and we searched for his signature and her initials, which was an incredible amount of work. you can't compare that to the trials
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against concentration camp watch guards. in her closing statement before the verdict thought anna had said she was sorry for all that had happened to tough, and that she regretted having been there at the time. in the nearly 6 years of its existence, the camp housed as many as 110000 prisoners in atrocious conditions. it's estimated more than half of them died there either through starvation, brutal working conditions, or deliberate killing. after the war polish authorities prosecuted, some of those had worked at st. off 5 of the women guards they captured, were convicted and executed by contrast for many years. neither east nor west german authorities pursued many who'd worked at the camp through the courts. only in the last few years as that changed with trials like this one does goody, is not good. and i provided the court has decided that through her work as a short hand typist at the concentration camp,
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the accused knowingly and willingly supported the cruel death of more than 10500 prisoners through guessing through the inhumane conditions at the camp. through transfers to the ash which spoken our concentration camp and through death matches, shoot off was just one camp among the many and the nazis system is death. toll was dwarfed by that of outfits and of treblinka. and yet by bringing him god forkner to justice. modern prosecutors have done what generations of postwar predecessors so often failed to do. actively pursue those who had a hand in the machinery of mass murder. dominant came al, jazeera, berlin, germany's foreign minister has handed over more than 20 cultural artifacts known as the benign, bronze. it's to nigeria, the items are a collection of sculptures and clarks that were looted from what was then the kingdom of inane, in 1897. the return is part of an agreement. the country signed earlier this year.
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godfrey mcatella is a historian and co author of the been in went book. it says the hand either is a significant stand for the german government. 12 to mid this move. it's machine was with action because sometime in the last year there is there was this, the resolution by the german government being the 1st country to accept that ownership or just go to rep about this should be given to society of origin. and now they are also taking the lead to return the largest number so far. so we don't 20. so and this property are for us woods richer on a miss objects of contra mutation. and again we, we, we see this object as very dear to us as a people because they were made by our ancestors. they are part of our civilization and a part of our living culture. because these objects are functional within the society
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to be new. people shall anchors consumer price inflation, age to 65 percent in november from at 70.6 percent. in october 2022 has been a heidi official hankens with food medicine and fuel shortages. tens of thousands of people took to the straits, blaming the government for corruption, and failing to avert a crisis. man al fernandez takes a look back. oh, rhonda christa. yeah. she lanka here for many like wasn't them would delegate, it will continue. the student leader has been detained under tara laws since august, months of shortages of food, medicine, powdered milk, fuel, and guess combined with up to 13 alone, power outages brought people to the streets, demanding present, go toby raj, boxer his brother, the prime minister, and his enter administration step down optical op, what i do
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a lot though now are we didn't expect this when we voted for them for the latest to destroy the country for us and our children. tensions escalated when government loyalist attacked peaceful protested, who had been camped outside the president's office for months. in retaliation, people taught government vehicles and ministers homes. a member of parliament was beaten to death in the violence that followed. prime minister mind the roger boxer was forced to resign, the president appointed run the vicar, missing her as the new premier. that decision did not go down well with protesters who wowed to continue their campaign. these are the scenes, the government is desperate to avoid. the crowds over at the president's house, forcing present raj boxer to flee 1st from his house. and finally, the country and the sheer number of people trying to get in to see the president vows is pausing a real problem. the prepared,
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really put attention on the political leadership and what the political leadership could do. and there was now i think recognition that there has to be political accountability. vicar missing a, stepped into the void, voted in by the pro roger pox. a parliamentary majority to complete the presidential term and he wasted no time in breaking up demonstrations. this clear out launched at midnight on the day he took his ortho warfare. but the economic issues haven't gone away. the crisis at the fuel pump and the wider sri lankan economy is far from over. despite the government's attempts to show it has things under control. what's on it, do you say they have stabilize the economy and are confident of bailouts from the international community? this crisis is primarily a governance crisis that has manifested itself as a crisis in the economy. and what's happening now is we are trying to fix that
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economy without fixing the governance. and i think that is set up to fail. president vicar missing, he says he will use the police and the military to prevent disruptions and challenges to the government's authority. that doesn't face why something with the leggy and other protest leaders who say they will not back down in 2023. with their fernandez, i'll just 0 colombo, at least dozens of children have died from one soon flooding in east in malaysia. more than 65000 people have been forced from their homes. florence louis has more from qualon, paul, to london to gun. you are the worst affected areas with the majority of people who've been displaced by floods coming from the eastern states. now where i am now is the new part of a town called bassier month, and people here say the water level was up to waste a level of just this morning. now it's begun to recede and because they've been,
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that's been a days respite from the rain. the weather forecast is heavy. rain is expected to continue until later this week. not only that water level at many river, i'm calling from dun rangel on that level, indicating still quite high and that is a cause. then there's no indication yet of people who've been displayed of when they can go home. nasa's inside lander has st. what could be its final message from the red planet? it's power supply is running out, but it managed to send this picture. the robots landed on mars 4 years ago and has been measuring vibrations from earthquakes. it also recorded the 1st sound of mash and wind. nasa will not declare the mission over until inside mrs to chickens. francisco diego is a lecture at the university college london. he says the insight land has sent back
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important information about the interior of monce. it was a very successful mission. the inside lot. london has been on mass for our for years, and they're delivering fantastic date, especially about the side or bars. one of the main things is, of course, is the interior mars, are they deployed these? i deploy, that's a moment. and this is moment that extremely sensitive could affect the impact of meat, the lights on the other side of mars, and see how the waves, the sea sneak waves, turns that are probably inside mars. i'm from that you can the deals the site structure of mars, the density, especially the land lease and layers inside of mars. and it was discovered that the, for example, that the call of mars inside this, a solid cord issa is bigger than the c was thought, is less dense on it is liquid, which is what? well, quite, quite surprised. ah.
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