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lation to dismantle the sound bites. there are lots, lots of women who are whitely agenda, a kind of anti feminist agenda, and demand the truth. those the size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're up with here. we are determining what is the future of democracy. miss patrick, join me markham, on hill for up front on al jazeera. from inside the walls of a west african prison, comes a chance to create, to express that emotion. and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. renown choreographer shares his passion for dogs, inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of their pass and the confines of their pressed. the dance. a thieves, a weakness documentary on al jazeera, ah, a hope for peace to the democratic republic of congo. the m $23.00 says it's
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handling over some territory, the outskirts of gama to regional force. ah, i'm carried on to mrs. alto. sarah. well, not from dough. i'm also coming up. north korea denies us reports that it's supplying weapons to a russian mercenary group for use and ukraine. the u. s. braces for what's being called a bomb cy clay. it's facing a white christmas. that could be the coldest indicates. and thousands of border forestall from u. k. go on, strike, to demand better pay ah, b m 23 alms group in the democratic republic of congo says it's withdrawing from some territory as a good will gesture. if i say they'll give up
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a position in the north eastern city of cucumber to regional peace talks, commission m 23 is widely understood to be backed by a reminder, an allegation that he golly denies. east african leaders have been pushing for an end to the conflict that's forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes since october. now malcolm web is foreign developments from that canyon, that capital nairobi or an interesting development than in the conflict raging in the east of the d asi. yeah m $23.00 said that they will withdraw from the town of cuba over there. just a few weeks ago. last month they were fighting with con, goes armed forces for control of that town for several weeks. is there that the major town, the m 23 is held closest to the city of game of following advances that the armed group made in recent months? i am 23, widely understood, as you mentioned, to be a proxy of neighboring rwanda. rwandan soldiers have been filmed and photographed
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alongside and 20 three's fighters, although rwanda denies it. and now for several months, her activists in the community leaders in congo, been protesting against rwanda and uganda, who they blame for decades of military meddling levels. have been processing against western countries in particular, france in the u. k. for their silence on this matter. in recent months, the u. s. has criticized rwanda for military involvement in easton, congo, or in recent months has been a notable silence from the european union and from france and from united nations security council. now for rwanda depends on western governments, providing aid and military aid, and france is a key ally of rwanda at the moment. last year. president micron promised 5cb5b you in
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a to rhonda just month before one the sent soldiers to mose. i'm beach, where french oil jain, tow towel has a multi $1000000000.00 liquefied natural gas interest. so we've had styling from front for a month into full yet full days ago when france finally said that when the was backing in 23 and it should stop. and now we're seeing a change of direction on the ground following the high level diplomatic events. okay, now can we leave it there for now? life from not right before us. thank you. well, reagan, missouri is a contact analyst. the key the security tracker explains what led to this withdraw discussion. but so far they didn't get that was so that those are the other issues that we definitely broke up last week about a still keep on by mark blade when you before
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that. how good for the last couple of months when you did that, we did that because of the coming from different governments, but we know from the last 3 weeks from the us government by growth. so we hope that that also because of these reports, written edwards from, from the us show there is a runtime. there is a bit you bought from. yeah. so i think that's the thing that, that my friends job that we haven't been shown on the
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phone that you free is willing now to make just the with regard to this, these are the us congressional panel investigating law says, capitol hill attack has released its final report declaring the blame lies with one man, donald trump hearings into how the insurrection on january, the 6th happened, and who was responsible focused most on the role played by the former president. and sandra buyers reports. she reckon the january 6th committee has cemented its place in the history books, the combination of 18 months of work more than 1000, witness testimonies, and more than a 1000000 pages of evidence summarized in an 845 page report. this is uncharted territory or the united states for the department of justice to actually weigh whether or not to break charges against donald trump. the report details how then president donald trump carried out
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a plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election result from knowingly disseminating false information. to pressuring the vice president, members of congress and local and federal officials, he failed then summoned a mob of his supporters to washington and did nothing to stop them as they attacked the capital for more than 3 hours. committee members were unanimous in their conclusion. one man cause the january 6th attack donald trump, and they've made clear he must be held accountable. earlier this week, they formerly accused the former president of inciting insurrection and other crimes, and recommended he faced criminal prosecution. the justice department is conducting its own investigation and the committee hopes its findings will be a roadmap for the special counsel heading that process. trump has dismissed what he says are fake charges as an attempt to block his white house run in 2 years time.
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analysts say it's a significant moment for us politics. this is unprecedented. we're talking about a former u. s. president and also a candidate for the president of the united states in 2020. or even though this is not by me, this certainly put pressure on the justice department to actually weigh this evidence against the former president. republicans will take control of congress in the new year, almost certainly putting an end to any further congressional investigations into the insurrection. now ensuring accountability for the attack and the decision to press charges lies solely with the department of justice. alexander buyers, al jazeera president vladimir putin as accuse washington of fighting an indirect war against russia in ukraine, using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own. the russian president also dismissed the patriot missile defense system pledged by washington. no articles with
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a pretty good regarding patriot marseilles. it's a relatively old system. it doesn't work as well as our s 300. no. nonetheless, those were confronting our side this as a defense of weapon as well. okay, but they will always be an antidote. so the people who are doing this are doing it in vain. it's just prolonging in the conflict. that's all they're giving you or the head over russian, the private military company, the wagner group, has dismissed us reports that it was see the north korean arm shipment from young has denied sending the weapons. but u. s. a national security council spokesman john kirby says, intelligent shows north korea cent rockets and missiles into russia for use by the mercenaries and ukraine. no screen officials have said publicly that they would not support russia's war and ukraine, and yet here they are. delivering arms to wagner in direct violation of a un security of, of un security council resolutions. and we're going to raise these violations with the security council alongside of our allies and partners. and of course we condemn
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north korea's actions and we urge north korea to see these delivers deliveries to wagner immediately. wasn't organized moron is not from washington dc. the white house did confirm on thursday that tom, north korea did sell law weapons to the a wall near group of which is essentially a private russian military operation, acting on behalf of the government and moscow inside the ukraine. the usaa is a very, very angry about this development. there are plants at the un security council to bring the matter up because it doesn't represent a violation of un security council resolutions involving north korea's behavior on the world stage. as well as out trying to bring up new concerns about the behavior of iran, which has also been providing military support, particularly in the form of drones to our russia as it continues its invasion of
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ukraine, of the position here at the state department is that tom north korea needs to be held to account, but beyond an extensive us sanctions regime officials here don't want to get into any more specifics about what else could be done to try to curb the behavior of pyongyang. in this, a war south korea's military says north korea has 5 to short range ballistic missiles towards the sea, off its east coast. the weapons are said to have been fought from the sin on area. the report comes days off the north launched to all the missiles from young has conducted an unprecedented number of tests this year was really police of shot dead, a palestinian man in the city of catholic custom in the occupied westbank, according to authorities. and health officials is rarely official say 9, but they are attempted to run over and shoot security personnel in the city is ready. police also say 2 officers were injured in the incident and taken the
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hospital palestinian media reports that that is family has accused israeli police of killing the man in cold blood. a suicide bomber has killed a policeman and injured 6 others in pakistan's cabin islamabad. the attack happened in the neighbourhood in the south of the city is i'm a bad that police say officers were conducting checks on the streets when they signaled a suspicious vehicle to stop. the car exploded soon after it stopped near the offices. a severe winter storm is also sweeping across the us. now the snow and extremely cold weather coincides with start the holiday travel season. patio haine has latest for many wishing for a white christmas, but not like this. a massive storm is sweeping across the entire us. 75 percent of the population will be living with freezing temperatures by weeks at storm extreme coal, whether you can see on the map, the estimated areas you know,
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as low as 50 degrees, where it said dark red pillows, 0 dangerous and threatening. this is really very serious weather large here. it's a storm so big. it has a name, elliott, the ice apocalypse is coming upon us. the talk concern the temperature on wednesday in wyoming, the temperature dropped 17 degrees celsius in just 9 minutes. meteorologist are predicting, the storm will soon get another name because of that. a bomb psych loan, that is when the atmospheric pressure drops at least $24.00 mill bars over 24 hours the same pressure as a category 3 hurricane. and it's going to be widespread, sweeping down to the south as far as texas and other states that usually don't experience extreme cold. heavy snowfall will also be an issue with wind gusts expected in some places, as high as 80 kilometers an hour. that can create white out conditions and the
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potential for people to become trapped in their cars, in temperatures that can be fatal. and it's coming right in the middle of the busiest travel season of the year. thousands of flights have been canceled, hired dr. hungry, just hopeless. honestly, the national weather service is calling this storm a once in a generation type event for much of america, a white christmas, but the coldest one, it's been in for decades. patty call hain al jazeera and b. c reporter maggie vesper has more from belvedere illinois. we are getting down to the 0 our here in the mid west and out east to get on the road and get to where you want to go for the holiday as this or makes its way east. millions across the mid west and beyond, waking up to blizzard warnings, in fact, 8 states and counting now under a blizzard warnings from montana and the dakotas out to western new york. also a growing number of governors, including in kentucky, most recently declaring states of emergency, the governor of indiana,
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hauling in the national guard to help rescue people on the roads just in case they get trapped. this, after the saw examples are less of how bad things could get white out conditions from places 2 days ago in washington also when the dakotas overnight. in denver, they've opened the denver policy of that massive arena. welcome and hundreds as a warming shelter, just in case there are power outages in that region, which is obviously a big concern here in the midwest and out used as well. officials advising people to sign up for emergency alerts as the system makes its way through and just be prepared to hunker down at home, potentially for days on ads. so the heroine al jazeera snow storms in japan, leave 8 people dead, and this more severe weather to come. rights groups condemned the use of force, bonds, police on the army in peru during protests early this month. aah!
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hello there. let's look to east asia and winter weather warnings remain across northern areas in particular for the korean peninsula and japan. now we've already seen record snow fall here. we've got another wintry blast moving in across the sea . it's going to bring some snow flurries to south korea. we've already seen disruption in traffic here, and that will also impact japan running old away from the north to the south. along that western front, we are going to see some more heavy snow to come here that is likely to cause more disruption. now behind that, there is some improvement on saturday, clear skies the beijing stretching down to that east coast. shanghai seen the temperature pick up slightly, but it is still well below the average. and we are going to see a bit of a wintry mix below its way in from the west. that's going to knock temperatures down for the likes of chan. do as well as will hand there was a move to south asia or a relatively quiet picture up across northern areas is so got some watches out for
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fog in the north west of india and pakistan. but the wet weather is plaguing the southeast of india. an sri lanka, you can see that when windy weather working its way further in land we august is very heavy, falls with thunderstorms into colombo, as well as the se. if india it's a bit of a washout of a. we can't hear that to weather ah, progress. we're a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities. for better or worse, al jazeera explores the impact of a oh and accessing vast amounts of on personal data. data land. on al
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jazeera lou. ah, the without is here reminder about top stories. now, the m 23 alms group in the democratic republic of congo, says it's withdrawing from some territory as a good will gesture. if i to say they'll give up a position in the northeast to a regional piece, talks commissioned congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the u. s . capital has released its final report recommending donald trump, the criminal charge. it says the former price didn't engage the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election russian that private military company to walk a group has dismissed reports that it received the north korean on shipment. the us
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national security council says con young, sent rockets and missiles for use by mercenaries in ukraine. thousands of border forced off or on strike in the u. k. a few days after similar action was taken by ambulance drivers and nurses that demanding a 10 percent pay increase in line. you cain lation is currently at 10.7 percent of poor running the has more from london heathrow airport. the board of force officers who over walking out over 80 days over this christmas period are the people who essentially check your passports when you arrive in the u. k. at arrivals. and here at he throw the number of flights or we're talking about somewhere in the region of $900000.00 passengers would be arriving at heathrow during that period. in total, it's been estimated that some nearly $9000.00 flights and all the airports that are affected over this 8 day period. and that would amount to around $1700000.00 passengers. who will find that when they do land,
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they're facing big cues to actually get out through arrival, through passport control and that towards the baggage reclaim i'm. it's just the latest in a series of strikes in private and public sector workers. border force have been told by the government that public sector employees and they've been told by the government they, they will get to present as a pay rise on board. of course, not happy about that. inflation running a 10 percent as far as the mitigation efforts at the border force executives are putting into place well, the executives are saying that safety and security is non negotiable. robust plans are in place that talking about drafting in members of the military and volunteer staff. people though, should be prepared for disruption, is the warning from border force chiefs is going to last 8 days. and it's going to be quite significant. now tens of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in malaysia after days of heavy monsoon. rain in northern that states of
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cannon tan and turn gonnu our worst hit. landslides and floods have submerged roads, bridges, houses, and cars. emergency services say at least 5 people have been killed for its no, he has more on how the floods are affecting people in the north. wherein a village in pursuit intern gone new state, one of the worst effected areas. nouns, the floods here, people say it was the worst in living memory. waters rose quickly. people barely had time to escape and get to relief centers that the river, not far from the village and heavy rains over the weekend, had caused the river to burst its banks. you can see the extent of the damage caused by flood waters. houses completely destroyed. zinc roofs lie on the ground. trees have been up rooted, water receded several days ago. so people have been able to return to begin the process of cleaning up. but rebuilding is going to take a lot longer, weeks, months, even now people here say they have received some aid from volunteers and also from
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the government. but it's still a long and difficult road ahead to replace what they've lost. at least 8 people have died in heavy snow storms in north western japan. the powerful weather system started on saturday. so just have cause traffic calles disrupted railway services and cut tower to thousands of homes. more severe weather is forecast in the coming days. in this came, is forum developments from south to his capital sol. a very dire story. at least 8 people. 8 dads had been attributed to weather related conditions. many of them, the elderly who were trying to plough tons of snow that had fallen over the past week. there was one particular story that came through early on this week. oh we're in her twenties who has found that inside of her car apparently trying to keep herself warm after heating had gone out at her residence,
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apparently dying of carbon dioxide poisoning in her kite o, we are also hearing of trains or connecting to as capitals up world has been suspended as weather authorities are warning up to another meter of snow through saturday morning. in some parts, china's claim it has no reports of new copays. 19 fatalities is being disputed. off the video was released, showing dozens of body bags piled up at a funeral parlor in tron king. nit southwest of china recently changed the definition of cope with deaths to only those caused by pneumonia and spiritual failure. of this hospital lobby in that chunking has been converted into a makeshift cobra. 19 ward, another room of the facilities filled with patience on the ivy trips cases or surging in china after the government began easing restrictions this month. following a wave of protests, asana pisec is from university college london. she says, china is vulnerable to
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a major outbreak. there is an immunity gap due to the 0 cover policy, which means that the majority of the population has not yet been exposed. and we do have an elderly population that been backing hesitant and it's been difficult to get the home grown vaccine available to this population. so those 2 factors mean that over 60 percent of the population can be hit in the next 90 days and is going to be very difficult to combat the tidal wave of cobra. 19 in the wake of what has been really a 3 years of quite severe cubic restriction, but some described as draconian, but it did in fact prevent many debts. and we're seeing sort of the, almost the consequences that success. now, because there are many people that will be experiencing who would for the 1st time . so i think that there's also an issue here that we could see not,
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not just myself, but other models predict that over 1000000 people i could end of died from prove it as a result of not just this way. but the consequent waves that will emerge from the current outbreak, the founder of the failed current exchange, f t. x has been released on a $250000000.00 bond. while he awaits trial. some bank when freed appeared in the us court talking, extradited from the bahamas on fraud charges. prosecutors accused of stealing billions of dollars for investors to cover losses at his hedge fund. now india is to randomly test international travelers the coby 19 as they arrive at its airports, house officials are looking for new variance of current of ours. i think this whole has more from new delhi. the message from the government is clear, precaution is better than kill. and often the alarming reports of the outbreak in china as well as the optic in cases and several other countries. the government is
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stepping up precautions. it has also all states to be on an alert. now, many of these measures are pretty standard. we seen them through the course of the pandemic. so regarding air travel, there is no flight band. but about 2 percent of all incoming international travelers are being tested at random at airports. the government is also specifically tracking the b f 7 very, and that's fueling the outbreak in china and has all states to send positive samples for sequencing. now there is no mass monday nationally, but the state of karnataka has now reinstated a mass mandate indoors. there's also a renewed focus on vaccination now, 90 percent. so almost all of the legible population in india has received both doses, but only a quarter of those people have taken the. both of those with the government is
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encouraging people to get that 3rd or 4th dose. now, since the beginning of the pandemic, india has reported the 2nd highest number of covered 19 cases. but over the last few months, there has been a steady decline. this morning. number showed that overnight in the record, it fewer than $200.00 cases. but that all fears of what another serge could do then, as well as opposition, has voted to remove its leader juan guido. the move was backed by 3 of 4 major opposition groups as a 2nd united front, i had a presidential elections in 2024. is not chateau to on the go. another consultation next week before being finalized laid out declared himself venezuela's interim precedent in 2019, following a wave of protests against the government authorities in peru say at least 22 people were killed during protest, sparked by the ousting of for president petro kasteel earlier this month rights
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groups have condemned the use of force by police on the army and are demanding investigations. ariella sanchez reports from lima. oh, tears and anger. the family of 27 year old leonardo the one god laid him to rest. then i'll see you soon. little brother, i know that we are going to die. may they be justice law again? no, now to lose one of more than 20 protesters killed in clashes with security forces. at least 4 of the victims were children. prosecutor say it is likely that most of the demonstrators were killed by gun fire in the region for your food to the arm claims. protesters attack them with blunt objects. after weeks of protests, the government declared a nation wide state of emergency allowing the army to support the police. a mistake critic, safe on the macro level that isn't available. opening the door to the military,
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increase the number of bets and the tension sort of everything doubled, which shows once again, the danger of using the military to control internal order. he that thought of the human rights will say, most of the death of the demonstrators were caused by an excessive use of force by police on the military violating human rights standards. the inter american commission for human rights in b 2 is investigating a legit violations in under why last one of the 1st cities were protestors demanded new general elections. hundreds of civilians and police officers were injured in the clashes officer. louisa slowly says protestors attacked his unit with a grenade, injuring 1515 members. lamb would be good luck. the crowd threw an object with my partner, shouted grenade. a tried to see where but it exploded and we all fell on the ground . ah, another officer we sca matches said the aftermath from the force of the explosion
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left him numb. that's when he says a mob went after him, but if not a problem, they kicked and hit me with rocks. i tried to cook my head and face with my helmet until they took it off and hid me. ah, as hundreds of people more in the depths of their loved ones, resident enough, what they has called for an investigation. ah, that many peruvians are furious saying she is responsible for this deadly political and social crisis. medina center center, cedar rapids. facebook's parent company matter will pay $725000000.00 to settle a privacy lawsuit. the social media giant is accused of allowing the 3rd parties to access users personal data. lawsuit followed revelations that the u. k. based consulting firm cambridge analytics, accessed millions of facebook profiles. a firm has been accused of using the data to help donald.

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