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ukraine says it's holding the line against a fierce russian offensive, but warns the situation in the eastern town of sola dog is difficult. ah, i'm about to send this is i'll just leave a life. and doha also coming up the 2nd set of classified documents from joe. by this time as vice president has been found at his former office in washington, d. c, franco's. busy from a president's city center is find by the supreme court or failing to prevent the 2019 eastern sunday attacks. and a warning that unchecked power is leaving behind a sea of human suffering across the world. human white swans releases its, i'm no report we're going to begin with the war in ukraine. keep says it's forces are still holding on to the eastern time solar door, but the fighting is tough. the russian masonry wagner group has led the offensive,

but it says it's seized the town, but the kremlin is wanting against declaring what it calls a premature victory. ukraine's deputy defense minister says russia, sending more soldiers to solid off. he is face in the solid direction. the most, despite the difficult situation, ukrainian soldiers, desperately fighting russia is trying to break through our defense lines without any luck to capture sola dahl and the enemy has high losses. the carrier outside the city is covered with the bodies of persians, troops. the russians are moving over their own corpses. telstra phones got more from outside, but most in eastern ukraine were about 5 kilometers outside of buff move solid. ar is around 10 kilometers in that direction. i'm not sure whether you're going to be able to pick this audio up, but there's a lot of heavy sharing going on all around this area. we in the last few minutes as

well heard heavy machine gun fire. there's a checkpoint, very close to us as well. we will prevent you from going any further towards that check point seems as if there are only allowing the military through i was here 2 and a half, 3 months ago. and it's fair to say that the situation has dramatically changed since day. and i mean, we used to go down this road and into back moved, then it is a lot louder, a lot more heavy shelling than then. we've actually been speaking to soldiers this morning who beat inside buck mood and asking them about the situation in both moot and solid. they said to us that russian forces were in the center of solely door. they said that they were in control of that salt mine. they described russian tanks in the center of solid r as well. they said that they were concerns appropriate studs that there are

concerns among the ukrainian forces about possible escape routes for the grinding forces inside solid. all he said they were trying to do was protect a western route out of the town. we've been speaking to some of the soldiers behind his head this in this vehicle. these people have been getting ready to evacuate soldiers out of bar moods. they say that there is still a lot of civilians inside, but we also how many civilians they were inside solid. he estimated around $500.00 civilians still inside sorted. as the fighting goes on, goes on. the mercenaries have been on the front lines of the conflict in this part of eastern ukraine. how the, the me to take a closer look at the group and it's role in the war. it's a small mining town. one that could represent the 1st military breakthrough for russia in month. but the forefront of the battle is the wagner group, a private military army, finance, and equipped by the russian government,

is leader is the of gainey, pri, gozine, a former convict, and close ally of president vladimir putin. he was recently seen into so lines of solid are well this is your paper. goshen like shit, military mission. it's in backward disorder and huge. any per goshen is locked currently in a shadow war against the russian defense minister. hello, graham channels are describing survey, shall i go? he's also flashing with that regional governors like to see petersburg governor as under bad law. and he's rumored half political aspiration as of his own. private military armies unconstitutional in russia, but the wagner group has grown to become an informal, an unofficial unit of the regular russian army. that the wagner group 1st appeared during the annexation of crimea in 2014, in 2015 about 300 fighters were sent to the dumbass to support the russian backed separatists. the group has also operated in places like syria,

central african republic, libya and malley, among others. initially about 300 wagner contractors took part in the invasion of ukraine in february 2022. their mission, according to ukraine and western officials, capture and killed president vladimir zelinski by march. their presence had triple to 1000. and the pentagon currently estimates at least $50000.00 fighters operating in eastern ukraine of which only $10000.00 r contractors. the remaining 40000 r convicts. russia initially called the invasion as special military operation that would quickly achieve the kremlin schools. but it's told, and russia had to rethink its military strategy. that's when the role of this private army became more prominent in easton ukraine with the support of the regular army howitzers. they could be right as a usually i sent some kind of or are you using opa responsibility?

ah, russian regular army usually control after aerotech marseilles, us an addition and are, are this lucky group? our eyes use a special ah, units or soldiers or no possess falls, a stormy or some of her. ah, defense, orange will fall. now you career. the group also enjoys a legal loophole which allows its mercenaries to operate more freely. they are glorified in a recent he released movie, funded by the group, pulled the best in hell. even though the wagner group has been accused of human rights abuses in several countries, it operates in. what if solid are fools, it will paved away for the russian army to head south, towards back, moot and west to its crematory. it will also likely increase the popularity of de

wagner group among russians, fur, to blurring the lines between the private and regular armies. madame de la, meet al jazeera u. s. media report aids to president joe biden to find more classified documents at a private location that comes after the white house confirmed earlier this week. the department of justice is reviewing a number of other classified papers fund president biden's, former office, biden's attorneys, discover the records of the pen biden the center in november. the new documents were found at a different location. our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins tanius, now from washington. d c. so that on our reports of a 2nd group of documents which has been fine, what more do we know? we know that this is a white house that is on the defense with this discovery of the 2nd batch of documents and really dodge and questions about the timeline. particularly given the fact that 1st batch was found prior to the mid term congressional elections. but

the public was not made aware until obviously, well after now into the new year when there could have been potentially an impact and the outcome of that election. and so that has opened the white house up to fresh criticism now for its part the weight as press secretary as well as other members of the democratic party are defending the white house saying that they are full compliance of the white house council. immediately turning over these documents to the national archive and the u. s. president, for his part saying he doesn't know what is even in these documents, but certainly the efforts to quell this controversy are becoming more difficult for president biden himself. given the fact that he heavily criticized his predecessor, former president donald trump, and his mishandling of classified documents, calling it totally irresponsible. so given the fact that this has a kind of opened him up now to these allegations of hypocrisy, his republican rivals have really seized on this,

saying that the current president, joe biden has exposed sources and methods, potentially of intelligence documents. and this is certainly now becoming a sort of burgeoning guide sort of controversy for this president and a with, as time goes on, is going to be more and more difficult for the president to avoid in terms of questions. so we're watching very carefully the u. s. president expected to talk about the economy in the coming hour. we'll see whether or not he will discuss this matter any further. and so why does correspond, kimberly hawker, kimberly, thank you. it is in pounds valid, slightly against the us dollar at a plunging to a record low on wednesday, a year ago it was worth around $15.00 to $1.00 that was done to $30.00 to $1.00. this new law comes 2 months after cut agreed. a $3000000000.00 rescue loan from the international monetary fund. it asked to help after russia's invasion of ukraine drove up energy and food prices and foreign investors pulled billions out of the

economy. you asked me jose is senior economist at s and p global market intelligence. she says the fiscal policies pushing the value of the egyptian pounds down as part of the ins agreement. and so it was one of the requirements since the negotiation started back in march 2022 to have completely flexible exchange rate through gm or so i, we're seeing is that the central bank of egypt and of december hike the 8 by 3 percent. they issued a certificate of 25 percent just to what the inflation that has been an overdue for since then, november just the account. where did you buy nation from october is when and where we're looking at more and more pressure. pressure on inflation in the next few months at least until the end of the 1st quarter, where we expect that on average, it will meet with 5 percent. this is due to the variation of the pound, and we're actually looking at further weakening of the pound against the dollar. so

because the central bank has kept the rate on change for the past 2 years, this is why you have this massive dump in the variation if it had left the about the value back in 2016 when it had the, the value. and then the economy got a stronger, a rebound in tourism through a more construction and other indicators. but this time around during the condemning, it just kept the on change against the dollar. so it was just like an artificially and haven't got rates at 15 pounds for long as former presidents, in order to pay damages for failing to prevent the deadly 2019 easter sunday bomb attack. the supreme court find my 3 policy center. i received enough intelligence to act, you know, how to pay $270000.00 to victims families. 269 people were killed for an isolated

group bombed churches and hotels in the capital, colombo, but fernandez has moved from columbus. this ruling by the supreme court to the 7 judgment. the building you see behind me was in response to 12 separate fundamental rights petitions filed by a cross section of people. this was the bar association, lawyers of families, of victims who had died in those horrible attacks in 2019 the catholic church. all of them had basically sought to look for some form of answers, accountability of someone who should essentially, you know, pay the price of blame the oil or take responsibility for those 269 lives. not just the former president, my 3 policy retainer who basically has been given the hefty a fine. but there's also the chief of intelligence, the head of police at the time, the secretary of the ministry of defense and several other senior officials who

have been saw in port this kind of fine. and the key thing is that there was intelligence weeks ahead of those bomb attacks on the 4th of april. in fact, those easter bombings took place on the 21st of april. but as early as the 4th of april of the intelligence chief mylanta joe warden had received information that these attacks were likely to take place and in its judgment, the supreme court judges said there was certainty, exactitude. is there exact words of the identity of the potential attackers of the mod, of attack, as well as the targets of attack? the palestinian health ministry says, israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and the occupied westbank 41 year old. sammy rosslyn was shot in the columbia county near ramallah during an early morning rate. iceland preferred palestinian to be killed in the occupying west bank in the past 24 hours the day,

but it has more well here at the cemetery. wow. hello, and yeah, we are the budget of 41 year old, send me a salon, has been laid to rest. the father of 8 and boston is here, who with the columbia refugee camps, dallas trying to listen to his son who was arrested by is willie force was calling for him. so these are really forces came in. they arrested 17 year old drums the us land, and then they came back to the same area with his family living. and they were beating him up according to the witnesses he was calling for his father bought a father. and then as soon as i went on the rooftop to see what's happening was the son shot and killed his niece told me that the army didn't let them transform him to hospital because they said that the army needed to, to 1st car you are lawn is the 3rd palestinian to be killed in 20,

our hours here in the occupied by our and the 7th since the beginning of the year. another funeral took place in napa, the north of the occupied bank after 21 year old was told by israeli forces while he was in a loss or a few g camp. this gives you an idea about the tense situation that is unfolding here in the rust bank. now, according to the israeli forces, they were trying to arrest members of the lions den group. it's a group of young men fight these with arms in nablus. according to the lions den, they said that no one was arrested. be forced to say that they indeed succeeded in arrested arresting one of the members of the night. then still ahead on al jazeera, we're going to travel to one of the u. kay's most pro brags towns. so farming has been effected since leaving european union

ah, the who's while the air quality has freshened up in northern india. hey there everyone here is why. so we've got some rain falling in punjab states and it's our new delhi. same goes for the production some cloud cover for b har that's acting as a blanket. so your temperature is that it's low. these are your wake up temperatures on fridays. so some of those cold snap alerts have been dropped now south of this pretty quiet weather. plenty of sun looking good in bomb by with a high of 30 degrees still breezy. in karachi, we've got rain to come still for as long bud snow up against the foothills of the himalayas. but watch this waken up saturday morning. dark, the blue and the purple. the lower the temperature cobble will wake up to minus $21.00. this is some dangerous cold, out of season intense rain has now petered out across vietnam and cambodia,

but still look at this batch of what weather around sebu cities. so to the west and east of there, we've scooped up about $300.00 millimeters of rain about 3 times what you expect for january still some charges ago for indonesia is main island of java's and bigger pulses of rain around per day on friday. and this is looking more like spring and china like our plumb rains, but it's not from the yang see over the east china. see that's now pouring into a q shoe and the southwest corner of hunt you island on friday. see you soon. the did meeting, the issues of the day side, largest polluters of the world are in india, jump into the stream. they made their money on call. they made their money on the field. convincing those folks know we need to go. green is very, very difficult. giving all avoidance we chose to because we wanted to escape war and violence. when you humanize the narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality in breakdown with consumption the

street on al jazeera lou . ah, ah, you're watching or is it a reminder? what top stories this are, the owner of the russian mercenary wagner, group of danny precaution has visited his forces and ukrainian frontline ton of solar dog. wagner says, 8 seems determined, but the kremlin warning against declaring what it's calling a premise. sure victory. ukraine says its troops are holding on us media reporting aids to president joe biden have found more classified documents at a private location. the department of justice is reviewing a number of other classified papers funded president biden's,

former office shlang. his former president's been ordered to pay damages. failing to prevent the 2019 easter sunday bomb attack, the supreme court fund president citizen had received enough intelligence to act. you must not pay $270000.00 to victim's families. jemma police are back in the village of lords wrath where they're continuing to evict climate activists for a 2nd day. these are live pictures from bare protesters, don't want the village to be demolished, to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. please say 200 activists left voluntarily on widens day. but there are about 3300 still in the village step vaskins life on us and load saddam. so we're saying that the where are 300 still left in the village. but we were just seeing from the pictures a bare that it looks as though there are some more, there is more police action going on. what's the latest step? so police have made some serious headway into the village of the lead. so since

this morning, many of the structures that the act have erected here on the ground, the lower level stock just mostly been removed, but there's still a lot of people in the building. and in the 3, the 3 houses here behind me, the police has also brought in heavy equipment like trains here, right behind me, one of the houses is now being evicted with the high train. so police goes in active. they have basically changed themselves to the attic and i'm actually here in one of the houses as well with a group of activists who are on the roof waiting for police to some here as well as would be pretty soon actually. and we were inside and on the attic before we could see that their hands off says lou there. so the activists here are planning. when police sums it into glued themselves and change themselves to the attic to make the war of the police as difficult as possible. they're really trying to delay the eviction of the village that they have been pro, processes,

again for the last 2 years. so awesome, talking to us from lots of that stuff. thank you very much. indeed. the 2023 human rights watch report says unchecked a thought a tarion power is leaving behind a sea of human suffering and spotlights abuses happening in a 100 countries that covers everything from war, media, freedoms, gender rights and refugees. amongst many others, it puts the war in ukraine at the top of its agenda, saying russian president vladimir putin is operating with impunity. and welcomes the international communities response, including efforts by you and agencies to collect evidence of war crimes. but it says other crises are being ignored. it's calling on governments and international organizations to take action. human rights watch says african leaders fail to tackle widespread abuses against civilians by security forces, unknown state on groups. catherine, sorry, has more from nairobi. su yes,

features. oh, quite a prominent because all this conflict that has been going on in the north of the last the last 2 years. and this is a fighting between government forces and to grand fighters. thousands of people have already been killed in this 3rd. yes. many, many others have been displaced. now there is a ceasefire in place as we speak of all sides are saying that they want peace, they are trying to walk out a way to finding lusting piece. but then we have also been talking in the last 2 years. oh, with a human rights of campaigners and activists about what has been going on in that a region. it had been lock height has been locked off. there's been a little abuses that have been going on in that area, very different,

close to employment, to verify information that has been going on on the ground because they're, like i said, the area is completely blocked out locked off. so basically the, these are going on, an activist that we have been talking to said that despite that piece athletes that are going on, there also needs to be accountability adjusted to the people who have suffered so much in the last yes. in indian himalayan turner jace math as being evacuated as buildings crumble is being blamed on non stop construction and a changing environment. but 600 houses of hotels are sinking with hands near a number of important religious sites. in the am aaliyah's. attracting thousands of pilgrims every year. have a metal, has this update from joshua? deep cracks like these have appeared in homes across yoshi much. the land here is sinking rods,

have been damaged housings of people have been affected. the government is offering them a compensation of about $1800.00. hundreds of people have been moved to temporary homes. some family say that this is not new. crack started appearing months ago. somebody to win me what i asked them, made it my father had alerted authorities about the cracks in our home in september . they blamed the foundation of our house and didn't do anything. my mother stuff, the cracks with bed sheets and cement to protect us from the cold. early in january we felt like there was an earthquake. these cracks became bigger, our home is on livable. one in that i did, authorities are serving the area and a marking homes that are at high risk. they are blaming by drainage systems and over population. josh, you might as high up in the himalayas and attract thousands of tourists every year . it's also important military base exports a they've been wanting authorities for decades. they are blaming corruption and apathy and said there are other towns in this region that are at risk of developing

a similar situation. residency, the compensation is not enough, and permanent rehabilitation far from jo. she might could endanger the livelihoods nearly 3 years after brags its opinion. polls suggest a growing number of british people are regretting, leaving the european union. the change of mind is being driven by the economic downturn this result of the exiting, the new army faucet, one to one of the most pro brags at times. melton mowbray to get a sense of the mood there is market day. milton no brief the despite the auctioneers best efforts, the bidding is proven sluggish. for the farmers disappointment and don't talk of the recent free trade deal signed with new zealand, the lum spring coming from new zealand for the tone. tons and tons of it on him for his last 2 weeks. the trade in the local market has just been been hit by rock. we're probably probably $50.20 pounds per down is the kind of trade deal with the

government. so it is the potential benefit of breakfast, freeing the country from the shackles of the european union. most of the farmers here tell us they still support the case withdrawal, but business on the whole is held up well, some off camera say they regret their vote missing, you subsidies an easier access to the european single market. a few steps away, stephen nightingale is less shy, promised bricks, it freedoms. he says, just haven't come to pass or vote to leave. all i must say, oh, do i have it a bit really? you know, i think if i knew what to know now on the public voted to, to stay in really this area has long been famous for its poor pies these days. it's also known as one of the most staunchly pro brexton places in the u. k. but there are growing science here and nationally, but sentiment is shifting one survey this month suggesting only 2 thirds of written support a 2nd referendum in the coming years on rejoining the you and other that one in 3 supporters of the conservative government voted in on the slogan, get breaks,

it done, believe breaks it has caused more problems than it's sold. local drew can be crime was always skeptical about briggs, it 10 percent of his exports used to go to island, but now costs for his retail customers. there have doubled an export to the continents. they've also dried up right now where we might ship, you know, 10000 or 20000 beers out of time into europe. the paperwork, the fixed costs are really making our beers on competitive. but even if briggs regret is starting to trend higher, neither the government nor the main opposition may party is going anywhere near the political risk of a 2nd referendum. when gregson is an issue, has dropped down the list of voters concerns. more people think bricks has been, but the economy more people are saying breaks it was a bad idea. but the salience of bricks it has dropped markedly since those sort of days of 2019 when it was all anyone could think or talk or argue about. so even if

more people are rethinking the referendum vote, but miss set to keep it status as europe outlier, well into the future articles that i'll just 0 less united in science will rock guitar as jeff beck has died at the age of $78.00. the he wrote very than the 1960 never played 70 popped in the yard but, but among himself as an innovative fellow in praise. as a guitarist guitars on the $18.00 grammy awards, adam bears the senior lecturer and contemporary and popular music at newcastle. university new came, he says jeff back will be remembered as one of the most influential guitars in the history of rock these it expanded bit the capillary of the electric guitar. and along with people like latin and jimmy page. and of course, hendricks,

he really made the electric guitar lead instrument to guitar. it to send to say in the way that it's hard being beforehand and expanded the sonic possibilities of the electric guitar made it sound like a made it made it a sight of experimentation. what was distinctive about jeff? that was that he was always trying something else, something new. and well, the 1st of those huge, now we see he declared himself dissatisfied with. but it's interesting that in his later career, he still returns to the jazz world. and he brought through sort of rising young jobs starts like tom wilkin fell through his band, played jazz venues like ronnie scott. so he was forever sort of wandering around the musical landscape. and he was quite a, he was quite a fracture character in some respects. ah, and so he, you know, he would, if he was dissatisfied with something in the moment he would say.