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russian missile attacks hit residential buildings in the ukrainian city of denise pro is porson pledges to sudden battle tanks. and where on the front lines with ukrainian soldiers in the east of the country as they battle russian troops for the town of sola doc. ah, hello, i'm on inside this village. is there a lie from dough or so coming up. the world health organization welcomes a release of dramatic new code. 19 days from china says beijing needs to continue providing detailed information or chests in israel against the new government's proposed judicial reforms. opponents worry, it will weaken the legal system. and a supreme court ruling complicates plans by the philippine president to search for oil in the south china sea.
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russian forces have unleashed a major missiles strike targeting multiple ukrainian cities for the 1st time in 2 weeks. authorities in the central city of denise pro say, rockets strikes, hit 2 residential buildings, killing 14 people. 60 were reported injured. one of the buildings was reduced to rubble. musky workers are searching for survivors. missiles thrice were also reported in cave and the western city of la viv, one rocket left a huge crater in a village close to the capitol. several houses were also damaged. residence and cave took shelter on the ground as air raid sirens sounded above. not natasha butler, his more from keith that been a number of russian attacks in different parts of the country. there are ongoing an air raid alert systems also in most of southern ukraine. here in keith,
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though it is a bit more quiet. we certainly though, had a different picture this morning. we heard a needy, 5 very distinct explosions or that we later found out were strikes at key infrastructure in the city according to local authority. some houses also damage. we're also getting more information about a strike on an apartment block in the city of denise pro. that's in central ukraine . terrible pictures are coming out of there. a whole residential apartment block pretty much reduced to rubble. emergency services have been frantically trying to find survivors. they've been pulling people out from the rubble very grim and bleak picture from a denise and those emergencies of a service work is still continuing to work to see what they can do. the short term, this latest a wave of attacks a means that some of the power facilities, the energy facilities in the country have been disrupted and damaged. once again, we know that with ortiz and at least 11 regions in ukraine say that they're going
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to have to introduce a more emergency power carts in order to help us spread spread the load if you liked, allowed to have as many people access to energy as possible because while they're going to be facing a more blackouts, more cancer over the coming days and weeks, of course, some emergency workers will be trying to fix and repair these power facilities, but it takes time. it is extremely cold. it is a difficult a work. but of course, many people across ukraine say, look, we have to put up with this. this is what we have to deal with whilst we're in this situation was our soldiers are out of the front fighting russian forces. ukraine has refuted russian claims that has captured the east and town. a solider president vladimir lansky says his forces still fighting in the small salt mining town which moscow wants to secure to help it's offensive on nape i'mma moot. chance drafted reports from outside solid are in east in ukraine.
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we don't have authorization to take him shouts. the military paramedic on them was that a wounded ukrainian soldier with a torn a k on each leg to slow the bleeding is lifted from the car and thought them cat. okay, we've got to go further down the road. let's move now from an ambulance point on the virtually deserted road we drive to wald solider we partial few ukrainian military vehicles heading the other way. there's no obvious sign of ukrainian withdrawal from the salt mine in town. it seen some of the most intense fighting recent days. elemy medics waited intervals along the way to take the injured hospitals back from the front line of shore pro, coordinating obstinately as the battle continues. yeah, we have to stay in place, even if we could wait closer, we would know more that we are ready to move. felicia childress or civilians impress kimberly the soldiers say the road over the brow of the hill is being
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shelled. russia says it's taken full control of solider, but the smoke rising from impacts sites. the explosions from almost constant artillery and heavy machine gun far suggests otherwise ukrainian troops in these apc's these, all the personnel carriers heading toward solid are sorry, a couple of kilometers down this road. troop carriers, that tree line seem prepared for a potential withdrawal of soldiers is western supplied weaponry here. but a lot of it soviet made this antea craft gun is almost 60 years old. those a lot of was supposed to ride. there will be hard for us to push them back will suffer big losses. they move in such great numbers in solid are that sometimes our
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guns overheat as we try to shoot as many as we can. soldiers dig fresh trenches on a slope in case russian forces push off from the valley. others watch the battle unfold. ukrainian forces still have a foothold in the western outskirts of the town. they say the fight for solid all isn't over yet. john strafford al jazeera and his solider, eastern ukraine. united kingdom has announced that it will supply tanks and artillery systems to ukraine, and follows a phone call between the british prime minister where she soon i am the ukranian president, a lot to miss lensky on saturday. the reinforcements will include 14 challenges, 2 tanks, which are seen as crucial to re capturing occupied territory. united kingdom will begin training ukrainian forces on the new equipment. in the coming days. the head of the world health organization is welcome. the country's public release of data
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on coven, 19 related deaths. the w h o toll china's top health officials. the detailed information needs to continue being shad beijing now says that nearly 60000 people have died in hospitals since it lifted straight corona virus restrictions on december. the 7th. china had previously reported just a few dozen deaths for december and only around $5000.00 in total. since the start of the pandemic. international health experts forecast they'll be at least $1000000.00 covert related deaths in china by the end of the year. katrina, you reports from basing this is the 1st acknowledgement by beijing that there has been up until now a severe under reporting of corvette data here. and it follows criticism from the w h o as well as the u. s. and other governments that china has not been transparent about the scale of the outbreak. this really is the 1st indication really of how big this outbreak has been in china since the lifting of virus restrictions in
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early december. and the number is really spectacular before this. the only official figure we had about for a death hole was just over $5000.00. so this jumped 260000 is really quite big. that we just break down those numbers for you. what the government has said, they said between december 8th and january of the 12, there were 5503 people who died as a result of respiratory failure due to corvette. and the vast majority, though 54435 died as a result of the combination of one illness with corbett. they said that the average age was 80, and the majority of people who passed away were over the age of 65. now the good news that the government is trying to focus on here is that they're saying that the peak of the outbreak has now passed. they said that peak occurred around christmas in 2022. so around december 23. and that there has been a downward trend in infections according to though it's coming to fee. the clinics
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at that figure is now down by about 80 percent. although we have to remember that this figure around 60000, this is just hospital depth, does not record or acknowledge the depth of the youth who might have passed away at home. so we have to know that the true figure, the true death toll from corbett here must be much higher to this is political opposition has led, riley is demanding that the president stepped down over a worsening economic crisis. they say a power grab by the president, case site has reversed political freedoms that would gain more than a decade ago. resident side sacked his government and suspended parliament in july of 2021. his opponents accused him of staging, a qu, besides that, he acted legally to rescue as country. he then awarded himself powers to rule by decree in september of that year. and in march of last year, members of parliament trying to reverse his decisions. side responded by dissolving parliament in june. he 5 dozens of judges. the rest of the judiciary went on strike
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a month later, a new constitution that strengthened the presidency and we can, parliament was passed in a referendum turn. that was light with many political parties were causing the vote . ali in december parliamentary elections boycotted by the opposition. so a record low 10 out of 11 percent of voters. the were con has more on the purchase . protesters like hobby book, either avenue and the hot tuna they want to present a fleet out of power. the st. long been states for political change. 12 years ago, protest grew here, spread across the country. and within weeks toppled long time president. vinny albertine ben. oh, no opposition. groups that have long been rivals have unified and they include the
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national salvation front coalition and the free constitution party under anniversary of the resolution down more united than ever before. and that a lot of progress has been made in this particular point on the way out is quite simple or is it is actually a dialogue, a national dialogue between stakeholders in this country and national and were presented to also a different oh, it was many thaws and attempt to placate the protesters. the president attended to rally on friday. one man shouted to him, they're hungry. the country isn't economic crisis, inflation is thawing. jobs are scarce. and $1900000000.00 bail, anthony in special monetary fund, is being discussed. but with many concerned, the country is becoming more authoritarian. the united states may block it last
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month, parliamentary election, thought 11 percent of vote, of course ballot. it was meant to reshape the legislature to solve for the president of the thief, executive powers in july 2021. 0. but now tie said is under pressure from growing opposition groups and, and get on the street norton on to theorem. thousands of people have demonstrated in tel aviv against plans by the new israeli government overhauled the judicial system. i minister benjamin netanyahu, all right, and ministration me is on bail sweeping changes to the legal system. critics say that reforms can weaken the supreme court's power. protest to say the proposals threatened democracy and people's freedom demonstrations will also held in haifa and outside the president's residence in west jerusalem. and ron kong was out the protest in television. the organizers loping for a significant set out. we're hoping for 50000 people. we don't know if 50000 people
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have turned up, the police will get that estimate in the next couple of days with significant probably larger than last weekend. now this began as a protest. i proposed changes to the supreme court by the justice with which a group rolling back this group on overturning kinetic parliamentary decisions. but it's getting why didn't that now learn more about his roles, democracy, they're very worried about minority rights within the country and they coming out in a huge number. and they're very worried about the fact that they say the benjamin netanyahu . the prime minister is becoming a dictator in this country. dictator is aware that we've been hearing throughout the evening. now we help in talking to some of the protesters. let's take a listen to what i had to say. the friendships in israel got the government, you know, the coalition and the 1st row are i'll be making a change in the legal system of israel. so. so now if i don't know how soon,
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but sooner we won't be able to demonstrate with another approach. this is hoping this becomes a very regular side and i think that it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. now, the idea, it doesn't really challenge the government right now. what they want to do is give people out in missouri very causes a political crisis. remember, is role for like 4 elections or use on the purchase is hoping that this will work another election. i'm trying to talk back some of them out of this particular . all right, go to palestinians. have been killed by israeli forces in the occupied westbank. there were keys to firing at israel troops near janine islamic jihad group says 2 men were fighting from its armed wing. the al could brigade 12 palestinians have
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been killed by israeli troops and settlers. so far this month. vigils been held in los angeles for a black man who died this month after being tasted repeatedly by police. the death of keenan anderson is reviving calls for more police accountability. the 1st one, your teacher was a cousin of a key figure in the black lives mass movement was stopped by offices on january, 3rd, the scene of a traffic accident footage of his arrest showed him begging for his life. still ahead on al jazeera, why a campaign in western germany to save villages activism, police officers on site and the new mega 1000000 and main help to dollars change the nice one lucky us ah
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with it's been about 3 weeks of gloomy conditions for dull. ha, hi everyone. and in that time frame a years worth of rain has fallen and still some more rain in the forecast on sunday . so let's go for a closer look of me, just get clipped with a few showers eastern province of saudi. but most of the action will head toward the zag ross mountains in iran in as this bumps into colder air, it means snow in tater, on about 2 to 5 centimeters over the course of sunday. temperatures are coming out points again for turkmenistan. so ask about a top temperature of minus one on sunday. now for turkey, ha, oh, we got this disturbance in the eastern med for the most part. it's just spinning its wheels around over the open water, but throwing some rain towards cypress and also hitting the levant. with a bit of rain as while, but an area of low pressure means what and windy conditions for the northeast of libya and northwestern sections of egypt on sunday, central africa,
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heavy rainfall warnings in play for southern western areas of tanzania. and i think the biggest 1st to bramble b, western and eastern portions of democratic republic of congo, heat wave still persisting for south africa. so for the northern cape province up in tin at $42.00. that's approaching all time record temperatures, sir later. ah, there was a time to be direct. they're basically on the verge of legalizing racial cherry battery to cut through the rhetoric. this isn't a universal death. tell any crisis the seems to be one particular population to dismantle the fell bikes. there are lots and lots of women who are whitely agenda, a kind of anti feminist agenda, and demand the truth. those the size of batch is a we have to really recognize what we're up again. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me markham on hill for up for on al
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jazeera lou. ah, ah, welcome back you watching al jazeera reminder on top stories. the sour russian forces have launched missiles on cities across to ukraine, including the capital. keith is 14 people have died and 60 were injured in the city of de nie price, where rockets destroyed 2 residential buildings. thousands of tennesseans have rallied in the capital tunas calling from the vent resignation of the president case site. the demonstration mall 12 years since tennessee in protest. his fault, arab spring uprisings around the region. the head of the world health organization has welcome john is public release of data and caves. 19 related deaths. the w h. i
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says beijing must continue to shad detailed information. 60000 people have died in chinese hospital since friday, december. the philippines supreme court has ruled that an 18 year old agreement with china and vietnam to search for oil in the south. china sea is unconstitutional. analysts say that could jeopardize plans by the president ferdinand marcus junior to revive talks with beijing on joint or exploration. bobby low has mo, from manila it was a success philippine government official said when president for dinner. marcus junior returned home from a state visit in beijing earlier this month with billions of dollars in investment pledges in more than a dozen agreements. marcus and president, she did being also agree to restart discussions on a possible joint oil venture in the south china sea mow,
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the friendship with what on tuesday, the supreme court delivered a surprise spread. it declared an oil exploration agreement with china and vietnam, dating back nearly 2 decades, unconstitutional your ownership. teddy casino is one of the former congressman who filed the case in 20 o 8. but once it boucher was very clear it's, it's basically very categorical. that exploitation of natural resources are reserved for filipinos and filipino corporations being views almost the entire south china sea, 3000000 square kilometer area as its territory. the $25.00 agreement covers less than 5 percent of that, but includes waters, manila considers its own a claim reenforced by an international ruling in 2016 oil exploration in the south . china sea has been on and off the government's agenda for years, while the 25 agreement languished in court. the 2 countries signed another deal in 2018,
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only for it to be terminated 4 years later. so the big question now isn't if marcus can succeed, but whether such an undertaking with china is possible at all. and in the say, the ball is in china's court later, whenever the philippines cox to china, it always ends up with bay jane. telling manila what is ours is ours. what is yours? we fair. it's difficult to come up with a workable agreement. if the premise of the discussion is in that framing named on china. but president marcos believes searching for oil in the south. china sea is crucial and i think there might be a likely, there my to ease around it not to let him in a government, the government partnership. that divinely. it may not be a necessity, china, but these for us would reserves of the countries only offshore gas plant shrinking and an economy that relies on oil imports. they portions of the south china sea to the philippines. future energy sources is something on which everyone can agree.
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barnett below al jazeera manila. the white house lawyer says more classified documents have been found at u. s. president j biden's residence rich and so by says he discovered 5 new pages as he was handing over another classified page to department of justice officials ethical haine reports from washington dc. what we know is they, according to the special, the white house counsel's office, put out a statement said basically where they search the president, tell them and wilmington, delaware. they found some classified documents in the garage and another one page in a storage area adjusted just next to the garage. what the council saying is the lawyers, the president's private lawyers who are going through this, they didn't have security clearance. so when they saw that marking, they closed the box, they shut the room and they just what no further. now the white house council says he has security clearance, so he went up thursday night up to wilmington, delaware,
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so that he could hand over those documents to the department of justice. he says in that box where they found that 1st document, they found 5 additional documents with classification markets. now, what we don't know is exactly how high the classification was in the us government . there is a confidential secret. and then top, secret top secret is described as if that got out, it couldn't pose a grave danger to the country. we do know that in the office here in washington, dc, we believe there were documents listed as top secret. we don't know how many we're thinking about in all. there was about 20 documents now 25. so what they said is they've had that over to the department of justice. as you mentioned, a special prosecutor is going to take a look at get those documents. next. what this does though, is it just keeps the story in the headlines for president biden, who'd like to move on. but this is really been any the only thing reporters,
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the white house briefings have been asking about every time there's the new announcement, it leads to the news in the local newspapers. so it just shows that this is a story and a headache for the president, a political headache that possibly will be going away anytime soon. as north american companies continue to come back manufacturing operations in china, countries in latin america stepping in to fill the void. many predict 2023 will see significant improvements to supply chain while trade relations in north america bolstered. manual poly reports from mexico city. the manufacturing plant in central mexico producing automotive parts that will be shipped across the border to the united states. the company rips up is the preferred manufacturer among many international firms seeking specialized components at a low production costs. we have a very good quality, that's one of the strings we have the quality. we also have
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a very good personnel which is very well trained. over the past, 50 years, rips has grown from a small family run business into a global power house apart from automotive parts. this manufacturing plant in mexico city is producing components for various emerging industries, like renewable energy, and even aerospace technology. the vast majority of these components will be exported to the us and canada among other international buyers. at a recent summit in mexico city, the leaders of canada, mexico, and the us pledge to ramp up economic cooperation and strength in north american competitiveness. and as the us moves away from chinese manufacturing expert c, this will further propel the trend of near shoring the practice of expanding manufacturing in countries with a close geographic proximity to accompanies customer base. all of this is good news for companies like rips up which seek to expand operations in 2023, making what mexico is in a perfect position to take advantage of
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a historic moment and replace china as manufacturer for the united states. and also replace the united states as a manufacturer for china. according to mexican government figures, some 400 international firms sought to move their manufacturing operations from asia to mexico in just the last year. business leaders like some way all that rips has found her success depends heavily on seizing opportunities for more trade. although they come forward. if we manufactured exclusively for a domestic market, it would be difficult to survive. this is why we depend heavily on export. manufacturing. china remains the world's top manufacturing country accounting for more than a quarter of global manufacturing output. but experts argue that changing trends in globalization, such as the continued rise of near shoring, could soon put mexico at the leading edge of global supply chains. when we did up a little al jazeera mexico city,
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police have fords with climate protesters in western germany and the latest demonstrations against the expansion of a coal mine. thousands of people gathered close to be abandoned, the village of lifted up, which is set to be demolished, to make way for the infinity. you are showing clearly today the changes will not come from the people in power from government, from corporations, from the so got leaders. no, the really nice. i heared innocent people who are sitting in the houses are selling the house. for example, put, you know, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have assembled on the outskirts of dhaka in bangladesh or one of the world's largest muslim gatherings. tundra chandry has more hundreds of thousands of muslim, devoid is from all walks of life. from all around the world have gathered in bangladesh for 3 days or prayers. and sermons, bishop is the mom or global congregation of muslims,
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held each year since 1967 aims to revive the tenets of islam and promote peace. but by the general title of allah, i, along with hundreds of others, came all the way from palestine on a long journey to learn more about the essence of islam and its teachings. the some i consider an expression of muslim unity, solidarity love, and respect. now we came here to learn the meaning of life about why we were born. we all have to return to a law. you have to understand all these teachings of our profit and the koran. we can't learn these things by staying home. we have to travel muslim, devote is spent 3 days crammed into 10 in 5 square kilometer area. those are couldn't find space on the stomach ground camped on the footpath level. the tell us we have heard so much about the large drama gatherings in bangladesh. now we are very happy to be here and participate in this spacious religious gathering. the
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large number of worshippers is a challenge for priorities. there's a strong security presence and health care, and the basic services are provided by the local level. this is a very large gathering of people from everywhere. it can be difficult, but people are in a good mood and smiling. we're here to please allow, so it's not a hardship for us. it is estimated that more than $3000000.00 diversities took part this year. the 1st phase of one of the largest muslim gatherings in the world, esther and the sunday, with hundreds of thousands of muslims praying for global peers, divine blessing and the revival of islamic values. tundra child a gives it a tony garza per a single luxury ticket hold and the us just have their life changed on to winning $1350000000.00. the lucky ticket for the 2nd largest jack in the u. s. history was sold for just $2.00 at a convenient store and rule. main will be able to choose.

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