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of agency do this kind of work. belling cat truths in the post truth world on al jazeera new horizon for visually impaired the rockies. they finally have their own football team. training was launched in october in this city of karbala. this specially designed to both was donated by a japanese charity created cracking sound to allow players to locate these players hope to join football clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have their own teams because there are only 5 the least especially desirable ah, search crews in nepal, fine black box, dark recorders from
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a crashed passenger plane. we report from the side where 69 bodies have been recovered. ah, sammy say that this is al jazeera alive from dell hall, so coming up, russia and battle roost begin 2 weeks of joint military drills. as concern grows, the moscow is pressuring its closest allies to join the war in ukraine. the gap between rich and poor widens and you report says, wealth disparity around the globe hits and all time high on the run for 30 years sicilian mafia boss, my tail, my. see that that arrow is arrested. ah, now recovery cruise at the sides of the yeti airlines crash in to paul have found
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the plains black box data recorders. i said to be in good condition, at least 69 bodies have been recovered. no one is believed to have survived. the plane went down on sunday, their poker's new international airport. it opened only 2 weeks ago. the air accident is the country's worst in 3 decades. a national day of mourning is being observed. our reporter, i'm here to limbo is at the crash site. earlier she witnessed the operation to recover one of the remaining bodies came of me into these personnel are trying to retrieve, painstakingly trying to retrieve that. what i understand is the 69th body, which was at the bottom of a very deep gorge. about 150 to 200 meters. so you have expert claybrooke, cavers divers, trying to retrieve the bodies they've just behind me. they sent down a body bag a little while ago. and with the help of the crane with the support of heavy
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equipment, they are trying to bring that the body up. so this is what i understand is the 69th body. the wreckage of the plane is spread across about 300 meter, a radius. and it's, it's a miracle that the settlements on both sides of this very narrow gorge with which actually there's a river flowing below. it runs through the city of kara, that the lead, which was headed for the new airport, which is about a to a couple of kilometers from here. that, that the plane narrowly avoided these heavily inhabited settlements. and people from around the area have come to observe what's going on. the area has been caught into off, but the public is basically really amazed and like how
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natalie, natalie, the settlements were missed and the damage, like i spoke to a, an official earlier on who basically said the human the cost of human life would have been much higher and was narrowly avoided because the pin crashed in to the goal. which sanjeever golf now is a former director general of the civil aviation authority of nepal, joins us now from cat men do good to have you with us. so the latest line is that they recovered the black box. how soon do you think we'll start to get some definitive information about what happened and give us an idea of what we can expect out of the black box. but thank you very much for having me and your television today, the black box has been regular and the government has exceeded invest, use, and comedy to find out the reason behind an accident. and the black looks out the
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white sticker to fight the records and recover and hand over to the accident investigation comedy. the company really investigate all these data on the black box as well is all operate on context. and prosody will be in a look video is good movie and find out the reason behind what actually happened or that particular tragic extra didn't pull her and say more than 24 hours in facts and happen. have we gone yet any strong clues about what went wrong? but it's still difficult to predict. it's being here in the garza, it's all based on that stick list. and if i say anything about 24 hours, you were sure the government how to form the media and it is the industry will find out all the details about these slides are recorded and copy device to proceed your and they will take the offer some personally involved in the traffic control as all
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these lines then find out the actual and these are all data will be a manufacturer in for about the fast and they will find out the cars behind each. right now you have worked to the civil aviation authority. what kind of history and standards does it enjoy there in the hall? ok, i q as a major several audio in the past since 2009 then 2000 and tucked in 172020 to look into the progress made by the power to implement isn't fully implement this looks like it was standard. it is going up from 4345 percent to 670 percent right now. so the dye kill her has a give us significant progress in the compliance of i do stand on india practices, but does it, does it have challenges when it comes to safety?
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has been 15 crashes in 20 years. yeah, that's the reason why we have to look into a seriously in the system in place. what is the problem behind it? because the i q is already has given a significant progress in implementing some i q was tender, however, that there are number of accidents. since 2000 in mind is clearly indicated that there is some systematic problem, relies on civil in some system. so the government have decided to explain civil leave is not true. the of nepal is a regulator in the service provider. the bill has been terrible on the house and it has been approved unanimously in the upper house. and i'll be in the lower house and probably the resent election has made on the property, but it introduced it to look into this serious matter. and probably a day or 2, it will be split into 2 regular 2 in service provider that will help a couple of legitimate will help contain the problem
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lies in the system in sibley based on the phone. all right, thank you so much for your analysis. thank you very much, bye. the roost and rushes armies are begun. 2 weeks of air exercises. they've held joint drills during the past year after russia invaded ukraine. well, this time, the better russian defense industry says the exercises are defensive. some analysts say moscow is pushing bins to join the war in ukraine. russian troop numbers and military activity have increased in belarus, unreason weeks. moscow launched the tax on ukraine from the country maybe a year ago, had over to the hash ly frost. now in moscow water official saying about these military exercises was an, as we know that vella loosened russia, enjoy very strong relationship, especially after this war. and there has been several drills before. but this is
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the 1st time that at that is a kind of a yell at drills between the 2 armies. just a few weeks ago, president putin was in men scanned the met with the president with the ra bella. ruth, sir, president lucas. shank and they agreed on that the russia is going to provide training to the better route and pilots to use planes that are going to be equipped with an unconventional weapons. now, with respect to these dress, according to russian and bella was officials, these drills are going to be focused mainly on technical the technical side, on operational compatibility. they're going to have drills on a patrolling on and supplies during gas during gal preparations. so they, they just a position to whole drill within the framework of
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a technical technical technical, the technical side, and the defensive side. so this is in general, what's been said about the job drills, and now i'm on another point, the a spokesperson for the kremlin best. gov and commented on reports that britain is going to supply ukraine with. thanks. this is the 1st official high profile official comment on these reports. he said that this is not going to change the equation in the war and that these types are going to be legal targets for the russians. i thanks so much chalet hashanah esco with her natasha butler. she joins us now live from cave, somehow, or officials. they're seeing these military exercising. so taking place on the north, who, you know, in the past few weeks have been a number of a western intelligence officials,
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including some of the pentagon who have said that these exercises are taking place in better ursa tactic by moscow. designed to try nur ukrainian troops away from fighting russian forces in east around areas like solar door and back merge and send them a note. nevertheless, keith cannot take any chances and it's looking at the situation on the board a very closely. indeed, of course, it is from a territory in belarus that russia launched its invasion in february last year. so what ukranian president recently said is that all ukrainian border gods, of course, have to be on alerts along that border. ukrainian forces have been building extra fortifications across that border, watching the whole area very closely. indeed, because this isn't the 1st time that they have been military exercises in the past few days and weeks between better racine and russian forces. they've staged
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a number of them. the number of troops on the ground of increase there than the amount of military hardware being sent. there has also an increase in what we heard recently is that the mayor of the region of tennessee, that's a region that borders both of us and russia. well, that man has said that to people in the town and in the region should be on stand by because they will be more air raid sirens in the coming day. said everyone in ukraine, really wondering what north is going on. on the other side of the border, and what sort of impact passcode to have on ukraine in the coming days a weeks. all right, thanks so much. no cash tabatha. now it leaves most wanted. matthew boss has been arrested after 30 years on the run. police detained my tale massena denado in the sicilian city of palermo. he was receiving medical treatments in the private clinic. donato has been convicted in absentee for being behind killings and bomb
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attacks, faces now life in prison. he's considered the last remaining gone father of the cars are not mafia. john vicky is a professor of italian studies that university college london, an author of the book, matthew republic. he says, dinar rose arrest is another nail in the coffin of a dying mob. my fail machine and the nato was the youngest member of a leadership group within the sicilian matthew that took control of the society and matthew in the early 19 eighties century on massacring old rifles a man and mounted a major attack on the italian state. most notoriously, murdering heroic anti mass magistrates giovanni phone call. and pablo both said ino in 1992 and then staging a terrorist bombing campaign on the italian mainland. all of this aimed at trying to get the state to back down what was gaining momentum as a major onslaught against organized crime. and that onslaught has continued such
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that my tell me seen it, and i was the last of that leadership group, still a large and the state is winning. in the case of the sicilian matthew, the the, the structures, the hierarchical structures of the sicilian mafia have been ground down have been dismantled several times since the early 1990 in my theaters tried to set up again its commission. it's so the ruling committee on each time it's file because it's been monitored and observed by the, the italian authorities and everybody involved has been arrested. so this is yet another signal of i think the decline of the sicilian matthew still ahead on al jazeera. on the move, the world's largest migration of people begins and hundreds of millions get ready
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to march. the lunar new year. trial get found to weigh in indonesia. one of the worlds was all thing dissolved. ah, we have a few snow storm warnings in play for how cato island. heather, thanks for joining in. but the bulk of that see effects? no, not really an issue. we just don't have the winds coming at the right direction and temperatures have actually come up just a bit. so our 1st snow in 7 years in chunk chain, 1st of the season in shanghai, your temperatures are lifting. give it a few days in hong kong. you'll be back closer to average for this type of the year . still harmonson reins impacting the southwest of shalanda, also spreading weather through them all these i think we got to watch out for the risk of flooding across southern and western areas of iraq as rain just pours out
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of the gulf here. so we'll keep tabs on shiraz over the next 24 hours or so. and here's a closer look at that rain through the gulf. also the risk of flooding in kuwait, the eastern province of saudi arabia, as it all shuffles into iran. but hey, sunshine, back in the forecast in doha. finally, it has been quite the stretch of gloomy and rainy weather here. let's peel out, give you a wider look at the middle east right now. that disturbance that we had in the eastern mediterranean. i think it's just going to stall loud and fizzle out on tuesday. plenty of sun in the forecast in abu dhabi with a top temperature of 27 degrees on tuesday. ok, i'm out of fun. while susan take care. ah, we are a generation of scared people, but very ambitious, very united, very puts to stand on very good, bad action. you might be comfortable right now,
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but not for long. you will soon field. the sim higgs. we feel every day from today's home calling on uganda, 3 women grapple with the impact of the frontline activists. do your future children on a jesse o, the me back you're watching out, is there a time to recap our headlines now? nepal is observing a day of morning after it's worth a crash and 3 decade planes dance record as have been recovered. 69 of 72 people on board have been confirmed dad. be at the lines that crossed went down.
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italy's most wanted not, the boss has been arrested off the 30 years on the ron police to obtain my feel. massena denado in the city and city of atlanta is considered the last remaining gone father of the cotton, matthew russia and better begun 2 weeks of military andrew, the battle russian defense ministry described the exercises as defensive. some analysts say though moscow is pushing men to join the war in ukraine. germany's defense minister is handed in her resignation. christine lumber, ex decision come this burden is under pressure to increase its support to ukraine. dominant cane has more from berlin. in the short term, this is clear headache for the chancellor of germany who has to appoint a new defense melissa, probably somebody from within his own party and that person is going to have to get
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up to speed pretty quickly in so far as the war ukraine is concerned in so far as germany's contributions to ukraine are concerned. there are several meetings that that person is gonna have to be briefed on. we know that the u. s. defense minister is going to be here in berlin, in the next few days, meeting this new person. what sort of contribution, what sort of debate will there be between these 2 allies? that's the short term in the long term. it's not that likely that a person appointed from within all of shots own party is necessarily going to have a divergent view from mr. schwartz's own view about the situation in ukraine. the interesting question is, what will this person bring to the defense ministry? what will it, what will this person do in so far as the military in germany is concerned? there are many people who ask questions, how it can be that germany, even if it were to decide to send tax to you great, which it hasn't yet. even if it were to do that, why would it take so long?
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the talking about not before 2024 were as they see other countries such as the united kingdom already saying that they're prepared to send challenger to tanks to ukraine, pretty much straight away. so lots of things in the, in tray for whoever emerges as the new defense minister. but it is unlikely that there will be a profound change in german policy brought about solely by whoever replaces christine ambushed. now for the 1st time in 25 years, extreme wealth and extreme poverty have increased simultaneously. that's according to our report by august fam, it shows the world's richest one percent, got a lot richer over the last 2 years, they amassed more than 40 trillion dollars worth of new wealth, high cost of living and inflation. meanwhile, they're making the disparity even worse. food prices are now unaffordable for many, with roughly $800000000.00 people going hungry walks families calling for higher taxes for the rich around the globe says
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a 5 percent tax on the world's millionaires and billionaires would raise about $1.00 trillion dollars a year. not could lift 2000000000 people out of poverty. in south africa, the wealthy, the wealth disparity rather is clearly evident in alexandra township. located a few kilometers from the phantom district, which is often referred to as africa's richest square mile. one resident there described the direct on the can the quality in the area i. my name is raymond lee below unemployed youth from alexandra intronis big south africa where living hen lx is a daily challenge. because most of the people who are what based yeah, unemployed. so therefore we make means to survive. sent in is the richer square mile in africa, an lx. we've got 2 months that we frequently used on
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a day to day basis. st. in is a place that we require or consider as a place of privilege. the unemployment rate in alex's very life, in actual fact the food pass it on in normal way community. you'd swear that there's no pets in working in this area. because at around 11 telford, look in the afternoon, it find the streets, food with people who are walking around, hopeless looking for jobs in of nothing to do. we have 5 high schools or that have to, you know, save a population that is as high as this one already, as we speak, this schools that have over 70 lynas in one class will continue the result of the quality of education did wrappings. how come to to every morning?
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the 1st sight to when i look outside of my window is the view of sent in. and it's beautiful landscape in high infinities and then on its own, oh lisman, myspace of hopelessness and feeling rejected by the government. they'd be so believe. but also i think one can help but have mixed feelings. whenever you look at bed conditions is when you have an element of feeling hope there's a bit of hope that that comes to your mind knowing that there's people who come from l x y. now living incentive. and we're hopeful that one to me when our pay event will end up living in those areas, gabriela, bunch as the executive director of oxfam international. she says,
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crises such as the curve at $900.00 pandemic and the war and ukraine of only increased wealth disparity. this is shocking and beyond it is shameful that you know, one percent of humanity is taking double the wealth of the whole 909 percent combined . so it's a outpace this, the what was happening in the last 10 years, which was that they were having half and half. so we can see that wealth accelerated accumulation is accelerating in the middle of this crisis that we're facing. globally. 1000000000 is mostly in north america, europe, but also half of them are in countries where there is, for example, knowing harrison sex. so they pass on their well fully to their descendants, and this continues with the accumulation. there is also many countries that have no form of capital gains tax or any form of taxation that really helps we distribute this enormous well. so what we're calling for is countries can introduce new tax and discussing the countries what is fair and in certain countries like nigeria in
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india. we know that well sex ation could be a significant change for the budget of the country and would enable them to invest much more in health education and things that matter to everyone. now hundreds of millions of people are traveling in china in time for luna. new year, despite phase of further code 19 outbreaks, health authorities have announced nearly 60000 hospital death in the past 5 weeks. that's a shop increase on previously reported figures. the lunar new year is considered the world's largest migration of people trying to you report from outside the beijing try and train station. well this is the 1st time in almost 3 years. a people are able to actually go home and spend the lunar new year. the most important annual holiday here in china, akin to christmas with family since 2020 since virus restrictions were lifted up. so it's a very big deal. many people have not seen family and friends for these 3 years. an
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understanding of aging railway station, you can readily see crowds of people exiting the subway beginning their journeys home. even though loony does not begin for another week. the government says that there has been a surgeon ticket sales for plains buses, and trains, and that they're estimating 2000000000 trips will be made across china this year. that's double the amount of trips that were made last year and up 70 percent of pre pandemic levels. now it's also expected that people are not just going home to see family. there's also expected to be a domestic tourism room. and a lot of people are heading to popular destination here in china. that is, you, none in santa people are also going to macau, in hong kong, especially since the borders has been open and many are also choosing to travel internationally. we, on the way to this station, we drove past the embassy area here engaging and they were accused of people lining up, particularly outside the embassies of southeast asian countries, waiting for travel visas. no doubt looking forward to spending the holiday in warm
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weather in countries where there had me nor cove 19 restrictions imposed so far on chinese passengers. at least 12 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a church in eastern democratic republic of congo. 52 others were wounded, including children. the attack happened in the city of cas. cindy and north q province are a force that reports the bomb ripped through the center of the protestant church in the middle of sunday service images to graphic to be broadcasts showed the dead and injured lying among these pews and chairs, survivors screaming children were among the victims of what the army says was an improvised explosive device. that's just what we heard a loud noise coming from the church and we didn't know what was happening. it was only after some minutes that we were informed about the bomb attack. we have many victims among members of the church. unfortunately, we have too many victims of these attacks in our city of ca, cindy, we are all affected by the situation and it has touched our brothers and sisters.
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it's the latest rupture in years violence in the borderlands between the d. c. and uganda. soldiers from both countries had been battling fighters from the allied democratic forces, or adf, which in 2019 pledge allegiance to i saw in bomb i blew the a bomb exploded inside impact church. it caused many deaths and injuries clearly, but this terrorist act was carried out by tara results of the adf. originally, a uganda non group, the adf has been based inside d. c territory since the 1900 ninety's. it's accused of killing hundreds of villages in raids. over the last 2 years. i will sit al jazeera, more people have been ordered to evacuate parts of california is the us state, braces for another bout of heavy snow fallen rain. at least 19 people have died around 25000000 have been affected by 3 weeks of severe weather systems. party call haine has more. ah,
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muddy water and debris blanketing much of the state of california. one area get in half the precipitation that usually gets in a year in just to 16 days. the reason 8 so called atmospheric rivers in a row since late december. and here we are, by some estimates 20 to 25 trillion gallons of water fallen over the course last 1617 days a stacking of these atmospheric rivers, the likes of which we are not experienced in our lifetimes. atmospheric rivers, or long streams of moisture from the tropic, the cotton, the jet stream, and carry tremendous amounts of water. this is just the latest one flooding caitlin clancy's home 3 times since the beginning of the month. and the clean up was awful . but you know, we cleaned it up and then next thing you now fast forward like what 6 days was a. i don't know,
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i were flooding again. so we are in shock because even though we prepped for it, we didn't prep for it to get as high as a had. and so that was even more mass, mar, destruction. it's impacting much of the state in the mountains dumping $54.00 centimeters of snow in just 24 hours in the hills charged by wild fires. the soil is unable to retain much moisture in the long term. that means all of this rain will do little to east california drought right now. it's causing major mudslides and send in massive boulders, into valleys roads. irene washed away sinkholes, making travel impossible, and in drought stricken california. thousands of trees weakened by the floods are now being knocked down by wind gusts of up to 96 kilometers an hour. people have been killed and power knocked out for tens of thousands. this major emergency declaration will allow cities and states.

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