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ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up, germany refuses to commit to sending tanks to ukraine, despite pressure from its nato allies. and dozens, and jude and peru as police confront, protest is demanding the resignation of the president. plus how low can it go? we take a closer look at lebanon's lira as the country enters a 4th year of economic crisis. the u. s. is designating rushes. wagner group as an international criminal organization that will allow us to apply widest sanctions to the group. the white house is about 50000 wagner, mison res,
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fighting in ukraine. mckenna reports from washington, d. c. a 3rd force and the ukraine conflict. soldiers from russia as bug and the group essentially hired mercenaries, many of them hired from russian prisons. the group is controlled by a guinea pig. oh, seen a close ally of letting me put in and this week featured in a video made by his own media service, visiting injured fighters, innocent petersburg clinic. you must not petty a soldier, a war. you must take care of him. therefore, each soldier should be unique, with more than 50000 deployed in ukraine, the wagner group has been on the u. s. rate. offer a number of months. and now it's been declared a significant transnational criminal organisation in coordination with this designation. we will also impose additional sanctions next week against wagner and its support network across multiple continents. these actions recognize the trans
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continental threat that wagner poses, including through it's ongoing pattern of series criminal activity. at the same time though, the us maintains that a mounting rivalry between the group and the formal russian military could impact on russian performance and the ongoing war. we are seeing indications, including an intelligence, the tension between wagner and the russian ministry of defense are increasing. wagner is becoming a rival power centered to the russian military and other russian ministries, the russian army has a very little moral. so the only way to spike moran and to bring victorious if to bring this people who get a lot of money. well, basically professional mercenaries and also professional criminals released from jail. that's what styling actually did as well. the us has also accused north korea of arming the wagner group, displaying images of what it says are russian rail cars being loaded with north
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korean weapons systems. potentially putting the group in a position where it could change battlefield dynamics and ukraine. something the u . s. clearly hopes it sanctions will help prevent my color. odyssey era, washington and a wagner group has denied recruiting said to fight and ukraine issued this statement to pro ukraine activists filed criminal complaints against the organization to be a law prohibits citizens from participating in conflicts abroad? earlier phoebe as president condemned wagner after a call to volunteer fighters to be in language ed ali hush and joins us live from moscow now with more on what the kremlin is saying. and ali house moscow reacted to this news some all socially. those no state gun, there's no reaction. however, the a head off wagner,
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a portion wrote on his telegram channel. finally, now bmc wagner and the americans, our colleagues, from now on our relationship can be called dismantling of criminal plans. so this is the 1st reaction from reagan who was mentioned in the, in the package before. and it seems that to them, this was expected and for the russians, this is expected. the name of wagner has been circulating for some time now, especially in the past few weeks with respect to the war and ukraine. of course, the 1st mention of, of wagner was in 2014, when the 1st annexation of korean crimea happened. so this was quite expected he had in moscow. ok ali, what's the role of wagner is playing in this for 50000 missionaries in ukraine? what exactly are they doing? motion?
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well, as i, as i told you, that the 1st mention of wagner was in 2014 when the 1st ukraine war happened. now, later on the name of wagner started being. busy heard in syria and libya and central africa any are under several places, but recently award in ukraine or what school here in russia, the special operation and in ukraine, at the role of wagner thought it kind of accumulating and coming on the focus, especially in the past weeks that the, when, when the russians entered to the city of solid, all the town of solid on there was kind of put route between the wagner group and the ministry of defense. the 1st 4 ministry of defense issued a statement to the stating that the different forces ground forces area forces on missile forces took place in this at to pot in this attack. however, the wagner group issued a statement later saying that someone is trying to steal their own victory and that
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they were the only ones that were, are present in solid on this was kind of very, very interesting and very significant route. and later on, ministry of defense had to issue a statement or taken into consideration wagner's presence in this, in this battle. so yes, the role of wagner is kind of coming on the, on the focus day after day. and there are even some people using the term, the wagner ization of military here in russia. it's not only about, it's only about the military and forces wagner is, is a vast organization now with a cyber arm, with the research center. so yeah, it's, it's kind of getting more and more influence. okay, thank you so much, said sally hush for us. in moscow. germany has not yet decided whether to send cert lipitor tanks to ukraine, despite pressure from nato partners. defense ministers from more than 50 countries met and germany on friday to discuss the next stage of military support for cave.
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said boston reports from ramstein air bass. us defense secretary light austin was hoping to deliver platter news to his ukrainian counterpart at the ramstein air base. but it was to be no commitment from germany that it would st. it's leopard tank. still ukraine. we don't feel anything. we are just do a responsibility for our population in germany and in europe. and we have to balance all the pros and cons of the 40 res erie decide. things like that. just like there is nothing else. and i'm very sure that there will be a decision in a short term, but i don't know why, and i don't know. wow, how the decision will look. this lack of a concrete timeline is this by germany's nato allies, ukraine, itself, pressuring hartford a thanks to be sent. i encourage you to make such decisions that can deprive rational evil of any power. you can start this policy to day. it
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is in your power to mega ramstein of tanks not to bargain about different numbers of tasks, not to open at principal supply that will stop russian evil. some fear attending napa tank could mean an escalation of the war, contract nato, into a direct confrontation with russia. the tanks have been sold to dozens of countries around the world. those who want to export him to ukraine need permission from germany 1st, after weeks of international pressure, germany has made it clear that it will take a decision on whether or not to send lap a thanks to you. crane. in its own time, president landscape plead the time is not a luxury his country has had little effect because germany says it's a decision that needs to be carefully wait. despite the saturday, happy promises of new military heart way for ukraine. u. s. d flange secretary austin urgent countries not to waste too much time. this is
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a decisive decade for the world. and this is a decisive moment for ukraine struggle to defend itself. so those can't i group walmart slow down. we're going to continue to dig deep, and based upon my progress that we've made today, i'm confident, but ukraine's partners from around the globe are determined to meet this moment. in berlin. global foot asked us all to try to put pressure on the government to take a decision on sending lepper thanks. sooner rather than later. step, fasten al jazeera at ramstein eop 8th. a palestinian man has been shot dead by an israeli settler, and the occupied west bank. 42 year old. to recap again, my alley was killed near the village of ross cocker. west of ramallah. he appears to chase a settler who didn't stops and shoot them. israeli forces climb,
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he was shot to prevent a stepping 18 palestinians have been killed in the occupied west bank by israeli forces. will settlers this month? dozens of people have been injured in peru as police confronted crowds demanding the resignation of president invalid saying they want congress shut down elections held. and a new constitution brought in. follow what a has accused them of trying to seize power and wound any one breaking the law of will be prosecuted. at least 50 people had been killed in confrontations with security forces since early december. and impeachment a new president and a state of emergency a lot has happened and peruse since former leader pedro castillo tried to dissolve congress. now on december, the 7th, he was removed from office and replaced by the vice president dinner. palatez castillo was charged with rebellion and conspiracy. protest broke out in his strong holds rural areas, mostly in the south of peru. a nationwide state of emergency was declared on
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december the 14th as protests, as blocked roads and stormed airports. then this week, a 2 day national strike was held in the capital. bud had spread into a 3rd day and people say they won't leave until their demands are met. marianna sanchez has more from lima. oh, these protesters have been clashing with police for the 3rd night in a row. they are here and about a block away. it's awful, these that have been throwing tear gas a. the police have blocked the access towards the entry of presidential palace and congress. but protesters are in different parts of surrounding areas clashing with police throwing rocks at them. ah, i am from puna. i want to inform people of the reality of this forgotten rural peru, a region that not only has poverty,
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but also malnutrition. the peruvian state has forgotten our region are children who do not have good quality health care education. it's a region that produces copper, gold richness that contribute to the state, yet they don't care about us. oh, process has gone on in other parts of the country as well. include going bruno, as well as in that it keep up with protesters, tried to take over the air pow wow. these protestors say they want human rights organizations in the country to verify the prosecution of those who have killed under the victim of nearly 50 people that have died in the last few weeks in the protest. now these protesters say that no matter what they will stay in the streets of the capital and all over the country. until d, no one wants to resign. police in brazil have carried out rides on people suspected
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of being involved in the storming of government buildings earlier this month. support is a former president, shibel sanara attacked the presidential palace, the national congress and the supreme federal court decline prison, the reason osceola, the silver last october is elections when a key, if has more from rio de janeiro they are accused of instigating ah, what the brazilian government is calling an attempted call. they're being charged with trying to are destroyed democracy in brazil, which was just back of brazil and did its military regime in 1985. so these 3 people, one of them is a truck driver. another person is our former, our public servant who was working for the government of former president j able sonata, who is now in florida and has been there ah, since before, little as a non duration because he did not want to pass on the presidential sash. and then
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there's a woman they have been now the proofs that they have against them is videos that they have posted on social media, one of them halling, for the uprising. and for the riots that happened on january the 8th, when the storm, the presidential palace, the congress and the supreme court, destroyed objects of var, very valuable and historical objects, destroyed all the windows and doors. and they've been posting that all so they were calling for blockades of oil refineries. brazilian environmental agents have restarted anti deforestation rides under president lula da silva. he has pledged to provide the beat bama agency with more funding and personnel to end the destruction of the amazon al jazeera spoke with the leader of the mission in the amazon. and i'm will be included on my lab fall under the former both now government. we worked only to solve emergency problems,
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doing quick jobs just to say that we were doing something any time without any strategic planning from the government to really combat him for a station. i mean, it's like my thumb. i had a death count as a fast casual food to the forest. an area like this, you need to spend about $581000.00 per hectare. so no one's going to invest that much unless they know what they'll use the area for in the future. those that did thought that perhaps boston i was government would continue to hong which in a way allow them to occupy conservation areas and get away with committing environmental crime. thought it was because in new york, the discourse of the former government created a mindset amongst people, causing many to invade areas and deforest bestbuy the planted farms. thinking that the government would eliminate the indigenous lands and legalized these invasions for cattle for action are still ahead on al jazeera,
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tesla tweets ellen musk tries to down play the power of the social media presence during his fraud trial. and how the woman climate is changing, the lifestyle of no medical is in the himalayas. ah ah well it's a few days off the central philippines, but i think the clouds going to build again and you have a flood risk coming. your way you can see with the general area of wet weather is and the certainly concentration in the southern philippines coming in on sundays, full costs. this is the seasonal breeze, a chance to enhance that sort of thing. we have had rain on the coast of viet nam, that's dying dynamic peninsula, malaysian sumatran at very wet. and if anywhere indonesia could see some pretty big damp holes in the next day or so in australia, it should be the north,
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it's wet and is certainly awesome. useful shout, much draw in tropical queens and now and it's disappointing. the qu, on the coast of new south wales. some degree queensland said he $25.00 in sydney, $22.00 in cambra and frequent chow seemed a likely event. it's warmer and sonia in pers low thirty's. the next couple of days . and 1st the things are not change very much on that coast. new south wales melbourne cigarette at 27. that's possible summer. but it could be better in new zealand. the average a christ church is about $212223.00. so you're doing her k on sunday. but look at this. the clouds bubbled up into frequent chairs. heavy array may be norfolk, things do improve on monday. in that it's a little bit dry. miss also rather cooler ah, to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide,
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and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shea come out award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledge they wrote in strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou ah, you're watching l g 0 reminder about top stories. the salad, the us is designating rushes. wagner group is an international criminal organization. it says about $50000.00. all this miss reese of fighting and you cried. the classification will allow us to apply widest sanctions to the group. but
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germany has not yet decided with the to sands, at least 2 tanks to ukraine, despite pressure from nato partners, defense ministers for more than 50 countries. mason, germany on friday, to discuss the next stage of military support. the cage protested, happy rallying for a food tie and peruse, captain. calling for the resignation of president deena the la time cheese accused them of wanting to overturn the government up to demonstrations, turned violence on 1st day. people has been demonstrating against what they described as the growing militarization of mexico to protest began after president on to respond while lopez of the door ordered the national guard to monitor mexico cities metro system. following a series of accidents. john holman reports from the mexican capital richard this for about a couple of weeks ago when there was
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a crash in mexico cities metro system between 2 trains left, one person dead and dozens of them injured wasn't the 1st time that it had happened in recent years. 20211026. people were left. that when an overpass in the metro assistant plot, now this much is happening because after the president, under his money will open the door, said that he was going to send more than 5000 members of the national guard. that's militarized. police force to protect the metro installations. what if this was sabotaged? was basically what he said. the people here are gathered to say that it wasn't sabotage. one that they feel that it was negligence. the, who's these accidents. i'm to that they're against. what they see is the growing militarization in this country. a lot of these are managed by what national, what, and a mirror that's in there. now i think that that area, for example, what airports in atlanta customs gallstones
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a migration thought we think we are in b, r o l a, to my eagle department. you can see the police now chasing after a small portion of the protest as may be 2 dozen or so that we're breaking shop windows along the central avenue here. this is a small march. we took in hundreds of people here rather than thousands. but it is a war in this country to some of the army getting involved, not just with national defense, but an infrastructure projects in mexico. and what they see is a growing influence on the president. under is marlo lopez of little hundreds of people have gathered to rally against france and became a fossil capital, a wanker dooku. many protests is say, the former colonial powers military presence has failed to improve security in the country. the you in says thousands of people have been killed since 2015, a nearly 3000000 displaced and violence linked to armed groups.
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lebanon's currency. the laira has lost around 95 percent of its value since the start of the countries economic meltdown in 2019. it's now trading at close to $50000.00 to $1.00 against the us dollar. now instead of implementing much needed reforms, the political elite is accused of creating a confusing exchange ride system that's hurting people who rely on at the most st. hold of reports from divert good services, hospital fees, insurance, they're all priced in. foreign currency lebanon's economy has become dollar rise because the local currency is nearly worthless. can shanice name of the law? we buy everything in dollars. our goods, our rent electricity. yes, we should price in the local currency, but it's not possible because it's value keeps fluctuating. trading is dominated by the black market exchange rate. it's hovering around $50000.00 lire to the dollar,
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causing even more economic difficulties for people already struggling to get by. but it's not the only rate. politicians and bankers are accused of creating a multiple exchange rate system to cover up losses in the billions of dollars solvency problem because their money public sector at the central bank government, the public, is unable to pay them back. they have this major gap and they are trying to shift it because it is through the hair cut. and how do they do the hair cut through this multiple exchange rate system? it's known as the lawler, lebanese dollar, or bank rate, and it is used to withdraw trapped foreign currency deposits. and while the official rate has been pegged at $1500.00 leader to the dollar since 1997, the government says the fiscal situation means it has to collect taxes and fees at
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another rate. and then there is the site for 8. cyrus is one of the policies introduced by the central bank to protect the div valuating lira. it involves pumping dollars into the market from its dwindling foreign currency reserves through this a phase platform. but it's proven to be unsustainable. authorities are planning to increase the official rate 10 fold next month, which they say will help alleviate the crisis. economists disagree when you are trying to artificially fixed a, a liberties found at 15000 and everybody knows that your central bank doesn't have any more. any liquidity, because it's actually running losses of more than $60000000000.00. so there is no credibility to this new exchange rate, the political and business liter blame for failing to implement reforms in the financial sector. instead, they have been offering temporary solutions that lily,
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lebanese se benefit them, and worse than a crisis that's now in its 4th here, seller for their elders, either built to kia, has cancelled or planned visits by sweden's defense minister. this comes out to swedish police, granted a far right politician. permission to burn a copy of the crown. the muslim holy book outside to key is embassy and stockholm rewards jercker colors. roger target rhetoric. we've been following the process regarding this visit. as you're aware, we observed that they've been no reactions from the swedish administration regarding those disgusting and mean actions against her kia and our president. at this point of the visit of swedish defense minister paul johnson, to, to kia on january the 27th has become meaningless. so we cancelled the visit to the ceo of tesla has tried to downplay the power of his tweets during testimony in his fraud trial. and california ill on mosque is accused of misleading investors in
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2018. that's when he twisted his secured funding to take his electric car company private. but it emerged, the money wasn't available. rob reynolds has more from santa monica and california . it's business as usual here at this, tesla's show room in santa monica, california, but several 100 kilometers to the north teslas boss. ellen musk was in a san francisco courtroom, testifying in a trial brought by investors who say his tweets cost them money. now on the stand for about half an hour, musk admitted that his tweets were a form of corporate communication that carried just as much weight as filings with government agencies for the corporation. tesla. he also admitted that some people at tesla executives and big investors had asked him to cool it with the tweets stop tweeting because it was costing the company's reputation. but the lawyers did not
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get to the main point of this trial. that is whether in 2018 when musk tweeted that he had secured billions of dollars in financing to take tesla private whether musk knew that that was false and that it was an attempt to manipulate the stock price. the investors say it was the securities and exchange commission, which is a government agency here in the united states that regulates public companies. also said that that statement was false and they find mosque of 20000000 dollars several years ago. but that did not come up at the trial to day. the court has been adjourned and must will take the witness stand again. next week. climate change is forcing no medic heard is in the himalayas to leave mountains and move to towns and cities. that what was once an ideal price to tend godson, yaks is now changing,
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for the worst has glossy as mount floods increase and diseases spread. well, this is the story of one heard an india administered cash man, slim alerts it insulin that my name is steering. charl dental. i'm 64 years old. no, no. oh la la la la la la dog mine. i live in her neck. lug nut whether she off. oh yeah. no, no, you know no money. i'm in my dakota and have been tending punishment, goats, and yaks. since i was a child, no. oh lou lou yet i believe with you. i play dameion hutch to pass the time while delight stuck are grazing. i believe the melody passed to healed animals when they're sick. a lot, you know,
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and putting soya on the frozen river makes it easier for him to go to, to cross otherwise he could slip and fall. our deeds had few mother, la de la g had missed a very gets warmer. we see less rain and snow, and grazing lands are shrinking. it's causing diseases to spread among the livestock. there isn't enough grazing, then show the goats aren't healthy and strong. we depend on supplementary food, which is an additional cost that we aren't able to make up. what you and a junior, okay here been, you know, you know when my linelle, when back in the day because of the cold weather, the passion a goes used to have fine will low again. but now with the warm temperatures, the quality is not as good yet. loan has colored bus even though you were the lab dropped. you guys about 7 to families used to live here. but.
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