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beaten to death by police offices in memphis, tennessee. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from tara, also coming up. the u. s. secretary of defense is in the philippines to discuss a launch of military presence and access to more basis. doctors in bolivia are on high losers. i try to contend an outbreak of dingo fever, threatening to overrun the health care system, and a coordinated strike right across the u. k. he's half a 1000000 people walk off the job, demanding basic pi ah . hundreds of people have gathered in memphis church to remember tyra nichols who died off to being beaten by police. family members remembered him as loving and pain full and cold for action to prevent more cases of police brutality
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. gabriel elizondo reports. ah, it was a moment to celebrate tyree nichols life in gospel and prayer, but also in sorrow when those monsters murdered my maybe brother. do you live me completely harbor brother. you gone too soon? nichols was 29 years old and a father of a 4 year old child. he liked skateboarding with his friends, and he was an amateur photographer. he take pictures and post them on his website. he loved his mom so much. he tattooed her name on his arm and often would rush home to eat with her on his lunch break while at work. at the memorial service, some parents of other african americans killed by police were in attendance.
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nichols, mom called for new laws to swiftly punish police, accused of killing innocent people to text acts because this would be no other chair. this is subway. the way mother and all the other peer is here. have lost their children. you are my story. it was a memorial, attended by over a 1000 people, including the vice president let on memory of tyree shine a light on the path to what peace and justice so far, 12 people have been disciplined for their involvement in nickels death, including 5 officers who have been fired, arrested, are facing charges of among other things. second degree murder. at the memorial service there was praise for the swift action,
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but also coles to end the over use of police force, in the name of fighting crime. no fright jayce by becoming fam ah, men against the army buried the police as punks in america. another memorial service for another black man dead at the hands of police . this time his name tyree nichols full of so much life. taken away by the very people who are supposed to protect it. gabriel is hondo. ouch is eda memphis? there are reports that israel has conducted it strikes on the gaza strip. israel's military hit at target who the science and the strip after rocket was fired from garza iraq sirens could be heard as yet. there are no immediate reports of
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casualties or the us is expected to be granted more access to philippine military bases. defense. secretary lloyd austin is visiting manila where he'll shortly be meeting with prison. ferdinand, my cos junior button to be low, joined us from the department of national defense in the philippine capital funded . what are we expecting to come out of these bilateral meetings all time in the past few days, us and philippine officials have been talking to the media about negotiations that could give the u. s. military additional access to key philippine military bases. the u. s. military already has access to 5 different locations across the philippines. this is under the enhanced defense corporation agreement, which was signed in 2014, under the former administration of a former president beneath noah chemo that the 3rd and so we are expecting us defense, secretary, white austin and philippine defense secretary called me earlier about this junior
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to make an announcement a few hours from now. they are going to have a post or meeting right behind me. now we expect them to at least announce that there will be that there is an agreement for additional locations, but they could announce these new locations as well. 2 of these new locations are expected to be in the north pulse of taiwan. so if that's the case, this will give the u. s. strategic advantage in case is there is a conflict that arises in the pi once trade at the moment a spend secretary lloyd austin is having a bilateral meeting with president for the non marcus junior. this is the 2nd time austin is visiting the philippines since 2021. he is the 3rd high ranking official to visit the philippines since president marcos into leadership. back in june 2022 as a what we're seeing here is a huge departure from the u. s, policy, a former president would return there where the visiting forces agreement was almost terminated. but that,
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that happened. then there would not be any joint military exercises between the u. s. and the philippines. but 2 months from now, we are about to see the largest iteration of the valley, then joined us philippines, military exercises 60000 forces from the u. s. and the philippines are expected to participate by and large filipinos are supportive of this strengthened philippines . the military alliance, but that there is some opposition to the possibility of giving us additional access to couldn't be military bases any, but we are expecting a protest to happen here within the hour tom brought into austin's trip and the military drills that you were talking about has prompted a rather dramatic reaction from north korea. that's right. the secretary austin did string by north south korea. before he arrived in the philippines on tuesday evening and there he met with his counterpart,
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the south korean defense minister. and they agreed to bolster defense cooperation between the 2 countries. they agreed that the us would be sending more assets, including aircraft carriers to south korea, and they would increase the number and frequency of joint military drills. and in fact, on wednesday, while circ a, terry austin was in some, one of the city in the southern philippines, visiting u. s. military troops. the u. s. and south korea held that the joint air drills. and this has really angered north korea, north korea, a releasing a statement earlier today saying that the situation on the korean peninsula has crossed a red line. and i'll read excerpts from the statement in the military and political situation on the korean peninsula has reached an extreme red line due to the reckless military confrontation on maneuvers and hostile acts of the u. s. and his vassal forces. this is a vivid expression of the u. s. dangerous scenario, which will result in turning the korean peninsula into a huge war arsenal in
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a more critical word zone. so north korea say that they will respond in time to any military maneuvering by the us and to south korea, including the possibility of using nuclear weapons if necessary. tom. okay, thanks very much. barnaby that has been below for us and manila hello 10 people have been killed in the town of bull. who near gone is north east and border local media reporting that violence began early on tuesday with sporadic a gunfire heard on the streets. there's been ongoing violence around the town since the end of 2021. the fighting has climbed hundreds of lives. we're talking of justice now. this is not the 1st time we are talking of military. they have killed a, an 18 year old girl, killed him on some guy killed a woman last month. the boy ran into mapped and killed. we have evidence and we
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want this clear evidence for that. well, to see when these are the dead line is by yet what we want to ask if we find ourselves talking about refrigerators coming from booking. i don't know, i'd achilles day, and we can accommodate people yet in our own back yard in bo, serious i prospect is i be committed by the military and nobody saying something about you. ah, the russian rocket has had an apartment complex and ukraine's eastern city of coma tossed killing at least 2 people and injuring 7 others. rescuers were on the scene to comb through the rubble, trying to find any survivors. the city is in the done. it screeches where russian backed fighters have held significant territory, including the largest city since 2014. the u. s. has put new tried restrictions on
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7 iranian entities for producing drones that russia has used to attack you crime. but there are also concerns in washington over the parts within those drones, many of which appear to be made in the united states. heidi joe castro reports from washington dc. ukraine says it has been shooting down iranian drones, launched by russia with a hundreds in recent weeks. and what they're finding inside those drones is both troubling and surprising were the 80 percent of the drones components were made by us based companies that is, according to the u. k. based firm conflict armament research. we're talking about microchips, the engine parts, and other micro electronics made by u. s. companies, and somehow found inside the down iranian drones in ukraine. so the question is, how do they get there? that's the mystery that the white house is currently investigating. as per se, there is no evidence that us companies are knowingly selling the parts to iran,
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more likely it's 3rd party distributors that are to blame. now, the us department of commerce is adding 7 more iranian entities to the export band list. experts say some movies could be show companies created by iran to get around previously existing sanction. meanwhile, iran denies it's drones have been used in ukraine and claims that iranian drones are made only with iranian parts. doctors in bolivia, worried about a surgeon cases of dingo fever, really 2000 people have been infected with it in recent weeks. and health work is fair. the disease will spread even further. victoria again and be report at this hospital in santa cruz, doctors say they've seen an alarming increase in the number of cases of dangly fever so far this year. or the most patient survived the disease. it can be deadly, especially for children. you're a mother and my son fell ill on wednesday night,
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and i took him to my local hospital where i saw many children arriving with their parents with the same symptoms as my son are. nearly 70 percent of bolivia is cases . if dingey are in santa cruz, doctors there say they're struggling to keep up with the number of new patients gloria bus. you that when the patient is seriously ill, they moved to the intensive care unit. here in the hospital, we have 8 beds and they're always full. we don't have space for new patients. the other problem we have is staff shortages slowly. we have nurses and doctors her ill with dingey fever and there's nobody to cover their shifts. then give either can cause intense pain in muscles and joints. it spread by the bite of the eighty's, egypt, i, mosquito, which thrive in tropical urban settings. poor sanitation, a lack of adequate drainage and changing where the patterns are being blamed for a spike in infections. he thought he left, but i thought the health ministries helping with the fight against dingey last
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sunday, we deployed 5000 people. and together we eliminated around $58.00 tons of disposable items, which are a risk for public health when it comes to dinging ah, sanitation workers are battling to get the outbreak under control. before hospitals in santa cruz are overwhelmed. victoria gate and b algae. they were nearly half a 1000000 people in england and wales walked off the job on wednesday and the biggest strike and more than a decade, most of them were, teachers are pushing for a pay rise in line with a double digit inflation, like many other sectors. but as nadine barber reports the government standing firm despite the growing industrial unrest oh, smiling through the colds. but normally tamara and her colleagues at this school for pupils with special needs would be in sight. dave,
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they want to pay royce that meets the rising cost of living and treats people in the profession. i've had to make he sacrifices, i've actually watch t jobs and for 5 years now, to be able to get to the keeper rebates in my head, to be able put fuel in my call says i can actually get to work even friends of mine . he have been teachers 43 years, have decided that it's just not for them because they genuine, he cannot bear the stress and be the isolate and or, and the what played that, that they are expected to do. thousands of teachers and the families marched in london on wednesday. many stress pay rises should be far higher than the 5 percent offered for last year. and be paid for by the government. not comfortable ready, stretch school budgets. that wipe and pay came eligible by then. so what you're doing is you're taking wake me things with heaters and up enough, my mom's name and like it's just, she works so much emotional dimensions. you have to have to say like the doing so
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much more than ever applies to with these teachers are making sure their demands are heard on what is clearly a sizable demonstration for wave of industrial action taking in various parts of the economy or calling on the government for pay rises, that leads inflation. the government insist is bound by the recommendations of the pay review body, even though it's constrained by the financial remit. ministers gave it the independent pay review body recommended 5 percent fixed payments teaches an 8.9 percent for new teachers. there's also progression pay within those salary bands as well. so 40 percent of classroom teachers will actually be getting pay rises up to 15.9 percent this year to the national education union that's far from good enough . they accused ministers of refusing meaningful talks about the restoration soundly until they got started again to room on the other side.
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so at the moment there is not an offer on the table that you can put them on. no, no, i didn't. i didn't say delay. they should have public set up this friday. the next education strike is due at the end of the month. if there's no movement on pay, we likely to be seeing more protests. look just from people like tomorrow, but work as in other key professions who at least for now, enjoy broad support from the public. within bob, i'll just 0 london. still ahead on al jazeera, the if the i conducts yet another search for classified documents. this time at a property owned by president joe biden, and keeping an eye out, an ancient comment appears in the skies above 50000. he is since last visit. ah
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hello, still no sign of the snow. ready? easing off for japan? i'm afraid we have got yet another system swirling away in the sea of japan. this area of low pressure driving yet more snow showers into that western side of honshu on into hawkeye, a little further south. on the other side of the mountains. tokyo remains shelter. 10 degrees celsius, 40 batch, around 7. as we go through friday, hopefully the snow not quite as extensive. at that stage. the wind stu ease off of that little area of low pressure just pulls out of the way long as you dry across the korean peninsula to northern parts of china. generally dry, much cooler to central air is now to single figures as we go on into friday. and further south, we got this, the carrier of re bringing some rather wet weather into southern areas of china and wet weather to coming in to southern parts of the philippines. some wet weather
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there. across borneo nasty little area of storms just rolling into the malay peninsula as we go on through friday. see some very wet weather coming in at that stage where the 2, making his way across for lanka, easing into the southeast of in the air. so some nasty storm still rumbling away here as we go through thursday, punches through for friday, slightly dryer behind aah! from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation, i got much west races. and when i was at the university of oxford, which really scared me because i was like, these people are going to be in positions of power with no host and no limitations . empire is the reason that we live in a multicultural society. part 2 of 5. the shaheen and adam rather fate. studio
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b unscripted on out his era. lou, the me here what, you know, just a reminder of our top story. this out. a funeral has been held a memphis of hiring nichols who died out to being bitten by police officers. 3 weeks ago. his family was joined by the us 5 president and civil rights activists. there are reports that israel has conducted it strikes on the golf, the strip, israel's military hit, a target to the sides, and the strip of rocket response from guns. right sirens could be heard. and of russian rocket has had an apartment complex and ukraine's eastern city of
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comma toast, killing at least 2 people, and entering 5th and others. rescuers were on the scene to comb through the trouble trying to find any survivors. at least 4 people have died after 5 broke out at a hospital in the egyptian capital cairo. and the health ministry fitted started in the radiology department of no more harmonic hospital. at least 52 people were injured. the families of palestinians accused of carrying out 2 attacks on israelis and occupied east jerusalem last week. so being collectively punished the violence lead to the israeli government. fast tracking punitive measures thorough hot up reports from the neighbourhood of ross. our mood unto the watchful eyes of his ready soldiers, palestinians living in this neighborhood are scared of reprisals. off the one of the worst, the tax on israelis in years occupation forces carried out door to door. res in ross alarm, ward arresting more than 40 people, including the taxes, family,
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friends, and neighbors. they say that being collectively punished off the 21 year old heidi, i'll come killed 7, his radio outside a synagogue on friday. the family say they've not been allowed to leave the home. the whole building has uncles, cousins, and his father. we just saw his father earlier. he was allowed to leave for a few moments, but the radio stores he spent him by cup. we're going to go and find out more is ready. prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised swift action in the aftermath heidi's home and thus of a 13 year old who carried out another attack on today have had their home sealed? well, we've just been, scott, what is ready authorities of getting any close to heidi. i'll comes home. it's a 6 story home with his extended family members already living that many of them are stuck inside that not been allowed out by the israeli authorities for the last 3 days. some of the kids behind me also family members. some of them said that they
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haven't been able to see their mother or father for the last 3 days have been promised that they will at some point, but it's not clear when and tensions here seem to be really high. and also i moved in the neighborhood and so one in occupied east russell, him a flashpoint for confrontations between palestinians and jewish settlers. land grabs and home demolitions. the news righty. right? when government is fast tracking the destruction of homes of attackers and their extended families to deter others, it says, but hum, okay, the organization providing free legal aid to hide his family and the palestinians, living under his radio occupation, says it's punitive. really government is taking measures both against the palestinian population, you know, repression of the palestinian population and at the same time undermining the israeli judicial system. so whereas we would go to the judiciary, you know, for some level of protection of human rights in this climate,
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we are very skeptical about how much we can expect the high court to be intervening in many palestinians we spoke to. didn't want to be identified. the fear of being arrested, they say is writing restrictions and poor living conditions are giving a new generation. little hope heidi was named after his grandfather, who has stopped to death by jewish is ready, settler, 25 years ago. meanwhile, the things have changed nowadays, and none of us expected this to happen. young or disillusioned attacks were organized through resistance groups in the ninety's and the 2 thousands. now it's done by loan individuals. the escalation of israeli crackdowns and collective punishment of the whole community is humiliating. this new israeli government, especially policies by have been beer, a lot of the jungle, he acts as if they are above the law. it's the most repressive government in israel's history. the situation that is happening in jeanine and nablus is all connected. we're one nation living under occupation. it's no surprise youngsters
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are under stress just down the road. the neighborhoods entrance has been closed off to stop palestinians walking past the jewish cemetery lives. now only one way in and out. palestinians say they're being squeezed in every possible way. all this height is family weights to see fair home will be destroyed and leave them displaced. the height of, i'll jazeera ross in our mood in occupied east jerusalem. the f b. i has found no classified documents after a search of a beach house owned by us president joe biden. the search was part of a special council investigation into his handling of classified material. but in personal attorney said, the president gave his full support and co operation to the investigation. whitehouse correspondence kimberly health care has more from washington dc. they did not pick up any documents with any sort of classified markings on them. but there were some hand written notes that were taken from the president's
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residence there, the beach house, as it's known, robust beach, delaware, these handwritten notes pertain to time when the president was, in fact, vice president under brock obama. now it's important to note that the president, according to his attorney, was aware of this search. it was consensual, the president was cooperative. and this is part of an ongoing search of a number of locations including his private residence in wilmington, delaware. this follows a search where there was also a turning up of documents in a think tank in washington d. c, which really sort of set all of this off of the think tank known as the pen biden's center. and this sort of culminated in is search for documents that prompted the attorney general merit garland to look into whether there has been a mis handling of classified documents by joe biden. not only pertaining to his time, his vice president, but also his time as
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a u. s senator as well. police and pakistan say the suicide bomber who killed at least 100 people in an attack on a mosque and sought a fortified compound. my have had internal assistance as it bag reports from pasha where the family suppose who were killed in the attack, and now burying their loved ones. 2 friends, laid to rest. they grew up together, joined the police together and died together. neither graves lie side by side in the same graveyard. the fathers of if the car eliane, if now mean more, their losses, noble could they have to have that to your mother, mark. if the car was the only bread winner for the family, that on his death is a big loss for us. all course, he was a very obedient son and used to spend his salary on the family. his children ask a service of what is barber that and what should i tell them to lose? relatives comfort if the cause to children. they're too young to understand what's
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happened to their father. our live, you know, a little bit lower there. sure. terrorists have killed my brother with such cruelty . they were all innocent. this is our government's failure. the pac tune. people have been badly targeted was no one we spoke to here, expected an attack, let alone inside a highly fortified area that was meant to be secure. ah, the suicide bombing on monday was the worst in a decade in the shower. all but 3 of those killed were police officers across the city. people are paying their respects to those that have lost their sons. but as they grieve, many are also asking how this could happen. why is it the violence they thought was behind them as come to haunt them? once again, a breakaway fraction of the pakistani taliban or ttp is being blamed. the prettiest commander is visiting families of the deceased and security is high, but he cannot offer any security assurances to the people here. we should order border with a vine, his son, and the terrible and part of,
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of on his son told earns of or to keep him and they are hiding there. they have shifted to find his son along with their families. ah, and you are afraid of me or do all of this. he's fire. so yes, we should be ready for more attack. an investigation is ongoing as police go through what's left of the mosque. but is an uneasy feeling here that those asking how this happened won't get answers and more lives could be lost. as i'd be a da 0, be showered focus on the green hued comments on a 50000 year journey is making its closest approach to earth. perhaps for the last time in cutter amateur astronomers, enthusiasts and students gathered in alec herrera a dark spot, far from artificial lights to photograph. as colin baker has more, there are billions of comets in our solar system. a handful that passed by the earth every year and a few that become so called bright comments with glowing heads and long tails. last
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year a new one was discovered as it passed the orbit of jupiter. and right now, if you look north, just after sunset near the big dipper constellation, using binoculars or a telescope, you might just be able to see, come at 2022, e 3 zed t f, named after the telescope that saw it. and the time it was seen likely comes from the distant or cloud, a cosmic mist of water, ice and rock that sits thousands of times further from our son than neptune. it's one of 2 places comets come from in our solar system. the last time this comment appeared in our sky, earth was in an ice age, and modern humans were making stone age tools alongside now extinct neanderthals and dennis opens. as any common approach as the sun, it heats up, the frozen material inside, gets thrown off as gas and dust that can be seen streaking across the sea.
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