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a city very much still in shock by what they saw in that video, the violent beating death of tyree nichols at the hands of police. coming up here. the 1970s was a pivotal time for cinema in theater in the middle east and north africa, greece back there. in the 2nd of a 2 part series al jazeera world meets the creative risk takers who broke new ground. 4th censorship, and developed their own voices. the seventy's in the arab world stage and screen on al jazeera, ah, tortured and jailed for more than 16 years. 100 con is released from guantanamo bay . the 1st we settlement under the biden administration.
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ah, lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live from london was coming up. it keep a pledge to target russia with more sanctions. vladimir putin warns that european intervention will be punished. shall announce his record breaking profits of nearly $40000000000.00 fueled by uncertainty in the energy market because of the war in ukraine. and us house republicans asked democrat ellen omar from the foreign affairs committee for her criticism of israel. ah, hello, a long time at guantanamo detainees who was tortured at c, i a black sites and jailed for more than 16 years has been released. 42 year old magic can was thrown from the u. s. navy base in guantanamo bay, cuba to belize,
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where he was re, settled. con, was arrested in pakistan by us forces in 2003. it was suspected of planning an attack on us soil, foul kind. it competed guilty to terrorism related charges is re settlement is the 1st under the biden administration. frozen jordan has moved from washington dc. module. cons case was different from that of those who had been held at guantanamo bay, cuba since early 2002 for one. he was considered a so called high value detainee because of his alleged role in a plot to attack the united states. after the september 11th attacks con agreed in 2012 to plead guilty to those charges and to provide evidence to the u. s. government about the activities of the 5 men now on trial in guantanamo bang, for their alleged plotting to attack the united states. on september 11th, 2001. khan did complete his prison sentence as required, but he spent
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a year or so in limbo while the u. s government tried to find a new place for him to live. hon had been a permanent resident of the u. s, but after his conviction, there was no chance that he would be allowed to resettle in the united states. con is now going to be living the rest of his life. he believes in the country of belize in central america. and a statement through his lawyers con said that he is sorry for what he had done. and that he hoped to make a new start in a new country with his family. since it was opened in 2002 guantanamo bay has held 780 detainees. now does $34.00 prisoners remain in the facility? 11 of these have been charged with war crimes. 10 are waiting trial and one has been convicted. 3 are being held in indefinite law of war detention, but aren't facing tribunal charges all recommended for release. and on the 20 of
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being held in law of war, detention with recommendation for transfer to another country. and the worthington north of the guantanamo files told me he welcome the news, but says he's concerned about the other men still detained. it's great for my g. com, he's finally been released. i mean, you know, this is a man who sentence came to an end on march the last year at which point you expect to leave. but even though the united states knew about this for 10 years from when he agreed to, please do a knew that he couldn't go back to pakistan because it wasn't safe for him to go back there somehow they hadn't put anything in place. and so they've, you know, presumably been hurrying and scurrying around over the last year to try and locate somewhere. and, you know, thankfully believes a step forward. although it's great that my g con, who is a convicted, convicted of terrorism, has been released because he's finished his sentence. the 20 you have been approved to release through administrative processors. don't have any legal way backing
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those decisions that can make, that can put any sense of urgency into the biden administration to actually release them if they think that it's difficult. they don't have to do anything. there's no code that they can go to last year. for example, maggie collins lawyers went to the us court system to say, you know, hurry up and free this man. the 20 men improved for relief can go nowhere. their release is entirely dependent ready on the wave of the us government and that shouldn't be the case problem related to the very foundation of guantanamo that was established where the law didn't apply is on sudan of agreed to normalize relations . formerly, according to israel's foreign minister, and the current made the announcement after returning from cartoon, where he met sedans, army chief of dill, flatow han cohen says an agreement will be signed once you don transitions to a civilian government. she don hosted the arab league meetings were members of our not to recognize the state of israel in 1967. after the 3rd arab israeli war,
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israel and sudan started the process of normalizing as part of the abraham accords in 2020 lillia. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu joined the president of chad near tel aviv, the opening of chance embassy in israel. it's a major step in normalizing rations since chad 7 ties in 1972 in solidarity with palestine and has been a wider diplomatic push to build ties with muslim majority african countries. since netanyahu's previous didn't as prime minister ah ukrainian president laudermill zalinski is urging european union to impose more sanctions on russia. european commission president osler on the line is in key for summit on friday. she said a sanctions package including price caps on russian. oil will be ready for the 1st anniversary of rushes invasion,
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as despite division between member states of what the caps should be. so those cases, the block is moving too slowly. we are here to us believe robberies, gazelle diners, when she does digest the common to ask for the european union, is to reduce rushes ability to bypass sanctions. the sooner this was achieved, the closer we will get to the defeat of russia's aggression. we have noticed that the pace of sanctions has slowed down a bit while the tariff state has speeded, adapting to sanctions. it is worth to catch up and fix it. we believe we can do it by. does to day russia is paying a heavy price as our sanctions? are you eroding its economy? throwing it back by a generation. the price cap on crude oil already costs russia around $160000000.00 euros a day. and we will keep on turning up the pressure father. we will introduce with our g 7 partners, an additional price cap on russian petroleum products. and by the 24th of february,
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exactly one year since the invasion started, we aim to have the 10th package of sanctions in place. the russian president vladimir putin says moscow will respond to western support for ukraine and speaking at an event mocking 80 years since the battle of stalingrad routing compared to russia's offensive in ukraine to its victory with nazi germany. during world war 2, he threatened germany and allies for supplying keith with leopard to tanks, saying russia would use more than just tanks to repel what he described as the aggression of the collective west. your cook j do with you and i be excused from those who are dragging european countries, including germany into a new war with russia and irresponsibly talking about it as a done deal. those who expect to win against russia on the battlefield. they apparently don't understand their modern war with russia will be completely different. we are not sending our tanks to their borders to them,
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but we have what it takes to respond. they were in and using military hardware will not be the end of it yet. everyone has to understand this even as the war continues in ukraine discussions are taking place about funding. the reconstruction of buildings and infrastructure severely damaged in the conflict. in butcher, near keith natasha. butler spoke to some people who are trying to rebuild their homes and their lives in boucher on the outskirts of keys valentina watches as builders repair her home. it was damaged by shelling when russian forces occupied the town last year and experience, she says, was worse than living through world war 2. the common that they said that the follows weekly everything was destroyed. the tv, so for clothes, i couldn't stay. so i went to my neighbor's basement, we spent weeks there, there were explosions nice and day russians and ukrainians firing. i don't know how
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i survived. the house now has new windows, and soon the roof will be finished. valentina sweeps up shavings from the timber to fuel her burner. butcher's town council, his financing reconstruction in this neighbourhood, one of many districts pounded by russian artillery. hetty every house in this street has been damaged and is the similar picture in so many ports of ukraine. it is clear, the rebuilding the country is going to say, yes, i cost a lot of money as the war continues in ukraine. so does the destruction mangled infrastructure and bombarded buildings. and now part of the landscape, some people are forced to survive in what's left of their homes. keep estimates that reconstruction will cost at least $350000000000.00. the e u has an idea about how it could be funded. ukraine will rebuilt,
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and then i just must be jump, inserted. we are fully frozen over 300000000000 euros proportion of sex. i am strongly to convinced these shoots, and this will be useful for you, prince workman's torture. oh, not all you members are convinced about using frozen russian assets for ukraine's reconstruction. but some say it would be a form of justice making moscow pay to rebuild what it has destroyed. even the low amount of money could ever fully restore people shattered lives. natasha butler, al jazeera butcher, ukraine. he rising energy prices driven by the war and ukraine have helped to british oil and gas companies show to achieve its highest annual profits. it's 115 year history profits. it nearly 40000000000 dollars last year. as nearly double the 2021 figure and largely due to the soaring price of fossil fuels after russia's
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invasion of ukraine. on the price of brent crude oil nearly reached a $128.00 a barrel in the month after the invasion. that's double the price for the same time a year earlier and shows the only major energy firmed benefit. so no bill also reported a record profit. $57700000000.00, while chevron made $36500000000.00, or massive profits for shell and its competitors, i've been generating calls for higher taxes for energy companies. and the industry to transition away from hydrocarbons under simmons has more. these extraordinary figures, some shells headquarters here in london. of course a chorus of outrage in the u. k. and elsewhere, and a bonanza for investors. that weiss, the amount of profit from 2021 ninty, $40000000000.00 an hour out of that tax has been paid. this is a special windfall tax on the u. k. of only around
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a 134000000 was projected 420225 shell initially. but now they're saying it's around about 500000000 for 2023. really. this is miniscule according to the labor opposition compared to what they really should be paying. and that's because of a whole series of, of loopholes which include the fact the only money paid on extraction of oil and gas is subject to the tax and not what you'd pay on the, for court, for petrol and diesel at. furthermore, it's, it's argued that shell is, is trying every way possible not to pay the tax, and also resisting it in several quarters. the opposition to all of this isn't just a political. it's also from the, all of these strikes that are taking place in the u. k,
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but dissent amongst people is immense. and so this is regarded as by some as obscene poll novak of the 2, you see general secretary said it's an insult to working families and ed miller been the shadow, a climate change secretary for labor at says that because of the loopholes, it really, really needs and 2nd, i to actually impose further taxes at right now they stand at 2030, so 35 percent when they were 25 percent originally. but that still isn't seen as being effective in this situation. 2 days ago, anticipation of the record prophet announcement, greenpeace activists boarded and occupied a shell platform in the lantern ocean in protest against the company's ongoing production of fossil fuels. with a banner reading stop drilling start pain for activist scale the side of the $51000.00 ton vessel, which is on route to the shetland islands. it's
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a key piece of equipment that green p says will enable shell to unlock 8 new wells in the penguins, north sea oil and gas field. still to come on out is era. no masking its intentions in southeast asia, the u. s. proposed to beef up it's military presence. and the $100000000.00 loss claims of the greatest con in commercial history, aged to the stock market meltdown. ah hello, we still have some rather lively showers across northern parts of australia. rumbling away across the northern territory, easing back into queensland little circulation down towards a southeast as well as coming out of burst south australia pushing across victoria into tasmania. say some wet windy weather coming through here. let me go with those
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blustery showers down to southern pass lively tropical showers. further north and this where to weather. yes, i'm afraid it is making its way through the tasman eventually pushing towards a new zealand. so still a few showers there until the society victoria, just around melbourne as we go on through sas. david brought us guys coming back in here for sunday, sunday turns increasingly where to cross western parts of new zealand, particularly across the south ireland noticed the north islet somewhat. dr. still a few showers here that will caused by the problems of course, through the weekend. because it is falling on to saturated ground, but the north into japan where we got some blustery showers still in play for all the parts of japan. so when she weather still coming through here, little more widespread as we go on through the weekend. so the passage path generally fine and dry starting to warm up, warming up into the korean peninsula. go to parts of china too, but rather wet and cool to the south. ah. but
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every year in china, an estimated $80000.00 children are abducted by one of their perils. one. 0, one east follow some mothers desperately trying to re unite with their children on al jazeera, tough tars, the man tough questions. what exactly are you asking for you on that round the rigorous debate we challenged conventional wisdom and demand the true upfront with me, mark lamb on hill on al jazeera lulu ah, reminder the top stories here now to a 0, long time guantanamo bay, detainees,
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magic khan who was tortured at c, i a black sites and jailed for more than 16 years has been released. the 42 year old who was suspected to planning and al qaeda attack on us soil was given into the custody of authorities in belize. european commission, president or sla fund alliance and a new sanctions package, including price caps on russian oil will be ready for the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion. russian president vladimir putin said russia would use more than just tanks to repel what he described as the aggression of the collective west. and energy giant shell is announced record annual profit of media, $40000000000.00. energy firms have been experiencing larger profits since the russian invasion of ukraine, which caused oil and gas prices to sol. investigators in pakistan, say a suicide bomber who killed a 101 people in a mosque managed to evade security disguised as a police officer. attack on monday is raised questions about how the bomber and is
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to enter the most secure facility in the north west of the country. i said bay as this report from bush al off but installing investigators have released cctv video purportedly showing the moment a suicide bomber managed to infiltrate what is supposed to be a secure area. dressed in a police uniform and riding a motorbike, he was simply waved through without any checks the question of security lapses there. i admit that yes, there was a security lapse just because the st. palmer was just in a police uniform. the entire command of the police lanes gate is not under one party, because inside there's 7 defense, smaller units or organizations. and each one has their own command structure. and then for the confusion, the chaos caused this detectable get undetected entry into the police and detected the suicide bomber continued to target this cctv which
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is shows him leaving his motorbike by the roadside. he's been called back by a police officer. he pushes his bike away, pretending it had broken down. this is the last check punch the suicide bomber would have gone through before making his way to the mosque. investigator say, the police vest to his wearing was filled with 10 to 12 kilograms of explosives. they also say he appears the attack he didn't know where the mosque was and had to ask for directions. for the footage, released by police shows demand walking towards the mosque where he would go on to inflict the single largest loss of life. the police here have ever suffered and as they come to terms with their loss, questions about what else can be done to protect security personnel still remain. there's no modern technology to protect police facilities, having facial recognition or fingerprints or biometric entry, etc, etc. on the level of technology, which is internationally accepted as
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a standard feature and the resources that are required, probably those are either not available are we are not having those funerals are still taking place. police chiefs are trying to keep the morale high among the 130000 strong force in the province. but this concern that could be more attempts. i said big i da 0, the shower. the u. s. is expanding its military footprint in the philippines in a move that could provide a strategic advantage against china. and you deal with manila gives the u. s. access to for new bases and an increased presence at several others. it completes a chain of american military positions around china, ranging from japan and south korea in the north to australia in the south. on below reports says president ferdinand marcus junior took off his 7 months ago. he
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has been a succession of high level us visits to manila. on thursday, it was defense secretary lloyd austin's turn. i have always said that it seems to me that the future old, the philippines and for that matter, the asia pacific will always have to involve the united states. walking to talk to marcus administration has granted the u. s. military access to for more sites, meaning american troops will now be able to operate in 9 locations. but austin has clarified there will be no permanent us basis. it also provides us the ability to respond effectively to humana terean's issues. and it also. ready disaster relief and other types of crisis. one of the bigger and longstanding crisis is the territorial dispute between manila and b. j in the south
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china sea. although an international ruling in 2016 invalidated china's vast claims . the asia giant has built artificial islands and continues to encroach on philippine waters that and china threat to take taiwan by force. have critics fearing a bigger u. s. military precedence will serve more as an irritant rather than a deterrent. we think that by this move by the united states and philippine government will further escalate pensions in the west philippine sea and the south china sea as well as the area region by one. and now we do not want the philippines, the b, y of ha, that i'm on thing. former president would, we could deter it. they wanted to scrap the agreement that allows the joint military drills between the philippines and the us. but under his successor, the largest public than war gifts involving 60000 soldiers are planned for april.
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the united states in the philippines military alliance may have been through a few rocky years, but the philippine government under president marcos has put all that behind. one could say it's an old partnership in a new era. barnett below al jazeera manila, us house republicans have voted to remove democratic representative. ellen oma from the foreign affairs committee. omar's been ousted for previous comments. critical of israel. how speaker kevin mccarthy defended the decision based upon what she had said, the anti semitic comments. it's all about the benjamins view. the military in america is equal to hamas and the taliban on $911.00, something happened that day. even the former democratic chair of the committee believed her comments were wrong when a resolution was brought up to deal with this last time, she never apologized. they changed the resolution to say anti semitism is wrong.
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we're not removing her from other committees. we just do not believe when it comes to foreign affairs, especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make. she shouldn't serve there, but this is what the clear this if it was tit for tat, we would have picked people, took them off all committees and said nothing about. we don't believe that. how does your cache or is following the story in washington d. c. i was down nearly a party lines with 218 votes to remove johan omar from the house foreign affairs committee, 211, to keep her on that committee. now, of course, omar is an outspoken, progressive member of the democratic caucus. she is muslim, and she is also an immigrant, a refugee from somalia, and she gave a fiery speech right before the vote to oust her representation matters. continuing to expand our ideas of who is america
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and who can partake in the american experience. experiment is a good thing. i am an american and american who was sent here an american who was sent here by her constituents who represent them in congress. will you heard the applause and she was speaking there that was coming from the other democrats in the chamber who unanimously supported her remaining on the committee. now, o mar has apologized for those comments that were deemed anti semitic. and, and she comes as democrats, her removal comes as democrats accused republicans of wielding political revenge. because democrats remove to republican members from their committees back in 2021. those members for having advocated political violence against democrats on line. they notably never apologized,
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but they are now back to their committee assignments. now that republicans have reclaimed, controlled, a $100000000000.00, had been wiped off the value of one of india's biggest conglomerates. the meltdown in gout on, on donnie's business and pot started when a u. s trader accused a group of fraud. poverty metal has more from new delhi. this decision relocked an unexpected. you dawn from the man who was once the 2nd richest person on the planet. gotta badani cancelled a share sale of followed public offer off to raising 2 and a half $1000000000.00. the business tycoon says it's because stock prices have been fluctuating for me. the address on my end, rissa is ben. i'm own and everything is secondary and spoon should have been risked us from orange and losses. we have been drawn that bill. the dani group shares have been in
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a week long meltdown. it started when american investment form hindenberg, research accuse it of, quote, the largest cornyn corporate history alleging stock market manipulation and accounting fraud. hindenburg is a short seller which bets again, stocks and makes money when share prices fall. adonis group has question it's motives calling it a war on india. the report has shattered the group's credibility. media report suggest to global lenders are no longer accepting odon bonds, at collateral for loans. in just central bank is also reportedly often bank. here to give details of their exposure to a donnie company, opposition parties are demanding a judicial inquiry and a debate in parliament. it is a money with hard working indians have saved their life, time saving and their hardwood living mission. for their future. they see a donnie has benefited from his friendship with prime minister. marines are moody.
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the conglomerate has built major infrastructure in india. last week. it bought the high for bought in israel for more than $1000000000.00. there are growing golds. we're improving corporate oversight in, in can longer time over the last 10 years have really become global players. and while they're become global breast, the, the regulatory, you know, systems in india and i, let's say, and in the u. s. on in europe, that is a gap. so it good regulation has to catch up and has to, has to you all a far more a transmitted system. got to madonna is no longer asia, which is person in the us stock market regulator is reportedly examining the cancel chassis pop new met. then i'll just iraq. new delhi pope francis has called for forgiveness and reconciliation on his visit to the democratic republic of congo.
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pontiff spoke to tens of thousands of young people at the stadium in kinshasa. he spoke about the need for peace after years of devastating armed conflict. is the 1st paypal visit to the country, which has a large catholic population in more than 37 years. a life sized statue of a roman emperor posing as hercules has been discovered, the find was made during sewer repair, works near ancient rooms. first highway. the statue, which consists of several broken pieces, suffered some accidental damage during its chance. discovery has been cleaned and restored once repaired, the statue is expected to be displayed publicly. and a quick monday we can catch up any time on our website address that is al jazeera dot com ah.
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