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military occupation, there's never been an arab state, he with the capital of jerusalem. every one is welcome. but the default spectrum that maintains the cold on the projects, that's what we refused. a was one of the founders of a settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people, segregation, occupations, discrimination, injustice. this is apartheid in the 21st century. jerusalem, a rock and a hard place analogy. 0 informed opinions tie, right extreme is there is real and need to be tackled as soon as possible. frank assessments, there was a joke about the interim government that it's not in for, nor does it go inside story on al jazeera. ah, us fighter jets shoot down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon that's been drifting across american aerospace for days. a jing has condemned the move.
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ah, hello, i'm a jim, jim. this is al jazeera alive from door ha. also coming up. hope francis meets children in south sudan who've been displaced by a years long conflict anger on the streets of israel. thousands protest against benjamin netanyahu, small right government for a 5th consecutive week. and i said, i'm 50 and keep the ecuador where on sunday, people will vote on a number of possible constitutional reforms. the many here, c as a referendum on the government, the viet molasses. ah, the u. s. military a shot down a chinese balloon, which it says was a surveillance craft. off the coast of south carolina bay jane condemned the move.
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they maintain it was a civilian weather balloon that had blown off course critical hand reports from washington. a clear shot as it happened, a missile hit the high altitude balloon and it begins its descent in end 2 days of long debate about what to do about this massive air balloon. the u. s. as china was trying to spy on its territory, as it moved from the north west to the southeast traveling the entire country was controversial enough that you, a secretary of state postponed his schedule, trip to meet with china's president. over the weekend. china claimed it was a weather balloon that was blown off course. president biden says he gave the order to shoot it down last wednesday with the pentagon says in f $22.00 fighter jet launched
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a single missile to bring the balloon down into us territorial waters. pentagon officials say now they're turning their attention to recovering the balloon. they think it's going to be a fairly simple operation. they are already several u. s. navy and u. s. coast guard ships on the scene. they planned to use u. s. navy divers, at unmanned submersible to bring it to the surface in the next few days. and then the u. s. will decide if they want to publicly and the debate offering proof of what this was. it's still an open debate is huge. balloon was in fact of following the air streams of the area and that it has attracted it is not loitering over a montana rashad off the eastern seaboard. so at this juncture, this idea that this is somehow a spy ship that was deliberately sent by china seems a little bit far fetched. but use analysts say the fact that they believe a similar balloon is traveling latin america makes this theory more likely. so 1st
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of all, i, i believe that chinese statement, sergeant solicitous. i do, i believe that it was just a weather balloon loan. of course, it would be quite a coincidence if you have this loon going in to us air space, while apparently there's another one processing latin america a simultaneously infringing upon other countries here. space another strain and then already freight relationship, which was supposed to take steps toward improvement on saturday. instead taking a step back. particle haine al jazeera washington. all right, katrina, you joins us now from beijing via skype. so katrina, chinese officials are expressing outrage over the us shooting down this balloon. what more have we been hearing from them? oh, donna's condemned the air strike against the airship, calling it an over reaction and violation of each national practice. china's
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foreign ministry for it's plant has we is rated. it stands up is, is not ascribed, learned that it is a civilian issue that was born, of course, by a strong when a force made an accident is what they're calling it now. enriched originally we had a fairly soft regrettable turn from china, but now that has shifted to a more defensive stance. and they're saying that you as politicians, are taking advantage of the situation to discredit and attack china. and we've also heard from china that the top math one, he has spoken over the phone with entities linking a said that he calls a cool hands over this match and said that communication channel should be kept open. to avoid this judgment that he repeated again, chime is done, but this is a go around this accusation. we've also heard from chinese state media now try me in saying that this whole incident is essentially hot and saying that you ask the media outlets. i sensationalizing the supported china threat and making things was
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between the 2 countries. apparently this is a major blow to us. china relations. alright. katrina, thanks so much for breaking it all down for us. almost half a 1000000 people in ukraine's odessa region, or without power. after a fire at an overloaded electrical substation officials warned that repairs could take weeks. the government said it would appeal to turkey to help restore power to the black sea port city. the high voltage substation and the power infrastructure around odessa had been damaged by repeated russian missile strikes. russia and ukraine have carried out a prisoner exchange, brokered by the united arab emirates, the ukrainian government says 116 of its soldiers have been allowed to return home . while 63 russians servicemen have been released. pope frances has met people affected by the conflict in south sudan. the head of the catholic church is on a 6 day trip to africa, which will end on sunday. within 4000000 south sudanese have been forced to flee their homes because of a civil war that's been going on since 2013. the pontiff spoke to this place,
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people in the capital about his hopes for peace in from census, and had you bear the burden of a painful past, you never stopped dreaming of a better future in our meeting today. we would like to give wings to your hope. peter b r r jack is a peace activist who was detained in south sudan and forced to flee the country. he explained why this visit is significant. i have great hope for, for the visit of the pope and the other 2 religious leaders, the archbishop of canterbury and the moderator of the church of scotland. this visit is very historic and as we should not see it from the lens of the leaders alone, we should see at what does this mean for the people of house with that, what does it mean for the faith of christian faith in 1000 student and what it means for the catholic church, i do believe this is historic visit and it will have him when the mentors impact i among our people and in our country. if you would see the crowd that gather it
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earlier today at the john ground was muslim. and since yesterday, when the 2, the 3 leaders arrived in google, they, they had their well coming from the population has just been absolutely amazing. ah, the, the, the, the number or the sheer number of people gathered at john graham was liam is something that has not happened since away independent. and i think this is really where the impacts they impact should not be about the leader. what would be that is due for the leaders, but what it will do for the people about the pope and the religious leaders by coming to his house were done at a time when the war leaders have nearly forgotten the suffering of the people whose house done that they have empowered our people and they have powered the church leaders. and i think together the people and the cheerleaders. united, particularly the youth and the women. these will be the renewal that the holy father has been talking about since he embark on this trip. thousands of israelis had been out protesting against their government for 5th successive saturday.
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benjamin netanyahu coalition is the most right wing and israel's history. and there's widespread anger about his proposals to weaken the powers of the supreme court. m. ron con reports from west jerusalem. hans again, tens of thousands are out on the streets across israel, protesting against that government. here in western islam are outside the president's house, hoping to be heard. however, the numbers are far smaller than in previous weeks. ah, every saturday they gather, calling this right when government a threat to democracy in the rule of law. because it's a coalition built around, openly fall right parties. it's worth noting these protests a, just about israel. not many here are talking about the palestinians, the still peace process, all continued occupation. although their numbers are significant, they don't appear to represent the majority of israel society. i think right now it is a vocal minority. we don't know what the majority of israelis believe because the issues we're dealing with, a very complex and the people we seeing protesting our people in the economic world
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. high tech lawyers, a journalist, people who feel the threat to understand what this means for the change of israel's legal regime. a and the demise of israelis, of israel's democracy, of moving on the path of hungary and poland. and perhaps other countries that have moved into an, a, a system of weakening our democracy the governments less than 2 months old and therefore too early for polling data. but it would seem, the majority of the electorate still supports the government of benjamin netanyahu . i need on their machinery. i am supporting the changes this government makes this country isn't moving or people who aren't letting it move. they must give this government a chance to change. thanks. hello, i'm right wing. the government should be a right wing one as well. never even the protesters, no, they're in a minority right now, but they all hoping that will change and will become more mainstream. but he,
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that still means hard line conservatives. then game for the protest is to force a new election. now they may well succeed in doing that and they may well even get rid of some of the far right elements that make up the current coalition. however, if previous governments or anything to go by then that hard line, conservatism will still remain m ron calling out 0 wish jerusalem 22 people are now confirmed dead and wildfires that are sweeping across chile. firefighter say there are now more than $250.00 different act of fires covering almost 500 square kilometers. the government has extended an emergency order to cover 3 regions in southern chile, the fires have been sparked by an unusually hot summer heat wave. it's not a thunder than me. we're working on multiple sources of forest fires that added to the weather high temperatures and a lot of wind, of course, great destruction in visitation and building. $11000.00 people in ecuador will be heading to the poles in the coming hours to elect the local officials and vote on
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constitutional reforms. many observers see this referendum as a test for president guillermo lasso, whose approval rating sits at less than 20 percent. alexander m p r t has more from the capital, kito, apathy and frustration or on the rise among voters in kito ahead of sundays, wide ranging referendum promoted by embattled precedent. guillermo last. so to address the countries deteriorating, social and economic conditions. so like i said here again, we have no faith in politicians for all the scandals that happened recently. people has lost trust in politics. that console bar with an approval rating below 20 percent, a hostile congress, mounting government corruption allegations and a dramatic rising gang related crime. conservative president last so has been left with little space to maneuver. i thought i relation thought yeah. but the 8th referendum questions, which covers security issues, reducing the number of lawmakers in congress, environmental protection,
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and the possible extradition of ecuadorian st. could help him regain initiative. and quality assurance calls will just populate popular consultations usually become a referendum on the current administration. but in this case, despite the president's major loss in political capital, the referendum has strong support because it addresses fundamental issues for the people gay. but critics argue that last was hoping to use the referendum for a personal political when a way to try to boost to port for his failing presidency, to the detriment of the country's democracy. it was the former president of ecuador, the constitution assembly says the reduction of assembly members will reduce representation of remote areas and strength in the hands of the most powerful parties, the offering. i want to consult up to get the, you know, not that far from solving problems, this referendum could exacerbate some of them. it's like a poisonous apple that shines on the surface. but if you read the questions and an x as carefully you see it weren't so from the security issues with democratic
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instability even less the environment. it's a tricky and deceitful referendum. unfortunately, all of it into lots of barely survived and impeachment vote after 2 weeks of cost of living, indigenous lead protests that brought the country to a halt. the indigenous leader lay only thus isa is leading been no campaign. he says the government should instead comply with the agreements that ended the demonstrations. it will be everyone thought that the government strategic idea was simply mounting the agreement and comes out of district random to confound all it really wants is to get some oxygen to continue trying, implementing policies that have not worked until now. both polls showed the referendum, results could be very close and on sunday, ecuadorian will also elect more than $5000.00 local officials. with the opposition expected to gain seats across the country. even the passing of the referendum might
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end up being a short lived victory for the last. so i listened that impurity and just the key to still ahead on al jazeera, a ceiling, unsafe people in pakistan called on their government to take action against armed groups. plus the big fries hits north america will have more on the arctic blast that is seen record low temperatures and parts of the us and canada. ah, that was on the re being but it's there has picked up is settled now, but that's not the case to the north, particularly in these, the mediterranean, and that where they robin staying, there spreads east to levant and into syria. it's one storm followed by another, and the 1st one is like jesus, significant bas about us now, eastern turkey. the 2nd one in the west. the course,
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if you're not on the highest ground with his cold wind over the warmish water, you get rain and pretty nasty weather it is to running through by route and in land . becca valley is largely pretty unpleasant. this range could be persistence. already been writing the 24 hours mrs. sunday. it carries on doing much the same. eventually it will spread through northern syria. it's not the high ground. it'll catch bit of asked by john and the round most of the rounds. find there is stone afghanistan admittedly. but size of all that looks very quiet on sunday on monday. wind is more of a problem, i think as that wind drives a few, sharon, to northern egypt. so we tend to pick up the dust in saudi arabia and kuwait, and possibly in southern iraq. in africa, the rains are already concentrating a lot further south than the tropics. now, as you can see, but tanza, navy, tanzania, is a focus in south africa. they're scattered chairs that are especially heavy, but they are there ah, with the tough times,
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the man tough question. what exactly are you asking for you? what troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that it's identify with america. so when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging of merit and demand the truth. there is no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are up front with me, mark lamond hill. what out there? ah ah, welcome back. you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories, the south
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u. s. fighter jets of drought down to chinese balloon off the south carolina coast, which the pentagon describe as a surveillance grabbed beijing has condemned the move. they maintain it was a civilian weather balloon that had blown off course. but frances has been meeting people affected by the conflict and south sudan, the head of the roman catholic church, called for an end to the decade long civil war. that displaced 4000000 people in ecuador are preparing to head to the pools on sunday to vote in a referendum on constitutional reforms. the vote is seen as a major test for president key animal law, so whose approval rating sits at the less than 20 percent. people in the northern pakistani city to shower, have been protesting to demand authorities take action to prevent attacks by armed groups. more than a 100 people were killed in the city when a suicide bomber targeted a mosque. on monday us a bag spoke to protesters on the streets up a shower. ah, they came from across the province, demanding peace from the focused on the government. after monday,
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suicide attack on a mosque that killed 101 people, and injured many more political parties were asked not to fly the flags. instead, white flags were raised. many people here in the northern city of the showers say they don't trust box dance, military establishment, question, read it have been something from 20 out of 4. this is the need of the time that domain for provide us. so peace and our own. and our last and ard image demand is based on the city, and this protest is seen as a popular uprising, similar to the one that followed the killing of 134 students in 2014 natalie bon attack on a military school. the movement stove, the focused on the taliban of supporting towns and villages in the region under long with military operations. attacks by the taliban drastically reduced your spot that these kind of incidents are happening, but no one is taking responsibility. all women and children are suffering. we want bees, we want education, we don't want state sponsored federalism. every house in this room is leading and
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we can take any will bodies, blue they chant, we will never accept terrorism. the threat is still very real. security was high, run the protest on saturday morning police carried out operations against armed groups. they say to tell you, bon commanders were killed and a cache of weapons confiscated, and others were taken into custody. the dog is so just at a room which we are unable to district. so bobby were policemen, p security installations and some high profile persons industry engine. prime minister shabbots sharif asset focused on is facing an unimaginable economic challenge. the killing of over 100 people seems to be a real turning point in buckets done. for years they struggled suffered with militancy and they don't want to make a return. but unlike before economic conditions, now the worst country has ever faith, which would make it even more difficult to get the vital resources, the police so desperately need that for people here, they don't have a choice that live on the front line of this battle bag. i'll just show buckets on
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thing in pakistan where the government has band access to wikipedia for failing to remove what it called sacrilege is content. the pakistan telecommunication authority says the online and cyclic p. d fail to comply with a 48 hour deadline to remove and block the content. we can be the says, the move denies the 5th most populous nation access to free knowledge. the killing of a young youtube video blogger by her father and off has sparked outrage. there are calls for protests to be held on sunday to demand justice for 2. but her father has admitted to strangling her to death on wednesday in the so called on her killing. he was reportedly upset about her decision to live in turkey. at alley had gained a following on youtube, where she posted the videos of her daily life. tree longer has marked the 75th anniversary of its independence from britain with a parade that cost half a $1000000.00 in public funds. the government has been criticized for spending that
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amount of money on the event as a country is facing a crippling economic crisis. but no fernandez reports from colombo, this was how many lanterns could participate in the 7th of independence day celebrations. their money paid for from the sidelines, watching as the military bands and marching squads left the parade area approach roads and the venue were locked down hours ahead to ensure the celebrations were not disrupted by protest as people here are angry at their government for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on this event at a time when the nation is struggling to pay for essential supplies present, ronay vicar missing insists. the celebration is important. addressing the nation, he said, the corrupt political gangster isn't rich sheets. people into being eternally poor and dependent must be defeated. he said this was the system change. the younger
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generation has been demanding for a long time. yes and are muggy rather now, but my government has entered a new reformist path in order to do this. even though the decisions made schwartz, they seem painful. these have to be taken in order to get out of this crisis, permanent equity, madison at many like lesson to moodily gay. don't believe the from missing his promises. the student leader has been released on bail after being detained for 167 days in what many see as political persecution for his role in the 2022 anti government protests than it would be at the bargain. calling like the freedom struggle to liberate the country from the imperialist 75 years ago, we now have to struggle to free the country from the robbers or the thieving gangs that corrupted this society for more than 70 years. the music some odd even do oh, hundreds of university students and activists joined the negate to protest against
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the government crackdown on descent and spending days. despite a peaceful sit in being violently broken up by police on friday night. who said the protesters were violating a court order banning the protests acclaimed lawyers disputed many say the government should not be spending this much money to put on military parade. while millions of she luncheon struggling to feed themselves, there was organizing protest like this. they would continue their campaign until the country is fully free. on corruption minute fernandez, dedira, colombo, east african regional leaders meeting in burgundy have renewed their calls for an immediate cease fire by all sides in the conflict in eastern democratic republic of congo. in $23.00 rebels, who, congo says are backed by wonder, have seized large areas of north keeble province since october, threatening the provincial capital gama. malcolm webb has more from delingo,
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a refugee camp just outside gama. thousands of people have arrived in this camp in the last few days. many of them have fled from villages. the m 23 is advancing toward the has taken others have been on the run for 6 weeks or more. having already been displaced once they keep moving each time and $23.00 gets close to them and $23.00 is widely understood to be backed by neighboring rwanda. rwanda denies it. meanwhile, congos army is widely reported to have been fighting along signed on groups. congos army denies that to the conditions here. a bad people have made shelters from whatever they can, whatever they could carry on. things they found here, rocks sticks and grass, and people who say that they're hungry, that there isn't food to eat. and they're still waiting to get humanitarian assistance. more than 40 people had been killed in northern nigeria is kept seen. a state after gunmen attacked a village install sheep and cattle. it's the latest violence ahead of the general
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election that's scheduled for february 25th. lack of security is a key concern for voters. as i am at the dream reports from the capital of georgia . i just run for equipment and stuff to see the level of preparedness i had of nigeria general elections, potential voter. how renee bray miss, confident the pool this year with this more, the processor is very fearful, and most shall you come, we're 2 times. i came back for the 2nd time to try if the machine was still at 50. me rejected me political and in the say that we'll test for the election commission will come 3 weeks from now. when millions of nigeria s q of to vote on election day for aldo the commission says it's ready. we are confident, in spite of all suffering from that lectures, were heard and ready for us to us. this is called the 2nd
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nigeria says it's deploying more technology during the elections to tackle voter fraud and make the process more transparent than previous ones. but security analysts say technology alone can't guarantee a credible connection in a country why security forces are struggling to contain attacks by groups. it will wonder why we know before what our police police especially and then on forces we went in the past few weeks. the frequency and ferocity of attacks ahead of nigeria general elections have increased. the election commission itself has been targeted with critical equipment supplies destroyed, consigned by the rise and violence. it warned. the pole could be threatened in many areas unless the visa types are stopped. with only a few weeks to go, the violence hasn't gone away. this has created the aim voters, one of the se, could be intimidated, and refused to come out on election day. how many degrees?
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and just either a town in the us state of ohio has declared a state of emergency after a train accident sparked a massive fire in the area. a freight train with more than 100 cars, derailed in the village of east palestine on friday. 20 of the cars were carrying hazardous materials. emergency crews had been evacuating residents living near by the railway. the fire has since reduced in intensity, but remains active in the 2 main tracks. are still blocked. 14 cars, carrion, vinyl chloride were involved in the derailment and have been exposed to fire. an arctic blast hit parts of the united states and canada with fierce winds, pushing temperatures down into the negative double digits. gabriel elizondo has more from the city of boston. scenes captured from a live camera show, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the continental united states. at the
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mount, washington observatory and research center in the state of new hampshire, where the windshield dragged the mercury down to an incredible minus 79 degrees celsius. on saturday. the arctic blast has brought sub 0 temperatures to large parts of the northeastern united states and canada temperatures across the region. plunging to dangerously low levels in boston, massachusetts, where it hit minus 33 with wind chill. the biting wind made the cold at times. downright painful. if you're really into masochism and whatever. yeah, it's actually great. otherwise people say what the hell am i doing here? people are used to cold weather here in boston this time of year. but this is unusual. the last time it got this cold in boston was 1957.
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in parts of maine, it was so cold, there were frost quakes. small earthquakes caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil. elsewhere the brutal, cold, complicated the emergency response to a massive fire after train derailment overnight in ohio, freezing the water being pumped to fire fighters. icey roads have made for hazardous driving in some states, like here in oklahoma. but back in boston, temperatures began to creep up slightly in the afternoon, reaching negative 12. people began to come out and brave the elements having some fun. but this is certainly a deep freeze that people here won't forget any time soon. gabriel's hondo al jazeera boston ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories.

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