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0 in syria citizens are collecting evidence, a show of crimes committed against civilians. we've moved out of syria now about $600000.00 pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice. it puts a human face on the charges. it's a dead human face, but it's a human face. syria witnesses for the prosecution. on al jazeera evenings is fun, faith more and more women for me stuff that draw both crowds and criticism. when i went 8th, meet the rebel black as risking life and limb. didn't shake they drink on al jazeera. the u. s. is always of interest, the people, all right, the world people pay attention to walk with on here. and i'll just, he was very good at bringing the news to the world from here. ah,
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security concerns and nigeria ahead of saturday's elections. we report from the se for an opposition candidate has been kills. i'm out of my casa, in se nigeria region, that's been pre lakes and violence and kidnapping. keep wanting to find out why some people say they feel marginalized and cut off from the rest of the country. ah, i'm told mccrae this is al jazeera live from dog. ha, also coming up. says he's reduced to rubble. more than 8000 civilians. did the ukraine war is how was away from entering a 2nd year israel strike side some garza after rockets of 5 from the territory and also hid. i'm sammy's aiden live from turkey,
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iowa in crime. all stories of compassion emerge from the rubble of earthquakes. ah, we begin in nigeria where violence continues to mar the run up to the country's presidential election. on wednesday, a senate candidate was killed by gunman and se, and a new goose state. but serious face decades of security challenge is caused by iso linked fighters on the north. in separatists in the south, the 18 candidates are vying to become president. both 3 are believed to be the front runners to replace mohammed bihari. at least 93000000 people are registered to vote. a cash crisis shortage of fuel and corruption, have dominated campaigns. harriman tasa has more from an ego. this is way the man was running for senator was killed on wednesday night. his
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convoy was traveling along this road. when it got to this area, gunman opened fire. you could see some of the cartridges down there. he was killed and some of his party members were also killed. they then set fire to the car. the car has been moved by security forces, police of issued a statement and they blamed on groups for the attack. they say young on to me to the region. i tried to disrupt on saturday and are trying to cause panic. the street is usually busier than this. you got, if you cause that many of the shops of clothes, some of the people here say they're too scared over this on the nervous of the attack on wednesday. not sure what is going to happen next. the moods here is 10. people will tell you, try not to leave the city and travel by road. they say people are getting kidnapped people ransom, and people are being attacked along the road. so generally there's a feeling of insecurity in the area. they've been lingering tensions in this part
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of the country for many, many years. some people here said they feel marginalized from the rest of nigeria. they feel that the federal government in the capital, the boucher has not that enough to develop this part of nigeria. some of them have been agitating to change some even calling for a separation independence from the state of nigeria. israel or conklin by 4 to nigeria, a civil war known as by after war with them in office there for between 19671970. that attempt at secession in the south east home to the able homeland, ethnic group killed more than 1000000 people. but when, when you finish the retire lieutenant colonel is worried about a new generation of fighters who say not enough people from this region have influence over nigeria, politics, security, and economy. i'm suggesting that the federal mitchell think deeply and see how they can bring us into the equation to us legs,
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the syllis under and else the people, the boys who wore him on legislative bodily nigeria, se se them increase in pre election violence, kidnappings, and continued agitation from some to split from the rest of the country. dozens of people have been killed this year in a row you to abuse your breast lobe, you know breast probably be a little kid, you know bottle. i be going to record for them to tell her that liberty a free book, this i midra is thinks a man what really breed them. so i want to be free presidential and parliamentary elections are on saturday. some polling stations will not be used because of insecurity. security force to say they will guarantee laura and order a no need to tell you how we do. it's not i'm telling you is ups would do it on every one. we have the liberty to aside their franchise insecurities,
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not the only issue of voters rising unemployment and economy are major concerns. this market is usually busy at this time of the day. a lot more people would be looking for good deals and bothers what it's quiet because the shortages of cash banks often run out and that's effectively everyday life. in a geron prison mohammed, uber, harry is serving his 2nd and last term. many nigerians hope waiver takes over from him, will quickly turn around the economy and resolve lingering conflicts, harder matessa al jazeera integral nigeria vulnerable katie is senior fellow at the tony blair institute for global change. he says the security situation in nigeria has never been so unstable that our city may, jo, i'm groups in the country that are operating one in the south is where this happened when in the north west and the north central, which is a criminal gang. no, can you call bonded that has an estimated 30000 men and have been killing people.
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they have killed over 10000 people over the past 10 years and have a store. it runs on in billions of dollars. and then in this north, when eastern part of nigeria there is it you had to group a group claim into vital islam old book or am that has huge over 5000 people. that groups one of each p less ideological p less is to disrupt nigeria as democracy. and we know that they do step up at tags when ever elections are to be held, including the last elections in 2019 and in 2011. they even succeed at enforcing the election to postpone by 6 weeks because the security forces that they would not guarantee security. so insecurity. so widespread 3 major m groups and we have never seen this in the history of the country. unfortunately, as i drove the 3 groups, i mentioned a fake news, conspiracy theories and false information on social media is likely to exacerbate
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things and lead to commission camino tensions, especially because the 3 major candidate to come from 3 different ethnic groups and 3 different parts of nigeria, and we know that an unscrupulous politician sometimes exploded those kinds or 4 lines in order to ignite one community against the other. ah, in less than 24 hours, the war and ukraine will into its 2nd year, thousands of people have died. millions have been displaced in the country has been devastated by the fighting since rushes invasion. but pace does not appear to be anywhere in sight. the russian presidents as vowing to step up as country's nuclear arsenal. that's just days after he suspended participation in a treaty with the you, with that limited stock piling of nuclear warheads. i wish only when you mine, as before, we will pay increased attention to strengthening the nuclear triad this year,
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the 1st launchers of the saw mat missile system with a new heavy missile enter combat duty. we will continue. serial production of the kin jowl. air launched hypersonic systems and begin mass deliveries of zircon c launched hypersonic missiles. the united nations general assembly is debating a resolution on the ukraine war at an emergency session. she half returns is there for us. now, can you just explain exactly what they're voting on? she hub when the draft resolution was drawn up by the e. u and ukraine. and it's a, it's a very simple resolution based on a very simple, incontrovertible principle that it is against the un charter. it's against international law for members states to invade each other. and therefore, russia must withdraw, and we know that they've kept it simple because the u. s. in particular, has been saying that this is the moment for the well to show its unity against, against russia as the anniversary of the war. the war preaches. we know from past
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experience, if there's anything war, coercive or strongly worded this using this or rhetoric that we often hear from the u. s. europe and ukraine. it's unlikely to gonna even half of the votes in the un general assembly, so that kept it very simple on purpose. and the russians rather been scoffing about calling in a hollowed out resolution and rushes allied bella roost then had introduced various resolutions, rivers, amendments. the resolution which they say would be more constructive if the goal really is peace in ukraine. so they went to these resolutions, the call for the start of peace negotiations that note the concern of the contending supply weapons by 3rd parties to the conflict. zan, calling on member states to refrain from sending weapons to the zone. a conflict and clinical member states to address the root causes of the conflicts. it'll be interesting to see whether some countries will vote for these amendments because a lot of these points, again, russia and batteries have kept. these are the simple 2 principles which assembly,
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when it comes to calling for it's the sort of peace negotiations that difficult to argue against it very much. what we hear from countries in normal line countries like china, brazil, india, who has and south africa, who say, look, you know, it's oil for the west to be a selectively outraged at this violation of the uncharted. but quite often, especially when it's western nations who abrogate the un charter, there isn't that sort of outrage. surely the focus should be on getting peace to the region as quickly as possible. so we're looking, it's really interesting. we're looking at the list of speakers now, this is a dynamic document that seems to be changing our by our china, what we speaking before the vote. but we were looking at where the bricks, nation, where as well brazil, india, south africa, africa citizen speaking apparently. but now we see that india and brazil speaking off to the vote with an explanation of that. so that's, that's rather interesting. we'll be seeing whether the not align countries will be expressing their dissatisfaction. well they've, they've been saying is the double standards and this entire process,
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which isn't necessarily a view you often hear and say western europe or the u. s. and a thank you so much. that is she have a tendency for us at the united nations. and israel has carried out it strikes on the gaza strip, began in the early hours of thursday morning israeli forces targeted what they said were hum off military sides hours earlier, the 6 rockets were fired from garza and israel. these really army says it intercepted 5 of the no casualties were reporters. this comes off to him and said it would respond to the killings of at least to live in palestinians during a ride by as ready for nicholas on wednesday. for the 100 people were injured, lumina l. so ye has more now from gaza. the israeli were planes carried out in the early i was just curious. the air strikes with 2 military camps of one in the central and refugee camp of l. booties and the other in the northwest of a shot,
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a refugee camp, no casualties were reported. but this caused the as phone support. 6 truck is that we launched from the gulf, strip the policy in groups and got this set that the rocha launching was in retaliation. all the occupations aggression towards the policy and people in the west bank as a response to the raid in nablus that killed over 10 people and enjoyed over a 100 and i've been able to put them off of my own. we stand in solid, dotted with our people in nablus. recall on the world to support this is ella stimulus, because we are victimized by the occupations and christians against us in all the palestinian lands. we have no choice because we live under knock your patience. and the world must protect us against this and just to somebody. and if a number of protests has taken place here in the gaza strip since one day while the policy and functions in groups in gaza has called out today to be
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a day of general strike. where all indication of. ringback institutions has been suspended schools, universities, kindergartens, and training center is in addition to other public and private sectors that have closed their doors instantly deputy of the people of nablus and the west bank. you may see gods this city of funerals still being held for some of the live in palestinians killed by israeli forces in nablus on wednesday. the abraham has more from ramallah, person ins are still laying their loved ones to rest this morning to funerals are taking place in different cities in the occupied west bank. one man who succumb to his ruins after they read in nablus. and another has come to ones that he sustained 2 weeks ago after and israeli raid. on wednesday, it was the deadliest raid into decades. 11 palestinians were killed in the city of
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nap. it's this is why you're seeing the streets behind me empty the tours shot palestinians say that they want the world to know what's happening to them, but also have been hearing from any other city and saying that they feel left alone dealing with the israeli army. that they don't have any protection and they took a lot about impunity. and this is exactly why i'm joined here by mr. lee ann from a huck organization. mr. the thing we keep hearing policy is talk about the i c. c, the international criminal court. they want to investigate what is happening with the icpc. actually, everybody knows that i see prosecutor concluded its preliminary examination 2 years ago and decided to open an investigation into that situation in the city. but it's time based on our knowledge. no practical steps have been taken so far, not the conclude these,
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this investigation and we have been calling on the court and the prosecutor to take these steps to conclude the investigation. unless this investigation is concluded, we believe that crimes will continue to be committed. and unless sanctions are imposed on the 5th of israel to occupying for we believe that these crimes will continue to be committed. plenty still a hit on al jazeera, including toxic fumes. why residents from a small town in ohio are afraid to go home. ah rushes war in ukraine has dominated well leave for the past 12 months. devastating for those in the line of fire or directly impacted. it has strengthened global alliances and deepened divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of
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millions of people. well, white in a week heard special coverage al jazeera, explored every aspect of the conflict, the human, the political, and the economic, and the possibilities of resolution. ukraine war, one here on, on algebra. debating the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters that the world are in india, jump into the street. they made their money on coal. they made their money on field . convincing those folks, no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all a voice we chose to do because we wanted to escape war and violence for new human eyes. this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. the street on al jazeera lou.
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ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories. the sour a candidate in nigeria has been killed by gunman ahead of saturday's election bar or hugo chuckle. head was attacked on wednesday and south east and a new goose dice. he was returning from a campaign rally for his opposition labor policy. israel has carried out a strikes on the gases strip, comes off, thomas said it would respond to the killings of at least 11 palestinians during a ride by israeli forces, the nablus on wednesday. and in less than 24 hours, the war in ukraine will into its 2nd year. thousands of people have died, millions have been displaced. and the country has been devastated by the fighting
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since russia's invasion. o staying with the war in ukraine, over the course of the year. moscow has turned to iran for low cost drones. some of them have slipped past ukraine's defenses. how defense it is a alex go topless explains vs massive missile inventory is running seriously low. a year of high intensity conflict has all been exhausted . stocks as it launch missiles strike off to missile strike. when you cranes, past structure and high value military targets to replace his depleted stalks. moscow was turned to one of its few friends round, who agreed to export massive amounts of it. shower head, 136. trone, cheap, inaccurate. the shower head is launched in silver's technically a drone is being used by russia as a cruise missile. it can fly hundreds of kilometers and has an 80 kilogram warhead . in return for this help, rush has agreed to give iran 24 bits advance,
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so who su 35 fighter jets which will make a valuable addition to iran's antiquated air force. rush a shout its targets for these trolls. soon low flying. many of be shot down, but enough get through to cause significant damage to ukraine's pass structure. weaponized the cold and plunging many parts of the country into darkness. alex could topless al jazeera, the number of people killed an earthquake into kia and syria has risen to nearly 50000. nearly 8000 aftershocks had been felt since the 1st lodge tremors 2 weeks ago. in syria, nearly 6000 people have died and millions there are homeless semi's ident joins us from adina and to kia and semi a mini, obviously homeless where you are to night. so what are you? what are they saying to you? while the talk here is precisely about that, tom officials have been talking the minister of openings ation
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a short while ago. i've been talking and going into some detail about the plans. the government has to re house people talking about how they're going to get families. 3 bedroom apartments today was also the kickoff. stay for something called the container city project. the idea being in phase one, going to try and get people into 15000 containers to get them out of those tense, which are not really the best living condition for any extended period. they've also been talking about putting up prefab homes, something to keep people going in the slightly more settled condition before they managed to get them into the new houses that they're talking about building. well, there is quite a need for that and for that to come quickly, because if you listen to what the u. n is saying, one and a half 1000000 people in southern care have been made homeless and they say 500000 or half a 1000000 homes need to be rebuilt. and up to 210000000
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tons of rubble needs to be collected. just to give you an idea of what that means, that's like 30 square kilometers worth of land being filled, 3 meters high. they say with rubble. we've shown you quite a bit of rubble over the last several days of coverage of the aftermath of these terrible earthquakes. some people are being pulled out alive from the rubble. i had the opportunity to catch up with an incredible family. i have a heart warming and heart wrenching story of their survival under the rubble. they thought they were dead when they were going to die and they managed to record. well, they thought was going to be their last moments to send a message to the world asking for help. 1 but asking for help for others outside of the rubble on one of them. ringback and track, under the rubble families pinned down by collapsed concrete and
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struggling to breathe. telephone if we die and this phone is found. there are 5 of us here. come on, rush under the rubble of this massive earthquake. then they decide to fill what they believe are their final moments. but this is not the incredible story of their survival. this is the incredible story of their selflessness. whoever finds this phone, please help me fulfill my promises to people. please give them stuff a 2500 lyrics and you own the children from 5000 lire, please, and paid to them on my behalf. the family had collected donations and were worried, the money in their apartment wouldn't make it to the needy. this is what's left of what the current family once called home, the powerful earthquake reduced an entire compound of towers to doth underneath,
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fatma otto and their 3 children into a 10 hours of agony. incredibly, they were rescued alive, all except the youngest son belie july. his mother filmed in playing with his brother before the quake in what would become his final moments for in concert. we heard the tremor in the early hours of the morning. the building shook her into the children and my wife followed well, i called out loud and he looked at me. but before i could pull him out, the building collapsed and surviving an earthquake. and then surviving being tramped under the rubble of your own home. that's an unimaginable old deal. but then walking above that rubble, that can be painful to. we're looking for below things like his clothes or books. i had a song here, he talked laugh and fled. here. when you're walking on top of your path, each footstep forward takes you back with club. so it's very difficult to be here.
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it's bringing back bad memories out of the each scoop raises hope. each item uncovered pools at the ha. suddenly a mother is confronted with what she sought, but didn't desire her dead son's shirt. some food and tea can fill the void of hunger and not the emptiness of losing a son. so you're in the middle of an earthquake. why were you thinking about charity for others? i mean, that's a beautiful thing, but most people would be worried about themselves. luckily, the changer, because the money was for orphaned, people trusted me with their money. the story of the family has spread into care prompting donations to the orphans partner was so worried about under the rubble. the could take comfort in knowing that through their actions, the old deal that ended below our life has started a new chapter and the lives of others. sammy's
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a than al jazeera caught him on mirage took more than 2 weeks after toxic a train crash in ohio residence, a still waiting to hear what caused the derailment. the u. s. prison joe biden has waded into the round, telling, train, operate in norfolk southern to clean its mess up. the transportation secretary paid for the judge has to have the crash side. residents of the town have reported symptoms like sore throats and hit eggs. the official side, the water and ia are safe. national transportation safety board has released a report on the reasons behind the derailment. how did your castro has more from east pella thing? their preliminary findings are that, 1st of all, the train was traveling at a normal rate of speed and the engineers. the conductors had attempted to stop it earlier, because there were warnings on the track that there was an overheating wheel bearing, which ultimately failed leading to the derailment. the room that happened on
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february 3rd led to no injury or death, but it did lead to this house as waste bill of $435.00 leaders of final fluoride, which is a very toxic chemical you to make artificial leather among other plastics. well, that was unstable, it could have erupt into flames. and so a few days after the derailment, it was decided by the railroad company and local responders to have a control burn for that chemical to be released into the air. people reporting now of headaches of burning sensation more than 3000 fish, died in the surrounding waterways. all of those are obviously concerning people as they're showing up now trying to get those health concerns address. and now the environmental protection agency, of course, as it's continuing to monitor the situation, they say they have not detected any harmful chemicals in the air or the water. but
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the people here are still very hesitant to believe that the dis tolan mitigate sca from tropical cycle. and freddy has risen to at least for the store made landfall in the south east late on tuesday with wind speeds, about 180 kilometers per hour. more than 11000 people have been displaced. the storm system is now moving west towards mainland africa. it could impact more than 3000000 people across most and big met against. and some bob way. the winter storm is sweeping through the united states. crowning hundreds of plains and trapping drivers on icey roads. it's had several states causing blackouts and school closures. more than 55000000 people from maine to the western coast are being warned of the extreme with those of the headlines. the news continues after our special show on ukraine. ah,
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as the rainy season stuff is a bit at the moment the still plenty of clad in malaysia, but particularly indonesia. and i think that's where the focus will be, particularly in java, was quite a strong breeze, as i think was the increase in the sherry weather in borneo, but less so in the philippines. and rain is a possibility in some honshu, but still cold enough for a few rather wet snow showers up in the mountains and honshu and may be proper snowing. ha, canada, come. he had a cold asia, but not extremely colder. from china and the cold weather spread across the yangtze valleys, more, less dissipated. now that's quite a window increasing showers or rain if you like. in taiwan, particularly in tie pate. and so she asked to continue. possibly a little bit colder, i suspect to have so light a snow on saturday, but still piling up there are avalanche risks mornings out for that. and although
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we still see a few big showers of rain in the northeast of india and bangladesh, this is generally speaking, drawing up and the picture elsewhere. as you probably won't be surprised to hear is of temperatures. now we do mentioned pre monsoon heat, but not normally in february, but it's still the attempt is are in excess of $35.00 in good europe. roger, stand in southern pakistan and there's no reason why that should change it just slowly warm ah, near to moment. if they treat it all by a fame and success in a multi $1000000000.00 industry that you need to put her ambition is challenged by funny cation and cultural tradition.

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