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ready lakes into kia and syria has taken thousands of people's lives and left many more harmless. a major mobilization of humanitarian support is underway ah, teams on the ground will bring you continuous updates to t n. syria quakes on al jazeera in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world are right. extremely, there is real and need to be tackled as soon as possible informed opinions. why is the serial opposition concerned about this rather small between turkey and sue, lose them on the really router, a little dorky. this is some sort of math frank assessments. you know, that was a joke about the interim government that it's not in for him, nor does it got inside story on al jazeera, there are some of the media stories a critical look at the global news media cast right on al jazeera government shut
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off access to social media, 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 south east jerry, a region that seems pretty late violence and kidnapping. keep wanting to find out why some people said if you'll marginalize and cut off from the ranks of the country. ah, i'm tell mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up cities, reduced to rubble more than 8000 civilians. did the ukraine boy is al, was away from entering a 2nd year, also hit. i'm tommy's a van live from turkey. our incredible stories of compassion emerge from the rubble of earthquakes.
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ah, the senate candidates in nigeria has been killed by gunman ahead of saturday's election. bo you bo chuck who was attacked on wednesday in southeast and a new goose station. the opposition candidate was returning from a campaign rally for his life policy. howard natasha has more from a nuclear this is way the man was running for senator was killed on wednesday night . his 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 men of the region are trying to disrupt home on saturday and are trying to cause panic. the
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street is usually busier than this. you got a few cars, but many of the shops of clothes. some of the people here say they're too scared to open it on the nervous off of the attack on when they're 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 jenny, there's a feeling of insecurity in the area. there's been lingering tensions in this part 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 or a for between 19671970. that attempt at secession in the
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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 assuage the sinners under handles the people. the boys who are warren alleged items, badly, nigeria se, assume an 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, the c o l o u w suppressed a lot of people been or breast it all before. i believe kids, you know, portal i recall did you call for them to tell her that liberty and freedom,
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these unnatural instincts in man what really breed them. so i don't 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 lower and order a need to tell you how we do. it's not i'm telling you is ups. who do it on ever want to we have the liberty to aside their franchise insecurities. not the only issue for 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, but it's quiet because the shortages of cash banks often run out and that's effectively everyday life. in a geron president 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,
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harder matessa al jazeera integral nigeria ah in less than 24 hours the worn ukraine will into its 2nd year. thousands of people have died, millions have been displaced. the country has been devastated by the fighting since rushes invasion and peace appears no closer. the russian president is vowing to step up his country's nuclear arsenal. miss just days after he suspended participation in russia's last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the us. by wish only when you mine, as before, we will pay increased attention to strengthening the nuclear triad this year, the 1st launchers of the saw mat missile system with a new heavy metal enter combat duty. we will continue serial production of the canal air launched hypersonic systems and begin mass deliveries of zircon c launched hypersonic missiles. the united nations general assembly is debating
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a resolution on the ukraine war. add an emergency session she home for tansy is there for us now and she can just explain exactly what they're voting on. a draft resolution drawn up by the e u and ukraine, which is keeping things very simple. the general general principle of this resolution is it is incontrovertible that it's against the un charter for a members state to invade. and on the members state, say, russia should leave, should withdraw from ukraine immediately. and this is because it's, it's true also simply because the u. s e u, ukraine was as many members states to vote with it as, as possible. any other so class sort of angry sort of language we know from previous un general assembly votes, wobbly way even get off of the of the member states to, to vote for so that kept it simple. but we're now hearing some of the arguments why some nations,
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a very likely to abstain iran just spoke. they said they're going to abstain just before around china. china spoke who we would, we would expect to tubes to abstain with. and, but the argument from china is look, we agree that it's against the un charter to invade another country. but geo politics and war is more complicated than, than that right? now, the top priority is an immediate cease fire. it's immediate peace talks. it's d confliction by stopping sending weapons to the region and any sort of lasting piece is pointless unless you do address what china goals, the legitimate security concerns of member states and trying to was actually quite pointed a that in lodging military blocks undermines security. clearly a reference to nato's east expansion, which russia says was one of the main catalysts for, for their invasion. so we're waiting for fuels. they moving at quite a clip now, actually, by my count. and this is
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a very dynamic list of speakers. we just have iran, so we have romania now, so we have 123456 more speakers before that before a vote for africa has now pit and they'll be speaking before of age. and then we have sent several speakers off to the vote, including all the major non align nations like south africa in the bricks. the bricks block like india and, and brazil. so that, so things are moving at quite a clip. we just, the question is actually now, i mean, it is right on geopolitical question is whether they're going to break for lunch before they have a vote, but we're keeping tabs on things. ok, we will check in with you again shortly. thank you very much that she have a tansy at the united nations. israel has carried out his strikes on the gaza strip . they began in the early hours of thursday morning is really forces targeted what they said mass military science hours earlier, 6 rockets were fired from gaza into israel. he's ready, i'm. he says it intercepted 5 of them. no casualties were reported. you know,
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it is in the kansas city. these really warplanes carried out in the early hours of thursday. air strike. so to military camps of ham as one in the central and a refugee camp of the elbow days and the other in the north west of a shot at refugee camp no casualties where reported. but this caused as early spoon support, 6 rockets that were launched from the gods, the strip, the palestinian groups in god's this said that the rocket launching was in retaliation. all the occupations, aggression to words 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 nothing that just put them to the mom. we send them to la, dated to with our people in nablus. we call on the world to support us as palestinians, because we are victimized spect occupations aggressions against us in all the
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palestinian lands. we have no choice because we live under an occupation, and the world must protect us against this and just to somebody. and if a number of protests have taken place here in the gaza strip since wednesday, while the policy infections in groups he goes to have called out to day to be a day of general strike. where all educational institutions have been suspended. schools universities, kindergartens in training centers, in addition to other public and private sectors that have closed their doors in solidarity of the people of nablus and the west bank given to see it got this city . as human it was saying, the rocket fi and it strikes full, it wins, ties it's ready, right? and netlist, sidney occupied whist bank, killing a living palestinians, and entering more than a 100 needed abraham has the latest from the city. person ins are still laying their loved ones to rest this morning to funerals are taking place in
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different cities in the occupied westbank. one man who succumb to his ruins after they read in nablus and another was to come to ones that he sustained 2 weeks ago after and israeli read. on wednesday. it was the deadliest raid into decades. 11 palestinians were killed in the city of nap. it's this is why you're seeing the streets behind the empty the, the tours shot palestinians say that they want the world to know what's happening to them. but also have been hearing from many felicity 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. leanne from a huck organization. mr. thing, we keep hearing policy and talk about the i c. c, the international criminal court. they want to investigate what is happening with
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icbc actually, everybody knows that i see prosecutor concluded its preliminary examination 2 years ago and decided to open an investigation into the situation and visited. but it's time based on knowledge, no practical that have been taken so far, not the conclude these, 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, the occupying fore, we believe that these crimes will continue to be committed. the number of people killed an earthquake center kia and syria has risen to nearly 50000 among the rubble and tinted villages. incredible stories of survival and compassion continue to emerge. hemmings, i then made one family in caramel mirage,
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who even as they faced death in their collapse tome, we're acting to help others. the $1.01 of them showed was trapped under the rubble families pinned down by collapsed concrete and struggling to breathe. telephone if we die m. this found his found. there are 5 of us here. come on, rush under the rubble of this massive earthquake. they decide to fill what they believe of 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, the often 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
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what the current family once called home the powerful earthquake reduced an entire compound of towers to doth underneath fatma otto and their 3 children endured 10 hours of agony incredibly, they were rescued alive all except the youngest son allow 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 billing shook 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, surviving an earthquake, and then surviving being trapped 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 beloved things like his clothes or books
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. i had a son here, he talked laugh and slept here. when you're walking on top of your path, each footstep forward takes you back with drop. so it's very difficult to be here. it's bringing back bad memories. a lot of the each scoop raises hope. each item uncovered pools at the ha. suddenly a mother is confronted with what she thought, 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. upgrade or change because the money was for orphans, people trusted me with their money. the story of the family has spread into a kia prompting donations to the orphans partner was so worried about under the
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rubble. to could take comfort in knowing that through their actions, the old deal that ended below us life has started a new chapter and the lives of others. sammy's a than al jazeera god ahmad marashi tortilla was still ahead on al jazeera. we look at why russians looking to afford the front lines of facing a frosty welcome in georgia, and a higher residence learn more calls to trying to de royal putting their lives on the threats. ah, names is fun, faith more and more women, the performing stuff, the pool boy crowds and criticism. one on 18th, meet the rebel bike is risking mike, but we didn't shake they drink on al jazeera. ah
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ah ah. unmanned aerial vehicles, deadly but increasingly familiar tools on the modern battlefield with the conflict in ukraine, sparking the 1st full scale drone wall and pointing to a coming age of walk efficient intelligence. some autonomy, weapons. people and power examines the ethical questions around this proliferating technology. and whether it poses a dystopian threat, drones and the future of war on a, j 0 lou
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ah, you're watching l. just a reminder of our top stories, the salad, the sin, a candidate and nigeria has been killed by gunman ahead of saturdays election. opposition. politician bo chuckle was attacked on wednesday and south east and lucas stacked israel has carried out, is shrikes on the gaza strip after rockets were fired from the territory that followed and is ready right in the occupied with bank on wednesday, that killed a living palestinians. and in less than 24 hours to warn you, cried will into it. sickens a year. thousands of people have died. millions have been displaced in the country has been devastated by the fighting since russia invaded. russia has reopened
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its bridge to the ex crimean peninsula. so rose and vile supplies can get through moscow uses, it's to deliver troops and supplies to its front line and you cried. the 19 kilometer bridge was bombed last october. rushes blamed you crying, but keith has not claimed responsibility. there is an increasing number of ukrainian women on the front lines, but it wasn't always that wide of the series. adrian finnegan talked to a young mother who served as a sniper and was the only woman in her unit of 400. i which of course, in the beginning they were a bit uncertain because here in ukraine it's not normal to have a woman in the army. and so when i joined up, i understood that i needed to prove myself that i could be the equal. and after a month they'd accepted me. the ukrainian army doesn't have uniform for women. does it? how does a woman quote on the front line? oh no. i was on the front line from the beginning of the full scale invasion. i was
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given amends, uniform and i just did it myself. i found a so in shop and one town that was under occupation and they helped me. but we don't have that problem anymore in ukraine than our manufacturing women's uniforms . recently i donated 412 uniforms to women who were serving on the front line to right now, the girls are more lucky than i was back then. how did your firmly feel about you going to fight you? you already have an 11 year old daughter, right? i'll have, how did it feel for you leaving her in the beginning, it was really important to make sure my daughter was safe. and so i did that 1st when it started at 5 in the morning. i organized for her to be taken to waste in ukraine and into poland. i didn't see her for a long time. it was very hard, obviously. that was the best thing to do at that time. my mom and my close friends were shocked when i said i was going to the front that i was going to fight. i will never forget their faces when i told them i was going to war. my mom looked at me
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and i said everything will be okay. i'll meet a man there, i'll get married, everything will be all right. and that happened the recently a lot of the frontline now is because as we can see, you're expecting your baby. you bet your husband on the front line. tell me robert . ah yes. i don't know. imagine i didn't meet the love of my life when i was a civilian. i met him on the front line. we made online, actually on social media. at that time, i was quite famous in ukraine. there were a few articles written about me, so he saw them and messaged me. he said that he was very proud of a woman like me. he's a soldier as well, who was serving in a different region and a different division. so the war brought us together and soon i'll baby will be born. when the baby is born, would you consider going, going back to fight? i have this, but of i hope that by that time the war will be over. however, as yo to say it and star wars,
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the future is foggy. we'll see what will happen if necessary. i'll go, however, right now i have a maternal instinct and i know that i'm more useful here at home than on the front line. i'm still filling my civic duties and doing volunteer work. i'm 34 weeks pregnant and i still haven't had a rest. when i give birth will say, why, as a woman, is it so important to you to be part of this of this fight will be minimized. it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman or how much money you have. if you want to and you're able to defend your country, you should do it. tens of thousands of people have fleet of russia since the start of the war. president vladimir putin's decree of partial military mobilization. but many could have been conscripted to fight a new crime. georgia has provided an escape route for thousands of young russians, but as vincent monahan reports for many, the welcome has been far from warm globe cousin, a thought is
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a long way from home. yet life back in his home town saint petersburg. but when war broke out, he knew what he had to do with shamikan bethel isn't a gentleman, but moon, we were on our way here. we didn't know whether we would stay here or move elsewhere . our objective was just to get out of russia and to look around and make a decision. glad is one of thousands of russians who fled to georgia to avoid fighting on the front lines. he started to business as carving out a new life, but he found that new comers aren't being welcomed with open arms. with him, that package can brewer, we've had virtually no george and customers. there were a few people who work nearby will drop by for a coffee and you could count them on one hand. and he, russian, graffiti, is everywhere. the 2 countries have a fraud history. they went to war over breakaway regions in 2008. many georgians became refugees in their own country and bitterness remains. the new arrival of
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pushed up housing prices further stoking resentment to any medical buddy, no shout fringe their enemies, it's a fact. and then doing business and drinking with us is just plain wrong. terrible . i will say no, i wouldn't go into a russian own cafe. i want to support georgian businesses today, but some are seeking to build bridges. here. this bar russians are studying the george and language on those reaching out with new community leave. acceptance may come with time, but yet the russians who played the wall have only just arrived. we have not got acquainted yet. we don't know each other well, we are not used to each other. both communities may have no choice but to learn how to co exist. there is no telling how long the war and ukraine will laugh super now, at least ga, the russian exiles may be here to stay. fenton monahan, al jazeera, the fried shrine that spread toxic chemicals,
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and an ohio town 2 weeks ago was due railed by an overheated axle. and the crew was not warned about it until just before the accident. that was the finding of the national transportation safety board and a preliminary report and to the disaster released thursday. transportation secretary pied bridge has toured the crash site residents of the town have reported symptoms like sore throats and headaches. the official said, the water and ear are safe. heidi joe castro has more from east palestine. 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. this room that happened on february 3rd led to no injury or death, but it did lead to this house is waste bill of 435 leaders of
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final war ride, which is a very toxic chemical used 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 controlled 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 addressed. 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 the people here are still very hesitant to believe that when the storm is sweeping
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through the united states crowding hundreds of planes and tripping dr. is on icey roads. it said several states causing blank counts and school closures more than $55000000.00 people around the extreme with a warnings. at least 4 people have died and 49 is still missing. after a coal mine collapse in northern china land slides struck the open pit mine on wednesday evening, varying people and equipment below around 900 rescue workers are at the size. finally, a heartwarming story from is quite ravaged to keep it after more than 2 weeks. another story of survival. on a boy in the city of d, a. beckett, 2 people were united with their pits. the cats were pulled from an apartment building that's being demolished. the return of beloved members of the family. 2 people have lost everything else. the news continues on al jazeera, after inside story. ah,
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ah, now harsh winter pissy blowing out even of the black sea is really in southern russia. you might get a little bit light ish, snow still in the final piece of turkey, but overnight temperatures. having written a bit up, trying to drop a leopard at about 3 degrees, which means someplace you'll see a ground for us. and certainly in the man's it took here, you will see a frost by day. the sun is prevalent and it warms up fairly quickly in the winds on optically strong all way down the coastal van towards egypt. it does look at increasing the glad you light brakes of light is rain or slight shaft. the winds are not particularly strong know all day throughout the radiant peninsula and the par for a few showers in iran. it's a sunny picture. as a result, quite warm up to 30 in dubai, that you, woman, doha, more or less study within start to increase in the breeze during saturday. now,
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you know, it was a pretty valid where the down in southern africa, freddy is making landfill during friday in mozambique. these are the figures we expect to be with. it is still moving fairly quickly. it's not particularly when day, so there won't be a huge rather wind damage, but it brings a storm surge into low lying land and to wrench rain. and once it's eaten mozambique it will slowly fall apart. so you'll no longer name it, but it will affect mozambique limpopo part of south africa. and zimbabwe ah, in syria citizens are collecting evidence 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 acid regime to justice. it puts a human face on the charges. it's a dead human.
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