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ukraine, march 365 days of war. president zalinski pays tribute to the thousands of people who lost their lives as the war enters its 2nd year. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is out to sara. well live from dough. also coming up. china calls for peace talks between ukraine and russia as part of its proposal to end the conflict. simultaneous attacks on 3 political parties in nigeria have killed several people, including a senate candidate just days before elections. plus malaysia's prime minister unveiled spending as he tries to address the rising cost of living a slow down in the economy.
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it's been a year since president vladimir putin announced to russia's special military operation in ukraine, leading to the largest one europe since world war 2. president williams lensky has led a commemoration service in the capital cleave. families are also being held in other cities across ukraine. remember the thousands of people who lost their lives, and the millions have been displaced since the start of the conflict. on the front lines. russia controls much territory. east of the disney pro river are ukrainian counter offensive in the auto reclaimed sways of land in the north and south, including the major city of hassan. now the focus is on the city of buck, loot, presence events. keith says he's been reduced to ruins by the russian offensive trial stratford his in keith and takes a look back at a significant events of the past year. on february, the 24th 2022 was the 1st wave of russian troops crossed the border. the russian
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missiles struck it past became clear that vladimir putin insistence that he would not invade ukraine had been a lie. it was a multi pronged attack quotient forces crossed from better rouge and advanced tools . keith, there was a similar push in the ne, whoa. and in the east to watch ukraine's 2nd city car cave. at the same time, mainly pro russia separate, his forces attacked towns in ukrainian controlled areas of da. next could be ganske, ukrainian president. not yet in his trademark military fatigues called for help to november. i had a conversation with you as president joe biden. the u. s. is starting to gather international support. paul, planning and brave ukrainian defense quickly sculptured putin's immediate plans to take give to the russian army columns was too bogged down and smashed work narrow
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that a whole wolf the enemy pretty calculated their communications in logistic needs and their supply warehouses were across the border. this meant that after 2 days, there were stopped without fuel, ammunition, and food, and they lost the effective management of their troops. on the 1st of april, ukraine announced it had recaptured the entire region around cave dead civilians. some with their hands bound behind their backs were discovered seemingly with or have been shot. russia was accused of war crimes. the russian army which ukrainian intelligences had planned on taking control of keeping 3 days had suffered a story humiliating defeat. in may, after months of intense fighting in the polt city of mary paul, the last remaining of ukrainian fighters surrendered as hostile steel plot. but ukraine by now was receiving what would become tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid. autumn counter offensive liberated tens of thousands of
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square kilometers, including the city of care of sol, purchased the cur. preparations for the counter offensive started in april by june when we had received western weapons, we were better able to hit their supply lines, command centers, and weapons, and fuel depos. or we could also attack the reserved troops as they approached the front line at your school, one of them. but since december, ukrainian gaines have slowed to a virtual standstill. russia has made small advances in eastern dumbass using what ukrainian forces say is wave of the wave of infantry soldiers and mercenaries from the wagner group. some of the heaviest fighting continues around the town of buck moot. where many, the estimated 5000 civilians who remain there, refused to be evacuated. officials here and here on their western allies, convinced that russia is about to launch what they describe as a spring offensive. more sophisticated weaponry, such as tanks,
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is on its way from nato countries, but with no end in sight to the fighting. many are asking just how long ukraine's allies can fund this war. despite their lead is saying, it is a fight for democracy. they cannot lose stratford 0 q a china has released its own at 12 point proposal to end the conflict in ukraine for in talks between a top diplomat one year and person who's been let's take a closer look now at that proposal, beijing is, according for an end to western sanctions on russia and is urging moscow and keith to hold peace talks. the plan, of course, for the establishment of humanitarian corridors for civilians as what steps to ensure the grain can be safely exported from the country. also warns against the use of nuclear weapons in the conflict, as well as a tax on nuclear power plants save us. all of a has engaging reaction from keith zalinski and his foreign ministry have both commented on this being a positive development that china's involvement signals
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a positive step towards international diplomacy to eventually resolve this. but at the same time, people here say that, you know, there are no definitive in this. there are no specifics. and ukraine has already for some time now. set out what is red lines or anything less than the return of all ukrainian territories in the east. everywhere in the dunbar, as well as crimea, is simply not going to suffice. ukrainian say that as much as they support the war and at the time of the invasion, a little less than half of the people in the country did not support the war. but now support for the war effort is 95 percent. so the country's leaders know in their people know that this is a country that will stay the course and they will work towards peace. but they are redefining what piece with russia looks like. it will not come from negotiated dialogue and giving into any of russia's demands. it will come from all of ukraine's territories as far as the ukrainian government and the people are concerned back in ukrainian hands. some i've been job,
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it is live in moscow now for the summit, what's the kremlin view on china's proposal? then? what china is the kremlin biggest ally in the last year. it has turned up in support of russia there, bilateral trade expected to balloon, to do $100000000000.00. and this proposed piece plan being hand delivered is expected from one g to president putin, from president change in pink. so moscow has been welcoming the proposal of peace, but it has also been a very insistent in the last few days on what it sees before a precondition to peace as an a successful when a successful wind for the special military operation as it called the ukrainian invasion, taking out what it calls new nazi forces and bringing back, crushing speakers to rushes forward. so both sides are being pulled apart on what seems to be the prospect for peace and what
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a negotiated settlement might look like. in the, in this morning, we've heard on the anniversary, the deputy chairman of russia security council, dmitri met fidel, saying that russia has to achieve victory in its special military operation. and it will continue to pursue it, even if it has to go to the polish border on a summer, on the battlefield itself. then what more can you tell us about russian tactics in the east? well in the last year, you've seen a lot of reliance on high powered artillery fire and a sort of a push from not just russian military, but also the tip of the spirit has been the wagner group, a contract and group which is known in russia and seen it immersed the force by powers and the ukrainians. it has claim victory over one more area, closer to the city of bath mode, a contested city which does not have strategic importance. but is an important part
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of that done? yes. region you remember that done? yes. cool hands procedure and so now the areas that russia has effectively next, these are predominantly russians. speakers who russia claims to be part of russia. so yes, fighting continues to re john wasn't group claiming more victory and seeing that it is, has victory in sight over been moved. but the fighting continues. and there has been in the last week, some tensions between the wagner group and the russian military of defense, which seem to have been dissolved in the last 24 hours. i've been job in moscow for thanks for that update. the un, human rights body has documented unlawful civilian kennings at several locations since the start of the war. across about reports from china, he's see the aftermath of a russian attack in the northern ukrainian city of chandler heave, last year on the ground bodies of civilians that been queuing outside a shop for bread. when they were hit by shells and rockets, 15 people were killed,
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dozens injured. so you are standing around here and i was always. natasha narrowly escaped death that day by taking cover by this wool. she was in the queue with her son and mother in law. she plays me recording, she made on her phone. if you said this below news, news agrees got we heard explosions near us. it was very close. and then we saw lots of people running everywhere. at the time, at the attack turned the he was a city under siege. russian forces were surrounding it and shelled it almost daily . they destroyed power and water supplies. evidence of what happened is still visible nearly everywhere. this is where people were lining up for bread fat day. it is rice in the middle of a residential area and were prosecuted in a city say the what happened on that day is
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a war crime and indiscriminate attack on civilians or on the property of coverage for law enforcement agencies. consider this a war crying because the main victims were civilians. also a pre trial investigation found no evidence of ukrainian military hardware that could be a legitimate target weapons were used indiscriminately over all this sir. mark thiel marks are the places of where rockets hit the buildings on. may the marina slow boat yoke works with the rights organization called truce hounds. that's helping prosecutors to build a case. it's collated, evidence amused, open source material, satellite imagery and social media to reconstruct what happened. her team says it's traced the killings to a russian unit that was positioned on the outskirts of the city. have we identified also, the condos is appreciate. all that could have been who might be
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liable and responsible for this very kind of attack, whether o leg curry gain or another officer, was responsible for the attack on the bridge. you might never be proved. some investigators say he's back in russia. it's clear that building legal cases and prosecuting alleged war crimes is a challenge, but for some ukrainians, pursuing justice is at least one way of honoring the was many victims. natasha butler, al jazeera, tedney, heave ukraine. so to tom harold al jazeera, 35 years on his assassination, revolutionary leader is buried where he was killed in the process. thomas and kara is being turned on signs when coming ah
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hello is looking pretty quiet across indo china at the moment. just one or 2 showers coming in to vietnam. the wet weather will be some heavy showers there into the philippines. southern parts in particular. little bit of wet weather there too, just around ball. yeah, but i think the wettest weather will be further south. some marcher, java sang some pig down pools at wet, wearily intense, across a good part of indonesia noticed the ne monsoon just popping up a little as we go on into sunday driving more showers in to vietnam at that time. plenty of showers still in place across the far north of australia. meanwhile, we got some where to weather, just sliding through the by settle, just flush out that heat this co fun. just drawing out the heat. we've seen recently in adelaide and went to weather coming into that western sort of victoria report very ahead of that. still very warm fine and sunny one or 2 shouts just around the the gold coast, pushing up towards brisbin temperatures. picking up around $31.00 celsius. they're in prison for sunday. not too bad down to was
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ah ah. he wasn't al jazeera reminder of our top stores this how it's been one that yes, since russia launched his invasion of ukraine, leading to the largest conflicts in europe since world war to thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes. china is urging moscow and keith, it's a whole piece, talks introduce a comprehensive ceasefire. ukraine says the proposal is a positive side expects patient to show more active schools a more now on the war ukraine i'll just here is andrew simmons was there when the invasion began. 365 days ago, he's on his memories of how it unfolded. it had been predicted,
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but it seemed quite surreal. waking up at 5 am to the sound of bombings and missiles strikes. this was all out war. what have you been hearing him saying there in the ukrainian capital a loud explosion, sir, or something like 7 now, 2 in the past few minutes are we on there again now a crump come daylight. a ghastly picture was emerging. what we were hearing about ground forces is, is not good. ah, the russian invasion was launched with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country. the long military build up around the cranes borders. finally, a least fight order of the kremlin, with helicopter gun ships. fighter jets miss isles tanks,
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convoys of armored vehicles are all involved in what russia calls a military operation. single. there's armored columns may be think back to ran about 16 hours before the invasion when we visited border troops in san cuba near czerny heave. it was one of the 3 entry points from better routes that the russian troops and armory had used. any resistance put up there wouldn't have stood a chance. no one knew what to expect. and keith, i remember seeing the 1st families moving out from their homes, looking quite casual, really carrying their pet cats that caged birds. but later, the panic started masses of people trying to leave the city. few would have thought back then just how badly the russians would do. also, few would believe what a dark transformation this war would cause. we have special coverage on the far
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reaching consequences of the ukraine war year into the conflict will make sure you'd seen in later as we mark the 1st anniversary with ease out live from keith at $1100.00 g m t and 1620 police in nigeria say attackers who killed a senate candidate on wednesday, we're targeting 3 political parties. bar lee bow shock, who from the opposition labor party was shot dead in south eastern in new states, while returning from a campaign rally. please say suspected separatists carried out simultaneous attacks killing several people. is the latest incident in a series of violence ahead of elections on saturday. i room tasa has more from integral this 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, gunmen opened fire. you could see some of the cartridges down there. he was killed
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and some of his party members 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 to me to the region are trying to disrupt on saturday and are trying to cause panic. the street is usually busier than this. you got a few cars, but many of the shops of clothes. some of the people here say their to schedule when it comes to the nervous, off 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,
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the boucher has not that enough to develop this part of nigeria. some of them have been agitating to change some even calling for separation independence from the state of nigeria to iran. our explosions have been heard and air defense systems activated for blasts were heard west of the capital t. ron iranian state, need a report for military exercise was being conducted by the islamic revolutionary god . in the city of carriage. the incident comes at a ton of heightened tension between iran and israel. huston ins have protested after 11 people are killed and more than 100 injured during a raid in nablus by israeli forces, they rallied in the occupied westbank cities of mana, others had gone. her tests were organized by the palestinian group, lyons den, to condemn what they call unjustified is very aggression that took place on wednesday. an african revolutionary leader, thomas and kara, has been re buried at a memorial site in a can
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a fast as capital welcome to do. it was huffman force 35 years after his death, a final good bye to thomas on god and 12 of his companions who are being laid to rest at a memorial in walker doodle. sancho a pan africanist revolutionary who was also a feminist. and an environmentalist he sought to lift his people out of poverty and emancipate them from what he saw as the shackles of the former colonial power. france says should reveal the recent omby april. so lucky he is being buried. read, he was assassinated. that this will help to revive that evolution and keep his legacy alive after the tragic death. a court last year convicted several military commanders and sanker as close his friend former president blessed can power for their role in the sassy nation. the trial started after france agreed to release secret documents, but the court failed to determine whether france had any involvement in soccer as
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murder. the burial comes days after breaking of faces, genta severe military ties with france. hundreds of french special forces were asked to leave the country on sunday. he primed tory who took power in a qu last year, blamed france for a heavy losses in the battlefield. the country faces a surge of attacks from arm groups linked to al qaeda. at iso, many of the fighters are villagers from the north of bertina, faso, turning against their government. troy is trying to associate himself with the memory of san kara in an effort to unite the country, compliment law. he puked, crushing food a ball. when you're carry a weapon that can kill and un uniform need to understand the implications and responsibilities. so many soldiers on the battlefields, committing crimes without understanding that they are fighting men and women who perhaps dispatcher the same common ideals who limited san kara, a soldier who was also regarded as a messenger for peace,
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unity and compassion. many in his now divided country. want to see those ideals revived. nicholas hawk al jazeera ah m. nearly 50000 people now confirmed dead. an earthquake sort of hit took here and syria. millions are in need of humanitarian aid. many survivors or without shelter. women, 2 and a half 1000000 people have been forced to move to other areas which are struggling to deal with the influx, the southern city of iskander. and that was one of the hardest hitters, robert pride has more. we are in the port city of its candor and with it so it's a lot of devastation after the quake. in fact, our team was here 4 days after the initial quake was very different. see, and then just back and give you a look at what it's looking like this friday morning. i'm all of the streets around
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here. there were a lot of buildings collapse. a lot of people died in this area, but also a lot of people was saved from the rubble that was a scene of intense rescue operations in the days straight off the the quakes. but here, as with all of the other provinces, affected by the earthquake question is now turning to how you look off the wall of the people who are made homeless from these earthquakes. and there are massive operations all across the whole earthquake region now being undertaken. something like 329000 tents have been sent out are being used and that's still not enough. there's still more 10 so needed. people are now looking at a longer term solution, such as putting setting up cities of shipping containers to home, people for the intermediate term or the longer term. of course, they need to start looking up building replacement homes. and there are some very ambitious plans being talked about, starting as early as later this month or beginning of march,
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something like 200000 home. i've mentioned by president one. the authorities here of a gave, trying to give all kinds of assurances about these homes, to, to reassure people that it is safe to move back into solid structures. well, it's more the fact that they'll be low rise, 2 or 3 stories. also more importantly perhaps that they'll only not come within 500 meters of fault lines, but it is still an ongoing issue. and of course we still having small quakes malaysian, that prime minister am i abraham, has revealed his 1st budget. the plan that scales back spending even in the country's economy, appears to be slowing. the government has relied heavily on price control mechanisms to keep essential items affordable. and according to say, those measures can have unintended consequences. for its no, he explains a mew for under a $1.20 menu rama, which means compassionate menu is a government initiative for restaurants and food,
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stalls to offer affordable meals as a way to counter the rising cost of living. more than $15000.00 premises have signed up to the program since it's launch last month. first, you don't make a lot. you actually make a 2020 percent my due to little loss here. ok. the 2nd part is that you had been somebody who had been to poor had been doing t d. but like many other operators, he says this can only be sustained at the cost of ingredients doesn't keep increasing. the government imposes price ceilings uncertain items like roll chicken and eggs to ensure they remain affordable. no income families spend around 40 percent of their income on food. so the hardest hit by rising food prices for much of last year who'd inflation in malaysia was around 4 percent. rose to 70 percent is november. the price controls had caused a supply shortage. and consequently, higher prices. malaysia used to produce enough eggs to export. but when the cost of
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chicken feed started to rise and the controlled price of aches, doesn't poultry farms reduce production? sayed that the plan, the only the load i came to get eggs, but they didn't have the ordinary ones. so i have no choice but to get the spatial omega 3 ones, which are more expensive and that'll affect my costing sample of one below mega. the government says ill consider removing price caps later this year. the country also subsidizes petrol and electricity among other i'd last year its subsidy bill ballooned to $18000000000.00 or round 21 percent of its g. d p. more often than not and this is malicious, not an outlay. her. most countries you to political economy reasons or whatever of price controls and subsidies tend to fall into that button at the $3.00 use a. so the become untimely and targeted and dined, and you have all these attendant bombs as an issue. national debt is also rising,
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while the budget deficit is expected to widen. the government says it wants to ease the cost of living, but it may lack the tools to get it done. florence lee al jazeera, qual alone poor therapy commission and other institutions are banning. take talk on all their official staff devices as part of the move to improve cybersecurity with concerns over the chinese own video hosting service. nighted states a band tick tock from the federal government devices last year. and some politicians wanted band completely from the u. s. u commission says it made its decision independently. the reasons why this has been the decision has been taken is to protect the commission fiber and to increase the commission cyber security. also, the measure aims to protect the commission against cyber security threats and excellence which may be exploited for cyber attacks against the corporate environment of the commission. snow storms are again hitting the us,
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but where they're happening is surprising. many rare snowfall blanketed hilltops in the san francisco bay area on thursday. hundreds of thousands of homes are without power across several states and travel is facing major disruptions with thousands of flights grounded. as i'm bake is preparing for floods as a major storm system approaches. tropical storm freddy is expected to make landfall on friday. he when says around 400000 people live in there is lying in the predicted part of the story. at least 4 people were killed to madagascar, and tens of thousands of forced from their homes when the storm moved through. as a tropical cyclone tuesday, former phil magnet harvey weinstein has been sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison for raping a woman in los angeles is already serving a $23.00, a sentence for separate sex con conviction in new york. weiss's of healing against the both convictions, a series of allegations against him in 2017.
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