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violent men are young. oh, why does it keep happening and what can be done to stop it? this is not deprived. i want my daughter and all the daughters prepaid. that's not the country i want to witness. san mosquito for me is very simple. it's a question of power on al jazeera. we know what's happening in our region. we know have them get to places that others and not, as i said, i'm going on the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference ah election day in nigeria, photos are heading to the polls to decide who be the next president of africa, most populous nation. ah, i'm not bothersome. this is all the 0 life. and doha also coming up as ukraine begins a 2nd year under the shadow of war, the
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e u. b u. s. level new sanctions against russia. families torn apart by earthquakes, inter kia and syria, we're going to tell you about the challenge of reuniting last babies with their loved ones. either we report from the philippines for cheaper imports of wising transport costs, or forcing farmers to dump their projects. ah . so we're going to begin in nigeria, where voting is underway in what's being seen as the most unpredictable presidential race in decades. more than 93000000 people are registered to vote for a new president as well as members of the national assembly. nigerians are saying they hoped their next leader will improve the economy an end years, a worsening violence. will 18 presidential candidates are in the contest, but only 3 are seen as having a realistic chance of winning the elected leader will be sworn into office on may.
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the 29th, if no one wins outright, a 2nd drive will be held between the 2 front runners. but whoever wins they'll face big challenges. nigerian say they're worried about the rising cost of living, unemployment, and threats from arms groups. nearly 40 percent of them are under 34 years old. so the votes been called the election of young people. we're going to have a team of correspondence covering the election, hama jam. jim is in the junior capital, a boucher. how do tasa is life from? i'm good se and nigeria, but 1st we're going to be going to coverage with all the interests he's got more from him in leg oss. almost all of them i've been in politics. i'm in the front runners for this election. let's start with your company party candidate going on. i'm at 27 years old form a government legal state. he has rules or government leg staple 8 good years. and he's been playing behind the scenes roles in making governance and also helping to
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elect the incumbent president when they joined their parties merged together to confront the ruling peoples democratic party that that's one of the he's coming from a battle ground state. lego state is one of the, of course is, has the highest number of votes in the hall of nigeria. we're talking about 7000000 registered voters. more than 6000000 have collected, their voters caught in order to access the polling stations there. so we are expecting at least $5.00 to $6000000.00 voters to come here. that's why most of these context has concentrated their attention that are supposed to send energies on capturing niggers, whoever wins lagos, and of course condo state is in a poor position to succeed in the race to become president of nigeria. now let's go farther up north in the north eastern part, when i get away, i to club will become a former vice president is coming from. we understand that he voted a short while ago, although table is expected to come here to vote. to quibble, but kind of was the member of the people's democratic party. he was
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a founding member, and he run us governor won the election but did not serve out to stem when he was incidentally appointed a running made to the presidential candidate of the pdp in 1009 to 9. he was vice president for 8 good years. the former retired custom officer is reining his 6th race to be our president of nigeria. apart from him. next we go to the southeast of the country where peter will be, is it will be as also from the reports we get. it will be has also cast his panel in that location. peter b was a member of up, got a political party that brought to power and then he quit the parties lost in the last election, he joined the peoples democratic project to be a running mate. incidentally to, to quote what, what can we see presidential candidate of the party back. now when he realized that his ambition won't. 1 fly with the pdp because of the amount or number of big weeks in that political party. he's change side to the liberal party. and his message is
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basically resonating with a young voter population. here in nigeria. well, let's go over to live 200 metasource who's in google forest. i'm, we were mentioning earlier how to with that one of the key things that voters are really concerned about is violence in the country, but also cause violence around the elections such, such as this one. the turnout is really going to be important deciding who gets to run the country. i can be very, very important. many issues could effect such as insecurity here in some parts of south east and other parts of the country, but also issues around some putting stations that have open lakes where i am here. people that waited for more than 3 hours for the engine efficient to arrive day by me arrive, they are still sitting up and the process is fairly slow. but at least people here are saying at least now we're getting a chance to vote some putting stations in the southeast, open on time, and things are going smoothly. but they've been a few like this one way. things are going
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a little bit slow in terms of concerns for the voters. it's about insecurity really here in the south east. on wednesday i can do, i think the senator was shot and killed in the town. he was kind of my campaign, riley was told by an armed group of men to police a deal young utah hobbins here in this region. and this group has been agitating and writing for a couple of years, not because they say that you'll marginalize from the rest of the country is the federal government in up with north denise. they say youth employment is way to like labels and copyright too high. and they also on studying done about this year that they feel is being list, develop them some other part of the country. but right now is a sense of relief, at least for the people in disposing station. but now they can at least now hosted by that and hope to vote. of course, it all depends on what happens. it makes coming out and it's coming days and times of insecurity in violence. it's not so much people in the cities and towns as people from the remote areas, the villages. and it is going to in so much security because he's on gas control,
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those areas you conference off again may not ask me permission. if you have a contract with the ne, by, you have to consult these on groups and then they will resolve the conflict for you . so concerned about where the people they will be safe enough, feel safe enough to leave their homes and tumble pointing stations. the ones here, the relief, the voting for now, and it, hoping about those with me under the keyboard quickly and go home. or thank you very much. indeed. that's harder with tons of talking to is from in. no good, we're going to go to bahama jam june. he's got more from us, live from a boucher, one of the problems that nigeria faces along with many other countries in the world is of course corruption that can relate to electro processes and vote buying this. presumably is really going to be a test of how much faith people have in the electoral process in nigeria. you're absolutely right rob and to that in every voter that i've been speaking with today. here in a buddha has listed the myriad number of difficulties at this country is facing.
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and one of the concerns they have one of their chief concerns is, is that this be a free and fair election just here at this polling station and central, a boucher, which is a school. and you can still see people lined up before me waiting a very orderly lines waiting to vote. we're waiting to participate in this very significant democratic exercise here to day. and they are willing to wait as long as it takes to cast that bow that there is. but they say that elections in the past here an idea nigeria have been marked by vote buying by corruption. they don't want to see that happen. we have seen different obs observation groups, monitoring groups here throughout the day. and to that, and i want to bring in our guest right now this our, this is stacy abrams. she is the co leader of the joint delegation from the india and i r i, the national democratic institute, and the international republican institute. and m is abrams. thank you for being with us. let me ask you 1st. what are you seeing thus far at the different polling stations you have visited here in a video?
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i would say that despite a slow start or with the be, thus, we have seen orderly lines. we have seen long lines signaling, strong enthusiasm. but we've also seen a great deal of cooperation and a very peaceful conversation among voters. they want to be heard and they are willing to stand in line and has patience because they know that's their path to progress is interesting. you say that because one of the things that i have observed the past few days, this huge contingent of youth voters that many believe will really play a significant role in this election. and the people that we've been speaking with have said they believe there will be high turn out there. you, of course, are well known in the united states for your activism for being a political figure and author, somebody who has done so much to try to expand voting rights from the conversations that you have had, especially with youthful voters. here in nigeria, what is the take away? well, i've had a chance to speak with yoga and with a number of you voters across the, across the state. and what they've said,
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almost uniformly as they want to be heard, they believe progress as possible. they believe that more is possible. they understand that they are the most assailed by unemployment, that the challenges they face are real, but that so as the opportunity for change. what we've tried to have a conversation about though is the caution that not every election turns out the way you want, but that the responsibility is to show up and try to shape the future as much as you can. and from what you've seen so far in the lead up to the elections and from the conversations that you have had to day with all manner of the different segments of the voters here in nigeria. are you getting the sense that the people will be patient because everybody i've spoken with has said that whoever gets elected, they're going to have so many challenges. what are you hearing on that? if i think we see a combination of both enthusiasm but also an acceptance that this is going to take time that this has happened 24 years of democracy. but that the challenges
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facing nigeria, the most populous nation on this continent that it will take time. and what they want to see is not only that their leaders are trying to do better, but i think what we're seeing among the voters is a sense that they have the right and the responsibility to hold them accountable. so that no matter who wins the election, voters rights and voters work does not stop. loading is the beginning of the process, not the end. and in between elections, it will be up to voters, especially young voters, to continue to make their voices heard, to continue to hold up the standards that this election signals, which is that democracy is the path to a better future. but voters have to be at the table making that true. many are saying that this election is showing the nigeria as it a real inflection point, that the stakes could not be higher. and that's one of the reasons why people are, say, the race is wide open at this end. if things don't go as smoothly to day as people would hope, how dire could the consequences be? i think i would approach it in a different way. now,
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there are always opportunities for things to go wrong, but the question is, what do you want to though, right? and it is the voters of nigeria, the citizens of nigeria, that will dictate the next step for 24 years. they have maintained the peace. they have maintained democracy and this election is one more exercise in that i am a proof that you don't always win the elections, but you make progress and that progress is its own form of victory. and what i would say, and what i hope is true, and what i've heard from veteran voters and young voters, 1st timers alike, is that what they want more than anything is a nation that responds to their needs. but they know they have to be a part of that conversation. all right, stacy abrams, who is the co leader of this joint in the i. r i delegation. we thank you so much for being with us here in alger 0. it's my honor to be here. thank you. thank you. all right robin there. you have at that stacey, a rooms well known of voting rights activists in the united states and political figure in america as well. and she's here as part of this observation, mission, international observers that are trying to ensure that there are free and fair
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elections here in nigeria. it's going to be a long day. everybody that we've been speaking with so far says that they will stay out as long as it takes. they just want to make sure that they get to cast their ballot at such a crucial time for this country. rob, well, i'm a james room and aversion mohammad thank q the russian facing and iran sanctions from the european union. the block says it wants to limit the kremlin ability to pay for the war. it also wants to block rushes military from accessing new technology or getting spare parts. united states impose new sanctions, including a 200 percent tara, from russian. all you minium, washington's coordinating itself with other g 7 countries. drains president says he plans to meet chinese leaders huge in painting to discuss a piece proposal table by beijing. china release its plan for peace between russia and ukraine on friday. that follow talks between top chinese diplomats, wine,
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you and president vladimir putin. beijing is called in for an end to western sanctions, and russia. ukraine says the proposal is a positive sign up sent. yup. first of all, i planned to meet changing, paying and believe this will be beneficial for countries and for security in the world. we have a large trade turnover with china. the issue is not only the war, the issue that we are states that are interested in maintaining economic relations . i really want to believe that china will not supply weapons to russia. and this is very important to me. this is a priority cuz i'm or to are leaders of an i was planning to visit beijing, friends, presidency manual, my call says he's going to go to china in early april. meanwhile, beller ocean president, alexander, look a shank coupled travel to china in the coming days to meet she's paying china and bella luce, of both russia strategic partners last year. but it was a lot of the kremlin to use its territory to launch attacks on ukraine. stella had
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analogies in up syrians or digging through the rubble to retrieve the bodies of loved ones, lost in the devastating earthquake ah unmanned aerial vehicles, deadly but increasingly familiar tools on the modern battlefield with the conflict in ukraine, sparking the 1st full scale drawn war and pointy to coming age of artificial intelligence, some autonomy, weapons. people in power examines the ethical questions around this proliferating technology. and whether it poses a dystopian threat. drones and the future of war on a jazeera blushes war in ukraine has dominated well me for the past 12 months. devastating to those in the line of fire or directly impacted. it has strengthened global alliances and deepens,
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divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of millions of people. well, white in a week had special coverage. al jazeera explored every aspect of the conflict, the human, the political, and the economic and possibilities of resolution. ukraine war one here on, on out there. lou . ah, your child is it a reminder of our top stories this our voting is underway in what's been described
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as nigeria is most unpredictable presidential and parliamentary elections. in decades. more than 93000000 people are registered to vote for new president, as well as members of the national assembly. the you in the us have imposed new sanctions on russia. first war in ukraine, measures aim to prevent the kremlin, having enough money for its military, as well as blocking access to the latest technology. ah lou, the death toll from devastating ask lakes into care and syria has now passed 50000 . rescuers in northern syria continued to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed 2 weeks ago. aid has been slow to reach the region in opposition, how various many families are searching by hand for the bodies of missing relatives . they're so booked under and we were removing rock after rock and finding nothing underneath people under the concrete screaming get us out,
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get his out. but we'd come up with empty hands but will not allow them to hurry. people spent 2 or 3 days under the rubble, some stable if i for days. nothing was working for hums, alone weren't enough. we lost children. i lost my brother and his children had my cousins and their children 25 people. so i soon will of the things separated many children from their parents, social service stuff and took care. so many families have been reunited, but more than 100 babies still haven't been identified. and they're still under the care of the state. soon costello reports in the turkish capital ankara. people here called us baby, a survivor pulled from under rubble. knife was brought to the childcare complex from atlanta just a week ago. like all these babies. earthquakes that had 10 cities in south west and took year on february 6 separated nave from his parents until they are reunited
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with their families. they are cared for by child development officers literature. i deleted them. we may not be their mothers, but we are doing our best self confidence and contact is very important for children under the age of 2. they've already been through a lot. i'm just trying to ease their loneliness. social services say 1353 children out of nearly 1900, have been reunited with their families. but 106 haven't yet been identified. by entering children's national id numbers on the minute threw up page families are able to search for the last children. since there is quakes happened, there has been a huge demand among turkey citizens to either adopt these babies or foster other than children who been orphaned. but official say they will be the thing under government protection. some, all these babies have no names other than what the nurses call them. the space,
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the girl's name tax as 7 days old. i live in an older pool while we learn whether or not these children have families in the hospital. then in line with child protection laws, we keep them safe here after obtaining the necessary permits. then we for any clue that may come from their city. we have no room for uncertainty. there is no way someone can come in and just claim a child on the counselor while we were filming. we weren't told a men claiming to be knives. father was undergoing dna test overseen by public prosecutors orphans who survived. the earthquakes have also been transferred to this complex in and cut out some have already started going to school in this new city, trying to pick up as best as they can from where they left off scene and car solar al jazeera on credit. okay, which i know by hallmark about a he's in, cut him on the rush and took care. it was the epicenter of one of the earthquakes in itself. a lot of damage. the people they don't have to do just with the scale of
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the damage that their time has, has gone through. they're also not having to worry about health problems as well. hashem, they do a rob because now as the air emergency teams are starting to clear the rubber one, this is going to raise more concerns in the near future because the air, as you can see many areas behind me as thick with pollutants. and there are concerns of toxins, or least by from the rubble, the authorities are things that they have been distributing masks of people and other the same time they have been asked people in color my, my last not to use tap water. and instead they have been offering them bottle water ah, health authorities, i've been at a hospital awhile ago. they've been talking to doctors that they say that they have put all the measures into place. but there are concerns. they are concerned about contaminated water. the concentration of people in different areas that could be conducive to an outbreak of fluids and other related disease,
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or that they say that they are taken these things seriously. because you know, the magnitude of the distraction is going to me that men or these people will have to stay for quite sometime in those mixture of counts before they are better cater to safer areas. hush him. so many as you see people as you say, have lost their homes there in these camps and the shelters. we've been reporting on that for the last week or so. the government is promising to deliver hundreds of thousands of newly built homes within a year. but there are questions about whether they're actually going to be able to achieve that where the government is st. grove that they will lay down the foundations in a few weeks from now and that there will deliver the new really newly rebuilt homes . according to the er, seismic design code in a year from now i'm people, i think this is quite ambitious and that the government needs to wait for the ground to stabilize before this last. those are a constructions by the government says it is adamant on the need to provide people
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with a permanent safe, strong shelter as soon as possible. now, the authorities have said just few hours ago that the arrested, the mayor of nevada, who are cash covered. this is in gus, yan tip, the and this may, it is from the ruling arc party. they say that the reason why he was arrested because he has given permits. he gave permits in the past for construction of some buildings to a real estate developer. most of those buildings are crushed down during the earthquake and i think one of the for the government, this is quite important because they have been trying to answer some of the growing concerns and criticism by the opposite of the government has been very permissive. when it comes to granting those permits for the real estate or develop those in the mean time people are waiting. they are just waiting. look, we've come across this many times and whenever you walk here in on the streets of god among vanish when they are starting to clear the rubble whatever item they find,
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they put it on the side lines hoping that one day, perhaps some one will come and pick up those things, mostly photos. i'll berms documents for people who lived here one, some of them couldn't make it the died during the earthquake, some are now the relocated to safer area. this gives you an idea about the scope and the magnitude of the challenges ahead for the turkish people and for the turkish government. the earthquake records is cut heard. i caught a massive area in the southern part of the country. the government says it will finish clearing the rubble. it was thought of the construction. it would provide people with earthquake resistant buildings. how much is it going to today? how long is it going to take? well, we have to wait and see a people are death birds for a new chapter in their lives. somehow,
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some way for them to be able to put together those pieces both forward and as thought in your life. i shall macabre talking to us and cut them on the ration. thank you. germany, chancellor says he's committed to agreeing a free trade deal between india and the in you all are shots as in new delhi for talks with primers and that ended comedy. berlin once closer ties with india and wants to discourage it from cooperating with moscow in seeking a 5 point. $2000000000.00 deal to sell india 6 conventional submarines and is refusing to impose sanctions in russia and has become a key importer of its oil and metals. rushes launched a rescue mission to bring back a crew stranded on the international space station. the unmanned vehicle laws will cause it's done on friday. it's due to dark on sunday is going to be used to return to russian cosmonaut and a nasa astronaut to earth. later this year had been stranded since their return v, who was damaged by a small meteorite in december, farmers in the philippines,
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se cheaper imports and rising transport costs are forcing them to dump the produce . but some people have formed a group in social media to prevent that. barnaby low reports from l yoko sort to miss i said alice, but india for it in and repugnant, came close to throwing away collie flowers. he's grown since october. i was, i'll do the floor, it's are safe to eat the leaves are infested by white flies in ferdinand says business men aren't likely to buy them even more than eatable. napa, lucy, the blunt in this condition, philip. and just want to give up on them because bessie hates, her costly will just end up losing money. but ferdinand found help, a facebook group of about 38000 members and growing is sending rescue trucks to farmers who have difficulty selling their produce. an idea that started when ease and andy estrada saw tons of vegetables rotting away during pandemic locked outs. over all there's a lot of distribution gaps. ah, farmers bringing them to know more care,
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the buyers are not there at that moment. and so there's really a lot of disconnect on the system and even if the buyers heard there did, don't be the right price. ferdinand says the same is happening with onions. prices rose to as high as $12.00 a kilo in december, but with imports. now, flooding markets, they've dropped the cost of growing his and harvested audience is way above their market value. it was, i've been, i'm, i've been, i'm back on graders would see they have that in the storage. so they can only buy low. if you want to sell, he'll just have to sell low burden and would have face to same problem. what is called flowers. if it wasn't 40 estrada's and their non profit group, rural rising, coming to the rescue and buying them at a fair price. one of the reasons vegetables and other farm products have become so expensive is because they're passed from one traders, so another before they reach markets. well, these vegetables are going straight to manila, and many have been pre ordered through facebook at below retail prices. one truck,
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3 taunts of cali flowers in a few 100 kilograms of onions. small amounts, but these so called vegetable rescuer, said they're making a difference. one farmer and one community at a time. barnaby low al jazeera, he lockwitzer northern philippines and stay with us and our designer, we're going to be back in a couple of minutes with our special program ukraine, one year on. i'm rob matheson goodbye. ah ah hello, the weather's looking nice and quiet across much of china as moment, high pressure in charge to keeping it settled and fine. we are going to say a came a north west. the wind still bringing some wintry showers into japan as we go one through west sandy,
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just coming around our hi. so there you go. yeah. more snow causing some problems there. and she western parts of honshu, particularly into her kind. i more of the way of wintry weather then, but i will not a little further east with someplace to say as we go on into tuesday, so it will turn a little dry, little brighter and a tad warmers. well, tokyo, getting up to about 13 celsius at that stage, confidential fight android, as is the case of prosecute parts of china with some good spells of sunshine, plenty of sunshine and it's still very hot sunshine. it's a western parts of in the i to a good part of pakistan, western disturbance, we'll bring a few showers just around the foothills of the himalayas, just running all the way across towards the pool. much of india will stay dry, anisette hot said neil. the hots hot here, just one or 2 showers into for like a waiver the next day or so. typically that east the side of the country. hopefully we are going to set brightening up across northern parts of pakistan as we go through monday. but tuesday, charles of what a to shout creeping in here. sinking to the far north west of india.
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