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pepper spray, he can be heard crying for help and for his mother. o. nichols died from his injuries 3 days later. as with video was being released, protestors in memphis took to the street to call for justice. this is certainly a city very much still in shock by what they saw in that video, the violent beating death of tyree nichols at the hands of police. ah a gun fi it delays and technical problem is cause fear and anger. all nigeria is election day is that the smugness, this is not the be nice social ah,
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hello, i'm sorry, i'm to mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. well, with protests that these demonstrations around the world cool for an end to the war and ukraine, we speak with the people sheltering from ukrainian missiles and russian health areas of the east. the floating center addressing mental health, the documentary that's one top prize. the one here most prestigious film festivals . ah. all the polls are now closed. the votes of being counted in nigeria presidential of parliamentary elections with vital separating the 3 leading presidential candidate,
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africa's most populous nation, and its largest economy, is choosing a new leader to succeed. succeed robin dubois hurry, who has served his maximum 2 times in office. more than 93000000 people a registered to vote. they've turned out in force with a long queues at polling stations across the country. bullet to new boot of the governing party and former vice president, antigua, backer of the main opposition party. have been leading the opinion polls, but they're facing a new challenge from peter o. b of the small a labor party who's mobilized social media to attract the younger vote. whoever wins will have a huge challenge is nigeria is experiencing chronic economic and law and order problems and an ongoing battle with violence on groups in the northeast. where i've been also reports of violence and disruption during voting through the day out. there is an address brings us more on that now he's reporting from a city of lagos, a legacy of the only place where we have recorded incidents for of in the north
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east of the country. both got on fighters loved a grenade or a projectile near an electoral officer or electoral office in the town of goes i in my degree one being about 5 people, although no person was reported dead in that incident, similar to this had been reported across the country and volatile area, his laugh was, it was expected that incident like this may happen. but generally officers are saying that the polls went on peacefully. although attempted rob election of frances were recorded in such an areas where some individual started or attempted to snatch ballot boxes at polling stations. those have been confirmed by election officious, across the country right now on the voting has passed on peacefully in almost all parts of the country. except for the incidents report to show far like millions of
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nigerian force time voter, fatty mono local is worried about the high cost of living and having experienced violence during the election to the past year. he's also worried about what might happen after this vote on a new pass on pass on the banking on this election. i mean, if the, if this was the wrong, that means that we don't have a see enough on through them you than nothing else can come and be conducted to where we get. the election process was marked by on the stockade. they cost us in many parts of the country and with more than $6000000.00 people expected to vote in this battle, ground stage of legal securities type of issue say security features have been deployed on the ground, etc. and in there, i 15000000 business. i said the boy,
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with a case maker's police chief warned against one provoking at rest who had into fire you way so lit you will apprehend you. i will bring you to justice in the interests of our national security and democratic heritage. 18 presidential candidates are running, inserted his presidential election on the 3 are seen as having a realistic chance of winning also up for election a hundreds of seats in parliament. but whoever wins the presidency will have a tough task ahead. dealing with a struggling economy insecurity and high cost of living, edris, algebra, lay cost. and i'm with casa, is in the southeast, sensitive a new good. she reports on how voting went that. oh, it was
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a long and frustrating day for many of those is here in the southeast. some floating stations open late and in the process was slow. those in managed to vote early. some of them are behind me. they say that they're not going to go in to say wanted to the process to prevent what they call the boats. tampering. if it happens, a lot of people's been many, many hours in the queue. it was mainly young people. and throughout the day we saw people getting increasingly agitated. they complained that the voting machines when working, they complain that some of the legend officials ones as helpful as the city. it's young people who say the one something done about this country. they say we have a win the election must do more to turn right economy and deal with insecurity, especially in this region where they are we, they say that they are tired of hearing my band and on the road the tire of you being take that ransom the title politicians being randomly targeted by on the group. so they hoping that once the votes have been counted and who able with the
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hope that person will look off the needs of youth not to see in the se, but elsewhere in the country. the french president of ano micron says he will travel to china and just over a month to discuss the war and ukraine on friday, china released at 12 point piece proposal for the conflicts back on, says it's important for china to put pressure on russia to end the war by lewis present, alexander lucas shanker also announced that he'll be visiting china 3 days time, which is a close ally of the team of christian and allowed russia to use its territories to launch the invasion of ukraine. well, in the past year, a fighting rush has expanded its partial control of some regions of east and you're quite in rad access to the dummy x that's been under russian controls is 2014 al jazeera met, some of the people affected by the conflicts sullivan java reports now on their stories. a child shielding his sister,
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a monument from 2014 when ukrainian shells hit on yeske in the last year to fighting here, at least 35 more children have been killed. and in the last 9 years of conflict, russian officials estimate thousands of died in russian controlled territory. despite the dangers in the days and her grandchildren has stayed and done, yes, one of her 2 daughters is being treated in hospital after a shell exploded near her. the other had to find work after her husband fled to ukraine. but no matter how hard life you get, she isn't ready to leave. oh. a no, can garley know i grew up on this land. i buried my parents here. i'm bringing up my grandchildren here. i grew up on this land. why should i leave us? at least one woman was killed in the latest ukrainian artillery strikes on homes. and don yeske like this have become routine. many have lived under
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constant fear since the russian back separate has rose up against ukraine. human rights watch has accused russia of carrying out indiscriminate attacks against civilians and ukrainian forces are violating laws of war its gathered testimony about a legit mistreatment and summary execution of prisoners of war. as well as the use of banned weapons, human rights. what says ukrainian forces use euro gun cluster munition rockets in an attack on has got in harkey region from me to early september. ukrainian forces repeatedly attack the city of idiom and surrounding areas while they were under russian control, with cluster munitions. since russia annex these regions last year, many here now have russian passports, but that doesn't take away the dread of the next incoming missile, but lives in the school. we are all at great risk. i get up to go to work and i don't know whether or not i, michelle will hit us when i'm on the bus. i don't know if rockets will strike in the night, like we can stay in doors forever. i need to leave my house. we just spray and gold
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side plus and then it is dangerous, but i have to go out doors. we have to eat something. we must buy. essentially. it was with me go off. this man says he was building a snowman with his daughter. initial exploded next to them. they survived with minor injuries. so now parents don't meet and parks anymore. more swings and slides are empty. because of the congested state, if you would a workers such as the red cross, you're not entered the standard feed. if day one of you to the war in ukraine, where people living in part of eastern ukraine, the board has continued nearly a decade from a majority of euro. must live in protest and says he's around europe to demand and enter the war with some people saying that western government should stop on the new cried others though and making the opposite argument that the baba was at one protest in london marching for peace in
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ukraine. hundreds to the streets of london on saturday, urging a sci fi and negotiations with russia to end the conflict. among them, supporters of the campaign for nuclear disarmament warning that any escalation in fighting would increase the chances of a nuclear war. many wanted to see an end to western military support for ukraine. it would help if we stopped saying, we'll just give you lots pull weapons and tell you when the war the it's not going to happen like that, you know, ukrainians are really tough. russians are really tough and nato is really rich. so that's, that's all the ingredients you need for a kind of endless war. with this demonstration is one of many happening over this weekend, across europe. now, for these demonstrators, all mean ukraine is simply making things worse and prolonging the conflict. but others take a very different approach. in the belgian capital, many of those marching in solidarity with ukraine. we're actually refugees from
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that country. oh, we've been for our defense, we need the sanctions against the russia. ah, we need a economical support because we defend not only our lands, we defend all democracy world. my own of war is a here. i want to do my best to eat. i want to show people as much as they can, then 31 to survive. we want animal life. we want in our life bag while in berlin, a bigger protest at least 10000 turned up to say no to the idea of germany. army ukraine were demonstrating for peace and against the intervention of our government in a, in that war, that is not ours. the people that wanted for those politicians, they did not know that they will push us into war and said weapons into
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countries that on wall, this is even against our constitution. so different messages and no end in sight to the misery inflicted on the people of ukraine. nadine baba al jazeera london ah m a 184 people have been arrested by turkish authorities in connection with their tens of thousands of buildings heavily damaged or completely destroyed in the earthquakes. victims of the disaster experts and people across the country are blending poor construction practices and government failures for the extent of the damage. ashley hall bar has been reporting from car mon, my rush, which was the api center of one of the quakes and suffered extensive damage. with over 2000000 people, there were displaced thousands of thousands of building voa,
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either destroyed or severely damaged. the government is saying that it will start laying down the foundations and deliver new houses to the affected people in a year. from now, they'll position the thing they see is the bong, the government should wasteful, at least one year for the shocks to weaken intensity before they can think about an urban plan or a construction project. but because this is something that has become politicized presidents that they have the answer that he's adamant on the need to build some things that are going to be safer, better. and the line with the 5 mic design codes and for the best reasons, the authorities that also arrested the mayor of nevada have a cache clock which they accuse for having ties with. one of the key development tycoon who was also arrested
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a few weeks ago in relation to some of the buildings that were destroyed in the top . the government wanted to send a strong message that it won't allow a pin missive, construction environment to live and it has been brushing aside all those accusations levels against them by the opposition that we have not responded quickly to help those who are affected in those areas. hush him abala al jazeera cameras. moorehead for you on the program. taking no chances in cambodia as bird flu cases, fuel fears of a new global spread has been a white out in the us. golden state triggering 1st blizzard morning, 3 decades. ah
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hello, we got some good old fashioned sort of heat across so much of australia farther north. this is where the thunder down paws continue to rumble away areas of low pressure. we got to the monsoon trough there, bring you some big and live the showers in the chosen one or 2 showers to down towards the southeast. i think tasmania probably seen the worst of that. having said, we've got some pretty wet weather there. she can see lurking across northern parts of australia and no great changes. we go one through the next few days, 25 celsius in adelaide, a 22 from melbourne to the thirty's, therefore sydney and for brisbin, little to where to where the clearing away from tasmania. as we go on through our monday, heading off to war, snooze hill, about the wet weather, already in place across northern parts of new zealand. if some heavy rain coming back in here, place to say it does gradually clear through as we go one into where tuesday. so it will be an improving picture for you. just wait and see and improve your picture to
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gradually coming into japan. sunday does bring more snow showers into western parts of honshu into ha condos. he go on into monday that will make its way out of the way. brightest guys come back through pleasant sunshine temperatures. 13 celsius in tokyo, while she try to for the korean peninsula. and for much of china, ah, the 2 moments big trees, life of fame and success, and a multi 1000000000 dollar for the did you need to put her ambition? is challenge by sunny's occasion and cultural tradition. hollywood fema on. i just even lou
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ah, look at main stories following now. votes are being counted in nigeria is election, but have also been reports of gone fi and violence, africa's biggest democracy votes for a new president, french liter, emanuel microns, as is planning a trip to china to discuss it's 12 point piece plan for ukraine. go to me as lensky says, he would also like to meet with gigi ping soon in while they've been protest taking place at various cities in europe, demanding an end to the war. and you crying with some calling that weapon for western weapon supplies of the country to stop. when other stores have been following at least 3 people and now confirmed dead in major winter storms sweeping
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across the united states will than to meet as of snow is forecast for parts of california. unusual contrast images usually associated with the golden state retardation be reports ah fresh know is a rare sight in lake hughes in california. the town is normally known for its blue skies, dry hilltops and warm weather bought. it's a welcome change for jeremiah domingos that will i live where there's like no snow ever. like the only snow i've got was hail and like for screwed in is pretty excited. we've been building snowman and then breaking a slow moving winter storm. california has triggered the 1st blizzard warning in 30 years. in parts of los angeles. state authorities have closed major roads including sections of interstate 5. that's the main north south highway that connects mexico california. the pacific northwest and canada commute is say the snow and ice is causing travel chaos. this
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morning we had like a foot and a foot and a half of snow. and i couldn't go to work. we live on top of a hill, so all of our, our whole entire road was, was covered in snow. california is experiencing an unusually cold and wet winter with flooding mud slides in a state long affected by drought and wildfires. people here say they've been warned to prepare for more extreme weather in the coming days. i think that is one of the biggest concerns that we are looking at. a lot of rain for snow. the snow melts and the wind. and we worry about that my slides and the flooding since we've had it twice already. experts say powerful winter storms mixed with spells of extreme heat and dry weather, a symptoms of climate change. and they're expected to become more frequent and intense. victoria gay to be al jazeera people into an easier been out in protest against what they say is an ongoing crackdown on government critics. several of the most prominent opposition politicians have been detained. present case i'd sacked
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the government and dissolved parliament in 2021. he's been accused of orchestrating a power grab and murder i. lou is an advisor to the former tommy's in house beaker and also a former youth and sports minister. he's as the arrest, the link to the low turn out in a recent election. my understanding is that this is an obvious or retaliation from my side to his failure in the last elections, less than 10 percent of it in his population out participated. so in order for him to cover poor such a big failure, he needed to create a level so that the population will keep following the the story to cover up to such a failure. today there was a demonstration in dubai, usually did the, the journalists are doing a straight thing and we are expecting more people to get to the street and to the
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mystery. yes, we do expect more prosecution mora mora mora wrap the power more violence when they say it. but i do think that 10 years of freedom and democracy which is enabling the to listen society to keep defending they freedoms. i don't think that i said what he is doing when sort of issues of the country he would need to focus on the real no mac slices. but anybody knows that without democracy, they're all, there is no democracy. there is no economic in prosperity. the wealth health organization is working with cambodian health authorities after the death of an 11 year old girl from bird fleet this week, with warnings of a potential pandemic, people and poultry, of being monitored in her home village in the southeast and prophets and pray. thank the w h o is reviewing its bible risk assessment. avian influenza can sometimes move from poultry to humans. recent infections in a range of mammals suggested fighting more easily between people. in
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brazil, police are investigating businessmen, lawyers, and civil servants, allegedly involved in trafficking gold. it's believed to have been illegally extracted from the indigenous yano mommy territory on account. okay. of has more now from both vista, a capital of ra emma state, where a task force is tackling a humanitarian crisis that's been caused by the illegal mining a desperate effort to save lives in a make shift clinic in the yellow money territory. the numbers are staggering. 570 children have died during the past 4 years. victims of the onslaught of illegal mining in brazil's largest indigenous reservation. while doctors and nurses attend to the sick, the recently created task force is forcing thousands of miners out. hundreds are leaving and canoes taking all the can. and filming their flight,
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i somewhat goes in by january 20000 illegal miners were occupying 5000 hector's of protected indigenous land, polluting the waters with mercury and spreading disease. there are almost as many as the whole yen o mommy population. 30000. i'm the mom here with our villages were surrounded by mines, says ha sienna, mommy, we were left with no drinking water, no food, no medicine. she staying at the emergency health clinic built 2 weeks ago in boy vista, the capital of the northern state, of what i'ma. like many here, she wants to go home, but does not know when dice must be tossed. it'll take us decades to help nature and our homeland, to recover and bologna, be safe from invaders. if the government authorities maintain their presence in our reservation, some miners who have fled still hoped to make it back into the yano my me territory
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. they have nowhere else to go with your open up get will in this horrible the government doesn't have the money to maintain a task force operating 20 full 7 in the region. if a doesn't open legal minds or find an alternative way for minors to make a living, they will go back risking their lives because the need to put food on the table. but what i my has little to offer the huge statue of a minor in the center of boy vista is symbol of how much the local economy depended on gold before it's extraction was forbidden and protected territories. this small village is 40 kilometers away from the gateway to the young money indigenous territory. it has grown much over the years. partly because of the thousands of illegal miners that have in coming here to buy food supplies medicine and have made the economy of this city boom. since president losin us,
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let us hubert took office in january and ordered the task force to destroy the legal mines. people in haste, lunda have seen the cities commerce slowly fade away. why this area was filled to the top with corn. now we are no longer renewing the stock because there's nobody to buy it. for those living in hot i'ma in the city or in the rain forest. to morrow is another battle, monica, and i give al jazeera boy vista, brazil, a french documentary on the adamant is one berlin film festivals. golden barrow award for best film and is out there is domenic can reports from berlin. it's a departure from the usual style for the festival. this is the 1st time in 3 years the belly noah has seen filmmakers and film goes able to come here. all my in. busy person, since the covey pandemic started, and where this festival has always been seen, at least in the last few decades as being giving prime prominence to our house.
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this year, the golden went to a documentary, french documentary called sue, and led them on the adamant a floating building on the sand river in paris, which helps people with mental disorders. and the jury decided that they said that when they watched this from a blue that have such with its prominence, other film awards went to or interesting in some fences categories. certainly the young spanish act for sophia or federal played the role in the film. $20000.00 species would be where she played the role of the child growing up in their minds as female is actually inside a male body. many different themes at the sped knowledge stood us, but perhaps to which were transcendent, the war in ukraine and the situation of the people in iran. although no awards were given to films or filmmakers from those countries. they did have prominence at this festival pool side of life in iran that few in the wider world
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have seen the experience of prisoners in jails. is one of the main features of 2 films at the belly knowledge, both made by the same director in which he tries to explore the psychological effect of interrogation on the questioner. and the question may phantom done, believes prisoners in his country are still suffering to this day, it has my main objective is for the interrogators to actually see themselves so that it could be a mirror for them to be able to do. so the struggles of the iranian people are a key theme at this year's family. another one film examined the history of protest in iran and draws the parallel with what has been happening in on, in recent times. another explores the 19 aces war with iraq and the effects this had on a generation of children exposed to the violence set in the city of about done through animation. the film, the siren shows us the world through the eyes of 11 year old,
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omit the innocence of a game of football is shattered by the arrival of the iraqi rockets, which will eventually raise the city. we follow omit struggle to survive is mitchie. the sense of struggle is a key element of the works of the films director separate, a fussy oh, it is bomb, the common ground of our struggle, which has been there since 1979. i mean, i'm sure you're aware of the fact that women right away after the revolution, the so called resolution, the kitten at one hind act, one ha, they took to the streets to, to, to resist against the monday to unveil the tankless. look, there, we see these events in the film between the revolutions, which is also showing at the belly knowledge, drawing on archive of the situation in iran, but also in romania which saw its own revolution. 10 years later, we view life as women at the time did in both countries. fast forward 44 years. and
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it's at this festival in the german capital that several prominent iranian women have been making their case, hard to say your own are fighting with their are if it's their weapon hard, is it with so, and i know that all the art with reading until that happens these women say their fight will go all dominant, came al, jazeera, berlin, al jazeera, dot com from warren. everything we're covering including comment analysis on the stories of the day. ah, the human closer developments in nigeria accounting is under way in the high stakes presidential parliamentary election, 3 main candidates, a vine to succeed, mamma doable harry. he has served his maximum 2 terms in office.
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