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going places to go ah, al jazeera, a with national chapel. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report time, we brave bullets and bomb and we always include the views from all sites. ah . his supporters of candidates, chair in nigeria as boats are counted in a tight presidential election by some bond and some delays ah, carry johnston. this is alex. is there a lot from day or so coming up?
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oh, wow. rallies in europe holding for an end to the fighting in ukraine. as the war with russia enters a 2nd year. we speak to people sheltering from ukrainian missiles in russian held areas in the east. and a blizzard warning and talks of sunny california people, america's west coast are forced to cope with the rent. winter storm. ah, boats are being counted in nigeria and what's believed to be the tightest presidential election in decades. but gone far and delays maud, the pole in africa's biggest democracy election took place in the middle of an economic crisis and violence by armed groups in some parts of the country. well homage i'm g reports from the capital of buddha. in nigeria is capital, the polls didn't open as early as they were meant to. but the mood was nonetheless
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up beat sandra awful. who wants to see her country move in the right direction? told us how relieved she was to have voted by many life by law yoga these boundaries because we have been allowed to really, you know, wait non duty for how many, how many months now for those practicing their civic duty, the significance of this day could not be overstated, no matter the heat, no matter the length of the lines, people waited. despite the delayed start earlier in the day, things have gone smoothly here at this point station. and everybody i've spoken to say they're prepared to stay here as long as it takes to ensure they can cast their ballot at a polling station in the battle ground state of legal panic. after gunfire broke out armed gunman in a minibus fired shots in the ear and snatched ballot boxes at the voting station
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and follow lou junction. earlier lagos, his police chief, had issued a stern warning to any one planning to provoke and rest. who had into fire you? we will, i will let you will apprehend you. i will bring you to justice for voters here growing concerned not just over the high cost of living, but even what might happen after this vote. if this was wrong, that means that we know have a c in our punch. in the southeastern city of new go ballots were delivered late voters, both tired and bored. wondered when booths would finally be set up. poles were scheduled to close by afternoon and many worried they might not be able to vote. nigeria independent national electoral commission said some areas had experienced irregularities, and try to offer reassurance. anybody who had wasn't like you before, $230.00 would be allowed to avoid even you quoting gross will be on the official
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closing homeless local news. 18 candidates are running for the presidency, but only 3 are seen as having a realistic chance of winning. also up for election or hundreds of seats and parliament in this hotly contested election, voters only know one thing for certain. no matter who wins the challenges ahead will not be easy. how much am drama 0. a boucher ah french president myoma cronner says he'll travel to china just over a month to discuss the war in ukraine. on friday, china released a piece proposal. beijing is, according for an end to western sanctions on russia and is urging moscow and keith to hold talks. kron says it's important for china to put pressure on russia to end the war and withdraw from ukraine. the battery sim cosmetics on that. lucas shanker has also announced he'll visit beijing in the coming days. but a rule says,
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one of russia's closest allies last year, minsk allowed the kremlin to use his territory to launch attacks on ukraine. when the last year of fighting russia has expanded its partial control of some regions of east in ukraine and rare access to the potted on. yes, that's been under russian control. since 2014. i'll just here let some of the people affected by the conflict with all the other reports now on their stores. a child shielding his sister, a monument from 2014 when ukrainian shells hit on yeske in the last year. 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 territories. despite the dangers of the day and her grandchildren has stayed and done, yes, when her 2 daughters is being treated in hospital after they shall exploded near her. the other had to find work after her husband fled to ukraine. but no matter
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how hard life he gets, she isn't ready to leave. oh, no, categorically not. 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 constant fear since the russian back separatists rose up against ukraine. human rights watch has accused russia of carrying out indiscriminate attacks against civilians and ukrainian forces of violating laws of war. its gathered testimony about alleged mistreatment and summary execution the prisoners of war. as well as the use of banned weapons. human rights watch says ukrainian forces used your gun cluster ammunition rockets in an attack on has got in hockey region from me to early september. ukrainian forces repeatedly attacked the city of idiom and
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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 we're 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 pray and god sighed, plus the news. it is dangerous, but i have to go out doors. we have to eat something. we must buy essentials. it was with me. go off this man as he was building a snowman with his daughter. michelle 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 status, 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,
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where people living in part of eastern ukraine, the board has continued for nearly a decade. from a majority of the muslim, what people have been protesting in cities across europe to demand an end to the war. from one's occurred on western governments arming ukraine, while others, according for the opposite athene baba was at one protest in london, marching for peace in ukraine. hundreds to the streets of london on saturday, urging a sci fi 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 of weapons until you win the war. it's not going to happen like that. you know, ukrainians are really tough. russians are really tough that nato is really rich. so
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that's, that's all the ingredients you need for a kind of endless war. well, the demonstration is one of many happening over the weekend, across europe. now, for the 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 refugee to that country that we've been for our defense. we need the sanctions again, the russia. we need a comical support because we defend not only our land, we defend all democracy world. my own it is. i want to do my best to me. i want to show people as much as they want to survive. we want normal life. we want our love back
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while in berlin, a big protest at least 10000 turned up to say no to the idea of germany. army ukraine were demo spreading for peace and against our intervention of our government in a, in that war, that is not ours. the people that watered for those politicians, they did not know that they will push us into war and said weapons into countries that on war, does this even against our constitution? so different messages and no end in sight to the misery inflicted on the people of ukraine. nadine barber al jazeera london ah, 284 people have been arrested by turkish authorities in connection with the 10s of thousands of buildings damaged or completely destroyed
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in the earthquakes. almost 3 weeks ago. engineer, experts say poor construction practices and government failures were at fault. hashim albert is in carmel marsh, in turkey, with over 2000000 people, there were displaced thousands and thousands of buildings that were either destroyed or severely damaged. the government is saying that it was thought laying down the foundations and deliver new houses to the affected people in a year from now. the opposition is saying, this is the wrong that the government should wait for at least one year for the after shocks to weaken intensity before the can think about an urban plan or a construction project. but because this is something that has become politicized president, that hasn't, they have our dollars to that his adamant on the need to build something that is going to be safer, better and align with the seismic design codes. and for this reason,
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the authority said also that the arrest of the mayor of nor does he owe cash or tobacco, which they accused for having ties with. one of the key development tycho's, who was also arrested a few weeks ago in relation to some of the buildings that were destroyed in or garcia and tap the government, wanted to send a strong message that he won't allow a permissive or construction environment to thrive. and it has been brushing aside all those accusations, leveled against them by the opposition that they have not responded quickly to help those who are affected in those areas. passion, holla, al jazeera cameras took here as a nation of animal lovers. and in the aftermath of the earthquakes early this month, and he surviving pets have been found alone in the rubble. certainly decor reports
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from the town of al vasta. we efforts to rescue them and if possible, we unite them, their families. auntie beauty, a cat is bought in, found injured in the rubble they died knows a broken leg. this mobile clinic in the town of alba. stan is part of a volunteer association. yasamin yom as and, and her team focus on rescuing pets from damaged buildings. they have rescued more than 70 cats and dogs. since the earthquakes hit it in cuz off much garden we find them in the rubble most are very scared and stressed. if they're healthy, they don't want to leave their homes on their area. the most tragic is those whose owners have died. we noticed they don't want it nice. they get depressed about one dog stop teasing for 5 days or albus down was the api center of the 2nd earthquake and southeastern tre, kia it is not recognizable now. but for those who survived and who have pets,
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finding them is a priority. they are part of the family. our home and furniture are gone. what is important now? is old cocked? she is ours. so yasemin tries till you're the cat, minish, out of the rubble of their home. she is traumatized. we're told and refuses to come out. every day they come here to the top left of their homes. try your move out of the robber. they placed here, she does, but then she has back inside is she afraid they are not successful on this day, but say they'll keep trying back at the mobile clinic, turkish forces bring in their cadaver dog. he cut his poor while searching for the many dead. and it requires stitches and newly rescued. they have named him past school. he is clearly a house dog but has no micro chip. it will be much harder to find his owners. all
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that we have had were unions, the owners cry, we get emotional watching. thus, every one cries, actually, the family and the dog school craves affection. jumping on fatty or carmen as he films. only his little face is a winner with every one. it's unlikely past school will be reunited with his family and he will now be sent to istanbul away from these devastated cities be put up for adoption. stephanie decker al jazeera, i'll be stan southeastern, took gear ahead. here now to 0, the struggle to say the brazilian indigenous community facing a severe health crisis, because my pollution from illegal gold mine ah
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hello, the weather is warming up nicely now across much of the a rabbit peninsula that said his case here in carter though hot when he ain't celsius on sunday afternoon will hang on to those cott attempt just maybe just eating down a little over the next hour. so we got a little area of cloud. just flirting with northern parts of the gulf could catch a shower or 2 to scraping its way across. ki wait, easing across into iran. abs light to see that the wet weather here. but even northern parts of color could catch a shower or 2 elsewhere across the ripened peninsula generate rides. right to right up into the la vance, syria and into kia law. she looking dry and settled with warm sunshine over the next couple of days warms to into a good part of eat it. but a brisk, suddenly when bringing some lifted dust and sand out salva libya more showers there, across northern algeria, pushing across into a normal house of morocco. snow over the atlas mount is a chart, says some showers to just around with the coastal fringes of west africa. not more
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than just a shower or 2, making its way into where mozambie this is tropical cycling. freddy final warning has already been issued for the storm. it will continue to weaken as we go on through the next couple of days, but some really heavy rifled. it is like it's cool, sliding into central and southern parts of mozambique. ah, the tough times, the man tough question is. what exactly are you asking for you? what troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that it's identified with america itself. when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging american and demand the truth. there is no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are up front with me, mark lamb on hill on al jazeera hulu
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. ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories this out with that have been isolated incidents. so father says nigerians voted in the presidential and parliamentary elections glitches in the voting system. so long queues in some areas, final results could take days. french president, the manual mccrendon says he's planning a trip to china to discuss it's 12 point piece plan for ukraine. la zalinski says he'd also like to meet china's leader. she does pink and protest to modern an end to the war. and ukraine have taken place across europe. some demonstrators called on western nations to stop supplying weapons to keep tens of thousands of his
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railways have again been protesting against controversial plans to reform the judiciary. the government wants to enact a law, allowing parliament to overturn supreme court decisions with a simple majority, but as to say to undermine democracy. large crowds have been gathering every week for the past 2 months to show their opposition. people in to nicea have been protesting against what they say is an ongoing crackdown. government critics demonstrations come as several of the most prominent opposition. politicians have been detained. president chrysler dissolved parliament in 2021. elections in december were boycotted by the opposition accused of sight of a paragraph. thousands of people in portugal have taken to the streets to the mod, better living conditions. high inflation is making it tougher for people to make ends. house prices rose by around 18 percent in 2022. that's the biggest increase
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in that 3 decades now, south korea has been increasing interest rates to curb soaring inflation. that's shaken the property market, which until recently was considered a safe investment. unless so, there could be a knock on effect on the rest of the economy. units can report now from so a chill is creeping into south korea's once red hot housing market. transactions have slowed to a standstill, even as house prices drop for a record 7th straight month. jumbled and she roberts, prices have fallen by 1520 percent. but when we look at apartments, the most common type of homes, there are cases where they've plummeted by 30 to 40 percent. apartments hold a special place and south koreans hearts so much so that it can make or break a president's legacy. when jane ended his term with an apology, as housing prices in the sole area doubled on his watch, dozens of rounds of price control regulations fail to prevent speculative by the
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apartment you see behind me were the 1st to be built during a development room of the 1970s, setting the scene for what is known as come down to day. since then real estate has been the most sought after investment to grow well for south korea. but now that's being tested. analysts point to interest rate hikes. the central bank raises 1st partly by almost 3 percentage points in about 17 months to stem capital outflow to the us and inflation time unit. and we're, you know, because last year inflation and south korea far exceeded 5 percent. so our top priority was stabilizing prices over economic growth, or the real estate market. this year we started 5 percent inflation and project that to taper to the 3 percent range by the end of the year. okay, most loan holders have a floating rate corporate lawyer, joseph chose bought his apartment when he got married 4 years ago. he says his
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interest payments have gone up multiple times. our monthly loan payments has doubled and we'd have to keep track of the expenditures that are we we normally wouldn't have, for example, i think we keep track of how much we eat out now. and i want to, we spend, ah, in department stores, builders face bigger problems, new construction will slow as unit stand. empty. economists warned the gloom could spread to other areas, such as non essential spending. an important contributor to asia's 4th largest economy, which is already facing storm clouds ahead unit kim al jazeera. so the world health organization is working with cambodian health authorities after the death of an 11 year old girl from birth flu this week, or people in poultry are being monitored in her home village. on w. h o is viewing it's
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a global risk assessment. even influenza can sometimes move from culture to hers, but i'm not, i am so afraid at the moment. i'm especially afraid that this virus might infect my children and grandchildren. that is why we started to protect ourselves. now, we're talking about this virus. i'm very afraid of it. in fact, this virus is more dangerous than cove. 19 police in brazil are investigating business leaders, lawyers and civil servants allegedly involved in trafficking. gold is believed to have been illegally extracted from the indigenous young mummy territory and the state of aroma. a task forces tackling a humanitarian crisis caused by illegal mining or i could not give, has the story. a desperate effort to save lives in a make shift clinic in the yano money territory. the numbers are staggering. 570 children have died during the past 4 years. victims of the onslaught of illegal
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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. i somewhat total sample 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 ami population $30000.00 on the mulatto. however, there are villages were surrounded by mines, says ha sienna, mommy, we were left with no drinking water, no food, no medicine body. 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 have tossed. it'll take us decades to help nature
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and our homeland to recover and bologna, be safe from invaders if the government all forties maintain their presence in our reservation. some miners who have fled, still hope to make it back into the yano my me territory. they have nowhere else to go. pick you up when i go in there to help the government doesn't have the money to maintain a task force operating 247 in the region. if a doesn't open legal minds or find an alternative way for mine is 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 simba of how much the local economy depended on gold before its extraction was forbidden. in protected territories, this small village is 40 kilometers away from the gateway to the young manny indigenous territory. it has grown much over the years. partly because of the
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thousands of illegal miners that have been coming here to buy food supplies, medicine and have made the economy of this city boom. since president losin us to let us hubert took office in january and ordered the task force to destroy the legal mines, people in his lunch, i have seen the cities commerce slowly fade away. i knew this area was filled to the top with corn. now we are no longer renewing the stock because there's nobody to buy it god for those living in hot i'mma in the city or in the rain forest. to morrow is another battle, monica, and i give all jazeera boy vista, brazil, forethought as an eastern cuba trying to contain a forest farther with a blaze started a week ago. it's already destroyed about $1300.00 hector's of wooded area on a nation reported $84.00 as far as last month. at least 3 people now confirmed dead
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in winter storms sweeping across parts of the u. s. will than 2 meters of snow is forecast in california on unusual contrast to images usually associated with the golden state. it's oregon. v as more fresh snow is a rare site in lake hughes in california. the town is normally known for its blue skies, dry hilltops on warm weather, but it's a welcome change for jeremiah domingo sat. will i live where there's like no snow ever? like always snow. i've got was hail and like 1st grade and is pretty excited. we've been building snow and, and then breaking them. a slow moving winter storm over 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, commuters say the snow and ice is causing travel chaos. this morning we had like
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a foot and a foot and a half of snow. and i couldn't go to work. we live on top of the 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 and mud slides and estate long affected by drought and wildfires. people here say they've been worn to prepare for more extreme weather in the coming days. i think that is one of the biggest concerns is 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 sliding 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 is the final day of the rio carnival 5 and the schools operating on the streets, competed for prizes in costumes and presentation. and
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a carnival considered the world's biggest festivities brought millions of businesses to brazil. the 1st time since the credit, 19 french documentary on the adamant has won the bird in film festivals. golden bear award for the best film documentary is about a floating daycare center in paris adults with mental health issues. pinch, filmmaker won the super fast, the best director, his film, the plow. a drama about the family property is from that k reports from birdie. this is the 1st time in 3 years. the bandanna has seen filmmakers and film goes able to come here. all my in person, since the coven pandemic started. and where this festival has always been seen, at least in the last few decades as being giving prime prominence to arms house. this year, the golden went to a documentary, french documentary called seal, and led them on the adamant a floating building on the sand river in paris,
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which helps people with mental disorders. and the jury decided that they said that when they watched this from a blue, they have such was its prominence. other film awards went to or interesting in some fences category. certainly the young spanish actress sophia, or federal, played the role in the film $20000.00 species of be well, she played the role of a child growing up in their minds as female was actually inside a male body. many different themes at the study 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. ah, without just there are these other top stories now.

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