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i am committed against civilians. we flew out of syria about $600000.00 pages of material, so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice. it puts a human face on the charges. it's a dead human face, but as we can freeze syria witnesses for the prosecution on al jazeera. ah ha city in the homes of bond in the occupied weiss bank off to to israeli settlers a shot dead. aah! o i mariano mossey and london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program this hour, nearly 60 migrants a dead off to that boat sinks near southern italy. the youngest victim was just
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a few months old anxiety and hope in nigeria when millions of people awaiting see who when the race lead africa's largest economy. and we look at the long, painful road to peace, 20 years since a devastating conflict began. and sedans, da full providence, ah, has been more bloodshed in the occupied westbank as israeli and palestinian leaders vowed to prevent a further search in violence. to israeli settlers have been shot dead on a main road in the town of how warren, south of nablus is writing forces. say they are searching for the gunman, or his early settlers then gathered to march to how war assessing fire to palestinian homes along the route. palestinians have torched tires on the towns
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main street. in an attempt to counter the attacks. sarah hart joins us live now from western them. and what information are you receiving? is this violence containing with the settlers on one side burning palestinian homes and carson and palestinians trying to prevent that violence from taking place. that's right. well, things have escalated for the last few hours. you started off with these 2 young israeli settler brothers that were on a, on a main road that connects the north to the south of the west bank, heading back to the settlement. a lot of the settlements are illegal in occupied west bank and they was shot and killed at close range. now the person that carried out the attack hasn't been found yet. these ready forces said they're looking for several palestinians on this. and then since then there's been a shot down of existing checkpoints in the area, temporary checkpoints of been also set up. and then we've seen israeli settlers
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take matters into the hands and they've been assessing cause hones as well as stores shots, a light, so on to during the day and has continued and is still happening. now maybe you can see some of those pictures already, but this is a concern because there's an escalation of violence on both sides that we're seeing . and we're just going to have to wait and see what's going to happen after time when the tensions already incredibly high, especially author arrays that took place on wednesday in nablus. now all of what's happening is happening south of nablus, where 11 palestinians were killed just on wednesday in that israeli right. but we're also seeing now is lots of palestinians have suffering with take us because he's ready forces of come in and thrown gas in the areas where the palestinians there have also been several injuries that have been reported amongst the policies
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because of these settler attacks and there are also these negotiations that are currently taking place in the coastal city of october in jordan is i think being said thereabouts, preventing from violence. well, this meeting was organized by the u. s. it also included mediators from egypt as well as jordan. we've had the israeli sides meets with the palestinian authority, much to the discontent of many palestinians said that these meetings results in absolutely nothing, especially as the numbers of palestinians have been killed and several types of been carried out against israel don't seem to be ending any time soon, but of course with this new right wing is re the government that's come in. there's been a step up of demolition. has been a step up on rates on occupied territories including the west pine and occupied east jerusalem. now statement was released from this meeting where they said they
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of agreed to de escalate tensions. they also agreed to maintain the status quo oxer . most compound over the ramadan will be coming up very soon and narrow concerns that things could escalate within that area. but since not statement has been released and just in the last hour, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu suites and saying that settlements won't be frozen, which seems to be contradicting to the statement that was released from that meeting. that just happened in jordan a few hours ago. and also interestingly you have the minister of finance smart rich, whose sweets it's denying that that's even going to happen nor even for one day. he said, will there be any freezing of israeli settlement building within occupied was, might know, you might ask why, if he's the finance minister, what does he have anything to do that will part of the coalition agreement within this government to bring this and back and this and you know who back to power was
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that he would be given a role within the ministry that would of defense that would allow him to oversee the expansion or settlements in the west. by now he was given that role just 3 days ago. so that seems to be a little bit of political wrangling where you're hearing one thing when you're hearing another thing from the minister, for example of security as well. 1 as smart church, obviously, minister finance is also now going to be oversee the, the, the, gives you an indication of where this country is right now. all right, thank you. now moving on to this story that at least $59.00 migrants, including 12 children, died and a shipwrecked off the coast of southern italy. more than 80 people have been rescued. vishal say the boat traveled to italy from tech here with those on board trying to reach europe through the mediterranean. the dean bama brings us more on this now. the aftermath of a tragedy is they retrieved. this video shows some of the dozens of bodies which
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washed up on the eastern coast of calabria. and this is what remains of the boat they were on. more bodies were spotted at sea. the coast guards continued looking for survivors on sunday. it was night time when the vessel found it during rough weather on a rocky reef, near the result of staccato they could throw it was reportedly carrying as many as 150 people. many of them with an afghan itself, among the dead women and children, including at least one baby. scores of people have been rescued. they're being treated with physical injuries and trauma. and his weekly addressing vatican city frances spoke about the victims. but he will put a, you know, the lord, i pray for each of them for the missing, even for the other migrants who survived. i think those who are helping them and giving them a system that's just the virgin mary help these brothers local yansa live on the lion, president of the european commission says she deeply saddened. i think that you, nations must quote,
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redouble our efforts to coordinate the migration and asylum critics. the suggestions for a common asylum system and legal migration rates have gone no way for years. italy's prime minister, georgia maloney has expressed her deep sorry for the death, blaming human traffickers and promising to block migrant c departures to prevent more disasters. charities involved in c rescues say that may be wishful thinking. people and when you say people is not a man, it's women and children. and this for the recalls, not again because children suddenly died today and people depart, no question. will they be rescued or not? the united nations is recorded more than 17000 deaths and disappearances. in the central mediterranean since 2014, in the absence of europe white co operation, it's likely more will lose their lives trying to reach the shores of italy. the dean bava al jazeera millions of nigerians waiting to see who be declared that
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country's next president ballots being counted and what's become the tightest race in decades. working was extended by an entire day in parts of one province. after polling stations, face delays are metacity reports to us now from a new go in the se. oh river to go over. there is cautious. optimism across nigeria, as people wait for the final official election results, o voting took place, may few parts of the country on sunday, with technical glitches and isolated cases of violence disrupt to polls the day before. some of those voted, hope results will be announced soon. you should reject obama gets to nick belushi free bay and plus stuff. so got everybody. so let me on hold on, get this and talk to the needs of 50. that is going to live, flip our wheel for it. that the mental force decided nigeria election process was marked by a late start here in the south east and other regions. 18 presidential candidates
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want to lead africa's most populous nation, but only 3 are seen as having any chances of winning hula to move. who of the governing all progresses? congress, former vice president, a to global backer of the main opposition. people democratic party and former a number of state governor peter o. b of the smaller labor party. whoever wins the presidency, whatever. a lot of challenges deal with turning around a fragment economy attacked by armed groups in some regions, task shortages, as well as the high cost of living, good, wild, blue ball. nigerians also voted for parliamentarians to represent them for the next 4 years. if these like shows don't go well, you have a situation where we become to broaden for our donations. we become a destination for 80 destination for help. what at our employee, our parts in joining jew i'm contributing development. nigeria is also struggling with a separatist movement, kidnappings for ransom conflict between headers and farmers, corruption, poverty,
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and unemployment issues. people here want to dressed patiently. how do i toss al jazeera integral? nigeria? i'm at address joins us live now from lagos. he's been following a story and i'm at, he was saying that it, it's difficult to know how long the final result is going to take. they tend to come in off to 2 or 3 days, but there is some information trickling. and now what do we know? well, mariam, it's been quite a 10 to 24 hours since the post office closed. and for the 1st time, the election commission announced the result of one state in the south west of the country, which indicates that the process started. i look most states i expected to come in tonight, probably, according to an independent national electoral commission official. i probably will get as many as 10 states that are coming to buddha for to report the results of the
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elections. however, no announcement is expected before 10 o'clock gmc in boucher would. right behind me is the headquarters of the electoral commission here in lagos. and after more than 24 hours of delay, since the close of poles, people are beginning to get results for local governments of. so i've been announced here and then the process will continue throughout the night and probably into tomorrow morning. what is concluded here will then be transferred to a boucher and that's the process for all the $36.00 days on the federal capital territory. this could take maybe a day or 2 before officials will finally coordinate the results and announce tonight as who will be the next president. now, what about the situation of the streets and the on the streets of lagos? it's com. call it an uneasy. com. people have been expecting these results for very long time. a lot of people who are expected by now at least a 3rd or a quarter of the results would have been in by now and announce to then i get and
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voter. however, that's not the case. we went around lagos today, some parts of lagos, what we, so some of the shops, businesses have been closed by their shops for fear that when these and results nosed that could be reactions. and then newton will stop. i will start and then they will probably get attacked by moms. that's the feeling of the streets of like us. but officials and the security services are telling us that they're having everything under control at the moment while people are watching to see what develops in the next few days. so that nationwide now will know who will be that president for the next 4 years. it was speaking about the sporadic incidents of violence just last night that might have affected the vote, counting processed in some areas and that might have to be held again. also it was mod by widespread delays and concerns that the technology didn't quite work. how, what has been the reaction to this and how important is not going to be the issue
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of whether or not the, the technology was working properly in the selection? well, technology is one of the main concerns in this election. early on the electoral commission put out a statement saying, apologizing tonight, jenna said, the proposed or the plan to upload the results of the election on line from the polling stations did not happen. that's expected. simply because of glitches, technical glitches with this ever. apparently one official are saying that the several was not upgraded. it was used to regular traffic not related to elections, but with the coming of intrusion. if you look the results, the several was overwhelmed by the number of fits. it's getting every single minute in nigeria, from observers from electron officers spread all across nigeria and people interested in. then i get an election. we're trying to go onto the summer to find out exactly what's happening. so according to them, this is overwhelmed by these demands and the process is getting to slow effect in
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the process of loading the results onto the server and for the future to deal with that. however, what some of them are resorting to now is to expect results from local governments . what's local governments and state capitals that will be trans, flawed results sort of registered on papers will then be transferred to a bill yet for can formation correlated from ward local government. and state before that being an else to then i get and voted. thank you very much. so that for you on the program, the close essay city to a devastated quiet time. now the runs the shooting, attacking port of nursing. the grinding battle in easton ukraine is russian forces, slowly advance embankments. ah
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ha. the weather is largely fine and troy across much of northwest cheer. we're into a spell of a quiet weather here. thanks to a large area of high pressure which is centered. right? i was scotland, it will draw down cool. normally. when so it's going to be on the chevy side of a few showers just by that eastern side of england. but the majority of showers to concern ourselves with will be across the mediterranean, some winter weather to where it was at eastern side of a year. we got to that making his way further east was minus to the top temperature there in moscow. lot of snow coming down across ukraine, east, down towards the bulk of some heavy snow there. and there's that stormy weather right across central and western parts of the met his righty. some very strong and gusty winds. winds at times. could gust as much as 100 kilometers per hour balance storms brewing up here, not just re monday going on it into tuesday as well. central air is generally dry
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and lines and pleasant sunshine, like winter whitefield, tea pap, or the 5 celsius in berlin. a celsius half a london i've you 6 in paris as to said lossy driver, shots of want to shout even madrid, we'll struggle to get to a route 7 degrees celsius. we have got wet weather, they're making its way into italy. wassner to northern parts of the country and across the balkans. as we go through wednesday is very windy. ah. to ukrainian filmmakers joined the army to fight against russian separatists 2014. they document their journey from civilians to soldiers. as the fighting intensifies the tools of their trade become weapons of war what will be the toll for ukraine's brave hearts? witness on al jazeera
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blue. ah, welcome back. quick look at the main stories have been following and to his right, he settlers have been shot dead in the occupying west bank town of hora. settlers have been setting fire to palestine homes and cause at least $59.00 migrants, including 12 children have died and a shipwreck off the coast of san italy. born 80 survivors have been rescued. and then in nigeria, the bats being counted off the saturdays presidential bonham entry elections. this is the tightest race is seen in the country the decades some areas in one province
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extended voting for sunday. off some polling stations face delays. a bombing at a crowded bazaar is killed at least 5 people in south west in pakistan. it's not clear who is behind the attack and bar on that to police, say, a bomb, had been rig to a motorcycle and designated by remote control. at least 16 others have been injured . or con is in baluchistan, province where i so the buck is dying taliban and all the separatist groups carry out regular attacks. there's been any 3 weeks since the earthquakes destroyed thousands of homes in southeast, in tokyo, and northwest syria. more than 50000 people have died in the disaster. millions have fled the devastation. to raise a bo reports now from no doggy, which was one of the cities that was particularly badly hit. while he will, he are still trying to cope with a magnitude on what happened in this part of the country we're hearing via it's
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just about an hour away from a major city which is wherever you look there. hundreds of thousands of tents, just like the one that you can see right behind me where people are leaving, trying to continue with their lives after losing their home. some homes were destroyed, others were badly damaged and they cannot go back to the united nations estimates that 1500000 people in this country were left homeless because of the earthquakes. so here people are telling us that you may have some food, they have some water and now they have pets, but they still don't know when or they're going to be able to have a home back. that government has sets up around $300000.00 tens across the country . it is setting up some 130 locations where they're going to set up containers, cities for them to leave. but people would like to know when they'll be able to pull not home. once again, we're trying also to show very fast we saw were seeing lots of rubble being
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removed from the buildings being demolished, as you can see. why here, where we are right now, right next to this 10 city, where we are right now when it has launched an investigation of around 600 people who are being investigated for what they call a corrupt building practices. when you come all the way through here, it's very common 15 grand new buildings that are badly damaged, so completely destroyed. they were supposed to be able to handle or to tolerate a nurse. well, that didn't happen, and the government has the pain around 180 people because of this practice is among them. construction directors of construction company, property owners, among many others, including the mayor of this city, who is from the precedents party, was also retained. and when you talk to people here many, they tell us that they celebrate that this investigations are being carried out. they celebrate, but they want to know what happened, why they lost their homes,
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why they had saved money to buy a building that was supposed to protect them from when earthquake. and that did not happen. and what they would like to know right now is, as i said before, when they'll be able to have a plan when they'll be able to know and when they'll be able to have a normal life. once again, of course, many turkish families have lost their homes and they are now completely dependent on aid. the government is struggling to meet the needs of a displace population from dr. reports on this now from the city of marcin. a 2 hour drive west along the coast from the earthquake zone. the big port of madison was the 1st stop for many people fleeing the disaster in southern turkey. martin is very different from other cities because it's the closest save city to the disaster area. in the 1st day, it was quite frightening, and he saw people all around the city with nowhere to go with their bags. and with
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their p, amazon who lost director is a lack of damage in community organizer who has been helping the influx of newcomers with aid packages at centers and dormitories throughout the city, people are in temporary accommodation with most saying they want to go back to their provinces, despite their ordeal, janish and if our house is rebuilt, we'll definitely go back. we can't give up on our hometown. it's estimated the 2000000 population of this city has suddenly grown by a round, a quarter of shade with them get us was that i will. the city of nursing is suffering from this. but after the tainting and tennis cities completed in the earthquake sun, i believe that the people were turned to their home towns. but some reports say rents have more than doubled, making it harder for existing residence to get homes. and more demands are being taught on schools and hospitals. as many people it seems are choosing to stay as a major hub, burse in has experienced influx is of newcomers over time. but there are concerns
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about how it will cope with this latest search. most of them won't go back. i mean, this is not the, it's not the 1st time that the city mason experienced this. this city is omitted. union city. very calm, very pretty. and there are a lot of chances of, of economic survival van. you don't have resources to share, there will be conflicts. there will be very bare struggles among the peoples. the problems facing merson it seems likely to be faced nationally. it's can several 1000000 people who lost their livelihoods, and homes and the disaster have left the earthquake affected area for new lives throughout trickier, even after the recovery. it's questionable just how many of them will ever go back . rob mcbride, al jazeera marson turkey. meanwhile, in syria, the white helmets, a warning of the growing threat of cholera and rebel held areas as a result of the earthquakes groups as the damage to infrastructure in sanitation
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has been massive. they could be a real catastrophe for civilians are also reporting cracks in many residential buildings and schools. even them too dangerous to use it's been 20 years since the thought of the war in dar for hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. millions more forced out of their homes. the fighting has eased, but many still live in camps with nowhere else to go. it morgan reports homeless now from north da for this was once a home in the village of uncle shadow and to dance north dar for. as alma adam stands amongst the ruins where his home once stood, he remembers his life here before being forced out when the were and dar 4 began on helena had love him for them. chris rock, people came and dreaded the village. there was 6 cars are loaded of guns, some one horses and some on camelback. they were from the arab tribes. they killed
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the men and bent the villas down and looted property in livestock. louis, we had to escape the mountains to survival. miss animal, by the less or more due to bother will the worst started in 2003, with a car for a tribes rebelling against the government and accusing it of marginalization. the government responded with airstrikes and attacks on villages perceived to be allied to the rebels. more than 300000 people were killed and over 2000000 displaced in the years that followed the you and described the were as ethnic cleansing, against the tribes here and 20 years on evidence of the we're still remains hundreds of villages across the dock for region were burned during the years of war, in what was known as courts, earth policy, many of those who were able to flee are now in camps, waiting for the implementation of a peace agreement find in 2020, to be able to return home. the deal sign between the government and various rebel groups included compensation for victims upper but some displaced people say other
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issues keep them from returning when it is yet not another catalano for the people who killed us and burns our villagers are still out there in the still aren't, we can't leave the camp without being assaulted by owns men are running into pickups. with loaded guns will, number connecticut, local authorities say security will be provided for those wanting to return. we actually agreed you were peace agreement in the, in the security protocol agreement that we said that do those returns. they must go back to their original village and we have to establish the force to carry out the mission for protect them when they are going back to their original village. after 20 years of displacement, alma wants to return home, but he needs to be sure it is safe. he doesn't want to be forced to leave again. he bo morgan al jazeera on cash. oh north dar for russian forces, continuing their advance in east and ukraine. and moscow back wagner group says
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it's fighters have captured the village of him. a north of backlit fighting has been concentrated around that city for weeks now. sullivan. java reports from the russian capital a town in ruins. while ease of gunfire becoming closer to the center of bus route fighters from russia's wagner group said they have stepped up their attacks from the north and the south of the town of win. here is more symbolic than strategic for russian forces. who have been fighting for months. so my father is doing a chill. guy was a so units of wagner completely captured the village of your head. no. in the norse of buck motes, nice to read a box, a motor as russian forces take more positions and slowly move deeper into east in ukraine. western powers have imposed more sanctions in a move to 0 in on those who help russia to withstand sanctions. the european union has brought in its 10th round of sanctions,
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which target $87.00 individuals and 30 for commercial and legal entities. that's in addition to the latest u. s. export restrictions and sanctions. for russia, the conflict has become an existential issue. because the sheer lucius there on another abuse where globally, when all leading nato countries of declared the aim to inflict a strategic defeat on ourselves, how can we not consider that nuclear capabilities under these circumstances it, they have one goal to divide the former soviet union and the russian federation, and then maybe they will accept us into the so called family of civilized nations, but only separately piece by piece. the rhetoric cars grew chest a didn't previous rounds of sanctions against moscow have not achieved the desired results. as russia has been able to find new allies and markets, and as the rhetoric from both sides of the conflict gets more intense, peace becomes an ever distant possibility. some of injury though, the 0 muscle,
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the leaders of britain and the european union that will hold face to face talks in london on monday in an attempt to finalize a new deal for northern islands, post breaks or trading arrangements. european commission present a seal of on the lion and you k prime minister. wish he soon act say they will meet to discuss a range of complex challenges around the northern island protocol. it allows the region to follow some e laws, so that goods can flow freely over the border to the republic of ireland without checks, london and brussels have been and talks for months to try and ease tre tensions. ah, an update. the main stories are following. now and there's been more bloodshed in the occupied west bank as israel palestinian leaders, how to prevent her further surgeon violence to israeli settlers had been shot dead on a main road in the town of horror just south.
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