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lacking in asia, in africa, there'd be days where i'd be choosing and editing my iron stories in a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now where confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problem is together. that's why they are so important. we make those connections. ah, a major fire destroys thousands of shouts, isn't or hinder refugee camp in bangladesh. ah, hello, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera alarm from zone also coming up to ron that
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says it's investigating more apparent poisoning of female students in schools around the country. outrage on the streets of athens protested in greece, demand accountability for trade collision, but left $57.00 people dead plus a ship has reached michelle. ah, off the years of negotiations, countries more round the world agree on the 1st treaty to protect the high seas. ah, a major fire has engulfed or hanging refugee camp in bangladesh and estimated 12000 people have been left without shelter. the cause is not yet clear, no casualties have been reported. the blaze broke out in the, by the cowley camp in cox's bazaar in the southeast of the country, and their charge reports from the comp. oh, this is not the 1st time this ringo had been forced from their homes. years ago,
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the flat oppression in me unmarked. ah, no, i made your fire at cox's bazaar, a refugee camp in bangladesh has again left thousands without roof over their heads . in this 3 comes with the while happen around 100000. if you use on the bang and 50 percent of them are children, eunice, to find the partners we are on the ground. and we are trying to meet that immediate and i can meet all of those dramatize children and their families. ah, firefighters and volunteers were able to get the plays under cont, but by then there has been extensive damage. aid groups have been distributing water and basic necessities, but it's not clear whether those left without homes will find shelter. cox's bizarre is home to more than a 1000000 drawing or refugees. i can't this size with so many living and cramped condition makes fires like this. difficult to avoid. yeah,
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now i have to buy shot. i have 7 children. when the fire broke out, i couldn't find all of them on there. i went to search for the others, but couldn't find them all. when i, when i returned home, i had all my belongings were burnt, i thought, but i have nothing left. my alert on the 2nd i had taken my mother to see the doctor. when it came back, everything was on fire. we couldn't save any of our belongings. ah, hundreds of thousands of rowing are fled a military crack down in myanmar that began in 2017 years later. it still isn't safe for them to return. while the fire conforms conditions in the refugee camps are dangerous, those are living here have nowhere else to go. sandwich audrey, i'll visit our talk josh regina to the potty or his the you and hcr communications officer in cox's bazaar. she explains what the organization has done to control fires in ringo camps. we've taken several of them. the 1st thing is that we've
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trained thousands of refugees to respond to fires. and this is a lot of training that has gone into and today we saw them in action. we saw safety uni volunteer from across the camp. go to camp 11, where the fire started and respond to the fire. and because they were there, there managed to evacuate the people we've managed to evacuate health facilities. they managed to contain the fire, with the support then of the local fire brigade that then came in to support them. but they were the 1st on the ground. and another thing we did recently, we created 3 wheeler fire fighting vehicles. and this is super important like little the hope that allow us to reach the difficult congested area. and this has been provided by you and hcr with our partner and 16 of the vehicle were able to deploy quickly to the camp to mitigate the fire. we're talking about one 3rd of this particular population who lost their homes and they again,
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all their belongings. everything in a fire, so it's an additional trauma. what we're doing right now is we've deployed 90 community health workers. these are also refugees who have been trained to provide 1st aid, but also for psycho social support age. and if somebody needs for, or they're then referred, this was for colleges and different types of services to deal with this mental trauma. that means again, everything they owned, aaron's education minister has apologized following a wave of suspected poisonings in schools targeting female students. you sift norie, it says the government is investigating the cases when a 2nd wave of gas attacks and schools led to more than $300.00 girls hospitalized on saturday. hundreds more have been admitted to hospital since november. people have been protesting over the unexplained incidents as incur 1st, i apologize for what's happening and their parents got worried mom,
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what we were waiting to receive the results of tests, the one that is we totally understand parents concern on you and we seriously followed the issue we have formed emergency committees through it in the education ministry with entre meanwhile, students recovering and hospital described what happened then garage really was p e class, but no one showed up. when we went to the hall, we smelled something lap athey willis. ha ha, my stomach burned and i was blacking out. i to have the students all felt the same symptoms as me. they had coughed. some of them said their eyes burned and most of them were scared. sarah, i am. a building has collapsed in the city of shania for in the south eastern turkey. here, the structure was damaged during last month. earthquakes and had been evacuated. rescue teams had been working at the scene. teresa bow reports from on the other
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were here in the center of the city of san louis. this is a solvent, eastern turkey where a 63 building has collapse right here in the center of the city. it had been previously damaged during the earthquakes that happened in february. and now it collapsed. it's not clear yet why this building had been cleared. it had been cordoned, mostly because it was one of the building that was going to be demolished in the city around $2500.00 buildings were expecting to be demolished after the earthquake, and this one simply collapsed. the government has santini, search and rescue teams. we do know that one person was injured, but it's not clear yet whether people have been trapped underneath the rebels to hopefully this area had been already been evacuated, but still, the government wants to make sure. and that's why search and rescue teams are here right now. there's hundreds of thousands of buildings that either collapsed or were severely damaged during the earthquakes,
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and that's why the government is moving forward, trying to demolish them, trying to clear the rival from the center of the city. they have been warning people to stay away from building such as this one because there's been lots of cases where people go inside to pick up some of their belongings. then there is an after shot or another earthquake. the buildings collapsed and people have been trapped inside and many have lost their lives. so there's lots of tension on the ground, lots of anguish, because people here in a way reminds them of what happened of the earthquakes that happened one months ago . that is, how will, how's your feet? i shall notify you. now, there's been fighting between police and protested and central athens following a fatal train crash that left the 57 people dead. demonstrators blame the government for the poor condition of the national rail system or a force. it has more outrage after greece's worst, have a train crash exploded into violence again on sunday, some among the thousands protested in central athens through fire bombs and rocks.
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police whose tear gas the unrest is broken out around the country since a collision between 2 trains on tuesday, $57.00 people were killed. rail work as have been staging, rotating strikes, angry at what they say is under investment and poor safety infrastructure. earlier the protest is launched, hundreds of black balloons to commemorate the dead. prosecutors have charged the station master for allowing the passenger train on the same track as an oncoming freight train, but many in the country blame and under resourced aging rail network. some additional ah, they just stopped looking at the profits and start looking at the lives of people are children. this must never happen again. we shouldn't be afraid to put our children on our country's metro and trains. but further on, despite the continuous warnings of the workers, there was criminal indifference by those responsible to our requests of the safety
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system. and that is what led to this tragic accident. the scale of this accident has horrified the country. on sunday, the prime minister apologized and said a long delayed remote signaling system would have made the disaster in practice impossible. about a few kilometers north along the track. people gathered to remember those killed 5 days on from this tragedy across the country. the grief and anger remain rule harry for sit al jazeera ah, the soldiers returning from the front lines of eastern ukraine continue to the treatment for their physical wounds. for the world health organization says doctors must prioritize their mental health 2 or the other. any reports from keith, so it's a daily struggle giving his every effort to get back on his feet. it's been 8
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months since alexander sustained the cervical spine. injury in an air strike in the southern region of south of it happened on ukraine's independence day. oh got on a cruise he, i was at a military hospital to check my eyes when it came under attack with cluster bombs, the school, 3 pieces of shrapnel, fluent to my back. it is hard. when i came here i can only move my toes to do that . i needed to push myself so hardy. oh yeah. now i'm trying to walk with crutches with an untold number of ukrainian soldiers have been seriously wounded in combat. loss of limb is one of the main injuries also among civilians. the exact numbers classified by the ministry of defense, but one estimate says it's happened to over 10000 ukrainians, mostly soldiers at the without limits rehabilitation center and keep therapist say,
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demand for prosthetics is very high. creating a mold is the 1st step into making a prosthetics. and then the patient will have to go through rehabilitation. that psychologist say that mental health needs to be given equal attention. veteran heart provide support for active soldiers through a network of mental health workers like our tim who also fought in the eastern dumbass region. i was shocked. i was working with his guys after a year i became this guy. and oh, and i was so surprised how easy it could be. i forget about my life. i forget, forgot that i am psychotherapy, the psychotherapist for a year. and them i came back because i had this opportunity and i was like, wow, order one unless should a socially loo roman called his neat, has put his carry as a professional athlete and pulls him when he enrolled in the as of battalion. he
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lost spite of his right leg, but is glad that he survived. he is now fighting the urge to return to the combat zone yonder, but of course, learned i think about it every day with others, all but after i saw what my relatives went through, i can't, i can give them more pain that the ship, it was harder for them than he was for me when i change it, i will make my dreams come true to you. i want to become world champion, mixed martial arts, and i'm going for it. i'm go about 70 percent of soldiers return to active service after treatment. once the hostilities end ukraine will have to deal with the long term impact of war on the visible and invisible injuries on its people. that the damages iraqi into his ear. thousands of opposition supports as have defied an official protest band of the some of their leaders were arrested
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demonstrators broke through police barrier in the capital tunis. they're demanding that present case said steps down, protest to say the president has reduced their freedoms and caused widespread economic problems. why not? yeah, i, i think our current situation is bad. why does the president say that everything is available, but in reality there's nothing. i'm telling you there is nothing available in the markets, not just sugar or cooking oil, but everything. we live in fear. when chi isiah gives a speech, i'm afraid, do you know why he does not reassure us? and his speeches are frightening and he divides this a lot of homelessness. and we haven't experienced this kind of situation before. as i lifted the period of book keeper and ben r lee, the situation is unprecedented in terms of freedoms or number of opposition. figures have been detained in recent weeks. the rest saw the latest in a series of moves by the president to silence his critics. in july 2021, the chi side sacked his government and froze parliament. his opponents accused him
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of staging. a qu about september he gave himself power to rule by decree, allowing him to appoint cabinet members, set policy in suspend parts of the constitution. and for every last year side that dissolved an independent judiciary council for the changes to some of his actions. and in july, a new constitution formerly granted him sweeping powers, passed in a referendum which opposition part is described as a legitimate or cider and you see is a former member of it in his, his parliament. she believes the protest movement in the country is growing. what it say is new in engine is in terms of opposition to the president is actually to the popularity of their movements. today is the 2nd day of demonstration i yesterday was also a very, very big and, and an intense day of protesting. you know that they will be all right, you know that it was fresh in today's. ready actually being at bonds and beaten by
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the governor, authorities in chinese, conic for economy. we are calling or a social reforms are calling for inflation and controlled by the states. they are also very concrete. i would say demands a coming from the streets today or so to come hair on al jazeera, the u. s. president joins right sack to this in alabama to mount lee 58 anniversary of the sunday fishermen in the philippines. describe how an oil spill is damaging their livelihoods. ah, ah. hello, the weather remains very hot for south eastern parts of the u. s. sober towards
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west though. yep. i'm afraid there is still some snow in the forecast more that's come. we got these areas of low pressure just running in to the west coast. northern parts of california particular still seeing some rain and snow struggling to get around 11 degrees celsius. they're in san francisco, a 14 and ally. it should be dry, fine, and settled, but it should be getting into the low twenty's now. so still on the cool side some when she whether the to turn to where western parts of canada some snow sliding across the mountain states over towards the lakes. adel drift further east was as we go on through tuesday, 7 celsius in new york, a little disappointed, but it should be largely dry clean wesley wind coming through here. chapter one, a 2 were sleepy showers. just stop steak, some snow. they're just pushing into the northern plains as we go back into choose dance, sign to some wet to weather few shells across the deep south, just a few showers to enter the caribbean over the next couple of days. for the most part, it is fine. dry, sunny and warm,
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pleasantly warm temperatures in kingston getting up to 31 degrees. similar temperature too, for havana always a chance of wanted to shout over to was the western side of the region, particularly costa rica. ah, a legacy of southern africa, colonial history family. a blend of traditional music with western instrument i born in the villages of this little now echoes in apartheid disused mines where a new illegal gold rush has taken home. has organized crime, gangs battle for control of this lucrative industry feuds that started in song too often and in bloodshed. the accordion was honored. jazeera lou .
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ah, but are you watching out here? amanda? of our top stories now. a major fire has engulfed or hunger, refugee camp in bangladesh. he broke out in that battle collie count and cox, his bizarre in the south east of the country, and estimated 12000 people who left without shelter. ron's education minister has apologized for the weight of suspected poisoning schools targeting female students vary says the government is investigating the cases. second wave of gas attacks and schools to put more than 300 girls hospital on saturday. thousands of opposition supporters have defy the protest. bad and to miss, yet after some of their leaders were arrested, demonstrated in the capital chinese on demanding present east side stepped down
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u. s. press and joe biden is in selma, alabama to mount the 50th anniversary of the state troopers attack on civil rights protest. as in the city, he walked across the edmond pettus bridge, where marches were attacked with clubs and tear gas. in 1965 widens trip is aimed at underscore, and his commitment to black voters is also campaigning for voting rights. legislation that is stalled in the republican controlled congress. i come here, come, admiration, not for show, shall my direct any right to vote. right to bo dab your bo county is the threshold of democracy, liberty. was it anything is possible without it? without that right, nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. conservative supreme court as good at the voting rights act over the years. since
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the 2020 election a wave of states and doesn't, doesn't have an i voting hawes fuel by the big law. and the election and ires now elected to office was he had returns, he joins us now live from washington d. c. so what was the overall fame and tone of his speech? then it was really interesting. we were told to expect a very somber re dedication to the fight for legislative protections against attempts by southern states in particular to try and restrict black voters, rac sessing, accessing the ballot as i was bite and suggested that in fact, it was the violence on the admin pettus bridge is thought to capitalize the nation . capitalized lawmakers fight for legislative protections against attempts by southern states in particular to try and restrict black voters, rac sessing,
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accessing the ballot as i was by and suggested that in fact, it was the violence on the admin. pettus bridge is thought to capitalize the nation, capitalized lawmakers to pass the voting rights act in 1965, which introduced safeguards to prevent the old confederate states for restricting about access to african americans. but over the last several years, the supreme court has been gusting it the right wing, lead supreme court have been gutting or the, or the various provisions on there. so there's been this movement to get that. there's 2 bills that are stored in congress, but they were sold in congress when the democrats controlled congress to do. and what was interesting was he didn't spend much time talking about the voting rights actors. most of the speech actually sounds like a campaign speech. he was talking about what he has achieved while being president the infrastructure tract, the other legislation he's passed. he was even like boasting about how great he looked at the state of the union address when he dealt with republican hackles. let's get the job done. it sounded like a campaign speech. frankly,
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he hasn't declared yet whether he is running for president in the next presidential election. he's widely expected to, but it is about the constituency of african american voters of a certain age. many of them remember the civil rights movement, particularly clearly who are his funded mental basin. it was clearly an appeal to them to, to stick with him. and she have given what you say, then what has it present biden's record being on race issues while in office that's the point. i mean when he was a candid of biden, the primaries actually dedicated primaries in 2020. he gave a speech on this day in summer, alabama, pledging to pass that legislation, which he failed to do, even though the democrats control congress. and this wasn't just a matter of not getting the republican vote so sorry, he didn't get the democratic vote. and he's own party to come for the bus to potentially so it was seen as a normal failure. and even those civil rights leaders like the reverend al sharpton who very much in the tank with bite and expression disappointment,
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the bible didn't do enough to push legislation through about shops and saying he's disappointed in bite. because of that, you can bet there's a little disappointing, but let alone the why to the why the civil rights community and. and so having said that, their generation of african american lady is still thought to be in with, with biden, whereby, and has more of a problem days with a younger generation of civil rights leaders. activists while exactly frilled by of arrange a bible policies on public and other things. but specifically, how biden's pivoted from the black lives matter movement. dude, which was talking about, you know, fundamental reforms in the way, black communities, our communities are policed by, does go tough on crime again. and so it was talked about refunding the police fleming ever more money on a, on a, on a police force and institution which is widely seen as systemically races she ever can see in washington dc life. first, there thank you to the philippines now where thousands of fishermen have been told to stay on land as coast guards. race to contain a huge oil spill. a slick from
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a tank that sunk with hundreds of thousands of liters of fuel on board has reached several coastal towns or from the island of oriental mineral bonnie below reports that notable arrows in her family have hardly been able to sleep for nearly a week. i live in the coast of paula in one of several towns where oil from a sucking tinker has washed ashore. muscles look how come he sat on the smell makes us want to vomit. our heads hurt and we've also been coughing. it's been especially harder. my 15 year old child on tuesday, a ship carrying $800000.00 leaders of unrefined oil, suffered the engine trouble and sunk off min doro, in the central philippines, the spill has reached a neighboring island and could drift even farther. if it isn't contained, the water is around here are some of the most was seen in the philippines. a number of areas are marine protected, which means even busy is it allowed. but at the moment, as you can see,
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water along this course is black. 53 year old manuel, i said better has been a fisherman almost all his life. but all he can do now is look out to the sea. fishing has been banned indefinitely and it's already taking a toll and his livelihood. in that for a while. and sarah, we don't know how we would be able to make and smith and especially because we have children who go to scramble. all they can do now is help coast guards clean up the beaches. so they might be able to get to see quicker. but they say the pollution is getting worse by the day. bad mcglenn is more, i may after we clean up, they'll come again. especially when the waves are high. we clean non stop. they come non stop. the government has promised to provide aid. but those who are being affected say was they appreciate any help that could tie them over what they really want is to have their way of life back as soon as possible. barnes below al jazeera
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oriental min, dora the philippines after 15 years of talk. so united nations has finally agreed on historic treaty to protect the world's high seas. and waters are currently beyond the control of nations and not subject to any laws. victoria getting reports . nissan gentlemen. the ship has reached the shawl celebrations at the un. after 50 years of negotiation with ambassador the ocean denounces a deal. the un high seas treaty will designate 30 percent of the world's oceans as protected areas by 2030 fishing and shipping lanes will be restricted and move funding provided for marine conservation. this is the treaty, no one knew was really going to land. and last night it did. and that's a testament to really, really hard work. i very dedicated individuals over an unprecedented session is by
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no one that went over 48 hours. so that's why i just want to celebrate enders. sure, there's hard work ahead i and unclear pat there'll be speed bumps but so we've just had a really big when only one percent of the wealth international waters is currently protected. most marine life is threatened by climate change over fishing and shipping activist describe this agreement as a breakthrough and design that in a divided world. protecting nature can triumph over geo politics. this is an enormously important outcome for the well, it provides an opportunity for us to better manage and, and raise your late environmentally hon. collectivity in the, for nearly, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, that falls the, our national jurisdiction, the high seas. this has implications for all of us all around the world. the treaty will now be studied by louis and translated into the un 6 official languages before
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being formally adopted, victoria gay to be al jazeera, the pan african, the film, and t v festival has been celebrating the continents movie industry, latino faces capital. we're going to go with a similar across africa going through a revival because hawk looks at the winners of a golden study. ash county is the dark tunisian thriller. it follows 2 police officers when from the old regime the other from after the revolution, both searching for the reasons behind a series of immolation. the film is this year's winner of the main prize of the pan african film and television festival held in brookings classes. capital walker duke . the jury recognized a powerful film that offered a settled critique of, can you just struggle after the arab spring? over $170.00 films and 11 categories were in competition among them, a moroccan movie, exploring the shame of same sex love,
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a drama treating survivors of rape in brooklyn, fossil, or a musical from cameroon. looking at neo colonialism and its denial. this film director is the window of the response, has been prize. he says the festival is a chance to put on the big screen, the head in realities of african societies. through fiction. dream is to do that film that goes beyond culture or be beyond your own cultural and facebook having given us an opportunity to showcase this film. yet many got to be seen by many more people. different cultures, cinemas, in africa were shutting down because of a lack of state funding, but private investment in a growing middle class is changing that.

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