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hello, i'm adrian fit again. this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up. seeing ping promise is to make china's military into a great pool of steel. as tension rises with the united states. north korea launches cruise missiles, hours before south korea, and the us begin the biggest military drill in years. ah, science fiction comedy, everything everywhere. all at once makes oscars. history with 7 academy awards. ah. the u. k is finance minister says the british all but the failed american bank s v b has been bought by hsbc holdings. it's the latest attempt to minimize the fall out from the crisis that began when the bank went bust on friday. meanwhile, you as president joe biden is said to address the impact on the banking sector in
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a speech later on monday. the federal government has announced emergency action to shore up deposits and cushioned the financial damage of the biggest bank failure in the country. since 2009 u. s. officials say that they'll also be supporting depositors of signature bank, which was closed by new york regulators on sunday. or sb be mostly provided financial services. the fledgling companies in the tech sector bank claim to support nearly half of all venture back stops in 2022. but after, as phoebe's collapse, many of those start ups are now in trouble. unable to access that funds and facing difficulty, paying salaries of meeting operating costs. as b is also involved in other sectors, it loaned around $4000000000.00 to the wine industry, and now thousands of wineries are locked out of their accounts. meanwhile, in the u. k and the e u that affairs the ripple effects of the f's, phoebe's collapse may spread. u. k. chancellor jeremy hunt is warning of
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a serious risk to domestic tech funds and who collier is the managing director of orient capital research. he says the causes of s b c's. as phoebe's collapse, a clear they were not cautious enough in terms of their risk assessment. they basically focused a lot of their business at a single sector, which was pretty risky, the high tech sector. and they also put a lot of the money, the deposits they received from people into bonds. and when the interest rates went up, far more than people had expected. and the value of those bonds went down. so, and they force a lot of their customers not only to borrow from them, but also to put their money in their bank. so they're basically put all their eggs in one basket. and when that basket exploded, collapse that and they were stuck with bad, bad bank, while biden's can be focusing mainly on the domestic audience. so he's trying to reassure people that they are, they're going to step in and help banks that are in trouble, which they've done very quickly. i mean, it's
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a very effective regulatory system. the united states. ringback that those reassuring remarks may be filtered through to places like the gin. now china is interesting because they don't have a lot of capital in the tech sector in fast a high venture capital areas in china from the west. the last some. but nonetheless, if we, if the beijing it watches very carefully to see what the united states is doing. and if there is some further of fall out in the tech sector in the u. s. then you can be sure that people's bank of china is going to look very carefully at the lending in the tech sector, particularly since for 500000000000 has been ported to semiconductors in the last few years. but most of that money is coming from the state bank. so it's, it's pretty say, china's president, seizing ping, as said the china needs to modernize its military into a great wall of steel. a put security of the economy at the same time as closing speech on the final day of the national people's congress. se was elected as president for a 3rd term last week. the national people's congress has also passed
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a sweeping plan to reorganize the country's institutions. katrina, you and beijing has more on the implications of presidencies speech. this is his 3rd speech a beginning, another term as chinese president in the 1st 2 speeches it was focusing really in would about the chinese dreams. speaking about the chinese people. but this one is very clearly focuses outwards, it looks at china's place in the world and that increasingly challenge environment that china finds itself it. now we spoke a little bit about china's history. he mentioned quite pointedly ton his history suffering at the hands of foreign bullies. he talked about how the communist party rescued china helped to make it a modern nation. and now the focus and the task at hand is really about making china stronger. and he spoke about this in 2 areas. first, when it comes to the economy occurring, china's social economic stability, focusing on innovation, nurturing, new talent. and the 2nd way he spoke about is strengthening china's position. when
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it comes to its secures that he mentioned a quite strong terms. he said that china needs to build this steel great. will to safeguard it, sovereignty debating needs continue to defend the one china principal, especially when it comes to hong kong and taiwan. now this speech i think is a direct response to china is increasingly tense relationship with the united states. and that relationship has really sought to threaten both china's position economically as well as geopolitically. busy economically, washington has place some strong sanctions targeting chinese funds and that's impacted a chinese technology funds as well as that access to the global market. and also, washington has become closer to taiwan, which is really agood aging because aging sees that self hold island as a part of it's territory. and she's jumping himself has said time and time again that that territory will be unified again with china, the peacefully, all through the use of those career straight media says that it's trust fire to
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strategic cruise missiles from a shop marine the latest launches cream, just ahead of planned military exercises by the united states and sharp. on monday, the drills nicknamed freedom shield a sent to last 11 days. north korea calls them preparations for a war of aggression. rama bride reports from sol. according to north korea, state run media, the 2 missiles were loans from a submarine office east coast in the early hours of sunday morning travelling some 1500 kilometer is thought to be the 1st time the north has launched cruise missiles in this way. and it comes as it continues to develop its tactical nuclear arsenal of short range weapon to threaten its name. but principally, south korea. monday sees the start of 11 days of joint military drill between us and south korean forces, which always anger the north. it is very regrettable that north korea is using our
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regular and defensive drills as a protect for provocation. i hope nursery, i realize that there is nothing they can earn from escalating tension on the korean peninsula. these joint drills are largely computer simulated command exercises, but throughout the spring a series of feel drills are planned, involving both us and south korean troops, including and 50th landings and held on the kinds of scale not seen here since 2017 . when again, relations between the north and south were at their most tense in years, the commander ukraine's ground forces said his troops are repelling washing attempts to take the eastern city it backwards. but the situation that is difficult. troops with rushes, var private military group control,
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at least half the city. se the fighting is becoming more intense. the further they advance moscow is made a win in backwards, a strategic and symbolic priority. the these things in less than a week starting from march 6th, we managed to kill more than $1100.00 enemy soldiers in the buckman sector alone, which is russia's irreversible loss. the loss of right there near buck months. furthermore, at least 1500 more enemies sanitary losses. those who can no longer continue fighting place, dozens of units of enemy equipment were destroyed, and more than 10 russian ammunition depots were burned down. they shall know about the situation in bottom, which is tough. very tough and the enemies fighting for every meter in the closer we are to the center of the city, the heart of the fighting. the more the actually is shelling at us, the more tax, the peer and the ukrainians throw in endless reserves. but we are advancing and we will keep advancing gradient. tens of thousands of junior doctors in england have
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become a 3 day strike of the pay and working conditions in the countries national health service. they make up around 40 percent of the medical workforce in the u. k, i'm 0 that the and barbara joins us now from outside. guy is hospital in london that im one of the strikers main demands will agent they have various demands, but the main one, the huge one is pay i should point out to view as that junior doctor's is a label applied to people who have just qualified for medical school right up to people who have maybe 10 years of experience and are neurosurgeons or people running a whole departments responsible for hundreds of patience on a shift. so it's quite varied and they say their, their union, the british medical association says that since 2008 or the failure of pay to keep pace with inflation means they've had a real terms pay cut of 26 percent. so what they're asking together for is
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a rise of 35 percent right now, the current payoff for a pay raise of 8 percent over 4 years that they've had ends this month. they say they are desperate and that their profession is in dire straits. that's because those pay the real turns pay cause or is pushing people out of the job by saying that people who are very, a highly experienced or a qualified m medics ag leaving for places like australia where they can a much more money. they're saying also that that's creating extra strain on them, they're having to work longer hours under more pressure. and they simply are being driven to do this strike which is over 3 days. and they say that the government can afford it. they're disputing what the government says, that the cost will be, the government says it can't go anywhere near what they want. it will be inflationary, and also simply the numbers don't add up. so there is an am pass and the government
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on friday night suddenly said we're willing to talk on pay if you call off the strike. the a union says that's not reasonable. other health unions have actually paused very industrial action recently to enter negotiations that he many thanks and dana, the mother life of christ hospital and the guys in saint thomas hospital in london . andrew madison is a doctor who campaigns for more investment in public health. i mean, dr. andrew meyerson, i am an hfs, a doctor originally from the united states. and i came to the united kingdom about 7 years ago to study medicine. and i decide to stay here because i love the chest. we've seen, you know, a 30 percent reduction in our real terms pay in the last 15 years. basically it means that for a quarter of the year from september to december, we're looking for free. and that's a big issue. that's a huge issue for staff retention. that's why so many people are burning out, or seeing ads for, you know, come to work in australia, come to work and 0. and,
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you know, and we're seeing a lot of our colleagues who are taking those offers to, to work in much better conditions with much better pay down under because it's just, it's just becoming too difficult for community just right now. every, every winter is a bad winter for that for the us. and for the last 10 years we have every single winter. we've been complaining, the government, things are getting worse, waiting times are getting worse, people are coming to harm. and they are being extraordinarily successful in driving people away from the, from the public system, into a, into a to, to your system. where people that can afford it, wealthy people, they can go 60 private, private clinicians and but the rest of everybody else is left to suffer. a good shift nowadays for so many 80 staff is one where nobody dies in our waiting room or dies on the back of an ambulance. every time i see a patient, i apologize for terribly long wait, that they are during and you know, and i speak to them honestly about, you know, the difficulties that we're facing, that we don't have enough staff. we don't have enough resources. and so, you know, we don't want to go on strike, nobody wants to go on strike. but when, you know, for every single year we are, we are screaming to the government, do something,
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and they don't listen. then this is what it's content. when i've gone to, to picket lines, to, to support, you know, whether it's an invalid, cruise, or nurses. it is incredibly invigorating, is horrific as the situation is right now. so many people dying. i'm getting through the pandemic and sing the horrors that we've been through an instinct so awful instead and despairing so much about the state of the natures. this is the one thing that's actually given me hope. still to come here on out to sara. we may palestinians of the occupied westbank who are struggling to survive as the cost of living continues to saw at hard lessons from honduras. why more a 1000000 children could miss out on education this year. ah.
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how i received some rather heavy rain recently into qualon per we got some thunderheads just showing up here, but i think it shouldn't be too bad as we go on through the next few days. i go 79 millimeters frame in 24 hours. so things looking a little dryer as we go on through or choose day and study dry to around those. the flood hit parts of the western side of malaysia. the heavier rain is making its way across border. slipping a little further east was as we go through wednesday, lobby showers to extend their way up into were central and southern parts of the philippines. for indo china edition, re dry with a fair bit of sunshine. fabulous sunshine now across much of australia, but we do still have some live storms rumbling, arrayed just around the top and pushing across sir, good parts of the north. queensland, which was the east coast, eating down towards the sunshine coast now. so circulation here, just off shore, that is a feature to watch for the next day or so. tuesday, it draws in some lively showers into sidney temperatures. here at around 25 celsius,
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it then starts to ease away temperatures in sydney started to pull up. by the time we get to thursday, we could be touching $35.00 celsius. but the weather weather was slowly but surely make its way into new zealand. aah! from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation with no host and no limitation, it leads to the place of color. it was the struggle. here. it would be much easier for me might feel that white people part to if you're in to chad thing a song right in the other people wait a minute, you get where you don't you stop what you're doing and maybe one studio b unscripted on al jazeera lou
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ah, logan. this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the maiden ears. this r u. s. president joe biden says he'll address issues in the banking sector later on monday. that's as the federal government announced action to shore up deposits. a failed silicon valley bank. reassuring customers they will have access to their money. china, as president, seizing pain, as the china needs a great ball of steel to safeguard its sovereignty. as he put the economy and security of the center of his closing speech for national people's congress, ukrainian or russian troops locked in a fierce battle to the eastern city of bar codes, with both sides, claiming that their afflicting heavy enemy casualties. moscow has made a winning buck boost, a strategic and symbolic powers. thousands of public school teachers are expected
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to join a protest in ramallah in the occupied west bank that calling for better pay of working conditions. the raleigh marks the 4th week, a general strike in the occupied west bank for more. let's go live now to ramallah . i'll just seriously dot abraham is so they're forced us. we said it's the 4th week of demonstrations. neither one of these protests is demanding. this is the 4th week of the strike that has been announced, why teachers you're in the occupied was back up to date. thousands of them have gathered here in front of the government's offices, the prime minister's office. as you can see, there are, here are the minister of education was here and they were trying to chat very loudly that their main demand is better pay to have a new allotted teacher's union. now for years historically, we know that the teacher's union has been pro palestinian authority and teachers
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here see that it hasn't been representing their demand. government has said that it will always, the seller is my president visible, but he just here said that they're demanding more. they want the 15 percent, and they say that they've tied previous agreements with the governments that have been respected by this current government. so many calls from the government for the current teachers union, given the, as you'd want to those teachers to go back to school. as far as these people are concerned here, they say they're not coming back until their issues are resolved and their demand. so what is the palestinian government said doing about this? oh, let me tell you what the palestinian authority is doing it. having all of these policeman protect the palestinian prime minister's office,
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the policeman not only here and i'm a law but also elsewhere in the occupied with bag. we've seen checkpoints posted and put up by the palestinian authority and those teachers are saying that it is part of the efforts to prevent them even from coming here. they say that had there been open roads for everyone to come, then they would, we would be seeing more and more palestinian teachers protesting. here though the palestinian government says that it's in a deep financial crisis. it hasn't been paying full salaries for its employees since the last few months of 2021. it's been paying a city in public employees, only 80 percent of their salaries of people here say that they can take care of the budget differently. they can reallocate budget and take care of teachers who are among the lowest paid public employees. i was there as need are abraham reporting live from allah?
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it's been one of the most violent years of palestinians under israeli occupation in more than a decade and in the occupied west bank. when the tension is high, the rising cost of living is making life even harder to hide our reports from ramallah. o. o mom lies the mother of for living in the occupied west bank. she's buying food for her family from ramallah as main food market. fruits and vegetables are slightly cheaper here by many palestinian households. the monthly budget doesn't go that far. no quarter. before the situation in the country now is that there is a bigger divide and social economic classes. and those working in israel adjust, managing the rest of the palestinians, working in the occupied. we spank, especially government employees. they are the ones really struggling. may god be with the him? 26 year old and unemployed though would uh will. he live meets a friend trying to help him get a job in west jerusalem salaries al hire. but israel restricts palestinians from
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entering the city, meaning there are no guarantees and cost of transport to get that is expensive. but outcomes this in the 4 to 5 years being a land broker was more dignified than now. prices are more expensive and there's no money for the home or family. there's nothing, no jobs the economy is struggling and according to the palestinian century bureau of statistics, the only grew by 3.6 percent last year. that's half of 2020 ones growth. now just to give you an idea on the high could prices a tray of x last month, cost $3.00. now they cost almost $6.00. i'm being able to serve me on the dining table is considered a luxury these days. the palestinian, the story he says is taking measures to reduce the cost of the base. the commodities. analysts say if this continues the costs rising, palestinian families are going to struggle to make ends meet. we might even see more protests. ah palestinian authority has told al jazeera plans to spend
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$50000000.00 to pro pot the fuel and flour sexes and fixed prices for some basic goods. they are constrained by the money that is that i am sense to them. they're constrained by less funding from the dollar community, but the sampan. they're expected to manage the economy by increased funding. so they have their constraints. the pandemic war and ukraine in years of economic challenges under israeli occupation have hurts palestinians. israel's withholding of vital tax funds from the palestinian authority means government salaries ought received on time the fund the count for more than 60 percent of its annual revenue . that would was to show us how successful his online business was before being unemployed. i tell him it looks like he has plenty of online follow is. he agrees while showing us his facebook page where he sold her,
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made meals and arabic. coffee. though it may have lost his business because he could no longer afford the ingredients he needed. but he says he hasn't lost hope of finding a new job. so to hide it, al jazeera ramallah in the occupied westbank. at least 8 people have died off for a migrant smuggling. boca boat capsized off the coast of california that happened on saturday night. near the rest city of san diego coast guard somehow suspended the search for missing migrants. it's one of the deadliest maritime incidents of its kind in us waters teaches in honduras the education system is in crisis with $1000000.00 children expected to miss out on schooling this year. policy corruption and poor infrastructure of being blamed on while right below reports. now, from the cows coaching o silence of the northern coast. cheers from school children in the island community of east and the excitement is over the arrival of their teacher.
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fransisco velasquez francisco says there are many challenges associated with going to school on a tiny caribbean island fi fi pressure. mac assembled here. we've had situations that have been difficult to overcome. many of the children who attended school come from a small island that several miles away. and if the seas too rough, it can be difficult to get here in a little there's only one school on coyote casinos. and francisco is the only teacher around here that makes him a pretty big deal, though many are thankful for francisco's dedication parents like but these young who sells seafood to tourists at the seaside restaurant say they wish their children had access to a better quality education. yet they will think, awesome, i have 5 children, some of them have finished school, but others have not because our circumstances didn't allow it. at the store this year, the u. s. government announced $33000000.00 to increase access to education in honduras . part of a broader strategy by the bided administration to address the root causes of
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migration from central america. critics in honduras, however, warned that ramp and government corruption means that foreign assistance too often goes astray, leading teachers without the tools they need to better educate you and they came on that our and the whole. how can teachers carry out everything that's required of them even trying their best is not enough because authorities are ignoring the problem and the less they spend on a vacation, the more that's lost to corruption. that's the sad truth. so up at a lower level, over the years, the alphonso like io school on stand has received significant material support from the nearby gains coach. he knows foundation. still the deficiencies are glaring the fact that these children are able to have an education at all is the result of years of hard work from the local community here in coyote casinos. and the dedicated efforts of one special teacher determined to see the next generation of these islands, residents succeed a little while proper public investment remains
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a distant hope for this community. what they do have is the natural beauty all around, they hope eco tourism can bring in money that can be invested in schooling. and while getting to school on this small caribbean island will never be easy for these children. it seems to be no match for their desire to learn. manuel rap below al jazeera chaos could she knows huntress tropical cyclone. freddy has brought strong winds, heavy rain and flooding to mozambique. at least 28 people have died. tens of thousands of homes of damaged freddy as the southern hemisphere, his longest lasting tropical cyclone on record. the un says that more than half a 1000000 people could face a humanitarian crisis. science fiction comedy, everything everywhere. all at once has won 7 oscars, including best picture of the academy awards and los angeles, the fil, wanted more major categories than any other movie and oscars history. the majority, asian cost of directing team also broke you wrote ground for oscars,
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diversity al jazeera, hydro, castro reports. i can leave you everything everywhere, all at once. one, almost everything everywhere among its 7 prizes best picture. this feels incredible . best director i once you acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents, my father who fell in love with movies because he needs escape the world and thus pass that love of movies on to me. my mother, who is a creative soul, who wanted to be a dancer, an actor and singer, but could not afford the luxury of that life. pat, i don't you best actress making michelle yo, the 1st asian woman to win for all the little boys and girls who look like me watcher to night. this is the beacon of hope and possibilities. and best supporting actress in 1st time oscar winner, jamie lee curtis. ah,
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indian co star key week 11 best supporting actor the 1st to win for an actor of vietnamese ancestry. my journey started on a boat. i spent a year in a refugee tap. and somehow i ended up, you are hollywood big. this stage one was a child star who had quit acting due to the lack of roles were ancient actors ah random frazier also made a tramp and come back after 9 years without a major part. now, winning best actor for his performance in the whale, the german phil all quiet on the western front, one best cinematography and best international feature. while indian films are, are, are to best song beating out competition from both lady gaga and rhianna. what our team has done yet, i'm trying to being dead on college over. you know what i did?
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it was in bed on a songs and don don says and did one odd form, you know what to do to all other parts of the world. and you know, entertaining them. some of the drama took place even before the ceremony as the stars arrived on the card. and notably this year was not read. it is champagne colored the 1st time when 62 years of oscars, history. and in another fresh twist acceptance speeches were posted to social media and audience is invited to interact by scanning q r. codes displayed on their screens. unlike some recent years, the night was free of fiascos with producers hoping the celebration of the craft of cinema alone was enough to draw audiences. heidi joe castro, al jazeera los angeles. ah, it's good to have you with a solo.

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