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a holy land speed is beyond lads. in my 27 years of lab, i've never seen something like this. one median of nearly 4000000 seating refugees living in turkey, bought into probus off graziano. many of those west cape, the city of steven ward has spent more than 4 years in refugee camps in turkey. some of them need to be at modest homes, but many are now back, where they started, more than a decade listed with war has killed for this. please, many serious millions of them fled to turkey and looking for safety. it wasn't easy to begin a new life. now, what could have pekin, what they built here in the year seems, and they would have to start from scratch. oh, a pallet quick hit southern ecuador. at least 12 people are killed and many others
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are trapped under rubble. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is on a 0 live from doha. also coming up for my u. s. president. donald trump claims he will soon be arrested a cause and his support is to take to the streets. 20 years off of the us led invasion of iraq. we look at how disinclination from washington to damage the united nations and the boot of, nor around the world. i'm scientists reveal the chemistry behind the thick haze that covers much of new delhi. each with of these 12 people have been killed in ecuador and peru, often a strong earthquake hit off the regions coast. the magnitude 6.8 trema was sent an 80 kilometer south of ecuador, 2nd largest city. why a key number of buildings have collapsed and lance lives have blocked multiple
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roads. several people also believe to be trapped under rubble in the coastal state of a lot. all the trauma was felt as far as northern peru. a court in pakistan's capital has counselled former prime minister in one cons arrest warrants. his support has clashed with police outside the court and is not a bad and outside his home in the hall. the case with a gen and con was ordered to reappear at a hearing on march 30th. he faces a number of legal cases, which he says are politically motivated in the hall. meanwhile, police entered the home of the former prime minister, breaking through the front gate as officers and his supporters clashed in the street. at least 60 arrests were made. authorities say a search of the property revealed weapons and a large amount of ammunition come, i'll hide it as more from islam about budget on poor little girl. joyce k, sometimes not made. the ballad bulk and iran con, had so many cases against him which showed that the government is determined to
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jail him, to nail him somehow or the other. primarily because of the rising popularity and the opposition between the budget on democratic alliance and m. ron font party is one of the most popular leaders in the country. however, with all the case against them that are feared that the government wants to marginalize him by have disqualify him whatever matter did, according to him on con, to nullify him so that they can have a clean sweep at the elections which are due and upon job on the 3rd year and then reduce the country the national election and october george, very difficult to say whether m, ron hon, will be able to show why the storm, certainly determined. he had been determined and had always said that he's willing to go to any limit in order to try and achieve objectives. and of course,
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he's always been saying that he wanted it done peacefully. constitutionally former us president donald trump says he expects to be arrested on tuesday. he made the remark on his truth social media site from cited what he called illegal leaks from the manhattan district attorney's office. we call them his supporters to protest a . 2 not going anywhere with our great president, donald j. o. my county has moved from washington d. c. trumpeters, referring to a case that has been ongoing in new york. there has been a grand jury hearing into hush money paid to, to a woman one, a former porn star. this money was allegedly paid by tram, through an intermediary,
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and to get them to keep quiet about having had sexual relations with him in the past. now trumps, then attorney michael cohen has appeared before the grand jury. and although grand jury proceedings are secret, cohen has stated publicly that he orchestrated the payment to, to women in order to keep them quiet about having had sexual relations with trump. now the significance of this is it's timing because the payments were made during the campaign period before the 2016 election. and what the grand jury has been deciding on is whether this was, in fact, a contravention of campaign funding laws, which is a criminal act. now the, the new york district attorney has given trump the opportunity to appear before that grand jury that was a week ago. and that normally does precede some form of indictment in this particular case. so this is what trump is referring to,
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no confirmation whatsoever from any other source. in fact, trumps and spokesperson confirms that this is from what trump calls illegal leaks. there has been no official notification whatsoever. now sunday marks 20 years since the start of operation iraqi freedom. the us led invasion that toppled saddam hussein. the military operation was launched without un support on like the 1st gulf war or the invasion of afghanistan. our diplomatic editor james base looks at how the invasion damage the credibility of the united nations un weapons inspectors in iraq, their job to track down the countries chemical and biological weapons. we now know the wound tourney, a former iraq, he rule of saddam hussein that ceased his w. m. d, program years earlier, but in 2003, you as president, george bush was backed by the british prime minister. tony blair was saying he was hiding a huge stock pile. and they claimed they had the intelligence to prove it. the u. s
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. secretary of state colin powell now known to have been privately skeptical himself, tried to make the case in the security council, even wielding a vile. he said could be anthrax about this. the u. s. and u. k. bitterly opposed by much of the international community, including france and germany, failed to get a security council resolution to authorize a war they launched one anyway. in the aftermath, one british diplomat who worked as his country's expert on iraq in the security council resigned. do you think the united nations ended up damaged or strengthened by the war 20 years ago? and i think without doubt, it was damaged by the 2nd general at the united nations. didn't assert his authority to say that the war was the legal and should not happen. which later, he admitted, and i think collectively the quote unquote un, this sense of a global community of nations. a sense of a share set of rules took
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a very big hit as a result in iraq or so where does that leave things now? 20 years on. once again, the security council is deeply divided and there's no doubt that the invasion of ukraine by russia, a permanent member, was a breach of international law and of the un charter. but western diplomats, when you speak to them privately, will tell you that their efforts to put pressure on moscow or even now hindered by the memory of what happened 2 decades ago. the run up to the war in iraq in 2003 was marked by defiance and disinformation, resulting in deep damage to the un system and the rule of law around the world. so much may have changed since, but the repercussions of events that haunted the you and then a still being felt. james bays al jazeera at the united nations in the democratic republic of congo attacks by the m 23 rebel group have displaced more than 800000
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people since last march. the crew. why do believe we backed by rolanda continues to seize territory in the east despite regional efforts to environments. malcolm web reports from the city of gama. josephine one meaning and seed a breeder. those told us their husbands were killed when the n 23 armed group attacked their villages. many people in this camp on the outskirts of goma tell similar stories. josephine says she went back to her village last week and found her husband dead among about 30 men who were killed with machetes and left barely buried in shallow graves in the runs and draw em. 23 killed him, one as we were running away, they caught us and separated the men from the women. many men were taken by the m 23 in the bush. most of them were killed, and my husband was among them. democratic republic of congo, his army says its fighting rwandan soldiers under the guise of end 23 wonders
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widely understood to back the armed group where they were wended, denies it. the army has failed to stop and 23. the grounds. the, the many people here question why the government hasn't done more than 43 times 10 years ago. but at the time they had some international military support. busy rwanda with sanction this time in east african regional forces meant to help the indian soldiers of the latest to arrive. that is not clear if any of the countries contributing troops did not have the political will or the resources you got to fight and $23.00 or even were wanda. here in congress general constance fema is the 3rd commander to take over condos, military operation in less than a year, just as a regional deadline for m. 23 to withdraw is due to expire. your
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opposition in the bio was attacked earlier today. this is why we have to repeat that we still have multiple violations of police by m 23, blame the congo. 4th is for breaking the ceasefire and denies committing atrocities . in spite of mounting evidence, there are growing reports of mass killings and rapes from the hundreds of thousands of new arrivals in the camps. but city says her husband was trying to protect their herd of castle last month when m. 23 fighters tried to forcibly recruit him and killed him when he refused. unable to say, did he say about jenny? she says we, i need help with suffering. and we can't go back to our farm until i was good enough. and she recalled all that she's lost. fred, malcolm web al jazeera, goma democratic republic of congo to nigeria. now where vote counting is underway
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in the countries state elections. voters are electing more than $900.00 assembly lawmakers and $28.00 governors. final results are expected on monday amended rates reports now from connor o is voting comes to a close at this polling station, incatel a plan to scuttle the election is set in motion. the police quickly stepped in to restore order at another pulling center and attempted to supper. voting was quickly brought under control for many voters. this election for state, governors, and assemblies is more important than that for the prosperity. a level of government that is closes to the people. and it is also important because a separate adventure system of government in which a good deal of power lay on the office of the executive,
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banners and intimidation have been reported elsewhere in the country. but the use of electronic voting machines let to less destruction than in the elections in february. then i brought a commissioned sales coating has been largely successful and most of the grants a states. now generally, what many people is biggest concern is about one on one of those. i noticed in the next few days, especially, i've dealt with lawson. security was kept up for the vote. this did i, did you have on the ground is enough to check commit any until what go below and any possible pd contest. good out. am i devising him to changes my head of the vote technical glitches during the presidential election at february had raised concerns about the ability of the electoral empire to conduct a free and credible governorship election. they have lied to live in the address.
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so things are going smoothly, but it's pulling centers. water stayed away after several people were killed in the elections 3 weeks ago. and some were concerned that that could happen. result for the governorship election. i expected by monday, and many people are waiting to see whether the streets remain calm after the analyst decrease. i'll just either come nigeria time for a short break here in al jazeera when we come back and wait at a military base in bogota to meet some of columbia's 1st female army recruits more than 2 decades. and how an ongoing heat wave and seating suck water coming off marine life must radio or not stay with the law. will the law win with neither side, willing to negotiate is the ukraine war becoming a forever war?
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is america's global leadership, increasingly fragile. what will us politics look like as we had to the presidential election of 2024. the quizzical look. good us politics. the bottom line on counting the calls will borton's new plan to bring people back into the workforce help. we can make right good. the collapse of silicon valley bank mino rethink on interest rights plus australia wants to create a new fleet of nuclear power. stop the massive price counts the cost on al jazeera, but it hasn't been done before. it can be done even better. as long as a human being is doing it, you can do it, no matter how you possibly it looks. it's you to putting the effort to put in the lock and you will have to be patient with me. i am the cup of tea and a sales in me a so continued kenya and them were so at the assistance which we are the only i so key team in eastern central africa b as b. i francois focusing 3 a well,
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he had managed to play in some international games. then when kobe gimme the extreme was closed. and it's the only ice rink in the country. ah, ah, welcome back, i picked them out of the top stories here. there's a court in pakistan's capital has cancelled my prime minister in when comes arrest warrants is supporters with police outside the court in islamabad in order to reappear at a hearing on march 30th for you as president, donald trump says he expects to be arrested on tuesday, in a case linked to a payment made to form our own style, stormy daniels from socket. what he called illegal leaks is called in to supporters
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to protest. and he's 13 people have been killed after a strong earthquake hit the coast of ecuador, the magnitude 6.8 tremor or centered south of the 2nd largest city. wacky number of buildings collapsed with a moron. this, let's talk to j go. gomez, colorado. he's a journalist, joins us live from quito. so take this was a pretty strong earthquake that hit the south of the country. what more can you tell us about the extent of the damage and the casualties? i. first of all, it's a pleasure to be here with you all. yes, i live in the capital city where the earthquake was felt quite strongly, but not as much as we expected after you heard the news. and it's in the southern part of the, of the country in coastal city of below, very close to way and, and there's big city and when, gosh, and there's been a couple of people that are injured. and there's been also reports of some people dying as well. and dead, or are you getting into more details about what's happening and why a key,
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which is of course, the 2nd largest city in the country and other towns near there that have been effected? what are official that emergency services saying? yes, the national risk secretary and their twitter account has just informed us that there are 4 people that have said the passed away. there's an injured person. there's 3 schools that are have been affected by very quick and a couple of homes that have been destroyed. we're getting these official reports and extra officially, we receive them social networks and twitter that people are taking videos of what happened there, cities. yeah, and you talk about a, how much of this information coming out about the damage that is coming from social media as people report what's happening and tell their stories? i guess like everything in the modern world, the people have the information that we're getting right now is through social media, just the media nature of people being able to be on twitter just gives us information that is happening. but i mean, it, we've received some heroine for digital videos that have some destroyed people,
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some cars that unfortunately were destroyed by them, and some people that were buried under those cars. they got just a final thoughts you. i mean, ecuador is a country that's preowned earthquakes. there was that big earthquake back in 2016 that killed a 600 people. how well prepared is the come for the deal with these big natural disasters. i think they see radically after years quick people are much more prepared. we know what to do. we have the precautions in place. however, the country institutionally is not prepared for one of these big magnitude events. the government does not provide the sufficient resources for us to be ready and if disaster like it happened in 2016, i do not think that we will be very prepared and we will see similar images. it happens again. dig gomez colorado many thanks for your time. so thank you for talking to 0. thank you very much. not women in columbia canal unless for voluntary military service after being banned for decades around $5000.00 women are
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expected to join up this year. many of them hoping to lead to a professional career in the army. allison rum, petty met some of the 1st batch of recruits at a military base in the capital border. her early morning military drills by these new female recruits. there, among the 1st $1300.00 women to voluntary enlisting colonial army in more than 2 decades, are the physical exercises are grueling and the hours long. but they say they're up for the challenge and happy to be able to serve law as enough underneath that. it's a tremendous opportunity. we have the same abilities as men and the physical requirements of the same. we expect no preferential treatment for being women. it fills me with pride that we are eligible for service once again for those like men here, duma, barry says she always wanted to be a soldier, but lack the money to pay for a military academy. she hopes this will be a gateway to achieve it. some risk pursuing
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a professional career is too expensive for many, but now we have an opportunity to be here and do what we always wanted, wear the uniform and serve our country. recruits were received 3 months of training here before being assigned to a base across the country, earning a monthly stipend of about $80.00. oh yes, any albert, he says she entered the program to help her mother and siblings and understands the dangers of serving in a country. still plagued by rebel groups and drug mafias. think there is on as those fed up with the risks are high, but that's why we have a chain of command and we are being trained for whatever we will have to face in the future. women lee cut just one percent of the country's $240000.00 soldiers and columbia seal relies on drafting $50000.00 men every year into compulsory military service. the overwhelming majority of them come from poor families, while wealthier colombians pay to avoid it. something the government is planning to
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change. president gustavo pet that is trying to eliminate compulsory military service, allowing young recruits to choose social services instead, while increasing the number of both professional and volunteers, including women willingly thought a lot of weight is increasing the number of women and the army changes the culture of the institution and the idea is to rely on the more different activities security defense where they can contribute a lot. columbia planning to enlist at least 5000 women in 2023 alone strengthening their role and working to diversify and evolving force. allison and beauty and dizzy trouble with that, israelis have taken to the streets and the 11th straight week of protests against government plans the curb, the supreme court's powers. critic. see the plan as a threat to judicial independence is those leaders and retired military leaders have joined the rallies. president isaak, hertzog,
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as appealed for the policy. b. postpone survey on kosovo, have reached a partial agreement and normalizing relations. so being president alexander voucher, cham cost of a prime minister album cutty said they'll take steps to implement an e. u. batch deal. kosovo declared independence in 2008. but serbia refused to recognize the split. eavesdropped. dip about described the talks as difficult. thirty's foreign minister has met with his egyptian counterpart in cairo and the 1st official visit by turkish delegation in more than 10 years. my blood cover, hsu lu, announced the 2 countries will work to restore diplomatic ties and at the precedence of countries will soon meet the nations between turkey and egypt splintered back in 2013 after the gypsy military overthrew. democratically elected president, mom and more c, would been a turkish alive. now hungry says it will agree to finland's nato membership. a vote is scheduled for parliament to ratify things based on march 27th. it says
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a decision on sweden will be made at a later date. later, members hungry and turkey. i've been holding back approval for the countries to join the defense block since last july. australia's new south wales is dealing with the largest number of fish deaths on record. millions of dead fish of washed up near a major river. west of sydney. authorities say an ongoing heat wave and receding flood waters, partly to blame nor calm before this white blanket and dawning river is made up of millions of dead fish. the rotting remains of maley. breen caught him perch a clogging australia's 2nd longest rhythm and disrupting the lives of people in the small town of men. indeed, are you walking around into a draw up medicine and near smelling as putrid smell, and it sets of terrible smell and horrible to say, all those dead fish, local authorities say unusually hot weather has led to a lot our go bloom in the rivers. this coupled with receding flood waters and
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drying riverbeds have starved fish of oxygen. in a statement, the new southwell state department says the hot weather is exacerbating hypoxia. as warmer water holds less oxygen, the cold water, the fish have higher oxygen needs at warmer temperatures. this is the 3rd math dial for fish in the darling river in 2019 nearly 1000000 fish perish them. but the new south wales department of primary industries says the latest is the worth, with hardly any fish being left alive as just a feeling of hopelessness at that. nick, no one wants to take any responsibility for it. and really all we want is to maintain a healthy river authority, say fish populations, usually boom, during the floods and then full as fatwas as receipt. but local people blame poor water management. they say more needs to be done to improve the drainage and
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quality of water to prevent another wool of dead fish. lucon al jazeera scientists in india and europe have revealed the chemistry behind the haze that covers new delhi each winter. their findings are published in the journal nature common baker, as most every year polluted air in india's capital city, between november and january, contributes to the deaths of thousands of people including children. although air pollution in new delhi has long been a problem. how the haze develops has been poorly understood. you will have a clear night night in getting some time. but then there are other nicer just things when they thought maybe starting with spicy. and by midnight you will start seeing that appear info hayes. and then by we us in the morning, you will find that that's really up to case scientists know how pollutants become more dangerous in sunlight, gases react, and lead to smug,
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as has been documented in beijing. but it wasn't clear what was happening at night in new delhi. so chemist in the city, deployed 1400 sensors on the rooftop to monitor the air. what they found surprised them. as the temperature dropped and humidity rose, minute particles grew fast, forming ultra fine ones. 10 thousands of the width of a human hair. they were mostly made up of organic molecules. so the scientists realised they must have come from vapor from burned materials like wood. the molecules turned to vapor, then condensed like seeds in the cool air, then grew in the presence of water. that connection had not been known before. whatever it is getting bought are gonna be combusted in that at all. that he is simply contributing to this haze formation. the process piqued after midnight, before tapering off as commuters headed to work before 9 am,
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when the haze was thickest. now that the transformation is understood, it could help city planners and public health and aviation officials. but some say they faced substantial challenges, we don't have infrastructure for white heating, so they low income vocational the city. we don't have infrastructure gain cooking as of now and they're building it as long as these problems are not sought by a much binding is not legally. it stated that may also prove useful to a world that is seeing more wildfires near more population centers every year, colon baker, algebra or that. so for me, diamond jordan from al, the news continues here now to 0 off the inside story, stay to not so much. hello,
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they will look to east asia, and now that area of low pressure has pulled away from japan. was a much finite dryer conditions behind it, we got high pressure in charge. he had the temperature in tokyo and so the korean peninsula heating 15 degrees celsius. lots of sunshine coming through here soccer at 17 degrees celsius and those higher than average temperatures are reflected across northern areas of china, where it is relatively quiet. it's down in the south. we are seeing a frontal system bringing some heavy rain to more central and southeastern areas, certainly by monday, still some spotty showers, remaining here. and if we talk about rain, but we have to go to south asia because we've had unusual wet weather for much of india, severe thunderstorms that caused flooding in chennai and tumble. now do we are expecting that to continue across the east coast those storms breaking out, rushing up into the northeast and pulling into bangladesh. the good news is, however, by the time we get into monday, it's much clearer for that west coast,
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stretching down to the south. a few showers here and there. we are expecting that rain to continue in new delhi. however, on monday, thunderstorms, a brief pause on tuesday, but by wednesday, a chance of some light rain in the afternoon ah, examining the impact of today's headlines. this was probably one of the deadliest disasters you're setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. this is the one that's been hitting, sharing personal stories for a global audience. can you talk a little bit about what life is like for african limited programs and open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today? to zara international criminal court issues an arrest warrant for russia's friends.

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