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human life with groundbreaking, from award with what is going on in new york city. on a just one day i might be covering politics or in the next i might hear a bite crossing from serbia to hungry for what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. here douglas 0. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. ah . north korea reveals what appear to be tactical nuclear warheads as the u. s. and
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south korea begin joint military exercises. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up to protest is and israel's mon prime minister benjamin netanyahu designs, as he de la, is a controversial judicial overhaul. rights activists accused the you in a bridging you trellis he is bangladesh, me and my hold talks to repatriate some rank of refugees and in the united states mona's pay tribute to the victims of another school shooting. 6 people were killed including 3 children. ah, north korean leader kim jong and has ordered an increase in the production of
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weapons grad nuclear material. state media have released these images of kim inspecting what it says are small nuclear warheads for short range missiles. young gang says it also simulated and nuclear air explosion. north korea has intensified muscled tests and recent wakes in response to joint military exercises by the u. s . and south korea. the united states aircraft carrier has arrived in the south korean port of berson as part of bows, joint military exercises. the nuclear powered warship is leading a group of american vessels, conducting drills with the south koreans and international waters. ra mcbride has more from aboard the warship. this nimitz has arrived here tuesday. the major have been invited on board as a press conference going on at the moment from both the u. s. navy and south korean counterparts bring the pan the camera a little bit and give you a view of the flight deck. here we are restricted to one area of the flight deck,
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but it really is a massive ship. one of the biggest war ships ever built it is the iconic nuclear powered aircraft carrier and getting on in years. it's something like 50 years old . now the name, it's been in service that long. it would assist to ship up the limits and other limits class carrier that was last here that was last september when we had the ronald reagan visiting booths and, and that was the 1st carrier to be on exercise in south korean waters for around 5 years. so this is quite a significant return. this nimitz battle group has been on exercises the past few days of the southern korean island of j. u. it has been doing about this same time yesterday, monday it was doing across drills loads. you crossed off this flight deck, having them being returned again or all part of these joint military exercises, which i've been very extensive. better resumption after a have tests of
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a few years to allow puss partly for the cobit pandemic, but also to allow dialogue to happen with north korea. but the exercises have come back in scale this spring. we're having air exercises with some of the latest jets . we're also having cooperation with euclid capable bombers from the u. s. u s. air force. we're all a little. so be seeing life fire drills with some of the ob, that's based here on the peninsula and tomorrow. wednesday we will be seeing and i'm 50th banding drilled by marine eunice to show us that capability so really off resuming and scale these large joyce military exercises between south korean and us both young shake bong. as a research fellow at jones university institute, the north korean studies, he says, countries not airlines. pyongyang must keep monitoring north korea's nuclear capabilities. there's
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a lot of reasons to be concerned about any type of threats coming from the tablet or not. but we have to receive, analyze them with a grain of salt. not korea doesn't appear to have a wired, reliable nuclear capabilities toward the south bridge at 10 or the united states. yet, although it's pro kanda, is intended to make other countries believe north korea, as indeed to become a nuclear power state. so we don't diminishing the effect and the degrees of the dream, it's exercises all countries. so concept by north korea, nuclear and me think capability should maintain their deterrence and defense. the only 2 cases of the nuclear weapon actually use the are the, you know, allied powers dropping a bugs in here, which might not be in japan at the end of the war. those were the cases,
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the air explosion are not nuclear bombs. as north korea claim that is subsidy in the experimentation. the other new form of nuclear attack announced by north korea was sending, you know, nuclear under water draws that the underwater drawers of a nuclear weapons would approach those sure of the enemy and explore the itself to cause sure not me to cause great damage. how effective they are, that it is still a big question and there is evidence there. no greg claims shows you should be subject to further investigation. at least 37 people have died in a fire in a migrant detention center in northern mexico. it happened on monday at the national institute of migration and sealed out hardest near the border with united states. dozens of people were taken to hospital. the fire is believed to have started in restrooms,
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a protests against to propose judicial overhaulin. israel are expected to continue this despite prime minister benjamin netanyahu. delaying plans to push through the legislation, tens of thousands of his art is of israelis took to the streets on monday and stayed until light evening. they called on netanyahu to step down place, use guns, and water cannon. to break up, the crowds could execute in yahoo, of a power grab. they say the proposed changes will give the governing coalition unchecked authority. natasha named from wisc jerusalem in the fees of protest rowing by the day a reversal by a prime minister not known for compromise or hope. louise from a national responsibility from the will to avoid the rift within the people are decided to suspend the 2nd and 3rd reading from the law. in this committee tenure in order to give time to get to a broad consensus to pass the legislation during the next class,
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it mom benjamin netanyahu gave way as the country faced growing paralysis. with a nationwide strike closing airport schools, banks and businesses, tens of thousands filled the streets to voice their frustration. fighting for this edition for this attempt to abra throated this year, they controlled by the mortgage and will be thrown away from the table. and we're also asking that benjamin anyhow will resign and take responsibility for what he has done to this country. but netanyahu's delay came with a price hard line, national security minister, m r been good beer, said his party only agree to the delay in exchange for the formation of the national guard. under the command of ben rivers office. there were divisions within the ruling coalition. some called for uniting behind netanyahu. oh, did you do so overhaul?
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and if you is the crisis others, doug is saying they would not surrender to violate anarchy and the tyranny of the minority the far right governing coalition and supporters say they will not have a vote or the state stolen from there. i think it is a tremendous mistake to stop the reform. however, i can understand because of the heat of the moment and the fighting, and that's going on. he has to make a calculated decision. but, but the reform is an absolute necessity for this country to continue in a democratic right left unresolved, the post of defense minister color. it was netanyahu's firing of jo of galant on sunday that brought the crisis to a her oh, as of monday evening, the light had not received a formal dismissal letter. netanyahu has 48 hours to name a successor. natasha name el, jazeera,
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west jerusalem. his rarely opposition leader jojo le pete has responded to the government's decision to pause the judicial changes. he says he is ready for the discussions. if the delay is genuine, lemuel day, we've had a bad experience in the past. so 1st we'll make sure there are no tricks or bluffing here we heard with concern yesterday reports that netanyahu told people close to him that he isn't really stopping just trying to calm the situation again . her funeral has been held in the occupied westbank for palestinian men killed by israeli forces 23 year old. a maya lola died after sustaining abdominal wounds in israeli ride on the city of nablus. last month. he is being laid to rest in his home town of swatter. israeli forces had killed 91 palestinians in the occupied territory. this year at least 20 people have been killed and dozens injured and abbas crash and southwest and saudi arabia. the passengers were on their way to the
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city of aha for an islamic pilgrimage when the vehicle hit a road barrier and caught fire, bright failure is reported to have been the cause. ron's foreign minister has told al jazeera, his government is ready to exchange prisoners with the united states. once indirect talks of finished and thinking, the release of several citizens held an american jails and washington had earlier accused to run of falsely climbing a swamp, had been agreed. iran has detained some jewel citizens. many are accused of spying . myers mar affair. solaire asked since march 2022, there has been a memo on the issue of exchanging prisoners with the u. s. in recent weeks. and in order to update the document which change some messages and non papers, but the u. s. or the issue exchanging prisoners is completely humanitarian terrance and ready with the privacy might negotiations and agreements at home. but this depends on the conclusion of the indirect talks which have been going on in the
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past weeks between the 2 sites where the prisoners swap is separate from the j. c. p. o, a. and there are technical issues that we hope booby finalist in guitar has previously held talks on exchange of prisoners and the j. c. p. o. a guitar has made some constructive efforts and we'll continue to do so fast, bangladesh and me and mar, appear to be planning a pilot scheme to allow some re hang of refugees to return home. hundreds of thousands of members of the muslim minority became stateless in 2017. they were persecuted and driven out by the military and many fled to bangladesh. rights campaigners are also accusing the united nations of a major breach of neutrality. that's out to you in boats were used to take delegates from the jointer to a meeting and bangladesh and diplomatic it is a james bay's reports. bangladesh says they're about 1200000 ra hunger refugees living in camps in the country, bangladesh. his foreign minister has told me that in recent days,
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a delegation from the military regime in myanmar met bangladesh. he officials to arrange a pilot scheme to start returning some of his the earlier the come prom air, the pill. yeah. the little blue. okay. but if did go back, yes. if. if that go big, they can help stabilizing the situation after all, they'll man, but people. remarkably, it's a merge that when the man mar delegation traveled to bangladesh, that transport was provided by the united nations to un agencies, the world food program. and you and hcr provided boats. the insignia were removed for the journey. and it's reported that there were weapons on board hidden under tarpaulins. when i spoke to the un special envoy for me and mar about all of this, she restated the organizations longstanding position that no refugees should be sent back until there are conditions which are conducive to their voluntary dignified and safe return and are re,
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i not satisfied that those conditions at there, at the spectacle, i tie the generals who carried out a cou, now seen 2, at least on one occasion, have a navy. and that navy is the united nations that must worry you. well, if they had consulted me, i would have stopped it. but nobody consulted me, myanmar pro democracy activists and human rights. campaigners say they're very concerned about recent events. the use of un boats would appear to be a breach of the organizations neutrality. and they say the un shouldn't be doing anything to facilitate the return of refugees. because conditions remained to unsafe. james bay's al jazeera of the united nations. people in the us state of tennessee, a paying tribute to victims of a school shooting, had happened at a private christian school in nashville on monday. a make shift memorial has been set up outside the school. a heavily armed former student killed 3 children and 3 staff police side. the attack had detailed maps of the school. john,
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hindrance reports, another school shooting another community, terrorized at covenant school in nashville, shots fired gunning down 3 children and 3 adult staffers. there was so many policemen, and then the ambulances started pulling away from the school. and that's what i had heard. it was as schools, shooting minutes later in a school lobby to arriving officers fire back, the officers engaged her. she was fatally shot by responding police officers. investigators were left, probing the car of the shooter, a 28 year old, identified as audrey elizabeth hale. and what drove hale to open fire on children. i was literally moved to tears to see bills and the key as, as they would be uttered out of the building. that was a door that was entered. all doors were locked,
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understanding and how exactly see got in at this point. so under investigation, the daughter of one covenant teacher was texting with her mother who said she was hiding with students in a closet and hearing gunshots close by. it's disgusting and i. yeah. i just, i have no words like, i'm shine a process at all. it's so terrible, so sad from president joe biden, there was more consolation with little hope of action. is chester sick? you know, we're still gathering the facts. what happened and why police say the attacker, a former student was armed with a pistol and to assault rifles. a style of weapon, the u. s. congress band in 1994, but were allowing the band to expire 10 years later. biden again called for congress to renew the band. we have to do more to stop con violence. it's ripping our communities apart ripping a solace, nation, but on a divided capitol hill. he has no real chance of passing its or ending the decades
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long series of mass shootings in america. john henderson, al jazeera stella head on al jazeera. we hear from one of hundreds of people celebrate hundreds by violence in 10 years rift valley. ah hello, there was dot in south east asia and things have turned cooler and west across parts of indo china. missiles may heavy rain for vietnam will that's now slipped down into thailand. we are expecting thunderstorms in bangkok over the next few days. no further south of this, the rainy season is on the way we've seen some heavy falls, the silhouette sea in indonesia, we are expecting that rain to continue. it'll fall heavily pushing towards asunder islands. by the time we get to thursday, now as we head down under to australia,
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it's much quieter. up across the north and down in the south. the rain picks up, however, for that southeast corner, pushing out to more coastal areas. places like brisbin expecting the wet weather to end the week. and for western australia, some heavy falls to come across more central and southern areas here. but for the north of this largely quiet and in the south with temperatures dipping down melbourne. seeing 19 degrees celsius rather cloudy. now for new zealand, both the south and the north island have seen quite a bit of a cool donna's autumn packs, a punch temperatures set to pick, pick up slightly over the next few days. it will be more in the way of sunshine pushing through the cloud. but the rain isn't very far away. you can start moving in from west to east christ church. only 13 degrees celsius on thursday. ah, a
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have died in a fire in a migrant detention center in the mix to conceal. doub plot is dozens of ovens were injured and taken to hospital. the fire is reported to have started and risk troops . the me most military leaderships is it will repatriate about 1000 word hunger refugees from bangladesh. bronze campaign is our choosing the united nations of breaching neutrality. after it took delegates from magenta to a meeting you when bugs an activist, sin mini rank of refugees and bank the dish, a skeptical about me in mos repatriation plan. tempe chantry has more from cox's bizarre still far from their dreams of returning home. more than a 1000000 refugees are stuck in the hills of cocks. bizarre mohammed, bella lost everything when he left me and mar, and he doesn't believe it's military leaders are serious about helping people like him to return laguna to doesn't they have no real intention to take us?
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it's all a show. we are appealing to the international community for justice. if justice prevails, only then will we go back to previous attempts to repatriate refugees. since 2017 have failed and talks to attempt another have been suspended since the me on mar, military staged a coup in 2021. many refugees believe the political situation in man mar is too volatile for them to go back now. life and their lives in the agenda looking we faced many difficulties here, like limited rations on essential food items, lack of proper medical care, et cetera. so we do want to go back, but only when there is peace ro, yes, in is a ro hang a journalist who documents events in this camp. there are so many challenges we office in, in the cable, right? no like they are is like, are you guys in there's like off like the old days or no. absolutely. and visited his father who used to sell repair. so all of that he would just want to go back
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home and with the dignified dumb sippy and security me on moderate tens, the sole authority to verify those who can return an issue, identity cards to them, based on evidence of past residence, rowing i do not have citizenship in their home country, me and mar, and also, and recognize as indigenous. they're only issued with so called national verification card, identifying them as bengali muslims. but most rowing, he left all their possessions behind. their homes were burned down or looted so they cannot produce such proof of former residents and rights groups say, myanmar has done little to support writing of citizenship to instill confidence in those wanting to return home can reach audrey al jazeera, cox's bazaar, tinian authorities have ordered hundreds of people in the north rift valley to leave their homes. the military is planning rides on armed groups in the area accused of killing villages and stealing livestock. beatrice lemons hila is one of
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those whose been displaced. i given food, my name is beatrice lemming. tilla i currently live in was saw in some barrow county. we moved here from port village with my family. we left poor because of attacks by bandits at my area, i believe with them. oh, well number one thing we arrived at the centre village, but it is too congested. our we set up shelters which are easy and cheap to construct. but life is very hard. we came here because there's a police post where government rangers help. we share whatever food we have as we leave here. the bandits came to that home and to cattle. i mean they're taking anything from a homestead, including food. one can not stay with even a goat or a kettle l. yeah, because they will take them all. i got like a big, middle out letter w, we're running they do with all life at parra, was initially very good because part is
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a place we have leaved with our livestock. and we also farmers, we leave to peacefully until recently. well, we had a market where different communities would trade by the talk started after a present from a neighboring ethnic group was killed in our community. and that started the conflict. what of what? we have lived with them as our neighbors, but now they come to kill us. were it been our homes and still our lifestyle going a little bit over your now by the band. it's want to take our land and that is why they're causing so much trouble. they want us to flee from our homes. when this attacks begun the government to some dis, leaving us with no weapons to defend ourselves and unreliable, no one will not with anger yano my girls who are praying to god to help us we have suffered for so long present. the bandits in the caves are defeated by the government forces and we will go back to our homes and maybe we can coexist as neighbors. again, don't really only have m. rescuers in ecuador searching for dozens of people
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missing after a landslide on sunday night. and the 7 people were killed when heavy rains triggered a mudslide in the city of lossy barbara and gulf, a reports. whatever witnesses say they had tremors on the mountain before it gave way late sunday, as residents were sleeping, rescue work as a trying to reach this trapped in more than 100 houses buried under the earth. survivors say they've lost everything. good me anthem interest, or the only thing i can say is that i'm so sad, so crushed her that i don't even know what to say. i am so sad about my mother, and now she used to serve me food every time i came here. now there is nothing but on the mother, weeks of heavy rain before the landslide swept roads and bridges away, president glen melissa declared a state of emergency in 14 provinces affected by extreme weather and an earthquake . earlier this month, he promised to visit allow sea to meet landslide survivors. if the more monique
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oriental, a lucas will say, we are monitoring what is happening with the weather there to try to visit them today. however, the government is fully active and focused on the tragedy and lousy at the equis dos. rain sees and lasts another 2 months. people living in homes left standing in a lassie, a hope in what's left of this mountain won't collapse. barbara anger, po, altus, era. el salvador government is keeping emergency measures implemented a year ago and place the part of a crackdown on powerful gangs that's regarded as popular. the critic say it's come at the expense of human rights. john holman, has this report ah, there was an image for salvador across the last year. this would be it. about 65000 people. nearly 2 percent of the adult population thrown in prison. the country now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. uh huh. well,
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i 27th of march, much the anniversary of the state of emergency which started it. all police arrest in people or mass. trying to break the grip of the countries to a powerful gangs. the m. s. 13 and burial 18. they been terrorizing communities across the country for years. the strategies been unsophisticated. the flooding of gang controlled neighborhoods were police and army and the arrest but most in el salvador, seemed to agree that it's worked, liberating communities lightly accompanied her. formerly a notorious gang stronghold then yeah, this is anna bilmar. finally heading to a house in the neighbourhood that she bought 15 years ago, but could never live in. yes, the umbrella, i have always prayed to god. lord, i want a house where i can live in england where no one will butter me and the lord has fulfilled. it is america with homicides down. and gang members seemingly fleeing
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for the hills around 90 percent of the population approve of president night. and kelly, the architect of the strategy is and he's doubled down on it, building a new maximum security prison to fill with more suspects, doll hastily and the arrows to release that all these terrorist gang members who are being transferred to the terrorism confinement center. currently 4000 of them and never going to return to the communities to the poverty neighborhoods and cities of our beloved el salvador. but what caused, does it come? due process has been repeatedly violated, say, civil organizations. the majority of those in prison, yet to even face troll those arrested, don't have the right to a lawyer or even to be told why they were detained. many have been sent to prison of the mass hearings, often without evidence presented. it, we're law, not out. the government isn't using investigation or intelligence doris heaton of just that from when acute to someone else, an anonymous phone call or done a policeman doesn't like the parents of a joke,
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person and the captured people and take them away. the salvadoran authorities rumps her by the criticism with congress. they just extended the emergency measures for another mum, nancy, pam. we'll say we need to continue fighting the criminal structures. we need to give better service to the salvador and families to guarantee their lives and property. i will not be after years under the yoke of the gangs, many of the population will support them. but not those waiting outside of salvatore prisons, hoping the loved ones will be released. john hohmann out to cedar greenpeace international and indigenous activists have confronted a ship, used to research deep sea mining. they scaled the sides of the u. k. royal research vessel. as it returned to costa rica, it had been on an expedition to a pacific ocean side, m act for mining. all the organisation that makes the rules governing the world's oceans is discussing how to regulate deep sea mining nave back. it explains what's
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at stake at the international cb, it authorities meeting in kingston, jamaica environmentalists, a warning deep sea mining could cause extensive and irreversible damage to the planet. in a new report, wildlife charity floor and foreigner is cooling for a full moratorium on harvesting the sea for precious metals of the yearns international sea bed authority. the ire say, comes under increasing pressure to grant mining contracts. let's find out more. the sea floor is still a great unknown. 75 percent of it has not yet be mapped and less than one percent. that's actually been explored. much of its biodiversity is yet to be discovered. but companies want to mind the sea bed for poly metallic nodules, which are rich in the cobalt nickel and manganese using rechargeable batteries, still making and mobile phones. they are gary would be safer than mining on land where levels are dwindling. until now the i say has gone to just 33 my.
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