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once it's the following, it's perfectly brand new, good part one on al jazeera, 0 big compared to bangladesh, looking for safety after facing military, correct on in me, i'm. but this is what she's dealing with now, or make shift home at this refugee camp in cox's bazaar went up in flames on sunday . the fire has swung the spotlight back on the struggles. the charm of and tragedy is based on daily basis by everyone here. this fire is a reminder of the many challenges facing their own hang or refugees. they're caught between the increasingly dangerous situation in bangladesh and a new political reality off a homeland now led by the same military hunter responsible for the crackdown that forced them to flee in the 1st place. ah, prose cases in mexico seek arrest warrant over the death of 39 migrants in
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a fight at a detention center. ah, money site, this knowledge is their life from doha. also coming up a step towards climate justice united nations, us to wells top core to define the national obligations around climate change. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he believes compromise over his judicial, over all is possible. on the full, marcia, the world's biggest coffee chain faces a roasting from us senators. so the allegations of union busting ah prostate cases in mexico are investigating the deaths of $39.00 migrants in
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a fire out a detention center as suspected homicides and seeking arrest warrants. it follows an outcry, a video appearing to show security officers walking away from men locked inside of the blaze to cold. the fire broke out on monday in c. a. dod hot is near the us border. john holeman reports from mexico city. this is a cctv video which is shocked. mexico inside a migrant detention center. a mexican official insecurity. god was by justice flames take hold inside the cell of migrants locked up under their care. it was ablaze this monday night, which ultimately killed dozens of people. the majority of them, what marlins, they've been detained, and held and see it out quite is right of mexico's board with the united states. president andres men were lopez of the daughter, had said on tuesday that they themselves had started the fire in protest in their upcoming deputation. but on wednesday, with the video coming to light,
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he was forced to confront allegations that his own governments officials take guilty of the worst kind of negligence, letting people die, he gave 15 king. there will be no impunity, those responsible for this painful tragedy will be identified. they will be held accountable and punished in accordance with the law. the 2nd. later in the day, the met can attorney general's office requested arrest warrant for several people in connection with the fire in see it out. what is mooney was this and as the names of the dead were read out, cost would just be that way. for the boy, me rather get a good angel. every migrant has the right to be safe to be protected, not to be mistreated or violated by any authority. because we are not criminals. there have been tensions within the buddha city for weeks caused by the large number of migrants from asylum seekers gathered there. some launching celtic pushes
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to try to get into the us disrupting local commerce. while authorities have been accused of using heavy handed tactics to round them up and get them out. but this isn't just an issue for what is there. we're detention centers for migrants across the country. i are just small protests here outside of mexico's interior ministry. but this has been an issue for some time in the country migrant detention center, which migrants himself an activist of described as little better than overcrowded prisons. the reality is the mix close relationship with the united states depends in part on its stopping migrants from getting through and to its powerful northern neighbor. so the detention centers and deputations will remain but tragedies like this one res, yet more red flags about the attitude and treatment woods. the migrants had within them. john homan,
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elders eda metzger city. the united nations has adopted a resolution asking the wells top court to define the obligations of countries to combat climate change. it was backed by more than a 130 member states. the call for the international court of justice to provide a legal opinion on the climate crisis follows the campaign led by the pacific island nation of van or water. antibiotic editor james base has more a historic decision that campaign is say, is a major step forward for climate justice is so decider no vote was needed the general assembly deciding by consensus to whilst the world's highest course, the international court of justice to determine what obligations countries have right for the climate damage, they've cost or trusted in climate. the injustice feeds the visions and symptoms could penalize global climate action. so excellencies for those on the front lines
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already paying the price for global, he'd think they did nothing to cause climate justice is most of vital recognition. and the tools recognition that all people on our plan is out of equal worth. and the tool to be resilience against spiraling climate impacts. the efforts to negotiate this treaty were led by the pacific islander venue or to this was the end of a very long campaign. how did you feel in that very, very happy vision, because i can assure like kids and the kids around the world that the leaders of the countries of this local community actually listening to the light of the future of this, of the future of mankind. the small island of any want to suffered devastating sight clone early this year, highlighting the fact it's
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a country that's whole existence is threatened by climate change. the original idea for the un resolution actually came from law students studying here. the university of the south pacific, one of them was cynthia, how do you, he, it, it's, i still can't believe that we've, we've gotten this far and it's, it's, it's a meant to a lot of, you know, the determination that you have been to the cement to you know, when you'd moved by genuine content, not only for the future, but the future of 2 reasons, yet to come. at the end of the meeting, the un secretary general told me it was a big victory. but un insiders say, even though this resolution passed by consensus, there are some major countries which have a problem with it. and they expect some national submissions to the international court of justice and an effort to narrow the eventual ruling of the judges. james
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base al jazeera at the united nations. the european court of human rights has begun hearing groundbreaking cases against france and switzerland, who, being accused of failing to take action on climate change. thousands of retired swiss women say it's damaged their health. the other case involves a french former mayor who says climate change put his home at risk of flooding. it's both in ocoee beasen. it's proven that we old women are particularly sensitive to climate change. the excess mortality has been shown because we got sick a little bit faster due to heat waves than older men or other groups to lawyers afraid is onique. we have been fighting for years. we went to the federal court, but they said we couldn't object. so we've come this far and i hope the court can role in our favor. so that switzerland the something better than has done so far as writing prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that a compromise on his controversial judicial reforms could be possible. the proposals
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have sparked the biggest protest in the nation's history. critics fear the changes will harm the independence of the judiciary. you as president, joe barton is urging netanyahu to abandon the plan lesson. yahoo says israel won't bound to international pressure, but he's denied any rift between israel and washington. israel and united states her occasion difference was. but i want to assure you that the alliance between the world's greatest democracy and a strong, proud and independent democracy, israel in the heart of the middle east, is unshakable. nothing can change that. and as smith has more from west jerusalem and then yahoo is the only one that's been sort of sounding up beat about this. you listen to what the opposition party is saying here in israel, and they cover a broad spectrum from left to right. they're not sharing that same optimism though a meetings today,
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wednesday with 3 smaller political parties. i followed meetings on tuesday with representatives from parties of jala, pete, and benny guns, the former prime minister and defense minister. they want the government take this law out from parliament. netanyahu is only suspending, it's going to bring it back in the next parliamentary session some time in april. the opposition parties said that netanyahu is tampering with judicial independence . he wants to introduce pop politics into choosing who are members of the new dictionary. and netanyahu causes also standing trial for corruption. the allegation is, he will use this change in the make of the discovery to get rid of the corruption charges against him. charges that netanyahu denies. of course, the head of the us nuclear watchdog has warned of increasing military activity near the russian hells operation, nuclear power plant in east and ukraine. raphael grossi was speaking on
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a visit to the facility international atomic energy agency, has stopped stationed at the plant to minimize the risk of nuclear disaster. it is very, very important that we agree on the fundamental principles that the nuclear power plant should not be attacked. now the concept is evolving is, is we focusing more on the protection itself and the things that should be avoided. for example, in order to protect that rather than on territorial aspects, which pose certain problems. but if this were a controls, i would say ukraine's government says it will use legal means to evict monks and priests from a monastery and keith. the ukranian orthodox church was ordered to leave by wednesday, but his refusing to go, the government says as for each tenancy agreements,
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the church says those claims are a pretext and it denies accusations. it's maintained links with russia during the war with there were no legal grounds for us to leave the monastery and abandoned these buildings so that they can be captured by some one who has no duty to look after it. there is no legal document binding us to leave the monastery to day moon, as we do not agree with what the church has been accused of. we do not agree with the accusations of committee. wrong doings, as if we support russia. we pray for peace and our fighters. we pray for the war to be over as soon as possible. the former c, i of the coffee chained starbucks husband grilled at a u. s. senate hearing after being accused of so called union busting. how would shouts and all the executives deny allegations they illegally find pro union employees and spied on workers? my kind of reports from washington, dc. for decades,
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howard schultz was held as an example of benign us capitalism. his company was the 1st to offer ownership equity and a strong benefits package. and now it says it offers a minimum wage of over $17.00 an hour among the highest in the country. right. the committee chair though, sees another picture over the past 18 months. starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign. in the modern history of our country. that union bustling campaign has been led by howard schultz. starbucks has become the focus of intense criticism by labor groups were legibly trying to crush attempts by individual stores to unionize. every day we wake up thinking about how we can put our people 1st, put them in a position to win, into everything we can to demonstrate the conscience, the heart and the values of starbucks. coffee company,
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great. and there was support from a number of committee members don't derive one of the great american sex sir success stories. i don't want to be part of any which on didn't vilified any american business was saw. the committee also heard from some of the more than 80 people who say they've been fired from starbucks for union activity. thank you, chairman sanders. among them, jason saxton a form, a union organizer at starbucks in georgia, who testified he was fired and a phone call to us before the beginning of his shift for what was described as disruptive behavior before the hearing. he told me that far from being disruptive, his union work was intended to better the futures of his co workers. and his 2 year old daughter, eva. because otherwise, she's going to have to continue to see mom and dad struggling and unhappy and stressed the quote unquote american dream is just hustle culture at this point. and
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i don't want my daughter have to deal with that. and a number of republicans on the committee shop, but he attacks the national labor relations board, claiming it displayed a strongly anti corporate bias in a bid to gone a union support for the biden administration. or in l. r. b. employees weapons eyes in the agency against american employers. and while that debate rages, the reality is that doesn't like jason sexton and his family a paying the price of what they regard as corporate greed. my kinda, i'll just 0 washington versus verbal. adult franco is a republican strategist and lawyer, he says, the national push for unionization is politically motivated. the fact of the matter is there could be a complaint here and there in a very, very large company. it's an extraordinarily progressive company. there's no question about it. same allegations were made against uber and lyft and other big
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economy a little bit different than employees. the fact of the matter is people approve i approve of labor union. that doesn't mean i want the entire country unionized. the fact of the matter is labor unions had a far more larger role in our, in our country and our society up 40 or 50 years ago. but there is a political motivation. once you have unionized workers, they pay dues, and the union bosses decide who to pay support in terms of the political activities . and that's been traditionally the democratic party. that's why joe biden says, he's the most you pro union president ever. not because he has a benevolent interest in workers, it because it's a cash cow for the democratic party and historically has been. so that has been the motivation here. a combination of political ideology on the left and political benefit that the democratic party would derive from unit is ation. again, there is a right to do this, but there is no evidence that this company in any shape or form has this
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systemically a forged policy to prevent unit is ation. francais has been admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection, also complaining of breathing difficulties in recent days. the 86 year old head of the roman catholic church is expected to spend several days in hospital. it's not clear whether he'll return in time instead, celebrations next week, the pontiff has been vulnerable to respiratory problems since pot if one lung was removed in his twenties. still ahead on al jazeera tech lead is cool for an advanced artificial intelligence training to be suspended, saying it poses a threat to humanity. and deep c mining could be vice whole to the renewable energy revolution by a growing phase, the future marine habitat. ah
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ah, how i was still sing some very wet and at times when she weather pushing in the cross central and eastern paths of the care that's driving its way towards northern areas of iran. further south one or 2 showers there into central areas of saudi arabia, still got some wet sand at ties, wintery weather, pushing across afghanistan. that'll slide a little further east. was couple picking up to ram 14 celsius on friday tab it, it will gradually pick up 2 in ankara, so we will see warmer weather, just making his way back into to care as this area of rice neat. the snow just comes out of the way and the weekend anchor could be touching a be 16 or 17 celsius said, feeling a little more pleasant. here we have some live showers across c, ethiopian hollis at the moment, joining up with the showers across the heart of africa. central air is sing some
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shy re moore, that is 10 retry. it's warm to the north west and is so much cooler over towards the north east. morally, wind coming in across that northeast corner of africa. other end of the continent. it's a cool suddenly wind for cape towns, a tablet is here around 19 celsius, few showers around at east the side of the cape. majority of the showers, who see some very wet weather where for the democratic republic of congo, right the way it mozambique. ah, join the debate. we know that the sector seems empowered by the government and stained by the government today they are to government africa. health security is also a global health security. annette online at your voice, there is no right defense. there is no right to protest, we can't just keep relying on aid. there has to be some work towards a sustainable economy. at the end of the day, it is ordinary objects that are paying the price. this tree anal dedira.
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oh, a welcome back. watching al jazeera mind, the phone top stories of silence. prosecutors in mexico investigating the de, the death of 39 migrants in a fight out of detention center out. the fact that on the sides follows an outcry. a video appearing to show security of this walking away from men locked inside the blaze to cold israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says, a compromise on his controversial judicial reforms could be possible, but he sent israel, found to international prussia,
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comes off to us president joe biden urged him to abandon the plan. the united nation has adopted a landmark resolution asking the well top court to define the obligations of countries to combat climate change. it was facts on more than $113.00 nations. now this fierce debate over the right to mind the sea bed and the pacific minerals essential to the renewable energy revolution, nickel, copper, and cobalt. a found in abundance on the ocean floor between hawaiian mexico. but many say deep sea mining should not be allowed until we know more about the damage it could do to one of the last untouched parts of the planet. on very varman editor, nick clunk report. 4000 meters dean on the pacific sea floor. there is another world you couldn't make up. a realm of predatory sponges and sailing cucumbers move the remotest of
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all habitants with extraordinary life forms from starfish, to invisible microorganisms buried in the sediment and but here to something else. those no jewels on the sea floor. every one of them is a nugget of nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese, formed over millions of years. there are billions of tons of them and their metals critical for the transition to clean energy, a so called battery in a rock. los hinder gerald barron of the metals company hopes to stop mining the null jewels. before the end of the year, his company has already invested millions in research, and he says the abyss is in fact, the perfect location to begin industrial scale operations, the cali metallic modules line the missiles on 4000 meters policy on the sea floor
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. more than a 1000 miles from the nearest community, whether a no plants and 80 percent of the biomass, that the foreigner, that means there is actually bacteria that he couldn't dream up a better place to put a very large, abundant resource than where these modules allocated. the main area of focus is the clarion clipton zone, which spans a huge sway. the ocean floor between hawaii and mexico. whether or not the metals company commence vacuuming up the nodules commercially, depends on what happens at ongoing negotiations. at the international c bed authority in jamaica, some countries like germany in spain, one there to be a temporary ban on deep sea mining. while further scientific research is carried out to assess the true environmental impacts on the deep ocean. and companies like v w involved, they've pledged not to use any materials associated with deep sea mining in their
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supply chain. and that's a position backed by environmental n g o z and many marine scientists. we still to not understand the ecosystem. we're just grappling with chrome, basic questions like, what lives they much last questions about what role those animals play in the ecosystem and how much we human beings rely on that. so really it's an enormous risk and not something that we should be rushing into. the concern is that if no agreement can be reached on a mining code, the practice will begin without any kind of regulation. a free for all in a realm as yet untouched by human exploitation, mcclark al jazeera, ala moss, the founder of test, lend, space. i x has called for a pause on the development of advanced artificial intelligence. systems. mosque is one of more than a 1000 people who signs an open letter warning that such systems pose profound risk
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just the science and humanity. alas, a follows a release before the version of chat, g p t, and a program that can understand images, right, computer code, and even engage in human like conversation. chris doc, a walk as a technology and digital culture. he says concerns about a i shouldn't be dismissed. we do have a, a relatively small but still quite vocal group of individuals who have long worried about this, that kind of the, i guess the digital cassandra is of the world to have the people who kind of prophecy a future. while this is going to become a big issue, the idea that kind of the robots are going to take over from us because we give them intelligence and then they ignore the 1st rule that we code them with, which is do know how to humans and, and that suddenly becomes a big issue, am and is worth pointing out. i suppose that that, that view is still relatively ne, shall we see. this is sort of petition that we've seen going around by a non profit. her has been signed by some pretty significant names,
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but also some of those who have their name attached to it. say that actually they did not signify any so to support for it. and actually they've just kind of had that the name co op to desa. this is something to think about. i, we've seen some research, i'm out of a bunch of academics in spain, in 2021 that suggested that mathematically it is impossible to drool boundaries on a i, it will always try and ignore isaac os most 1st rule of robotics, which is to do no harm to human, so am those people it is we're saying, overrule or still even in the minority or in terms of like what perceptions are old a i but there is a sense, i think that we need to be much more careful given the speed of development that we, we really carefully drew out of those boundaries and make sure that a, i can't go beyond i could, as constitutional court has ruled impeachment, hearings against present game or last. so can begin opposition. politicians a keys, the conservative president of corruption,
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and his dealings with state companies as their denies the allegations he has a minority in the national assembly, but has the option of dissolving it and calling allie elections. 9 columbian soldiers have been killed in an attack by e l. and rebels. it happened in a rural area of a common near the border with venezuela. so most serious incident since november and we'll father strain peace negotiations between the government on the left wing rebel group. and the man who inspired the film hotel wanda has arrived in the us. so to being released from a runs in prison last week, who resist the bug, you know, was sentenced to 25 years on terrorism related charges. in 2021. he was freed on to an agreement mediated my cattle, outspoken gum and critic denied the charges and says he was tortured in jail. i did what you this year. the muslim fasting month of ramadan coincides with the
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longest drought on record in somalia. rising food prices and poor harvests are making life even more difficult. michelson sharif reports as before, sunset, dozens of women line up for food in this camp for refugees in somali as capital. they're hoping the wall in tears have enough stuff after one hot meal is all that had eat a duly mama will get. but it's worth the wait. the food will feed her 6 children. the family wants own farm land and goats in a village near the capital, but successive years of drought have forced them to leave. but by the thought of either what came of my income, i recall the ramadan fast we had in the past when we were enjoying and prospering. however, this year we are living in a camp without plastic to cover us from rain without food to eat, thirsty, and experiencing drought. how deep more mud is among more than 1000000 somalis who
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left their homes in search of help? the un says the drought killed and estimated 43000 people last year alone, who it needs 2 point $6000000.00 to fund humanitarian aid here. but less than 20 percent has been pledged the country and bought most of its food from ukraine. but that's being limited by the war there throughout your family. if it's more likely that the family will put you on better to liberty throughout the season, like the one on the me factor for the saudi fight for food and privately to community. so my low supply or food to the mainly called by the hacker and great conflict, 5 consecutive feel rainy seasons has been crops and millions of farm animals have died. oh, a moms in mosques in mogadishu,
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a leading efforts to help the growing number of those who need support will. abraham will alcohol, muscular system, brothers and sisters who are poor and affected by the drug, by providing them with food. so they may break their fast. let us increase arms and good deeds during ramadan. some people cannot afford to break the fast because they like food. they are the muslims around the world are also observing the holy month of ramadan with acts of kindness. and by helping those in need for many made homeless in somalia that's essential if they are to survive. michelson sharif under sierra fever has stripped indonesia of hosting the mens under 20 world cup just 8 weeks before kickoff. follows political opposition to israel's participation, which led to the cancellation of the tournaments group stage drawer and barley, indonesia as the wells most populous muslim, mature.

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