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hello, i'm rob matheson and this is the news our live from doha, coming up with the next 60 minutes. donald trump is expected to appear in court on tuesday. october grand jury charged him in a case involving payments to an adult film star. about a russian leader says russia can place tactical nuclear weapons in his country while calling for the cease fire in new cray. it's only becomes the 1st european country to block shot cheapie t, a popular a i shot bought saying is what is about privacy plus i rob mcbride in june. hey, south korea where the early shore side of spring is it even sure aside of climate change and i'm time how much not the native sport news as we build up to massive day in the premier league title race, manchester city, get ready for a match against nibble as pet guardiola side and look to put pressure on the those are some,
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ah, we are going to begin with the extraordinary turn of events in the us, where for the 1st time in the nation's history, a president has been charged with a crime non thursday a grand jury in new york voted to indict donald trump. it's tied to an investigation into payments made by trump's former lawyer to an adult films saw stormy daniels before the 2016 presidential election. trump is expected to appear in a new york courts on tuesday. that's when the specific charges against him are going to be revealed. trump is running for the 2024 presidential race and he's calling the indictment, political persecution, and election interference at the highest level. donald trump's children have been running behind their father and social media. vanka trumps taken to instagram, saying she loves her father and her country, and she is aimed for both. she thank followers for their support and concern donald
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trump junior tweeted, the indictment was the radical left weapon eyes in the government to target their political enemies. he ended saying the only solution is to shut down their throats and put him back in the white house. and trumps a 3rd child, eric trump also took the twitter. he said quote, this is the 3rd world prosecutorial misconduct. it's the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year where live in washington dc for all the political reaction that's going to be with she hubbard tansy. first we're going to go to new york or gabriel elizondo was standing by outside the manhattan district attorney's office at gabriel. let's talk about some of the fundamentals of his tenant. tell us about the case and what could trumps legal defense b? well this case is quite frankly, more complicated than its 1st blush if you will, that the center of it is this so called hush money payment,
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that donald trump allegedly made to this adult film star 2016. but this grand jury was looking into more than that and what they were looking into and why they have pursued this is because it's not that donald trump might have paid this money. it's how he might have paid this money. that is the key. and what the da here has been investigating for several years now is that key question of how the we believe that the district attorney and this grand jury have been looking at this indictment on falsifying business records in how he paid that money. that is still a misdemeanor in new york state, but then to get it to a felony which apparently it is, is that then it's a matter of, did he falsify those business documents after making this payment? and did he do that intentionally, to cover up another crime?
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for example, finance le campaign finance laws, finance payment laws, right? that is the real key. so there is a real sequence of events here that has led us to this day and let us to this indictment. now, does that mean donald trump is guilty? no, an indictment does not mean he's guilty. we'll go to trial. presumably. what is donald trump's lawyers gonna defend? how will they defend him in this? there's a whole host of ways they can do it. they could perhaps go to the judge and ask to have this case, throw an out. they could say that there's biased by the district attorney because he's a democrat, they could say, tell the judge that that should be thrown out or moved to another area, another state because he can't get a fair trial in new york. so these are just some of the ways that donald trump's lawyers will try to try to combat these this if it goes to trial, that there is certainly a whole host of ways that they will try to do that. yeah. how are you? new york, preparing for trunks possible appearance in court on tuesday. well,
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as a massive security operation, it's been underway. some of it you can see, for example, police outside the district attorney's office. right now. they put up some barricades, but a lot of the security that they're talking about. you can't see it, at least not yet, but it's involving the secret service. the f b i the new york police department, as well as the security officials that are managed the court house here as well. and they are trying to figure out how to get a former president to the district attorney's office here safe. we get him into the process, get him to the court house, which is right next door. they just walk through the same building. they walk through a hallway and then how to get him safely back out of this area. because there is a crush of media here, there's potentially protesters on both sides. the could potentially be here as well . and there's also the unknown factor of will donald trump want to address the media from outside the district attorney's office?
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here will he want to address supporters or others here that is being known. and that is really why there is so much security in place for this really unprecedented scene that we will potentially see on tuesday of a former president being turning himself in to authorities here. gabriel, thank you very much. indeed. gabriel, amazon the talking to us from new york, we're going to bring in chicago tansy who's to live for us in washington d. c. so we've been getting a sense over the last few hours of how voters are beginning to feel about all of this. but what is the political response the political responses mainly coming on social media because congress itself went into recess on thursday, just hours before the leaks began about the criminal indictment having been, haven't been decided upon. so we're getting the house republicans where there's a huge block of trump, support, largely repeating donald trump's accusations that this is
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a politically motivated prosecution. we have marjorie taylor green, a key republican ally in the house saying that she will be there on cheese. that is off of the supporters to riley on tuesday morning. what, what gabriel was just talking about to protest and protect the constitution against against this legitimate prosecution from the district attorney's office. and that also calls for more investigations or investigations for in congress, off the, off the manhattan, b a because the republican side is all politically motivated and interesting. the, now the manhattan b a has responded to those charges off. the indictment being politically motivated by saying, we urge you to refrain from these inflammatory accusations, withdraw will demand for inflammation and let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference, unlawful political interference. that's the manhattan da now saying that the congress is calls more information and potentially an inquiry may be, or lawfulness of this couldn't get any more constitutionally fraud. having said
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that, when you to look at senate republicans, we're not seeing any, any comments as yet. and the senate of the mid terms, we've definitely seen amongst the leadership and others. it's designed to move on from, from, because they feel that he may be a liability, especially with indictments, no matter what the, what is, what the republican base may think. there is that fair amongst other republicans in congress when it came to a general election. these indictments, this indictments may be a liability. yeah, and of course some things we know is in the leading essentially follow the challenges or the republican candidate for the 2024 presidential race. what is the likely effect of all of this in terms of that race? is taking the oxygen out of the, of the, of the primary race. the all the candidates who either declared or haven't declared yet, and the main, the main quick credible opponent that on trump is the florida gulf around the service. they're all running around donald trump. i don't using this as
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a way to attack him by saying, look, this is a politically motivated prosecution, runs the sciences. my pens, nikki haley. they're all saying, you know, we have to support donald trump. so, you know, it's very difficult for them to challenge the talent shame. anyway, we've seen in the polls since the old trump suggested that he would be indicted if poll lead against any other rival, has just massively increase the fundraising. and almost he sent out the fundraising emails today. now as a result of the indictment, he may reach $2000000.00 in march. as a result of this idea of a which barrier was out on eas, amongst, amongst the republican establishment here. certainly. and even some for allies, but although the displays with the base, it may not play with a general electric, but it's not them who choose who the republican presidential nominee will be. it is the she have to say talking to us from washington d. c. she had thank you very much indeed i want to bring in consent of legal
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analyst and former federal prosecutor, john malcolm is also vice president at the institute for constitutional government, the heritage foundation. so thank you very much indeed for being with us on all the 0. we have to remember that donald trump has not been found guilty of anything. he is walking into that court currently simply accused of charges which he will, he and his team will have the opportunity to respond to. but because of his personality, many people have already made a judgment about this case and others. the court is going to have to tread very carefully in this, particularly the prosecution because they're going to be scrutinized very closely, aren't they? i look, i certainly think that is true. this is unprecedented. there's never been a former president who's been charged with a criminal act, and this is an unusual type of crime. so we haven't seen the indictment yet to ra, speculating, a little bit as to what the charges are, but it's widely believed that the charge is going to be what is your introductory
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remarks said is normally a misdemeanor, which is, you know, making a false business record but it is being ramped up to a felony because it will be alleged, but that for the business record was designed to cover up another time a federal campaign finance violation. what's very unusual about this is that federal campaign finance violations are usually. ready investigated by the department of justice or the federal election commission. both of those bodies in fact, investigated this matter and closed their investigations without charging donald trump with a crime. but a manhattan district attorney is resuscitating that charge and she's wanting it into this. you know, false business entry, new york statute. so it's a very, very unusual offense. i don't think it's going to be a terribly strong case,
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but i'm reluctant to say that without having seen the evidence, a lot of it's going to rely on the word of michael cohen, who is fled guilty to several crimes including perjury of 4 congress. there are other investigations that are currently underway against former president trump, that i think are more serious in terms of the nature of the crimes that are being investigated. but alan bragg has chosen to indict this case and we will see where it goes. there are, as your commentator said, a number of defense is the former president, trump is going to be no doubt will assert here as we've been talking about. there are allegations, of course, that this is politically driven album. brag is a registered democrat, given what you said about the nature of the case, and we don't know yet, as you pointed out, we don't know the details of it until we find out on tuesday. but in, if we assume that given the fact is taken 2 years to get here and that's a brack himself, effectively slow down the investigation because at one point he wasn't sure about
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it. this seems a very risky way of going about a politically motivated case. if it's on the face of it, it looks there is every possibility that it could fail. as i said, i'm not so sure that it was a smart move politically to start with the weakest of these 3 cases. certainly, president trump, or former president trump will be able to allege of the indictment should be dismissed, because it's a matter of selective prosecution that he's be charge and targeting for political motivations. there are statute limitations, problems here. there are the jurisdictional issues that i just mentioned. these are allegations of the commission of federal crimes are being tried in state court. and then there are other defense that you'll be able to. ready raise a complete lack of intent. these were listed on business records as legal services . michael cohen, in fact, did perform legal services for the former president. we could say, hey, i thought that i was actually paying legal bills or he can say, hey,
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i made these payments because i wanted to spare my family embarrassment. i wasn't trying to hide anything from the borders. i had another intent. that is a defense actually, that former senator and former vice presidential candidate john edwards used successfully when he was charged with a similar crime a decade ago. it is fair to say that this is, nevertheless, a significant case irrespective of the outcome. because of course, as we been saying, this is the 1st time that any us president carpenter city has been prosecuted for, for a crime. describe to us euro, your opinion of all the level of significance in this case and what kind of precedent it could set. well, there been all kinds of precedent set with respect to the former president, including being the 1st president to be impeached twice all. but he was not convicted on either occasion what conservatives and republicans, you're hearing this already are going to say,
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3rd world countries level criminal charges against former political opponents in political enemies. and that's what's going on here. and the, the fear is that this will set a precedent where we will weaponized the criminal justice system by targeting our political opponents who are already hearing that, that is what occurred with respect to the alleged rush you collusion, investigation. and you know, this is a very, very serious matter. i think it's the weakest of the 3 cases, but it is, nonetheless, he has been guided. this is a felony offense. and less the trial gets moved because a pre trial publicity, it would be tried before a jury in new york city, which is not exactly a friendly forum for the former president. similarly, the federal investigation would involve a trial before a d. c, jury and the investigation in georgia would involve trial before the jury. these are not friendly venues. ready the former president, you're talking about the weaponized in the legal system, as you say, that is
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a phrase that we're going to be hearing a lot specifically over the next 72 hours. probably longer than that yet. around the world. there are many legal systems which have taken about previous leaders to co silvio berlusconi. initially, it was a, perhaps a classic case of that. there is an argument that if donald trump is found guilty of a crime, he does send the message that nobody in the united states is, is above the law. and that is important, isn't it in global terms to be able to show that the u. s. does have respect for its legal legal system for everyone in the country. yes, that is very true. no man is above the law and that includes former presidents, but it's also important that we send the message that the war is applied in the united states in an even handed, non par. ready manner so the charge is going to be made. that's not what you're, what you are right. no man is above the law and eloquence or him repressed joe
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malcolm. we appreciate you being with us and al jazeera, so thank you very much indeed for your time. my pleasure. tell you more ahead on the news are including malaysia's jailed form of reimers, and that she rises, loses his last chance to overturn his corruption conviction. and we look at the conditions of pakistan's over crowded and aging prisons and in sport formula. one drivers get to grips with some tough conditions at the us trillion called pre that story and more later on in the, our ah, the velo russian president says, talks are still going on with moscow about deploying russian tactical nuclear weapons inside. bella rose alexander lucas shanker, is a friend and ally of president vladimir putin. they made the collins during his annual address to the nation. shanker also said there were plans to invade his country from neighboring poland. he also called for
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a truce in the war in ukraine as well as talks without st. preconditions. valerie kovalevsky is a representative of the united transitional cabinet. belarus, the opposition in exile. he says, rushes moves are endangering fellows. the book have spoken about nuclear weapons in the last since long, and they oppose this move. we voluntarily refused from nuclear weapons in 1990. and since then there has been a complete consensus that will not do not need the nuclear weapons. we don't want to be part of any major military conflict at the same time. what we have seen with the statement of put in is that he decides on the deployment of nuclear weapons on a foreign soil in a sovereign country. and this happens only because we get under control of food and interesting, the very, very important mismatch here between toward the future. and is that putting that on february just couple of days ago that russia deployed these weapons on the
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territory, but does not transfer it under control shameka. and today we are sent to repeatedly said that this weapon is mine and that will control it. so these remains to be a very uncertain situation with very, very quickly growing risks that it might go on to come out of control. russia have been violating the n p t clauses here and at the same time dragging our country further informed. so there in the conflicts, that's why the police and there are some people will be took against this. meanwhile, rushes identified china and india main allies in its new foreign policy strategy. president putin's formally adopted the document in moscow. he says, updates to its foreign policy are needed because of what he called the radical changes in the world. his relationship of the west has deteriorated since it invaded ukraine last year. your brains president,
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let me zalinski has vowed to defeat what he calls russian evil. it was mocking the 1st anniversary of the recapture of boucher. if any enforces we took control of the town more than a month after russian troops invaded your train. cape says roches. occupational butcher resulted in more than 1400 deaths. more than 175 people will find in mass graves and torture chambers. finland is a step closer to becoming a member of nato. ok, as parliament as pasta bill approving the finish application to join the military alliance. the turkish vote was the last one you acquired finland and sweden applied for nature membership after the russian invasion of ukraine, and initially blocked both beds, citing disagreements on curtis group. st regards as testers, county co system from stumbles, aiden university says, pressure's been mounting on to kia in recent months. i think the turkish government feels quite happy with the latest developments,
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because the finish government has already fulfilled its commitments to turkey. so t o k has been quite ready to give its green light to it. please fill them before the next upcoming summit meeting of the nathan alliance to be held in july in 20. so historically speaking actually can have been all this on good terms. the 2 countries didn't shave in a conflict fuel a problem, i think a relationship in the past. so toki is quite happy because turkish government also wants to give a positive message positive signal before the upcoming elections because the pressure on turkey has been piling in recent months. malaysia's highest court has dismissed an attempt for the former prime minister. now she brush, i have his corruption conviction, reviewed magic is having a 12 year sentence. the case relates to embezzlement, the state investment fund. and one of the biggest financial scandals is the 1st former leader, malaysia to be jailed florence louis has more courses i this was not job results.
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final chance to have his corruption conviction overturned through the judicial process. now that he has failed, he will have to return to prison to serve the remainder of his 12 year sentence while he seeks a royal pardon. his lawyers had hoped the highest court in malaysia would review its earlier decision. not your browser was found guilty of corruption, abuse of power and money laundering in 2020. that position was subsequently reaffirmed by 2 different appellate courts. in 20212022. now on friday, for out of 5 judges voted to dismiss nah, chips, application. the majority decision said they were satisfied that there was been that there's been no miscarriage of justice and even said nudge. it was the quote, author of his own misfortunes, unquote. not your faces. 3 other trials related to the one m d
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b financial scandal. although he was recently acquitted of or did temporary, lawrence louis al jazeera who jaya malaysia in pakistan, at least 11 people have been killed and dozens have been injured in a crush. oh, hundreds of people with hearing of the food distribution side in karachi, humanitarian aids been a lifeline from many in pakistan as a nation, struggles to a deep economic crisis. staying in pakistan, human rights organizations say prisons, there are holding up to 60 percent more inmates than the built for us. i beg reports from fossil about well this cell isn't meant to hold this many people. human rights watch says these prisons are overcrowded, and detainees are keen to tell us what they are going through debbie database on it . every time i go to court, the judge is in there. if you late the police beat you and ask you for bribes, then they tell you to get ready. how can you get ready on time when there are 3
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washrooms for over a 100 people on come that there aren't enough bathrooms? there's no cleanliness and the food is terrible. lewis have to speak to the clients through boss. there were, i'll put a pocket found come with lag. the main reason for over crowding imprisons across pakistan is tor poured you digital system. prisoners don't have clean water. prisoners sit on cold floors and if there's a toilet meant to be used by 10 people. it's been used by over a 100, a normal person, congo inside there. it's so disgusting skill, but you have but some are making attempts to increase standards. authorities here acknowledged that there is an issue of overcrowded within prisons, but they say it's not a problem for the prison system. they say the problem is with a plaything and justice system. it takes considerable time for trials to start and for verdicts to be handed out at this prison fessler, but they can't show us their arrangement for visitors. they acknowledge the facility is holding twice its capacity. 934 is the capacity of this prison
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department. and today's gone thing is $219.00 prisoners in the, of the zill. and it is definitely over overpopulated. jill, we are getting closer to the semen. murphy story better for the prisoners. and it in sooner, this problem before probably to really before they tell us medical staff are available for prisoners 24 hours a day. and meals have been put together with the help of nutritionists from the cities university. the present is a legacy of colonialism. it was built by the british in the 19th century, but with the country in nomic and city crisis, bringing it up to 21st century western standards may take some time. i said, beg, i'll jazeera fessler bud because none of these 35 people have died after a full collapsed at a hindu temple. in central india, it happened in the city of enduring 100 dozens of worshippers that celebrating
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a religious festival plunged into a communist stair lined well on the floor. gave way. rescuers had been working through the night to pull people out and recover bodies at a strike by private doctors in the northern city of rochester, one has entered its 14th day there, protesting against you, health legislation, which guarantees of free health care patients say the crisis is affecting treatment poverty, mis, our report, sioux city was i, poor patients are lining up a job was largest government hospital. this is the ongoing doctor strike is making treatment harder to get people there aren't any doctors and private hospitals. when we come to gorman facilities, patients are not treated properly. doctors do x rays and even to the surgery, but say they don't know when they can do it. doctors and largest data protesting recently passed health care bill. houses of them have hit the st, demanding the act, be repeated. private facilities have close disrupting medical services. patients
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say that being forced to cue up in overcrowded government hospitals or go to another state just on say, don't ready, spend more than the national average on public health. and just mentioned government hospitals like these large, the 3 like to has act mix. we have a legal rights making is the 1st legislation of find in india dr. city actually for private hospitals to treat emergency cases, even if patients cannot afford it. they believe this will increase bureaucratic interference emergency when sort of, how can the governments define and emergency? that's for the doctors to decide. i'm said the government should ask us to help them make a law. the act looks like it's been copied from a developed country which has good health care infrastructure. the government says the actual expand existing health, gaskin and increase access to the poorest people any longer love me. sometimes poor people don't get treated in either government or private hospitals. that's why it's important to give it to them as
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a right. so they won't die because they didn't get treatments. if the governments covering costs up to $30000.00 the, what's the issue? the government says it's open to discussion but will not should be the at patient scope, the deadlock is resolved soon. for now. the plan to broaden help get access has resulted in restricting it, at least temporarily. bothering him at the larger cedar japanese, northern india is still a, had an order 0. japan launches new policies to reverse it's declining birth rates. the government calls it a last chance for the sport you season. you rooms with the same so high all tommy baseballs biggest room starts in a high details. come out later on in the show. ah,
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how i was saying some very unsettled whether recently across northern areas of the middle east. still a little bit of cloud around here, but it should improve as we go through the next couple of days at so wetter wintry weather moving across the cross is heading towards the caspian sea, northern parts of iran sing of a mix of rain, sleet, and snow when she was still in place there across northern areas of afghanistan, pushing across into the north of pakistan. elsewhere across the region. it's dry, brighter, be high because quite a brisk wind. now, the setting in a cross, sir southern parts of the arabian peninsula, including us here and caught our temperatures into our $27.00 south. so, so saturday afternoon, falling back to around 24 degrees. as we go through where sunday is going to be bit breezy, as i said, with that lifted dust and sand, which will sink a little further south with some showers there and to southern parts there into yemen. seen some flooding here recently, more heavy showers. just pushing in here. want to showers all, say, just eating the way. insta, kia. oh, sure. i was of course northern parts of africa here it is fine and dry the showers
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into the gulf of guinea, southern nigeria. right away with cross coastal fringes of west africa over the coming days. joining up with the shows that we have across the heart of africa. still some larvae showers into tan in, in some ways to whether to it's a good part of you can't ha, ah, around 10 women are being murdered in mexico every day. almost always by men. an epidemic of gender based violence that threatens to spiral out of control. now specialists police squads run by women, a trying to reverse the trend and bring the perpetrators to justice. but can they overcome years of macho culture and indifference? behind the scenes with the fem aside detected on a josina o ramadan at time as spirituality reflection
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and gratitude raised the flags, all the flags, every color with algae is there a world? well, how leo, how he reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chance for the holy month. jodi, this song touched the hearts of all arrows. for amazon songs on al jazeera lou. ah more to go to 0 reminder of our top stories this our donald trump is expected to appear before court in new york to say to become the 1st u. s. president to be charged with a crime. it relates to money paid by his lawyer to an adult films, saw in 2016 battle rushes. president says,
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talks of underway with moscow about deploy russian tactical nuclear weapons in bella, luce alexander lucas sanker, also called for a truce, and peace talks between ukraine and russia. the former south african part olympian oscar. the story as has been denied parole deserving 13 years after being jailed in 2016 for the murder of his girlfriend rivers. seen camp. the story is claimed. he mistook her for an intruder shooting her through a bathroom door. offenders in south africa are automatically eligible to apply for parole after half their sentence. but his parole has been denied because he hasn't the south the minimum time in jail. uganda has deployed more soldiers to democratic republic of congo, the part of an east african regional force that's meant to end the conflict between government forces and the m 20 c on group lock on wet reports. more ugandan soldiers arriving in democratic republic of congo. they're under the banner of an
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east african regional force is meant to end the conflict between government forces and the m $23.00 armed great ugandans of crossed into the border town of point gonna it was taken by m 23 last year and it's fighters still there was a lot of footage bishop and we were all of us that we helped with the bishop. we have been waiting for long on the waiting for a few days last few months. i don't think he's going to do in infant threes taken sways of territory from congress. government forces over the last year, widely understood to be a proxy of neighboring rwanda. you can, there's also been accused of backing the group. those governments deny it. you can, there's a said country to join the regional force, kenya and burn the already sent troops. congress army said the regional forces would help fight them 23. instead, they'd be making agreements with the armed group. m 23 hasn't bade regional leaders
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calls for it to withdraw into som bloom lost every time when we drew from place the government forces and local groups still coming back. this time we have agreed with the east african forces that such kind of behavior will be conceded as well lation of ceasefire. and we will react immediately protested against wanda. and you can the in cities across congo in regions. yes. it blamed for decades of military aggression and looting of minerals ever since they 1st invaded in the 1990. 2 years ago, thousands of uganda and soldiers entered congo lease territory near the town of fanny . under an agreement with congress government. they meant to be pursuing an armed group called the 8 year rights groups. the violence against civilians has grown worse since they arrived. now people are wandering, if the arrival of even more foreign forces will help to and decades of conflict. malcolm web outers era. the vatican says pope francis will be discharged from
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hospital on saturday after being treated for a respiratory infection. the 86 year old head of the roman catholic church was well enough to baptize a baby at the hospital was being treated in rome, is improving condition means it's likely he'll be able to lead the upcoming celebration of holy week at easter. a greek rail inspector has been detained in connection with last month trained disaster. 57 people were killed on a passenger train, collided head on with a freight train. the employee is a supervisor who was on duty at the time of the accident is being charged with the disruption of traffic safety, causing death and ethical consumer report is accusing farm managers in spain of routinely abusing migrant workers. allegations include unpaid wages, forced labor and demanding sexual favors for employment, more than half of europe's fruit and vegetables come from southern spain, strawberries, and among its top exports. the reports calling on supermarket chains that buy from
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those farms to take action and demand that workers' rights are respected. and clerk our lives that researcher at the campaign group, ethical consumer and an author of their reports produce of exploitation. she's in bristol and she's with us life good to have you with us on al jazeera described to some of the conditions that people are working under. yeah, so we looked at 2 regions and one where the high population mon documents, drake is another where agencies going across to morocco and they are recruiting when you see young women young women with children for the picking season in spain. and when the, when the dr. conditions are nothing like that told that going to be, they often live on bombs where they're given cookies or they're restricted from moving. that passport might be complicated to candidates day they're working under huge poly tunnels, in very hot condition with very little safety condition,
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equipment in both regions. underpayment of wages is by common, union buffing, is very common work in covenant, streaming port time speaking, apple making sure that there's none of this with respect, and i'm sure you understand, i say there's none of this, unfortunately appears new because we've had this in so many different circumstances in so many different countries, and yet it still appears to be going on. why do you think that it is happening and be pl. are not taking more action? yes, a great question. i think a key issue is that there's been a massive kind of passing the buck between different people who should all be working together to create change. you know, the authorities point to retailers, retailers wanted government, it keeps on passing rounds, where they actually, you know, market are profiting from a situation and they do that or need to pay him counts busy for i think it's easy when we take the car one step removed, been the exploitation to be saying,
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you know, it's not i, our issue is not that the condition happening posted 20 years and it kind of doesn't fly anymore to just say it's down the line is the farms fault, it's the government's fault. we can't do anything about it. this has been something that did to get some sort of parallel. this has been something that's been happening obviously in the garment industry in the fashion industry. and there's been a lot of publicity about the amount of pressure has been put on retailers and clothing manufacturers in order to try to ensure that their employees and other countries are least working in. so i mean safe conditions that doesn't always work. but why is it that this sector seems to be essentially going under the radar? yeah, that's a great question. i think in the government set. so, you know, you had the, the massive tragedy of the runa plaza instance, which really shown a spotlight on what's happening in the sense, i think that there's been kind of lots of reports, lots of years,
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but nothing that has highlighted with the same goals. and, you know, people do need to be paying attention to in the same way and realizing that a is kind of the same. so to them demick issues is the same serious nature of exploitation, as in the gum industry. and you know, when it comes to spain, i think that's also probably a bit of naive t, for many of us about what goes on in europe. and particularly when it comes to migrant workers. undocumented migrants often in a society and people really content blind eye to what is actually very in many ways, place an expectation call our thank you very much and for being with us and i'll just, you know, thank you. thanks so much. and i me, 5, i doesn't island are struggling to contain a while far as in golf to large area for us to 100 kilometers. know if he's to the capital bank called but i started on wednesday night, but cruise could immediately access the area because of the state terrain,
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more than a 100. that hector is a knuckle. now, province of so far been destroyed. and in europe, reco high spring temperatures and dry conditions are resulted in an early start of the continents wild farseason and northern spain firefighters, a battery more than a 100 wild fires. as victoria gave them, the reports and out of control wildfire scorches spain's northern coast. the rough terrain, high winds and low humidity, a hampering fire fighters battling the flames. spain's wildfire season started early this year in the east in valencia regis. more than 4000 hectares of forest were destroyed last week. and 1500 people were forced to abandon their homes. they have only just been allowed to return on a windows who sat in the it's a feeling of joy for all of us that are coming back home is fundamentally a very important thing. we love the community, we belong to the community, so you can imagine how relieved i feel. dope literacy muffin of the un environment
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agency says climate change will spark a 30 percent increase in severe wildfires by the middle of the century in spain that already dealing with the fall out the countries wildfire season now runs from spring to autumn. not just during the summer, and spain's meteorological agency says temperature in march have been up to 14 degrees higher than normal. it's a new reality. people are struggling to adjust to full media your jo, sunday. oh wow. do you authorities have brought us a bottle of water because they have told us that we can not drink from the taps all the food in my freezer is defrosted. it's bad and everything is ringed with warmer weather forecast in the weeks to come scenes like this a likely to play out again for many more months, victoria gate and be al jazeera. meanwhile, in south korea, crowds of enjoying the peak of the cherry blossom season after scale down our canceled events during the corona virus pandemic. but
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a changing climate means the flowers blooming earlier every year. robert bryan reports, it's the sure sign of springs arrival that is eagerly anticipated in south korea. more so through the pandemic, when from the 1st year in 2020, the cherry blossom season coincided with the end of the 1st surge of the virus. the delicate beauty of the bloom coming to symbolize the hope of new life i have. it's great to come back with friends and even better with my baby daughter. oh, wait a minute. it's nice coming not to see the flowers after such a long time from now, one blessed with a 3rd of a 1000000 cherry trees or long gold railway lines and streams. the town of gin hay has the longest established blossom festival in south korea. and in this 1st full year of welcoming back the crowds, it's hoping for nearly 5000000 visitors with warming temperatures. this southeast
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corner of south korea traditionally sees the cherry blossom 1st before it rolls north up the peninsula in a wave of color. but it's already bloomed in soul. the 2nd earliest date on record, the earliest being set just 2 years ago. in this district in sole, the annual celebration of the forsythia bloom has been brought forward a week because the flowers have bloomed early. neighboring japan is also experiencing earlier cherry blossom tokyo this year, equaling the record for the 1st balloon. and back in the southeast of south korea as the city of young ju prepares for its festival. the blossoms are already falling with several days to go. by listening to him, it seems to be passing earlier each year, which makes you think about the environmental. nature is beautiful, but seemingly ominous barometer of dangerously changing times. rob mcbride,
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al jazeera, young jew, south korea. italy has blocked the artificial intelligence chat, bought chat, g p, t. it's privacy watchdog says the app doesn't respect personal data or check the age of its users is launched. an investigation chat g p t was created by us start up, open a i and backed by microsoft. it's designed to answer difficult questions in write code or essays, but it's sparked controversy. teachers are worried, students are going to use it to cheat on the exams and policy makers of base concerns about privacy, cybersecurity and the spread of misinformation written lupina is an a i and law research fellow at the university of bolona. she says, we're more likely to see more government regulation around artificial intelligence programs like chat, g, p, t. i think there might be, there might be some follow up from other countries in the chat ttp the open a company doesn't provide more information of how i've written this train. because
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at the moment the allegations are based on assumption that it's misusing the personal data. but actually, we don't know how the data views because there's not enough information given to the public at the same time. if you're in union, there are a lot of new regulation being proposed. there's the date of service act, etc. so we will have enough regulation. it will be a matter of how it's enforced and how much the companies collaborate and showing the information that is needed to better understand how these technologies i working captivity is different than a way that is trained on a larger dataset. so it's taking all the publicly available information online, mostly in english and training. it's algorithm, wires, social media platforms will focus on the data they are gathering themselves. so in that sense, the longer model is a lot larger and a lot more tolerable. however,
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that kind of zoning in only on t v t might be unfair, given that there are other large language models out there, other companies. so we'll still have to see how they compare in the future. japan's government says the next few years represent the country's last chance to reverse. the accelerating decline in birth rates, measures in august and friday into more subsidies for child care and education, and better wages for young adults. one symptom of the problem has been school closures. $450.00, have been shutting down each year. you know, i walk reports the classrooms a few more to junior high school stand empty for years. more students have left here than enrolled after 7 decades of operating the small village school in japan. so cuz she my prefecture is preparing to close its doors for good job. they say, when i 1st heard from the principal that the school was closing down, it was sad,
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but i also thought it was such a way to close the school with a long history like this one. it's a nationwide phenomena. the government says 9000 schools have shut down between 20022020. as birth rates continue to decline, the cost of education, childcare, and the child reason burden on women are cited as some of the main causes. last year, annual birth dropped below 800000 for the 1st time, 8 years earlier than projected. what i hope this is here from the period when the school had the most pupils, they were about a 160 of them. i. i won't be and ita are the last 2 students who will ever graduate from the school council on the see. i don't know if there will be any children left in the village by the time i'm a nursery school teacher. but if there are, i want to come back and teach yes. the government has prioritized boosting birth rates, promising to double the budget for child related policies and programs. for the
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small village, it may already be too late. the question remains whether japan as a whole, still has time to reverse its demographic decline. lena alcohol, clear al jazeera is still, hadn't al jazeera been sport, also get ready for what could be a pivotal moment in the title race is the look to when the premier leave for the 1st time in nearly 20 years. ah ah
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the english premier league is set for a massive saturday of football as the title raise, heads into the home straight that following the international break. that is the city face a tough task against liverpool as they look to put pressure on leaders. arsenal, city are sweating on the fitness of sauce. strike earling highlander head of their big game at the it to hide the norwegian has been in great form at this season, but pulled out of norway squad that due to a growing injury. city know they can't afford to drop points that with arsenal. currently 8 points, claire, having played one game more today, and at the end the doctors especially the players will decide how does he feel. and just as for with him, he feels good, but we'll see more see what happened and life is risky. these stages are to take it and we score a lot of good to see. so yes. corp no. mon, incredible goals it has arsenal. host leads that the gunners that have been in
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great form in the league. they've won that their last 6 games as they looked to win the piano for the 1st time in nearly 20 years. a victory would be a nice gift for the arsenal. vasa, who just celebrated his birth a few days ago. i think in case you spend it under what may be your birthday, which was when i was spending with my family. i went back home to my hometown conservation and i had on if i'm in there with me. so was a, i really were way of celebrates me, little wish maybe with into the secret. i know you're getting my to i guess if you tell us things maybe doesn't come true or not, while this is what the one and looks like for both teams. awesome. all and cities still have to face each other again. the gunners has some other very tough tests, including games. again,
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chelsea new causal and brighten city also have games against brighton and chelsea. and of course, the crucially have one game in hand telling us that now we have the daily express t for sports writer, neil squires who actually be at the to had for the city liverpool game. now it's a massive we can to in the title. it's just how high are the stakes? yeah, it's huge, isn't it? well, every weekend from now on and going to be a big one. but this certainly as a special feeling about was city playing the old rivals, liverpool, many of his. so that will be, you know, the title game this season as it has been in previous seasons, but in fact it is in another way because it's 60 slip up tomorrow. we've got, i'll slow him the chance of going 11 point clear if they'd beat relegation. threatened blades and you, you might be saying the target races all over about point. how surprising has this year title been huge. i think
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a lot of israel expecting another liverpool city, buffalo said and he was but liverpool been inconsistent this season. city maybe a bit below the past standards despite hollins, incredible season with these 42 goals in all competitions. but i also have just been a like rent tornado blowing through the premier league. they've been incredible and the momentum that they've picked up since they last to city at home with, with this terrific, run their own. set them up superbly. but i still think that we some twisting turns become yeah, no, i'm not sure who you support, but i'm going to put you on the spot here. who do you think is going to win the league? well, i mean, neutral, of course, but for me i think we'll have it more straightforward and to the season in a way because i haven't got champions, league and f,
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a cup distractions like city. but since you have an incredible squad, they've done it before. i just just think that they've got the, the run and not can see go into the going to the final we can, the city can be asked that big came on the 26th of april. so you have to, i think it could go to the final weekend. you want a winner. how, how good is it for the payment to ship to have this title waste between the 2 big team? well, we need it. and so, i mean, we've got used to, we've been spoiled by fabulous time title runs. i think we're going to get another one this season. but, you know, really made the premier late decisions with what they deliver to been super. but if i had to put money on it, i still think city you're going to do ordain expressed if sportswriter nails quiet . thank you very much for that. thank you. exposed to alva shaw,
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her tiny. it will be a big selling point for baseball this season. we go on to and to try and get a better strike, good tale. all the pruning fresh from that his when would depend on the world baseball classic, he struck out at 10 plays over 6 scoreless innings. it wasn't quite enough to secure a win for his el angels team as the oakland a's that went on to win the game to one for england, cricket captain michael vaughan has been cleared of using races language and bringing the game in to disrupt it was claimed that vaughan made racist comments to his ex yorkshire team made to as the america and 3 other players of asian descent in 2009 raw fixed allegations about racism at yorkshire have prompted a wide range ranging investigations and reforms at the club and formula one asked and martin's fernando alonzo is good doing his best to challenge
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a seemingly unstoppable red ball team. alonzo went quickest in the rain effected the 2nd practice at the australian campaign melvin. the red bull pair of max. their stop in and sergio paris at a half finished 1st and 2nd in the opening to races of the season. but alonzo has started the year with 2 consecutive 3rd place. finishes next be to as you said, the was just a 20 minute session. only ha, so still some, some job to do to morrow switzerland, the tires fir, into the res from rome. bronze was something that we were always be missing today. but ha, ha ha. so far i think the, the cop seems to behave well. so a supermodel. the boston celtics at sam's, at the end, be leaving my walk, he bucks it to move within 2 games of the eastern conference leaders. jaylen brown at school 30 points above his boston team made the adjacent tatum must start with 40 to leave the celtics 242998 winds of boston that knock the bucks out of the
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conference semifinals last season. that's it for me, it's back up. santa, thank you very much. indeed. the backup is going to be here in a couple of minutes. we're born all these stores. don't forget the website. of course all does it have dot com? i'm rob madison. stay with us. if you ah mm hm. a fraud takes on the big issues. this is the one off he's talking about a systemic issue here. black gloves don't really matter in the police were unflinching questions is war with rwanda? imminent rigorous debate?
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