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african countries have struggled to reclaim many of the artifacts taken by european colonizers and this is our experience of our identity. in the final port of the series, museums and collectors still hold precious assets like to pin grooms. a few have been returned, but the still a long way to go and progress is painfully slow. restitution africa stolen all the pottery ation on order 0. ah, at least 40 people are killed in an ass, drank on a village in central me and mark. ah, i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, the united nations chief is in somali as the country face is one of its worse
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droughts that's false. hundreds of thousands to abandoned their homes. the u. s. and philippines launch their largest joint drills a day off to china, completes military exercises around taiwan. tens of thousands of doctors walk off the job in england, disrupting the medical appointments of a quarter of a 1000000 people. ah, at least 40 people have been killed in an ass strike in the village of pacific in northern me and mar, thousands more have been injured. i should warn our viewers. you might find some of the following images to be distressing. the attack happened during the opening ceremony of an administration office in the village on tuesday morning to find the jets dropped bombs on the village and then helicopters carried out a 2nd attack. rescue workers are retrieving the bodies and trying to rescue the
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injured, joined by tony cheng from on this. so what prompted the attack which very unclear. at this stage, there was a large gathering for the opening of this administrative building, including a large number of civilians. lots of women and children. we understand that at $745.00, the initial attack happened fighter jets, dropping bombs and strafing the area. they were then followed by m. i 35 attack helicopters. we have spoken to one of the volunteers who is working to recover bodies. he's confirmed 40 se talent. his v says there's likely to be many more. unfortunately, the attack left the bodies in such a state that it's very difficult to identify exactly how many people have been killed at this stage. the administration building that was being opened was being,
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was under the auspices of the p d, f. the people's defense force. and the n u g, the government in excel. so 2 groups which are very much in opposition to mamma's military. but we understand that these were buildings for administrative pros purposes. who the people gathered were there to see the opening ceremony, but also to talk about social welfare issues and village affairs. so it doesn't appear that with any military motivation for the attack. we also understand there has been no ground offensive at this stage, but later or later this afternoon. as those rescues were trying to recover bodies from the area attacks from the helicopters, continued hampering efforts to carry the dead and wounded out of the area. and this is just the latest in a series of incidents lately, right? it is. we've seen the attack sir on the east and boulders on the worst up in the
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north. there was a, an air attack and chin states reported which kill the number of people on the left just this afternoon. but in the past couple of days, we've also seen tens of thousands of refugees flooding across the border into thailand. that is due to fierce fighting and one of the border towns, sri, cocoa, and it appears that mia mars military is using all of the powers that it's disposable, particularly in the air. and with artillery a couple of weeks ago, i got the opportunity to sit down with the spokesman for the military government. and i asked him about some of these attacks massacres, which we've seen reported in kaya state. but a very similar attack. also m pack cans in cochin state where a music festival was attacked by fighter jets leaving a 60 reported dead. a he said these military targets these are, these are areas which are controlled by forces in opposition to the,
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the military government in opposition to the coo. and they are legitimate military targets. and from what we've seen in the last couple of weeks, particularly with the tax side, one were reporting on to day. it seems they are unrepentant. and particularly when civilians are caught up in the middle of the attack. all right, thanks so much. tony chang un secretary general antonio terrace, arrived in somali, afford his office, has described as a visit of solidarity during the month. the month of ramadan, smoller is facing the worst drought in its history. 5 rainy seasons have failed. half the population has been affected, and 2000000 people have been forced to leave their homes. are good. ervish says the un needs more money to be able to increase the monitor in assistance in the horn of africa. catherine sawyer reports from smalley as capital bar. wacko mohammed, seattle, and her children recently arrived at
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a comfort displaced people. in mogadishu, she joins about a 1000000 others who are clustered on the outskirts of the city. she came from a farming village in louis she ballet, but here she has no food. some of our children are sick and she is still grieving. the death of her husband and child, she argued, play with aunt and bell. my husband and 4 year old child died on our journey from the village to mac addition. we had to bury them in shallow graves by the roadside were young from to another. half of the some miley population has been affected by the drought. thousands have already died. 2000000 are internally displaced, while others have moved to neighboring countries. 5 rainy seasons, half failed in the horn of africa. the situation is dire. it's been raining in some parts of the country or whether experts say the rains will not be enough to make things better. the rains are started earlier than expected this year. i saw that
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early onset of the rain means that most of the people who are displaced from the farms, their farms are not being currently tendered to or, or have been from that news. the production may be affected because before these people, some of them tried to grow butler farms. bush built by wait time will be on the 2nd week or the 3rd week of the in is on. and there will be not enough sol muster to take on there the rest of the crew to total maturity. this means most of mileage may be making their way to such camps. the un secretary general will be in the country to help mobilize humanitarian support. the un secretary general antonio terrace will meet a with the president, somalia. he will be talking to displaced people the last time he was here. ah, it was 6 years ago. there was another drought. and so a lot of somalis, a, we have talked to say that they want to see more action so that they can be able to
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break the cycle of violence and routes other camps. it started raining heavily, just as people were preparing to break their ramadan fast. oh wow. many here will slip hungry, wet, and colds. catherine's soil all jazeera mogadishu. north korea's later kim jones calling for his country to become more offensive in its war. the terrance capabilities the says, it's a response to what he called aggression by south korea and the u. s. mcbride as well from sol. these latest belligerent statements come at a time of heightened tensions on the korean peninsula and seem to be in direct response to the recent joint military exercises between us and south korean forces . north korea state run media says leader kim junglin was chairing a meeting of the ruling parties. central military commission,
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when he reportedly told his generals that they had to expand their war deterrents in what he called a more practical and defensive manner. but what's got much of south korea media talking is that in one of the photos released by the north, kim seems to be pointing, although it's been purposefully blurred at the map of south korea. and more specifically, at the area of the main u. s. military base here, north korea has increased the frequency and variety of weapons tests in recent weeks, especially short range tactical weapons, such as nuclear capable, underwater drones that they say are able to create a radioactive synonymy. amid speculation that with important anniversaries coming up later this month, it could be planning more provocative tests. adding to the speculation is that whenever the south has tried to make the regular morning hotline phone call to the
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old system, that was set up to avoid misunderstandings. and these tensions for the past 5 days, the north has not picked up from mcbride. al jazeera sol, the philippines, and the u. s. have launched their largest ever joint military drills more than 17000 military personnel had taken part in the exercises over the next 2 weeks. washington and manila have recently agreed to resume joint patrols in the south china sea. the deal also gives us forces access to for more philippine military bases fooling. one they are taiwan, which is angered china. barnaby low has more from manila, the timing here. the international community definitely will be watching closely these values them exercises as they're coming off right off the bat of 3 days of military rules by china in anti one street in response to taiwan president i. e was
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visit through the us also later today a 2 plus 2 ministerial meeting between the philippines and the u. s. in washington, d. c. on monday us worship sailed near the miss. cheap reap where china had built a manmade island. but this area is very close to the philippines and so a lot happening in this region, definitely heightened tension. so you can understand how these exercises could be seen as provocative. but keep in mind that these exercises are an annual exercises and they have been planned for months and months. still. timing here is very significant to scale. also very significant. 17005000 from the philippines. pop 1000 from the u. s. and other 100 or so from australia as well as observers from other regional allies, all participating in these ballot then exercises. also for the 1st time, live fire exercise act seat in the south trying to see all the properties of some bias in the northern philippines. there will be
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a simulation of the sinking of 8 the commission ship, which will serve as a market enemy ship. richard. hi diane is a senior lecturer and international relations at the university of the philippines . he says the military drills are part of a joint effort to deter china from invading taiwan, the pension iran taiwanda, which china conducting large sizes dirt. but the other one is also the philippines . p putting away from the more aging friendly foreign policy. a previous president ought to go to the and now under very good on market junior, the philippines is emerging as the new star of the united states is emerging. are the people, the element of the u. s. integrated variance strategy against china. there's a lot of re alignments happening here. so everyone has been discussing the australia united states and u. k. the august submarine, the audit trail doctrine, that is going to get back to the japan philippines and u. s. i call that the job was alliance office and job was they're part of what the
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larger groupings coming out, australia, philippines, japan, us, all of them have one thing in common. look them are about a joint effort by us and its allies, to deter china invading taiwan. this is not to provoke china, but to deter, trying to raise the cost of an invasion of 51 because i was extremely important in the world economy. and it's at the fact that i left the states not to mention just to close to the philippines in japan, are to ignore. as far as europe is concerned, there's a lot of inter nunnery alignment hopping very so our understanding over the past few years that the united kingdom of you clause netherlands, germany, france, all of them have been expanding their military presence in this part of the world. there was an understanding that a european powers in america would kind of be in lockstep in sending a strong message to china. but president minor microns recent visit to china, where he talked about strategic autonomy, where he seems to play down the potential role and speaks for your and it comes to
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tie one issue that is kind of jumbled things. i think that has kind of shuffled things, but putting micron in front of site. i think there's an understanding that more off european towers, more or less share america's concerns in this part of the world. now major rescue operation is underway in the mediterranean sea. italian coast guard is helping to migrant boats with 1200 people on board. so to hire a true false, another boat, another rescue mission on the mediterranean sea. this time, 400 people on board, including women and children, stranded between greece and malta, reportedly abandoned by their captain. oh, i think it is leaking with thinking to anyone with
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a job not over yet as the italian coast guards attempt to another rescue. 800 people on board, another boat off the coast of sicily, the german migrant rescue group. see what says 2 ships tried to help one of the boats, but were told by the maltese authorities to only provide fuel. there martinez, toy decided not intervene, not the 1st time that martha defied not to intervene and the in he did you rather port, they're both to continue and navigating in those barre dangerous their condition. do not take the responsibility for their rescue and delegate it you. and one of the most common destinations for migrants from north africa is italy. it's been a difficult easter weekend with more than 2000 people rescued in just a couple of days. when he have been taken to the italian island of lamb, producer. it's in his interior ministry. figures say that $28000.00 migrants have
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landed on its shores since january the 1st. now that's almost 4 times higher than last year. i don't know her. the central mediterranean roots is the most dangerous migration route in the world. most of those attempting the routes leaving behind wall oversee and human rights abuses, while they all dream of a better future. not all of them survive thought a height of al jazeera. phil had an al jazeera. this was an evil act of targeted violence. the us recalled said, 100 and 46th match, shooting this year off to a bank employee open spiral, and his colleague of talking and how and online project documenting people's daily experience is providing therapy to victims of war and ukraine. ah
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hello, good to be with you right off the bat, an update on that tropical cyclone in the indian ocean as it continues to intensify . let's put this a few days forward on thursday. i think it's looking to make a landfall late thursday, early on friday, and at that time it could be the equivalent of a high end category for hurricane is it makes landfall around the kimberly region back to the here. now for this se, southerly wind is generating some showers, periods of rain for the se, lower temperatures here, but in southern queensland, it's been could hit 30 degrees on wednesday. is elaine both the north and the south island who's had some severe thunderstorms that is set to continue on wednesday. you know, for the philippines, eastern precise region of tropical depression has formed that's now point into who's on the island. on wednesday manila could see up to 40 millimeters of rain
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that my train, this kind of the year is unusual. also raining between the yang see and the pearl river valley and it's not rain, they could use it in this part of the world. south korea, we're wild fires, burning evacuations under way. wins had been standing. the flames here as powerful winds still set to continue on wednesday. same goes through japan, some thundering down ports hawkeye, to honju and q 2 islands, but it clears out on wednesday in tokyo, with a high of 23 degrees. ah, and with
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hulu. ah, you're watching, i'll just hear a time to recap. i had lives at least 40 people have been killed in as strikes on a village in northern me and mall. it happened during the opening ceremony of an administrative office to fight to jets dropped bomb this on procedure. then helicopters carried out a 2nd attack. un secretary general and tony gutierrez just arrived in somalia and what is office is described as the visits of solidarity during the midst of the month of ramadan. sumani is facing the worst drought in its history. the
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philippines of the u. s. have launched their largest ever joint military drills. holden, 17000 military posts, and i will take part in the exercises over the next 2 weeks. people in england bracing for chaos in the health care system as tens of thousands of junior doctor's walk off the jobs that demanding a 35 percent pay rise. before day strike is expected to be the most disruptive action taken by staff in the history of the national health service. more than a quarter of a 1000000 appointments and operations could be canceled. well, marks reports from london for a british junior doctor like actually macklin daugherty free time away from what is rare and fall from relaxing. she's a cancer specialist with a young child at home and she's currently struggling to pay her bills in britain capital. also at the most expensive city, when i'm waking up at 2 in the morning, worried about the patient i've just been given came to therapy. say i want to say
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feel, i don't have to also wake up worrying about the credit card bills and gas bills. and the energy, you know, the things everyone else is worrying about as well. thanks and talk to these financial pressures, she's joining tens of thousands of other dr. then strike action that start today. it's the 2nd strike this year with the medical union that represents young doctor demanding a 35 percent pay rise from the government. after years below inflation wage increases. macklin daugherty says due to the government spending choices, u k. health care is like a thinking ship or if you're in a system where there was a crumbling around gee and which i think is very much linked to pay cuts. you then get to of a kind of critical points where you have to, he's a stand up for what he's will you believe in an or you just
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accept and leave such stress as driven thousands of british doctors out of the profession or into depression with some even considering suicide, according to zaid allen, the jaw they struggle with nice too. and mainly due to the am lack of resources now and the conditions under which they have to work. and that's been exacerbated by the a pandemic. allan, the jaws, the medical director of an organization that treats doctors with mental health difficulties and says many of their problems, the systemic given reduced resources and the staff shortages. a lot of it is didn't t, excessive work varied and working conditions at worry about making errors, worries about causing harm, worry about not being able to provide what is the effect he could provide going into the profession. burnout rates and british medicine were high before the pandemic. the precious now driving them even higher. many doctors feel strike
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action is the only remaining recalls to help the public and politicians realize these problems are real and require rapid resolutions. the remarks al jazeera london of villa marks joins us now outside. saint thomas is hospital in london where some strikers ha, holding a picket. so how disruptive us is the strike action looking so far as i may these a doctors in the 1st half of her career that are on strike to day that any one from a recent graduate from medical school up to someone with maybe 15 years of professional experience i known as junior doctors, but they're not always a junior. they belong to an association called the british medical association as a union essentially. and it's the members of that union that are on strike over the course of the next 4 days. what that meant is the hospital bosses like and buildings by but why beside me here that they're looking to try and fill huge gaps in their staffing rotors they've been calling and more senior doctor. try and fill
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those gaps because of the recent easter vacation here in the u. k. a lot of their senior doctors are actually out on leave. and it means that over the course of the next 4 days, we're expecting several $100000.00 surgeries screenings, another hosp appointments to be cancelled, corpus boned. that will of course, have a huge impact on patient care. and in fact, hospital bosses here in the u. k. warning about the risks to life members of the beer may have said that in the event of a mass casualty event, or if hostile executives can convince them but lives are in danger. they will leave picket lines like the one behind me and returned to work at least briefly. and how is the government responding to all of this? well, these doctors are calling for 35 percent pay rise. sounds like a lot, but they're basing that number on the last 15 years of wage increases that have been below inflation. the government says those numbers are unrealistic and they've
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demanded that these doctors return to negotiation. they've said also that given the current pressures on british government budgets the moment it's not likely they'll be able to afford those fun of increases. what they're also saying is that all the members of the medical profession here in the u. k. like nurses have been willing to enter in to talk, overpay starting with much lower initial proposals around pay increases. all right, thanks so much philip. there. now over $700.00 israeli settlers and ultra nationalists have made incursions into the along almost compound in occupied east jerusalem. on tuesday, one group was led by ultra nationalist rabbi and former kinessa member yahoo da glick. the incursions happened while palestinians were conducting morning prayers. 5 people have been killed in a shooting at a bank in the us state of kentucky. john 100 reports ah,
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gunshots ring out in downtown louisville prompting police to warn passers by to take cover police arrived within 3 minutes of an 8 30 am call that a gunman was firing inside old national bank smashing through the glass of the locked bank. they engaged the gunman, killing him. officers arrived on scene and encountered the suspect almost immediately sco fire and gun gunshots. officers exchanged gunshots with their suspect, and ultimately the suspect did die at the scene. but by that time 4 people were killed at a bank where kentucky's governor keeps an account. a 5th victim died later. we lost 4 children of god to day. one of whom was one of my closest friends. tommy eliot helped me build my law career. helped me become governor, gave me advice on being a good dad,
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one of the people i talked to most in the world and very rarely where we talking about my job. he was an incredible friend. 9 victims had been taken to the hospital, including 3 police officers, one shot in the head. the gunman has been identified as connor sturgeon, a 23 year old bank employee. police say he stream the entire attack on social media . i hours later, a swat team searched his home. let's be clear about what this was. this was an evil act of targeted violence on day 100 of 2023. it was the $146.00 mass shooting of the year, according to the gun violence archive. a little over 2 hours later, another gunman killed demanded a louisville community college and fled. police say it was unrelated. john henderson, al jazeera, the experiences of every day. people living through the war in ukraine,
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a being documented in an online project. the museum of civilian voices is a historical record and an experiment in collective healing. john hall explains now from boucher with the delicate tread of the acrobat she once was. daria moves through the ruins of her home. the fashionable townhouse near butcher outside cave was the result of years of hard work as an international circus performer. its loss, along with all her belongings, continues to overwhelm. when you're lost, everson, you just, you don't have war. normal or it's is just, you don't want that. so actually, you don't see the sa sense for a life. dorian now lives here in a polish built, contain a village,
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a short distance away. and she's decided to share her story with researches from the museum of civilian voices. an online resource, the museum records the experiences of ukrainians after rushes, 1st invasion, and the annexation of crimea in 2014. it contains more than $66000.00 testimonies. as much as it is about preserving the war time accounts of ukrainian civilians. this project is also about clarity and healing. it's about giving every person who wants it the opportunity to speak and be heard people line up to take part. valentina speaks emotionally, not about her own loss, but the pain she feels for the whole society. it's a kind of nationwide mobile therapy couch offering brief moments in the anonymity of war. that mark each experience as personal and important. it was nice to trust
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kia, he truly kissed books and you know, i salt relief because i was able to say what was in my soul, what i probably haven't properly processed yet. number's 9, the, which is really discount. we really need to. it's so hard for us to explain what we've experienced and what we've lost in one moment what you invested. everything in it's gone and you have nothing left. it leaves you emptying site. not in tina ends with a pub. she wrote and waited when he got the so you to have life in peace, it's cool where everyone is familiar and all share a love of the motherland. there is comfort to knowing that each individual account of loss is shared by so many jona whole al jazeera butcher. ah.
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