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so, you know, we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter how you take it will bring you the news and current to fast. that matter to you. i'm russell bid in southern england where to farmers trans safari park. pioneers fits the attractive nature in the driving seat. i was just absolutely astonishing. the license pulled back even, not very 1st summer. and i'm again sophie, i sent you over to me when one by you in the ring companies revolutionizing. this was the same using funds in our 5070 the image and here inside you have size. you have a technology, the fries phone, which is 0. the new corruption scandal and we're hitting ukraine. the head of the supreme court is detained for accepting. brian's
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the through a light from headquarters and del time getting navigate also has a wave of restaurant russian missile strikes. have cheese. ukraine says most were intercepted read more slowly begins to rebuild after being battered by one a sophie 0 strongest ever psych phones. 5 people are sentenced in germany for their role. and one of the biggest jewelry robberies in history. the . so we're beginning ukraine, where authorities obtain the head of the supreme court in a high level corruption pro one m p 's says civil ard and the as the of was held in connection with a bribe of nearly $3000000.00. the anti corruption watchdog says it's expose what it called large scale sell, play us the courts. it's year to photograph of cash to illustrate what it said was
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corruption at the highest levels of power. special miles are really best problem with the cheese in the case that we're talking about and the regulations we've made mean this is the highest profile case. since the national anti corruption view of started, i can say this without exaggeration. it's the highest profile discovery efforts. amount of, meanwhile, ukraine's military says that it's shut down 18 russian missiles fire to the capital on monday nights. officials say the attacks were exceptional and involved cruise and ballistic missiles as well as drones. natasha butler has more from live if the sound of explosions of the keys the night sky be taught by flashes. city officials say ukrainian defense systems into set to thousands of russian phones and missiles in the early hours of tuesday. mobile phone footage, films by resident shows the intensity of the attack. we heard at all,
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even our windows show, but thank god, there were no measles in our area in the city. oh, my friends, my classmates and i, we heard it all. they were all worried, and one of my classmates houses got hit. well, i think it's terrible. the circuit the attacks came just as of the ukrainian president of a load. them is a lensky returned by train from a trip to europe, and did securing new weapons and support for an anticipated counter offensive. for that we are returning home with a new military had us and more powerful lessons. quote, the front motor perfection for our people. great, the political support was today, or no one knows when the counter offensive will begin. but you create new troops all preparing in the south is the country and most all you need say they ready, but need more weapons. this is actually most of the and it was because of with the need i'm a personal care is the most,
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especially with the counter offensive. because currently we use basic deep models which are not, i'm are, and i'm a car will provide safety for our service. and that's what really matters. is this the no, and it fully able to even it's supposed to hope that this counter offensive will be successful since pushes the invasion, ukrainian forces have exceeded expectations, pressure is high, but the reality is, the few believe that this post will be the last when the we'll talk about the, i'll to 0. they've ukraine. samuel vermani is an associate fellow at the royal united services institute. she says that ukraine seems to be holding out for more sophisticated weapons. this is where he is already, you know, what the us it's cost shipping operations, which means the targeting emission depos logistical sides of the military targets. that would help them that in advance. further, it looks as if they're already moving into directions. is that bridge and cruise on those supports it done best. it's also to create
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a bit of element of unpredictability, right? like you over the summer for example, ukrainians that made looked like that they were advancing and crews on and putting all their resources there. and then they caught the russians off guard undefended, encourage you to the russian state, media and russian telegram channels are really. gov is saying that the header offensive has already begun. so i think that it's a bit of psychological operations from your client and they've had of programming to throw the russians. i had to make them the mr. step. also, i think the granny is, are holding out for some more sophisticated weapon. right. was very encouraging to see france up and actually consider supplying long range this house. you can have the big target. obviously you currently is wonder the 16. yes, the russian defensive capabilities are effectively been blunted. it seems as if even on the flanks of boxes, they're unable to defend themselves. and the water grew fast is engaging urban combat over there in a way the previous jointed and actually at odds was the russian defense minister. so it looks as if russia is now firmly on the defense that they've got a $150000.00 troops. vertification stations is that bridge. and carson surveys to
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be seen how much manpower you can have at how much they can leverage their technology. and also when critical equipment will arrive, the river tank spread arrive in 10 weeks. that's an important step forward, hopefully for the rent and more equipment or arrives in south africa as president 0 or on the 1st the size. that's 6 african countries. we'll send a piece of mission to ukraine on russia as soon as possible. he says about that and we are approved to an envelope merge lensky. you have agreed to the meetings group include senegal, uganda, and egypt, as well as south africa. the announcement came a day after my 1st i said south africa had been under extraordinary pressure to pick sides in the conflict. european leaders are meeting an iceland to show their support for ukraine. the summit of accounts of europe is as 4th, since it was founded after world war 2, the 2 they gathering up their organization in reykjavik is focusing on how to hold russia accountable for the war and ukraine. it expelled the russell last year following the invasion of at least 200 people had been confirmed that after cycling,
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mocha hit the coast of being more on sunday. the news has taken several days to get out the officer communications to the north western town. a situate were knocked out camps, housing, hundreds of thousands of displaced, ro hang goes for badly hits. as tony trying reports, the coughing is carried out to the right hand. good camp on the it just sits away in north west, another victim of cycling. okay. it's reported to have killed hundreds of people when it hit on sunday night. in the light of day, the full devastation post by the storm is clear. flimsy structures that a home to hundreds of thousands of ethnic were hanging, displaced by me and most military. no match for wins in excess of 200 kilometers per hour. done and go to the model. there were many people who got wounded due to the storm even around this place. some of the wounds in legs and hands. many died.
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when the strongest strong i ran away from display as with my tutoring, as i did not want to die, but we sang in the water and people save us by pulling us out. both of the tropical cycling left widespread damage in its wake fishing boats, a volley to punch the economy, pound up like fresh tinder along the coast. many buildings with most of the structures. now without rooms, windows or doors. the area has been cut off since sunday, with roads blocked and communications down. people here til delta 0, there's very little aid relief. a medical services have stopped me. i'm a state tv showed senior general min online inspecting damage in the area or on monday, official sources, headset, and the 3 people died in the storm. that numbers likely to rise sharply. this communication lines are restored to the neighboring bangladesh,
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when more than 1000000 rengal refugees live in camps. repairs are already on the way. it's a huge strain on people with such limited results as well. there many fed, it could have been worse, and it's a devastating blow both of those displaced. and those remained at home. tony chang out to 0 flooding has forest hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in central. so malia the city of ballad wayne is among the worst hits transport and essential services have been disrupted. the main hospital has been forced to shut down and residents fear cholera and malaria outbreaks if the floods continue or hid them homage has the story. the birds i view of the human region in central somalia shows the extent of the damage of the days of heavy rain. the tunnels beloved one is submerged and count. as holmes swept away,
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the storms triggered flooding and caused the sabelle river to the banks. forcing people to wade through rising water levels. it was very difficult for me to walk this morning because of the amount of water used to be able to work through it before. but as you can see, the level has reached my waistline. and this situation is getting worse, the businesses schools at hospitals are closed and public transport is disrupted. people say these are some of the worst floods they've seen. these floods are different to others in the past. the flood is larger than any flooding and recent memory that has ever occurred in this region. hundreds of thousands of people left their homes as such of higher ground. but for many like for tune into a family, it's not the 1st time they've had to move on, but i have a question. whenever there is a bus, it's banks weekly. it's the 5th time i've had to flee and come here as a displaced person in the united nations is wanting the funding could increase the
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risk affordable and diseases and the government has yet to assess the full impact of that as well. so let's say that's going to be a limit i think, and it is a calamity and it was an unexpected disaster. however, we are doing all that. we can to protect those who are affected extreme weather patterns are worsting already difficult conditions for somalis. the torrential rain follows prolongs droughts, which is left millions of people dependent on food aid. the un says to space, families need food and shelter, and fost for him. how much i'll just share impeachment proceedings against the ecuadorian president j. r. my last so or do to start shortly. it will be the opposition, 2nd attempt to remove the president's law. so get this off congress before he sucked alessandro. betsy reports from a capital kito or the same day. it's the more or less is do or die momentum in on tuesday, the opposition control legislator starts named beecham in process against the
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conservative president, bringing to a boiler long simmering political crisis. your position believes it has the super majority of 92 out of a 137 votes required to remove the former banker as president. he said. ministration has been besieged by scandals deteriorating economic conditions and a type of drug related killing ecuadorian on the streets or as divided as ever really bad. i think he should go in a democratic and legal way the congress is representing the will of the people. this government has only destroyed our health and education systems for less was a very, a very mean law. so should finish his term, the people 18000000, echo dorians voted, and he won a majority. we should let him finish his work. last was accused of corruption related to the embezzlement of funds and contracts, signed with the state oil transferred company supporters denied the charges
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describing them as politically motivated by the people we don't proceed into a lot of this would be nothing short of a parliamentary into their trying to remove him with strained, farfetched evidence. remember that this contract was signed in 2018 by the previous government. investigators have found no penal responsibility, so there can be a political one. leading impeachment, congress woman says that this is just one of a series of corruption allegation surrounding the president, senior circle. and it has become a referendum on his government and then the money. this is no key that we're not trying to stabilize the country, having its response to a demand by citizens, a desperate clamor for constitutional solution to a problem called gamma. less of the polls show that after the issue of security, the biggest problem for dorian is lost, so at present it must be less. so said he, what appear before congress to defend himself. but he also vowed to the solve congress and call for early elections against the impeachment vote triggering
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a peculiar constitutional clause known as mutual debts that has never been used before fully. if that is triggered less that will remain in office for another 6 months governing by decree, but at least fee or it could spark further protest. similar to those last year over the rising cost of living for during stability with rock country already addressed . at least a little bit, i just need a key to. i will now speak to, i'm a sondra joining us once again from key. so to tell us what's going to happen today, and how likely is it that last will actually be impeached? the trial itself already has started. there are thousands of supporters of president gathered here back whether the national assembly in the early hours the morning. the president,
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the valve is expected to arrive and roughly an hour or the doors that you see behind the security here will be able to move people. they had made friends the best plan for the actual vision. after that, the other assembly members will have time to speak as well. so this will probably go well to the president. well, be looking for signs of, of support their opposition on part of the americans, because they have this possibility. if you have a special gloss. now the emotional down to your constitutional law that allows them before they went to vote, to the solve congress and call for the last we're okay,
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well, we'll leave it there for now. thank you. on a sandra reporting from key to still ahead on l g 0. we are in charge where susan, these refugees are having to watch their homes burns across the border and west star for the hello there. it's a pretty hot picture for much of south asia. really a cloud in the sky across large areas of india where we have had extreme heat across east and areas, but also in the north tempt just sitting well above the average here. it's also rob a humid that fits continue over the next few days. the temperature is picking up in new delhi on wednesday, 42 degrees celsius. it will be coming down however, across northern areas of pakistan as well. with the stops to work its way in from
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afghanistan. by the time we get to the mid week and the heavy rain continues to fall from those eastern areas of india, as well as the bundle dish from the remnants of psycho monica much wyatt for the sauce and heavy rain. however, for carol possibly on thursday, and as we had to each day is just some very heavy rain that's going to push the temperature down in shanghai as that moves its way further east. we can have a look at it here. rumbling its way towards the southern parts of japan that will be some recovery to attempt to invasion as the heavier rain start to move its way for the east. some heavy rain to come for parts of the korean peninsula. but for japan, lots of sunshine and clear skies, that heavy rain is likely to avoid the tokyo, that sits at 30 degrees celsius on thursday. the th, the,
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detained and of corruption investigation. the country's anti corruption watchdog set on monday it had exposed large scale malpractice at the chords. please, 200 people have been confirmed yet after psycho most of swept across the western me in march, the tools would rise. this communication lines are down, making it difficult to assess the expense of the damage. at least 200000 people in central somalia have been forced from their homes by heavy rain, john flooding the wet weather in the town of bennet. wayne follows along dro that's left millions of people on the brink of famine. fighting between the suited, his army and the parent moser rapids support forces has entered the 2nd month as negotiations continue about safe passage for a deliveries. the 2 sides are blaming each other for the escalation of violence in the west star for region. it's forcing more people to seek refuge across the border . samples probably has more from on dollars an eastern shot. the border between
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chart and so done is porous and wild. lately you can see smoke rising in the distance, faint and far away. but those living here save that is alternate. now, the capital of west are for burning the most active hotspot and students conflict. second only to hard to oh, no armed villagers caught up in violets. the consequence of the fight for control of the country refugee is here. say they escaped in the night, searching for days to find a safe crossing. they describe games of armed men in vehicles, harassing them, reading their villages, holding them against their will and killing people. so you can ask them, i do not everybody came. we left the old people. they're still there. we can't go back to get them. we don't know what to do. we don't have anything to go on, fight these people. maybe the govern. chad can help us risk the elder. don't know if you're going to give another there is concern. what is happening there could happen here. driving up here, we could see plumes of smoke rising all along the horizon in different areas on the
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sydney side of the border. if we were to start walking, we'd be on the other side of the border into don in about 10 minutes. when we got here, the people that had fled, those villages told us that those were their homes on fire. and if they still have people there, chads army garrisoned additional troops at audrey and the pilots broke out into one local leader said in chad, there was a soldier under every tree. a warning to or into groups on the other side of the border to monetary and 4 doors remain open. but the military is on high alert. on the uh, you know, portable dock because there is an african proverb that says if your neighborhood is on fire, you must prepare yourself. so yours doesn't catch fire too. you will see the coffee on the refugees should feel at home here. he says the cross border attacks into chad have happened in the past. all of the built up areas offer some protection
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villages would be as vulnerable as those. and the sudanese side will hear about how much family lives in chad. but her farm is in 2000. she says it's been occupied by raiders for son and husband are stuck. their name was that of, we just need help. bring a security. we need security to remain here with us. so yesterday there was also smoke and a lot of gun fire. we hear just all the we're afraid all day because the smoke is so close, we can see it the tier, the lives of sudanese and try to straddle the imaginary lines that divide their countries. they share the same space, the same vulnerabilities as the newly exiled who can only look back at home, where loved ones are left behind. perhaps yet, but aware of a sobering statistic. most refugees who come here from so don't never go back. st bus drive l g 01 dollar, eastern chad, set of goals, opposition, leader will spawn, sancho has not turned up for an appearance in court on break charges. monday,
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some of his supporters confronted security forces in a town in the south. a police officer was killed and several demonstrators injured . sancho has denied the charges. the accused president, microsoft of trying to prevent him running in elections next year. it goes hackers more from the court house and the car the judge's decision to adjourn the court for a week's time. has a peace tensions, at least for now. but the big question is whether we spend sancho will attend his trial next week. he's currently pulled up in his home in the southern town of the gal shaw, which is 2 hours flied away from the tribunal where the court case is expected to take place. now the government spokesperson told us that this is a private matter that concerns to private citizens over a rate charge. but for we spend sounds good. this is
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a politically charged and motivated trial because if he is found convicted, then he will not be illegible to run in the upcoming presidential election in february 2024. but the big uncertainty and the reason why this has created tension is whether or not present lucky. so we'll run for a 3rd mandate. and it's this mistrust for these institutions like the justice system that has exacerbated tension. and that has caused for so many people to come out on the street. nicholas hawking alger 0, the car tension is rising and focused on those thousands of all position leader in wrong cons. party workers have been arrested. a national security meeting has decided there will be 0 tolerance against any further attacks. con, once again, has been urging his supporters to be ready for more demonstrations. you need you thoughts on mtv, but you like the number of police might be 70 or 80000 foot on the other side. it's 220000000 people. they will decide that they will not allow them to violate the
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constitution, and we won't tolerate the attack on the supreme court. we want elections and we want to elected people. we won't live under these corrupt people. when you all will decide, then on that day we will get real freedom assignment and job aid has more from as long about the tensions are being ratcheted up with a section of the bucket funds, but bucks many political leads is working against the minute fee. the other one is that the longer heads with the judiciary, and that is what was discussed at the national security meeting. shared by the problem is for, if i could find it was a high level meeting, not only attended by top politicians, but also jim and drunk chief of staff committees, the army chief chief air force. chief is also the intelligence chief. all of them will be targeted by a non con, saying that they are trying to push them out of power. they discussed the violence which ensued after him bounce on was arrested, saying that it was a black day in the history of fucking sandwich. enemies of focused on have not been
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able to achieve what was that you on that date and saying that they will be swift justice for people who were a part of that arson campaigned. it is worth noting, and not con has denied that his policy was in. busy of in these attacks saying that this was a planned to conspiracy to trap the party and push it out of the politics if i could find completely. so, as you can see, that this is a, a sort of a, a divide and a lot and to 515 for different parties in all of them are sticking to their max stimulus positions. and rights workers are concerned that this is not going to involve a prominence political cartoonist and hong kong has defended the freedom of expression after his drawings were withdrawn from newspapers following government pressure. one k, kuanz, cartoons were published in hong kong is making power for decades. his work had been criticized by police on the security bureau and resa months. media and hong kong has faced restrictions and spacing and pose the national security law in 2020. as 5
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people had been sentenced in a german court for their rules, and one of the biggest arch robberies in modern history, 18th century jewels worth more than a $120000000.00 were stolen from a museum and dressed in and 2019. most of the pieces were recovered. some remained missing. funds were jailed for between 4 and 6 years stuff. austin has more from berlin. was saying that's one of the most spectacular robberies in germany and even in the whole of europe. but it was quite a shock here in germany that the, in, especially in this for to find the royal palace in dressing, where the greenville museum is situated, that these robust coats enter and from the tri, we've learned how well they plant everything. they visited several times the museum and on the day of the rubber, we did manage to cut off all electricity in the building, but also on the streets nearby do museum. they came in with heavy equipments and
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even during the try, one of the suspects that he couldn't imagine that they could get this far. they stole more than $4000.00 diamonds from this 18th century for our special collection . and police have been looking everywhere in the months after the robbery, even in the canals here in berlin and id, and a managed to make a deal with the suspects. and most of it of half of it has now been returned. the former head of a car maker ality has pleaded guilty or fraud trial in germany known as diesel gates. rupert statler told the court of munich that he allowed vehicles equipped with software intended to cheat emission standards to remain on sales. that was even after he was told about the scam audi as pair and company. volkswagen admitted in 2015 that it had installed the software and 11000000 vehicles as on
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seasonally hot. weather is breaking temperature records across western parts of north america. the heat has melted mountains, snow increasing the risk of flooding, car like reports. taking a 90 dive into some parts of the us and western canada have swelled to it in on seasonal heat. with temperature records challenged or toppled daily across the region. many welcomed via of normal boom. but for other types and see is a more extreme weather event to come. it's not much i can do about it, how i feel bad. i'm a little bit leery of the future for sure. i see this already for
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a fires in alberta like crazy. so yeah, that over in the extreme heat, gripping west and parts of north america has continued to few wild fires burning in western canada that smoke now drifting into eastern canada and pots of the us, affecting air quality. now it is extreme, but not as exceptional as what we sold 2 years ago. we're kind of to set a new old time temperature record high, but still records were broken daily and monthly records across the region. and so give you an idea of how high temperatures are assisting. well, let's look at seattle when nearly 15 degrees above the average. and that trend is set to continue. so far this month, more than a 100 wild fires of swept areas in western canada, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. and triggering a state of emergency and all but a province energy production and canadas main oil producing providence has also
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