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side to the thousands of the citizens living on the side of each other on this injunction i alena too is had a bakery and keep. for now she says she'll remain here the dreams of the day when she can return home. the wrong confirms of prison. the swamp involving arabian and us prisoners, these set to go ahead on monday. the time sammy's a, then this is out just a live from dell also coming up. the green task of identifying victims of floods in libya with thousands of people are still missing. and haas jim, uh huh. the bottom, ah, and honestly, it's
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a big day for us to then 1030 makeshift schools are opening today in a bit to big like the active is much in new york. i'm on the get in to fossil fuels ahead of the week of climate talks of the way, the major prisoner swap between the us and it rom is getting on the way it's part of a deal pro could by costs are also 2 years of in direct negotiations under the agreement, $6000000000.00 of frozen the rain in funds is being transferred to banks and the cause of iran is freeing 5 variety of americans. washington says they've been unjustly this. haines, for us, is expected to release 5, arabians from its jails,
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the amman, alto and switzerland of taken thoughts and facilitating negotiations between the wrong and the wes, 3 of the 5 american prisoners have been named. they all faced charges of s b and all she knew, ron, they and their families denied in tons, 5 radians at washington accuses of secretly working for the wrong will be released . they include a political scientist, a college professor and the next full to the us released the rainy and funds that were frozen in south korea. that money went to switzerland 1st and then the cuts off. the $6000000000.00 comes from a rainy an oil sales to south korea and is now in a bank account in the us says the wrong can only use that money for humanitarian needs, such as medicine and food would be the charge we have on the c o, in the framework of our active foreign policy, we have unlocked our frozen assets from south korea. today, god willing, these funds will be in the hands of our government and people. and this government
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will spend it accordingly to the needs of the people. and non com is in del, how is more this has been a very carefully choreographed deal. it began with $6000000000.00 that was around in money that was seized in south korea. and the sanctions little by the americans . that money under this new agreement was actually sent by the south. koreans to switzerland from switzerland arrived in a category the bank account. they've confirmed receipts of that that means the american prisoners held in the wrong and now at the airport, they'll fly from tyrone into doha. international airport, where i am right now, they'll be met with by representatives of the state department and the us embassy here. and then they'll fly back to the united states. if previous deals to go by, there will be under the loan to go medical evaluation and an intense security debriefing on the around inside. your running prisoners will be released as 5 of them as well. 2 of them will remain in the states. 2 of them will fly back to,
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to her aunt, and one of them will go to a 3rd country where his family resides. that's the bad burdens of the deal, but it is a very controversial deal to $6000000000.00. the republican side is essentially a run, some paid to the iranians for the release of these prisoners. not so say the button administration button ministration said that this was the only way to get this deal done and that it is a good deal. the categories had been absolutely key in this. the iranians and the americans never met face to face. this was the epitome of shuffled diplomacy, the categories, moving from room to room, making those offers from the other side, getting the responds going to the next room. it took a yeah, of intense negotiations on behalf of the categories with those americans and those iranians to get to this place. it is the cast restate the best deal that they can come up with. but also, it's the best deal to get these people out, say a lot of analysts who have been watching,
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but the $6000000000.00 of aid comes with strings attached. so is it running money? is the $1.00 disputing that however, the americans are insisting that it can only be used a humanitarian aid. however, the earnings of thank you, minute, terry, and 8 is for the benefit of the iranians. so if there's any inkling that this aid might be used, for example, for weapons, then the americans will of the categories, dis, trying to stop transferring funds of a to the iranians. but right now, it's very clear. this is a deal that has now gone through re expected it to be completed in the coming. i was america and i'll just go to libya now with a difficult task of identifying the dead and the city of dev that is on the way the city was devastated a week ago off the 2 dams collapsed following heavy rain. thousands of people were killed. 10000 all still missing. by like trying the reports from tripoli. it's
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been a week since the eastern lived in city of done the changed forever. those who know me like wave of water that goes down. this valley has left a deep scar on the city. its people and in the hearts of the nation of those will survive the floods are trying to process this your loss while recovering. what remains? still wondering if their loved ones are alive or dead. comes it in the books of the thank god for giving this patients. i'm sitting in our area trying to clean it. i'm trying to verify who's missing. i'm trying to and this time the current situation. i didn't leave thousands are dead. thousands more are missing. dozens of local and international search and rescue teams are working to recover bodies from under the rubble or those last us or into the muddy sea. authorities are still trying to understand the scale of the destruction. if the owner of the team was signed by the
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government to take stock of the damages stated that the total number of buildings in the city is about $6142.00 of which the total number of damage buildings is. 150891 buildings were completely destroyed. 211 were partially destroyed. and about $398.00, what's up much in the month. so you wouldn't! my gratian agency says more than 38000 people have been displaced in the east and lived the political situation was to rival administrations, has not made things easy. local authorities say they are now working on a complete or partial evacuation plan for the city of w. 4 with 2 governments. the relief effort has been chaotic and accurate information. hard to come by, people, here's a more needs to be done to help those in need models. we still do not know anything . we are hearing rumors. some are trying to assure us,
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others are saying you need to leave the city. we have no water and no resources damage. roads have made it difficult for a to enter the city. people are still trying to come to terms with what happens here. those who remain in the city are in desperate need of help. they hope it comes soon. now, trina, elder, 0 tripoli, correspondents malik training. that is joining us now live from triple a and not as time goes on, the task of identifying bodies is, must be just getting grimma. i'm grimma a well, it's a daunting task. i mean, thousands of people are missing divers that are in the city of deadman. i say there are vehicles that that contain entire families. so the recovery of bodies is difficult. many are still stuck under the rubble. but look, you know,
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we've seen in the relief efforts a, the rival governments have had, it's been difficult for them to cooperate. uh, you know, to, to health ministers, to prime ministers, to of everything pretty much. but when it comes to libya's judicial branch of that for a, for the last 4 since the revolution, 2011, they've been able to remain an independent institution. so people trust them we, we saw the general prosecutor say that he's, they've bounce up their efforts in the city of does not, they've now created a database taking pictures of, of, of bodies that have been recovered so they can be identified. the process is getting better, but people want it to to be done faster, you know, and in a slight mac and libyan tradition, it's very important to barry bodies as soon as possible. but the general prosecutor has asked citizens to try to be patient and cooperate with them so that they can
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take samples from any bodies that are recovered, that are on the ident that that can be identified through pictures. so they can later on, uh, identify, identified on. so people in the city of devon now, i mean it's, it's a very difficult time, but uh, once they can know that their loved ones are dead and they're able to identify them . they can start the process of closure. all right, thank you so much truly that i think trying to the schools reopening in central morocco 10 days off to the devastating us quite hard to say there is in the atlas mountain students having to take the lessons in tens view and says this quite displaced more than 300000 people, many living and make shift camps. early i spoke to, i'll just see what was hash them on the bottom of those other main shifts school and asked me this is one of the areas that were devastated by the us quake. and
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this was crucial for them to stock school. so going to give us sense of life back to normal, would expecting more and more students to arrive next hour for the simple reason that they would be transported from the villages all the way to this area that has been converted into an a make shift. schools are likely to stay here for at least 2 to 3 months before the government decides on whether they would be valid k to 2 schools in the major incentives such as the city of about a cache or other areas. but this is quite a significant moment. they just started school a few days before the quake. when the quick happened, everything was ever think taste a life that has completely changed. some of the students unfortunately won't be able to make it so, i mean, because they died in the lake, some of them lost that
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a lot of it is all those last everything. good one and good to see anybody speak english here. give me an idea. give us got sort of how do you feel about gets out of the events that they didn't have a lower set of health. more please in to a touch, we'll just say that she's stressed out. that's why this is more efficient as what this is strange. we've never been so something like this. oh jesus, do they do you know it's a totally different environment for us facing. see cisco at all. the savings. okay. she has. oh, i'm says cass, something else would happen like an aftershock smidgen. fucking they go crazy. is a thank you, i really appreciated. thank you. well, this is it's, i mean it's a totally different life. all these people, they do understand that life is never going to be the same again. however,
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it has to continue. the world leaders are in new york for the 78th section of the united nations general assembly that begins on tuesday. then they are questioning whether the assembly has the political will to put assign geophysical tensions and address the needs of the world's most vulnerable regions of diplomatic edits. james base reports from un headquarters every year. this is the time of year when world leaders come to new york and speaking the un general assembly. last year, ukraine's presence lensky address the gathering by video link. but this time is expected to attend in person. i spoke with president putin facing the rest warrant from the international criminal court is not coming and will be represented by his
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foreign minister. so gay lever off the u. n. c's, no chance of meaningful discussions on ending the war, but they will work towards the renewal of the deal, which allowed ukraine's grain to be exported by ship on the black sea. russia pulled out of that agreement in july. i will be receiving present, soleski. i will be receiving present that of a one i'll be receiving the minutes the love at all. and obviously this question will be the on the table of all of the discussions. and so i'm not going to say where that i am optimistic or pessimistic. the only thing you can be sure to zip i remain determines the other key areas of discussion this week is the sustainable development goals thing out of the scene by the secretary general's deputy and the government of un headquarters. they've built a special pavilion to highlight the series of targets, the u. n. a great in 2015 to help all of humanity with the slogan, no one left behind. but those 17 goals which are marked by these doors are very low
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away from being met. for you and blames the global pandemic inflectional around the world. i'm conflict and of course that brings us back to the war. and you cried. the deputy secretary general told me the most powerful countries of the world. the g 20, which met last week in delhi, are the ones who still need to do more with regard to funding and reformed with the global system. they absolutely need to step up, they should have done so yesterday. we have 7 years late to stepping up to the commitments made an address. what we see is some movements towards saying we will do that, but i think there are many frustrations trust that's a sense of around will that happen, will it not happen? so you and really hope still be a quantum leap in the fortunes of the sustainable development goals over the next few days. but some diplomats via the war and ukraine might end up overshadowing these efforts. james bay's outages era at the united nations. while ahead of that u. n. meeting thousands of climate activists riley didn't your calling on world
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latest and the use of fossil fuel for the 1st time, the one general assembly gathering both feature a climate. i'm vision summit on the sidelines, christmas allowing me has moved from the protests. the world leaders aren't the only ones converging on new york. so the united nations general assembly climate activist came by the thousands from around the world to shouting their message. right now, the impacts of climate change on the caribbean and other parts of the global south are absolutely devastated. and i'm here to bring attention to the impacts of our past. the fuel injection here in the global north is having the argument is like the one i come from there isn't going drought in the holding of africa, including kenya and somebody of that is putting millions at risk of buttons of yeah . and got the 9 children that rights to, to deaf education. and what are the demonstration tees up the climate ambition summit on wednesday called by the un secretary general to pressure nations to
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fulfill their commitments made in the 2015 parents agreement aimed at keeping global temperature rise below one and a half degrees celsius activists. are amplifying the call of un secretary leaders actions possible. that message is directed particularly us president joe biden. they're demanding president biden, declare a climate emergency is the number one, oil and gas are in the world right now. america alone is responsible for one 3rd of oil and gas expansion in the world. so we're asking president biden to turn the tide against fossil fuels and phase out the fossil fuel era. some activists have gone beyond demonstrating one up to the summit. 25 well rested on thursday for blocking entrances to the headquarters of the citibank, of the largest finance years of fossil fuel extraction around the flow after
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a summer of record setting heat, as well as floods and wildfires may more stream by rising temperatures. they said governments can't wait any longer to at kristen salumi. how does the euro york so heading out just sarah, i'm seeing bus robbie in ukraine. sylvia region on the border with russia for isolated communities say civilian targets are coming under attack on a near daily basis. and then the occupied west bank will show you the free historic sign being added to your netscape list of world heritage site. the is still pre drawing java as you might expect, but the dry season is coming to an end as the sun goes science. so the rains come
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south as well. the line of heavy use right, is probably still to be found in the philippine central and something. but increasingly in borneo, the good half of sumatra put into my lazy and this warning i for most of the charlotte and for the next 20 or as a fairly heavy rain as well. right. and is don't an issue in australia the moment this streaming cost is no more than that. the next truck that come to the box will probably bring very windy weather, tasmania and some rain. there's not really being noticed much in west, in australia, post sitting at 20 degrees. incomplete contrast to the induced heat from interior wind had of a sidney's 33 degrees. in fact, as a warning in new south, wales is part of new south wales, overheat twice, which are about halfway through and is city gets about 34.7 on wednesday. it'll make us another record having made one already september heat reco background. so obviously it was the wind changes to the softly, comp thursday and use a gland nice and bull rain on the western side of the hydrogen as you might expect
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. and then when the wind comes down over the mountains, it was things of christ church because up to 20 through 23. come wednesday, but then it stopped to get very wet away for the facts of the did you need to talk to the team with global leaders gathering in new york. the ongoing war and ukraine is wanting to dominate events. what is the international community able to unite this thing without? is there a comprehensive coverage of the un general assembly the
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the welcome back. you're watching, i'll just say the time to recap, i'll headlines. major prisoner swap between the ron and the us is getting underway under the deal. $6000000000.00 of frozen. the rain in funds have been transferred to banks and called to washington says that money is at least once you monetary and use more than 10000 people are still missing week off the 2 times collapse following heavy rain and east and libya rescue work and say that having difficulty retrieving bodies on the identifying the day, schools are reopening in central norco 10 days off to the devastating us quite in the hottest fatalities. and we have found some students will be taking the lessons in tens. the judges of the international cause of justice, a hearing arguments from russia and ukraine, about most goes claims. it launched its invasion to prevent genocide. crime brought
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the case to the united nations highest quote. just days off the russian began its invasion last year. cubic uses moscow of abusing international law. falsely alleging genocide, denise and ukraine. russia once the case to be thrown out and objects to the quotes jurisdiction. you agree is not the cues in russia of committing genocide. ukraine is also not accusing or russia or failing to prevent or punish each other. so on the contrary, your crane cease. no genocide has occurred that long should been not to reject the keys. because according to the costs you are is brothers. if there was no genocide, they can not be at violation of the engine site, pretty much the farmers in ukraine's knolls and so many regions site. now working
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on the constant strength of attack, russian tanks, artillery and, and crossed across the board. i have hit, i will cultural land, hundreds of times, samples throughout the has more from the village of conductive harvesting season. in wartime, ukraine, navigating open fields near the russian border means risking land mines and unexploded thoughts always keeping one eye on the sky. for drones. missiles and russian artillery. it could just be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. the people's lives are a priority. we only work when we know it's safe and there is no for us to learn. we take every precaution here. some of us feel the mind. there are other fields we cannot get to because the road to mind of much of the farms in sumi region are no go areas because of russian munitions left behind or ukrainian land mines,
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place there as a deterrent. when a russian shell hit her farm, tatiana lost 27 head of cattle, as she describes unrelenting russian attacks and says to me, needs more help. let me in the bar trick versions, fly drones every day and watch what is happening here. these spots us an open fire . they are shooting that civilians. there's no military here. and they know this, but they still open fire. damage from artillery and showing is fairly common in places like this in the assuming region. and that's because we're only a few kilometers away from the border. russian positions are set to be just beyond those power lines behind me. but this is not a normal front line. there are no tanks or trenches or troop movements. none the less communities here say they come under attack on a near daily basis. just as we arrived, a drone dropped grenades damaging a nearby cell tower, further isolating people here. a russian attack also damaged the local school and
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leveled the only hospital in this village. many have left those still here show signs of stress and depression. so it's not fair is fair. what else is that to say? i'm considering leaving, i have 2 children and it's terrifying to live. hey, i feel terrible. i feel that i don't want to do anything i can't get used to. it was due to the mining work to make farm land viable again, could take 10 years and will only begin after the war. for now, russia continues to target entire villages near the border. ukrainians carry on unwilling to leave, but ensure how much longer they can stay the same bus route of the o, g 0. kendra teeth, village in ukraine, sylvia beach, a toddler gravels, and those in law. they say they seize control of 2 minutes the basis in the town of
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land. a near the border with mauritania, violence has escalated, since you and peacekeeping troops began, withdrawing from the north. full out was demanded by montes june to coolly the se they considering mobilizing reserves and of cooled off independence day celebrations. next week. thousands of people including police officers have been injured. that's an error. try and cultural festival in the german city of still guns. more than 200 people have been arrested off the supporters of the era trained government faults with those critical of the administration. the president of the dominican republic has defended his decision to close the boat with hazy. the neighbors are in a dispute over the building of a can. now president luis, i been i the says he doesn't want to come from station but will not reopen the board. rental hate the stops construction. john home and reports from the boulder in the dominican republic,
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defense minister visiting the boat after the 1st time since he's country will, did it close to neighboring hate say that decision was made pressure efficient farm is to stop digging a canal on the mists that cru river, which the 2 country ship we took the opportunity to ask him about the spanish, the dominican republic, simone's level dominican no, i body is project to is no cause and we live with a real book, you know, pull the most and it on the credit card the projectile, but none of those projects start bucks the costs of the river going on. this one does, and that's why it violates the treating goes. but the haitian side is suffering from drought and have a rock to irrigate the phone lines. they continue to dig despite the build up to the dominican troops on the other side, the buddha, the dominican government, wants to show of what it's doing. but at the moment, that's really all. this is a show. they can't actually do anything to stop the canal, which is on the haitian side the the, it seems kind of haitian government,
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even if it wanted to use a political crisis in violence of left to do but incapacitated even most of the cap to pull to print is in the hands of gains. so how else to dominican defense minister does it expect that same haitian government, the result of the crisis? sell them? ok, well here and like then we know that the haiti government because of the actions of the gangs, has a trans tide. but the construction of the canal a fixed the interest of the dominican republic to fix all pharmacists. and it violates the treaty of 1929. so it's up to the government to search for a solution. it's in the hands. meanwhile, the close border is effecting not just patients who depend on food from the welfare dominican republic, but also trade is and exports is on this side. the dominican industry and commerce minister also the board at reissue trade has promised to buy any perishables through the account. so i asked him how long is government can do that for me the. the important to know they've been to the limit of time doesn't depend on us. it
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depends on how, you know, we hope that the talks advance and we continue to re position our product internally. meanwhile, in hate to support for the canal is only growing. perhaps because of dominican, no position, it's becoming a punch, realty condemned the flags of flustering bus loads of people arriving to help some performing due to rituals and supports of the world. because of this, like as if i am actually bringing food, what we've come to support the canal being built because we have sions, we must corporate them on ourselves to give food, to those who look at the canal, the dominican republic and says that haitian businessman and politicians are behind the project, but whoever it started, the canal has become very much a popular and surprised be it was the cause economic ruin. if the 2 countries continue this stand, john home, and i would just say to the hubble and it's a pretty historic sites in the occupied westbank has been added to your nests goes
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list of will heritage places tell us. so san is located near the palestinian city of jericho, and historians believe it predates the permits in egypt and that there was some fun who loved. hello, futon has exceptional universe who value because it's the very 1st example of a city when men sort of stone construction and building a pictured city. this happens intel also time. and when men came out of the caves and thought about creating a civil system and a place we bring together a number of people, this happens intel also time in this location man. first thoughts of the concepts of animal domestication and agriculture the high. let's take you through some of the headlines now. a major prisoner swap between the us and the ron is underway. it's part of a deal broken by caught off to 2 years of in direct negotiations under the
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