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i'll just wait the . ready ready ready a northern gaza under attack, several people are killed as is where the force is continues to target the heavier around one of the strips, p remaining medical facilities. the on the bulk of this is just a lot from to how. so coming up, united nations looks to send a team to syria, to investigate mass graves believes to contain thousands of bodies, powerful off the shocks, russell by the lawsuit as the pacific on a nation, we'll some of the largest great this left at least 14 people that the suspect
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accused of getting a us health care executive is charles and mother as an active terrace. the thanks for joining us as we know laptop and this, or as a tax on guys come out loud when hospital in the north of the strip is being targeted again, is there any forces will say struck a residential building nearby and the hospital direct as dozens were injured in the attacks area and his radio striking the home shopping displays, people in the area killing at least 8 and m central and southern cause attendance and what was supposed to be safe signs came on to find several people killed that. let's go there. uh, by in central guys and, and get an update from that topic up a resume. so tag. just bring us up to date on the latest is where the text that happens every night. yes, native in fact uh the uh,
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the israeli military operations have been ongoing on the ground in the north of district in particular. and also strikes continue to unfold civilians of course, separate areas in the territory and the central and the south of district. but let me 1st start with a hoot team, the updates coming from loving jobs, a well vicinity of commodities. one hospital has been widely targeted during the past 12 hours. specifically, that's a number of residential buildings, but widely flat 10 to the ground. as a part of the ongoing is valuable peroration. we also adults inclusive statements and even reduced coming from the inside. come out, i'd want hospice of by the director of the hospital. the for has some of the stuff the who confirm that the intensive care unit has been targeted squarely by these, by the military. uh, the, the, the intensive care unit test. but categorically become out of service now. and there was a huge fire that has been broken out in the side of the attack inside the hospital
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where the workforce to contain them to distinguish the fire using very primitive means including blankets in order to contain the situation that to control the fire . they also transfer, transferred the patients inside, including children to another, was in order to continue providing them with the central medical treatment base. it has, he has also reiterated how a very a drastic is the medical situation in the hospital. because the, the buildings of the hospital out of the hospital have been widely damaged from the attack that took place earlier. he has a, has cooled, international community to afford an urgent protection for medical sector. and also for the as well because inside i know we are, we have got more reports coming from an older hospital, confirm that 2 of the medical what cuz what ended up to the is very minutes. we had deployed exclusive reports in the vicinity of the hospital and trump and who have been widely inflamed over the area that leading to the injury of whose to medical
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book is very grim reality is taking place in the north where the, the full cost between start us to barely functional that have been on the relentless at techs, but most of the domestic brutalization also escalating here in the central area wept to civilians have been killed in one of the overnight attacks when a made ship 10 in the city of dairy by the hand, another tent was knocked out and the 6 seats, i'll tell you on this one woman, woman and it's and it's and his that and the headset, these have been killed was 3 others. the one did on which one supported 2 and also hospital to get medical treatment even need. within the hours of this morning, we continue to hear the home of these very drones owned us call you all of the central areas. and it could be assigned a potential as strikes within the coming dollars, right? that is a snapshot of where we are in gaza right now to eric many things to that topic. obviously in durham bottom, come i loud when the hospital is come on to repeat his attack since the start of
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his ro siege of northern cause. i'm now just who is most colored visits, the intensive k, usually to come out loud when hospital incentives based reports, a federal gun, ex tools, medical stuff, patients and one of the people as these were in the army. keep this toning trouble with the photo explosives near to come out of the hospital. we are talking here about straight away from the medical stuff. that's why the fragments keep hitting directly the hospital itself. and that's why doctors here are installing this and to this says the window of the i see you to boss me to keep themselves safe from the attacks and 11th to show you one more thing, which is the neighborhood near to come out of the hospital, which is completely destroyed, which is completely live in the ground as it calculated the se in the picture.
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so this is the living of destruction inflicting and the hospital as it gets really busy and along with the show when will think, which is the c o d u department and the father chose here. and also the tax directly shows the i c u department from this board from this side. so we also can key about lucky scenes every night, every morning and every day as the army keeps attacking and shooting the hospital itself. doctors and the patients here to everybody to stop this genocide also to save this only operational health facility into this. these nothing causes threat flaws because you adjust the paper that you saw this
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time from us as a ceasefire dealing cause it is possible if israel stop setting new conditions, these really defend smith just as a deal is close to the nasa. but he's also made comments pushing for the defeat from us and continue to control in gaza. folks on the way in cairo and dough after multiple rounds collapse without as an agreement. so de, has more from the jordanian capital of mine, just remind you of the teams operating out of jordan ever since as well. find out just different both feel combined. westbank on for me is rather self, and there is a lot of optimism in is really media reports about possibly reaching a ceasefire deal that would see the release of at least some is really captives from gaza. now this optimism is cautious because we've been here before, and the efforts were startled at the last minute because of new conditions because of different considerations. but what is at stake here? the situation that humanitarian situation in the gaza strip is beyond catastrophic
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and him, us wants to see the entry of humanitarian assistance as soon as possible. that is being tied to phase one of the cease fire agreement. and right now, as we understand, the discussions are down to the details to the names of who would be released, what, who, who among the palestinian detailing is would also be released. so the details are being ironed out. egypt and i thought playing, of course, an important role and the united states has its eyes on this. the outgoing and incoming un administrations have a vested interest in a ceasefire deal being announced, even if it doesn't lead to an end to the war. some managed expectations and in the meantime, how must issued a statement saying that a cease fire deal is within reach. it's nothing. yeah. who doesn't introduce new conditions? no, to all the data. i'm of the
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10 days of the full pasha, alissa, the search has begun to tens of thousands of civilians who disappeared under his regime mass graves believed to contain the remains of thousands of bodies a being uncovered across the country. the un says this made contact with a new administration that is hoping to send teams to investigate suspected sites is i know, hold on one to one of the north of the capital damascus. i saw alice sad says the truth about some of the 10s of thousands of missing syrians lives here underneath what used to be a regime base and could take the north of damascus. i saw him owned a construction company. he says, bossard said security agencies use his machinery to bury tortured prisoners here and houses. we show the name of suited exactly and have a bad feeling every time i come here and it brings back memories of what i saw for
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years refrigerated truck seized to dump bodies in tables on a regular basis. if it was very ugly. i some witnessed a parent for crimes. he wasn't the only one in this town. the writing on the wall documents the date of the burial, of an an identified man. there are others. and in this corner of the town cemetery, others were buried. but there are no tombstones, no names of their stories, only to be told by the graveyards keeper, who can only say for sure that they were not from the town and were likely involved in opposition protests at the start of the uprising them on a new of them the regime buried around 100 people here. they buried them in batches . i prayed over their bodies, they were innocent civilians, and so they were our syrian brothers. good title was ever shame stronghold. it's outskirts. we're a close military zone that residents were not allowed to access. for years,
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families waited for news about their loved ones who disappeared in regime prisons, arbitrary and unlawful arrests were part of the regime strategy to silence the sent . now, syrians need to find those who are still missing, writes group, say, there are at least 100000 accounted, 400, the kind of table, the refrigerator had trucks used to come at least twice a week. they used to use employees of government institutions and think as to the graves. no one of us could say with at the time, answers mainly beneath the ground. people here are calling for experts to start digging. mass graves have already been on earth and other regime controlled areas. evidence of a long suspected pattern of organized states violence center for their which was the, the good type of damascus countryside. a serious new prime minister mohammed alba. she is sold out to 0. the country is running very low on phone,
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kind of see reserves, 13 years of civil war cripple, the countries economy. but oh, but she also blames systemic corruption within the sound regime. the prime minister has cooled on the international communities to help retrieve some of the money and rebuild the country. or lisa set it up and i started, i said, it wasn't just put shuttle. i said there was a whole system of plundering the results and the wealth of the syrian people, but not that money should have been used to fund the reconstruction of syria. and we should seek help to this from the international community. because that money is the money of the syrian people and the military chief of high attorney, i'll show him the said that the group intends to dissolve as um, dwayne and formerly, much under the banner of the city and ministry. he also sent the code is controlled areas will be integrated into the countries in new leadership. united wants to see that the institutionalization of the military is definitely the next step. all military units including the armed wing of h t. s must be integrated into the army. if it was the that's the problem of how we hope to reach a stage where we no longer talked about factions. because this is
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a thing of the past. it was merely a means to and then when we will be among the 1st like the initiative to dissolve our arm, dwayne from the front, i'm in a bit of what i can and regarding the area controlled by the sds, so god willing it will be integrated under the countries, new administration value and security council is issued a statement cooling for an inclusive and serial ad political process often before the sad regime. you and, and void us to address the council on tuesday presenting of roadmap for transition . but he also was the conflict hasn't ended pointing to the tension between turkish bank fighters and curtis lead forces. gabe was on the it has moved from the un headquarters in new york on the 1st security council meeting on serious since the fall of a side were council members got updates on the political and humanitarian situation on the political front gear. petterson, the un special envoy for syria, spoke to the counsel via video conference from damascus. he's been meeting top
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officials of the new administration and says there's growing support to recognize and assist the new leaders and press during transition concrete movement on them inclusive political translation. really big t and ensuring so you're going to receive state along like support and needs. so it is clear and the master willingness to engage the needs or the mens and for them to be addressed with broad support including a smooth end to sanctions. and pro prompted actual on designations to i'm for reconstruction. the way petterson told the counsel a roadmap to a syrian, the lead political transition should have 4 key elements and orderly transition and preservation of state institutions. it should be inclusive of the broadest spectrum of syrian society and political parties. there must be a new constitution and free and fair elections. petterson also told is real to stop
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. it's a tax on syria is right, and let's see, is oil supplement activity and they don't provide ceiling going all rich are any good attacks on serial silver entity unto to tony and then tell you are the most stop on a humanitarian front. tom fletcher's of the newly appointed emergency relief coordinator, also brief. the council from damascus. he said before the fall of the assad regime, 17000000 syrians needed humanitarian support. 1000000 new people have been displaced in less than 2 weeks, but he also came to the council with a rare good news. the situation has begun to stabilize. as i've seen this week, markets rose health facilities are reopening. children have gone back to school. 8 operations, a gradually resuming across most of our house in the security council gone are the
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days of division and disagreements over syria, at least right now within the counsel and the wider international community. there is consensus that there's a real opportunity to help syria through this transition. gabriel's on to l, just either at the united nations in new york. israel's prime minister says his forces punch state inside a buffet and they seized last week in southern syria for the table future. benjamin netanyahu made the comments during a visit to mount hammond, which is inside syria. beyond the border of these radio occupied golden heights is relatively area in the days off to the full of the subdivision. critics accused israel of exploiting the physical unrest and syria to make, allow me to grab to a hands on i have just a few more details to review the reviews about the russian general killed by cranium bomb attack in moscow. the
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his 1st trip out of because the obstacle when i met with as voters are sealed, then israel isolates because of a palestinian filmmaker become stainless in no way i. so if i'm just going to go for one month and go back again, separate from his family and homeland and denied the right to work, the bottles for acceptance in a foreign land tide with dakota, forums of lease, to know how to explain to situations, then you're going to fight it from because the to the optic witness on just a line so that they come groups is posing the biggest challenge to me in most contest since the 2021 with exclusive access to remote camps and frontline battles, shouts the progress of an idealist, the young generation of ripples was a pivotal moment in the last 60 years of the countries trouble history. on the
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phones, me in my, on the, on the roads on al jazeera. the knowledge is here. with the, [000:00:00;00] the hello you without. is there a, is there mind to a top stores this our building causes come out loud when hospital is being targeted? once again, my is ready for us as they will say, struck a nearby residential building and the latest attacks the hospital director says
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dozens of people who've been injured to thousands of bodies to being uncovered in mass graves and serial tens of thousands of buildings to be buried in one side and could tie 5 outside domestic d u. n. sizes made contact with a new administration, and it's sending a team to investigate the u, as in boy, as serious as there's growing international consensus to recognize the new administration. petterson address the security council quoting for an inclusive political transition for the free and fair elections. the ukraine security services, it was behind the killing of a russian general in moscow. ego could easily off was combined to russia's nuclear, chemical and biological defense division. he died when a bomb concealed an electric scooter exploded. is the highest ranking russian officer to be killed since the war and ukraine began. you're the shop of oliver reports from moscow. in the morning, a powerful blast shakes a quiet,
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small school neighborhood shop 3 windows in nearby buildings filled with the book for books. but there was some kind of a bank we warehouse to sleep, didn't understand anything. there was no fire. 15 minutes later, special surfaces begin together and palaces, 5 departments, emergency services for the garden, the ground. there was a strong shudder, like a tower crane had fallen. for some reason, the blast wave broke the inner glass and my window. the firefighters arrived 1st because the fire alarm went off. that's hawk code 54 year old lift 10, a general eagle, q, reload the head of rushes, and you click chemical and biological defense. and he's such a 3 year old assistant rational source whose side of the bone was hayden on the handle of an electric screws. up pucks near the entrance to the building. it was designated using a radio signal or recall from a mobile phone. it sold those behind that talk, the monitoring the general, remotely vot
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a timer left in aconia by which is being evacuated now. the lens was pointing at the entrance to the building rocks and the rod to keep it hayton of the ukrainian psyche. religious killing was a special operation by the security services. they accused him of organizing chemical attacks on ukrainian solo calling him a legitimate target. the russian authorities have described the bone, the tide as terrorism, while souls as close to can relive say that shortly before his death, the general has said he was a target for the ukrainians. also he uncovered data on biological laboratories in ukraine. compliance with toxic chemicals, publications against russia. u dash above oliver ultra 0 most okay. you got any president brought him is. lensky hips has been been visiting troops as fighting intensifies in the east. he met military personnel and the rehabilitation center of the western city on the verge of. meanwhile, in the east ukrainian troops of trying to repel a russian advance as a multiple friends in the near region. russian forces are closing in the town
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across some vice road and rail junction. european leaders leasing in a stony is capital of endorse the ukrainian presidents. so cool victory plan leaders some 10 nations maps, including those from the u. k. sweden fin lives in denmark. they quote on china, iran and north korea to cease all forms of direct support for russia and place continued military assistance to give projected to exceed $12500000000.00 by next year. the countries will say violence support, few cranes passed to nato membership. it's difficult to kind of those 5 minutes is facing close to step down even for members of his own party. that's the opposite. his deputy prime minister resigned to the act of descent. christopher england was considered today's most loyal ally in a statement, freeland, criticize true though, for political gimmicks and said they disagreed on how to handle power suppressed by incoming us president elect. donald trump. crudo is that the country for nearly a decade in recent comments. he like unto more within his own policy, to that of
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a family. as it has been an eventful couple of days hasn't been easy. and that's why i'm so happy to see you guys you know it's, it's hard not to feel happy with more like this. liberals among families because that's what we really are a big family now, like like most families, sometimes we have fights around the holidays. but of course, like most families, we find our way through it. uh, the suspect to the high profile kidding over us health insurance executive has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism. so we g. montgomery is accused of shooting dads, unitedhealthcare, c o. brian thompson in new york 2 weeks ago. the case attracted worldwide attention
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with many online criticizing the insurance industry and on affordable health care. this was a frightening, well planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shots and attention and intimidation it incurred, and one of the most bustling parts of our city. draining the safety of local residents interest, so like commuters and business people just starting out on their day. let me say this plainly. there is no heroism in what men gianni did. this was a senseless act of violence. it was a cold and calculated crime that stole a life and putting new yorkers at risk. we don't celebrate murders and we don't lie, an ice the killing of any one and any attempt to rationalize this is a vile, reckless and offensive to our deeply held principles of justice. well, run these islands, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. so he says the severity of the challenge is, is unexpected,
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as i can tell you that certainly um it was a creative charging decision at a creative decision by the district attorney's office to present the grand jury with the option of been guiding for murder in the 1st degree and again, this notion of, of the way the murder was committed, it was done so brazenly, it was done in a method and in a manner that would have intimidated the population of new york city. and that's exactly what the statute costs were. whether we're talking about intimidating the population or intimidating the government, the way that the model was carried out a certain way on a busy street 6th avenue. yes, it was 6 45 in the morning, but lots of people are out in manhattan at 6 45 in the morning. that degree of
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planning and the degree of doing it in the open. the termination factor is what elevates it from 2nd degree to 1st degree of to shocks continue to rattle and by the was seen following a 7.3 magnitude of quake on choose day. at least 14 people have been killed and hundreds more injured. the search and rescue efforts on going off of the craig triggered land slides and collapse buildings on the morning. 3 people in the pacific archipelago have been affected as alexandra bias. reports. disaster strikes valuable to this is the moment, the 7.3 magnitude earthquake, exploded deep under water near the coast of the capital, port vila, one of the most powerful quakes to hit the region in decades. it's a stronger quick than i've ever experienced in my 21 years living in bonn, walter and i seen quite a few and quite a few large ones. my wife said it was the largest one she had seen in her life. she of course, is born and bundle watch with at least 6 aftershocks followed the and it's real
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quick. which flashes buildings throughout the city like this one, housing, the american, british, and french embassies. all staff are safe and accounted for. but communications are down in power and water caught in most of the capital roads to the port destroyed by land slides with the hospital to damage to function. injured people are being treated outside nearby australia is deploying emergency teams to help. we will provide whatever assistance is required. i'd say i say to the people have been a while to your family and australia is here to help donna watts who lives within the pacific ring of fire. and 1st quakes are common here. un says more than 100000 people have been affected by this one. witnesses report bodies laying in the streets as rescuers work to help survivors and find those missing,
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the death toll is expected to rise. alexandra buyers al jazeera. okay, up to day. many thanks for joining us to us. and to me these bach, i didn't get that much, much more information on our website. how does that don't come the news continue. so now to 0 of the comes in the cost for now the low that the remains of cycling chito will continue to soak southern parts of africa. we'll get that in a moment. first to the middle east and live that is in very unsettled weather is working its way from the black sea across the cool because this and on was to the caspian. so, when see wintery conditions some heavy rain strong winds as well, you can see them pushing their way further east, but toronto claims to the double digits on the 1st day,
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and 11 degrees celsius. not so logic quiet across the event. those conditions extend to the gulf, but we could see a brisk, a wind blowing in the gulf. so state until friday, just a slightly below the average and katasha is feeling cool at night, but it is a laundry, dry situation. nothing unusual to be found here, but there is some unusual weather to be found across the north of africa. we've got heavy rain pouring into libya that has spots warnings. we could see some flooding here. below that it's the wind continued to blow to the west of africa, bringing some very dusty conditions to the canary islands, but it is largely dry in the north. it's down in the south where we are seeing those very heavy rains. we had very hot conditions. recently, temperatures have come down across boats wanna and south africa. but we are seeing very heavy rain to come wednesday into thursday that you, whether the
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