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on us dollars to buy. so do the size, the final stairwell, to lift one's to into homes or on the streets in search of safety. the other person discovery and post aside cereal, multiple bodies. our phones are near a shrine in damascus. the from a headquarters and cell time getting navigate to also coming off. we go inside of drugs factory, part of a multi $1000000000.00 narcotics operation, which flourished under the former regime. these tablets health regime survived for sure. and i said also use that to negotiate calls to stop the
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blood shed in the occupied westbank palestinian authority rates in the geneva refugee new pictures of the devastation caused by a psych clone and was on beach as people shoot for help the hello more burial sites. are being discovered all across syria after the fall of the shot. and i said, several bodies have been found at the say you the zane ups ryan in damascus. the area was under the control of uranium back to groups. so i've been dr. aid reports from the sites or what i cannot show you here is the stench that was earlier coming from these bodies, such as bodies that are in fact it is remains as in uh, we're being told that this was a place which was controlled by iranian back group,
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this was their headquarters, that's what people in the balconies have been telling us a and a 1st responder for this has been a number of bodies have been found some so all that they would just skeletons some which still had some parts intact. so it's a goose in seen, but in the grave of multiple bodies which have been found, some civilian called us being for football. it's like a middle web cement from him. it is a us today we came to this area and found this number over there by the skeleton. this is like a sort of a defense. if you're still like a photo for this in a faded from living off of your dog from u. n. a. but inside this store that was looked like for the dresser, the was the so. so the, the old side of this compound, which is right the adjacent to the say you this evening the a strain which was crucial area for all the propaganda that we were hearing from
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the iran back hoops and munitions which came from all over the world to try and protect this area. these parts would probably be used as kitchens and some offices . we've seen some pos, credit papers, as well as the some signs of how this was being used by municipal we have some slides, some digital and cetera. so all of the atrocities the syrians have been telling us about which continue to happen here under the watch over the sides as you are just being uncovered. some of them driving up to the semester was life returns to normal for many in syria. so united nations is expressed optimism for the countries future . you're on special on boy gary petterson is in damascus and says there's hope despite the challenges or the major transferral, as you will know, is the scale of the economic chances. we need immediate to minutes here and the systems, but we also need to make sure it does seem to come be
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a review every time. so you're economic recovery and that'd be done. hopefully. see the beginning maybe start the process to end sections. while the country has taken a small step towards resuming commercial air traffic, the 1st domestic service, since the us, a government was toppled, has flown from the capital damascus to the 2nd largest city. a level international flights are still not operating. a neighboring jordan has reopened the vital border crossing with syria resuming the flow of goods on phrase between the 2 countries. it's seen as an important step towards getting the syrian economy up and running again. as the former head of the serial position abroad has called on the country's new administration to ensure a transitional governments as formed by march, javier by the umbrella organization for a serious opposition groups. during the revolution, he says, no party should be excluded from the transitional government. another club weekly,
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looking on a goal on all of you to support the current, the key take a government and syria, which is supposed to finish the students by the beginning of match the, the enough to match a transitional government will be formed with the code of syrians and the key layers of when the transitional government has formed it needs to include everyone can own of certainly anything without the exclusion of the amy panama. for years a shot and s, as regime was accused of manufacturing and selling illegal tough to go on. pills, and since he fled syria, evidence of the scale of this drug trade as being on erst. zayna hood has visited one factory in german to mom, outside damascus. after the fall of the shore and i said, doors are opening, revealing with many suspected for years. his regime was long accused of being one of the world's biggest illegal drug syndicates. opposition fighters are finding
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warehouses that show the scale of drug production in syria. kept to go on, pills are everywhere in what used to be a potato chip factory on the outskirts of duma, north of damascus, of omar shows us how these band pills were hidden for export. and one of the ways was to put them in plastic fruits. it cut on the amount of this used to be a factory that made potato chips. s i took it by force and turned it into a cap to go on for. so let's see. that was run by businessman and a member of parliament. this was a multi $1000000000.00 business vessel, shows us up to 3 kilos at a time. our beings found in fact, and these electrical inverters of a financial lifeline for a nearly bankrupt state that became with many calls on our coast state. western officials long said the revenues allowed the regime to withstand strict sanctions that were meant to hold officials responsible for war crimes and pressure. a said to end the conflict. us sanctions also target that the drug trade and it's alleged
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sponsors. many of them close to the said family, but i don't know if we knew, but how the resume was involved in the category trade. but we didn't imagine how big the network was, what was checking to see how many pills were in this factory. this factory is one of dozens that have been found, production was on an industrial scale. these tablets help the regime survive the chart. i said also use that to negotiate. he promised the arab countries, he would help curb smuggling in exchange for normalization of relations. all said was re integrated into the arab fold, but the trade in kept the gun only flourished. the drug is popular in the middle east and beyond. and also cheap to make those who around this factory tried to burn it in what could have been an attempt to hide evidence. but when the opposition fighters arrived, they were able to put out the flames. the regime long denied involvement in the
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trade, but many say it couldn't happen in these tightly controlled security state like syria, without the knowledge or consent of the regime. the for you see me, i was at the mama you anyhow, there were at least 160 factories in the town, factories and res, seem areas to drug production facilities and did all the un office on drugs and crime says syria is the primary source of kept to god in the middle east, at least it was. it's new rulers are promising to change this reality that enriched a few who left much of the country and ruins santa who else has ita duma outside damascus. more than 3000000 syrian refugees have fled to 30 years since the war in syria began 13 years ago. and the whole generation of young people has grown up not knowing their country. now the chance to go back is causing mixed feelings. stephanie decker reports in the turf, a city of guys in to near the syrian border. to me,
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it is doing his school homework. it's in turkish, and despite speaking arabic at home, it's his strongest language. he tells us i'm bonus to yes. so my identity is syrian, but i left i lived here for 9 years and it feels like i am more to dish. yes, i want to go back like to visit, but not like to live. i want to live here because of my education of process. so i can keep studying the family decided to take on a truck or surname after they got citizenship to help them integrate. more than 3000000 syrian slide here since the war, 13 years ago and entire generation of children and teenagers, have grown up here. not knowing syria, as on the part of returning is causing me to be like we meet 14 year old. i smoke high out the outside, his uncle shop and goes beyond that. he's excited about the idea of returning and be that my wife about that when i was growing up, i knew that i was syria. even if i living to kid. i know that from deep inside. and
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if i go back to syria, even if we stayed here a lot, all by families there, so i belong there. but back in the family home, there was not the same enthusiasm, yada is 13. we oscar how she feels about possibly going back to syria with us go ahead book and it was a bit of mix feeling because i've never been to syria before my whole life was here . everything i have is here. actually, i didn't really think further done that for my future. i thought i would be staying here as we interview yadda. her mother who is listening to our conversation, starts to cry about the difficulties because they use the a i r r b because they don't see their parents now face the dilemma of just
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citing what to do. that's best for their children. we don't know what is, is a battle for us now? i think get, if we stay here for our children, just do learning here. that's good. but i want to say in my country to, to raise my, my children, they feel and make some connections, their connection that's impossible to replicate for those who have never experienced it. my memory that young, i feel i, i, let's my soul that i'm the, i want to, to come back to remember these have been happening with the hope that one day or children will feel the same stephanie decker, which is 0. because the on depth the
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in 438 days of genocide and gaza, israel has killed more than 44 south, 45000 palestinians. it's repeatedly targeted. every part of the strip in the north is really forces up again, attack the barely function and cannot antoine hospital the hospital directors, as dozens of people were injured in israel's latest strikes, the intensive care unit caught fire leaving the only i see you in north dogs are out of service and the home sheltering displays, people was had just outside the hospital. at least 8 palestinians were killed. northern gaza has been under, is really siege for more than 2 months. hundreds of thousands of palestinians have been subjected to unrelenting bombing. international organizations have been urging israel to end its bulk aid and allow a deliveries into the area. i just got an offer on the net. everyone knows that our hospital is being appealing to the world for more than 75 days that we need capabilities, supplies and tools in our hospitals,
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barely providing humanitarian assistance, but we have no choice but to appeal again. perhaps there will be a listening ear and meet the needs of kamala one hospital, so that we can provide a humanitarian service, which has more from dated by law and central garza, the religious lives besides that, the director of the hospital has been made and these appeals and the statements for the past 75 days and since the beginning of the ground defense, that in the northern part of district leave an entire population of travel tribes, population of civilians, a tribe in the northern part of the district without the proper access to foods water, medical supplies, and other lives saving restores the life saving items for them without any food. the liberty of joe and other organizations have attempted many times to provide much needed medical supplies and aid to the hospital and the northern part of the city. but the only succeeded fewer time just took it amount, been deliver,
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including the fuel tank that was gone 2 days later after it's arrived. as well as the other supplies that were bumped as well on the 3rd floor of covered one hospital is really military. after it started, it's a ground offensive at the beginning of october of this year. it is storm the hospital on the 25th of october, a resting everyone inside the house, including patients and injuries, removing them from cubes or from any of the medical equipment and through gated them and detain others into unknown areas, release the director of the hospital and some of the medical staff or the only one in the hospice. so a knowledge of who is inside the hospital who gets in, who gets out how many patients know managers. a role not to judge really monitor isn't us. and they occupied westbank policy and also are any forces are considering raising a jeanine refugee camp. they've exchanged fire with fighters in the camp for several days. at least 3 policy indians have been killed, including
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a senior jeanine brigades. commander. the area has been a strong cold for fighters opposing israel's occupation. the palestinian authority says it's trying to root out what it calls lawless elements in the account. and we're still only done in the day, not the idea. so we have challenges, an old governor. it's especially engineering challenges related to drugs and the gangs that engage and rubbery. we also haven't got that must be addressed through dialogue with the leadership and not through expressions on the ground at the expense of the palestinian national issue. politically. the situation is unacceptable and therefore we seeks around meetings with all levels of the palestinian people to unify the position and put pressure on those who represent this case and apply the palestinian law that is based on a program that unites the people. israel's prime minister has appeared in courts and tell a value to resume testimony in his corruption trial. benjamin netanyahu, who is accused of bribery fraud on breach of trust. if convicted,
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he faces up to 10 years in prison. nothing. yeah. who denies any wrong doing and has described the charges as absurd? is still a heads on alta 0. taking apple to cords, the democratic republic of congo accuses be checked giants of using conflict, minerals the in depth analysis of the days headlines. what are we supposed to read into the game? so basically, you missed all by russian informed opinions. finally, after over a year of genocide, the i c. c has come to this decision, critical debate. the difference between china and most of the rest of the world is a china plans long term inside story do conferences and meetings like cop $29.00 and others make a difference on how to 0 and
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the lines of ethnic groups is posing the biggest challenge to me in most countries since the 2021 with the exclusive access to remote camps and frontline battles. people in our accounts, the progress of an idealistic young generation of rebels is a pivotal moment in the last 60 years of the country's trouble history. on the phones, me on my, on the, on the ropes on al jazeera, the knowledge is here where the,
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[000:00:00;00] the okay here, the top store is on al jazeera, this, our more burial sites are emerging across syria after the fall of the ascent regime . this time several bodies were found by the so you, those zane of shrine in damascus. unimportant religious sites for a she on sunday is really forces have again attacked the barely function and come out one hospital in northern dollars off. at least 8 palestinians were killed. the intensive care unit caught fire leaving the only i see you in north casa, out of service, and they occupied, westbank, palestinian. all 40 forces are continuing raids in the janine refuge account. they've exchange fire with fighters and account for several days. at least 3 palestinians have been killed, including a senior jeanine brigades, commander emergency teams are racing to find survivors and to get
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a to the french indian ocean territory of my art. for days after it was devastated by cycling chito. it was the strongest storm to hit the archipelago and nearly a century. authorities are still assessing the scale of the disaster, and they say hundreds of people may have been killed. slums, housing, undocumented migrants were flattened complicating efforts, define survivors, and to establish a clear desktop. what's up to that as you, we don't get the radio anymore. we've got no electricity. we don't know what's going on. we don't even know what's happening. the rest of the country on particular, we have no news from content. so the death toll and so on. the pa, from word of mouth, depending on the neighborhood you go to, don't have any information. we feel comfortable from the world at the moment. off to sweeping through my all cycle in chico, continued west to malawi and mozambique. that's where authorities say the death toll has risen to 45. at least 500 people were injured and not storm in nearly
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24000 homes destroyed the cycle and brought winds of around 260 kilometers an hour and heavy rainfall to mozambique. a little metal and not inside. when the cycling came, i thought i was going to die. it was very scary. i was surrounded by kids by children . the children were crying, screaming they were all very scared and they all felt that they were going to die. and hermits also joining us live from was on big capital. i'm approved so. so what is the expense of the damage, however most likely and cheap, the main hit northern mozambique is that's what you got the cities of pain, but, and then put a visa speak to us area as well. these being some damage they, we told it wasn't that extensive and it's now the need back to business as usual. the main places to fix it with the rural areas that's the most with people live. that's the most the south. is there a base? does he have most of the who died have be just take the best way they are a went to the trying to reach people who may still need help in organizing convoys
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by road. but gave these people, it will mean that the roads have to be good, otherwise they would not be able to reach them. a with, with goals have to deal with insecurity and parts of northern mozambique, w for years. and on the piece has been operating rating villages did not seem women and children killing people, displacing thousands. so why they tried to access people who may need help cut off from dislike or they also worried about they safety as well. psych loans, sadly are common in mozambique. how prepared is the country to deal with them? it was like one season and this part of the well normally happens between december and march. so people know they coming but a year or so and dislike loans hit a lot of people get this place. a lot of people get killed. the government says that they lacking resources to try and be better prepared with these like loans hits. but this is not a poor country, it's, it's rich until the mendoza and rubies. but some people say that money is not
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benefit from the poorest of the pool. it's also effective by climate change, like many poor countries, noel trying to deal with the effects of climate change. but the governors in trying to put in place any warning systems way. for example, you tell people that a cycle is coming so you need to evacuate, need to try and find shelter. some people listen, some people don't and that's why sometimes a lot of people get killed. a lot of people get displaced when these cycles hit. okay, thank you here on which i saw reported from my point so in most of the democratic republic of congo has filed criminal complaints against tech giant apple for using conflict minerals and its supply chain. apple has disputed the claims filed in france and belgium. the company says it's told suppliers not to use the mineral sourced from the d. r. c. or rwanda. the region is a major source of 10, chancellor and tungsten, using computers and mobile phones. you experts on rights group say some lines there are run by arm groups involved in war crimes and why county has more on that story
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from goma and the democratic republic of congo. in a democratic republic of coal of people do believe. busy revisit government according to different states and residents by funding the case against up or they wanted to corner for the awareness of the worldwide to know what is going on to the deals. and also they are very confused. the form is buying the mean. it was in the neighboring country of wanda, the country, which is in the corporate. we did the artist out the well 20 t z. i have been choosing a wonderful bucking them 23 labels and this is one of the group. it won't hundreds in the area here portfolio. now one of the reach us 80, according to by and well told it is right now seems to have lost control of this a. they don't believe that one day is taking out the voltage. we do their bodies go to a point of taking advantage of this, the tree or somebody or the concrete people are wondering how this would be possible for the deal to see, for example, to prove where the deposition against up or these are to where it was the know very
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well that the contract is hosting almost 100 i'm the groups and the majority of them. 7 as they hand on, on different to me, and it was in this rich area of the north east on of the, of the country. and while you, connie was 0 goma, the democratic republic of coal at least 25 people have died in the democratic republic of congo after a both capsized northeast of the capital control. so they crowded vessel turned over shortly after departure on the feeney river. official say more than a 100 passengers were on board at the time of the accident, and the search is under way for dozens more horse still missing. for more than 1200 people have died in a color outbreak ensued on the health ministry size. there are more than $47300.00 confirmed cases. the outbreak has spread to 81 districts across 11 states. the
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ongoing conflict between the army and the parent military rapids support forces has left millions of people homeless and caused hospitals and infrastructure to collapse. from says highest appeals court has upheld a verdict against a former president, nicholas are cozy for corruption and influence. peddling so cozy was ordered to wear and electronic time for a year, allowing his movements to be monitored. that's a 1st for a former head of states. so because he has maintained his innocence, and his lawyer says he will take the case to the european court of human rights within weeks. he's also facing another trial date to start next year. i choose if illegally bank rolling a presidential bids with libyan funds. if convicted in that case, he could face a decade behind bars. russian authorities say they've detained the suspect over the killing of a senior general in moscow. on tuesday, the 29 year old from was back, as don, has reported,
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lee confess to collaborating with ukrainian intelligent services. and the attack on igor, cure law of he was the commander of russia's nuclear, chemical and biological defense, the defense division. and was investigating activities by the us and ukraine. the bomb was hidden on an electric scooter. you'll your chapel, oliver has more for moscow of the shows, the nation will have come sketch sales, the russian investigations can be see and the f as v, as they have reveal details about the rest of the public traits of the mazda. all the heads of the chemical and biological protection true, it won't carry lives on his assistant detain. mine is a 29 year old citizen, vic, his son, who was detained in the middle school region, the as his because even publish such as old interrogation of the mind, according to the suspects he was recruited by the ukrainian special services as well commissioning the crime who has promised $100000.00 entitled to one of the european countries to leave here in no scary,
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he received the allegedly receipt of course, a home made exclusive device and then ran to the call where he installed a video. surveillance camera was at no cost to the ukrainian safety of the park. so after receiving a signal about carrie lives at his assistance, leaving the entrance of the building and the suspect. this a nice has an explosive device. and as a result, as you'll notice, the high ranking casual and he says the 3 year old assistance were killed, the survival of exposure was the general's dr. assisting racing in economy of license, according to a foreign ministry spokesman marizza hardware, the russian mission to the u. r re the issue of that talk against general curriculum of the security council meeting. request is for december, the 22 chinese austin also set a new record for the longest space. walk tight shared drawer and song. ling dong completed tasks over
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a period of 9 hours outside the young gong space station. the previous record was held by american astronauts. james voss and susan homes at 8 hours and 56 minutes. okay, up next. it is a check on the weather. the inside story ways of the chances of a trump presidency ending the war in ukraine by the of the waves of code or work in the dice way down through rape here as well. not much do usually comes off and mix up the following bins and dropping temperatures with our awesome contrasts. around the red sea, the temperatures are up in the thirty's, and that's to on both sides africa. and there may be extensive mr. quite warm weather in the empty quarter and a good part of the man. but the air each time it comes time from a rocko, originally from turkey and then eastern europe is quite cold. it's colder each time
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. so we get a good lawyer, the temperatures feel on the low side. anyway. do have 22 or 23 and then the next system which is quite windy will actually work his way down the red sea coast. i'm briefly even. we'll see it dropped below such a degrees is probably get some evening thunder storms. let me back up to 31. the average here with best would me to assist to anyway, doha, the east, below average, and getting colder the wind picks up again on sunday, bringing some dust with it, possibly not from the system to give a shout. i will suspect on late saturday. us know, southern africa prop the summer radians and i, i heard say welcome but it could be flooding. volt swanner, a good part of south africa. it does look like on thursday and quite possibly on friday. in contrast, it's much trying mozambie and night. tons of been reco breaking the will, the
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