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it moves up a hose and releases a light spray that eventually turns into a rock hard structure to here's it's hope they'll be at least 50 i supers in this area countering advancing climate change. one drop at a time. the more force evacuations in gaza is around demands to hospitals cleared out despite international calls to protect medical facilities. the back to for this is out to 0 life from jo. ha, also coming up, syria watkins, the foreign ministers of france and germany to damascus in the highest profile visited by western delegation. since the fall of the ass, i appreciate a date is set for you as president elect donald trump to be sentenced in his hash
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money case just 10 days before his due to take off. the island fisher on capitol hill in washington for donald trump is secure a big victory. even before he gets to the white house, the 2 of guys, most critical medical facilities, are being forced to evacuate or face being bombed by israel's military. troops has surrounded the indonesian hospital where many staff and patients have sought shelter, while another forced order to evacuate has been, has been given to the out of hospital, which according to the w. h. o is the last partially operating hospital in northern guys. the health care system in the north of the gaza strip has been pushed to the brink of collapse after these really a sold on the come out had one hospital last like the head of that hospital,
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was among dozens of medical staff detained by the army. during the rate on the facility is where i was targeting of hospital spots and emergency meeting of the united nations security council on friday. the w a chose representative for the occupied palestinian territory, said both hospitals need to be protected address areas. gabriel is onto has more from the united nations in new york. during an emergency un security council meeting, the world health organization urge is real. to resend it's evacuation demands about allowed to a hospital in indonesian hospital. all are, which is the last remaining minimal functional scope. the north casa, is struggling to stay all food in water. if you are depleting fast, balls patrol has been without many essential medicines for more than $85.00 days. the w h o has documented 650 for attacks on health care facilities and gaza since
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october 2023. the w o 2 has warranty for pets and of systematic dismantling of the health care system in north casa. this pattern must be reversed while briefing the council. boker took the un high commissioner for human rights, directly responded to the claims by israel in the united states. that hospitals and guys that are used by how much is road has not provided sufficient information to substantiate. many of these claims which are often vague and broad in some cases, be appear to be contradicted by publicly available information. as per told the counsel even if armed groups were hiding in hospitals, the fundamental principles of distinction, good, proportionality, and precaution are still apply. manage opperation is must always distinguish between military targets and civilians. the use of heavy weapons against hospitals
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is difficult to reconcile with that principle, most council members agreed. there is no justification under any circumstances for harm and civilians and medical personnel cling, bahamas and other groups haven't misused the facility. simply does not less than the burden of these royal serv. it's legal obligation on the issue. there was evidence here at the security council that the international community has growing concerns about the dangerous precedent of being set by israel's continued bombardment of hospitals, places that are supposed to help the sick and wounded, but increasingly becoming targets themselves. gabriel is on i'll just need a united nations in new york box to don leads the center for united nation studies at the university of birmingham. he says the un is under pressure to respond to is really a tax on humanitarian and medical workers. they've been numerous attacks on hospitals
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. they've been numerous attacks on humanitarian workers, united nations personnel, gymnast, and of course you'll janice. we know what's happening. i think the well is now looking on. i'm asking what action is going to be taken because we've seen repeatedly these crimes against humanity been claimed. these are these up make it doing kind of crimes against humanity. we're not seeing any action. i think people expect really that the united nations secretary general needs to be taking a much stronger active stops. may think that he should actually be in the middle east. and also be thinking that very, very clearly about putting together a coalition of the willing responsibility to protect civilians is also something that the united nations needs to remember as of to separate. it's off,
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the rwanda at these genocides were never supposed to happen again. so i think there's increasingly a demo on for united nations, but minutes rush, humanitarian convoys, series of convoys to coming to gaza. after more than 15 months of age, rather small on guys mental health experts say the violent is having a severe and lasting effect on palestinian children with many saying they believe that day for them is inevitable. diary kemp was before some del blah in central gas in guns of the sounds of bombings and cries of english and the children like these, living through an imaginable hunters they have seen until what new child should
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relentless destruction the lives of loved ones and a complete absence of safety. a recent disability by the community training center for crisis management planes, a devastating big to 96 percent of the gums of children believe that there is a minute for children like life life is unrecognizable from what it was before the world. the coldest and feet under tumor on leaving deep psychological limit, mental health experts say children in going so showing signs of safety distress and behavioral changes is the will, has pro choice and long term impacts. on children's mental health, children become less confident and more aggressive. the trauma, these children are experiencing is related, but we work on music guys and the level of trauma with games and conversation
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sessions with them. and the reason for parents the was also read the following is their children's lives. the last of loved ones, especially fathers, has left many children and quite confused and emotionally shuts it. kind of the highest tier of it. oh, my son lease used to have a beautiful life, but his life is deeply changed since he lost his father in this will. he's becoming more aggressive, introverted, under afraid. he even wishes the death of other children's fathers because his father is no longer with him. but the christ is worse and by doing this is done and living conditions with limited access to basic necessities. children are not only facing the tomb of war, but also the harsh reality of what it takes to survive. these conditions deepen their psychological bones, making recovery even more difficult. the one cause is leaving cause costs come be
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seen on the minds of children in the strip. the constant fees, loss, and destruction have deeply impacted on the mental health. that means you can, the lives in ways that may never keel. tarry comes to, i would just go there, but i kind of stuff the, the foreign ministers of france and germany have met the leader of serious new administration. i'm it out, shall i? in the capital damascus. it's one of the highest level west and diplomatic visits since the 5 regime was toppled last month. hush him. i had bought our very for some damascus. and the bulk and joe new with bob ok with a list of demands for the band who now both syria, the minnesota far enough as and her friends going to about aust, the new administration to renounce act of vengeance full and inclusive government
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protect my knowledge is and hold elections soon. it was a meeting phase to break the ice between the band who has emerged from the shadows and skeptical european officials. a whole pod good when tested to europe is prepared to offer support. europe will not be a sponsor if you knew as long as structures. this is not only an all or an interest, but it is also everything that i've heard time and again from the many, many people from syria in germany. but also from the many syrians here in the region. earlier in the day, the german diplomat met the white helmets. the search and rescue teams hope break danger and battle bones. during the war, the bulk was later joined by her friends going to bond joe new with bottle. this is the desk of what assets opponents were detained. thousands were executed.
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families are still looking for the missing. of the counter tells the shop to on the talk with see the west, the is with serial remains vulnerable and i still remains a may just about a sovereign and secure sylvia cannot leave any place for is not mist terrorism. terrorism has struck you. terrorism has struck us, you know, flesh that's why we fought side by side. alongside the codes in the northwest of syria against is not mist terrorism. the french would reopen that embassy to seize the full of us as a growing number of regional and international delegations have reached out to the authorities here to help the country and it's transitional process. so we as new need, as we're hoping for sanctions to be lifted by the french and german ministers, told them that won't happen. now. the french and german ministers say they are here
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to show support for the syrian people. first and foremost of the past, a full diplomatic recognition may take some time. they want to jump to the new administration based on what happens during the transition and see how it goes. but there is a recognition among the europeans that there's a new political reality that they would have to deal with passion about. but i just the right domestic us and other world news. a date has been said for us president elect donald trump, to be sentenced in his hash money criminal conviction. it's scheduled for next friday. 10 days before his inauguration, the president elect was convicted on 34 accounts. so falsifying business statements in relation to a payment majoring, just 2016 presidential campaign he was accused of trying to hide. and then let's relationship with adult film star stormy daniels, heidi's, real castro has more from washington the president elect. donald trump says the judge's order calling for a january 10th a sentencing hearing is quote, knowingly unlawful goes against the constitution and of allowed to stand would be
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the end of the presidency as we know it. he also a tap in new york, judge one rashawn, using personal terms, calling him a radical, partisan, and framing the case for which trump was convicted of 34 felonies as a witch hunt order, and by political enemies. judging our shot, wrote in this order that he would likely sentenced from to unconditional discharge . meaning that the president allowed to would not receive a significant penalty, but would have the conviction stand in his record. this hush money case was the only one of 4 criminal cases against trump that needed to trial. before he won the november election. the president and lex attorneys then try to get the new york conviction erased cleaning trump has presidential immunity. the sentencing order came as a surprise to many given that prosecutors had suggested the judge to lay sentences until after trump finishes his 2nd term. the judge says an earlier sentencing will
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allow trump to more quickly appeal his conviction. as he has indicated, he would like to do. hi to jo castro, al, to 0. washington in the us house of representatives has re elected mike johnson as speaker, the republican face. a tough battle for votes from members of his own party and stiff opposition from democrats. and fisher has more from capitol hill in washington having received the majority of the votes cast is duly elected. speaker of the house of representatives for the 190, noted, straightforward as a whole. but after days of speculation about his level of support. republican mike johnson secured the speakers to come on. donald trump. once for the job, we have a mandate. and that was shown in the election cycle. the people want that america 1st agenda. they hadn't had to massey m or
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it wasn't with a drama, and the same to you to public ins voted for other candidates. while a number of others simply didn't vote. it's meant on the 1st code, johnson fell short of the winning number, despite donald trump privately calling republicans over the last 72 hours. we expected to do real the election, but the vote wasn't officially cold. i'm just johnson left the chamber. the supporters started applying pressure. the specter of the force of 2 years ago was shop in the mind when it took republicans for these and 15 votes to get there. man, the pressure hit the right spot to representatives, change their votes, is or sell. johnson, democrats promise to work with republicans will help the american people, it's time for us to come together. not as democrats or republicans, but as americans to get things done for the people. donald trump,
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back mike johnson, i'm wanted this process completed quickly. it means that he can hit the ground running after is an old duration on january the 20th. but it suggests that the republicans in the house on quite united unders questions about what was offered to those who finally switched their votes. our fisher, i'll just eat up on capitol hill in washington. the still ahead on knowledge is here a japanese steel company may fall in times to take legal action against the us. government will explain why. and mexico opens new migrant centers along the border with the us. i had expected deportations by the incoming trump administration. the had a low, they will start in the middle east and live on where it has been raw,
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the cold winter weather, affecting the event of the good news is that has been some improvement. temperatures have returned it to around the average with clear skies things offset to change. however, something on the circulation coming into egypt. moving across the red sea and developing into saudi arabia not has been cold. the in re, a than expected for this time of year. not so much in mecca, we still have a lot of rooms here, but that is going to change. you can see the development of that on settled weather and have a look at what that does to the temperature in macro will be coming down on the 23 degrees celsius. by tuesday, off to the rain, we'll see that hazy sunshine. and the rain is still with us across the north east of africa for libya, with windy conditions here, they'll push across into egypt over the next few days. it's much dry, however, across from west and areas the heat still building for places like nigeria,
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with temperatures above the average. it's much west for, for the south of this, with some heavy rain and thunder storm support swan a symbolic way and northern pots so, so that africa, it will be clara. however, in cape town, at least on saturday afternoon, democratic nations justified this kind of behaviors co, the average this collateral damage. that's what actually lp is leading to. what we're seeing that will allow me to push back for a moment is a new assistance, corporate israel, affecting it's global, standing from the impact of the us selections, the escalating conflict in the middle east. and the urgency of climate action upfront sets the stage for serious debate on out jersey or the
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the a reminder about top stories on algebra is ran, has forced to hospitals in northern guys i to evacuate under threats of a time to soften patients at the innovation and i out of hospitals have been told to me immediately, more than a 100 people, i believe, to be at the hospital. i know the foreign ministers of friends in germany have been in serious capital. the highest level visit by western diplomats since the fall of the regime last month. they say they charged and you administration based on what happens during the upcoming trends, which and you as president elect donald trump, will be sentence next friday. and his hash money criminal conviction just 10 days before he's in on the ration. and your judge says he's not in chi tape post,
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jail time on from now since the beginning of the war on guys, the hospitals, and how the vital medical facilities have been repeatedly targeted by is really forcing a recent you and report said that is really strikes on and the hospitals have pushed the health care system to the bank of total collapse. the world health organization has documented $654.00 tax on healthcare facilities in concept since october 2023, leading many of them completely out of service that you and says only 17 of guys us . 36 hospitals are still functioning and only partially with non providing full services because of shortages of staff and equipment. w a chose representative for the occupied palestinian territories. said that out out of hospital in the north is the only remaining partially function, a hospital doctor who has some boost off. yeah. is the head of come out. i had one hospital who was detained by is really forced history. that rate on the facility last friday. gosh,
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live is the executive director of physicians for human rights. israel. his team is working to provide legal assistance to doctors office the minutes we realize that he was arrested and we have testimony about his colleague that we've seen when he was arrested. so there's no question that he was arrested by d is what he meant, terry, when we do the field to the, it's a body that is called my slot is a big military embody that he's in charge of locating and informing families and organizations on where prisoners are out so we wanted to 1st of all, to request the full information of where it is in order to request for a to visiting with the noise. but then the response we got was talking, they just said, we don't have a, we don't know where he is. we don't, we have no indication that this person was arrested, always held by the military. and that is, uh, is very good. is there any later on we uh the is where the military spokesperson
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say when they do have it, they do holding. and i think this makes message just if we are getting is not a mistake. it is part of the system we have. we have been trying to locate the prisoners in the past 15 months with no success in the 1st 6 months. we got no responses. no, there, there was, there was no, uh there when there was no information available in the where people are or health care or even health. and so some may, we're getting on the very parson information that it is unreliable. in some cases, human rights organization ask whether a person is arrest that we get the response such as the one we got, just know that there is no indication this person is arrested. and then after months we find out that that person one has died in custody. ukraine's president has been speaking about how donald trump's return to the us presidency, could change the war with russia. this comes as a clear up continues from me is day when ukraine says russia 5 more than
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a 100 miss signs and drones join a hole has this update from keith. in an hour, long interview with new credit and television presidents savanski has been talking about the prospects for peace in 2025. he said that any negotiated settlement with russia would have to be backed by strong security guarantees for ukraine, including the possibility of e. u. peacekeeping troops in ukraine, backed by nato, and he said that any settlement with russia would have to be supported by the united states or it wouldn't hold. but where did this optimism about 2025 come from . it doesn't come from zalinski. his belief that ukraine could win the war on the battlefield, militarily the country is struggling. it does, however, appear to come from his belief in the deal making powers of donald trump. trump's return to the white house in a little over, a fortnight's time. increasingly seen here as a potential turning point from most people do with a shy and trump is capable of being decisive in this world, means you can really stop using or help us stop pizza. and we have several
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conversations, both the meetings on the phone and he is strong and unpredictable. i would very much like president trump's unpredictability, to focus primarily on the russian federation with us. i believe he genuinely wants to end the war when they have to tell how realistic this idea of the trump and negotiations can bring face. this is some you government's worry, that company indeed withdrawal support from ukraine force to get through. we, serious into a face on rough as tons to see was in that interview, perhaps is unpredictability. the fact is, need the presidents and lensky don't. president putin have any real idea what the incoming president trump is going to do during the whole elder 0 keeps us present. joe biden has blogs, nearly $15000000.00 takeover of us steel by japanese company in the pon. critics argue that binds action is an excessive use of executive power for president just weeks from leaving office. but as our white house correspondent kimberly hawk get
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reports 5 and it says the deal risk us national security a lot, arguing ford ownership risk, national security on friday, us president joe biden blocks japanese owned nip on steel, taking over the symbolic american company, us steel, it is critical that we have a strong domestic steel industry that protects our national security and our supply chains. today the president demonstrated once again that he will always act to protect the security of this nation, as well as the resilience of our supply within our new pon and us steel, which has been searching for investment to profit struggling company vowed to retaliate. we are displayed by president biden's decision to block nip, one steals, acquisition of us steel. we will pay all appropriate action to protect our legal rights, us steel, more than a century old was once
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a symbol of american strength. it warns it may need to close factories without the investment of nip on the $14900000000.00 takeover us steel is being bought by japan . us president elect trump also vowed to block the move plans to bolster the steel industry against chinese imports. with more terrorists, like those he put in place in 2018, the steelworkers union was against the merger. many living near us steals remaining plants. we're eager for the investment nip on promised for their community. these plants are aging and they haven't been in nested in, in decades. those would be to probably be to the 1st plants to go unfortunately. and they fit in predominately poor communities. so this is pretty devastating to our local economy, the white house and says president biden's decision wald herz,
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international alliances, including a role ations with japan. but critics argue it will harm domestic economy and industry and allowed china to consolidate its global industry dominance. kimberly, how could alex's, the euro whitehouse. robert scott is a former senior, a international economy said that you cannot make policy institute. he's not surprised at biden, has blocked for sale. the steel industry is really a special case. it is one of the most protected industries in the world and has been subject to vast amounts of unfair trade. of this has been a subject to debate if you owe easy day and other international for our, for years, decades actually been talks. and so for these 20 years about a multi lateral still agreement to deal with excess capacity worldwide, nothing has been done or giving you significance in that direction. the yours in
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japan have been fighting about steel also for many decades of us has harris on the importance of seo from japan. the funds deal has been repeatedly found guilty of droppings daily in the united states. this is an old problem that has to do with a government to investments and governments and favors provide into the seo industry in japan. and charlotte and other asian countries, especially korea. and so it is, it's an industry that is subject to excessive amounts of unfair trade. it may be revisited under trump, although i wouldn't be surprised that he would reverse this particular decision. i don't think trump is a big fan of a foreign ownership of us assets in this industry. an emergency shelters in mexico, of bracing for a potential influx of people at of donald trump is the non duration. later this
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month, the us president elect us promise mass before patients of undocumented migraine, starting from day one of his administration. as juliet got me on a report from tijuana mexican border cities tend to bear the brunt of the policy. a displays from their homes by growing violence. hundreds of mexican families spent the holidays in shelters along the us, mexico border, waiting and hoping for a chance to claim asylum in the us before donald trump takes office on january 20th . 21 year old michelle was 8 months pregnant when her husband was gone down outside the family business after refusing to pay it stores into organized crime. stories like hers were common here by his brother in lynnfield. this country has gone from bad to worse with so much insecurity. every time you go outside, you fear something will happen to you. yes, yes, but the little guessing formation president claudia shane bound since mexico. we'll
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welcome back it citizens, even releasing a special music video dedicated to migrants. but beyond the platitudes her government has announced little details of how they plan to deal with an influx of deep ortiz leaving civil society to take their own measures. and we're asking the mexican government to help these people to get reinstated back into society. give them id cards, then they could enter social services, and then you could help them get a job because they're putting all that, all the burden on us on the shelters. we did this ahead of an increase demand for spaces pastor, i bet 30 beta is building to new floors to the shelter she runs into one of the staff tells us they've received no government funding or guidance in recent weeks across the border, volunteers in southern california are also bracing for a 2nd. trump administration border kind is and g o trips into the desert each week to lead supplies from.
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