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at least 19 people have been killed. officials are holding at the cities worst firing over 3 decades. we'll have the latest from new york in just a moment. also coming up, a court hearing is underway in australia to decide where the tennis dad moved back . jo kabbage will be allowed to stay in the country and play the australian. i've been and west african leaders, flap, posh economic sanctions on marley regional blog eco was precious. the military jointer after it delayed promised election. ah, i'm jarrett ray, thank you very much for your company. we stop the show in new york city where the cities may. eric adams has confirmed that at least 19 people have died in a fire in a high rise apartment building dozens more were injured when the blaze ripped

through the building in the bronx. it happened just days after a fire in philadelphia claimed the lives of 12 people residence are still in shock after the fire, which took so many lives in this close knit low income community. i live in this building for 16 years. i never experienced something so sad, especially at this time it was that is like my family and see them if this is happening to describe why pain witnesses reported seeing flames blowing out windows, the building was fitted with smoke alarms, but many residents were slow to react. because of frequent false alarms, by the time they realized what was happening, thick smoke made corridors and stairwells impossible trapped residents screamed for help from the windows. i think

it started in a malfunctioning electric space heater. that was the cause of the fire. the fire consume that apartment, that is on 2 floors. and part of the hallway, the door to that apartment. unfortunately, one, the residence left was left open. it did not close by itself. the smoke spread throughout the building, thus the tremendous loss of life around 200 fire fighters responded. entering the building with breathing apparatus. they reported finding victims suffering, severe smoke, inhalation and cardiac arrest. in stairwells on every floor. the mayor said it was one of the worst fires, new york has seen in modern times. this is a horrific rip, big, painful moment for the city of new york. and the impact of this fire is going to really bring

a level of just pain and despair in our city. the numbers all are risky. malfunctioning smoke alarms and the fact that the building had no external fire escapes, likely to raise questions on safety standards in low income city housing. and earlier i spoke to corresponding bustin heartache who has more from the scene of the fire. we know that the fire department reached this site or only 3 minutes after they were they were called and they found when they got here to, to the where the fire broke out to this building. they found pick smoke throughout the, all the 900 stories of this building and they found a victims who had inhaled that smoke and, and some of them unfortunately, who perished from that throughout all the night. the smoke must have spread

extremely quickly and the fire department is saying, or the fire commissioner saying that that is probably happened because the door of that apartment was left open. it was a duplex apartment, spending the 2nd and the 3rd floor of this building. and we've heard accounts of people who tried to exit the building and who tried to open windows and who couldn't because the window frames had gotten so hot and you couldn't open the front doors because then all the smoke would come in from the hallway. so horrific, horrific scenes that must have unfolded here when the fire broke out. today this morning, we are time bossy and hearty. let's get a round up of some other headlines now. sudanese protested was killed on sunday during demonstrations against the military. this brings the tale of death since a military coup. in october, 262. united nations has called for talks between military leaders and political

parties to end. a crisis triggered by the crew. there was disarray at the opening session of iraq's new parliament. as delegates clashed over which party has the right to nominate the new prime minister mahmoud and marcia donnie who was leading the session was bundled out of the chamber by security forces. the 73 road appeared to be unharmed. state meteor in kazakhstan, say, 164 people died there, and the unrest that began a week ago. but we, the communications black out, there's really little way of independently verifying the figures. authorities have now largely restored. com in the largest city on my tea with the help of russian lead troops. a hearing is happening right now in an australian court to decide where the tennis don novak joke of each may stay in the country to compete in the australian open. the world number one player has been in an immigration detention hotel since he arrived in the country. on wednesday after the tournament

organizers and the local government granted him and medical exemption from needing a coven vaccination. but upon his arrival, the australian federal government denied him entry. jock of each, then appealed their ruling. and the case is set to be decided by the hearing that is now under way. let's get more from journalists, max walden in melbourne, max, hello. there you've been watching the proceedings over the last few hours. what's been happening? yeah, well there's been a bunch of technical difficulty difficulties. it started quite light because of that. and i think the baby kids, the fact that they matthew surgeon traffic paper wanting to watch the highly anticipated hearing. but talk of its lawyer, basically 10 of the units around his treatment, particularly the court, arguing the fact that he did despite his medical exemption prior to boarding

applying and then again at melbourne and bought and extend it does. the judge has expressed sympathy with the dog saying he thought you tied it by by joking, which is treatment and question, you know, what more of it could have done in order to kind of hear what was expected of him in terms of been granted initially. but also the exemption in regard code vaccination. when now the hearing from from the government lawyers who are refusing the arguments of lawyer and it soon going to be adjourned for a lunch break. max, what's the feeling? i guess among you and the people watching. what do you, how do you think this is going to go? well, look, it's really, it's really hard to say. but yeah, of course it, it had, you know, those discussion judges initially rolled that he's not allowed to be deported

before 4 pm today. i mean, not 2 hours from now, of course that's not going to happen. and in days earlier ruled that he was allowed to leave the hotel, which had been held in detention in order to watch the proceedings from, from a different location. and it knows that he's allowed to do that today and any subsequent days of the hearing. so that's not necessarily a guarantee that it will spread into subsequent days. however, the judges allowed for that. so again, we don't know where exactly which is, but he has seemed to have left the hotel where he's been off for not max just briefly. this of course is not just about 4, but politics as well. what's what happened on, on that front and the political fallout? yeah. will tell me there's a big backlash from the serving government and even being a strategy and having

a strong and processing at the courtroom. there's also, you know, the context of strategies for coming federal elections, immigration often being quite a tight issue in australia and also particularly off the 19 pandemic where necessarily border closes were very strict and not really until december of 2021 with a, with a open to, to be, to hold it apart from citizens and, and permanent residents. so there's a real sense, i think it's trailing community from before which arrived. it was quite unfair. he was undocumented and allowed in even thousands of straight lines. a wanting to combine my folder with the latest in melbourne. thank you. thanks. was severe. new sanctions have been slapped on marley's military rulers. this after the john to suggested postponing elections for up to 4 years. instead of holding

them next month. leaders of the west african regional blog eco ass meeting and gone as capital a cra called the timeline totally unacceptable. before announcing the steepest consequences for molly to date singing, molly's national anthem. they gathered at the marches monument to demand a return to democracy. even before eco vos met, demonstrators were calling for an end to the military genta. after it pushed back the time table for transition of power was all shouted weaker. we think that it is necessary to speak out as much as possible to day to say that years of transition is not acceptable. and we feel that there is no better place to remind all mullins or the importance of democracy than the martyrs monument, where we stand to day devali can move towards other b. e cove us leaders meeting in accra. also one prepared to wait until

2026 for returned to civilian rule. they announced strict sanctions clearly meant to send a signal to marley's military rulers. ah, the army has seized power in the west african country 3 times in the last decade, including twice in the last 2 years. eco glass is made clear. it expects action from magenta. and auction means elections. a tall order in a country where the government is only partially in control. all talks between the united states and russia over the situation in ukraine asset to begin in geneva, on monday, tensions are running high. russia has been massing troops and tanks near its border with ukraine and western countries are worried about and invasion. moscow says it feels threatened by us in nitro weapons coming increasingly close to its borders.

but for the us, it's all about russian aggression against ukraine, which has been going on for years. u. s. president joe biden on the phone with moscow in december, on a business like call that was meant to ratchet down tensions over ukraine. the u. s . has threatened severe economic sanctions if russia invades an adviser to russian president vladimir putin pushed back after the call. such sanctions would be a colossal mistake. there would entail grave consequences. a lot of mistakes have been made over the past 30 years, and we had better avoid more such mistakes in this situation. russia is already under sanctions for its 2014 annexation of the crimean peninsula . weeks afterwards, pro russian groups seized parts of the dentist and no hans regions on ukraine's

eastern frontier. near the russian border. the government launched a military operation and the long war began in earnest. meanwhile, thousands died in shelling and fire fights between separatists and government troops. russia has been widely suspected of financing and equipping the separatists in early 2015, as the casualties mounted, the parties agreed to a cease fire in talk sponsored by germany and france, the war slipped from the world's attention, even though the cease fire was frequently violated over the years in september 2019 russia and ukraine exchanged prisoners, the un said the death toll from 5 years of fighting was as high as 13000 with another 30000 wound it. in june 2021 potent wrote an article, claiming that russians and ukrainians were one people who shared

a single historic and spiritual space. you to go and you, what has been happening is this, the blue and the russian nation has been designated as an outsider on historically, russian territories ship last year the russian nation is being pushed out of those territories. this is what's happening mutually mutual with the u. s and nato saying they won't intervene militarily. russia seems to hold most of the cards over its weaker neighbor as thousands of kilometers away. the talks in geneva began and you're up to date willed stories is up. next uncle with these places in europe are smashing all the wreckers stepped into

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