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>> this is "dw news," live from berlin. russia launching new attacks in cities across ukraine. with winter closing in, russian forces are once again targeting the power grid in the country, knocking out power and heat for thousands. kyiv says that several people have been killed. a court in the netherlands has convicted three russian-backed separatists over the shooting down of this elation airline
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plane 14. all the people on board died when it went down over eastern ukraine. the clock is ticking at the comp 27 climate summit. the secretary-general is telling delegates to stop the finger-pointing or face mutually assured destruction. for your viewing pleasure, the creators of "dark's quote set sail with a new thriller mystery series, 1899. it follows a group of passengers caught up in a nightmarish journey on the open seas. i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching in the united states and around the world, welcome. on this thursday, russia has launched a new wave of missile attacks across ukraine, killing
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at least four people and injuring many more. the strikes were directed mainly against the country's power and heating facilities and they come as much of the nation saw much of its sick -- first significant snowfall. load mere zelinski ss russia is deliberately targeting civilian sites. >> surveying the damage from another deadly attack, emergency teams comb through the wreckage and pick out the pieces. this times it -- this time it is bodies being uncovered from the rubble. >> i heard the strike around 3 a.m. and three explosions. i realized it was somewhere nearby, but then nothing else. in the morning i found out it had happened in this area. >> three families used to live in this home but the area has been pummeled by russian attacks in recent months and locals do not know who was home in the
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latest last. >> it's the second time the city was hit. how are we surviving? nothing else left to do. we are surviving by living our lives. >> the devastation is the result of another russian missile in ukraine with explosions injuring people. >> another russian terrorist attack just occurred. this morning dozens of missiles. civilian sites are the mai target. russia is waging war on electricity and her -- and heat for people by blowing up power plants and energy facilities. >> russia confirming that their defense force had targets in both regions and that ukrainian civilians continue to fall victim to the attacks, which show no sign of easing as the worn years its 10th month. our correspondent -- brent: our
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correspondent is in southern ukraine. >> they are putting it out there that russia will continue attacking ukraine's infrastructure and says that is to make ukraine come to the negotiating table, saying that if they don't want to cut a deal to give russia the kind of breather iwants giving how bad it is doing on the battlefield, the attacks will continue. he says that this is about attacking their abilities but others are saying that at a time where russia so far failed to destroy any significant amount of western provided weapons, so far we have no confirmation of even a single unit being destroyed and it's much easier to attack our stations, transformers, other bits of infrastructure that are difficult to defend. brent: we have to remember the
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time of year. winter is quickly approaching. temperatures are going down. this as russia is targeting power grids and heating for -- eating facilities. how is the morale of everyday ukrainians knowing that they may not be able to turn the heat on in their homes? >> you might be able to see that where i am now, it's basically blowing a gale. the weather has gone up a gear in terms of wintry temperatures, not having electricity. until the last few days it had been a remarkably warm autumn. we are seeing that the people that work here, people who had been resilient until now, hundreds and hundreds of russian missiles have hit in recent but until now it has always been a number of hours or a day or two before things came back to
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normal but that is now no longer the case, many places are now dealing with no electricity or electricity for an hour or two. power cuts becoming the norm. people are holding up remarkably well and are quite defiant. there is no place in ukraine right now not affected by this. it's important to remember that these images of ukrainian civilians in dark, cold apartment blocks trying to survive, they are interested in rallying this war and keeping other countries far away from this conflict. this may end up being a case of the russians shooting themselves in the foot by generating more sympathy for ukraine and their cause brent: i know you spent a couple of days in a city to the south. what were the people there telling you?
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>> extraordinary optimism and confidence. even though the russian army is just over the river. we were in the main bridge across the bank that was blown up by russian forces and there was a lot of artillery fire coming in with shrapnel, munions, all exploding not far away from us. it's definitely not a safe place for civilians. before that you are constantly meeting people who are planning to come back for coming back military countries in are desperate to get back. it's extraordinary optism there wi a feeling of the wind behind them. still living without power or water and no sense of when that's coming back and that the russians might want to take more revenge for the humiliations on the battlefield. leveled as it's been seen in mariupol and elsewhere,
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devastating but extraordinary morale amongst those who have stayed there for months. brent: nick, excellent reporting. we will let you go inside now, winter is coming. thank you. it is crunch time at the cop27 climate conference in egypt. the meeting is set to end on friday. negotiators are warning that a deal to help save the planet is looking more and more elusive. rich and poor nations are clashing over how to solve the climate crisis. >> it is clear that at this late stage in the process, there are still a number of issues where progress is lacking. >> i am rust rated that political commitment has not yet been translated into political action. >> outf time, out of money, out of patience. >> at some point we will have to
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leave all the technical discussions behind us and start looking for political common ground. i hope that this situation occurs quickly. we have so little time left. brent: one of the key sticking points is financial compensation for the nations hit hardest by the weather connected to global warming and how rich nations can help poorer nations cope with a warming planet. the warning is that the clog ticking. -- clock is ticking. >> the blame game is a recipe for mutually assured destruction and i'm here to appeal to all parties arise to the moment in the greatest challenge that humanity is facing. brent: i am joined now by the permanent representative of pakistan to the united nations
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in new york. good to have you on the program. cop27 will end tomorrow. will it be ending as a success or a disappointment? >> well at the present moment it looks more like disappointment. but as you know, breakthroughs usually happen at the last minute and we are still hope will that on some of the principal issues, especially on the loss and damage to the facility and on climate finance, we will see breakthroughs. so far it's not looking good. brent: what do you say to colleagues of yours at the u.n. when you talk about the impact of climate change and point to your country and the fact that a significant part of it was put under water this year because of flooding that was caused by climate change?
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>> we have outlined the impact of the disaster that faced us. it was directly affected by climate change. extreme heat in the summer. all the rivers andhe canals. 40 days, 40 nights of rains. obviously that overflowed. there could not be a more stark illustration of the magnitude and the impact of climate change then in pakistan this year. this is a wake-up callo the inrnational community. we musdo something to mitigate, adapt, to bring the climate change that has happened and compensate countries that
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have had to face such huge disaster. without contributing more than one -- 1%. and we have suffer the worst. brent: i know that you're climate change minister has been pushing for wealthy nations to help finance the costs of dealing with being hit by global warming. for our viewers, tell us how exactly -- let's assume the money were to be appropriated. how would that money be spent to protect the land and of the people of pakistan? >> well in several ways. firstly, it is for countries like ours to take adaptation measures to prevent the damage happening as it has happened
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this year. meaning building a higher wall on the canal. channeling water rather than letting it overflow. building dams, restoring water. mitigation measures such as reforestation. end of course to use the money through rebuild the damage that has been in pakistan. countries covering -- suffering from climate disaster. brent: the suffering continues, for sure. we appreciate your time and insights tonight. thank you. >> thank you so much. brent: time is running out for the countries on the front lines of the climate crisis. countries like madagascar are
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for the low rainfall has led to drought. we visited one part of the country in the south where the situation is particularly bad. 1.5 million people are already dependent on aid and many are living already in famine like conditions. >> this is what is left of the river. the riverbedas become their main source of water. >> we are truly suffering. it is dry, dry, dry. no source of rainfall. >> the rainy season should have already started. they left their village and came to town because of the drought. here things were not much better. >> it's a tiny house but this is what you can afford to rent.
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our house is in the village far from here but we come here because we need access to water. we brought all the kids here and now they work as water carriers. >> fetching water and selling it is their only option of earning money for food. >> every morning this is the reality for tens of thousands in the village -- region who live in villages without access to water. they must transport their containers to sources, filling them up and bringing them back to villages. often children are doing this work by skipping school. >> southern miss gas drought combined with decades by the central government has elevated the situation. the regional governor says that they plan to build a road and massive waterpipe from areas that are better off, but cannot
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say when. >> you can't expect those problems to be resolved within a year or two yrs. for the last few decades nothing has been done. this is the first regime that has taken care of the problem. >> he says residents are also to blame because for generations they have been cutting down the forests in the area. she says she has no energy to think about who or what i responsible for the crisis. >> sometimes the children don't get any money until the end of the day. so, we eat late at night. sometimes we just stay hungry. then i searched for cactus fruits. now i don't have anything to cook, so i have to look for cactus fruit so that we can have a meal. >> once again she ventures out in the heat that shoes, looking
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for something to eat. trying tmake end meet. looking for food and water is all they can think of every day. two people -- brent: two people were killed on the outskirts of nairobi after a multi-structure collapse. this is the second such incident in less than a week in the kenyan capital, where developers often ignore government building regulations. the u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi says she will step down from her role in january when republicans take control of the chamber. she is 82 years old and first became speaker in 2007 and has resided over both impeachments of former president donald trump. democrats narrowly lost control of the house to the republicans in midterm elections earlier
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this month. north korea fired a ballistic missile towards eastern waters on thursday as they warned of fiercer military responses to the united states and allies. the launch is a late -- the latest in a record number of such tests this year. the military regime of myanmar is releasing thousands of prisoners to mark -- to mark their national holiday. following the announcement relatives gathered outside of a prison there. among those being freed, a former british ambassador of a japanese journalist, and economist from australia. thousands of protesters have rallied in prague against the government support for ukraine in their fight against russia. the demonstration united far right and far left groups under the slogan -- the czech republic first. they want the cabinet to focus more on domestic problems, not foreign affairs.
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a court in the netherlands today convicted three men in absentia for their role in shooting down a malaysian airlines flight in ukraine eight years ago. the men include two former russian intelligence agency and a ukrainian separatist leader. a fourth defendant was acquitted. the passengers jet was shut down -- shot down over eastern ukraine d all theeople on board died. >> a verdict years in the making. after 68 hearings and 70,000 pages of documents a dutch court has issued judgmt on the downing of malaysian airlines flight mh17. >> the court is of the opinion that mh17 crashed due to the firing of a missile from a field in the region. as a consequence, all 283
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passengers and 15 crew lost their lives. coming from a russian-made missile far -- fired by an armed separatist group under russian control. four commanders were accused of murder. three found guilty, when ukrainian and two russians. the verdict means life imprisonment that it is not likely that any of them will see the inside of a prison. for some of the relatives of those killed in the attack, that was never the point. >> they are in jail, but they are under the protection and won't do their time. we know that. it doesn't help us. the independent board gets a verdict, that's most important.
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>> for other grieving families the ruling brings little comfort. >> in court today, he still have to go home afterwards. that feelings never going to go away that no matter what the court says or what happens there, it will still always be the case. >> there is hope that the ruling can bring some justice for the victims and their families. brent: our correspondent was at the courthouse in the netherlands. >> the verdict was based on a chain of evidence that was rather difficult for the dutch, for the dutch court to assess. some of it was open source like telephone calls between the accused that had been monitored at the time. satellite images. the missile responsible,
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functioning as the missile that shot down the flight, where was it moved from? where was it moved to? who had the command over those rebel militants there that were active in the area at the time? so, three of the defendants have been now found lt. that they work -- guilty. that they were in fact the commanders who had the responsibility for what happened in the area and had responsibility for moving the missile with of course the intent to shoot down ukrainian military planes. if by accident they shot down a passenger plane with 298 people on board, one of them died, as we know. still they are responsible for what happened at that point. brent: she spoke with a relative
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-- relatives of one of the victims of flight mh17 in that talk is coming out later in the day. hundreds of mourners attending the funeral in the con, so -- remembering a demonstrator who was killed during what was called one of the most violent knights of the latest crackdown. seven people, including a nine-year-old boy, shot at across the country. a senior lecturer in international relations at the university of sussex on the crowd -- weighs in on the crackdowns. >> what we hear, for example from kurdistan, it seems that at night during the day and in the hands of the people the regime seems to be regaining control.
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showing the exhausts and of the troops. this is one of the most strategic points on top of the high mountains in the border regions of kurdistan, where the military region has been based for a very long time. coming into the cities in order to crack down on the protesters and leaving those areas undefended. increasing use of combat ammunition and redeployment of troops is just the government struggling with managing the spread and intensity of the protests. brent: if you liked you liked -- you liked the netflix show "dark," their german creators
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are coming back with a new mystery that combines history with fantasy. "1899," sat on an ocean liner bringing immigrants from europe to america. dreaming of a better future, something onyx acted happens along the way. >> in the midatlantic of migrants steamer gets a possible distress call. flexibly received a message. >> are the passengers still alive? >> so begins "1899," the new netflix mystery series where nothing is as it seems. the series had its world premiere in berlin. the creators see the show as a metaphor for europe itself. >> we thought we really wanted to take a look at europe, take it and put it on a ship in a
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combined space. lots of ocean around, you can't escape. it was almost like a laboratory experiment, how people cope with situations when they are not able to speak the same language. >> it was also a technical experiment. one of the first tv shows to shoot entirely in a new studio using cutting-edge digital technology. >> surrounds you like a cinema with the stage rotating in the middle. it's operated by something like 20 technicians and it looks amazing, trim porting you to anywhere. -- transporting you to anywhere. >> dazzling visual style even as the twisty plot leaves viewers baffled. but fans of mega mysteries should dive in.
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brent: well, that and the crown. a quick reminder of our top story at the sour, russia launching missile attacks, damaging more and more of the zelinski says moscow continues to target civilian sites. after a short break i will be back to take you through the day. tonight, the shooting down of flight mh17. mass murder over the skies of ukraine. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪
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mark: welcome to "life from paris," world news analysis from france 24. life in jail over the shooting down of flight mm-hmm 17. two russians and one ukrainian sentenced in of century by a court in the hague. 298 people were killed when their passenger flight was shot down over ukraine in 2014. a day of airstrikes, missile strikes in ukraine once again. russians targeting ukrainian infrastructure. seven people killed near
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separation are, we can tell you 10 million ukrainians do not have electricity -- these are the words of president zelenskyy. the protests in the wake of the death in police custody of 22-year-old mahsa amini spread and show no signs of slowing down in spite of authorities' violent crackdown. this is "live from paris to come -- paris." thank you very much for being with us. the situation in iran is where we start. it is raising concern internationally for the safety of protesters. there are also cases up violence against police that are raising concerns, too. death in police custody of 22-year-old mahsa amini on
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september 16 has been followed by successive months up tests. -- of protests. since the protests began, 362 demonstrators at least have been shot dead by iran's security forces. it was the death of mahsa amini, arrested by the so-called morality police over her head scarf, that has become the focal point of how people e feeling about their rulers and their situation. the professor from georgetown university joins us now. thank you for being with us. can i start by asking how significant you feel it is that we are hearing from official voices the words "civil war?" >> i think the government is a war with its people, and the people are just giving her voice
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for what is right. those shooting and killing are the regime and the government. they are the ones waging war against iranians who for the last 40 years have been isolated and deprived of their rights. i think the government would use any language and narrative to try to distract from the narrative of the people. mark: the more we see images of civilians being fired upon, surely, the iranian government has to accept what is happening and stop denying this is taking place? >> i think what we have seen over the years is the more people raised her voice, the
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more vile and rapid and brutal the government will become. these are not the first rounds of protests we have seen in iran. it goes back to 2009. remember how the irg forces cracked down on these voices, these protesters. to this day, there are protesters was families do not know where they are. in 2019 -- in fact, the last three days, the protests and strike in iran were to honor the hundreds of deaths that took place inside the country. protests again were a reflection of people's defense against the many corrupt and oppressive policies of the government, so the more people raised their voice, unfortunately, the more violent the government has shown it will become, and that's what we are seeing right now.
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mark: on the other of this equation, there will be those in government circles or those who apologize for the government who say that there are terrorist elements within the protesters who are attacking the police. we have had incidents reported of a police officer being killed, run down by a car, reports of protesters with knives attacking members of the security forces. we are getting these kind of reports coming in. are these things happening? is it a case of people in desperate situations resorting to desperate measures in order to somehow advance their cause? >> first of all, there are elements, both domestic but also foreign, who have interests that do not know -- do not align necessarily with people of iran, but if you focus on the millions
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of people on the streets, they are peaceful protesters. they want their baseball -- basic human rights and fundamental human rights met. when you have an apparatus that is so vile and would suffice to any measure to choke dissent and peaceful protest, you would naturally have moments where the police can, you know, also be at risk and in danger, but why is it that right now, there are thousands of protesters -- peaceful protesters -- in prison? as of today, the 56th day a journalist who just covered masan money's death -- muscle money -- nasa money -- mahsa
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amani's death is in jail? if these thousands of protesters are released, we don't see executions of those who have been detained, i think the situation is not going to escalate into violence, but unfortunately, we are not seeing these demands met by the government, and as a result, again in any volatile situation, you will have instances of both sides, of course, being hit. in this case, we have use of police officers and so on being killed. weekly, though, with regard to terrorist attacks, we regard -- we recall to a half weeks ago the incident the government immediately claimed to be a terrorist attack of isis origin, and we saw that to be false. that narrative has been used by
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the government to deter the attention on the real issue on the ground. mark: do you think the government says israel is to blame for what is going on or the west is to blame for western media, it is deflecting from problems they have created? >> 100% and not taking responsibility. they always blame someone else for the domestic problems they have at home, but this time, we are seeing people in masses, in hundreds of thousands on the street raising their voices. mark: thank you for joining us and sharing your analysis. we are watching, of course, all developments in iran. next, three men sentenced to life over the death of 298 people. at a court in the hague, the three were convicted unsubstantiated of the shooting down of a passenger jet over ukraine in 2014. the flight was on its way from amsterdam to kuala lumpur when
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it was hit over eastern ukraine. >> the belongings of family members and holidaymakers now degree at a crime scene. >> you know, i don't want to use the word closure i think there will never be closure if you lost your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters, a then there will never be real closure, i think. >> the commercial airliner was shot out of the sky as it flew over eastern ukraine. there had been heavy fighting between russian separatists and ukrainian forces in the area. the court sentenced them into life in prison for moving the
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missile to the site. >> there can sometimes be immunity for combatants in those types of cases, but russia has always denied involvement in this conflict. the defendants denied they were any type of russian armed forces. that means there was no immunity for the defendants and the court ruled they could be prosecuted. >> moscow had refused to extradite the now convicted suspects. on thursday, the russian foreign ministry dismissed the convictions of politically motivated and called the guilty verdict fse. mike: no surprise to hear from moscow that today's trial was a political manipulation.
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one of the skilled was a former colleague of mine, glenn thomas, journalist headed for the u.n. when he boarded that flight. many families believe if there had been a tougher response to this tragedy, much of the geopolitical instability that followed could have been avoided, including russia's invasion of ukraine. missiles rain down on ukrainian energy facilities on thursday as russian forces stepped up attacks in the east of the country, reinforced by troops pulled out from kherson in the south. explosions have sounded out in cities including the capitol, kyiv, the southern part of odessa, and the southwestern city of zaporizhzhia. >> even as a deal allowing kyiv to support grain and listening
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fears over a global food crisis was extended thursday, russia again struck ukraine with another spate of missile attacks in the morning, fired across the entire country, coming off the largest such attack so far, it has put ukraine's infrastructure under further pressure. this as an investigation gathers pace in poland where a russian missile fell, killing two. president volodymyr zelenskyy said no one can be 100% certain where it was fired from but ukraine had also launched missiles to protect itself. both ukraine and poland have -- both russia and poland have said it was probably ukrainian air defense weapon that landed in poland by accident. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken blamed russia for the pressure it was putting on ukraine.
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ukrainian specialists want to join the investigation. mark: the black sea grain deal has been extended by four months to help some of the poorest countries in the world. ukraine's president called the extension a key decision in the global fight against the food crisis. the issue to establish a safe shipping corridor in the black sea to address concerns cargo vessels might carry weapons or be used to launch attacks. the u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi, the first woman to hold that influential post, revealed this thursday she is going to step down as the democratic leader in the chamber a day after republicans secured a narrow majority in midterm elections. pelosi, who is now 82, a liberal, of course, from
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california, says she will remain in congress representing san francisco in the house as she has done for 35 years. >> and with great confidence in our caucus, i will not seek reelection to democratic leadership in the next congress. for me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that i so deeply respect, and i'm grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility. mark: nancy pelosi. president xi jinping scolded canadian prime minister justin trudeau at the g 20 summit, an unusual public spat that could further complicate strained relations between the two countries. video recorded by reporters showed xi jinping apparently abrading trudeau after talks between the two with eked to the media. >> after a g20 summit that had
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left western allies optimistic about future relations with beijing, a diplomatic spat was caught on camera between canada's justin trudeau and china's xi jinping. after trudeau told the press he had raised the issue of chinese interference in canadian politics. >> [indiscernible] >> trudeau having also told reporters canada would continue to challenge china on human rights. >> [indiscernible] we can work constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on. [indiscernible] >> beijing responded to the
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video, downplaying the claim that it showed xi criticizing, but said difficulties in the bilateral relationship were not the full of china. >> dialogue is not the problem with china, but we hope this is built on equality and respect rather than criticism. >> the foreign ministry spokesperson also rejected the claims of chinese interference in canada's politics. mark: time not to turn our eye to business. brian quinn joins us. in the u.k., the government has unveiled an austerity plan. brian: times are tough in the u.k. and probably not about to get any easier any time soon. the chancellor delivered his autumn statement in parliament to reassure markets.
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the new budget features tax hikes and cost-cutting measures and comes as the u.k. is staring down what could be its longest recession in recorded history. >> he had warmed over the weekend he would be forced to play the scrooge. finance minister jeremy hunt unveiled a new package thursday promising to tackle the cost of the living crisis and rebuild the economy. almost half of the plan will come from tax rises. >> asking more from those who have more means the first difficult decision i take on tax is to reduce the threshold at which the 45 rate becomes payable from 150,000 pounds to 125,001 hundred 40 pounds. >> the previous administration under liz truss had tried to abolish the tax altogether, but
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more people will be expected to pay basic income tax. >> in the last hour, the conservatives have picked the pockets of purses across the entire country as the chancellor has deployed a raft of taxes on ordinary working people. >> another measure that is likely to be unpopular -- the caps on household energy bills will be raised to 3000 pounds per household. minimum wage will also be raised and some groups will be getting extra cash assistance. under the new scheme, tax on energy profits will increase from 25% to 35% from january until march 2028. hunt said measures were necessary. the u.k. is the only developed nation that has not recovered
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its pre-pandemic size. brian: that a sturdy budget taking a bite out of the pound sterling -- that austerity budget taking a bite out of the pound sterling. european indexes and at the day mixed, making it particularly glum economic outcome -- outlook for the u.k. were household incomes are set to fall by 7% and not recover for six years. the tax relief plan for british small businesses not doing much for the ftse 100. it finished just below the flat line. on thursday, the federal reserve signaled it is likely far from done hiking interest rates. the s&p 500 and nasdaq each ending the day down around .3%. to the u.s. next, where workers at more than 100 starbucks locations went on strike thursday. it is the largest one-day
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walkout since a unionization campaign was launched at the coffee chain nearly a year ago. it is time to coincide with the day starbucks gives away free reusable cups with the purchase of a holiday themed drink. an especially busy day for those locations. the race does -- baristas not exactly feeling the holiday spirit. there demanding better pay, more staff, and more consistent holiday schedules. >> the idea that they are helping us or everything is safe and everything is doing well is not true. i have worked here for years, and nothing has become better for the work conditions. brian: finally, the ftx saga continues. the lawyer who oversaw enron's bankruptcy has been called in to oversee the bankruptcy for what was until recently the world's
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second-largest cryptocurrency exchange says ftx had a complete failure of corporate controls and the complete absence of trustworthy financial information. in his report to the delaware bankruptcy court, he details expenses approved with emojis and houses given away with little to no accounting documentation. once worth $32 billion, ftx file for bankruptcy after a bank run on its assets. that customer panics parked in part by an announcement from ftx's rival, who's denying that it caused ftx's collapse, promising to release a financial audit of its own firm within weeks. i'm sure many people would be interested in that as confidence is quite low in the sector at the moment. mark: thank you very much. time to turn to what is true from what is fake.
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this week, a missile hit poland. two people were killed. what are they making of it online? >> lots of back-and-forth following a missile strike in poland that killed two on tuesday. what we know so far is that the missile strike at the moment, we do not have evidence of what the polish authorities have. what we know for now is that the remains were found at the side of the explosion belong to an s-300 missile we see right here, posted by ukraine weapons tracker on fire twitter page, so both russia and ukraine possess this missile. right here, this missile system, which earliest versions were developed in the soviet union, which contributes to this confusion. however, both nato and polish
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officials confirmed this was a ukrainian air defense missile that most likely caused the deadly explosion. mark: it is a very confusing situation. or revealing both have the actual missile, which is complicated. tell us more about the kinds of things that are confusing people . >> these images circulating on twitter like this one with over 1000 retweets allegedly photos that show the wreckage and what is believed to be an s-300 missile. the content of the tweet is correct. what interested us where the photos in this tweet. right here, this photo was obtained from the news, this is
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an image we see on reuters, and this was obtained on november 16, 2022. if you see this image circulating around, this is a real image of debris found in the poland strike this week. we see this photo on the left right here circulating on social media. this photo does not belong to the current ukraine-russia-poland conflict. these missile remains were actually from the year 2020. information obtained by our fact checking colleagues, these missile remains were found in the caucasus mountains in a republic of russia. russian media also reported on these explosions at the time in this article from october 8,
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2020, where they report of the fall of an unknown object. here we find the same photo as the one used in the viral claims on twitter, debris that at the time was linked to the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan. mark: thank you very much indeed. we will have to wait of course until the full facts come out and when they do, of course, we will bring that to you. stay with us. >> every four years, the celebration of the olympic games is an opportunity to call a truce in international conflicts, but in 1972, during the munich games, eight palestinian terrorists took 11 members of the israeli delegation hostage. to secure their release, they
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demanded the release of all palestinian prisoners in israel and a plane to make their escape. at the airport, german police attempted a rescue operation. it was a fiasco. all the hostages were shot along with some of the terrorists. only today 50 years later i the -- are the families of the victims receiving compensation. ♪
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11/17/22 11/17/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from the u.n. climate summit in sharm el sheikh, egypt, this is democracy now! we are outside the plenary of the foreign minister of egypt has just gotten into his car. they have just driven off but there are hundreds of activists that have just come from a people's plenary that have gathered out

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