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>> former u.s. president donald trump is found liable for fraud after lying on his financial statements for decades. hello. i'm darren jordon. this is al jazeera line from doha. u.s. president joe makes history joining striking autoworkers in the state of michigan. cities in texas struggle as an influx of migrants and refugees arrived on the u.s.-mexico border. firefighters extinguished the blaze and a fuel depot in nagorno-karabakh where an explosion on monday killed at
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least 68 and injured hundreds. a judge in new york has found former u.s. president donald trump liable for fraud. the state's attorney general brought the case against trump and his family, accusing them of inflating the value of their assets and net worth in order to get better terms on bank loans and insurance. >> this new york judge is saying that former president trump, who ran for office and got elected largely based on his reputation as a savvy, successful businessman is a fraud. the judge ruled that the president and his business associates and his company overvalued the assets that he had in order to get better financing and better deals when
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it comes to things like insurance, payments, or loans. this, again, is a summary judgment that was issued before the case goes to a civil trial in the coming weeks where other charges will be considered against the former president, but this suggests it's not going to go well. the attorney general of new york is seeking $250 million in damages from the former president as well as a prohibition on him ever doing business in new york state again. >> u.s. president joe biden has made history by joining striking autoworkers on the picket line in detroit. biden told members of the auto workers union that they deserve the pay rise they are asking for. he added they should be rewarded for the sacrifices they made when autumn -- when auto manufacturers were struggling. >> it is symbolic and
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significant. the first time a serving u.s. president has walked the picket line with striking workers. >> you guys, the uaw, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 and made a lot of sacrifices, gave up a lot. but now they are doing incredibly well, and guess what? you should be doing incredibly well, too. >> the white house likes to portray joe biden as the most pro-union, pro-worker president in history. the workers we spoke to say they want more than a photo shoot in support. >> it is great coming out here, but anybody can come out here and talk. we want to see results. >> i say we are asking for exactly what we are worth. we are doing a hard job and we should get what we are worth. >> workers at the big three car manufacturers walked out when their last agreement expired. they are looking for a 40% rise over four years and guarantees
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over jobs as the industry switches to electric vehicles. >> if everything is held constant, the growth of ev's does represent a threat to employment in the u.s. auto industry. >> a big surge over the next seven to 10 years, we could lose upwards of 75 thousand to 100,000 jobs. >> and joe biden has to walk a fine line. he wants to show support for the workers on the front line of this dispute, but he also knows an extended fight will cost the economy billions of dollars, and he plans to run on the strength of the economy in his reelection efforts. also, his biggest republican rival will be here in michigan wednesday trying to win the support of the same autoworkers. companies say they have made record offers to the unions. there's a sign of movement, but not enough to get a deal. the white house says it is staying out of negotiations but
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is not as reluctant to show which side it favors. >> there's a growing crisis at the southern border of the united states. a large number of asylum-seekers continue to cross over from texaco. research has put the biden administration under intense pressure. the mayor of el paso says the border city is at a breaking point while another city, eagle pass, has cleared a state of emergency. our correspondent in eagle pass, texas, says the situation is desperate. >> migrants, asylum-seekers crossing the rio grande river. we are hearing people scream either out of elation or just everything, the stress that they have gone through, as they now have to traverse this final barrier. we have seen fathers carrying their children, mothers -- i think the look on the little boy's face really says everything. it is a difficult moment for these families now stepping on
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american soil for the first time . she says she is so happy. ages 8 and 7, her two children. [speaking spanish] i'm asking her how she got her children through this journey. >> [speaking spanish] >> she says it has taken so much effort to get to this point. it was not easy, but they are here and they are thankful. a steady stream of people, sometimes families with children who are even younger, two months . now you are hearing the very loud sound of the texas highway patrol. it is notable that these government folks -- obviously,
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you just saw them was so close, people waiting in the water, children terrified enough as it is that they are fighting these currents. this mahomes bag was caught on the razor wire. but these folks don't stop unless it is apparent that someone is in really true danger . it is important not to downplay the danger. yes, you are seeing people waiting across the water, which is about waist high, but it is unpredictable. the currents can become much stronger, up to a person's chest, and this is the spot where two children did drown in recent weeks. we are being told by state police that we can be here as the press but that we cannot touch the wires themselves. these people are coming up onto the shore of the u.s., and many have been actively seeking
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immigration enforcement officers, u.s. agents, asking, where do we turn ourselves in, begging them for water. you are seeing this man holding his id card in his hand. this is his past to the united states. why is this your pass? >> [speaking spanish] >> because it is his venezuelan card. he is hopeful that will give him a chance to claim asylum. you can see how many people are so desperately making the journey at this moment. >> we go to our correspondent outside the center for mexican refugees. >> we are seeing new people arrive predominantly from venezuela but also seeing many, many people from countries like haiti, from cuba, from ecuador, honduras, guatemala, west africa
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. we encountered as well a group from afghanistan, so various different nationalities. the fact that here in mexico city, migrant shelters are already overflowing and have been for the last few weeks as this crisis has continued to worsen, really does go to show that this is a crisis that is not only unfolding along mexico's border with the united states -- moments ago, you had asked how long this can go on for. we also learned this week that every day somewhere around 3000 migrants from various nationalities are entering mexico through mexico's southern border with guatemala. it is clear that immigration officials here in mexico are overwhelmed. the numbers are just too many. last week, mexico signed an agreement with the united states to increase deportations. in the words of mexican officials, to alleviate pressure, to depressurized some
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of the crisis in border cities. mexico has also applied a series of different measures to try to curb migration moving north, such as a temporary suspension of northbound trains, trains being a very popular method for migrants who are trying to reach the united states, but after a series of deaths and injuries were reported over the course of the last few weeks, after thousands and thousands of migrants -- you can see very dramatic pictures of the last few weeks, just crowding on top of these trains, very dangerous conditions they face when they do so -- these trends collectively known as the beast here in mexico. >> medical teams have raised to nagorno-karabakh where an explosion at a fuel depot has killed at least 68 people and injured hundreds as people seeking to flee to armenia lined up for petrol on monday. nearly 300 have been injured. many more under critical condition. the cause of the blast is still unknown.
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>> the fire raged for hours as a fuel tank burned. firefighting vehicles were sent to azerbaijan to extinguish the blaze. russian peacekeepers and the red cross are evacuating critically wounded burn victims. hospitals struggled with the influx of hundreds of patients. several facilities including a medical facility run by the russian peacekeeping mission, worked quickly. aid has started to arrive, and medics are calling for urgent supplies. >> it is version all these patients get as much medical care as they can, but it is also urgent that these patients are moved to medical facilities that are able to better care for them . >> representatives of the
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azerbaijani government say they are in contact with representatives of the armenian residents of karabakh. the red cross has been given access to people wounded. medical workers and supplies are being flown in from armenia, and some patients in critical condition are being taken back. the azerbaijani government says it has opened its airspace, sent in medical help and put hospitals around the region on high alert, but after years of mistrust and fighting, ethnic armenians are not even ready to bring in their critically wounded patients for treatment to azerbaijan. >> bernard smith is near the registration center for ethnic armenians.■ >> it is the end of the road for ethnic armenians who for centuries have made their home in its mountains and beyond. with the separatist enclave of nagorno-karabakh now under azerbaijani control, the 120,000
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remaining ethnic armenians were told they could stay and be ruled from baku or leave. more than 20,000 have arrived since sunday. >> where we are going, what will happen to us, no one knows. i don't know what to say about our future. i don't think we will be able to return to karabakh. how can we go back after all this happened? we cannot live with it. >> these armenians are proud, angry, and upset. russian peacekeepers failed to stop azerbaijan blocking the main road for nine months. they refused to accept aid that was offered by a longer route controlled by azerbaijan. >> i don't know what this is. i left everything in my home, a ton of potatoes in my cellar.
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everything was there. i know i will make a new life, but it won't be the same. i trust no one who made us like this. >> the u.s. government says azerbaijan's for us to take control of nagorno-karabakh was unacceptable. >> we know that there are injured civilians in nagorno-karabakh who need to be evacuated, and it is absolutely essential that evacuation be facilitated by the government of azerbaijan. >> azerbaijan's president says his iron fist has consigned the idea of the region's independence to history. >> two kosovo serbs captured after a gun battle at the kosovo monastery in court. the government in kosovo says around 30 heavily armed serbs barricaded themselves into a serbian orthodox monastery.
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time for a short break here on al jazeera. when we come back, we will tell you why the british army secretary says the united nations convention needs to be revised. plus -- >> i'm in illinois where farmers are using artificial intelligence to create the farms of the future. ♪ >> there are some pokey showers running through on a cold front and then probably dying down. in fact, the picture increasingly one of more clouds and lightning showers, not big storms. if you think it looks hot, you would be right to think that. the record is not breached on
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wednesday and on thursday, we get cooler weather once again. at the same time, showers consolidate on the east coast towards brisbane. new zealand, pretty pokey also for spring, having had a wet, windy start. the wind has died down. indonesia and most of malaysia are largely still in the dry season. really wet weather in vietnam. almost record-breaking but not quite. there might be a late gasp of significant rain wednesday or thursday. hong kong is cooling down and getting more humid.
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>> i have the right to boycott anyone i want to, and the state has no business getting involved in that. >> i was just opening my annual contract from the state of arizona, and i was rather shocked to see this. >> a new three-part series explores the implications of u.s. anti-boycott laws for freedom of speech and first amendment rights. >> god has chosen to bless us because we protect israel. i'm going to continue to do that -- i'm going to continue to do all that i can on a state level to continue to. ♪ >> welcome -- welcome back. a judge in new york has found former u.s. president trump and his sons liable for fraud.
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the state's attorney general brought the case against trump and his family business, accusing them of inflating the value of their assets and net worth. tens of thousands of refugees have crossed into armenia from nagorno-karabakh after azerbaijan launched a military operation last week. and there's a growing crisis at the southern border of the united states. a large number of asylum-seekers continue to pass over into the u.s. from mexico. the search has put the biden administration under intense criticism. the british i'm secretary says the rules for those able to seek asylum in a different country need to be re-examined and revised, addressing a u.s.-based think tank. he questioned if the united nations's 1951 refugee convention is still relevant. the united nations says it remains as relevant today as
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when it was adopted. a member of the scottish parliament says they are scapegoating migrants. >> i'm outraged by the speech today. she has effectively undermined more than 70 years of refugee protections, and she has thrown the refugee convention under a bus. we know that people don't seek refuge just because they want to. they seek refuge because they are being persecuted. they seek refuge because they have no other option. in the u.k., there has been a consistent narrative for several years now, stirred up by hate and prejudice by the conservative government and others, that seek to scapegoat migrants and refugees. we know many hundreds of people have died in the english channel trying to get to safety in the u.k..
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it is our responsibility as one of the wealthiest countries on the planet to offer safe refuge and sanctuary to people who are fleeing persecution and oppression. to say that those characteristics that make people a target should no longer qualify them for refugee status, that's just an abomination as far as i'm concerned. >> israel's tourism minister is in saudi arabia saudi arabia is pursuing a possible u.s.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries. >> the visit of the israeli tourism minister to saudi arabia is literally unprecedented. no such senior israeli official has ever visited the kingdom, and we are also hearing a report from israeli army radio that the
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communications minister of israel will also visit saudi arabia next week. this is all signs of the progress being made under the u.s.-brokered effort to normalize relations between the two countries. such normalization would have been if it's for saudi arabia and for israel, but it remains to be seen what benefit if any it would have for the palestinians living under occupation. >> many palestinians are fearful that if the deal does go through , they will be left without any significant political concessions. >> the israeli tourism minister's visit to riyadh comes on the second day of sally delegations visiting ramallah for the first time in 30 years. they met the palestinian president.
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>> during his latest interview, the crown prince spoke about the importance of the palestinian cause for the kingdom of saudi arabia, as per the international legitimacy decisions and two-state solution and the establishment of a palestinian state. >> the bodies of two iranian soldiers killed in a drone strike have been repatriated. the rain -- the bodies of two by iranian -- the bodies of two bahranian soldiers. i was later, a spokesman said the coalition had killed several yemeni fighters over the last month and called the deaths regrettable violations of the truce. a commander of russia's black sea fleet has been shown attending a video conference day after ukrainian forces said they killed him. victor sotloff was seen in video
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taken by moscow. special forces said they had killed him along with three other officers in a missile attack in crimea. prominent russian opposition leader alexei navalny has lost his appeal against a new 19-year prison sentence. his jail term was extended last month after he was convicted on extremist charges. the 47-year-old has been a critic of the kremlin for the last decade and was arrested two years ago after returning to moscow from germany where he was recovering after being poisoned. amazon is being sued by u.s. regulators over allegations it stifled competition by inflating prices and overcharging sellers on its platform. the lawsuit brought by the federal trade commission and 17 state attorneys is part of a years-long investigation into the e-commerce giant. our correspondent explains the business practices that landed amazon in court. >> does it's really about the
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rules amazon imposes on third-party sellers, forbidding them from offering lower prices on other platforms, requiring them to use amazon's fulfillment services in order to be part of the prime program for shipping costs. the ftc is accusing amazon of using those policies to drive profits to itself while generally raising prices across the board. i think a breakup is on the table. it is one of the things the ftc is asking for, but there is a range of outcomes that are possible, including simply barring amazon from the various practices this lawsuit is complaining about. the suit really does target retail and not just retail but the services amazon provides to third-party sellers. >> canada's house speaker has resigned.
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he invited a 90-year-old who was called a ukrainian hero during a visit by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, but it then emerged he had worked in a division that was responsible for the mass murders of innocent civilians. scientists are testing intelligent farming robots to help address the world's growing food crisis. the idea is to help make agriculture more efficient. >> on the midwestern prairies of illinois, unseen beneath hi autumn corn, come the farmers of the future. in march of machines rolls its way through leafy crop grows, performing much of what farmhands do and more. scientists at the university of illinois and several other institutions are testing
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artificial intelligence technologies that are already being evaluated on farms worldwide. >> does a win-win for everyone. the farmer makes more money. the soil and the environment is better off. we are sequestering more carbon whenever we can, and the consumer gets healthier or organic climate smart products. >> they measure which seeds fare better. between seasons, farmers often lack the time and labor to plant cover crops that enrich the soil and protect against runoff into the water supply. but farm bots plant off season crops between corn and soybean rose before they are even harvested. robotic dogs walk where wheels can get tangled. >> robots are very -- they are
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eye candy, so they tend to get the attention. robots are just a fraction of all the things that we do. >> there are sensors that record soil health and crop hydration. livestock drones monitor cattle health, weight, and single out pregnant cows. artificial intelligence is designed to make farming more productive, more environmentally sustainable using better data and not so much to replace human labor as to make it more effective. >> this 28-year-old farmer says new technologies can help with a growing field labor shortage and a crossing schedule. >> planting occurs at the same time. spraying harvest is all at the same time, so we really do have a labor crunch for very short but intense periods throughout the year. things like automation are definitely a solution. >> with limited agricultural land and a growing global food crisis, researchers say the rise of robots and increasing
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automation seems inevitable. >> now to the asian games where china remains way out in front in the middle, with 53 goals -- golds. no other country has been able to challenge them at the top of the metal -- medals table. >> china first and everyone else big distant second. it has been a familiar sight. turner's biggest halls have come on the two previous occasions when the country has hosted the event. a chinese hurdler is hoping her first asian games gold will come in front of her home crowd. >> i'm not afraid of anyone. when i go to the battlefield, i have to rely on myself to adjust, so i stay positive and keep telling myself, you can definitely do it. >> ahead of the games, the
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president of china's olympic committee left athletes in no doubt of what was expected of them. their requirements -- to the country and demonstrate the power of china
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