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change and whatever you do, don't watch my show stay mainstream because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change dwayne, think ah, yeah, it's more misery for turkey to more powerful earthquakes. rock this side of the country. this monday, with authority reporting more people being trapped under rebel. it comes just 2 weeks after one of the deadliest wakes in the nation's history that claimed more than 40000 miles. also and on the program, joe biden makes a surprise visit to kit and meet with president zalinski. the trip comes exactly 9 years after the deadliest day in the my done qu, protest report last over by the you. that leader israel sees a 7th week of protests against new judicial system reforms with james on parliament,
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the power to override the supreme court with from moscow to the world. this is our t thanks for choosing us fear global news roundup. this our another to earthquake, something recorded in turkey at the largest being 6.4 magnitude. both were once again centered on the southern region of hot say local authorities are reporting people being buried under rebel after the latest tremors with rescue teams heading to the sites ah, vis, on verified sub it's spreading on line is said to show moments shortly after the latest tremor said with one car camera, all so capturing the exact moment with the likes going on. just over 2 weeks ago,
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a series of massive quakes in this same region, you'll know left within 40000 people, dead intricate, thousands more in neighboring syria. today's events, by the way, we're all so felt in syria as well as lebanon hall. i cyprus, israel ginger cut and that can be drawn push and want to show you this video as well. just the sheer panic. you can imagine that these people take another airport in her tape province, people screaming, roaming and panic as the terminal was jolted by the latest shapes. also reports of a number of flights being con silver. following the quakes, the euro mediterranean size logical center issued a su nami morning for the coastal area with stretched around 20 kilometers from the epicenter the coast there. well, we can get a 1st hand kind of what the situation is like on speak to mr. vallarta who's in
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a region located several 100 kilometers away from her tay province. but i believe you still felt the, the tremors were you are, can you give us a sense of, of that today? you know, mr. o'neill, the worst part we cannot back turn our routine life really so big earth greg before which we had to get through a 7.7. and so before i've done, it has been 2 weeks and we were trying to get back to our roots in life. but we shake again. we had it earth. greg again, which also as you said about 6.4 and 5.8, you know, here's now to the cows because you know, what is the 1st thing in the world may be, in my opinion, a think which you don't know what to do. you feel desperate. you don't just, you don't feel safe at your own house. you at your own home sounds. now we again
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left to houses. now we're in a cafe which is want florida. and we are now you the dirt up. it's. i think the campus just kept about 100 people, but i think at least are it's on the people who are, who don't know what to do now. and you know, it's, we felt it again, or maybe it is smaller than the other, other ones. but you know, after that's one, even when we sit on a table and the small, you know, when somebody it's, it's a his leg to label. when it's shaking, you're feeling like it's been again lubbock mentally. we're gonna finish this as a suffused it's person i speak, we don't know what yeah, no, that is such an evocative way of describing it. the, the, the tremors village have. is that the fear? what can happen afterwards? because of course, it's not just the earthquakes, not just the big quake on the day. it's the tremors after it thought her fearful
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that people could be caught in that it is not maybe what people are saying to what should we do? where do we go? yeah, now we have thinking that, you know, mr. o'neill is you know, where do you feel safe? i think everybody feels like that they are on houses, but here, now we cannot go our own houses. everybody didn't really, they don't know what to do. now daffy some of them trying to escape to city, going to another cities. and some of them i think they, they say that they are card. some of them do you like us trying to find the shelter . we each has that really easy escape rates. net and de figured, you know, so the thing which we are feel and now it's being desperate and haven't to years old weights. you cannot think about feature. you're always thinking about something happen will happen suddenly. and you're gonna die or something like that. i think
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people who haven't seen it just really can't imagine, especially in the epicenter, especially in hot tave a lot, just the scenes of absolute devastation in terms of where you are. has there been destruction damage today? as far as i know, there is no damage with the car and the other things with the buildings, but it's a i think there are because there were a high damaged buildings and i think some of them collapsed. okay. well, the are, you know, or there isn't? no, absolutely, we're just looking at some pictures further north of what happened just broken at broken buildings coming in to on that. but the situation does not seem as bad as at before at valid. thank you so much for coming in the program. give us a guest sense and we wish you all the best and hope to talk to you again to see how
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you and your, your friends, your family are coping. thank you. thank you so much for large. an eye witness there, a region further side from the epa center. and by the way, of course, syria was badly affected as well the last 2 weeks with thousands dying. there are these are images from today. we got not so long ago people leaving their homes at where the earthquake struck across the border as well. i suppose moving further south away from there trying to to pack their belongings and get away from the tremors and hopefully come back later report to state the shaking has been felt by it helping things not just in the region but further south as well. so that's the situation as it stands right now on the turkish syrian border to earthquakes, to day and not in the extent of the damage that we saw before. but of course, the worry is the tremors that follow. we'll keep
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a very close eye on developments from there throughout the day and night. ok to another headline. story to the us president joe biden has made a surprise visit to kiev, where he met with the ukranian leader nearly a year after the start of the conflict. after photos, c, u. s. president subdomain and reaffirmed washington's unwavering support to ukraine on pledge to send even more money and weapons. the new package worth half a $1000000000.00 is said to include high margin munition and the tank systems and radars. well, joe biden says it comes ukraine marks 9 years since the deadliest day of the my don protests in key at the government, coo, which left doesn't scaled on more than a 150 wounded. essentially, that was a precursor to where we are. they are teas, marina cost, her of a house. the 3rd recap this is how it was portrayed in mainstream media. unarmed protest is done down in the street by the right police who were
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retreating from gifts made and square. i tried to hit lines of security forces a short distance away. oh, standing beyond the range of rocks and bottles. testers have home me shields and numbers. the police have water cannon and stun grenades, but this is what it looked like in reality. ah. after 3 months of confrontational, key of main square, the situation reached the boyland points, and the 20th of february, 2014, became the bloodiest they of the my done live in 49 dead and a 157 people wounded. this was the turning point. the protest could have died down, but they didn't. they got more violence. and the claim was that the violence was
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coming from the governments. a great way to force ukraine's president to succumb to protesters the mans, 9 years on. and there are still no proof that government forces were shooting at protesters. holy evidence to the contrary. the snipers firing were from buildings controlled by pro european protesters and based on forensic evidence, many of those who were killed and wounded was shot in the back or from significant vertical angles. whereas the police were right in front of them, or on the same level, at least one of the top to bottom direction of his wounds, his position in the video and findings from forensic medical examination about the location of entry, wounds in his right side and back indicate gunshots from that hotel and not from the bare crude ukrainian special forces in front of him. he several other eye witnesses including other my don protesters and a medic. and a german journalist also said he was killed by
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a sniper from the hotel ukraine. in particular, from the 7th floor, there is more, the bullets came from hunting rifles. well guess what? government forces didn't use haunting rifles, but do you know who did? that's right. the protesters, something that was even documented on mainstream media conservancy built several 100 meters away, was firmly in the hands of the protest direction. just after 8 o'clock that morning, a news photographer managed to get into the building with his camera. when i come inside, i will. so the guy one come after me, all the jobs were hunter gun hunting, right? not exactly a clear picture, is it incredible? considering it's been 9 years, but what's more, incredible is the evidence that has magically disappeared. we must realize that the way the investigation was conducted unfortunately, did not give society answers to key questions. we have tube questions about the
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quality of the investigation. some materials simply disappeared, while in other points the investigation was sabotaged. this is the man who was adamant that the government controlled the slay bars and not my don leaders like himself. so where is the proof? nowhere to be found, apparently the shields and helmets of those who were killed and injured. where are they gone? extracted bullets disappeared recordings of live streams cctv from hotel krajina a raised. isn't that weird? even e u official started wondering what was going on as we later found out from this leap phone call. it's really disturbing that now with the new new coalition that they don't want to investigate. what exactly happened so that there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers they were. it was not but it's a somebody from the new coalition. it's already discredit dates from very beginning,
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goes to this new college. yeah, it's really the serving bob. let's continue supporting them. anyway. after all, the west had been egging them on for so long, but for a newland flew in 3 times and was literally feeding pro european protesters. us senator john mccain joined the party. encourage and protesters to keep going, agreeing with them, but their future is in europe no matter what their democratically elected president wants or has decided to do. the people who know that the united states stands with you in your search or justin for human dignity, your card curity, or he can make health and for the european future that you have children in the me
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this is your moment. this is about, you know, why no one else really. then why was the, was la, truly in ukraine's business discussing and planning. who should ron was? we've all heard the leaks conversations where the west insisted on that. then you get a new so become ukraine's new leader. and sure enough, there guy was installed and traveled to washington right away. so the crowds in the key of and the folks in washington got what they wanted. a pro western governments would know twice to russia, a scary prospect for those ukrainians who aligned with russia linguistically, historically and culturally so they took to the streets, often meets in a brutal consequence. like the massacre and not the assault were almost 50 of them were trapped in the building that will set ablaze. burn and i'm alive. this of course, cements of,
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clearly the hatred between the 2 sides. realized that he had decided our fate without african out from us. they said that they wanted to be with europe and didn't need the ration customs union and russia the things that were going on and keep disturbed that hugely. 6 the need will know what happened after that, crimea detached and joined russia. the civil war and the boss started a need so began arming the key of regime with civilians terrorized for years. now let's take a moment to remember john mccain's words and key. if once again, you're sure you want for your country. this is just a future use this or what is this what he had in mind? surely the wife didn't expect rossa to allow a puppet regime to terrorize its civilian and arm up along its borders with hopes
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and dreams of being part of nato. every action has a reaction, and that was actions points to the fact that my done was the gateway. so a war was russia, the kill. let's return now to our top story. new powerful earthquakes. once again struck turkey, here in the already devastated, had a province. let's go live now to our hum altura now professor of geology at a university in turkey at northwest, at your most welcome, and thank you for your time today. so we know too powerful or quick's have struck the same area. essentially the tragically killed over 40000 in the past fortnight. how dangerous are due since today's events are well unfortunately esther i her to another mother. it says that grace in the region actually is dis to earthquakes. took her place in the south end of the magnitude 7.8 earthquakes.
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so the actually expected this one because this is a sort of after shock in that region. and the since the 1st earthquake, quite it was quite large and good expat for example, up to a magnitude 6.8, it aftershocks in that area. and this is one of them are as far as we know, for example, in that reason that the earthquake to place it there is no velo octed false. i mean there is no sign of up to 4. so i think this is just the, that the larger creek a lot that sits us on some small size structures into the air. and did that the, the successes to these thinking during the circ grace? yeah. as you say, the bigger quick was 6.4 c. believe that was in the range of possible tremors that may have been expected. yes, yes. different reports of tremors and destruction also coming from neighboring syria, which of course, also suffered from the aftermath of me,
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of that was quakes and thousands killed there. to what does that say a by the events today? was it expected to be so far south in syria, the tremors? but yes, because i'm in, syria is not far from the truth on the it's about 40 kilometers. so the, it is possible that the earthquake to get free as one of the news lines on we very much pray. it does not happen, but there are a warnings coming from syfma. ologist. not the latest quakes could trigger a soon. army is another possibility. no, i don't think if something did happen enough sense, are the countries emergency systems capable of combining a tress like that? right? no, no, i don't. i don't think they, they have that facilities, but i don't expect any to send me. i mean, it doesn't seem to me like, okay,
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what we just use line as well. the 3 people are confirmed dead so far in the attack . so in our thoughts go out to them and their families and for the country for the past 2 weeks as well. or we leave it there for now we'll, we'll awake more developments we hope to speak to you again or out to now a turkish university professor of geology. thank you, sir. thank. thank you. good night's right to israel, where a protest against new judicial reforms have entered a 7th week. this is jerusalem, where the situation is said to be evolving. at protesters have filled the street shouting slogans waving flags. some of those founders even call the p. m. benjamin netanyahu, quote, the prime minister for now the demonstrations are peaceful, however, of these really parliament per person over all that district systems. the proposed reforms have also drawn a statement of concern from allies,
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the united said yeah. and the sweeping reforms just to go through it a little bit further, the aim to give parliament the power to override the states supreme court with a simple majority. another proposal would take away the court, right? to review the legality of visual basic laws. the politicians would be given the power to appoint judges to the court is really activists an attorney. run the bar, you actually found believes the reforms are about giving more democracy to this room. israel, he's a parliamentary democracy and we don't have a constituent, a constitution. israel try to ha, 31, but hale. so he said ok, then we'll have the basic laws. israel has now some was really constitution, which means the supreme court can also cancel laws. this is the perimeter for debate. and now the question is, if the parliament wants to legislate, the log in the supreme court says that it cannot who who wins at the end of the day . the main issue, the legal reform is a democratic question. that is,
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who has the final word is it's the people 3rd, they're elected representatives or is it the supreme court who is nominated by a committee that basically is run over by supreme court judges. they don't read what the nation once they do, what they think only. busy what is good for them? not what is good for the nation, for the country full of people who live here full. that democracy. they want all the power to themselves. and that is instead of the ma crochet, it's gonna be a big filtering. it's ready to go even to us, and i don't think the any government should go and change their basic laws. this israel was born and built on
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from the beginning on 40 inch ok from the middle east to south asia. police insure langkow use tear gas and water counting against protesters demanding the government does not postpone the local elections which had been planned for next month. thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital columbus. it followed reports that election officials had not received the government funds to allow the boat to take. the elections has already been postponed from last year due to the political and economic turmoil that was here. something were closely keeping an eye on as well. the white house has drawn condemnation from its european partners after announcing measures to support its green technology industry. now, leaders in europe claim washington is asking them to follow
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a protection policy that only benefits the u. s. and will hurt europe in particular, are most important. trading partner decides things in their own interest. they keep doing this. they want us to support them on china. the way to achieve our common climate though is not through more by american but through joint action and common standards. well, the latest package in america is new infrastructure bill includes support for investments and the promotion of domestic. that's the key word prediction. and the figures really do have a lot of zeros after them just to give you a sense of file, you can see behind me 7 and a half $1000000000.00 for electric vehicle charging $10000000000.00 in clean transportation projects on more than $7000000000.00 to develop electric car, battery components, critical minerals, unrolled materials, so a lot of cash, european official see additional tax bricks will disadvantage companies from europe and may even lower them state side. that's the problem. german economists like
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a hummer believes the u. s. wants to make europe compliant under its roots. now the europeans wondering let it benefits us and not them. so nearly everything that comes from the u. s. against the people in europe, it's against the economy in europe. because america now wants to psycho europe for its own benefit and they want to make sure that germany, especially, but europe, economies is under the thumb of the us and they cannot survive on their own. so the europeans, i know, are some or europeans are now recognizing that this is the case and that they did really bad behavior against the european economies. you don't do this because of the environment. you do this because of economic dependence. this, this is the war of the us again, europe against germany, especially according to say, my hearse. the us who are behind the blow up of the na stream to pipeline to make
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it exclusively that only the u. s. and norway can deliver gas. us is getting rid of a competitor with the help of their puppets in the european commission. ok yet more pressure on terra, more than 30 iranian national is being targeted in the new round of sanctions. opposed by the european union, which now includes at trouble bonds and asset freezes for those individuals over alleged human rights violations. let's break it down as much as we know here. among those sanctioned are the ministers of culture and education, or hughes, persecuting people, engaged in anti government protests. the new restrictions come, in addition to an already existing bond on the export of equipment to, to run the could be used for what brussels called internal repression on the monitoring of telecommunication. the you said the sanctions are unnecessary response to what i use to runs violence track down on peaceful protests following
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the death in custody of a young woman last year to run for its part faith that the woman was already dealing with an existing heart. couldn't dish, and she nidia has described as blatant interference in his sovereign nations. first, an address made to protesters by a senior official whose not being expelled from the north african nation. the european trade union chief, attempted to defend her actions. internationalism, in solidarity are at the core of the labor movement. so it's entirely normal that a trade union leader from europe should go and stand with workers in tunisia. the message of solidarity, social justice, and dialogue i gave at the demonstration, is no different to the one i have given to workers in france and the u. k. this month. while the feud is caused by
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a precedent will feels that the unions have a rather a powerful position, a vested interest in as government, and is trying to very much kids hail, how much power they can wield the united workers of, of tunisia under the umbrella, the u g t t that tunisia united general union movement have really caused some headaches for president case saeed. and they have organized a lot of strikes and laura protest, i gave her the, the high cost of living. and as well as the lack of reforms in his government, and they've gone as far as to say that he is trying to clam down on union rates and union power on saturday on one of the biggest piece of the strikes the of the protest rather than was being held they miss lynch spoke to to the thousands of
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people that were there who also held on bread as a saying of protests against the higher cost of living. and she told them that the 45000000 workers of europe, than she represents through how confederation stand with those workers. and that there is a sense of solidarity and internationalism within the union as movement. and that speech really riled up. mr. said she was the go to the thing that this isn't that the mr. phase government has consistently, i tag the unions and down a tag on the union. is it a tag on people's voice? let's hear a little bit more from the government side as to what the found offensive about her speech or saturday. i order as the president of the republic, the tennessean authorities, cold on as to lynch who participated in march, organized by the g mizzi and general labor union. made statements that blatantly interfered with 2 news in internal affairs to leave to nicea within 24 hours of
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notifying her that she is persona non grata. esa, as the list get thanks, fell the back to a to europe and we understand that she landed in brussels today. this is a fine and this is the message that's been sent to to nicea that at sending up to the government will be high down from now on. if senior officials within the legal union movement are being arrest that it will, unless people get present outside to the man who only a year and a half ago, you know, really chased out most of the government workers and sees paola, he now is claimed to have more power than the parliament in that country. as the ratification process for sweden and finland to join nato drags on the nordic countries are still pushing to be accepted together. however, the alliance is secretary general has said it's complicated and the 2 don't come as a package deal. the main issue is not that they ratified together. the main issue
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is that they ratified as full members as soon as possible. while finland's prime minister is seeking the to, to do just out, stay together in the bid, helsinki defense minister says they'd be willing to join the block independently. it comes as turkey has held up sweden's rather vacation, citing the countries refusal to deport refugees at anchor. it deems aus terrorist just weeks ago. and chris summoned the swedish ambassador following a demonstration in stockholm that saw a right wing politicians burned the koran next to the turkish embassy global efforts. unless jord zamarelli believes nato's failure to move both application forward will force the block to change its plans. finland will join separately because so present aragon isn't going to change is the position on swing sweden. so at the not before the election. i.
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