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from the showings of the red sea storage a clean water act the clever and the major but enjoyed this team of change to the peaks of the himalayas where water conservation looks like this. solution is to save the world's most precious resource and the next episode of act right we look at what is being done to stem what's prices. at this time of al-jazeera. three days of national mourning after a bombing in somalia's capital that killed at least eighty five people.
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hello again i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up some ice will fight as leave russia as part of a deal but others vow to fight on as the battle for the syrian city enters its final stages. there cademy expels disgraced media mogul harvey weinstein condemning ollywood for harassment of women. and why the people of venice don't like tourists and how they're fighting back to reclaim the city. at least eighty five people have been killed in two bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu the first explosion was a powerful truck bomb that targeted an area with many government offices hotels and restaurants police say the people are still trapped under the rubble of a hotel and they fear the casualty number could rise caroline malone reports.
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the. bodies are still being brought out of the rubble of one of the worst attacks in mogadishu in recent times because you know. a truck bomb went off at a busy junction when hundreds of people were nearby president mohammed up to lucky mohammed has visited the scene the sheer force of this blast is clear by the effect on the buildings around him. the target of these terrorist is not government officials but civilians as you see here there are no government buildings only civilians who are going about their daily life we have to come together and fight these monsters until we eradicate them from our country. a large number of people are suffering from life threatening injuries and a boost in blood supplies is needed to help them a second blast hit another part of the city two hours after the first early on saturday. but it was the truck bomb that caused most of the fatalities people were still digging through the rubble on sunday it's not yet clear who carried out the
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attack the government's blaming al-shabaab for the bombing but the armed group is denying it was behind it carol i'm alone al jazeera earlier we spoke to somali government spokesman on the other soft who says the security situation has improved in mogadishu recently but it's impossible to prevent all attacks. this is the best time for the last four months to the fall of december there's a photo of this really done a magnificent job are you really and making them over this one of the service to see if we did everything we could to give of all it's a number of stuff from multiple absolutes but if you've heard the sound of someone wants to blow themselves as you said earlier as a fact and as a school force with follow the steps to service but it was too late so we are doing everything we can and this is a sign we thought that we'd be all required in this good faith but as
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a result is always rises to start the people and this is something that we all morning sized to do what we can support of those people who are in the her system. i saw appears to be on the verge of being pushed out of it's self proclaimed capital in syria local officials say that some islip fighters have been allowed to leave rocka after a deal was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday it's not clear how many iceland members are still inside the city kurdish backed syrian fighters have said the battle could take hours or days while i saw entered rocka in twenty forty that its control soon spread to areas of iraq the armed groups each seized large areas of both countries three years later that is territories been reduced to this the iraqi government is launching an offensive to drive it from its last stronghold in that country as well as being on the brink of losing what are in syria i saw is also
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lost the town of dean syrian government forces and their allies are also trying to push it from the few pockets that it holds in delos or city that's take you live now to the turkey syria border al-jazeera. is following developments for us there so what's the latest on the fighting in iraq or. did you have the negotiations to broker a deal that would allow i was invited to leave collapse which is a coalition of goodies passions backed by the us. and made here which is taking place as we speak now to take over the remaining areas under control they say that about two hundred seventy five syrian i say members around the city of force and the push now is basically targeting foreign fighters who are still entrenched in few buildings inside this if you're just concerned about the time the alleyways
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that lead to the city and the. four suicide bombers or snipers positioned in those areas where they say they are confident it will be just a matter of hours before they declare all the city of under their control so if it loses rocco we. it almost certainly will in the very near future what now for i saw where does that leave the organization. i was very crucial last fall for myself from the could easily move west to words. they were hoping to expand that this is why the self-proclaimed. capital in syria that won't happen anymore they won't have. any chance in the future to move or expand north west the problem is that with losing them they will have to. pull out but there is the syrian army which is now launching a major offensive to recapture the oil fields in the province of the isles or if
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you look at the map i think is left with only a vast desert area which is totally exposed gone are the days where they can send hundreds of fighters long. to take over areas because they are now totally exposed to u.s. warplanes they are now moving towards the border of iraq but from the iraqi side also you have the iraqi army moving just secure their own areas it is just a matter of weeks or months perhaps before i said as complete control of the areas in the eastern syria many thanks. live on the syria turkey border syria is demanding that turkey withdraw its troops from its northern province immediately more than one hundred turkish soldiers and twenty armored vehicles crossed the border two days ago says they are there to enforce a so-called deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce
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fighting. people in austria are voting in a snap election today that could see the far right freedom party enter government as part of a coalition opinion poll suggests that the leader of that government is likely to be thirty one year old sebastian kurtz of the conservative people's party if he becomes chancellor he'll be the youngest leader in the world. david. kurtz is called the austrian politics. at thirty one he may be short on years but he's long on and vision of this t.v. broadcast with you people's party shows his eyes are set firmly on the chancellor ship. the polls put it well ahead but he's done it by poaching some of the policies of the far right. i can also promise today that we will end illegal migration to achieve order and
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security in austria. it's the freedom party led by heinz christian structure that could be drawn into a new right wing coalition with young chancellor they draw their support from a working class eighty later by the waves of immigration and euro structure has said his neo nazi links and hues could now be dismissed he described himself then as stupid and naive that no islam does not belong in austria and we do not want to . own homelands i think something needs to change it's a very strong to the left over very strong to the right and the middle needs to come back the middle class is missing a ban on face veils came into effect here this month but opinion was divided amongst worshippers at friday prayers at the the end a mosque about what life might be like under a new right wing coalition. no i'm afraid to be living in
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a country where the women are suppressed because of the headscarf or what they are wearing their exteriors and i am afraid of that as i want to become a doctor. i mean muslims are mature voters and we do not feel vulnerable let's protect them before australia has been largely successful in integrating its muslim minority but the islamophobia card is being played in this election and it's winning votes. the changing political landscape in australia is likely to add to the problems of the german chancellor angela merkel she'll no longer find natural allies in government here. al-jazeera the. people in kyrgyzstan are voting today in a presidential election one of the candidates is expected to win outright metally analysts are predicting a runoff between two former prime minister's security there's been high due to previous political violence in the country kyrgyzstan's first two leaders since the
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fall of the soviet union were removed from office following riots more are from robin for s.t. a walker is in bishkek. this is an election unlike any other to have taken place in central asia in over twenty five years and the reason it's so special is because the president of kyrgyzstan almost back at him by is standing down according to the constitution and that means that whatever the outcome after this election kyrgyzstan will have a new president who isn't there because the incumbent died while in office or through some kind of political revolution and kyrgyzstan has seen two of those in the last twelve years the other reason it's important is that kyrgyzstan is have a real choice there are more than twelve candidates on the ballot paper although there are two front runners sort of them by jim bianco of and a man called on the back of now mr sort of boy jim bianco of is the president's
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chosen successor he's from his political party he's a seasoned politician a man in his sixty's mr band of is much younger he's in his forty's he's considered young dynamic he's an entrepreneur he made a lot of money kyrgyzstan is being offered a choice on the one hand they're being offered security and stability by the presidents chosen candidate more of the same the last seven years have at least been peaceful in kyrgyzstan there was a violent political revolution here in twenty ten all they could choose mr but by and of who is promising to inject some energy some vitality into the kicker's economy the curious electoral system has undergone something of a revolution of its own in the last few years digital voting system designed to eliminate fraud amongst voters and in accounting process whoever can get more than fifty percent will win this election if they don't they'll be a second round runoff in november weather update next year on al-jazeera then
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children are going missing in refugee camps and bangladesh will meet a man reuniting them with. families plus. down. inside the crater. lake molten mission we get up close to one of the world's most active volcanoes. how it got more wet weather pushing towards southern parts of japan big area cloud dreaming out of that eastern side of china from the east china sea and then coming in across cuba and a good part of honshu so that's what we're going to see the wettest weather as we go through monday to the north of that is generally fine and dry not bad in selwyn around twenty one celsius eighteen. and i say and also for beijing so the wet
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weather clearly is stretching its way down across central parts of china come a little further south and here we have our typhoon now as it is making its way up towards the gulf of tonkin that will make its way into the gulf of tonkin around about said the early hours of monday morning say some very wet weather coming through here and also of course some very a windy weather there we go with that very disturbed weather the stormy weather the typhoon pushing through as we go on through monday and that will continue to bring those flooding rains into a good part of vietnam then over the next couple of days for the south the flooding rains to clear their way away from. bangkok. and prices that of light still a few showers in the forecast for that chain of showers i would towards the philippines big down pulls flood risk in place here house while it's the usual sunshine and showers.
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there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the usa they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we weren't able to see the secret we were unable to tell and in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land this time on al jazeera. stories this hour on al-jazeera at least eighty five people have been killed in two bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu the first explosion was
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a powerful truck bomb that hit an area that has many government offices hotels and restaurants a government spokesman has told this program that they're expecting the death toll to rise. i still appears to be on the verge of being pushed out of its capital in syria a local official said that some myself fighters have been allowed to leave russia after a deal was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday. and people in austria are voting in a snap election today that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government opinion polls have suggested that the leader of that government is likely to be thirty one year old sebastian cuts of the people's party . at least forty people are now known to have been killed in wildfires across northern california more than ten thousand firefighters are trying to put out the worst outbreak in the state's history at least ninety thousand people have been moved to safety and as many as six thousand homes have been destroyed since the
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fires began on. sunday. morning at three o'clock my daughter was inside and she came out and she could see the flames coming over the side of the field so she told us to get out and leave then we had a trailer with us so we came here to see it for you thank you about. ten years opposition is holding a rally in mumbai that follows days of violent protests despite a government ban to demonstrators were killed during fighting with police on friday this anger over an increasingly uncertain presidential election rerun planned for later this month. how serious finding a militia is there what's going on where you are right now from. the opposition leaders officially withdrawn from elections that are due to take place later in october his national super alliance is holding a massive rally in. the coast of kenya now it is very much it looks and sounds
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like a campaign rally ahead of elections but the opposition party is saying that this is to meet with its supporters to explain why there's been that would. be to garner support around reforms or to the electoral commission. believes that they call in to be. a free rather fair and credible election given the judgment by the supreme court that happened after the elections in august and this is why we're looking at a rerun later this month. a number of issues to be addressed including the management of the i.p.c. that's the electoral commission to be removed and a new management put in place but many of these demands on things that can happen so close to the election given that it has to be held sixty days from the time that the supreme court ruled that they should be rerun the president. the incumbent over
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kenyatta is holding rallies across the country he says that there's no political crisis despite all this confusion that we're seeing around exactly who will run and if indeed this election will took place the i.e.c. saying that elections will happen but there are a number of contentious issues around how the election will take place and who is participating or it is the rerun going to go ahead at the end of october. the i.v.c. is saying it's ready for that but we're also seeing the local media reports where they could be issues around stuff in terms of stuff on the ground and polling stations because the opposition is looking at their voters possibly not going to the polls because raila odinga has withdrawn so there are concerns around security and if indeed these these polling stations can open across the country there of course because there's so much uncertainty there's a lot of speculation around the strategies that are being employed ahead of the
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election possibly one of them that because elections are may not be how they're all two hundred ninety constituencies around the country that would then give the opposition grounds for any sort of. them going to court to other than contest the elections and the results that may come out of october twenty sixth and we must also remember that prison to reconnoitre is due to sign amendments to an electoral law that would allow for him in this case to be immediately be announced as the winner of these elections if a major contender like a roll out in the has withdrawn but of course there's the question of whether or not these laws which also includes how they are or how any sort of contestation to the election can happen in this case going to the supreme court once again wouldn't be as easy as the first time but of course there are questions about whether or not these election rules the. amendments can be applied to this specific election given
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that radio didn't go with truth before the senate was actually signed into law by the president all right from eight a minute many thanks a day for me to know that i live in mombasa. so mogul of the weinstein has been expelled from the body that that's responsible for the oscars the academy of motion picture arts and sciences which says that more than two thirds of its board voted to reject him weinstein has been accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women as well matheson reports. this could be one of the last times harvey weinstein will be seen in an oscars red carpet the academy as it's known which hands out the film industries highest award says it doesn't want to have as a member anymore this is the first time i've seen them do something like this and it does set a precedent and ask other questions about you know other members that have had scandals or different things in their personal lives and things like roman polanski
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like no gibson like bill cosby none of them ever never came up but it did with harvey and there was tremendous pressure as his power in the movie business has grown weinstein has been surrounded by beautiful people but there's been a series of sexual harassment allegations against him recently more actresses have been coming forward weinstein has apologized blaming his behavior partly on growing up in the sixty's and seventy's when he says the rules about behavior on workplaces were different but the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says the conduct described in the allegations is repugnant a polar and an ethical and weinstein must leave i think this is a watershed for hollywood it's never gotten to this point before and that house casting couch as it were are those kinds of things second of behavior has been going on as long as hollywood and around quite frankly in its. woods dirty little
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secret in some cases some very open secret the great moguls of hollywood founders of. one way or another just read the history of hollywood but this time it's a different time and for the academy to take notice like this proves that eighty one films linked to weinstein's company hope won an oscar those and many others have earned millions of dollars but he's been sacked from the company which bears his name though no formal charges have been brought against him the hollywood star of harvey weinstein continues to fall rob matheson al-jazeera camps housing ranger refugees in bangladesh overcrowded making it easy for families to get separated and for children to get lost more than half a million ranger fled man mas' rakhine state since august after the army began a crackdown that hama jump june has been to me one refugee camp at a camp in cox's bazaar has started
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a lost and found service. for come almost sane the time had come to try and make a difference. in one day in the morning i was going to work i saw one lady who was sitting in front of the gate and crying when i asked what happened she said my baby's been missing since last night and i can't find him after opening the office that day i was thinking about it and i was feeling very bad i was thinking how can i help it that was in late august just as the massive exodus of refugees fleeing violence in me and more was beginning since then more than five hundred thousand people have arrived in bangladesh. i'm gonna. come all himself or him to refugee who's lived here for years noticed that more and more families were getting separated in overcrowded camps so he set up a lost and found booth from behind this microphone at the code to prolong camp he makes announcements about unaccompanied children that have been brought to him as
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well as individuals who have been reported missing by their relatives he says that there have been more than fourteen hundred people reported missing and estimates that more than seven hundred families have so far been reunited and. i have family too i have kids too if i lost my own kids that i would feel very bad so until i'm able to give the lost children back to their parents i remain distressed when i can return children to their parents then i feel a pace kemal knows the chances of children being found increases when people can continue to communicate with each other that's why he's also set up a charging station where refugees can charge their mobile phones for free come out had been working as a security guard for an aid organization when he first got the idea for this initiative to use the money from his own savings to rent a microphone and start calling out the names of the missing and the lost now he is doing this full time. normal hamad was frantic when he couldn't find his two and a half year old son. my people told me that i should go to the booth with
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a microphone where a person named kemal will announce my baby's name i searched all over for my son and still couldn't find him when i was about half of the way to the booth i heard that they were announcing that they had found a child then when i arrived i found my son with kemal now reunited with his son mohammed tells us he's not just relieved but also extremely grateful to come out but for every happy parent we find there is a distraught one. my son has been missing since last night i searched for him yesterday all day and night as she waits for news alongside her other son mohammed aziz al more reaches desperation only deepens come all is all too familiar with this kind of suffering it's why he sits in this booth despite the heat it's why he works from early in the morning until late at night. finding children helping adults making a difference one name at
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a time. at the could to prolong camp in cox's bazar language. it's well known that the ancient city of venice is sinking but it's also shrinking its fifty four thousand residents a steadily leaving complaining the city's been overrun by tourists set up locals who want to stay have launched an anti tourist campaign as charlie angelo reports. venice the timeless city that tourists seem to have little time for twenty million visit each year three quarters of them only stay for twenty four hours they follow the same route see the same sights the impact is devastating fed up residents and leaving for ever one thousand each year for them house prices are astronomically high the crowds unbearable italian city no longer caters for them they say here. called the fly in the life food and now you can buy only bags.
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does if mccain would be easily like how is it possible to appreciate a city where. shops only for. the craft. are not working in their shops. residents are protesting against the visiting cruise ships that dwarf the city and damage the environment you know is threatening to blacklist the world heritage site unless action is taken a campaign to enjoy and respect venice is under way police move on to us to sit on steps and encourage them to visit less popular attractions but there are no plans to reduce tourist numbers only we. we agree cruise ships shouldn't pass by sand marks but we need to keep five thousand jobs we are looking into a different road regarding day trippers we are working on a possible experimental closure of sun most were tourists would have to book
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a free visit to try and encourage the right type of business in the city has also introduced by putting up these posters all over venice terrace can be fined two hundred forty dollars but picnicking on a bridge like this one hundred twenty dollars for littering they can also be charged for holding too long which many of these birds would be guilty of generally . piero dream is one of few remaining artist making it steer the gondolas which helped make them famous so if they want a lot of challenges to show them the real venice not because we want to create a museum there because we think that this is the most intelligent way to visit here and the only way to keep the nancy alive but hoping for tourists who go with the flow is like venice battling against the tide charlie and al jazeera that is.
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finally one of the world's most active volcanoes is being opened up for adventurous hikers. in the democratic republic of congo is home to the largest lava lake on earth the area has in the past been affected by conflict but tourists are now slowly returning as malcolm webb reports. perched on the rim of the crater of mount . just outside the congolese city of goma and down. inside the crater. he lost the ruptured in two thousand and two and destroyed much of goma as erupted since then well the act there has been affected over the years by eastern congo as many conflict areas. about twenty fourteen after the government flushed out the rebel group known as then twenty three and then being coming up almost daily the popularity growing yeah yeah the people you want to walk up here and witness this extraordinary sight.
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it is good to have you with us a very unforgiving here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera at least eighty five people have been killed in two bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu the first explosion was a powerful truck bomb that hit an area that has many government offices hotels and restaurants a government spokesman has told us here that they're expecting the death toll to rise i saw appears to be on the verge of being pushed out of its self-proclaimed capital in syria local officials say that some myself isis have been allowed to leave rucka after a deal was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday but it's not clear how many i saw members are still inside the city kurdish backed syrian fighters said the battle for rocker could take hours or days well syria is demanding that turkey withdraw its troops from its northern province immediately more than one hundred turkish soldiers and twenty armored vehicles crossed the border two days ago turkey says
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they're there to enforce a so-called deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce fighting. people in austria are voting in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter government as part of a coalition of opinion polls suggest that the leader of that government is likely to be thirty one year old sebastian kurtz of the conservative people's party if he becomes chancellor he'll be the youngest leader in the world. and people in kurdistan are voting today in a presidential election none of the candidates is expected to win outright but with many analysts predicting a runoff between two former ministers security has been high because of previous political violence in the country kyrgyzstan's first two leaders since the fall of the soviet union were removed from office following riots. still mogul weinstein has been expelled from the body that's responsible for the oscars the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says that more than two thirds of its board voted
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to reject him weinstein has been accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women and he denies the allegations there's the headlines more news here here on al-jazeera right after today's inside story next. donald trump's nuclear reaction is he right about iran the u.s. president has a refusing to recertify the nuclear deal signed two years ago and accuses the iranians of breaking the agreement iran says allegations are delusional and world leaders are also critical this is inside story.
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