venezuela's opposition is rejecting the results of regional elections the electoral board says president nicolas maduro socialist party has won seventeen of twenty three state governorships the opposition's campaign chief is demanding a complete ordered the defense minister the philippines has two senior icily commanders have been killed in fighting in the south is not on the happy long lead abu sayyaf which sees parts of the city of marjah we in may is fighters were assisted by the multi-group one of its leaders. has also been killed austria said to have the world's youngest lead it sebastien kurds on his conservative party have claimed victory and the general election the thirty one year old we need to form a coalition to govern. and early results in kurdistan this presidential election have given victory to an ally of the sitting leader so run by gen because of this a former prime minister the outgoing president is promising a peaceful and democratic transition the final assault has begun to root out the last ice and fighters in the northern syrian city of raka u.s.

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this week and one on one east we go back stage into the lives of cambodian circus to. play. out. their song like good luck. i'm proud of our quality of my heart but also. all of the light on gnome but i love my family in the show i played a part of the devil spirit that possesses the body of a despicable man who played a part on mine but we found a plant that the man just wants to fit in and be a part of the community my our he was a boy but the village used to be checked and appease him for the fact. that god sponsored his parents and turned him into a beautiful woman a long talk with. a beautiful woman and then to the bench on the political side.

thank twenty five year old now freely is living out her childhood dream she's a star at far a kemble going to focus in the city of playboy i first saw a circus performance in spain. when i was a little girl. it was amazing how they moved their bodies in their own way and after that i knew i wanted to be like them. based on the shelf folk tale for tonight's performance is a story of rejection of friendship and reconciliation with a good doze off humor. truly is known for a contortionist skills and this movie never feels the take the crowd's breath away . the circus is one of the biggest attractions in town but it doesn't just entertain people it's a lifeline for these performers who have one thing in common they were once hungry

street kids who had to work to stay alive. and i knew when i was seven. i spent half of my day in school and the other half said i would expect my mother having them when i am alone but i've found my family was very poor and then in the early years i trained and performed just to feed myself and we had so many siblings living together one of seven boys and four girls sat. straight up grew up in the province of butterball three hours drive away. grinding poverty here drives countless children to work on the streets picking through trash to be sold for recycling. many families rely on everyone working hard to scrape by.

trillions father died of ill health when she was very young leaving her mother to raise eleven children. help came from a local school that provides free education and meals it became a second home force really and an older sister. i know i went to. so there will be fewer miles of feed at home. and eight. funded by circus revenue and donations for the subjects you would find in a public school. but it's best known for its circus training. inside the gym there's no selection process it's restriction for the kids. anyone damn enough to take a tumble can. combine them into what i. was the most difficult for me i'm not a natural talent i'm

a normal person but i loved it. and i trained long and hard to be a contortionist. and i often cried when my teacher benchmarks i met my back hurt my bones hurt whenever trying to bend my body to do splits. my training my how and where to bend me safely but it was so painful i was left in tears. surely it's mother has been working in the school kitchen since the husband died ten years ago she's great for the school rescue the kids from life on the streets can run off the map read quote me on the school has helped poor people like me and my neighbor is just one free meal a day for the kids eases the goodness of my wrong i. saw the first

thousands of hungry children during our time here and watched them grow up she misses them when they leave none more than a daughter. i miss or a lot. we speak on the foreign but i hardly get to see her. i've never seen her show and she emory. when she was here in a better mon one i used to watch every single show she performed in school wrong and. every performance made me happy when they were hunting around. now there is another generation of her family here the ten year old granddaughter. myname. she's very good with the trapeze and she banter with. everyone says she's very late falconer today childers teacher wants the kids to get used to performing in front of an audience. who each take turns to perform for the class

it's all pretty impressive but teacher him food that's high standards. i. put on my plate. i'm a good listener. but younger than the way. that i believe now we are finally getting. to my. my first i love what. you typed i don't know if you just. don't know that i'm sorry. you don't take a supplement. doesn't it don't start. when men molly. younger than me and i eat well by now. so why not my love life my hands my lap. and i was. district for the kids love was. going to happen. when i look around get over

it oh. i love understand i love it when i tell. you what. i thought i'm all right oh right yeah. crux of the fight. was going to. show how well that was to do. it will take a few more years before the young ones can juggle like most teenagers the screening in the schools because. sixteen year old straight line is a specific image of an older sister playing on the left but my sister it's really is a contortionist bang in ok i fell in love with the circus when she brought me here to watch her training. she's my room model.

is part of her you keep hearing up for the first public performance in a few days time they've been training together every day for several months now conduit to show off what they can do for. those who do well here eventually become professional foremost and so. they even get to travel the scenes she cried here. i want to be a professional i hope to perform in some room and all over the world like my sister and i think at the storyline is a female lead for the student show it's beams reflected cambodia's changing society . in the story her characters love a returns home after working in the city. she doesn't like how he's turned from a humble farm boy to a flashy city slicker. and yes the boy in with her heart again. the male lead is

nineteen year old. his friends call him long long and straight line grew up together their friends tease them about how realistic the stage of romance is. for you but. you're down there. ok you don't really. care. less whether they will get back together in the future.

is better known by his nickname brandy. he's one of the stars i'm sorry but he's taking a break in the teenager's hearing but somebody. along with. performing days are over. the. motivated and no one. granny discussed it with the teachers and to form a team for the show. guided us to the level we're at today. busy but he still takes time to care for.

their first big performance for the first time the team completes a full rehearsal that lasts over an hour with hot and stuffy. that. that i have no idea the. brandy gives a pep talk to lift their confidence and reminds them to focus on safety. what worries me was how they rushed when they became tired home i always tell them when you're tired but focus on your breathing. and how it helps their acting concentration and makes them ok. they need to understand the rhythm of breathing and how to follow it.

let us know the next day they know the tricks one after another. for it's a hike and i'm looking forward to you having a few dress rehearsal. like. the only way you are. randy is satisfied with technique the ones don't express themselves better man. you're going to say what kind of right to live. here i heard. from the owner. i never hear. like the old. man the house. we get to train as

actors so we're a little static not quite there when we perform. they have a quick bite off of the practice the pumped up to such a good rehearsal but straight line those they've got to get it right each and every time. i'm nervous and excited but. even if you train every day you can still make mistakes go to know that i feel. sure enough that evening the full dress rehearsal goes horribly wrong. they make one mistake after another the school stuff and some villages i feel for a peace deal it's a small organs but the team isn't usually. they slip up again and again struggling with moves that they put off so well in training. the tree line recovers as the show goes on but long is having a nightmare. for the fact that hundreds of hours. they saw the audience and became

nervous and frustrated long and the worst possible they performed so stiffly how did you have time. i just went step by step from here today but then lost the feel for what. will be hot i don't want to go i was exhausted so i lost patience i should tell you my so nervous on the microphone most of the crowd i was much better yesterday. last longer but how did you come i picked a noise what happens when a long time don't you love the look on my. back when i'm in bed thinking of all the baggage that i get there but oh man wait a bit detached by what you. were going to join kamal dahal again. but young men human players from latin america about you may come home and i will comment while you're on your avatar taking over.

there's a lot of pressure riding on long this family's pinning their hopes on his circus korea. home is a wooden hut in a rundown neighborhood near the school. long's mother had fifteen children mine died from illnesses because they couldn't afford proper nutrition and medical treatment. from when they were very young every day noah and his siblings collected garbage for recycling just to make ends meet. and. were perfect. very poor. the children fell sick often and although was garbage collectors to help look after the family. they earn money to buy medicine and rice. went far start the school it offered courses in the

painting and circus. they let the kids choose a skill the oldest sister learned to paint and now has a job to help the family. long father earns an irregular income as a drummer at weddings and funerals. if he does well he can't help and poor family refused. all especially who i don't. know. if he makes it as a pro long starting salary working more than four hundred dollars a month four times the average wage in rural cambodia. that's when you start collecting trash two years ago to focus on training. when i turned professional in the future i will help my. build a new house and buy have all the good food and i just. as a. landfill guy i will practice hard every day until our team is so good that

everyone cheers. ok. this is the day of the teenager's first puff. performance that's a full house to impress as it take the first step to becoming a professional thanks for the cheers for the they grow in confidence and turn on the style. audience to love it. my parents are very proud. of. him for all i do ever taught my son could do all day long i'm excited that he has to show up. or come by yet i'm happy to see my son perform i'm very happy. after the show the team has an important visitor. debt and his friends founded

a school in one thousand nine hundred four after returning home from a refugee camp following the fall of the camaro. they believe in using the arts to heal the wounds of the war and to empower the rural poor. while the land for. our art scene flourished as far back as the twelve to thirteen century learned . many musicians writers and c.d.'s blossomed here especially in the sixty's. but in the seventy's the civil war wiped out the arts and to perform. a command which destroys everything and when it's still possible we want to use the arts as a recall for us to understand our national identity and the spirit represents. that night straight line goes home to one of very few houses in the neighborhood

with concrete walls and cable t.v. it was built thanks to the earnings of her two older sisters from performing at the circus in one of the great that we used to live in a rented wooden heart that leaked when it rained water came in from above and below . we couldn't even find a dry spot to have a meal my own home of mine i often pray for my children's happiness for my family to be safe and free from an illness. and she has a prayer of. one day i would like to see my daughter's straightly at perform. i hear a show in c.m. repeats amazing they have good music nice lighting and a big crowd. i was happy for her when i heard that.

i used to hear old people say make a wish when you see shooting stars so i did. and i wished very hard that one day i'll be able to ride in a plane and perform for the circus all over the world. but my childhood wish has come true. enough truly has traveled to europe and across asia with a circus. but she knows this won't last forever. injuries catch up with all circus performers in the end. an old injury on her. in two thousand and seven she broke her back during training and couldn't perform for a year. to thank him. every time i feel something there i worry and pray that it's ok because i want to keep performing. and not in pain the doctor gave me the all clear but it's always at the back of my mind. to prepare for life

after the circus really started english classes in theory a few months ago today a classmate is helping her with lessons she missed you to training yesterday. i'm gonna. miss saunders take. them down and i want to speak english because i want to communicate with forest. it will also help me find other jobs any job these days because you just speak english . runs a small unit most far from the big talk to the husband richard a reserve performer and the stage manager at a circus. if my english is good enough i hope to work in communications at the school but the children perform. if not i want to be

a circus trainer because i love the craft. the couple are saving up to build a house and start a family and bottom boat they've already bought a piece of land yeah mother. but i think a lot about my mother i told her one day i'll bring you to visit somebody but she said no. she's never been here i don't want to see the show but she says she's busy with work. so much has been for a surprise we've arranged for special guests to visit from bottom ball. that's the team gets ready for the next show and mother and sister make their way in. for mom will finally get to see her perform at the same room to talk. backstage i asked him she hopes to see most in the stands tonight not one hundred around out of town done

. wrong but she might like to surprise better her sister and mom are excited that hurts so much about this before months. past the lights go out and it's showtime through that doesn't see them in the shadows. but one of her teammates spots her mother until three between seeds. and the secret's out so this time it's true that executes a signature move it is extra special thank. you . i. feel yes i did minister baby i want to say about a boy your mom was obviously a nice surprise. to. you

you. know. straight else mother has finally seen a perform with a big crowd and the stunning lies she always was about. one a sister straight line has had a place to put the future if she takes a look at. this new final fiance of oh yes well tonight but one can never say never in cambodia such as a home run. an indian mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest minds will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. at this time on al-jazeera. it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world.

the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining. people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. travellers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete.

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