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the russian orthodox church is deep pockets and the rapid expansion may bear its crucial role in putin's grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to saying to president putin as our leader that given twelve people in power investigates how after the attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the heart of the russian state the orthodox connection at this time on a. china's most powerful leader in a generation sets out his long term vision tackling corruption and climate change and consolidating his grip on power. you're watching al-jazeera life from
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a headquarters in doha i'm getting obligato also ahead eisel is driven out of its self-proclaimed capital of in syria but the war against the armed group is far from over. a senior at electoral official in tenure resigns just days ahead of a presidential election rerun. and a nother legal setback for donald trump a court in hawaii stops his controversial travel ban yet again. hello china's president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist party's nineteenth congress in beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech she jumping laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years so he highlighted china's successes and vowed to further open its economy but he also warned of severe challenges like rising debt inequality and corruption and. corruption is the biggest threat faced by our party we can only get
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out of the historical cycle and ensure the long term stability of apology and a country if we persevered in the continuous fight against corruption to deal with that our government its officials and policies. while critics accuse she if using his anticorruption campaign to purge political opponents he's already seen as china's most powerful leader in a generation the ruling politburo is expected to be stacked with his allies when it's named next week wasn't just clean politics she touched on what also the dangers posed by climate change saying china must cooperate with other nations to as he put it ensure the survival of mankind adrian brown has more from the congress in beijing. well president xi jinping spoke for incredible three and a half hours which proves if little else he's in good health healthy enough to perhaps rule china for the next fifteen twenty years even president xi jinping
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outlined a number of important issues during his address he said that china remained committed to fighting climate change you also warned against independence for taiwan and on the economy rarely he warned that china face severe challenges in the years ahead he also said that socialism with chinese characteristics the formula that has underpinned china's economy for the last three decades was now entering a new stage he also warned that the campaign against corruption would continue that corruption has so far purged more than one point four million party members the party really has been through a very tumultuous time in the past few years and the r.p. evil is by no means over but on wednesday we got a picture of choreographed unity this congress of course is all about president xi jinping and the fact that he could emerge even stronger the party has been told that an important amendment will be made to the constitution which could possibly
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mean to the thoughts and writings of xi jinping will become the party's guiding ideology in the future now we should know if that's going to happen next week when the party congress closes on wednesday and that's when the new leadership will also be unveiled but if she jinping gets his way he will emerge as the strongest leader china has had since chairman mao who led the communist to power sixty eight years ago victor gao is the director of the china national association of international studies he expects she to have an impact on chinese politics for decades to come. there is generally expect asian that new amendments will be written into the communist party of china's constitution and it will include them are other things the major initiatives that president xi jinping over the past five years have. in china and on the global stage and we still need to wait until we see the final
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version of the amendments and whether they will be adopted by the party delegates as to for example where there will be major changes in the structure of the leadership of the communist party of china as well as for example the limitation of the terms of office for example and i would say the general believe is that these new amendments will enable president xi jinping to become a more effective leader not only in the coming five years but most likely probably beyond the second term and into the future years and possibly even decades the iraqi army says it's sheaves its goals in the operation to take back her it is held territory in the north it's now in control of areas around mosul province including the mosul down kurdish forces pulled out of several towns and oil fields in recent days forced by an iraqi military advance the towns were seized by the kurdish peshmerga over the past three years as part of the war against i saw the
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iraqi offensive began on monday when iraqi troops moved into the contested city of kirk prime minister hi there labadee has ordered his forces to say by kurdish held areas lying outside the autonomous region that are bad he says kurdish hopes for an independent state are now a thing of the past trial stratford has more from erbil. iraq the government troops and shia militia on the elf's goods of cuba cook this in twenty four hours of the kurdish peshmerga forces withdrew from the oil rich city no one predicted the speed with which iraqi government forces could too. control of the oil fields and most of the remaining towns in the disputed areas of northern iraq peshmerga forces withdrew in some areas without even firing a shot the iraqi prime minister says they know what orders from bill so i want to help what they went against your instruction and didn't kill the iraqi forces
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please take this as a lesson many people who have fled kirkuk today before began to return the lights and we're about to enter and we don't know if it's safe or not so we're going to go where else can i go it's better to go back we're going back to our house and our city was. some arab residents in this ethnically diverse region celebrated the arrival of iraqi government forces. now all of kirkuk is retaken and we are happy some of the peshmerga killed in the sporadic fighting which taken to a morgue in the kurdish region second city so many the regional government hasn't released figures yet on how many peshmerga killed the lead up to and this is to let you know since last night we received twenty five corpses of troops killed in battles of kirk and its suburbs relatives of those killed in battles received twenty one corpses so far the bereaved relatives are gathering at the morgue to
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receive dead bodies of their sons you know bill many people say they are shocked and feel betrayed accusing the international community of siding with the iraqi government against them. it looks like there was an international betrayal of the kurdish nation and that is due to the fact that we had a plan to move towards independence unfortunately we are facing a situation where we lost everything that we had before all this loss as a result of the fact that the kurdish nation is not united evidence of factionalism and rivalry between kurdish groups and political parties is growing in a statement released by the k r g president and head of the cape. massud barzani said the withdrawal of patients was because of the lateral decisions made by some officials the peshmerga general command is blaming this incredibly quick withdrawal of peshmerga fighters from these territories as being as a result of what it describes as historical treason by some senior members of the p
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u k party one former senior aide to the p k has called for a transitional government and says more constructive channels of dialogue should be set up with baghdad after the iraqi army has taken so much control of territory that the k r g was hopeful would be part of a future independent kurdish state president barzani is facing one of the biggest political crises of his life. at al-jazeera north of erbil well there have been jubilant scenes on the streets of iraq that's where u.s. forces have driven out of the cleric capital the kurdish led syrian democratic forces raised their flag in the city stadium after a four month battle the council that will take over control of international aid to help rebuild the city has come out about a joining us from gaza that is near turkey's border with syria and surely i mean even though the flag has been raised over iraq and the ordeal are for the city and
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certainly for its inhabitants is not over what are you hearing about the cleanup operation and the challenges that are being faced. well the celebrations that we've been seeing over the last forty eight hours seem to be in a superceding a living space still more anxiety and concern about the future of the city that has been destroyed by months of fighting and strikes targeting ice of fighters in different parts of the city almost hundreds of thousands of people fled the region now those people would like to get back home but for the time being most of the areas are sealed by the. which is now trying to clean up the area they say that they are concerned about mines in different parts of the city but did it particularly in the strongholds of foremost on the halls of i so this is why they are telling civilians not to return to. as far as security is concerned the u.s. the f.b.i. was handing over the control of the city to the highest which is the local police
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unit we're seeing local councils tribesman political leaders talking about the need for the international community just step in and help. build this city it is going to be a mammoth task facing everyone because for the international community to pledge funds to the area you need to have stability a vast not going to be the case any time soon the area remains quite raw giant and you don't have some analysts that we speak to and certainly what you've been reporting is this is a psychological blow for i saw for them to lose control of their self declared caliphate as they called it the caliphate but what are we to make of the absence of any news of the ice a leader and a daddy in the past there have been reports of him being killed or him even being injured. you know the days when i said i had this
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huge territory of us threats. to our guns so now that even the movement of the top commanders of i said has been completely restored to because they've been targeted constantly by the russians and also by the americans many senior commanders have been killed this explains why. he has been for the entire route of i still. in hiding there was an audiotape that. about a few to go about him asking people to further continue the fight saying that we're not losing ground we're on the contrary expanding and this is basically by the way the same thing that you hear again and again from many i said commanders saying that we're expanding we're expanding we're not losing ground whatsoever but with and if you look at the map the reality is completely the opposite. he is losing significant ground now in syria and is left with only a stretch of. area now. which is on the border
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with iraq the days when i said was talking about iraq as their as their capital in syria. fighters are disappearing from different areas and they're completely losing the battle for syria ok thank you. six members of pakistan's elite police force on the civilian have been killed in an attack on a patrol car twelve other people were injured in the attack that happened in the city of quotes it's not clear if it was a suicide attack or a car bomb no one has claimed responsibility. still ahead right here on al-jazeera we'll tell you why israel has set down three major television providers in the occupied west bank. and some opposition protesters in toto are determined to continue their fight against the government despite a ban on street marches. welcome
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back a look at the weather in southeast asia first of all you say really i'll settle conditions all the way from thailand across cambodia vietnam towards the philippines and it has big rainfall totals reported in malaysia and borneo and you see this circulation typhoon land which is to the east of philippines but it's moving away towards the north going to bring some rain to the philippines but it's on his way up towards japan meanwhile you notice we've got some heavy rain being reported across parts of java although the forecast would suggest it will be largely dry here in the coming hours jakarta maybe seeing some showers but elsewhere across java valley it's looking dry and fine again you see that heavy rain there across parts of southern philippines meanwhile across the lake we've got relatively quiet conditions the moment fine day in both singapore and kuala lumpur northwards into
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bangkok there you see the showers attorneys ahead on through into friday down into a stray we've got to flooding issues across queens and you can see this massive cloud this trough of low pressure which continues to push some very heavy showers across this region date otherwise weak front moving across southeast there is that high pushing him towards new zealand so heavy rain there four times for britain probably seem want to show it's probably quite stormy seas here as well meanwhile out across western areas it's looking fine in perth with highs of twenty to. from the shawnees of the red sea storage and clean water act the global public will manage the major battles but enjoyed this cheap change to the peaks of the himalayas where water conservation looks like. solutions to some of the world's most precious resource and the next episode of right we look at what is being done
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that was priceless. at this time and al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera china's president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist party's nineteen congress in beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech she jumping laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years. the iraqi army says it's its goals in the operation to take back kurdish held territory in the country's north it's now in control of areas around mosul is minver province the iraqi offensive began on monday in a setback to the kurdish administration's hopes for
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a secession but there have been jubilant scenes on the streets of iraq where u.s. backed forces drove out of itself declared capital kurdish led syrian democratic forces raised their flag in the city stadium after a four month battle. a senior electoral commissioner in kenya has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential votes won't be credible roslan a comb but he says the commission has become a party to a political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats. well the supreme court found irregularities in august's original vote which president or won there were violent protests by opposition groups after he was declared winner but before the result was not. has the latest from the capital nairobi. the allegations made by the commissioner dr congo who's just resigned really are an indictment of the i see this is an electoral commission
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that's already struggled with issues around credibility and questions about whether or not it would be able to hold a free and fair vote dr converses this isn't the case that's what she believes she says that commissioners within the i.e. b.c. i'm making decisions based on individual political allegiances she says she's also fears for the lives of staff members over the last few weeks we've seen demonstrations against the i.e. b.c. from people who believe that they wouldn't be able to hold a free and fair vote and she says that staff members are unable to work in this environment she's also calling into question whether or not the i.v.c. would be able to have an election at all in an environment that is as polarized and as tense as the political situation is in kenya at the moment now she also says that there have been last minute changes to technology and the how results will be transmitted and she says all of these reasons are why she has resigned from the
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commission and she doesn't believe the commission would be able to hold a vote that kenyans would be able to trust in terms of the final result she says she's had no choice but to leave the commission because the commission should tell kenyans that it wouldn't be able to hold a free and fair election a court has blocked u.s. president donald trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from several countries a federal judge in hawaii ordered a freeze on most parts of the ban a day before it was due to take effect its target of people from iran libya syria yemen somalia and child court ruling does not apply to north korea and venezuela which are also subject to restrictions its a third version of transparency be blocked by a federal judge came on sassy is the president of the muslim association of hawaii he says the ban is unacceptable and american. this is a huge victory again we wanted to first when we took them to court about the muslim
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band version one and version two this is that their version was quite frankly just in north korea then and then as well that's not changed that this is a clear discrimination against people for no other reason than being born at that country and that states i think we have won every challenge so far. of the future challenges it's very clear that the most powerful and the most fall of the pan does not supersede the laws and constitution of this great country. israel has sat down three major media service providers in the occupied west bank for six months israeli forces impounded equipment and forced officers to close eighteen palestinians have been arrested including two journalists israel accuses the service providers off incitement terry fossett is following developments from a common law and the occupied west bank. well this was
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a major coordinated operation by the israeli army targeting eight offices of three palestinian media service provider companies in four cities in the occupied west bank they confiscated equipment they arrested two members of staff of the transmedia group and in some instances they sealed the offices with signs saying that they must not open again within six months now these are groups these are companies that provide services to broadcasters and media organizations they don't broadcast information and and programming themselves they provide services to companies such as c.n.n. b.b.c. france twenty four russia today and indeed on occasion al-jazeera as well but in this instance it seems the israeli army is targeting the arabic language networks affiliated to groups such as hamas islamic jihad and hezbollah certainly in the past the israeli army has targeted t.v. the hamas channel saying that it brainwashes palestinian youth and celebrates the actions of attackers of israeli soldiers and civilians in this instance it says
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that it will continue to take action against incitement to violence the palestinian government says that is a lame excuse it should be seen this operation in the context of israel's insistence on attacking palestinians there are calls for protests as well in front of the united nations building the palestinian media watchdog says that the infractions against free speech by the israeli army increased slightly in september rising to twenty two and that there were four such actions by the palestinian authority as well. the u.n. refugee agency says between ten and fifteen thousand refugees refugees are stranded at the bangladeshi border with me in march the u.n.h.c.r. is urging the bangladeshi government to speed up its vetting process to allow people through more than half a million have fled violence and mean mars rakhine state the u.n. says they need to be moved further inland to safety tundra child re has more for us
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from cox bazaar near the bangladeshi border with me in mar a list ten to fifteen thousand people are stranded in no man's land what is called zero line between myanmar and bangladesh brought out this area. this babe will have fled me on my way the last two days that been stranded you have and has no safety to go to most of the people are exposed to well the majority are woman and children and elderly people and the government has given permission to some of the aid agencies to bring critical care medicine and food but they're still taking shelter in the pedophile and that manmade dike just doesn't make sense that coming under critical review by the u.n. agency and other international aid agencies that why are still kept we are on the border got off that wire end up taking to shelters and said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that are incredible on area still the idea this people lost is
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a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition. portugal's interior minister has resigned after wildfires killed at least forty one people over the weekend the government is being accused of inadequate preparations to deal with the fires most of which have now been extinguished it's the second spate of wildfires in four months in june sixty four people were killed prompting criticism of portugal's state of readiness for such emergencies spain's prime minister has appealed to the catalan leader asking him to quote act sensibly as the deadline approaches for catalonia to renounce its assess and beds prime minister mariano to hoist urged cardus peers or to put the interests of all citizens first in a parliamentary speech earlier catalonia as president walked out of a cabinet meeting in protest over the arrest of two prominent separatists qatar's amir is calling for a dialogue with the arab countries imposing
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a blockade on his shift i mean but how much money made the comments during the final stop as his tour through southeast asia he met the indonesian president yoko widodo in jakarta to sign trade agreements opposition supporters in togo are defying a government ban on protests by taking to the streets to demand the president's resignation they're calling for a constitutional reforms including a two term limits for presidents mohamed el baradei see reports. as a hairdresser in togo's capital. he says police often crackdown on opposition supporters in bay neighborhood where he lives breaking into their homes and beating them. gunny along with hundreds of other told police have been calling for the removal of president ford they don't want to leave power and we are starving in the country now we are told and we will move forward despite the fact that we are most of the time beaten by policeman. the protests started in august as togolese took to
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the streets to demand presidential term limits be reinstated at least two people were killed. in september opposition in parliament protested a bill that would have limited presidential terms but would exempt the current president who was already on his third term the bill failed and the government called for a constitutional referendum protests erupted again leaving several dead. to reign in the spiraling crisis the internet was. the united nations has called on togo to address the demands of the people. it was the west african economic group that not seem baker only heads has urged togo to set a date for the referendum but many say they don't want it. we will continue to fight we will protest on the streets towards the premises of us to tell them that we're not happy with them calling on the government to fix dates of the referendum which take do not want it's obvious that they are pushing the government the
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government has put conditions on where and when people can protest during weekdays we will make sure that protests will only be in one area peaceful protests public gatherings or meetings should be held at one specific place on weekends they can do as they used to marching on the streets followed by meetings back at the salon psuedo says that won't stop people like him. i am seeking something better for my country that it should be governed by other people not the same regime no matter what will happen no matter the circumstances i will always be there and he insists despite police harassment and government pressure he will continue to fight for the future of togo mohammed omar d.c. al jazeera the hopes are fading in the search for the missing after saturday's bomb attack in somalia's capital mogadishu more than three hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured in the worst attack in the country's history the president has told al jazeera his forces cannot fight on their own as has called for international help mohamad to doe reports. a huge
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crater the point where the explosion happened. rubble from collapsed buildings. the shelves so vehicles skated around the blast radius these images should be familiar to the people of somalia in conflict since the one nine hundred ninety s. yet saturday's attack one of the most lethal anywhere in the world for years has many somalis still in shock. the way we have never seen anything like this this was a massacre of the weakest and poorest within our society the widows who are selling milk students who are returning from school and. this changes mogadishu for ever mogadishu has been hit by numerous bombings and listened to you. have been. here the suicide bomber chose the cities the rush hour on one of its busiest streets today the bomb rescue workers are still searching the rubble for bodies some they
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say may never be found. there's been no official claim of responsibility for the blast so mali president mohamed up to life is how about. it's the fight i thought they would claim but maybe they fear. this is a huge. responsibility to be claimed but this is their fingerprint this is what they have done. strongholds are concentrated largely in southern somalia with significant presence in many rural areas somalia troops and african union peacekeepers have been steadily taking back territory from al shabaab in recent years but the loss of territory has not been enough to stop the fighters from cutting out there to get talks the president has this warning for the international community if they succeed here there are easier
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to. promote. their. crazy ideology their political ideology to the. in the united states and in europe. the difficult such for bodies and survivors under the rubble continues investigators are seeking to establish the source of the great explosives. used in the talk among the focus of the investigation officials say is whether the help from within the security forces mohammed atta well just mogadishu somalia. the headlines on al jazeera china's president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist party's nineteenth congress in beijing in
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a sweeping three and a half hour speech paying laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years he also spoke of the need to weed out corruption in the country. corruption is the biggest threat faced by our party we can only get out of the historical cycle and ensure the long term stability of our polity and our country if we persevered in the continuous fight against corruption to ensure that our government its officials and policies are clean the iraqi army says it's achieved its goals in the operation to take back kurdish held territory in the north it's now in control of areas around musos and invade province the iraqi offensive began on monday in a setback to the kurdish administration's hopes for a secession but there have been jubilant scenes on the streets of iraq where u.s. forces have driven eisel out of itself declared capital curtis led syrian democratic forces raised their flag in the city's stadium after a four month battle. a senior kenyan electoral commissioner has resigned saying
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next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible. says the commission had become a party to a political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court found. irregularities in august original vote which president's or her if any also won sparking protests from opposition groups the un refugee agency says between ten and fifteen thousand refugees are stranded at the bangladeshi border with me and maher. urging the bangladeshi government to speed up its vetting process to allow people through more than half a million have fled violence to me and mars recline states israel has shut down three major media service providers in the occupied west bank for six months palestinians have been arrested including two journalists six members of pakistan's elite police force and the civilian have been killed in an attack on a patrol car twelve others have been injured in that blast that happens in the city
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. those are the headlines on al-jazeera earthrise is coming up next and it's the news hour with the help raman thanks. in india the mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest mines will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. at this time i visit. here in the himalayas maybe far from the causes of climate change thanks for all around. it temperatures are rising although you can see it is about forty five percent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the. climate change is just one of the ways which our presence on earth is profoundly altering the planet. in this new series of exploring how to counter some of the greatest threats to survival including pollution loss of habitat. and over
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