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welcome to the world is full of central african republic is surely one of the forgotten quarter of the population has been driven from their homes by. either internally displaced or refugees in neighboring countries. trying to draw attention to the situation. also on the grid but what became of the jungle the migrant camp in the french town of talent was torn down and its inhabitants of the on the front that you know about three hundred kilometers away there is now a new jumping off point for those trying to reach the u.k. taking you to. and in sport the best awards. in the world but football's governing body is trying something new outside of the uprising. that helped make it a quick success. and thousands online. telling the world that they have
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a disability the global viral hash tag is. light on and on other so-called invisible disabilities it's really true self awareness that story connect. you with the news on air in streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com and once again where you're hearing that word genocide this time it is in central african republic the united nations is warning of early signs of a genocide there is fighting intensifies between rebel groups and so the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace is now on the ground there to see the situation for himself at least a quarter of the population have left their homes with the number of internally displaced persons now reaching six hundred thousand protesters has already asked
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the security council to increase the number of peacekeeping troops there well before we take you to the cia out of what's expected here's the back story violence began way back twenty one way back but twenty thirteen when a mainly muslim rebel coalition known as seleka overthrew the event president francois. who was a christian they burned towns and villages leading to the formation of a predominantly christian group called the. twenty sixteen when the former prime minister and math teacher first on are shown to dera was elected as president but violence is now a skillet of again the celica split into several factions fighting not only the. but also each other fourteen rebel groups now control about seventy percent of the country and human rights activists have accused those fighters of raping and targeting civilians despite the presence of u.n. peacekeepers. so let's have
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a look at this report now nicholas is in for us. the desert was thirteen years old when her family took refuge by a french military camp to escape the violence in her neighborhood. one of the soldiers to ask her to fetch some water inside the tent thinking she was safe she did as he asked to playing soldiers grabbed me they forced themselves inside of me i screamed they strangled me and covered my mouth when they were done they let me go. human rights organizations believe several children both boys and girls were raped by french soldiers who were there to protect them some were forced to have sex with dogs and even took pictures of the act france opened an investigation but prosecutors dropped the cases saying there was not enough evidence to charge the soldiers involved the french troops left in late two thousand and sixty since the violence and the displacement of people has intensified it's left to nation
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peacekeepers alone to bring back stability to this country with one mandate protecting the civilian population. but a un investigation revealed that some peacekeepers in central african republic are violating their mandate and sexually abusing girls. not her real name says she was gang raped by three congolese peacekeepers in june. i don't feel good i feel guilty i'm scared to talk about it i don't trust them anymore. human rights groups fear there are many cases of sexual abuse by soldiers that go unreported the new secretary general says he has zero tolerance for abuse the un is investigating cases and putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again but so far no one has been arrested or charged if countries old denies ations that claim to defend human rights and rights of women on able to bring justice the nys will bring
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irreversible damage and may break the trust people have in these organizations. there is some comfort from a day from her father it's not your fault you're not to blame he says we love you some day we will get justice so that was nicholas hawkes report and he's now live for us in. what's expected from this visit by an attorney to tara should strikes me that he calls used to be the u.n. high commissioner for refugees this is stuff that he knows about and he makes a point of getting out on the ground. i mean this is the way david. moore. hello you know i've got nicholas can you hear me. i can hear you know ok go ahead.
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nicholas i'll ask you again i'm not sure we govern real connection problems here but i just want to know what's expected from this visit from a man who used to be as i said u.n. high commissioner for refugees. well the timing. of the arrival of one so you because it's no coincidence this is the seventy second birthday of the united nations and over the country the united nations more than the central african republic a member of the population is the pentagon's on humanitarian help provided by aid agency but mostly by the united nations there are some twelve thousand peacekeepers that are on the ground here with a mandate to try to protect the population in a country where a rebel group led by militias religious beliefs are christian and animist hold area as a region of this country as big as australia so there's a large task at hand for the united nations and this country this government that
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completely dependent on the peacekeepers for ensuring security and safety of the population and she meant it here in help from the united nations but all of this doesn't come with some controversy human rights organization as you mentioned in this report. given you've got the united nations peacekeepers sexually abusing the people that they have the mandate to protect and that's not going down well with the population at the same time. the peacekeepers to protect them from the violence but also they need protection from the peacekeepers themselves that are some of them abusing people who are displaced because of this conflict and people who are going hungry because of physical. ok i'm going to leave you then don't to risk a second question given the line was a bit. poor but nicholas hawke was in banking. not often i would just direct you to a plane search term and al-jazeera dot com with the hook up central african
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republic the search results are really quite telling and look at a list titles as i scrolled through them because there is essentially no good news and even when you get right to the bottom here little to. the opinion things like world's worst or most neglected conflict we cannot let cia down again this is an important story that is why the secretary general is there today and that is why there is so much content for you as well as dot com to keep you informed you can get in touch with us as well contact details coming up on screen view now with the hash tag. news grid already heard from all over who is watching on facebook live why do people still think the u.n. is there to protect the population the only reason they're there is to give power to the real leaders that the west has chosen for the country certainly the issue of u.n. peacekeepers in central african republic is a very controversial one all of those watching at facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup you can also send us a comment or a question in through what's that plus one seven four five or one triple one four nine and that includes any pictures videos order that you can send us to help us
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tell the story. right we shall move on to iraq the kurdish regional parliament has convened for the first time since the fall of kirkuk to iraqi government forces parliament voted to postpone presidential and parliamentary elections by eight months it was supposed to be held november first it's been more finding from will for these kurdish held territories the latest centers on an oil pipeline in northern cook government the conflict began after the kurds of course voted in favor of secession. last month that referendum was deemed illegal by the central government which then sent in the army. to the region so here is stephanie decker she's in the hook for us this evening hi stephanie tell us more about what fighting has been going on and where. we've had three flashpoints one in tests and school which is just south of to where we are another one and not mahmoud which
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is southwestern or below and the main one i think is fair to say along the border with iraq and syria now there is a border crossing called fish called wood which is between iraq and syria kurds hold that on both ends the fighting was around thirty kilometers south of there as you mentioned that area also. has an oil pipeline pulsing through it it is also very close to the turkish border so there's a big question mark here about baghdad's intentions around five days ago baghdad announced that it had taken the territory that it wanted to in this operation when it took or cook and other areas in a very false and pretty much a bloodless campaign twelve thousand kilometers square cobol that the kurds lost in terms of disputed territories but we're now seeing these advances and people are questioning how far they're going to go they're clearly not stopping in some places at the two thousand and fourteen lines and that's the line just before the fight
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against isis started some are saying well they're trying to push to the two thousand and three lines this is the when saddam hussein was removed from power so there's all this maneuvering and everyone you speak to no one's really sure what is going to play out the americans according for dialogue the kurds have said yes we want to resolve things peacefully but certainly when you look at these flashpoints and you look at the for example it's happening along the border there's a lot of question marks on certainty and mistrust so i think it's going to be interesting to see how these few flashpoints particular the border one is going to play out over the next few days stephanie who's watching on facebook live a sent in a question asking who would be most likely to win the kurdish elections now not to play down who question but i wonder does politics even really feature at the moment as we've seen already these elections are going to be postponed and and well this government is it's lacking power it's lacking effectiveness in these battles going on out there. there are battles going on and i think politics is important because the kurds have come out of this they are fractured historically anyway but there
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has been a lot of blame game finger pointing about who's to blame for the loss of coke for example the k d p the ruling party saying that an element of part of the p.-u. k. this is another party also in government that a few elements of that party actually sold out cook making a deal with and iran it's very complicated but as in this region it's north just local there's regional interests regional players all sort of adapting the chess game if you will now the fact that we have is that. the condom common enemy of countries of the forces on the ground has now largely been pushed out of territory you're seeing this whole sort of reach a certain amount of places the big issue is really under the iraqi constitution come all these disputed territory should have been result ten years ago well they're now coming back it is an issue it needs to be resolved the americans are saying they're going to try to address this but certainly at the moment there is no dialogue there's no sign and still the guns are doing the talking even those been
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largely bloodless but the map is changing good stuff stephanie in the hooks. to your question as well always good to our viewers questions directly right off we go to better now joining us via skype. who is a non resident fellow at the tucker your institute for middle east policy as i say in beirut but you do spend plenty of time in those kurdish regions of iraq following up on what stephanie was talking about there the fractured nature of kurdish politics at the moment. even though the referendum did go ahead and gave a very clear result you want to how they can act on anything at the moment. you know even even dollar from them was was was a successful moser and it won it one. of our only over ninety ninety percent but in the meantime from the very beginning people were very much
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suspicious powder from them and also many people including the political parties were opposing holding the referendum and one of the reasons was people were expecting such kind of terrible consequences and also we were very much afraid that the very good days between two thousand and three to two thousand and thirteen are about to end because the internat that the regional countries you know are what about disagrees a coalition it is dispiriting there in iraq and. in the meantime. the people especially the quotas and the party and must resign you who are supporting or pushing for holding referendum. were behind holding a referendum emissions especially in maintaining their grip on power and the results do so all there is random and today we also saw that.
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the could is undemocratic party along side of the party which union of kurdistan they have postponed the elections and we will not have elections for the next eight months as an announcement how can all start interacting how do they move forward because there's a paralysis essentially and he said this has been postponed for eight months how does the kurdistan regional government govern its people for the next month can it govern its people or is baghdad going to you know tighten the net even more. in the next eight months the good news from region is i had lost many challenges and i don't think the desired you can able to will be able to continue first of all of the. problems and issues we'll back down will not be resolved and are going to some original law be able to to budget it is it's government and pay the salaries of the people and i don't think that college people as one of the political parties
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specially that right now. the change was meant the quitters in islamic group and dr holmes are political in fact they have reached an agreement to call for an interim government dissolving the presidency of christian region and also holding ruf holding elections in the in the new year is time i think based very political in tight israel will lead massive massive demonstrations in the in the in the nearest time and also the christian religion will not be able to pay the salaries of the public employees and provide more jobs and resolve the issue with and i don't think people people of prison will accept that we will have we will go back to the days of two thousand and eleven under could just people started a kind of a culture separating the two only parts and the two families because of you know their monopoly of power and and and market and the whole institution the prison
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regime. thank you so much for your time and your thoughts as you say eight very challenging months coming up in the kurdistan region great piece here down to zero dot com explaining well in this opinion what went wrong in the kurdish region of iraq post referendum we discussed this obviously just now and a little bit on yesterday's great from such a strong position the kurdish government the forces have basically been overrun making independence that further and further away inside story of poseidon better there as well how is shocking reversal of fortunes unfolding in cook if you search for critical kurdish iraq and i'll help you find that. not a whole lot happening at the live although i do see something slated for eighteen thirty g.m.t. so that's two or three hours from now a white house briefing with president trump on the issue of tax reforms that would of course be keeping an eye on that when it comes to that time right now though we're going to check some more international news headlines with julie macdonald in london hi judy. hi come all thank you aid agencies and the u.n.
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are urging more local groups to get involved in relief efforts that were hidden to refugee camps in bangladesh feeding the growing number of or hinder is one of the biggest challenges for aid workers on the ground tambi a charity has more from cox's bazaar in bangladesh nets near the border with me in my. looking for food every day by the nearly hour i've got a refugee is a major challenge they have to go out looking for relief distribution points in various camps and get dry food lentils rice and others there are also places where international aid agencies set up hot cooking kitchen this particular one set up by turkish cooperation and coordination agency which is known as has been providing for a month in this particular kitchen between seven to ten thousand women and children hot meals like. rice lentils and potatoes there are other like action for hunger hard. heartedness international they also set up camps in various refugee areas to
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provide hot meals this really helping out nearly close to three hundred forty thousand children among the new raf it is but food is a major challenge fraud nearly arrived refugee is one of those government international agencies are doing their best to provide their basic needs at current times jordan's queen rania us calls for a stronger response from the international community to what she calls the systemic persecution of the hinge in the slums she made those comments while visiting with angel refugee camps in neighboring bangladesh before coming here i had braced myself to some desperate conditions but the stories i heard today were heartbreaking and timely i've heard of systematic. young girls being trapped and then i see i've heard of babies being kicked around. and. down time and i've heard all family members telling me how they seem to be killed
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right before their eyes this is something that is unacceptable. in china president . name and ideology have been added to the constitution cementing his status as one of the most powerful leaders the country has had in decades. once that was made on the final day of the communist party conference the vote to establish on socialism as one of the country's guiding principles is likely to mean any challenge to christian they will be seen as a threat to communist party rule itself she's been steadily increasing his grip on power becoming leader in twenty. and it almost has more now from beijing. after their week long kong these are the members of the communist party pouring out of the great hall of the people behind me getting onto buses and to go back and spread the message oh i have a china what is that message that's come out of this congress well first and
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foremost that president xi is an absolute control of his party but only if his name going to be in shrine into the communist party's constitution that was confirmed on tuesday his soul will be part of the whole he's also stamp his authority on the personnel in the heart and there was a seventy percent in the membership of the central committee of the communist party the four hundred members of that the overwhelming majority of the new appointees officially elected to the point they are the supporters on wednesday will find out the membership will be all important. and the seven member standing committee of the politburo again we can expect to see the supporters dominate that so the next five years will be absolutely he's he's new era as he thinks the specifics well this congress was very light on what that it's but this will be she's a hero so an important time perhaps it's like stock look at where she has come from particularly the religious right that he says turned him into the man he is today.
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when she's paying waved in liang jai ho in the early one nine hundred seventy s. it was a rural village where people lived in caves and in poverty now people riding on electric shuttle buses most villagers have left their home turned into an open air tribute museum honoring the man who's now president. some very young tell a sanitized version of the she story what he learned here what he did here and how loved he was visitors see the bed in which those flea infested she is said to have slept they hear how he built downers and duck wells most groups are brought here by communist party workers and photographed in front of she's wise words. she was born the son of a senior communist party member in beijing but in one thousand nine hundred nine his father fell out of favor the family was banished by chairman mao during the
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cultural revolution at fifteen she was sent to remotely angle her he spent seven years farming in fertile land living and working alongside some of the poorest people in china they were his formative years she became a leader of the local branch of the communist party he'd go on to more senior roles all over china until becoming president five years ago she never forgot her returning for a visit to years ago the village has become an important part of who he is the president with the common touch i surveyed had done happy and excited this is where uncle she started his long march all his hard work began here the official she story one of hard work on a state innovation and empathy means the president sounds authentic when he demands those qualities of party members and of the chinese at large this is essential
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thing park extension of the shooting ping brand what these people have come to see for themselves is the setting for a story that hundreds of millions of chinese people are reading about daily in state media and learning about in schools at the entrance to the enjoy her workers are expanding the car park and building a grant ticket whole two and a half thousand people already visit every day but a lot more expected for many years to come after thomas al-jazeera liang jaya her central china. completely fascinating that's it for me now it's impractical in doha lovely thank you for that juliet now it has been exactly a year since the french government closed down one of its most notorious refugee camps the so-called jungle of cali you know this site was actually set up by the french authorities back in april of two thousand and fifteen and at its peak roughly ten thousand refugees asylum seekers and migrants live there and it's
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estimated one hundred students still live around the area most of the refugees that came from syria afghanistan iraq somalia trying to get into the u.k. they held several protests to speak out against the camp's poor living conditions they were confrontations with police as well but all the refugees were forced out in the end as the french government dismantled the camp now here we go have a look at this from al jazeera dot com this was the original post jungle plan a three day evacuation for those six to eight thousand migrants and as you say one hundred ninety four miners were given a one way ticket to the u.k. the rest were put on buses and sent to different shelters all over france and we really germane all over france. the ones you see in life how orange are the new shelters alone which show you how many more had to be opened just for this operation but since the closing of the jungle migrants and refugees have started moving to a small fishing town in northern france and so it is we step in which has become
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the new jumping off point for those desperate to reach the united kingdom and taj about lho went there to find out more. an early morning ferry prepares to sail from the northern french port of to england it's a popular link across the channel but recently it's become a new route for some refugees to reach britain they try to climb onto trucks that are boarding at least ninety refugees mainly from sudan have arrived here in the past few months and then numbers are growing you know with a kid you know it's only like what if it takes one year or ten to get to the u.k. we won't give up our dream. we sam is a small fishing town it was etched into history on d.-day when allied forces landed to liberate france in one thousand nine hundred forty four today it's facing a different struggle the mayor says many residents feel unsafe some local people are a fig thinking of not being in security and i'm also that's the tricky question for
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us to deal with the migrants problem here in the city the refugees sleep outside often in fields or woods this is where about thirty refugees sleep each night you can see some of their possessions on the ground his sleeping bags and clothes and there really is nothing here it's just a clearing in the forest and while some of them tell us is that the police come in the morning and tell them to move on good of all the police do is chase them from one street to another they chase them from the woods or from the port people don't want to see them walking in the streets but all human beings have a right to walk in the street. beyond the point. with winter approaching the hot food prepared by these volunteers as often they were in email adam who didn't want to show his face says he's a farmer who fled darfur two years ago that was the wars the government killers and our family are now the honestly. the only indulge in darfur up to here is so hard i
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don't know we don't know what's going on there if you what the england is really like us or the middle east. but opinion is divided in the town these residents say they don't want the refugees on their doorstep. we can go out now the shops will close tourism will stop a house prices will go down we aren't safe from the county region look what happened though no one here knows how many refugees managed to cross to the u.k. but with cali now a heavily policed fortress new frontlines such as this port are forming in northern france natasha al jazeera. so start with libya tonight who have you managed to speak to today either. moved on a lot of people we've talked to or a syrian refugees that have left but this first woman that we spoke to her name's annie she works with a group out of the u.k.
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that helps refugees take a listen there are still seventy eight hundred refugees in cali the moment five to six hundred refugees in bunker and many many more in paris and small towns among them in cali there are around one hundred unaccompanied child refugees the youngest of them is only nine years old and he is completely on his own like the other children. he is currently sleeping in the woods without any form of protection no friends no shelter only sleeping bags and blankets. the memo was found last year by the parliament and yet two hundred children have been transferred to the u.k. since then there is a legal obligation that the home office acts right now to protect children. now when the jungle was close we mentioned the one hundred one hundred ninety four miners that had a one way ticket to the u.k. one of them was seventeen year old ishmael homuth he's a syrian refugee and like we said he used to live in the jungle last year though when he moved to the u.k.
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he started a new life there with the so-called dubs amendment he was just seventeen he recently spoke to the press association and had this to say. just be thankful for the just good. to be after all that experience and. make it safe and do the things you want to do. to be the place. you want that the most important thing you know finish making the most of the politics there and then try to help my country in this way and maybe being in that position in my country it's free again or not i would be really competitive i always i'm typing to support my people to try to bring to make it
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bring them here save because they have nothing to do now with any country so they need to do. as we know not all of the refugees from the jungle as fortunate as a smile many aid groups are posting online with the hash tag winter is coming asking for donations for the refugees still there before the cold sets and one group posted this video of volunteers making meals for those still living in the city be sure to send us your questions and comments on this story we'd love to hear from you you can tweet me directly. so we can thank you for that the interesting also to dip back into the inside story on edition from exactly a year ago with the team looked at what next sammy said in moderation that discussion as the panel discussed what would happen to the inhabitants of the jungle and also the wider failings of europe's refugee policies inside story as ever in the show section at al-jazeera dot com and in the picture section a really dramatic photo gallery that puts you right in amongst it as the jungle was
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brought down and the people were evicted and the pictures aren't letting any more there they fear and. now still on the topic of europe's refugee crisis we're turning our attention to italy a conference in palermo is focusing on what's been described as the world's deadliest migrant crossing italy has seen a surge in migrants and refugees arriving on its shores they take that dangerous route across the mediterranean sea often on overcrowded boats the two day meeting is organized by the c.e.v. organization for security and cooperation in europe. jill get off the list ponder that maybe that i mean the same but geographically the mediterranean shores seem very close politically or far from each other is distances fuelled a dangerous fault lying in which fanaticism island extremism and terrorism have grown if we don't quickly minimize these fractures cooperation amongst ourselves if we risk opening in
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a bit where our security intolerant coexistence and the respect for our fundamental freedoms. here are the numbers the u.n. says more than one hundred forty seven thousand people have crossed the med to your this year most of them from nigeria syria and guinea more than double that made the same journey in twenty sixteen at least three hundred sixty two thousand but twenty fifteen was the peak of the crisis with over a million people crossing the med and since then more than eleven thousand five hundred people have died at sea and just to further illustrate that we've got the same very graphic account zero dot com which plotted those dates and it is that route to italy in the middle of the black line which as we see the most deadly particularly this summer as of twenty fifteen and sixteen because those black circles you say they indicate deaths of upwards of four hundred people at a time some of those seven hundred fifty six hundred seven and through the end of last year yeah ok it's been pretty consistent as well in the mediterranean route
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the italian route the greece route just so you know just at the bottom there in orange fewer deaths which is obviously a good thing but that is so means a whole lot more people are actually arriving in europe which presents of course its own problems. if you've got a view on that story or anything else we've covered to get in touch with us on the hash tag just looking to see anything coming through most you talking about the kurdish situation at the moment there's a twitter account we use at a.j. english you can reply to the threads and their facebook and what's have up and running as well now if you are watching on facebook live you're about to take a look at a new medical study showing that pollution cause more deaths in twenty fifteen than war and natural disasters combined and then after that one hundred million children around the world cannot read it is one sign education is failing around the world according to unesco more on bad reports coming out.
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hello there we're seeing some very heavy rain over parts of turkey at the moment you can see why on the satellite picture we've got this huge area of cloud is gradually trying to edge its way eastwards as it works its way eastwards though it is beginning to break up so for turkey then that's where we're seeing the wettest of the weather during the day on wednesday but as it tries to work its way eastwards it is breaking up so for beirut there doesn't look like there's going to be anywhere whether we're told in fact we're seeing a couple of showers around the coast of egypt and a few more around the coast of turkey there for thursday but elsewhere does look more or less dry towards the east fine unsettled them for many of us here are marty struggling to get to ten degrees as a maximum but for terror on will be getting to around twenty six a bit further towards the south and here in doha the temperatures are gradually easing but it is a slow process so we're looking at a maximum of around thirty three or thirty four as we head through the next few days so in the southern parts of oman there's
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a little bit more in the way of cloud and that could give us one or two showers around the lala as we head through wednesday and into thursday down towards the southern parts of africa more wet weather here you can see it on the satellite picture stretching for mungo low down through namibia and we're seeing a couple of showers around botswana and then the works its way into the eastern parts of south africa more showers are expected here as we head through wednesday. with. it is the inhabitants of a nation that give it its unique identity. each culture maintained and developed by the endeavors of its people in a six part series i'll just zero at those into tunisia's rich tapestry through the prism of six extraordinary individuals. micronesia coming soon on a jazzier. in
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a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking to express care that saving lives is a dangerous job as the vaccine talks on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for his mother's house who must be in pain lives earth risk a week ago one of the gang stops on the course on the road at that can do it with weapons risking it all guinea at this time on al-jazeera.
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zero dot com and what's trending the gulf crisis still moving of course it had been in the region the emir of kuwait it was appointed as mediator is now warning of a collapse of the gulf cooperation council if things result that. the committee in spain tasked with defining how the central government will implement direct rule of the catalonia is preparing to hold its first meeting it comes as spain's senate calls for direct talks between the catalan leadership and spain's prime minister about the future of the region meanwhile the procession left wing party is planning a series of measures to protest any curbing of catalonians autonomy all part of
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well one of the biggest political crises in spain in recent decades all stemming from that catalan secession vote on october the first and are simmons is in barcelona with more. the senate the upper house in madrid is inviting mariano rajoy the spanish prime minister and carlos. to direct talks which they will arrange now the senate could hardly be described as a mediator in all of this because it is the upper house and it is dominated by the ruling party and so it's an interesting situation because he has called for dialogue all along he hasn't committed himself to this meeting and at the same time he is probably reluctant to engage in what is a process of article one hundred five passing which the senate itself is actually engaged in and will do so on friday unless something pretty big happens in the meantime so this is
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a difficult position for him it's also pretty hard for rowing because he's always dismissed any form of direct blog because as far as he's going all the rules have been broken all the laws have been broken and there's no other option apart from going from article one four five furthermore the government is saying that it will not countenance it will not accept snap elections being told by the regional government here as a solution no they want to go through with article one four five they want to sack the whole government including and they'll be out of jobs by the weekend but there's also another aspect to this and that is legal means being pursued by the council on government it's going to the constitutional court with an appeal against the article one five five being sick of the succeeding seem to be limited but as far as the catalans are concerned they say they're pursuing every. possible move
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that is in their imagination and in their practical way forward. well the media's played a big part in the coverage on the council on your political crisis and the debate over it led to different. hamill's accusing each other of being biased and sharing propaganda but now it seems that you have the coming together of the media cooperating really would miss me very unexpected because the spanish media is now actually largely supporting the catalan media and that came just after the spanish central government said that it was going to take control of the public cut to lend broadcasts or to have a taste or t.v. three now according to madrid the government wants to guarantee the broadcaster broadcasting of true objective and balance information respecting political pluralism they say but t.v. three the catalan channel says that the crackdown is quote a direct dishonorable attack on the freedom of expression and on the freedom of
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press t v three will continue to work so that catalan citizens can have quality and rigorous information showing all sides like it did. well catalan journalists gathered to protest and staff margot leave the soviet as she tweeted this picture saying that thirty one years of working at t.v. three i have never been told what to write if they intervene she says i will resist now t.v. that's the spanish public broadcaster there based in madrid they also took a stance against the spanish government and asked why even the same principles are not applied to them and that quote media should serve the citizens and never the governments none of them many other media organizations all of these ones here listed they also followed and started their support for t.v. three saying such control is a breach of press freedom they are also sharing this picture largely on social media that says quote without public media there is no place for democracy another
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popular image under the hash tag new program in t.v. three shows the new host of the channel its prime minister mariano rajoy and the deputy prime minister now this is a story we have been following and of course we'll continue to monitor but let us know what you think with the hash tag a genius grade the a thank you unesco's annual report on the state of education has been released and it is assigned and if too many governments the global education monitoring report hands up pretty great conniff you like on education around the world and i've discovered twenty percent of children don't finish primary school and one hundred million cannot read has the full details. just in the slums of nairobi this is the glorious academy at school a lawyer fee private school more than half of kenya's children attend them you know what we can do now we can. they go to low fee private
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schools because state schools are too crowded and respected private schools are too expensive for me was. to wishing cost ten dollars a month but for that price could teach is a hard to come by and they can be up to sixty students in a class there is a motivating us and making us to meet a need to meet and when they need so we know that this bit of them have been listed the classes are really listening for as and then they are essentially facing most of them take yunis goes annual assessment of global education says many governments are passing the buck to teachers and not taking accountability the report reveals there are no regulations on class sizes in almost half the countries of the world only one in six governments publish annual education reports and only one in five guarantees twelve years of free education as many as half or more of children
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around the world do not learn the minimum that is expected in terms of their skills in reading in mathematics either because they don't finish school or because they are in school. wide two hundred sixty million children is to mated not to be in school one hundred million can't marry the widening inequality is made worse by a drop an age education down six years in a row they teach us. to retain of them here yet we have a lot of money which we don't have. solutions are needed beyond the classroom and this latest snapshot of global education says it's time to start at the top shelob ls al jazeera. going off the grid once again now with leah who loves a selfie i know well that you look at a twitter feed right now as if there are quite a few selfies of me but this story is about posts that just keep coming in people
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taking pictures of themselves and sharing them online not unusual but this part is part of a movement to start a discussion with the hash tag invisibly disabled looks like and then they fill in the blank you could call it self awareness ordinary people posting pictures of themselves sharing what their type of disability looks like but just being themselves just because you can't see it they say doesn't mean it's not real people posting about spinal bifida about anxiety depression you name it really things that you can't see but we did speak to a woman named scout there she is she sent us this message from new zealand and studying to become a counsellor and i would twenty to forty weeks in community development is a volunteer i also have chronic fatigue syndrome and i had since two thousand and fifteen people see me and my schedule and think that i come paid to say. what they don't see is that i spend sixty percent of my way can be made to school
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and it takes to move they can seem to. often working from home takes a lot of if it to balance this and keep myself well at the same time and you wouldn't know it by looking at him but james raff here he is blind but he has used his disability to help his online platform he has eleven thousand followers and recently posted this video about how he's still able to do the things that he loves . hi i'm james i'm almost twenty two i'm blind legally i can't see this i can sort of see this this is me surfing i'm not a surfer i used to ride horses i enjoy hiking i own a lot of p.q. yes because you was plural for many p.q. i barely graduated high school with a one point eight g.p.a. as of right now i've never driven a car but i've steered a boat twice these are my eyes dancing this is me interviewing the c.e.o. of apple he got the job this is me speaking of the public variety this is me filmmaking i am a filmmaker my favorite cameras of the most successful ones i'm
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a fan of accessibility i'm a fan of technology i'm a fan of innovation and i share accessible experiences and this is me james raff. what a fascinating guy and now this movement started in one thousand nine hundred six and is part of a campaign that goes on every year to encourage people to share what they are struggling with even if you can't see it now after awareness week the post kept coming in and you can send us your you can join then on the hashtag just be sure to include our hash tag a.j. news grid so for the awareness was and it came up with a very nice we're going to take the quickest a break but when we come back. looking at how classical musicians are inspiring young says to get back into old music using new methods. short films of hope and inspiration. a series of small stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds.
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they are selects at this time. thank you and it's here to talk about the best before awards the best that was there right now this name thing i would have loved to have been in that branding meeting when they finally came out with that will faith and every bit of positive publicity it can after the past few years and if social media is anything to go by it might just a found
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a good news story in the best fee for awards hartigan perhaps when there christiane are now though is involved leo messi and neymar on monday night in london there is to be named the world's best player if you're wondering what happened to the ballon d'or awards which have been around since one thousand nine hundred fifty six they do still exist but the first splits with the french magazine behind them last year in the best awards were born the hash tag the best was tweeted out around seven hundred fifty thousand times on monday quite a global spread as you can see there most of it's weights in portuguese because of course we're now there is portuguese rather than english with brazil spain in the u.s. the most active countries saudi arabia and nigeria also combined to produce ten percent of the total tweets wealthy first made a huge push to connect with football fans across the world online through this events and on their website fans were able to vote in each of the categories for
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the first time along with a national team coaches camp sins and selected journalists as well the event was streamed live on you tube over one point soon million people watched via you tube the number was even higher on fief is facebook page where fans could also watch it live for the record the top tweets was that one using the hash tag the best posted by. former star trek actor patrick stewart areas with leo messi no one quite knows why patrick stewart was there but he was that attracted forty three thousand likes there was some negative reaction to the nomination of ellis while as they were cast in our us for the women's player of the year the eighteen year old was shortlisted despite never having played professionally u.s. world cup winner megan rapinoe said it showed faith really doesn't care about the women's game let's talk now to our sports correspondent leigh welling's who's in london for us leigh is this part of a wider strategy for fifo to try and remind people that it's about football or not corruption this you can't really blame them for trying you can blame them for the
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best is a terrible for any awards are left or that to tina turner and there's been toad in its first year doesn't really make sense to a lot of people but you've talked about how much traffic there was you talked about how many to eat you've talked about people engaging with it and this is what fee for once football to be about miss is actually what people are interested in they are interested in or did buy has been the best this year but now there are messi who is the best overall this is the kind of football talk maybe there's too much talk about football that's what gets people excited met with talked about this newsgroup before there's an apathy about the big things that are going wrong at the top there's still problems at the top of football under jonny and frontino but people would much rather engage in this and enjoy this really in favor would much rather than do it and then to talk about it on social media lee is is there a fair criticism about the nomination for the women's player of the year is there
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a concern that surfie for doesn't take women's football seriously enough. i think there is a concern i've always felt and. i mean with dana cause the loss she made a huge impact and she's a member was one of the three present for the pushcarts award for the best goal scored an incredible goal and then under seventeen venezuela but as you say she hasn't played professional football now if you were one of the best women's players in the world you'd be really disgruntled about this you'd say let's have the the best to use their name three players let's not get someone in who's deliberately eye catching but you know what that negative publicity helped them as well so maybe they knew what they were doing on that front is it fair probably not the one thing i would say about her is she's going to be a big star of the future because she's extremely talented and of course she got a lot of backing in south america. as ever thanks so much for that lee will be back with plenty more sports in the eight hundred g.m.c.
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news hour for now that slave labor hind in london and we'll go back to come are i'm disappointed lee was supposed to have a beer today according to his twitter feed anyway funny for you most classical music dates back hundreds of years you know but with some younger people drifting away from listening to classical music there is in the us a group of professional classical musicians who are trying to reach new younger audiences by playing that orchestra music in new ways where less is more or less on a looks like more. the flowing musical composition emanating from an orchestra but here they're taking classical music out of the concert halls to reach new audiences they're called pegasus and they play all the classics but differently instead of dozens of musicians in a philharmonic orchestra on this night they play with only six instead of long
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performances in front of a crowd in formal attire they play for only an hour in a more casual setting. the foundering composer of the group made his debut at carnegie hall when he was seventeen but now is trying to make music written hundreds of years ago relevant today. classical music i feel like it's you know really is timeless so if it's presented the right way it should be able to risk just about anyone no matter of their age their their ethnicity their background you know if they don't need to have education they just need to be exposed. it's not only how they play that's different it's where they play as well far away from their traditional venues for classical music instead here at
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a place called the mana contemporary it used to be an industrial warehouse it's been converted into a modern space for music art and culture. all of the musicians are accomplished in their own right and have played in famous menus in front of big crowds but most like japanese violinist aiko kano say they like the more intimate surroundings i absolutely love it because it's the concert like experience should be like. extends between perform us an audience and then unfortunately in a big call it's like you were up there and they're up here so it's it's very much an. acting husic lovers to classical workers for traditions in one tradition setting.
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