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hello i'm sam he's a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a fifteen hour siege at a hotel in the somali capital is over but at least twenty three are dead. on the pressure after a controversial referendum iraq's kurdish leader is reportedly considering standing down plus. reporting on moves to bring apex predators like wolves back to the scottish highlands after an absence of more than three hundred. rally is taking place in manaus biggest city in support of the military which is facing criticism over the rangar crisis thousands of supporters of turned out on the streets of yangon six hundred thousand rangar muslims of state from bangladesh over the past. right. and also now the united
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nations is calling the violence ethnic cleansing florence louis. this rally is organized by nationalists and. the message here the criticism leveled by the international community against the myanmar military because of what's taking place in northern rakhine state is ongoing to. the point the tama the myanmar language would for the militate because protecting national sovereignty. we have been trying to put across what it's doing in northern rakhine state and the legitimate. government can a terrorist organization not such public demonstration of support for the military it's extremely it's not a right. in the country that the country fifty years before starting
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a democratic transition in two thousand and ten but one i told us that support in the. event should not necessarily be equated with support for the military. seem to be outlined when it comes to what's taking place. state the government and in particular the de facto leader of this country aung san suu kyi. criticized staying silent on the plight of the right for defending the military and one more thing this rally today highlight. in myanmar. now security forces in somalia have ended a fifteen hour. shooting gunman holding hostages in a hotel in mogadishu. the building on saturday off to twin bombings in the area at least twenty three people were killed as claims sponsibility. it's the second
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attack to hit the capital in two weeks i'm going to reports from neighboring kenya . this is the target of the first explosion the two hole tell a stone's throw away from the presidential palace a car was driven up to the gates of the hotel before exploding causing a blast that was hard across the city at least three heavily fighters then stormed into the hotel shooting anyone in sight and i'm going to rely on you i was driving a took to the front of the hotel i saw a car exploding at the gate of the hotel i don't know where two of my clients have gone i don't know if they're dead or alive but i saw four dead bodies. the most popular with somali members of parliament and other government officials the hotel was also the venue of a meting between the somali president mohammed of the life of the module and the leaders of somalia's five regional states. the second count them exploded at the
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busy intersection in the heart of the city and the security. few expected al-shabaab fights us to cut ielts such brazen out talks in mogadishu so soon after the recent must've talked the wost in somalia's history. the residents of the city are still coming to toms with the talk to weeks ago which left three hundred fifty eight people dead four hundred injured on the other five to six. was a victim from the capital in two thousand and eleven it has maintained its control in many rural areas of central and southern somalia since then the group was prevented resilient able to replace commanders and fighters killed by u.s. strikes and in fighting with somali forces and african union peacekeepers. recently gained control of several areas outside mogadishu including but even with a strategic town forty five kilometers from the capital government officials say preventing attacks and look at issues proving. districts surrounding the capital
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fall to the fighters one after another. they will become. the leader of iraq's kurdish region is reportedly planning not to extend this presidential term so it has been under pressure to quit following september's controversial secession referendum vote triggered more than ten days of fighting between iraqi and kurdish forces resulting assent the parliament of iraq's kurdish region a letter asking it to redistribute his powers stephanie decker has more from out of deal. parliament will be meeting in a closed session to discuss that letter we understand the contents of that will be a redistribution of power for this interim period because elections have been delayed here for a period of eight months and that present massoud barzani will not be extending his term a term that has already been extended twice controversially since two thousand and thirteen beyond november the first and we do expect some from
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a press conference perhaps to give specific details about how exactly we're going to move forward i think interestingly we have not heard yet from the president in southie has not addressed the people since the backlash i think we can call it severe backlog. to that controversial referendum he hasn't addressed the people will he be addressing his people here beyond the next three days because that is when his term will and in november the first but again now it is hugely significant because of the atmosphere the situation presents but if any went ahead with this referendum against the will of even his closest allies the united states even turkey has now turned its back on him has been a lot of pressure on him to stand aside but many people will tell you that even if he is no longer president it doesn't mean that his powers here have been curtailed . county is main opposition leader is expected to issue a statement as unofficial results from the repeat election suggest the president has won more than ninety seven percent of the vote is
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a live pictures now coming in from the kenyan capital nairobi rollo dingo will speak at the gathering shortly the election was been marred by violence with voting suspended in some opposition neighborhoods for me the miller reports from nairobi. this is all that's left of these businesses and homes in cologne west of nairobi they were burned down by protesters throwing petrol bombs. in phantasm one guy worked here he says they knew the attack was coming but they couldn't stop it he says the attacks a based on ethnicity often targeting people who have voted on friday one man was beaten to death here. demonstrations have followed thursday's presidential rerun which was boycotted by the opposition and the areas which are opposition strongholds are bearing the brunt of it. mary oma a mother of two says it was peaceful until now she spent the night out on the
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street scared she and her children would be burnt in their home so. what are we as women are so angry because we slipped out sighs our kids were scared they were even storms being thrown one just missed my son's i you can imagine tear gas being thrown and i have children we heard more of the same from other people living here. quickly turn to the political tensions they say they don't want president. to stay in office while just a third of voters turned out results of the presidential rerun so far indicates that kenyatta has more than a seven million votes and many in this area are angry it's not easy moving around this area groups of protesters are the. locking roads ready to stop anyone they don't want to round stops are closed some boarded up their owners will be looted there are many police officers patrolling the area but many here say they don't
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feel protected police are accused of using excessive force when dispersing protesters human rights groups say they've killed between fifty and sixty people following the election sometimes they're fired tear gas canisters at close friends they're also goes. out operations in presidential rivals house to house opposition sometimes kicking. and pulling people out but to the man and beating them. the police say they're trying to stop the violent protests and criminals reality for many here though is trying to survive a political battle being fought on the streets from al jazeera. now the search for those who went missing during the siege of the city of ma in the philippines continues the government declared victory over pro i saw fighters earlier this month after months of fighting general allen dog and has the story of
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one woman who received good news about her daughter had been kidnapped we met josie upin is a few months ago back then she was trying to retrieve her husband's body in a morgue leonardo expand his died in morocco we in the southern philippines he was working there as a waiter when a pro i saw a group called the mouth or to could show of several parts of the city last may their daughter just so was missing to jossy asked for help from the police and the military looking for signs that may lead to her daughter the days dragged into months and she was already losing hope. months later we traveled to joss's hometown then to tell her the good news. but. just so was held hostage by the multi-group but after months in captivity she was
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able to escape we brought her to we hoping that the military could help facilitate their reunion but it is not easy a bureaucratic process has to play out still they are lucky enough to talk to each other on the phone who haven't. i'm so happy. to kill him. when the mall to seize parts of the city hoping to set up an islamic state its fighters took several thousand civilians hostage in the course of the month long battle many civilians have either been released or escapement government records show less than eighty families have registered their missing human rights experts say that number may be higher that is because many feared the stigma that if they come forward registering their missing loved ones their relatives may be accused of
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collaborating with them out. the philippine military has declared morale we liberated from the pro i saw a group after months of fighting most of is now left in ruins over a thousand people have died and hundreds of thousands more displaced you can agreement here you know the ones you really have to read you. another set of bodies retreat from the front line in this small bag are bones of five people like so many others here they will be buried in a mass grave nameless victims of a brutal conflict. we see at the southern philippines. well still to come an al-jazeera spain says catalonia is deposed leader he can run for his old job in december's election and cuba continues to deny involvement in the bizarre case of salt lake has tacks on the u.s. embassy and.
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how i was saying. standing across southern parts of the economic recently just about the south china seas we still looking at this but clutches storms sink in the way a little south was but some pretty wet weather coming into the far south of vietnam where you can see the pockets of very heavy rain that wet weather stretching across southern parts of thailand pushing across a good part of malaysia say they are sinking further south was into these are also seeing some lobby down poles as we go on through the next more very wet weather coming into northern parts of indonesia and i've got across the southern areas of vietnam where we will see the heaviest rain maybe affecting southern policy of cambodia as well we've had some lively showers to rattling through the great australian by this weather system continues to make its way across southern parts
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of australia national speckling of showers cloud coming through here behind that cold front much colder air coming in behind winds could gust around one hundred kilometers per hour as we go on through monday said some nasty conditions coming through much colder than of light fourteen to adelaide and also for melbourne picking up a little as we go on through our choose day just goes into eastern parts of australia still want to showers up around the top end but looking fine and dry for the west. short films of the hook and inspiration. stories of three young women challenging the world around them.
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al-jazeera selects at this time. time to recap our headlines now thousands of demonstrators are marching on the streets of yangon in support of. the crisis minority community accuses the army of murder torture and. six hundred thousand six hundred thousand of them in the past two months security forces in somalia have ended a night long siege after shooting gunman holding hostages in
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a hotel in mogadishu the gunmen stormed the hotel after detonating twin bombs that killed at least twenty three people and injured dozens more the leader of iraq's kurdish region is reportedly planning not to extend his presidential term. quit following september's controversial secession referendum. now the spanish government says the deposed leader. will be allowed to run in regional elections in december. calling for a democratic and peaceful opposition direct rule of catalonia. political autonomy often. voted to declare independence. and he joins us live from understand it's a day of. action
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. some of them a. flag. i have to say. catalonian now these people are referred to often as the silent majority those who did not go to vote in the referendum and those and people do and according to the polls they do represent the majority of catalonia and some might say well why didn't they go to the polls on that day many would just answer well it was a clear day illegal and unconstitutional from the government in madrid so we didn't want not want to take part in such a process now this is these are the early hours. already thousands of people have been streaming and here i think throughout the day will see
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a much bigger massive showing. who's in control of catalonia right now. well it depends on paper and right now it's now the central government in madrid and actually the pretty prime minister. says the santa maria has been nominated as let's say the representative of. the one who is supposed to replace the catalonian president carter mr jim on however he said that even though he has been sacked through article one five five two nights ago he still has not stepped down and has not given any signs that he's going to step down any time soon we do know that yesterday he appeared in a televised address he did call for the same man resistance but he did underline the fact that that should be peaceful you were mentioning earlier that the government in madrid said that he could run for elections on the sample twenty
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first but in between there's many things are going to happen for example expecting the from general prosecutor in madrid tomorrow to file charges against him on and after that is expected that he would be told to appear in front of the high court now if he is found guilty of any of the. then you won't be able to run. but you do get an impression really when you listen to both madrid and. hear that everybody is trying to make this go as. possible. until now holding strong to their own position. and so much. cuban officials have denied any involvement in the legend attacks that led to more than twenty u.s. embassy staff being recalled from havana the u.s. says the staff were injured at their office residences washington says about
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a failed in its obligation to protect diplomats on its territory cuba says there is no evidence the attacks took place. showing the so-called attacks are on just whatever the type of attack whatever the incident it is completely false. government is struggling to control a growing number of new age hiv cases the country has one of the highest rates of new infections in latin america and now the government has launched a campaign to target high risk groups in america. reports from santiago one hundred . forty eight year old sandra who asks that we not use her full name was pregnant with her sixth child when she discovered her husband had infected her with hiv she says her first thought was suicide now she's undergoing treatment and is back working at her husband's small groom factory. but while the treatment will deal
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with the hiv she says it can't sweep away the stigma still associated with the disease. there are still many people who think they'll get infected if they just touch me even my best friend this is so terrible i still can't accept it sandra is one victim of an alarming health hazard in the last six years the hiv rate. chile has more than doubled the main problem asian victor with a.j. we are between the age of twenty fifty years old and mainly man you know but we are seeing everywhere you know new york gains us or people although than all. men and women who are in who had inserted they don't usually use condoms dr petit's believes that because treatment for hiv is now readily available in chile many young people have lost what he calls respect
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for the disease and so are no longer taking precautions with women living in a new campaign is underway to underscore the need for safe sex at any age the government already distributes seventeen million condoms a year. but critics say the state needs to do much more for example sex education became mandatory in two thousand and ten but only for secondary school students it was when i want to learn we need to implement an education campaign from childhood to adolescence in every single school we need to reduce bureaucracy so people can get condoms more easily or if they're infected so they know where to go for testing and treatment doctors here are calling the hiv rise an epidemic it shocked many in socially conservative chile a country that experts say must quickly deal not just with the disease but with the misconceptions and prejudices that help spread it to seem human are just santiago chile egypt has launched
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a major shakeup of its security services week after sixteen police officers died in an attack in visa province one hundred hey guys he is the new chief of staff of the armed forces replacing mahmoud aghasi the two men are not related head of national security has also been sacked along with senior military generals. fear is barriers to international trade have prevented iranian business is from blossoming but with the lifting of sanctions iranian florists saw hoping to cash in on a multi-billion dollar global market to force the fourteenth century persian poet hafez once wrote the roses beauty is very dear enjoy its petals when it is here in iran they take that quite literally from finally manicured streets to the vendors who sell roses by the basket for happy and sad occasions flowers are a part of daily life in iran some street lights even get their own flower beds but
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iranians say they haven't been able to realize the industry's potential. one of the biggest challenges we face in iran is a lack of modern technology most of the expertise exists in europe and we haven't been able to transfer that knowledge to iran many runs greenhouses in very i mean a town a few hours outside to her on he says when sanctions were lifted after the nuclear deal things got better but to be competitive in the international marketplace iranian growers will need more help all the growers we've spoken to say the same thing they wish that their government would focus a little bit more time on helping them modernize their industry not just because of the economic potential but because unlike the things you normally associate with iran oil and gas nuclear energy growers say there's nothing controversial about flowers they're just beautiful and they make people happy. it might be a hard sell after all the global oil and gas industry is worth nearly one point seven trillion dollars a year and you can't run a car on flowers but kerry says in iran flowers can be
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a serious business too and that income from the agriculture sector could someday rival oil revenue money which. much as we care about seats in opec i think we should pay even more attention to the seats in the food and agriculture organization and pave the way for foreign investors in iran but getting anything made in iran to international markets is still a challenge. the main problem now is the high cost of exports we cannot compete with the main flower export in countries like hall and we don't produce flowers in mass quantities since the production is low it's mostly for domestic consumption but even half the flowers consumed domestically go to waste dying in transit are left unsold once they get to market. in a meeting with president rouhani i asked him to help our producers with low interest long term loans so they could modernize their greenhouses modernization is
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very expensive and those who are passionate about growing and selling flowers will tell you it's one of the best jobs in iran and that investing in new technology and infrastructure to reach on top markets will be money well spent as well as a chance for the country to show off its flower power is in basra zero very mean iran. being counted in iceland off to the second parliamentary election in a year early tally suggests the ruling independence party is ahead followed by the left green movement the leader of the left green has not ruled out working with smaller left and centrist policies to form a coalition. china has unveiled the world's largest ship to install offshore wind turbines two thousand ton vessel can install turbines at sea much faster than before china is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases it's taking huge steps to develop alternative power sources that animals like bears in links last
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seen centuries ago are being reintroduced into the wild across europe and scotland one project hopes to bring back wolves after an absence of more than three hundred years another is reintroducing red squirrels clark reports. rugged and remote in the heart of the scottish highlands the alladin wilderness reserve it is stunning to behold but it's a view shaped by man. think i mean look at anything but it's not what scotland used to be scotland used to be a great forest you know much of britain. that forest was slowly ripped out by centuries of shipbuilding and industry pull lyster wants to return this land to how it once was and as well as already planting nearly a million trees and plans to release and control animals that have long since disappeared the large carnivores that were once present made up the ecosystem such as the links work shut out. our vision is to create
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a large scale. world. and to bring back. like many rewilding such as this pull believes this would help restore the balance of nature and keep the populations of red deer in check which reached destructively high numbers now it's not just keystone species like wolves and bears that are in the frame much less controversial but just as important is the action being taken over red squirrels here in scotland. the red squirrel has been squeezed out of much of the british isles by its great counterpart scotland is one of the last strongholds but even here it's under threat within scotland as the situation pretty much the whole of the northwest doesn't have any red squirrels and so that's saying that this project to reintroduce them to the northwest we simply catch the squirrels in the morning health inspection take them across and then release them in specially built nest boxes it's
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a project that engages the local community college murdoch works on a nearby state and keeps an eye on the new arrivals i think it's a wonderful idea and i do. if this is done in several places new very successfully undescribable braidwood ever released them. setting up a little population see from the goodies and. red squirrels have already made a comeback there's also a focus on wild cats the breeding program is being attempted to help restore a national population which is dwindled to dangerously low levels all in all the concept of rewilding is one which if properly managed can help species of all sorts thrive and also perhaps help people connect with nature the way it once was. al-jazeera the scottish.
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down with a look at the headlines here and now thousands of demonstrators are marching on the streets of yangon in support of me in. crisis the minority community accuses the army of rape murder torture and. six hundred thousand of them have fled in the past two months al-jazeera. this rally is organized by nationalists and. the criticism leveled by the international community. because of what's taking place in northern rakhine state is unwarranted. tama that's the language word for the. national. security forces in somalia have ended a night long siege after shooting gunman holding hostages in
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a hotel in mogadishu the gunmen stormed the hotel after detonating twin bombs that killed at least twenty three people and injured dozens more the leader of iraq's kurdish region is reportedly planning not to extend his presidential term masoud barzani has been under pressure to quit following september's controversial secession referendum the vote triggered more than ten days of fighting between iraqi and kurdish forces. pro unity demonstrators in spain's catalonia region are holding a rally in barcelona the spanish government says the deposed catalan leader carlos huge demand will be allowed to run in regional elections in december tuesday moaners calling for a democratic and peaceful opposition for madrid's direct rule of catalonia the central government stripped catalonia of political autonomy after the regional parliament voted to declare independence cuban officials have denied any involvement in the legend sonic attacks that led to more than twenty u.s.
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embassy staff being recalled from havana the u.s. says the staff were injured at their offices and residences washington says have been a failed in its obligation to protect diplomats on its territory as a headlines and news continues after. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera.
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