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no money on the uses a new service it's called learning droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers. to some extra features like a panic button and twenty fourth's of a monitoring of drivers. abandoned by the state social collectives are occupying space is among the people a militant architect working on the edge of the room. in the last episode of rebel architecture some of the album came close i'll just see you not into the realm of self building in saying. at this time and i'll just see iran. israeli forces fired tear gas at protesters as rallies spark up against president
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trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. i'm sorry is a down this is al jazeera live from also coming up zimbabwe's ruling party needs to chart out the country's future after president mugabe calls to end celibacy for catholic priests and change rules on confessionals off to the central abuse of thousands of children of australia. the u.s. pulls the plug on the net neutrality with explained what this could mean for millions of internet users in america. protests are on the way against the u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel large groups have gathered on the. treats of bethlehem israeli security forces are stationed
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there to firing tear gas canisters at the protesters the outrage over don trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem hasn't died down since the announcement last week was widely condemned with muslim leaders instead declaring jerusalem as the capital of palestine to go to our correspondents keeping an eye on the situation from different vantage points for you are a force that is standing by for us in occupied east jerusalem but abdulhamid is in bethlehem first let's go over to alan fischer in gaza city alan i know a lot of factions there been calling for protests how have the streets responded. while there was a call for a million man protest the ideas that saladin street which is essentially the spine of the gaza strip it runs forty five kilometers from north to south and they called for every town village to come out and mark their protest and here it should jaya which is well known suburb in gaza city you can see that the turnout is pretty
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impressive what we're also seeing is that there are flying from a numerous factions parties and movements here on gaza and on the stage leaders from those factions have joined arms and are standing together link to show their solidarity on this issue this is something that donald trump has managed to do he's managed to bring all these factions all these parties of a dispute for years and years together on this one main issue which is to express their opposition to the idea of the united states to clearly jerusalem the capital of israel or that's the situation there let's hang an official continue take a look at what's going on across the palestinian territory then we can go over to her and the hamid she joins us now from bethlehem and i understand though some take gas and clashes going on there how's the situation now holder. well it's actually a sort of ebb and flow. in this confrontation and that's the usual pattern now i
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don't. know but do you think far away about about one hundred meters between them and israeli soldiers who are just here behind me now what usually happens of passion is that as soon as the youth come a bit too close to the soldiers well then they sort of fire barrels of tear gas grenades and also robert coated bullets now we have the same scene going on in several clash points across the occupied west bank in ramallah for example also in kalandia which is in near ramallah and that's where one of the main checkpoints to go to jerusalem from there it's been ever since the announcement of donald trump there have been these ongoing clashes and confrontations on a daily basis i would say but one can notice though that the numbers have not increased just to clarify the situation because you know some officials are saying
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the usual sort of israeli restrictions on age and so on haven't been applied this week but what is happening at checkpoints is that reducing or choking off people's ability to get into jerusalem from other occupied parts of the west bank. well we have been through a couple of these checkpoints coming from ramallah to bethlehem today we didn't notice that there was a bottleneck or people caught into sort of long queues i mean there is a feeling somehow among palestinians and you can see that even here during the confrontations that yes there is anger but somehow israel israeli soldiers are trying to make sure it doesn't escalate even though it will take anything for really does really sort of in candice in situation to explode
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now we haven't heard every stiction none of them have been and nouns but you have a lot of people who anyway take it upon themselves not to go to jerusalem and not to cross through these checkpoints because from the point of view of palestinians it usually entails a lot of hardship and a lot of humiliation and many people say they are not prepared to get humiliated by the israeli soldiers. let's go live now to harry for certain he's in east jerusalem of course where you are in occupied east jerusalem as the heart of the matter what's the situation look like there. well right here we're at damascus gates the to the key and to an exit point from occupied east jerusalem one of them at least into the old city and what the police israeli forces have done here is a barricade off the steps behind me in the square last friday many people gathered
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there were quite long running protests and fairly regular scuffles with those israeli forces this time it seems there is a demonstration going on inside the old city we've seen some images coming out from there where people have after prayers are mosque they have walked towards this area they've been trying to get to damascus gate apparently and inside the been cordoned off to be barricades erected along the. old city streets as well we're hearing that more and more people are approaching not chokepoints in this this demonstration does continue the police did spokesman did say before the pres that they would be allowing as you were reporting earlier all ages to go in there would be no age restrictions on friday prayers but they would respond to protests if they took place they put in preventative measures here at damascus gate it seems that they have done the same inside the old city as well. all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much gary forsett in east jerusalem let's bring you some pictures
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we're getting pictures here coming in from elsewhere in occupied east jerusalem where people are leaving friday prayers and said obviously a tense situations you can see people milling around there with israeli security forces. now zimbabwe's new president emerson and is calling for the removal of international sanctions in return is promising to do more to tackle corruption becomes a zimbabwe's congress is expected to ratify the removal of former president robert mugabe how do what hastert has more from harare. the president says extraordinary congress on friday will make decisions and resolutions that will take zimbabwe forward in a similar gaggle replace robert mugabe as leader of both the country and the ruling zanu p.f.
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party last month after the military intervened and mugabe resigned but no god was a technique or option is a priority for the party he again want those accused of breaking the exchange control law by illegally stashing money abroad to return the stolen cash in exchange for amnesty i release my now. i. imagine. oh no. there's a shortage of foreign currency long queues outside banks for at the end of every month many are angry desperate and frustrated at the poor state of the economy or the kind of issues that we want them to discuss issues that will positively impact on the ordinary person on the street so we just have that they'll be able to come up with
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a major discussion around the economy. the president says he'll call for the removal of sanctions imposed in the early two thousand by some western countries for alleged human rights abuses he believes the end of sanctions will help the economy improve more quickly president innocent is promising to stabilize the economy improve productivity on farms and create jobs that could mean a mending off scrapping some controversial government policies. then you agriculture minister has ordered people who have illegally occupied farm lands to leave immediately the finance minister says indigenous ational a policy that favors blacks and will be more investor friendly some analysts say when i go will try to unite a seemingly divided party several but not all of our lives have been fired there's always an after effect of a political process particularly in a takeover presidency will be remnants of other factions but again they'll try and manage it friday as congress will be the first without robert mugabe since one
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thousand nine hundred eighty when i got plans to announce who replaced mcgovern's wife grace as head of the party's women's league. al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera victims of syria's war stares an uncertain future as another round of un backed talks fail. no doubt japan is ready for winter it seems to tuck to stay whatever cloud comes across it's going to be producing style in the mountains and occasionally at lower levels is coming straight out of the the cold northern part of china and across the korean peninsula where is subzero so forecast why saturday sees the sun back out for the korean peninsula but clouds bringing rain or snow depending your height of a sea level for northern holzschuh tokers up to fourteen in the sunshine that will
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drop down where the sun is out in beijing with a bit of a breeze to equities actually not bad but the real cold still sits in mongolia and he's feeding in all the time hence vladivostok smog is known as a max and when that call pushes once more for the south across the sea of japan a mass of snow falls out of a good part of honshu and hokkaido to you might be in the shadow of it all but it's single figure temperatures which is in shanghai too we've got this northeasterly blowing cabinets full of cloud this time amir eighteen in hong kong and probably a fairly humid feeling eighty nine i think it might clear the sky a little bit that breeze come sunday in fact shanghai has max is only five so winter is trying to get a proper grip for the south in china as a tropical storm an across the central philippines masses of rain here but that means fewer showers for many further south. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins
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some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business boggling when they go take the same there in the sand is there you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so well the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sandals at this time on al-jazeera. watching out zero time to recap headlines protests are underway against the us president's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel large groups
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have gathered on the streets of bethlehem israeli security forces are stationed there and firing tear gas canisters at the protesters the outrage over dawn trumps decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem hasn't died down since the announcement last week. zimbabwe's ruling party is to finalize robert mugabe's removal as the country's president at the meeting in harare the new leader i am assuming and god was expected to be confirmed as the candidate for next year's elections. you know grated last month after the military seized power. now some news just coming in from russia where a court has sentenced a former economy minister to eight years in prison let's go straight to sunny gago joins us live from moscow it isn't often you hear of a former minister being sentenced. corruption case tell us more about this. i mean it's certainly the most high profile charge against
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a minister that has taken place in recent years and it all focuses on the case of alexy or you who was as you said the former a commie minister the prosecution claimed that he mr ukiah demanded a two million dollars bribe from the head of the state russian oil company rosneft the head of that is igor searchin a close. confidant as it were of the president vladimir putin. the prosecution alleged that he demanded that so he could sell rosneft could get a portion of a purchase of a mid-sized oil company now mr you have has always denied the claims of actually of accepting. the charge of a two million dollars bribe but he did admit that there were certain sort of game
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that was being played where he was being sort of what he thought are friendly terms with mr but what is really interesting about this case is how it has exposed the rivalries between the factions within russia's elite you have on the one hand mr section who is close to the president and then you have mr who is perhaps more of the liberal and all certainly about end of the spectrum of the circle around mr mr putin and what it does demonstrates really is to show how the power within those people who are on the side of mr search and are actually holding the reins of power within the elite right now there had been a lot of criticism of mr said he had been called four times. into the court as a witness and four times he had refused to attend saying that he didn't have enough
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time. on thursday's press conference the massive press conference with mr putin the n o one that took place. the question was put to the president that. perhaps mr such and had been breaking the law by not attending those court appearances and actually participating in this case mr putin did tacitly. say that what mr such and had done was not necessarily illegal even though he could have done it was a possibility that he could have attended and this didn't seem doesn't seem to sit well with those people who believe that perhaps. in certain in certain cases the process was in fact rick but also don't forget that to have such a high ranking minister. charged with this with such a crime it also gives a good impression perhaps of how russia will certainly the russian government is
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and the russian justice system is seen to be clamping down on high levels of corruption but whether it is more than another kind of power play as it were which is really trying to figure out exactly where it lies within mr putin circling the circle around the kremlin is another matter altogether but service so far the prosecution has been pushing for mr you to be imprisoned for ten years the court found that because of his family and his deteriorating health conditions he would be given eight years and and also. to pay a sum of two point two million dollars or less the same amount that he had been charge of trying to coerce a bribe from me or from some aren't going to go go there. now there's no in the sights of millions of syrians have suffered years of turmoil after the latest round of geneva talks failed to bring about any hope of face all sides are blaming each
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other for the lack of progress this leaves many syrians continuing to live either on the sea or in camps so i've been surveyed reports from the camp in northern syria syrian children made homeless in their own country struggle to understand why they have to live in tents of the six and a half million displaced syrians almost three million are boys and girls. mohammed remembers going to school before his leg was blown off in an airstrike he blamed the assad government. his scars are a painful reminder of surgery and shrapnel that hit his leg he tires easily these days and misses going out to play football. it's too hard for me to go to the toilet we go to the caravan used by everyone else i want to proceed to clegg i dream of becoming a driver maybe a pilot or i could study to become a doctor. syrians into our camp were forced to leave their homes in homs city after
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a three year siege the government told them they could survive if they surrendered their homes five and a half thousand came to this camp but basic facilities a plastic sheet is what separates the people in sight from the really cold wind that you can feel out in this camp and you can see the conditions because this is what they have for sewage there because charities are providing help but it's not enough the refugees put on layers of clothes to stay warm during the harsh winter because there is no heating monitors of the campsie defending or read is not a long term solution to the bringing us aid boxes or heating doesn't solve our problem the problem is the regime solve that and the people will return home we do such as and they have more urgent needs. my child has a blood disease and he needs medicine i'm the wife of the martyr and have four friends i lost my husband and there's no one to help i don't want anything i want just a medicine her story resonates with the syrians forced from their homes and more
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are becoming homeless as the war enters its third and winter they fear the world doesn't care anymore but it's hoped when the children such as noor aren't giving up despite being told not to run he wants to show the world he's still capable and still have a chance of a better future some of a job a down to zero zero over a. five year inquiry into the sexual abuse of children australia has called for sweeping changes to be made including recommending an end to mandatory celibacy in the catholic church is training and royal commission estimates tens of thousands of children have been abused in australian institutions over the last ninety years victoria gate and the reforms. child abuse victims welcomed members of the rule commission as they arrive to the governor general's house in cambra they say the commission's report represents a major step forward in their fight. the justice. this started off with not being
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believed not by not people not wanting us to talk about it the churches and charities in institutions putting pressure on everyone not to the latest that will lawing that wasn't true and there were all commission is saying and libeled all of us to to step up and say yes now people believe a city's truth commission members heard from more than eight thousand people who told them of the abuse in churches often or just sports clubs and schools of the victims who reported being abused in a religious institution sixty two percent said it happened in a roman catholic organization. the commission makes one hundred eighty nine new recommendations including a little forcing catholic priests to court child abuse allegations disclosed during confessionals as well as protocols for the screening of priests and an end to manage tree celibacy. the archbishop of melbourne responded by saying the
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confessional can't be broken and that voluntary celibacy would be difficult the archbishop of sydney offered sympathy but little else i think whatever the cost we have to address this fully we have to be ready to to to to give what ever it takes to bring healing and justice compassion to victims prime minister malcolm turnbull said the inquiry had exposed a national tragedy and that the government will consider the recommendations and respond in full next year i want to thank and on the courage of the the survivors and their families who've told often for the first time the dreadful . stories of abuse that they received from people who actually owed them love and protection the commission heard that the catholic church in australia has paid two hundred twelve million dollars in compensation to child abuse victims
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since one thousand nine hundred eighty those victims are waiting to see if pope francis and the vatican will take any meaningful steps to protect children from sexual abuse in the future big tory gating be al-jazeera now in the polls communist party is claiming a landslide victory in the country's general elections supporters waves of red flags on the streets of katmandu as the left alliance announced it secured a hundred sixteen seats out of a total one hundred and sixty five. japan is imposing additional sanctions on north korea because of its nuclear weapons threat north korea has repeatedly five itself would have in defiance of u.n. sanctions and international condemnation north korean banks coal and transport firms being added to the japanese blacklist united states main negotiator for north korea has reiterated that direct diplomacy combined with economic pressure is the
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best way to handle the situation joseph young made the comments on a visit to thailand ways been trying to seek cooperation for the u.s. effort when hail reports. the visit to thailand by joseph un is part of a campaign by the government in the united states an effort to increase economic pressure on the government in north korea by getting countries to either cut off or reduce diplomatic and trade ties with pyongyang there are several countries in southeast asia including thailand that have traditionally had very strong relations with north korea the ties for their part are saying that very recently over the past year that trade with north korea has gone down by around ninety percent and in fact by the end of this year within the next few weeks that all trade with north korea will come to an end in a very brief media conference in bangkok just a few and also backed up what the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said this week when he said that the u.s.
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is open to unconditional talks with pyongyang just a few in the media conference saying that he is optimistic that the u.s. policy of maximum pressure and engage meant will work but when asked what is the next step from the united states if north korea refuses to return to the negotiating table he simply said we'll have to wait and see the european leaders are wrapping up the first stage of bragg's that negotiations in brussels they say enough progress has been made to move on to the next phase of the brags process but this spieth success in brussels britain's prime minister three of them a suffered a defeat in parliament on wednesday m.p.'s backed an amendment guaranteeing them a vote on the final briggs's deal. oh come painting has ended in the second round of chile's presidential election voters will head to the polls on sunday to elect the successes of president michel. and it appears to be a two man race choosing between rightwing businessmen and former presidents or best
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in panetta former journalist alexander. or latin america editor listen newman has more from something. a campaign rally. here and the man a moment to put it would change with the social reforms implemented my current socialist president said. i'm far from here rivals a mass campaign yet out successful billionaire businessman suffered. the same they're appealing to supporters to cast every last vote and that's because this is expected to be the closest election since chile returned to democracy in one nine hundred ninety eight is being accompanied by former a blind president costs a little peacock a former leftist guerrilla and the idol of the international left wing just four years ago senator was a respected t.v. journalist and his biggest challenge is to convince chile that he really is up to the challenge of governing this country. is promising to make chile grown to create
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more better paying jobs but in the second round he has had to adjust his free market policies my body to the social reforms that the family has been some putting in order to appease millions and millions more for medical education and pensions. net neutrality rules protecting open internet access have been repealed by the us government the changes could mean large corporations can pay internet service providers to prioritize their websites and even block fake competitors i do joe castro explains. opposed to the repeal of net neutrality rules in the us and making their voice. heard on the streets of washington protesters in the end were not loud enough to sway the vote of the federal communications commission your car was your reason we're still i dissent the commission voted three to two along partisan lines to undo the obama era
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regulations that the chairman called burdensome and unnecessary it is not the job of the government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in the internet economy we should have a level playing field and let consumers decide who prevails net neutrality rules essentially prohibited broadband providers in the u.s. from speeding up a consumer's access to some internet content over others even if websites were willing to pay for the advantage the idea was to preserve the internet as a public resource for all protester randi call and says the rules have protected her nonprofits ability to reach an online audience this in an email add to gazan people and from their great one point three million around the country and in places around the world's. only possible through having a free and open internet that like mark cards and the strength of our ideas could not be blocked arse stopped despite a size of our budget never before has
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a debate over the intangible connections of the internet sparked such public passion more than twenty million comments were received by the f.c.c. prior to thursday's vote and now at least two states have said they will appeal the commission's decision but you've got of course just and you've got congress people you've got millions of people who are in your corner and we will achieve internet you quote the internet it quality net neutrality we will win at the end of the day internet companies have said they have no immediate plans to. change consumers' experience but now that the net neutrality protection is gone it remains to be seen how long the industry will put equality over revenue potential hi joe castro al-jazeera washington.
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and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now protests are under way against the u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel there were chaotic scenes as israeli security forces tried to control large crowds leaving friday prayers that the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem several people were forced out of the area the outrage over don trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem has died down since the announcement last week it was widely condemned with was the leaders instead declaring jerusalem as the capital of palestine zimbabwe's ruling party is to finalize robert mugabe's removal as the country's president at a meeting in heart of a new leader. is expected to be confirmed as the candidate for next year's election . was inaugurated last month old tree seems.
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seems to be no end in sight for millions of syrians who suffered years of turmoil after the latest round of geneva peace talks failed to bring any hope all sides are blaming each other for the lack of progress this leaves many syrians continuing to live either under siege or in camps a russian call to sentenced a former economy minister to eight years in prison. has been found guilty of corruption he was charged with accepting a bribe. a commission in australia has called on the catholic church to change its rules on celibacy in confessionals after finding thousands of children were abused the royal commission has delivered its final report into its five year investigation it looked at abuses at institutions and schools in the polls communist party is claiming a landslide victory in the country's general elections supporters waved red flags
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on the streets of katmandu to the left alliance announced nabbing one hundred sixteen seats out of a total one hundred sixty five the new nepalese government says it will maintain relations with both china and india but called for less micromanagement from new delhi its inside story next so stay with us. mending relations all widening the gulf between then south korea's president moving makes his first state visit to china he hopes to repair the damage done by the deployment of a u.s. missile defense system can he also north korean.

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