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it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the question then sort of throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominee director we're doing investigation in. ukraine could you aim for oil you've been corrupt and i've been corrupt i did just the presidency council zero investigation the only go this time. all people die in anti-government protests in iran despite calls of unity by the president. and sam is a down this is al jazeera live from coming up let's meet next tuesday south korea
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accepts to talk to the north about the olympics but says nuclear missile concerns are top priority israel's parliament passes a law making it harder to give up any part of jerusalem for the palestinians and pakistan stops charities which are banned by the un security council from collecting money. nine year amiens have been killed overnight in anti-government protests according to state media it says at least twenty three people have died since the demonstrations began on thursday president hassan rouhani has acknowledged the public anger but was warning those breaking the law will be confronted rob matheson has more. gunshots in the city of persia on monday night. demonstrators defy a government social. media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran
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of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital to run there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here might change on the car i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood. and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult i have a daughter and son both at school the high prices that really put me under pressure at home iran's leaders say some protesters may have been provoked by foreign
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countries but they say they believe most are demanding more freedoms been as every man in my opinion we can't say whoever is taking to the streets has orders from other countries but there might be a handful such not like people have come to the streets to say that we want money bread and water you know they have other demands as well one is allowing a freer environment u.s. president donald trump has tweeted that iranians are hungry for food and freedom and that's led to protests outside the white house demanding the removal of president rouhani on monday night protesters also continue to demonstrate against iran's support for syrian president bashar al assad as well as in lebanon and hamas in the occupied palestinian territories iran's republican guard is threatening to stop the demonstrations but there are still calls for more protests rob matheson al jazeera. south korea has accepted the north rare offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday the unification ministry said the talks with mainly focus
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on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics in the south it follows kim jong un's new year dress which struck a more friendly tone towards solving south korea's president says resolving the standoff over pyongyang's nuclear program is still a top priority. on yourself but can the improvement of relations between north and south korea chemical separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding this florence louis has more from seoul south korean officials have made it clear that the talks that they're proposing to be held on january ninth focus on north korea sending their athletes to take part in the upcoming winter olympics and paralympics as well as on improving into career relations the last time these two countries held high level talks was in december two thousand and fifteen those talks broke down after south korea refused to resume sending
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leisure ter groups to north korea and we don't yet know how north korea is going to respond to this offer south korea said they try to contact north korea via communication hotline this morning but nobody picked up this communication hotline had been severed since february two thousand and sixteen after north korea conducted a nuclear test the president of south korea has also made it clear that talks on denuclearization will have to involve the international community but they're hoping that separate south korean officials are hoping that these talks will help improve into a career relations that him have been at their lowest point in decades. a former palestinian negotiator has condemned the new bill passed by the israeli parliament the law makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem to the palestinians under a future peace deal sideboard i says it's a continuation of u.s. president donald trump's decision to put an end to the palestinian cause it comes
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less than a month off to trump recognize the city as israel's capital. jhoom has more from west jerusalem at its core this new law would require that eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members or full two thirds of the knesset would now be required to approve any future legislation that would attempt to divide jerusalem essentially that would ensure that jerusalem would remain off of the negotiating table when it comes to any future peace talks of course that would complicate an already very complicated situation now this vote comes on the heels of another contentious vote vote that happened on sunday this was a vote by the central committee of the likud party they voted to annex large portions of the occupied west bank now the first thing to remember is that that resolution they voted on is not binding and also we've not yet heard any reaction from prime minister benjamin netanyahu as to whether he will indorse that
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resolution and actually try to take it to the knesset to get it passed into law but that resolution after it passed was causing great consternation and anger amongst palestinians of course palestinian president mahmoud abbas said that this was considered an aggression against the palestinian people taken together with this new border really shows just how tenuous the situation remains and how uncertain things really are on the ground here. israeli authorities have charged a palestinian teenager film slapping and kicking two of its soldiers in the occupied west bank sixteen year old to me was arrested after this video was posted online two weeks ago a lawyer says the twelve counts relate to six separate incidents and she faces up to two years in jail a cousin and mother have also been charged pakistan's government is bearing charities linked to one of the main suspects in the two thousand and eight mom by bombings from accepting donations after saeed has been designated a terrorist by the un and us so it is repeatedly denied involvement in the attacks
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on a pakistani court found insufficient evidence to convict him. while is in islamabad for us and so he does have a following how's it going down the mess to clean the country. i did it already a reaction. organization had announced countrywide against the move. securities and exchange commission of issue of order restricting any fund raising for going to ideations that on the un watch list all. the law according to nine hundred ninety seven and. the move. more in line with. the united nations. across the country because of the fact that the. shiny foundation board headed by alfred
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have done tremendous and. never date been a great cage man. showed the move going down. the public. the government started moving ahead with plans to do and of course include other organizations seventy one organizations small this comes of course criticism from the u.s. president do pakistani officials concede there's any links between the two. well if you look at the language from don no water a word drop. by. saying that the pakistanis food the united states. that the united states billion dollars. however the. language kept of the u.s.
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ambassador was summoned. and a strong laws in the next twenty four. security team will be meeting. after the prime minister gordon important meeting and a robust response should be expected this is the first time that the pakistanis are not mincing words they're saying that the american unit. and the defense minister also saying that day read in order to allow the u.s. to fight a war on pakistani soil saying that the country's defense forces were capable of looking after their country sovereignty two or indeed a war of words and language coming from the need. or it would leave it there for now. it's been a lean to receive them on the indonesian island of bali due to an erupting volcano rivals have dropped by more than seventy percent september and indonesia has lost a billion dollars in revenue but the government is now trying to entice fizzes back
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step fossil reports from bali. inside the danger zone tourists are visiting bally's most famous temple the sucky life just seven kilometers from the crater of the erupting volcano and was off limits for the past three months the decision to reopen a tourist attraction shows the government's eagerness to lure visitors the whole gay no is still at its highest alert level or agree with this decision there are many other places where tourists can go and barely we can't predict nature it's a better to put safety first around five million tourists visit every year but after the eruptions and airport closure last month several countries including china issued travel warnings hotels far away from the volcano where i am and owners were forced to temporarily suspend staff. to reassure tourist president joke of a daughter took southeast at one of bali's famous speeches tourism has recovered
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slightly during the holiday season but many balinese are suffering. has worked as a guide to taking around one thousand tigers every year since september his business has stopped promising and. i am confused what to do now i want to work but i have no other work experience than being a guy i hope someone can give us a job because all sixty two guides of a girl are now jobless and we have no money to go back to farming them. vocal knowledge is saying nobody can predict how long will rot or if the eruptions will become bigger the last time it erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three it killed more than fifteen hundred people all living near the volcano while a volcano continues to erupt the government has gone out of its way to convince tourists that bali is safe outside of the danger zone ten kilometers from the crater the huge losses in tourist revenues has taken the authorities by surprise
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and some say this is a wake up call for the holiday island not to fully rely on to. as i'm. glad you we jack has learned how fragile his business is over these past months his small resort in a safe area near the volcano has been mostly empty and he hasn't been able to pay his staff in the class. what i have learned from the situation is that we have no choice then to accept what happens to us and start to look for alternatives if my resort business fails then maybe i can start selling food. but not all is lost for some tourists erupting volcano has become an attraction in itself perhaps with the right safety measures in place bali could used to spec to call of nature to its advantage step fasten al-jazeera superman. still ahead on al-jazeera to tell you how on documented migrants who enter the u.s. is children taking control of the road destinies lost the race against time to save
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and preserve the history of africa's youngest nation. however they still have the threat of flooding rains across central and southern parts of the philippines this is the latest disturbance which has been making its way through over the past twenty four hours some very heavy rain associated with that and you can see around a hundred and seventy eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hours we could see maybe another hundred millimeters or so over the next twenty four hours showers never really too far away i think the wetter weather will be less widespread shall we say but still the potential for further flooding coming in as a result of that quite a russia showers there over much of southeast asia still looking rather lively just around kuala lumpur around singapore malaysia saying some very heavy showers as we
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go on through the next couple days and the showers as you can see sliding down into somalia all the possible strider also seeing some rather wet weather just around the top end the western corner right down towards the east coast where we have seen some lively showers recently hopeful no showers will just ease away from brisbane as we go through the next day out to do a much on the high side as far as temperatures are concerned thirty two celsius for brisbane the further south we are getting into the low to the mid twenty's things starting to brighten up for the start of the final test in sydney temperatures on thursday at twenty four degrees. they say walls have ears and palestine also i teach architecture these use by architect that's where the elvises reveals the role of architecture in his radio queue page everything in this panorama is a tactical two with n.p.r.
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the picture of the patient just need to know how to decode the architecture of finest part of the rebel architecture series this time on just zero. welcome back you're watching out to zero time to recap the headlines now nine iranians have been killed in anti-government protests overnight according to state media it says at least twenty three people have died since the demonstrations began on thursday hundreds more have been detained south korea has accepted the north's rare offer for talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday it follows kim jong
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un's new year address which struck a more friendly atoned towards soul. full of august palestinian rather negotiators condemned a new bill passed by the israeli parliament the new law makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem to the palestinians under a future peace deal. let's take you now to karachi in pakistan looking at live pictures coming in of demonstrations taking place as you can see from the posters and banners there this is an anti donald trump demonstration one also that's been put together in response to a call to protest against moves taken by the pakistani government against half is saeed you can see his picture there on one of the posters on the left hand side of your screen this comes after the u.s. president was critical of pakistan in his two thousand and eighteen tweet his first
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two thousand eight hundred tweets also comes after the pakistani government made moves to stop charities linked to harvest side from collecting money homicide of course is a person who has been. listed as a terrorist by the united nations charge he denies. iran has reopened its border with iraq's kurdistan region the crossings to a real and there were closed in october iraq requested the closure to protest the kurdish referendum for independence nigeria's very says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the armed group boko haram of managed to escape they were found near mangano close to the northeastern border with chad the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who were being kept as slaves waited reese is in a blue joins us live from there so first of all what more do we know about how they
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escaped. well basically semi they've been recently there been some military operations in northeastern nigeria especially around the shores of lake charles i remember because of the receding waters that been some islands forming inside the lake on the borders of. cameroon and nigeria so a lot of these fighters displaced from other parts of northeastern nigeria moved in there and held these people hostage and according to the military because of the ongoing operations there the ground and operations there some of them targeting especially their logistics and what they call command and control bases in that region they abandon their positions and also there's all these hostages was able to flee however those areas where we know that that area of northeastern nigeria it's been the old but now we and the other function belonging to loyalists of mohammad yousuf have been operating in that area on the other part
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of the north east it's largely the shekau and. loyalists who have been operating especially around us and the supporters of the alligator for us and others. what does this say though i had about the government's previous claims that he had defeated baka harness they were able to hold as many as seven hundred people somewhere as slaves. well while sammy says the that declaration by the nigerian president that boko haram has been defeated i looked at a lot of nigerians who are not comfortable with that until they see the book quote i'm sorry and drink in numbers and that has not happened and since that declaration we've seen book quite i'm launching daring and sometimes devastating attacks some of these attacks happen in the months after the and all spent by president mohamed behind me however one one credit goes to the nigerian government and its military
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is that they were able to free up a lot of local government areas and lot of areas that weren't held by before i don't remember more than eighty percent of the bottom of stayed in northeastern nigeria the birthplace of boko haram was occupied by the fighters and certain percentage about thirty forty percent of your base state was also occupied bible quote and they made parts of the most state in the northeast still ungovernable for a very long time especially the medically and which attack in places like hong and even be now these areas have been largely what the military called liberated however we're seeing book. still taking hostages and attacking convoys we've seen in two thousand and seventeen how would they have been able to the raid places abduct people and kept them and remember there are more than one hundred and ten ship of those abducted in two thousand and fourteen that are still with the book quote unquote is in ne no northeastern nigeria the government is still hoping that they can get these girls back through negotiations or i had
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a dream stefan the. clock is ticking for a program that provides protection against deportation for people who entered the u.s. illegally as children last year president donald trump announced plans to phase out back up by march this led to protests from so-called dreamers who feared being forced out of the only country that ever known as how some of them are choosing to leave before they're pushed out. no reports from monterrey mexico there's not a single platform growing up in colorado kevin wehner always strength is going to college in the united states but there was one problem he was undocumented i ben was a student as a citizen i pay taxes i'm not a criminal and they're trying to treat me like a criminal or like maybe it's not for me so i started exploring options in mexico kevin is a dreamer born in mexico his family took him to the u.s. when he was just for almost twenty years later he felt his options there were
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exhausted. it registered for the obama administration's deferred action through childhood arrivals program or data which allows undocumented minors to stay without fear of deportation. with president trump announcing the programs and and with increased hostility towards immigrants kevin chose to leave he received a full scholarship to study business here at the university of monterey in northern mexico but i cannot say. that this color ship is assigned as a positive message for our competitors in the u.s. it says we're economize your belly as a mexican as a human and as an asset and we want you here in mexico for many dreamers their only references of mexico are of violence and poverty but increasingly institutions such as this university are targeting these young men and women while they're still on the u.s. side of the border and they're hoping that by offering them attractive professional
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adage occasional opportunities they'll choose to realize their dreams here in mexico instead. the mexican government has announced a series of steps it says will streamline the return of dreamers. but no funds have been allocated and some feel more needs to be done to make mexico more appealing than the u.s. a lot of people this is saying here they're making and we know then we support them but at the end of the day a lot of people are also things like from. they are going to. stall over our jobs. returning home especially after so long it's never easy but those who've done it say this is mexico's chance to shine just programmed to think that you're in the best and you're about to go to work third world country with no opportunities well so. i'm better than i was in the states now and i see more opportunity and that's that's my motivation and. mexico hopes kevin story can be repeated with thousands
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more dreamers arrive back home. al-jazeera monterey mexico. some african migrants are going to extraordinary lengths to find a new life in europe teenagers have been found trekking across the snow covered out their best feet sylvia let him his story. over the last three months at least fifteen hundred migrants have embarked on this perilous track over the alps crossing from italy into france defying freezing temperatures and heavy snow rescue workers say they're totally ill equipped for the arduous journey around a dozen migrants reach france every day but some won't make it mountain guide say they will perish in the attempt to reach france rescue workers expect to discover the bodies of african migrants when the snow melts in the spring is small and now is seventeen years old from guinea shoot their body to where it wasn't easy at all for me because the trip was long and also because the first time i saw the snow i
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was very tired i didn't feel my feet anymore but we arrived in the shelter where we made a fire and we took arrest and then we restarted to walk and it wasn't easy i didn't believe that we would arrive here. alberto rubino is deputy commander of alpine rescue coordinating efforts to bring the stranded people off the mountain of iraq to the k.-mart. wanted are not that we get phone calls almost all of them during the night we find groups of people for five or six people who are really badly equipped have nothing to protect themselves from the cold no gloves no scarves no hats we even find people with no shoes. the shelter is a start by local volunteers they're offering what help they can to a constant flow of migrants cooking a hot meal and giving them a chance to sleep for a night in a warm place or a new religion we found people in the snow who had no shoes or just with a t. shirt the reason is that the african people have no idea how dangerous the mountain
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is they have no idea at all and there is no letup to the number of migrants prepared to take this risk winter will last another three months taking its inevitable toll on those trying to start a new life on the other side of the alps sylvia lennon al-jazeera. spain's economy minister says the catalan independence crisis has cost the economy more than a billion dollars luis de guindos told spanish radio that the slowdown and get alone is growth was being felt across the country the region accounts for around a fifth of spain's gross domestic product in october spain was plunged into a constitutional crisis from catalan politicians declared independence from the druid following and outlawed referendum the conflict in south sudan is threatening not only the country's population but also its historical heritage thousands of documents have been collected from the nineteenth century but historians fear many
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more will be lost before they're even discovered here morgan reports from juba every piece he goes through takes uses on your back to the past. these files around the room are archival records of africa's youngest nation records of south sudan's history have archives for. tribal one have. have governments. roads will have the documents on. gram of criminal cases and then will have documents a lot of documents that have the intelligence and culture and education thousands of archives can be found in these rooms their primarily british colonial records from the late eighteenth hundreds when south sudan was still part of sudan it gained independence in twenty eleven but for an independent country south sudan doesn't have a museum to store and display its own archives and even though the collection
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started after two thousand and five most of the documents were stored in tents and till recently south sudan's ministry of culture had plans to set up a center for national archives seven years ago but the war was started in twenty thirteen has halted any progress just like with more or less anything related to development here the storage place or the archives collected so far is a simple house with only one security guard for years of civil war in south sudan have displaced millions of people and even prior to that the region had been experiencing conflicts for more than twenty years slowing down sometimes even halting the collection of archives and with a illiteracy rate of seventy three percent many south sudanese don't know much about their history the man behind the project has selected some of the collection to be put on display many here say they're learning about their country for the first time i mean this in these archives are teaching me about what has been written down i'm learning my country's history anyone can read and learn about their heritage but preserving the archives is mostly done with help from donors and
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as the work continues discovering many details of salsa dance past has to be put on hold. it's true that different outbreaks of conflict have caused some delays to the project and of course because the donors have to also we align. their strategies reacting to those issues normally when you find archives they're in specific parts of town and if for an archive they need a proper home these documents are very fragile some of them are over one hundred years old. over a hundred years old but to use it and many others they are precious records that must be protected at all costs and represent a country that has always been very fragile he will morgan al-jazeera juba. let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here and now nine the rain ians have been killed in anti-government protests overnight according to state media it says at least twenty three people have died since demonstrations began on
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thursday hundreds more have been detained south korea has accepted the north saw four of talks for opposing the two sides meet next tuesday the unification ministry says the talks will mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics in the south it follows can jurgens new year address which struck a more friendly tone to seoul south korea's president says resolving the standoff over pyongyang's nuclear program is a priority. on. the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot go separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding this former palestinian negotiator carter's condemned the new bill passed by israel's parliament the law makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem to the palestinians under a future peace deal. pakistan's government is banning charities linked to one of
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the main suspects in the two thousand and eight mom by bombings from accepting donations halfassed there's been designated a terrorist by the un and the united states side has repeatedly denied involvement in the attacks and the pakistani court found insufficient evidence to convict him it's called a nationwide protests over the move. supporters of say they've joined protests meanwhile against the u.s. president back and greeted accusations from donald trump understand hasn't done enough to get stung groups the u.s. president said his country of food they handed over rockstar more than thirty three billion dollars in aid of stars foreign minister dismissed the tweet as a political stunt. samah bad summoned the u.s. ambassador in protest. iran has reopened its border with iraq's kurdistan region the crossings to a bill and so the mandir were closed in october iraq requested the closure in
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protest at the kurdish referendum for independence. headlines it's rebel architecture now stay with us here in algiers in the philippines millions live in overcrowded slums but some are found another place to call home public servant terry's one on one east meets those living among the dead at this time on al-jazeera. architect has always defined the human. from the simplest structure to the latest. rebellion is underway. led by a new breed of architect that puts people in this icon. on the take using the tools of their trade to restructure. and redefine.

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