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coveted beyond well so thank you very much taken without hesitation. for to indict for. our defines our. people in power investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the globe at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm sam is a band this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a u.n.
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report cites war crimes in yemen and condemns iran saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . russia criticizes the u.s. president's conditions for the future extension of the iran nuclear deal. support at home and abroad for the palestinian teenager jailed for confronting israeli soldiers. and african members of the u.n. demand president trumper attracts is reported vulgar description of their countries . syria has been given access to an unpublished un report that chronicles the extent of human rights violations and possible war crimes in the war in yemen it also details the extent of saudi arabia and iran's intervention in the conflict the assessment presented to the security council is sharply critical of the saudi led coalition air strikes they've caused the majority of civilian deaths in the war the
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findings also balls thank you zation by the us that iranian weapons have been supplied to who three rebels breaking the un embargo the report further accuses the united arab emirates of running torture camps in yemen where people have been beaten and electrocuted the panel paints a devastating picture of a conflict that has killed more than ten thousand people and led to widespread famine and displacement i'll just serious diplomatic editor james pace has more from the u.n. . this is a report to the u.n. security council has not been made public it's only been given to the fifteen members of the security council but i've been allowed to read a copy and it's very hard hitting and very critical of all of the parties in the war in yemen it questions whether yemen can continue to be one country it says in the south because of the length of the war in the divisions that have emerged there
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is the real possibility of secession into a separate south yemen it says in the south of the country people displaying the flag of the old country of south yemen and are not loyal to president had the although they're formally under his command it says that president heidi has no longer effective command and control of the military and security forces in the south of yemen it says one of the reasons that there is this lack of stability in yemen is actually the forces that have been built up by the saudi led coalition it says that there are proxy units that they have drawn up but it says that these units will do more to further the fragility of yemen then they will do to hold the state together it says they pose a threat to peace and stability in yemen it is also very critical of the coalition for civilian casualties in yemen it says that it appears that the saudi
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led coalition has not been following international humanitarian law and it says it's likely that some of those who are responsible for planning and executing airstrikes fall under the designation of the security council as people who should be subject to sanctions again the another damning part of the report is about the u.n. a part of the coalition in the camps there running inside yemen it says that there has been torture in these camps it talks about beatings electrocution constrain suspension the use of what it. calls the cage which is confinement in a cage in the sunlight and the denial of medical treatment it says working with the government of yemen gives the u.a.e. plausible deniability so it is a possibility are now now given this report by the panel of experts that the security council must consider whether there should be sanctions against members of the coalition and also sanctions against iran because the who these sides are also
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criticized it says that there have been military remnants of military equipment and drones that are of iranian origin and were introduced in yemen after the security council adopted an arms embargo syrian government forces and their russian allies are continuing attacks in eastern the horta so far the violence has killed more than thirty people in three days the regime is also battling opposition forces in the northern province as it helps to take over a major airbase in live is one of the last major rebel strongholds one hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks. cause all is in the ramah refugee camp in the northern syrian village of kufa awsome. this is running a refugee camp in northwestern and led by the turkish syrian border there are five thousand refugees here who came after december fifteenth when the syrian regime
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started its air strike on civilians and is there in hama most of those people are from mr and how much and they are mainly very poor families you see the kids they are walking even on barefoot they don't have shoes to wear and people need immediate humanitarian assistance we have been talking to the people who have been residing here and the people in charge of the camp they're telling that the medical equipment they have is not enough the food they have is not enough for those people they need immediate extra medicine they need immediate extra food to feed those people here and there are some other extra camps around this area close to the border people have fled their homes from it's their home off their days strike started they were us president donald trump has extended the landmark iran nuclear deal but said it's the last time he'll do so he's warning america's european allies
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who will withdraw from the two thousand and fifteen agreement unless what he calls disastrous flaws are addressed russia says trump's comments all the extreme wing negative alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . europe's diplomats met in brussels to urge the u.s. to continue with the iran nuclear deal seeing they believed it improved global security know donald trump has agreed but says he won't do it again in a statement issued from the white house he called on his european allies to negotiate a supplemental deal in the next one hundred twenty days which would place a fresh restrictions on iran saying today i am waving the application of certain nuclear sanctions but only in order to secure our european allies agreement to fix the terrible flaws of the iran nuclear deal this is a last chance in the absence of such an agreement the united states will not again we have sanctions in order to stay in the iran nuclear deal and he warned those who for whatever reason choose not to work with us will be siding with the iranian
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regime's nuclear ambitions and against the people of iran and the peaceful nations of the world under u.s. law the president has to regularly recertify the deal donald trump has repeatedly called the iran deal the watched he's ever seen and pledged before he became president to scrap it at the end of last year he want he was ready to step away iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal but one of the deals architects says the deal is working there is no dispute that iran is living up to its obligations which we negotiated with iran and it's like that we should live up to our obligations to that does not mean that we shouldn't address other aspects of iranian behavior which course concern whether it involves aggressive foreign policy its political missile program its human rights record top white house also known as the new round of non-nuclear sanctions targeting groups and individuals it believes have committed human rights abuses and blocked freedom of speech in iran but insists it is outlined to european allies what it wants to see happen but there's
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no indication the unit peons are ready to renegotiate a deal in the next one hundred twenty days that took years to craft and put in place alan fischer al-jazeera washington. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif says the two thousand and fifteen deal is not negotiable on twitter he called trump's announcement a desperate attempt to undermine the solid multilateral accord al-jazeera is in basra the spoke to people on the streets of tehran. nearly two and a half years after the nuclear deal was signed many iranians say they haven't seen any real benefits and that president hassan rouhani promised more than he could deliver his own money has said that the stuff they did you could house the money plea deal had no impact at all in my life the price of rice is doubles sixpences to millions in rent meanwhile the children of officials people don't exist money to. talk to the woman selling things on the street which people but some are still
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willing to stand by their president communism and television news when it is doing his best of course there are some problems in the country sanctions pressure from abroad naturally impacts livelihoods and the economic situation but if we just blame the president and say he is the one who has to do something of course he cannot we should stand next to him cooperate with him and tolerate the situation the nuclear deal had some success the lifting of sanctions let iran sell oil again freely on the international market exports are up to more than two million barrels a day but gains have been overshadowed by u.s. president donald trump's aggressive stance towards iran every few months the iranian nuclear deal was thrown into chaos and managing that political turmoil takes up so much of the iranian government's time that there isn't a lot of room left for public discourse about much else trump has created so much uncertainty about the nuclear deal that iranians say it's been as harmful as sanctions that the deal was meant to lift many people are frustrated that foreign
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investors are too scared to come to iran and the value of their currency keeps falling. trump is a person who has a psychological problem his opinions have no balance on any issue is always changing his mind and for me as an iranian and for most iranians it doesn't matter if the us pulls out of the deal as long as european countries cooperate with us we will stay in the deal oh oh oh. oh summer audience don't care about the nuclear deal little and say they simply want to get on with their lives their money never to live on the show i just want to make people happy that's certain i don't care about anything else making people happy is a kind of arts and i'm not interested in these kinds of nuclear conversations oh oh oh oh iran's government says it's ready to deal with any scenario so to its or its people. now police say they've contained
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rioting on the outskirts of the zambian capitalist protest against emergency measures to stop the spread of cholera i'd least seventy people have died in the outbreak in more than three months the government says it's confident the disease will be stamped out in just a few weeks around one hundred four. street vendors had arrived early only to find they were legal market stalls shut down they quickly turned their anger on the security forces broughton to send them home that set up shop in defiance of emergency mages that banned public gatherings and imposed a curfew the government says marketplaces like the breeding grounds for cholera and while it excepts the new rules that tough it isn't backing down we find it takes two men acceptable that this more click or the individual citizen is
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going. to break the law when so many citizens have really been cooperative and been through this situation we know that we are touching on people's livelihoods but. we are talking about matters of life and death. and there very responsible government must make sure that people's lives are protected i don't times. the riot happened in kenya amma a low income township that is home to more than three hundred fifty thousand people it's one of two townships on the outskirts of the capital lusaka with cholera broke out in late september the disease quickly spread to the city and infected almost three thousand people in about three and a half months color as a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water left untreated it can kill within alice last week the government deployed the army to enforce around
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after new measures to try to contain the national health crisis specialist cholera treatment centers closed off to the healthy and intensive color of vaccination campaign and a ban on public gatherings that includes funerals church services schools and marketplaces like this one in lusaka just last week st sellers here had pitched in to help the military close it off now they are opposing them and as the impact on livelihoods grows so too will the concern at the possibility of more civil unrest before the cholera crisis is contained medium the hond al-jazeera. probably most still ahead on the news hour including. we shall intensify our efforts to realize vision for united. the african national congress is new leader to revive nelson mandela's mission. on
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. the blanco when the roll call is getting ready to host one of the biggest competition in the continent the african nations championship. now in the occupied west bank clashes have broken out between israeli forces and supporters of palestinian teenager i had to mean me it's. the soldiers fired tear gas there to disperse palestinian protesters gathered. i swear to me and her family from they were marching towards her house to show support the day before she was due to appear in court sixteen year old i had khamenei has been behind bars since last month when the video of her slapping israeli soldiers went viral lawyers say he could face jail time if she's convicted
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of the charges which include assault in one column has been covering the protests before and after the clashes broke out. protesters gathering outside of the house of i head to me and there's really two messages that i want to impart the first is to the palestinian leadership they want determined nonviolent resistance movement the other of course is to the israelis that i mean the family now we saw like this whole area will not be bowed will not be broken and they should release both the mother and i had to be me as soon as i can now this is ahead of a cool to parents taking place. on monday night now we've been speaking to palestinians here this is what they've had to say extend their message today isn't really liked wing government but our studios are united behind i'm behind her passion behind her resistance we are all here in obviously from all of it was going to include more people to this program i have is not alone to me family is not
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alone not be solid has not alone in the other hand we are going to friends all over the world to show a bitter sort of duty and to start really with concrete action to isolate israel and increase the cost of a completion on those leaders and the kids to eat i want to tell the israelis we as palestinian people and palestinian children we will continue to defend palestine we will get x. a mosque in jerusalem back and we will make two rooms in the eternal capital for palestine. its right to start firing tear gas canisters into the crowd to push them back. now this was a peaceful protest the protesters are now very angry and he's ready army using as much take us as they can to push them back. the artist who created one of the most iconic depictions of che guevara has also now produced a likeness of teenage palestinian activist to mimi irishman jim fitzpatrick to
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trace her as wonder woman the character currently played by israeli actress gal gadot in the latest movie role jim fitzpatrick joins us now via skype from dublin good to have you with us first of all what prompted you to be the straight guy. story there were. so. we apologize there the sound quality is struggling a bit sad perhaps we'll try and come back to jim a little bit later did really want to hear what he had to say but now back to our earlier story about the iranian nuclear deal and president trump's reluctant extension of the accord russia was one of the signatories to the agreement in two thousand and fifteen from the view of moscow dmitri babich joins me now from the russian capital he's a political analyst spot nick international good to have you with us how do you
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think moscow will respond now to the latest trump demand for the agreement to be renegotiated. well so far their action was very negative it was just their deputy foreign minister sergei lavrov who spoke on the issue but he is the expressions were very very direct. mildly he basically dulled that. mr trump is able to negotiate. simply because mr trump kind of rené egged on that signed agreement. dia that. mr trump says that this has to be a different agreement that he would extend a waiver on sanctions against iran but he would expect strongly expect a different agreement that is a kind of pressure on the international community which russia simply doesn't want
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to accept economically or lifting of sanctions against iran is not going to be in russia and you think good because we are competitors at that oil market but as our foreign minister sergei wallraff said earlier security and international peace are more important than they today you cannot make gains seoul russia will stick with all degree meant in this situation it's a rare case when russia sees it are it to i with the european union i'm glad you mentioned that because that leads us nice is my next point is will the fact now that there is an ultimatum a deadline from the u.s. president bring russia and europe or european powers actually closer together in some kind of joint position. well i wouldn't call it that because i think if someone will give up on this that
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can be the european union it is still unclear how much of their ears reaction is due to genuine desire for peace and calm are true it is just their personal aversion towards trump let me remind you that when mr trump won the election in the united states and you know before the election he said he was going to improve relations with russia the reaction from the you was almost absurd they said all this man is going to improve relations with russia all for the bengals to be are you saying that you think it's a view from and from authorities in moscow that they think there is a real possibility that european powers may go along with the try to renegotiate the deal and abandon it. well i would say that school had a lot of reasons to be disappointed with the european union let's hope that this
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time they you will hold his ground they promise to stick with the agreement iran was acknowledged as observer the greenland by the international atomic energy agency so there is absolutely needed no reason why the united states should go out of this agreement when everyone wants to stage it can the deal survive. if the u.s. does pull out. well i doubt it because. the sanctions against iran will be imposed again we may see attempts from the united states to do kind of ice and lead from the international banking community or from the money force so it will have to be something else it will have to be something different what of course it will be a huge war to the reputation of the united states and probably to the reputation of
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mr trump personally it. by these actions trump is alienating the people in the nations who were not initially opposed to him he already has enough in the united states. inside the globalist liberal establishment so instead of building bridges doing the current just like russia china. to the conservatives i mean cultural conservatives see the european union he just keeps quarrelling with everyone that's not the right way to go for him or i will leave it there dmitri babich thanks so much and you had of south africa's ruling african national congress is valid to crack down on corruption and restore nelson mandela's mission at the party's one hundred sixth anniversary cyril ramaphosa has been outlining his vision for the end the apartheid movement that became the country's first democratic government is widely seen as
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a possible successor to president jacob zuma is expected to step down when his term ends next year. south africa's. nelson mandela one hundred years on the scare and some of the african national congress. to two thousand and two president. sees a. person that needs to be open to the ideals all within the city. and a rebuilding. of the city. free and. safe and secure and a. new policy to the. education of the middle class students being a picture of the possible changes the constitution. saved. without getting compensation that means an enormous surge in the number of students
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graduating with to raise from the university and. create the number. it was a. whole song. but it was some of it was also. from the crown the current country's president and. threats to his rival in his speech saying that his arrival as an a.n.c. . they wouldn't be. and to refuse all our rejection of the culture within the a.n.c. corruption and patronage and a system in which a few benefits. of black south africans continue to live in poverty. the tolls for the two thousand and eight. games arrived in seoul for a four day relay vent through the south korean capital the torch relay will be held until tuesday in
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a cool spanning hundred three kilometers it will mark the first time in the thirty years the city has held the torch relay event since the summer olympics nine hundred eighty eight the two thousand and eighteen winter games will begin in china on february for naught. kathy novak is at the torch event in seoul. the olympic torch is making its way through central seoul carried by celebrities including k. pop stars and athletes here in going home one square it is traveling on a royal carriage in a reenactment of a traditional procession more attention has been focused on the winter games since north korea agreed to participate in a recent poll more than eighty percent of south koreans said they supported north korea taking part though more than half do not want the government in seoul to cover the delegations expenses. i think it isn't reasonable for south korea to pay the countries around the world are coming north korea should not be an exception because no no they are implicated until we take north korea's participation might
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help the olympics but not necessarily south korea. the two koreas are expected to meet in the coming days to discuss the north's participation it's a significant shift in interest and relations before high level talks on tuesday there had been no official communication between the two countries in about two years south korean president when jay and says he hopes this year will mark a turning point in establishing peace on the korean peninsula from here the olympic flame continues to make its way towards the host city of pyong chad by the time it arrives it will have been passed between about seven thousand five hundred torchbearers and travelled a distance of more than two thousand kilometers. two more bodies have been discovered on the iranian oil tanker that's been burning in the east china sea since last week twenty nine crew members are still unaccounted for the search operation being hampered by the extreme temperatures on the tanker which reached eighty nine degrees celsius ship was carrying nearly one million barrels of oil
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when it collided with another facile. time to get some weather and his ever turn. looking pretty poor across parts of the u.s. over the next couple of days sammi give which is struggling to sort out what it wants to do actually we've seen some very high temperatures now look at some cold temps to slide back into the blast this area cloud here we have across the eastern side of the u.s. that's to making its way further research yesterday d.c. got up to eighteen degrees celsius and is still on the mild side now take a look at this as we go on through saturday seventeen celsius in d.c. thirteen degrees in new york but minus thirteen in ottawa and a minus ten for toronto in the cold air will win out in the space of twenty four hours we're looking at a twenty degree drop for washington d.c. so minus three the top temperature in the heat of the day on sunday and minus four for new york a little change as we go on into monday as a say we have seen
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a fair amount of rain and snow that's been making its way across the eastern seaboard eastern areas of canada still seeing that wintry weather pushing further east was clear skies come back in behind so at least it's quietening down but with those quiet skies coming through it's looking bone chilling lee karl so there are lots of crisp sunshine around minus four the top temperature there on sunday for new york minus sixteen in the heat of the day there for a while and we hovering around freezing in d.c. if this model where that you're looking for well you have to go over towards the west coast las back up into the low twenty's. thanks so much of it and now still ahead an al-jazeera israel's siege of gaza tips its waste management to crisis point. the leaders of some of the world's most powerful labor unions have been arrested in our. we examine the allegation. saudi arabia's women celebrating a sporting event in the stands details coming up with joe.
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in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty at this time on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working proud as here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for it is either very trendy in the body but the girl because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are with the people we live
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to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. i am. you're watching our just zero time to recap our headlines now a u.n. report has condemned saudi arabia iran and the u.a.e. for their role in the war in yemen so the war has had a devastating impact on the population ten thousand people have been killed in fighting as strikes seven million people on the brink of famine. the us president has extended the iran nuclear deal but says this will be the last time he does so
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he's warning america's european allies he will withdraw from the two thousand and fifteen agreement if his demands to change it are not met moscow says donald trump's common sorry extremely negative. in the occupied west bank clashes of broken out between israeli forces and supporters of palestinian teenager. to gas was fired to disperse protesters gathered in their. living through showing support for the sixteen year old has been detained when a video of her slapping israeli occupation soldiers went viral last month. african nations are demanding an apology and retraction from the u.s. president over his reported use of vulgar language in a meeting on immigration the african group of a passage to the united nations met in emergency session on twelve. twenty eighteen to consider the remarks made by the president of the united states
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and is extremely appalled at and strongly condemns the outrageous racist and xenophobic remarks attributed to the president of the united states of america as widely reported in the media demands every traction and apology. president trump is also being accused of lying off the denying he used the abusive terms democratic senator who was in the meeting with trump and said the comments flow made our white house correspondent kimberly how has more a controversy spread far beyond the u.s. capitol. surrounded by members of the african-american community at a white house ceremony honoring the civil rights icon dr martin luther king donald trump made no apology for his alleged racist comments
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a day earlier. right in a series of early morning tweets donald trump denied media reports that he had called haiti el salvador and african countries shitholes during a meeting with senators on immigration but he did admit the language used was tough he also denied saying anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled country of my own we're here today standing beside the president in the oval office with dr martin luther king jr's nephew later he told al-jazeera he believes trump has much to learn about tolerance but is not hateful i honestly don't think the president trump is a racist i think he's racially uninformed we've got time to do it democratic senator dick durbin was at thursday's white house meeting and says trump made the controversy over comments words he calls vile and racist he said these hateful
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things and said there were people. traps comments have stung many in the country including the tens of thousands of haitians who came to the united states after the devastating twenty ten earthquake it was kind of disturbing you know it was hurtful to my community my carry members of the president's own republican. party have distanced themselves from trump's comments calling them problematic as politicians try to come to an agreement on immigration and funding to avoid an imminent government shutdown i read those comments later last night so first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate unhelpful it is incomprehensible that these words came out of the mouth of the president of the united states of america a country that was founded on. being free from discrimination the calls for
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the president to apologize for his remarks are intensifying inside and outside the united states but for now it appears that apology is unlikely kimberlee help at al jazeera washington. well leaders of the catholic church in the democratic republic of congo have vowed to continue fighting for justice following violent protests for months demonstrators have been demanding president joseph kabila steps down after his term expires a year ago. from the capital kinshasa. catholic faithful in kinshasa hold a mass for people killed by police in reason political unrest the charge had called for protests a new year's eve after the expiry of a political deal between the ruling party and opposition signed into into sixteen when the presidential election failed to happen the politicians had agreed to for the poor last december that did not happen either the deal had been brokered by the
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catholic church. and. society the victim or why did. i descend miter a distance away for tacky to shake and his friends carry his father's body for burial joseph attacker was a staunch catholic they say he tried to seek refuge in the church the police kept shooting him in. every human being. it's the responsibility of the government to protect people. he was one of more than forty million catholics in the country that's more than half the population with such a big following many people feel that the church has the power to push for political change many callie's are increasingly looking to words the catholic church for guidance in this difficult times they hope that the composition as been
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taken by the charge is going to put more pressure on the electoral commission to organize a credible election without delays and on president kabila to peacefully step down . but some political analysts say by organizing street protests the catholic church has overstepped its role and somewhat lost its neutrality whether expenditure to do is to continue to denounce this regime to denounce this government and say that maybe strongly and frequently and follow up and hopefully that may lead to. some momentum that will galvanize the kohli's and lead to it really of one mission by the people not by the church president joseph kabila stam ended a year ago and the electoral commission has since built to organize an election citing logistical security and financial problems the opposition on the other hand
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has been we can't buy in tanel wrangles most people in the democratic republic of congo like those who are barren jews if a tacky say they're angry and frustrated catherine sorry al jazeera kinshasa. a ten year blockade of the gaza strip by israel and egypt has left its municipal authorities with no means to properly dispose of rubbish piles of garbage and now putting public health at risk welcome web reports. one of the many problems in a city under siege is how to dispose of its rubbish. it's a job to help clicked it using it donkey and cart. the blockade of gaza by israel and egypt when few refuse trucks and fuel is expensive fish there you go like surely there is no other country in the world using donkeys to collect rubbish if we had proper vehicles and enough fuel it would be faster and make our work much easier the gaza strip is home to about two million people into most entirely built
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up in the cities waste is loaded in trucks and taken here to a giant open dump. it's one of three of them close to people's homes it's enormous it just goes on and on and it stinks it's hard not to gag standing here just a few hundred meters in this direction is the separation wall built by israel around. about a kilometer over here is the edge of the city so there's just no other space. to municipal waste manager told us to dump him it's not just gases and liquids and so it's a public health hazard the authorities struggle to import machinery needed for processing all recycling because israel restricts the imports of anything it says could be used to make weapons. model for the island it is known all over the world that at least some of the rubbish should be recycled but in gaza we cannot recycle
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anything we don't have any factories that could reuse the plastic or steel so the only way to deal with it is to dump it here but with more than forty percent unemployment there's a living to be made here too these men search for whatever they can sell none of them agreed to an interview he told us they're ashamed to be seen here. the city produces nearly two thousand tons of waste every day this site will be full in about two years and as long as the seed lasts gases dumbass and it's rubbish problem only get bigger malcolm webb al-jazeera in the gaza strip. now one of the world's largest dairy firms is at the center of assam and they're like contamination outbreak at a french factory that lacked alice group calling for customers to return all milk products made of its plant in crown french supermarket chains are warning they've already sold dairy items which are potentially contaminated the french government has closed the factory until further notice. police in honduras are fired tear gas
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of people protesting the reelection of president while orlando have landis demonstrators smashed windows and set fires during scuffles with military police defeated candidate salvador nasrallah was among the protesters. argentina's labor unions are among the strongest in latin america but their standing has been damaged after several union leaders were arrested for corruption some however believe the arrests are a way for the government to pressure unions to support its policies there is a bo reports from neighboring europe why. this house in the small city of new why has raised a lot of questions over the years its size and opulence intrigue people like and don't you ts who has been living here for ten years he has just found out that he is a fugitive argentinian labor union leader one of those going to you know you know there
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was something strange because of the amount of money and i believe that maybe it was money laundering but he was good with the community and it was none of our business the owner of the land this matter is still the leader of an important labor union in neighboring argentina he was arrested here last week and he's awaiting extradition to his home country police say they found at least five hundred thousand dollars in cash and weapons they also ceased luxury cars like mercedes and ferraris worth at least two million dollars. not a fellow out of fear owns at least two properties in order wiring in this one specifically hole so had a private so with exotic animals this place was raided by the police at the request of an argentinean charge that is investigating him for money laundering and corruption because his lifestyle is not compatible with his income as a labor union leader well see though he's not alone leave the union leaders are being investigated and detained in argentina most of them are accused of corruption
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many in argentina are shocked by the amount of money seized by the police in different operations for the illegal remember you argentine society is demanding that the leadership be less corrupt than the justice system is reacting we asked people in a poll which were defines labor unions and most of them assert corruption since the government of president one played on and his charismatic wife. labor unions in argentina have had a crucial role in defending workers' rights precedent magli says argentina needs to change and he's planning to push for labor reform but union leader when three spill ease the latest arrests are a way of pressuring unions to support the government's plans to rid of if the risk irruption then it should be investigated a new leader should emerge but there are many that are not corrupt i will continue pushing the government in the poll says it wants to win poly where unions are
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amongst the strongest in latin america but corruption has tainted their image their capacity to tackle this problem will likely decide if they have what it takes to look after the people they would resent. your wife. so i had an al-jazeera the dakar rally drivers wore across the. sign says fear the races could destroy part of the country's ancient history. and a lucky break called the ice will be here to tell you why in the support.
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in peru paleontologists in archeologists of warn that the car rally poses a serious risk to parts of the country's unique geological fabric they're worried about features form from fossil deposits dating back millions of years sanchez reports from the public in southern part of. this is the world's epicenter of geo glyphs animal or geometrical sand and stone figures in a magic drawings on the desert floor in southern experts say their solar and lunar calendar engine peruvians used for agriculture they are spread over more than four hundred fifty square kilometers north of the nascar lines a world heritage site and on this territory the tracks that the qur'an left behind critics like engineer alexander who's been studying the origin of geo cliffs for
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years here say they're horrified. places like this one with archaeological remains dispersed around everywhere need more care so it's incredible that the desert is being used for such a competition when it's unheard of sometimes. it is the service pack two with geo cliffs archaeological remains and whale shark another prehistoric fossils millions of years old experts say in previous years that the car vehicles destroyed parts of produce heritage government officials say this time many areas were made off limits . in the area where we've had the park as national reserve we can say we've had zero percent impact that everyone strictly followed the protocols and we've been strictly military in the area. it was government paid six million dollars to hold the car racing officials say they coordinated with race organizers to keep the fia
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calls outside protected areas archeologists say it's not only the pilots and their vehicles but the people who come and watch the competition who leave the terrain damaged thousands of people hiked the rough tracks to watch the rally go by dozens of park rangers were deployed to keep people out of restricted areas but the territory is immense. in the past we've seen cars going over the geo clearly and probably that's happened again we're too many vehicles that are in danger of the archaeological area. and are challenged you see much of. our under the sand much still to be discovered but he and his son just just. catch up on all the football news his joe family thank you very much in the next few hours morocco will kick against mauritania to get the fifth edition of the african nations championship on the way in casablanca it's the biggest tournament
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on the continent for homegrown talent rocco's football fortunes are on the rise after qualifying for this year's world cup and as an irish reports the country is hoping that this tournament will be a stepping stone to bigger things in the future this is where many moroccan youngsters learn their football the beach doubles as an improvised training ground fans here i have a lot to look forward to oracle has qualified for the world cup for the first time in twenty years and the country is about to welcome many of africa's best players the city of cause a blank is due to host the african nations championship the country hasn't hosted the senior continental competition since the africa cup of nations in the nineteen eighty eight moral codes due to stage the twenty fifteen cup of nations but pulled out due to concerns about the spread of the ebola virus the african nations championship set has been around for
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a decade but is still trying to establish itself the sixteen team event is solely for players based in their domestic league but with the decision to expand the flagship a cup of nations to twenty four teams and extra world cup places awarded to the african continent from twenty to twenty six some are questioning its value. the man in charge of african football is cis its future is secure. with regards to the position the competition takes at a continental level it's very important because if we look at the number of participants in qualifying matches increases day by day it means that the federations and the players develop a taste for it and profit a little from this opportunity. morrocco is hoping that by successfully stage in this tournament they could be given another chance to host the cup of nations but there are bitches don't stop there with the country challenging
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a joint bid from the u.s. canada and mexico to host a twenty twenty six fifa world cup between the historical events for for us four of american football. because last last year. our first team qualified for the world cup and we. didn't champions league of the car and we. we wanted to continue it is. a good moment and then. we've been preparing for this competition for some time i think we have good players can make our country proud morrocco kick off this event against mauritania close to forty five thousand spectators will be at the renovated muhamad the fifth stadium home fans hoping they'll be back at the same stadium in early february to see their team play in the final sun of al-jazeera has
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a blanka morrocco now thirty women who love their football are celebrating a historic moment in their country female fans have been allowed to watch a local much for the first time in the city of jeddah albeit from a segregated section of the stands reserved for women and families the saudi government also said that women will be allowed to watch two more matches this week it's one of the first of the country's social reforms to ease restrictions on women from june they'll be allowed to drive so i have honestly this decision should have happened a long time ago but thank god that it came at the right time and hopefully what's to come is even more beautiful for women in. chelsea's manager antonio come take isn't ruling out leaving the english premier league club in the summer he has another year and a half to go on his contract but has been frustrated by the club's transfers and what he called their austerity austerity programme. as you know very well in different ball everything is possible. in one moment you stay here another moment
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you stay in another in another place or another pats on the one place the you and the your job. you know very well for the least these and i want a job. is very difficult while chelsea can move up to second later if they beat leicester in the late march fifth place tottenham host everton and out for the first time u.s. soccer legend london dolphin donovan has come out of retirement the thirty five year old striker is heading to club alone to play in the mexican top flight you haven't played a competitive match for fourteen months when he left l.a. galaxy it is second come but he quit in two thousand and fourteen after helping ally win the m.l.s. cup only to return in twenty sixteen during his career he's also played in the e.p.l. and going to sleep. eighteen's will go down to four in the next couple of days as the n.f.l. divisional playoffs get underway the reigning super bowl champions the new england
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patriots host wild card qualifies the tennessee titans and at forty their quarterback insists age is nothing but a number. these are fun games to play and so everyone has worked pretty hard to get to this point only a teams playing this weekend so. you know it doesn't matter if you're going or old . it's a great feeling to be in this place and i were excited we had a good week and you know just got to go out there try to play the best lost his rose up the atlanta falcons take on the nic champion philadelphia eagles who have won all three of their home playoff games in the past. to be were at and to have have a home playoff game and you know feed off the fans the crowd which is going to be electric on saturday afternoon. and just again stay in the moment you know do the things that got us to where we are today and that's kind of been my mindset you
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know last couple weeks. with just two days to go until the first grand slam of the year end of a joke of it schmidt's he's not one hundred percent ready to return this has been as much of a six months with an elbow injury which has forced him to change his service action he's g. to open his campaign in melbourne against donald young of the united states. it hasn't it hasn't been one hundred percent yet healed but right now it's it's it's at the level where i can compete and every day is getting better so you know i'm hoping that that if you can be one hundred percent. and that the start of the tournament through other tournament i don't know how it is going to be a. meanwhile twenty sixteen australian open champion angelica has got her preparations off to the best possible starts winning the sydney international title she beat australian ashley barty in straight sets six four six four to clinch the trophy. three time major champion jordan spaeth has avoided
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missing the cut at the sony open in hawaii the world number two had to battle back from a quadruple bogey in his first round on thursday what better way to impress than to hole his longest ever part this was ninety one feet or twenty seven meters for buddy. he sits tied at forty eight going into the third round brian harmon holds of three straight played of his that johnson at the top of the standings. the washington capitals pulled off an incredible comeback in the n.h.l. friday they stomach carolina hearkens as j.p. scored with one point three seconds left to win four three it was only his fifth goal of the season to help the capsule stay on top in the metropolitan division. that gave economics finally got a break against the columbus blue jackets and i mean that quite literally because brendan going to stick broke made shots but he got the go anyway and thank you bill
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went on to take up a much needed fight to win. that is all useful for now with peter later sammy trying sell out all that so for this news hour i'm back though in a few minutes with another show so do stay with us. coveted beyond well. thank you very much taken without hesitation. for to indict. our defines our. people in power investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the globe at this time on al-jazeera. until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was
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a cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not so how could both feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go a long way five and a half months of demanding it through an education system that was introduced to. latin america a zero has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support to terrorism the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the us i definitely said that this was a political trial and that these were political prisoners because we weren't able to see the secret of it and we were unable to tell it in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land falling at this time on al jazeera world.
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