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that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al-jazeera facing new realities growing up when to do you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera at this time. trough dispence adopted unanimously. u.n. security council approves a resolution that calls for a thirty day ceasefire across syria. as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assad's fighter jets continued to fall but that agreement was hard for foreign exchanges between the u.s. and russia.
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says al jazeera live from doha also coming up. democrats in the u.s. are finally allowed to release a memo to rebutting a republican dossier the f.b.i. bias against election campaign. as president calls applies a missing schoolgirls a national disaster and was more troops a search for the. two u.s. airlines joined major companies cutting ties with america's largest gun lobby and irate calls them khalid's. after days of heated negotiations the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a month truce in syria it comes after a week of government led strikes on the rebel held. which killed more than five hundred. valiance the resolution calls for an immediate end to hostilities for
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thirty days is meant to allow a window for much needed aid to be let into besieged areas including east and also allow medical evacuations in just a moment we'll get the latest on the situation in eastern go to but first our. james bays has this report from the united nations for a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria about sort of he got an agreement with the russians now. today we're going to see if russia has a conscience the russian ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart who's government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern puter even as the negotiations drag dawn diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one that comes into force without delay it
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meant they could vote. it was unanimous but there didn't seem to be much unity in the chamber. every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering group getting to a vote the came a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assad's fighter jets continued to fall in the three days it took us to adopt this resolution how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling why we negotiated so long and that is illusion that they wanted to make sure that it is not used as a pretext for any military action because we had some trouble so what in worrying. governments on that in the recent days any good in today some of the variability
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cause these negotiations were extremely hard getting a ceasefire across syria will be even harder can they get a stop to the bombardment in eastern guta there is an exemption in the resolution allowing continued military action against al qaida. and eisel and some diplomats fear that the syrian government will assert that those fighting in eastern guta have links with those groups james pays out his era at the united nations. is there a correspondent mohammed al jazeera has more about the situation on the ground from inside east in case there. we are now in one of the eastern ghouta towns the regime forces fired a number of rockets coming in close to bombs that exploded in the vicinity targeting a residential area here behind me the russian aircraft targeted this building with
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several weights and destroyed the building and killed a number of the residents in addition to injuring dozens more regime and russian planes do not stop bombing this area launches do not stop targeting cities and towns presence on the roads is very dangerous because of drones that give orders to artillery to target citizens the drones can also fire themselves on any moving target civilians all vehicles the bombing does not stop twenty four hours the state of fear terror and hunger amongst the civilians is great can be described as catastrophic. as two major rebel groups in a single user say they welcome the un resolution but it's still unclear whether or when any relief for the perceived civilians bent out of it is following events from turkey's border with syria. i've spoken to a number of sources since the united nations security council came to this agreement
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a united nations source said that we've always been ready to provide aid inside eastern hooter and it's been frustrating for us to know that people can see our warehouses from inside we're told they're only a few kilometers away but we haven't been able to reach them in the last five years but aid workers are saying that it is going to be tough for these aid groups to come in and provide this help because not just the syrian foreign ministry but the syrian intelligence also controls these checkpoints and in the past have stopped aid convoys and taken out medical supplies in essential items that they do not want to ascend into to people have cautious optimism about what has happened but they're also afraid of what is going to come in the coming hours because eastern hooter has been bombarded relentlessly more than five hundred people have been killed at least twelve hospitals have been destroyed and more than two thousand people have been injured medics have been saying that the situation is desperate and critical. so.
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rescuers are responding to crisis for help. people think of but in eastern go to nowhere is safe because of the it was. a moment of panic this search for children who disappeared in the debris. and the children call for their father. was killed by a civil defense worker says they must hurry to the basement. activists accuse the syrian government and russia for the airstrikes and shelling the suburb of syria's capital damascus has been bombarded specially hard for the last week. the only like these days from the fires which the bombing. these children prayed in the dark in an underground shelter one of them wants the world to feel their pain her. no food no water every day you sleep on the floor my back hurts we can't bring
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a pillow from our house if we get out we'll get it don't you know that imagine your children. to be to say. the well it's a safety. because you had out the floors are down the air is humid and it's called underground there are few basements in all to nearly four hundred thousand people i know that on the roofs of our size i don't know what this is called our children didn't take for two days we can't find anything else will feed them this is a male god help us. aid i syrians living in cities abroad have protested in small gatherings they reject that the fight in eastern huta is against what the government calls terrorists. but the syrian government iran and russia say the civilian deaths in our fabricated propaganda. since the united nations security council agreed to
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a thirty day ceasefire in syria aid workers say they're ready to take in the aid but people inside kuta are scared fearful of what has happened in the past in other areas might happen here again with the government tries to take as much as possible before the implementation phase kicks in some of the job others era. and the turkey syria border has congress released a classified memo by democrats two weeks after it was blocked by president tom citing security concerns the memo rebuts claims by republicans that the f.b.i. abuses powers investigating alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election the white house a great the release of the democratic mellow only after redactions were made. well a series of tweets on saturday trump criticized the memo saying the democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal bust just confirms all of the terrible things that were done so illegal that as a brick has the latest from washington d.c.
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. well this democratic memo that was released today basically says that the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. acted in a fall of the letter of the law when they launched this investigation into carter page who was a campaign aide to president trump the republicans earlier this year contended that the f.b.i. based its investigation so only on partisan research that it had gotten that relied on information from brit former british spy christopher steele the democrat said today in this heavily redacted memo that they actually began this investigation the f.b.i. began the investigation a few months before it even saw this da cia and that the f.b.i. was really basing its investigation on the conversations that carter page had had with russian officials and relationships that he had with russian spies at the
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white house says that it is glad that this heavily redacted memo by the democrats was finally released today even though it undercuts the president and then was also back and forth between republicans and democrats on the house intelligence committee adam schiff who is the ranking democrat said some time ago republicans on our committee released a declassified memo that omitted and distorted key facts in order to mislead the public and impugn the integrity of the f.b.i. we can now tell you what they left out devon nunez who is the republican chair of that committee fired back that this democratic memo proves absolutely nothing i would say that this we actually want to do so this is been held up for over two weeks the f.b.i. and do j. had right away had told the democrats what was wrong with their memo or their response to our memo and they waited for two weeks before they actually did the
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reductions that were necessary to get this out we wanted out we wanted out because we think it is clear evidence that the democrats are not only trying to cover this up. but there are also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up now the republicans are continuing to claim that this is part of a witch hunt into the presidency in the trunk campaign democrats on the other hand are saying that it was acting that the f.b.i. was acting responsibly and would have been remiss had it not investigated carter page. says it carried out an attack on security forces camp in yemen which at least fourteen people dead two suicide bombs were set off at the entrance of the camp in the southern city of aden before gunman tried to attack the facility it back was the first of its kind in southern yemen since fighting in january between separatists and the country's internationally recognized government actions
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soldiers have been deployed to such more than one hundred by jury and schoolgirls kidnapped by boko her on monday doctrines in the town of deputy cost downs over the government's claims that it has defeated the armed group that it just has more from the capital of puja. the mood used out of shock and anger anger because the nigerian government has failed to properly explain how many kids or how many students have been taken from that college and what exactly happened there now shock in the sense that many people expected nigeria and the security agencies to learn from the mistakes of two thousand and fourteen when more than two hundred and seventy schoolgirls have been kidnapped by boko haram more than one hundred of them are still unaccounted for group of activists who've been pushing when i joined in government to rescue the girls now we spoke to some of them who expressed shock and dismay that four years on the nigerian government and the nigerian security services have not learned anything from the world. before for years one hundred and
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twelve people go speak but only two who will come up on tuesday to realize that more schoolgirls were abducted and we're back to square one when many nigerians expected the government to beef up security i don't value would places like schools especially boarding schools in the northeast of nigeria now in the case of she that clearly did not happen and many nigerians will be watching the government closely as a low security agency as to see whether or not these girls are rescued in the next few days or so so has have. full of deadly attacks in a single day the taliban and i sold or so played in afghanistan. and a short lived celebration. of his release from prison voice consented to dozens still behind.
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by the sky knowing the full range in harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera . hello there we've got quite a few showers over parts of china at the moment if we look at the chart for us on sunday we can see that chong ching also through hunan and towards the west is going to see quite a few showers and those showers gradually become confined more to the chongqing region as we head through monday that means more of us will get away with a dry day and the temperatures aren't too bad at the moment see there chung do they getting to around eighteen degrees of force in shanghai where we are up at fourteen which is well above average of a further towards the south and we've been watching some rain over the philippines over the last day or so this is to paris well to some very heavy downpours over mindanao and it's gradually now pushing its way towards the north that means for many of us in the philippines it will be quite wet on sunday particularly if you're in the east we're also seeing some heavy rain over parts of borneo too but this
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whole system is pushing further northward still as we head through into monday i don't think it's going to reach us in vietnam just yet and as it moves northward it should actually clear away from the north coast of borneo as we head through the next day or say over towards india and pakistan and things are being fairly unsettled here in the north even see the latest system running its way towards the east it loses its intensity there as it makes its way eastward so not a great deal left to it by the time it gets to nepal there's more rain on its way behind it there. the way that sponsored by qatar airways. in two thousand and eight rocky omar traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american first i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim would be elected to the united states congress but ten years on mort has changed rewind islam in america at this time on al-jazeera.
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the adopted a. month. that follows a week of government led strikes on the rebel held. which killed more than five hundred civilians. a classified memo by the us democrats has been released two weeks after. an. alleged f.b.i. bias against. his presidential campaign with russia. is a total. bust. have been deployed for more than
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one hundred nigerian schoolgirls. and the government has failed to protect children . claims it has defeated the armed group. a growing number of high profile u.s. companies are cutting ties with the national rifle association following last week's shooting at a florida high school more than a half a dozen companies offer discounts to the five million members of the social media campaign by gun control activists calling for a boycott on brands who partnered with the organization. ties with the n.r.a. major insurers car rental to america's biggest allies delta and united. the companies saying they are punishing membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice. missing using the february fourteenth shooting to expand gun control and abolish gun rights in the u.s.
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. he's a professor of political science at cypress college and. he says the boy. is going to have a significant impact on the n.r.a. . these are large companies when i was a small company like a car rental company that's one thing but when united airlines and delta and other symantec of a high tech companies does the same thing it's going to have a both of material impact and a moral or ethical impact because the word then spreads the awareness of the issue of assault rifle especially assault rifles that's what needs to be banned and a lot of these young people the students have been galvanizing public opinion and these corporate opinion now against the n.r.a. and that's very significant my view about two hundred and thirty members of congress over half of the house of representatives receives money for the n.r.a. from the n.r.a. for their campaigns and now they're going to have star rejecting that money because their own constituents will turn against them once these companies turn against them and once the students have led public opinion against the n.r.a. and what it's doing because the n.r.a.
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does not i want to have any kind of regulation whatsoever but once these members of congress and their candidates to run against them see that the n.r.a. is actually more of the obstacle rather than a help to them they're going to have to refuse the money from them in a lot of ways or at least break away from their political support. have been for attacks in afghanistan taliban fighters stormed an army outpost in the west killing at least twenty soldiers security forces have also been tugs in alaska and another attack happened and thereby not the alley and i saw has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in kabul anybody has more. another bloody day in afghanistan three suicide bombings at a large scale taliban attack on an afghan army base the first attack was in kabul at eight thirty on saturday morning the target was intelligence building afghan intelligence building where people were killed and wounded this was carried out by islamic state they claim responsibility for the other attacks were by the taliban
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there is concern i think especially for the attack in kabul you may remember the a large ambulance bomb that was set off in january killing more than one hundred people but after that the afghan president ashraf ghani said there was a new security strategy you've seen on the streets greater numbers of army and police greater defenses but still with this in place islamic state able to strike so that's causing concern and of course the taliban is beefing up their attacks as well is preemptive perhaps for their annual spring offensive which they always launch but there are so many attacks going on now that basically want to fence it rolls into another the united nations has released a report showing that the majority of people killed are civilians last year ten thousand were killed and wounded and it's the weapon of choice now is more often suicide bombs and roadside explosions. the americans are here in force they've beefed up their numbers they're using more aerial power to try and defeat in
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particular islamic state but so far it doesn't seem to be working and the security strategy certainly has holes in it. thousands of people have attended a rally in tel aviv protesting against israel's plans to deport african migrants israeli government has given notice to twenty thousand male nyquist that they could face jail if they don't leave by the start of april and then missing from sudan in eritrea have been offered three thousand five hundred dollars and a plane to head women children families and those with pending asylum request submission before the start of this year will be exempt by force it has more from tel aviv. there are thousands of people here on the streets of south tel aviv not just african to silence seekers it also and notably many israelis are out here to protest against their government's policy of threatening the government. infiltrators from african nations namely sudan and eritrea with either prison or
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forced essentially forced deportation to a third country i.e. rwanda well most of the people that we've spoken to who may be in that situation the future they say that they would prefer prison to being sent to a country which isn't theirs which they say they would feel unsafe in one of those people is someone has been here for ten years an asylum seeker who is from darfur in sudan and his name is thais harun and he joins me now thais just briefly your presence here is because of what happened to you and your family in darfur yes i'm here since two thousand and eight and that is and i'm here as a genocide that happened end up. going to actually going to say i started on we run away you know we our houses where van our family is where you know most of the people are killed and then we end up going to that you become the majority according to polls of israelis support the government two thirds of israelis support the government's policy on this nonetheless we see these big turnout
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opposed to it and in support of your argument here tonight would desire to feel. look like to be honest i really want to thank the israeli society for come. now do i know that they met us they know that we are not here as migrants we came here because we have a problem at home and they understand that and we are very grateful for the the opportunity we just want the government to see these to see you come and meet the people under see if you were migrant workers or we are really. looking for a zip. ties thank you very much for joining us and so that's the situation here we have thousands on the streets protesting against this law however the process has already begun some people are in prison people have been issued with these deportation notices the israeli government seems determined to press ahead. president obama has taken control of security from police in ridges narrative an increase in violent crime critics have a say innocent people who city shanty towns often fellows are being unfairly
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targeted alate human rights maybe being undermined zonday has more. it's the first weekend that military has been in charge of security here in rio de janeiro and in many parts of the city it's like this business as usual with no signs of soldiers on the streets but in recent days where we have seen the military there is already concern about how they're treating some of the very people they are there to protect the army has conducted operations and routine patrols in several shanty towns or foot bellows as they are called here trying to crack down on criminality and drug gangs there's worry though about heavy handed tactics many favela residents feel as though the army is already treating them like criminals for no reason the military has set up checkpoints in and out of several communities and there is this photo taken by a local newspaper that appears to show soldiers taking photos of residents coming and going to their homes it's led many to believe this is
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a military intervention that is unjust and targeting certain people for no reason while drug gangs and militias operate in shanty towns it's also true about one point five million people in the city of rio live in fidelis that's about twenty percent of the entire population of the city the vast majority of these people are law abiding working families who simply can't afford to live anywhere else. human rights groups are worried about potential abuses of power by the military and they say when soldiers are patrolling residential neighborhoods in the name of law and order it usually doesn't end well. it's a public security model based on militarization a tool of confrontation war and the war on drugs a model that has already been implemented in israel and other states and a model that filed that did not bring positive results security officials say the military intervention is meant to help rein in criminality and are quick to show up
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drugs and weapons they say was apprehended by police with the help of the army but there are many unanswered questions in rio there are currently three thousand soldiers here it's unclear if more will be sent and if so what their role will be reporters in saddam say they fear being arrested to simply doing their job a number of journalists were detained last month as they covered protests against government policies that led to rises in food prices some have been released but concern remains for those still behind bars about morgan reports from cost. ten days ago i might have been he was not sure whether she'd ever see her home or her children again but journalist was held for more than a month without charge or trial after she was arrested while filming protests against economic reforms. i was arrested on the sixteenth of january in the protest organized by the community party we were at the place the
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protests were held with my colleagues all my security people came and beat us and directed us to go to a certain direction this surrounded me and said i'm melissa filming us. a bunny was one of eighty journalists politicians and activists released last week by the sudanese government. they were arrested during last month's protest against the government's decision to devalue the currency which led to price rises and inflation lawyer had and has and like others who were arrested says she had no part in the protests. but a good them even though. i was walking on the streets after the protests and they were beating a young man so i stepped in to help and told them to leave him they turned to me and started beating me they put me on a pickup truck and i was taken to detention. the prisoners were released after international pressure on sudan's government which hasn't said how many arrests were made political and rights groups say more than two hundred people were
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arrested during the protests over high prices in january and with only a few released rights groups including human rights watch say many are still being held in unknown locations with no access to lawyers or family visit in conditions which may constitute and force appearances and put them at risk of abuse the government has pledged to release all prisoners but says protesters who are attempting an overthrow need to be careful of the dharna see the president's decision to release the prisoners as a sign of good will and we released all the students women and all the members of the party and we hope that contributes in developing the political environment in our country but anyone who tries to mess with the administrative institutes of the nation and tarnish it we will not let them get away with it i'm an artist i'm and have been he says she's happy to be back with her family again but worries about others who remain in detention and whether she'll be jailed again for doing her job he will morgan al-jazeera khartoum. an ancient burial ground has been discovered
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near the nile valley city of many a in egypt large cemetery on acropolis is located on the edge of the western desert and has a range of family tunes and graves archaeologists say one tomb contains over one thousand statues as well as jars holding the mummified remains of the owners egypt hopes the discoveries will boost his vital tourism sector which has been hit hard by political turmoil says the twenty eleven uprising. but without is there and these are our top stories the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a month long truce in syria it follows a week of government led strikes on the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta which has killed more than five hundred civilians to his base has more these negotiations were extremely hard getting
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a cease fire across syria will be even harder can we get a stop to the bombardment in eastern guta there is an exemption in the resolution allowing continued military action against al qaida. and some diplomats fear that the syrian government will assert that those fighting in eastern guta have links with those groups classified memo by u.s. democrats has been released two weeks after president looks into security concerns ever bought some republican memo released earlier this month which alleged f.b.i. bias against trump and its investigation of alleged links between the kremlin and his election campaign trump has tweeted that the newly released democrat document is a total political and legal bust. i would say that this is we actually one of this out so this is been held for over two weeks the f.b.i. and d.o.j. had right away had told the democrats what was wrong with their memo or their
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response to our memo and they waited for two weeks before they actually did the reductions that were necessary to get this out we wanted out we wanted out because we think it is clear evidence that the democrats are not only trying to cover this up but they're also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up. action soldiers have been deployed in the search for more than one hundred ninety arion schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram on monday angry parents say the government has failed to protect the children. in the town of dappy cost down the government's claims that it has defeated the coolie and thousands of people have attended a rally in tel aviv protesting israel's plans to deport african migrants israeli government has given notice to twenty thousand male migrants mostly from sudan and eritrea saying they could face jail if they don't leave by the beginning of april
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those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story. nigeria is missing schoolgirls dozens more are abducted by boko haram the government says it's a national disaster but what's it doing to fend off the threat and reduce public anger this is inside story. hello and well.

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