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yourselves their arms a whole raman live from the headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next thirty minutes sixteen people killed and became a fan so after gunmen attacked a military headquarters of the french embassy in the capital. also police in the u.s. state of michigan are searching for a student suspected of killing his parents at a university halls of residence. and ahead of sunday's election in italy we look at why the n.t. establishment's five star party has been riding high in opinion polls. welcome to the program the u.n. human rights chief says strikes on the besieged syrian enclave of eastern guta probably amounts to war crimes of those responsible should be prosecuted at least twenty three more civilians have been killed as government forces read took more ground from rebel fighters on friday asama been reports are from neighboring turkey
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. makeshift clinics in eastern who to have been filling up the wounded most of the civilian casualties are women and children. waiting for the civilians to receive aid so we can preserve their lives we are waiting for reaction from the world. but that wait for the world to help stop the attacks and has gone on for years and since the government's latest offensive began last month morgues have run out of space for the dead. instead of receiving worshipers on friday this mosque god bombs people here say syrians iranians and russians are mocking the united nations and the security council since again one of a cease fire resolution on saturday there have been hundreds of attacks in eastern guta that as a result of this mosque was here to praise god there were no weapons or cannon here the regime bombed it ten minutes before the ceasefire so why use the world silent on these war crimes those allegations have echoed at the human rights council the
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un human rights chief says the syrian regime and its allies are potentially carrying out crimes against humanity civilians are being pounded into submission or death and the perpetrators of these crimes must know that they are being identified not dos years are being built up with a view to the prosecution and that they will be held accountable for what they have done syria must be referred to the international criminal court attempts to war justice and sure these criminals are disgraced from day five of the five hour pause in fighting it was no different from previous days with more airstrikes and shelling close to seven hundred feet than have been killed in the relentless bombardment the choices for nearly four hundred thousand people are to starve surrender or die. in addition to the attacks on residential areas rebel
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positions on the front lines are also under heavy. bombardment usual islam and fail after ramadan fighters have been holding meetings with families to assure them they are not going to retreat we asked a doctor in eastern huta about the potential crimes against humanity remarks and he replied with a question has the world drawn another red line and said never again he asked because the assad government attacks on civilians have become more brazen strong words from the u.n. humanitarian chief but like other statements and resolutions they remain just that words with no action osama bin javid under zero. in the turkey syria border. satellite images of parts of eastern due to have been released by the un these are the destruction in the span of just a week and if your goal is from the u.n. operational satellite applications program in geneva he says juma is the worst hit city. well these images shows us that there has been
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increase and a heavy bombardment in using ghouta and in particular in doom of that to be animal is based on a satellite image taken this morning compared to an image taken on the twenty third oath temporary so what we observe in the imagery is continued. to continue shelling and continued damage to infrastructure in doing this case in duma it can be sometimes difficult to distinguish between residential areas businesses etc but we do observe damage to a large number of different types of buildings including what seems to be residential areas so it's quite widespread damage that the observer including you know damage to infrastructure is where our service roads in areas that cetera we see certain areas where there's severe damage to a week ago and all the areas where there is no damage that we can see in the
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satellite images certain areas that are also out of that state like what red damage but that there are definitely areas that we see you know heavily affected. but at west africa now where bakita fast sixteen people are being killed there by coordinated attacks on the military headquarters and also on the french embassy in the capital what to do and that witnesses say massed attackers used guns and explosives during the assault nicholas haq as well. downtown ouagadougou on friday another attack at the heart of the king a hospice capital coordinated and well planned the targets the army headquarters the french embassy and its cultural center witnesses say some of the attackers came by taxi others in a pickup they started shooting set fire to the truck and continued to fire off did you know we did hear that there was so much gunfire damage everywhere two policemen went nearby the army headquarters there was
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a car with around four to six people and they opened fire there was an explosion we saw a lot of shots fired and a lot of smoke and then people started running. eight soldiers were killed several others wounded in sent to hospital after an hour long gun battle eight attackers were killed by the armed forces the army continued to comb the area looking for more attackers that may be on the loose fighter groups in this and how it repeatedly target burkina faso the country's capital is home to a base for the french special forces deployed in the hell to fight rebel groups clashes and frequent attacks have led to tens of thousands of people fleeing the area fighters regularly attack police outposts in the north of the country last year and al-qaeda affiliated group attacked a turkish restaurant in a walker dugu killing one thousand people in two thousand and sixteen thirty people died in an other attack on a hotel in a restaurant in the city. but this is the most brazen attack so far. these three
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locations are some of the most safest in security in this country many people here say if they're able to attack these places then no one is safe with the death toll likely to rise. is again a warning fearing what could come next nicholas hark al jazeera out walk into the. suspected baka harrumph lines is killed at least three aide workers and eight security staff members in northern nigeria a u.n. spokesman says the attack happened in the remote. borno state a female nurse is also reported missing said abducted the town is home to a military base in a camp for more than fifty thousand internally displaced people. vile has more from a. suspected book fighters according to reports we have used the darkness of the night to mount this brazen attack late on thursday they used
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a truck mounted with guns and also rocket propelled grenades to overpower a post guarding a camp for the internally displaced people this camp houses about fifty five thousand people victims of the war that has been going on now still going on between the government and fighters. the u.n. has confirmed the killing of three aid workers two of them work for the international organization for migration and one a medical doctor with. unicef also a female nurse is missing and there were reports about a fourth aid worker who was either killed or injured or so the security report from the side of the government has confirmed the killing of four soldiers and four policemen without giving any details about whether civilians were more civilians were wounded or killed in this attack. to me a muslim is being accused of bullying and intimidating ringle refugees and its
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border with bangladesh. spoke to witnesses who say the troops fired bullets sling shots and threw bottles at the refugees bangladesh's told me in march withdraw its forces from the area in one cart has more range of muslims fleeing myanmar face harassment the troops that pushed them out a back making it very clear they want their engine gone for good this woman shows a suitcase which she says was hit by ricocheting bullets fired into the camp al-jazeera producer tom baer charity spoke to those who fled from the army troops there said they were intimidated by them they were using bullhorn and mikes warning them to get out of this area through the storm had them alcohol bottles and were using even sling shot at some point some of the troops even tried to climb the fence into the no man's land to intimidate them but where stopped and warned by the buying of there's a broader god's. bangladesh's protesting the deployment of troops along the border
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and says it's highly irregular it prompted bangladesh to summon me. and demand the troops be pulled back as. they came at around ten am brought in seven trucks with two ladders in each vehicle a total of fourteen and they tried to cross the barbed wire fences to forcefully destroy our camp this area is widely referred to as no man's land for weeks myanmar soldiers have up their patrols of the border fence. and use loud hailer is to order the estimated six thousand ranger to leave but hundreds of the refugees have already given into the soldiers orders and crossed into bangladesh. it's been six months since almost seven hundred thousand range of muslims fled a military crackdown in myanmar's and rocking state united nations called it a textbook example of ethnic cleansing refugees spoke of systematic murder sexual
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violence an arson but the government insists it was simply defending itself after attacks from. myanmar reportedly claim some of those range of fighters are hiding within the border camp agencies meanwhile are helping refugees prepare as best they can for the coming monsoon season one assessment says more than one hundred thousand people could be affected by floods and landslides the diplomatic route the troop movement to the border now threatens a controversial deal to send the range of refugees back to myanmar many will be questioning whether it will ever really be safe to go back to me on imran khan i was there all still had here on al-jazeera as the african union discusses plans to withdraw troops from somalia al-jazeera spends time with a police patrol to see if the country is ready to go to live. women direct four percent of top feature film so i may say men direct ninety six percent of most
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movies you see and let me theaters there's hope this weekend's also signals a new era for female directors in hollywood those stories after the break. have the weather squatting down again nice try to run the last of the cloud can be seen by the things here afghanistan there's clearly a good arm that comes out from the raven peninsula and up into pakistan some of that will bring rain for you into pakistan but beyond that it's current court now not true for turkey to be rain or snow to anchor is relatively warm of his high ground to the east maybe snow falling out of it but a present to beirut and a leper but temps around about twenty markets much warmer in iraq twenty seven in
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baghdad and look at bucky we got ten degrees on saturday the breeze coming up from the south up to seventeen that's a good size so this is a bit of a warming trend here it's up to eighty now bossie in certain task and where has winter gone well as bit further north to be honest so this is all quiet and it's even warming up in the arabian peninsula the temperature in doha goes from twenty six in the forecast the saturday to about twenty eight as on the again this is above where it should be for this time of the year that was dropped sas to see where the big rains are madagascar is a focus of a developing circulation particularly for the catholics it happens over the mainland of africa well look north and lusaka in particular is not that far away from pretty big showers. my limbs and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by molly wood. but its leading star is throwing his
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weight behind the cause. somebody to back to her dream and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. the snake charmers comic con witness at this time on a busy day. welcome back you're watching i'll just there i'm so hole rob a reminder of our top news stories the u.n. human rights chief says airstrikes on the besieged syrian enclave of eastern ghouta probably amounts to war crimes and those responsible should be prosecuted at least
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twenty three more civilians have been killed as government forces agree to ground from rebel fighters on friday also became the first so security minister now says at least sixteen people have been killed and eighty others injured in the capital what to do eight gunmen were among those killed during the coordinated attacks on the french embassy and the military headquarters. a suspected baccarat vitae that killed at least three aide workers and security staff members in northern nigeria a female this is also reported missing the remote town of rani in borno state is home to a military base and a camp for more than fifty thousand internally displaced people. police in the u.s. are searching for a student suspected of shooting dead his parents at central michigan university john hendren reports. a domestic dispute turned deadly police say when a university student killed his parents and fled leading more than one hundred police officers on
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a manhunt he should be considered armed and dangerous if your opponent mr davis or campus police at central michigan university say they took nineteen year old james eric davis jr to a hospital thursday night due to a drug related incident on friday morning the parents who came to take him back to suburban chicago for spring break were dead police could not say why eric davis sr was a former army national guard officer and part time policeman who had served in iraq his wife was a cancer survivor the shooting put the university on lockdown leaving students behind closed doors helicopters and police cruisers scouring the area for a wanted gunman the gunman left no note no explanation in the shooting coming just two weeks after another nineteen year old gunned down seventeen people at a high school in florida increases pressure on president donald trump and congress to increase restrictions on guns in america vice president mike pence was in detroit
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a two hour drive from the shooting in mount pleasant michigan our hearts go out to the fall and everyone in the mount pleasant community that's been impacted and especially to the local state and federal agencies who are working together as we speak on the apprehension and the investigation with most students now gone on spring break police are now searching the gunman's dormitory for clues as to why a family reunion turned deadly john hendren al-jazeera mt pleasant michigan. no the school shooting in florida last month has reignited the congressional debate on whether to tighten gun control laws democrats are demanding thera background checks while republicans are protecting the constitutional right to bear arms and as mike hanna reports from new york the stalemate has some corporations taking their own steps to slow gun sales. of the second amendment many of you are there being vague promises of executive action from the president and much
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discussion among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle but as yet there are no concrete signs of any substantial tightening of the u.s. is notoriously lax gun control legislation some corporations are not waiting for congress to take action several major businesses wal-mart dick's sporting goods kroger and the latest l b have announced they are unilaterally raising the minimum age for gun sales and will no longer sell guns to customers younger than twenty one . federal law states that no one under twenty one may buy a handgun but confusingly any eighteen year old or above can buy a semiautomatic rifle with no background checks or training it's time the sens say some c.e.o.'s when we looked at those kids and we saw what with the grief that they were going through and how these kids organized to really have their voices heard
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we talked amongst ourselves and said if these kids can be brave enough to do this then we should be brave enough to make us make a stand or self these are difficult decisions for business but nevertheless eventually the personal conscience the moral conscience kicks in and it has to be balanced with all of the stakeholders in the shareholder interest as well and social media reaction to the dick's decision is mixed some calling the company anti american others welcoming the move and calling it courageous delta airlines is among the companies that has ended discount deals with the powerful national rifle association the n.r.a. but that comes at a financial cost republican lawmakers in georgia have killed a tax break for the company and its jet fuel costs retaliation that will cost delta billions of dollars the n.r.a. itself has lashed out at what it calls a shameful display of political and civic cowardice despite the national forest
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recurring school shootings u.s. society remains as polarized on gun control issues as never before the constitutional right to bear arms being bigger asli asserted even as children continue to be killed mike hanna al-jazeera new york. italians had to the polls on sunday for a general election which may have an uncertain outcome now the five star movement is heavily critical of parties on both the left on the right and has been leading or recent opinion polls in part three of his reports on election lawrence the examines where five star support comes from and if they can really transform italian politics. a rainy monday night in this is silly in the city of palermo and they're pushing to get into the theater the man they've all come to see is the leader of the five star movement what they all have in common is a desire to take back political control from people who they believe the failed
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them is different this is not their. organisation so it's made from people everywhere someone to make appropriate to do something for itself or for the community for the person and that's exciting for us. in he came just thirty one years old luigi to my old spoke for nearly an hour without notes he didn't mention immigration once the touchstone issue for a right wing looking to turn working class italians against refugees but he mocked endlessly the corruption of mainstream politics which he said made italy and international joke. yes we had better scolding from one side and bronzy from the other they stole the future from my generation. i can't understand how they dared to show their faces and promise to change things when they had twenty
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years in government and didn't do anything the whole point was about transparency the message that italy needs a totally new politics in all it's the man you're five star policy that's still written on the level of bullet points and like a lot of detail but none the less are all these people what this party represents is the basic power out for a. corrupt and useless political class and that's a low looks like being enough to make five the biggest party this early in this election. five star has been on a journey no longer the sheltie populism of the found a better grillo no longer do they wanted to lead to leave the euro or the european union but they still insist they will never do coalition deals with the other parties they despise instead five-star now demands a totally green economy funded by a publicly owned investment bank which organizes the universal basic income for the
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poor in chaotic cities like rome these ideas look incredibly difficult to achieve but it seems less important than the facts that they say the most all movement is a sort of. they are. in the try to collect consensus and electors from every part of a political market so discount off list of desires to some extent is a really wonderful but there is it a lot of problems in the possibility of concrete translation in policies but the final rally in rome the crowd numbered several thousands of italian public is understandably cynical about politics. many complain the five star won't be any different to the rest of. their leaders are urging against apathy though if they want to govern alone only the backing of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters to give them any chance lawrence lee al-jazeera in italy the other five countries
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making up the african union force in somalia or are in uganda's capital for talks about finishing their mission by the end of twenty twenty the amazon falls has been battling al-shabaab for ten years and is now training local police for me to minister today with the unit on patrol in mogadishu. these local police officers a stationed at one of several high risk areas in mogadishu it's not far from the old parliament building an african union police patrol made up of kenyan nigerian and ugandan officers stop to check in where the other where they are. but the local police meant to keep the area safe are not armed we have done the training we have been with them in terms of knowledge and skills what is remaining the equipment if they're going to help equipment ok because much more than you expect somalia's national police force is twenty thousand strong but sometimes apt as it
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still finding its feet securing the capital often relying on residents to gather intelligence some areas in mogadishu are targets fighters trying to overthrow the government. one challenge is that sometimes places explosives and paper bags and dust builds african union patrols like this one a meant to coordinate security activities between foreign and local police the patrol takes us through some of the busiest parts of the city crowded with people and traffic aside from being used to assist and train local police these patrols by the african unions and the some forces a very much about making people here feel safe the more police is seen the war people feel secure the government is preparing its own security forces to take over when african union police and soldiers leave the country in two years the united
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nations says al shabaab has been weakened in the past year but the somali government says its security forces also face challenges our security force used of the training outside the problem became world a comeback. they don't have. their nationalistic. view. and why they fight in. there were not fully prepared in terms of the current situation in somalia. the government says its twenty six thousand troops are stretched thin somalia lacks the institutions to properly supported the police and soldiers sudden changes in leadership clan affiliations political infighting and low salaries don't make it any easier we are not going to be here for good right now as we talk the discussion
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is transition so i'm son is soon moving out and that's the reality in december one thousand amma some soldiers pulled out of somalia the african union says it could consider extending its mission in somalia but ultimately its mandate will end for me to al-jazeera mogadishu now hollywood is gearing up for its biggest night on sunday when the oscars are in town and will find out the stars of the movies that pick up the top awards but one other that perhaps sometimes is forgotten is best costume design but the period dramas dominate this year and the troubles reports designers are going to great lengths to take fashion back in time. clothes make the man as the saying goes and often they make the movie too at the fashion institute of designs museum in los angeles oscar nominated apparel is on display in all its glory fashion designer nick for rails says costume is subtle but vital part of all
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great films a lot of people say you know when you really don't notice the costumes in a film and the costume designer has done their job. getting. the oscar nominated costume design in victoria and abdul sends messages about wealth class and power the clothes especially for a victorian up to and queen victoria it's showing you who she is a queen good custom design is more than beautiful dresses it requires painstaking historical accuracy for the film darkest hour costume designer jacqueline duran went to extraordinary lengths to lend authenticity to actor gary oldman portrayal of winston churchill to suit you not vanity. when you see found out the actual savile row tailor made a lot of winston churchill suits and they're still in business and so they flew out a tailor from london to los angeles to fit gary oldman for the suits that he
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wore in the film now they did that went with him wearing a fat suit one of this year's nominees for best costume design is a film about a costume designer daniel day lewis says neurotic could jury a in phantom threat when i was a boy. in the united kingdom i definitely think that there is a bit of kudos to the profession that we as fashion designers do that is put into the film it's almost like an obama and i what i love about it is putting fashion out in the forefront you know and it's showing you how important costumes can be to tell the story telling stories on screen stitch by deliberate. stich robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. you're watching algis there arms the whole robin these are our top stories the u.n.
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human rights chief says as strikes on the besieged syrian enclave of eastern probably amounts to war crimes and those responsible should be prosecuted at least twenty three more civilians have been killed as government forces return ground from rebel fighters on friday. also because security minister now says at least sixteen people have been killed and eighty others injured in the capital ouagadougou eight gunmen were among those killed during the coordinated attacks on the french embassy and a military headquarters. there you know we did hear that there were a lot of shots fired in damage everywhere. by the army headquarters at least four people were inside a car they fired there was an explosion we saw a lot of shots fired and a lot of smoke and then people started running suspected baka rob biters have killed at least three aide workers and eight security staff members in northern nigeria a u.n. spokeswoman says the attack happened in the remote town of run in borno state
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a female nurse is also reported missing the town is home to a military base at a camp for more than fifty thousand internally displaced people. us reports say police also searching for a student suspected of shooting dead his parents out of university hall of residence in michigan nineteen year old james eric davis allegedly killed the pair when they came to pick him up from central michigan university police wore the davis should be considered armed and dangerous they say he was picked up the night before by campus police because of a possible drug overdose. italian politicians are wrapped up campaigning ahead of this weekend's part of the dream election the ruling center left democratic party has made a push for last minute votes in florence as polls put its leader. in second place the anti establishment five star movement looks certain to gain the largest single
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party effect those were the headlines here on al jazeera more news in half an hour next its risking it all to stay with us just. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for our polling the media opinion the listening post this time on al-jazeera.

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