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the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government the fail. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a story of succession and leadership. of the story the foundation and the emergence of an empire. the caliph episode one. zero.
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zero. zero zero i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes israeli security forces killed eight palestinians during protests along the gaza border hundreds more injured. the u.s. an ounce is new sanctions against several russian government officials and companies. the former brazilian president lula da silva ignores a court ordered deadline to turn himself over to police after being convicted on corruption charges. and in doha with all the day's sport has mixed martial arts stall caught in the greater is out on a fifty thousand dollars bail after attacking a bus full of him a fight more later this news down.
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a come to the program our top story at least eight palestinians were killed on friday after israeli troops fired live ammunition and tear gas at protest as along gaza's border with israel seven hundred eighty people were injured several of them are now in a critical condition it's a week since demonstrations first began to mark signs on your land day an act of resistance against israeli occupation and land seizures. abdel-hamid has more from gaza. i asked over and over again why are you going there you've seen what happened last week i mean the bullets used by these really high velocity bullets we were in the hospital a few days ago and they actually they it's not just the wounded they mainly at people nevertheless the many young people said we have nothing to lose at this stage one young man was telling me. i finished school i dropped out of school because simply it was
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a point for me to study there is nothing for me there is frustration that is anger not only had the blockade by egypt and israel but also at their own political leadership at the fact that nothing is getting better people here young people did majority of those who are down there teenagers or in their early twenty's have only known war since they were born has only known hardship and they see no end in sight so many will tell you and it's quite shocking to hear especially when you're looking at the face of that person and he's so young that they have nothing to lose at this stage they will keep on getting the taking to grievances right judy headphones for everyone to see obviously many of them are quite i would say ambitious day say that at some point they will be able to cross that says and you have to bear in mind that all of them are descendants of refugees so all of them have an original home town across the fence well has been international reaction to
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this the united nations human rights office warning israel against using any more lethal force. in accordance with international human rights law firearms may only be used in cases of extreme necessity as a last resort and response to an imminent threat of death or risk of serious injury . while a minority of protesters reportedly used means that could be dangerous the use of protective gear in defensive positions by law enforcement officials would have mitigated the risk and should not have led to recourse to lethal force while the demonstrations are inspiring more people to come out and protest it's also reminding palestinians of previous struggles one hundred jam journal reports now from the occupied west bank. in gaza palestinian demonstrators did what they could to frustrate israeli security forces. burning tires to obscure the view of soldiers
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using mirrors in an attempt to blind snipers tactics that reminded me of an earlier era of resistance and i'm so proud of the fact that now all by listing in groups including hamas you had thought that if anybody thought i don't think this up at all it's of peaceful nonviolent resistance which has proven to be the most effective way of dealing with those that are you know patient with dealing with those that are a little bit ashamed of the palestinian people and this definitively brings us back to thirty principles said if a lion said for going to sion and defiance of. these exactly what are the thirty principles that govern the fed's intifada and that led to changing the balance of power. in the first intifada which began in december one thousand nine hundred seven marked the first time that palestinians from all parts of society began such an intense resistance to israeli occupation. in the beginning boys threw rocks and people marched later fighters began attacking israeli soldiers and military targets
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it ended in one thousand nine hundred three and by the time it was over more than one thousand one hundred people had died tires were also burned in the occupied west bank just outside the illegal israeli settlement of beit del where a small crowd of palestinian protesters gathered throughout the day it was a game of cat and mouse that has become almost a regular occurrence on fridays after prayer incoming tear gas from israeli security forces would force them to run only to return a short time later hurling rocks despite calls by palestinian political factions for residents of the occupied west bank to come out and protest today attendance at the demonstrations was relatively low which really underscores a growing like a faith and palestinian political leadership activists say palestinian officials need more than ever to. build trust one of the main things is just like to show them. honestly away from the situation to tell exactly the people what
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how we can go out of the situation to see people who want to see an end to twenty five years of useless. but picnic negotiations that dusty the situation while officials may be disappointed at the dearth of demonstrators outside gaza they also feel their message this time will resonate with the international community. is the social media the ability of young palestinians to use social media and transmit. actual. objectivity around the fact that israel is a ruthlessly shooting civilians shooting peaceful demonstrators this is unacceptable the expectations are high the great march of return will inspire more unity for the moment at least there is a small simlins of hope that seems to be rising above the usual political divisions . in the occupied west bank elsie beynon is a form a israeli minister of justice tell me earlier that it was unclear what the
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palestinians were hoping to a change. the question of whether or not it is excessive use of power. and i must admit that most of the israelis saying you know it is a palestinian provoke they're having their problems with egypt with their own. leadership with the studio authority they are coming close to the to the fence of we actually we drew from gaza destroyed all the settlements are a true that we are still having some. or for ruling. through the sky in the sea but this is not a reason to. have these demonstrations against us especially when they ask is so. back what actually these young
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people who are really suffering we all admit the suffering in the small stream which is so densely populated but what do they really want to form us if they want peace if they want negotiations we are ready to negotiate but as you know hamas is not ready to negotiate with us. united states has announced more sanctions against russia for what it calls its malign activity around the world including meddling in the us presidential elections sanctions are targeted at seven oligarchy and seventeen senior government officials who are allies of russian president vladimir putin i want house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. for weeks relations between the united states and russia have been deteriorating but this time for russian president vladimir putin it's personal on friday the administration of u.s. president donald trump announced its third action in as many weeks against key allies of putin including his own son in law what we would like to see is the
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totality of the russian behavior change the new u.s. sanctions target thirty eight russian entities seven all of guards are named including putin's personal friend oleg deripaska he's the billionaire founder of em group the largest operator of siberian power plants dura pasta made headlines last year for his reported links to paul mann afford trumps former presidential campaign chair seventeen senior russian government officials and one state owned trading company have also been singled out the latest move comes in response to u.s. accusations russia meddled in the twenty sixteen us election its intervention in ukraine malicious cyber activity and its backing of syrian president bashar assad who the u.s. accuses of using chemical weapons against civilians the russian government calls the latest sanctions a mistake and has always denied meddling in any us affairs nobody's been tougher on
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russia than i have but it took months for trump to get tough on russia he was granted the power by the u.s. congress last summer. but waited until last month to impose sanctions the white house escalated its response weeks later joining nearly two dozen other countries expelling dozens of russian diplomats and closing a russian consulate in seattle yeah actions were a collective international response to the recent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in britain still when asked this week if putin was a friend or foe trump replied we'll find out all. you know armored would be a time when all that you know you got to find out very quickly the white house says despite the new sanctions against russia donald trump the house invited vladimir putin for a meeting here in the united states time and date still to be determined kimberly helped get al-jazeera at the white house well now to syria where state t.v.
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is reporting government forces of launched a ground offensive under the cover of as strikes into the last rebel held area of eastern ghouta at least forty people have been killed in the bombing of duma by the last rebel groups racial islam is still holding out russia and the syrian government have been pushing for a deal with the group but so far it's refusing to withdraw its own quest of president bashar assad's biggest victory over the rebel since two thousand and sixteen. with the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about the program. in the wake of the cambridge analytical scandal facebook's chief operating officer admits the company did not do enough to protect user data. a right wing nationalist verses a liberal u.s. based billionaire who will become hungry the next president. and child abuse allegations made against two of the biggest clubs in arjen time football.
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south korea's former president park geun hye has been sentenced to twenty four years in jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines she was found guilty on sixteen of eighteen charges of abuse of power bribery and coercion and influence peddling scandal that shocked the nation kathy novak has more from seoul. this is a scandal that has gripped south korea since twenty sixteen and the nation watched the climax live on television but popgun hate boycotted the trial and wasn't in court to learn her fate but to the court sentences the defendant puck and head to twenty four years in prison and fines her sixteen point eight million u.s. dollars. fark was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges including abuse of power coercion and of bribery and said to have taken millions of dollars from
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the country's vegas conglomerates in exchange for favors the corruption scandal sparked months of protests in central seoul culminating in parks impeachment was also found guilty of leaking sensitive information to her long time friend chess and she'll as president park allowed to dictate policy even though she had no official government role the pair was found to have conspired to extort millions of dollars from major companies including samsung in february chair was sentenced to twenty years in prison samsung's air and group leader j. wiley's was tried separately and convicted of bribing pock through payments to foundations check controlled he was sentenced in august to five years in prison then released on appeal. some of these protesters pointed to that ruling asking if lee was released why was parked found guilty. been an angry reaction from outside the court from these supporters of poc and hey there are conservatives who
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dislike the current liberal president moon j.n. and their demanding parks release. they represent a generation a style jack for the time when pox father park chung hee was president he was a military general who came to power in a coup and was eventually killed by an aide a traumatizing event for a young hakan hey doesn't your job to look how we will keep fighting until there is a new government in power in will not let her out we need to fight injustice but the number of park supporters paled in comparison to the hundreds of thousands who regularly turned out for the candlelight protests president mungy in came to office on a liberal agenda promising to stamp out corruption in a statement his spokesman said they say history not remembered repeats itself we will not forget today kathy novak al jazeera soul. our form of brazilian president would have to silva has a good north a court order deadline to turn himself over to police is support as
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a rallying in his hometown of. well luna is holed up at the metal workers union building it is arrest has been ordered so he can begin serving a twelve year sentence for corruption and this is the scene now where people are rallying in his favor for more on what's in store for the former president that speak to sam calley a journalist based in sao paolo so it was supposed to turn himself in about an hour ago twenty hundred g.m.t. that hasn't happened so what are his options now well we've just heard from brazil's police that they see is zero chance of. resting at the silver today it's unclear whether this has to do with a federal rule which basically means the federal police cannot ends up residences of six pm and before six am monday to friday but that seems to be the main theory going around at the moment so has basically survived to fight another day.
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it's unclear what will happen tomorrow but it's also believed that he would be able to say in the union building without fear of arrest tomorrow and sunday and then monday would begin a new interesting we've also just heard from the judge the judges the judges team in fact that the order was issued today the fact that hasn't for that does not mean in fact that he has broken the law so yeah lou has survived to fight another day but for how long remains unclear. we have been seeing images of his supporters rallying in his hometown is a divisive figure but he's certainly very popular in the country how would you describe reaction to. this latest plea to stay out of prison how could it affect the election but it would affect the election is it in that he would not be able to
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run you know it also kind of increases his popularity this kind of mafia image that he has what we've seen since the beginning of these accusations and convictions against look quite frankly we've just seen brazil we've seen brazil proving because of his approval ratings in opinion polls that his approval ratings growing as these convictions and accusations of mounted against him is because brazil suffering a terror weapon of a crisis right now and many people look back to the mandates that he's between two thousand and three and two thousand and ten as the best years in brazilian history basically millions of people like that out of poverty into a new middle class you know you presided over a you know sustainable economic growth and you had an eighty seven percent approval rating when you left office now he's a much more divisive figure in human polls suggest that around fifty percent of the population don't want to see him but he remains by far brazil's most popular
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politician and yet by preventing him from running in the election it seems to galvanize support. is there a risk of violence should that be an attempt to arrest him. well there's always an a risk of violence in brazil and brazil has been rocked by a spate of political violence recently we saw all the. swiss shots at it was stationary with journalists aboard it was shot at when he did it's all of the southern states the rio council or the rio city council matty franco was assassinated three weeks ago so brazil is on a knife edge at the moment is a busy dividing country by space of political violence if there is an attempt to arrest him it's unclear. whether there would be violence the brazilian police are known to be extremely botton although today they said that there would not be any unrest if they tried to arrest him we know that lewis still has some more legal
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provisions of him but like i say it's unclear from monday about about how these case will proceed but for now he survives to fight another day or another weekend at least thanks very much sand and praying the latest on the story that in brazil. now a former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court to face corruption charges relate to a two and a half billion dollar arms deal in totally faces sixteen charges including fraud racketeering and money laundering afrin so he has more from durban. this is a significant moment in south africa's history for the first time a former head of state is in the dock placing corruption charges jacob zuma looked subdued as a judge adjourned the beginning of his trial to june to give lawyers time to
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prepare this matter these regions through the eighth of june twenty eighth the outside the courtroom he supporters will ted when he came on stage he said the court proceedings had been political instigated. crime in two thousand and five i was in this same court facing the same charges i have never heard of anyone having charges dropped then reinstated the judge dropped the case because the folk the matter had been politicized. zoomers african national congress party has kept its distance unlike in his previous scandals but party members arrived at court dressed in a.n.c. regard despite warnings not to from party headquarters supporters of come from across this region. which is a stronghold of the former president they say that maybe even enough said he has been unfairly targeted really five and that it was done by him till the very end he
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is accused of receiving bribes to use his influence in the a.n.c. in favor of a french arms company and later to protect the company from investigations. this group in fighter jets filmed a few years ago were part of the deal some legal and political analysts say that the state has enough evidence to guarantee a conviction one must remember that is former financial adviser should be a shaikh was in fact convicted of corrupting him the state at that time showing four instances in which it said it could prove and did prove that zuma had circumvented his duties under the constitution by doing favors for shake and his business interests as a consequence of being on what the state termed as a sort of corrupt retainer this is a matter that has divided south africans but many of them including zuma supporters say they are tired of waiting for so long for answers they hope they would have to wait many more years to get by ticked no matter what that verdict is catherine.
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at least ten people have been killed in a series of bank robberies in the western nigerian city of offer four policemen and six civilians died during the shootings local media say the gunman first targeted a police station before using explosives to enter the banks. before my cattle need a car his push to mount is calling for dialogue with the spanish government after his release on bail from a prison in germany whose amount was detained last week after crossing the border from denmark spain is seeking his extradition on charges related to his role in catalonia as a legal independence referendum last year. german judges have real pressure to mount cannot be extradited to charges of rebellion but on the grounds of misuse of public funds john mccain has more now from outside the prison in northern germany. colors push for more surprised everyone by taking a considerable time to actually obtain his freedom to walk out to address the waiting media we have been led to believe it would be at some point early in the
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morning after he would have posted the bail of seventy five thousand euros and agreed to meet the stringent conditions that had been placed on the his release from incarceration here at the prison in. but finally once he had come complied with all the formalities and did emerge from the prison doors and when he did so the message he came across to the media with was one of the need for dialogue to resolve this situation. the time for a day i logged has arrived we are demanding that daily from the last that she hears and we only received a violent and representative response now seeing the fall of that response it's time to do politics so carlos has managed to get himself released from the confines of this prison. where he spent much of the
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past two weeks since his arrest he says now is the time for political dialogue to try to resolve the crisis and indeed the german government has sent that there needs to be a regional government created in catalonia to help resolve the crisis but for the moment at least the direct future. himself well that's in his hands but it is by no means certain that in getting out of this prison it doesn't mean he might still not end up in a spanish prison sometime soon. hungary's prime minister viktor orban has held a final campaign rally ahead of sunday's election most polls in hungary predict oban will win a third term in office and right wing nationalist leader is used his campaign to target his toughest critic billionaire philanthropist george soros saar supports open borders in eastern europe something of bandstands against john holl reports. in the world according to viktor orbán hungary is a fortress under siege its defenses threatened by refugees and the values of
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liberal democracy one man represents both the face of billionaire philanthropist and native hungary and george soros is the centerpiece of all burns reelection campaign the open borders soros supports are everything stands against. at the soros funded open society foundations promoting human rights free expression and good governance they're concerned about an expected tightening of anti n.g.o.s laws after the election by cracking down on serious i say to you where did you get you basically you get to a point where or diverging opinions where or critical voices are science that's the way to a sort of like establish an authoritarian regime and that's what's taking place now in hungary the central european university is another soros funded institution facing difficulties last year thousands gathered to protest against plans to shut
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down one of the few remaining outlets of free thought and discussion former foreign minister peter byrne teaches at c.e.u. and explains why he thinks the government wants these critical voices silenced to stay on power for ever not challenge any time by any opposition forces to keep all the money they have accurately did himself his family his close friends. on hungary's southern border a cold war era watchtower is a reminder of decades of soviet subjugation never to be repeated three years ago or been invoked the sixteenth century ottoman invasion as thousands of refugees marched along this railway line into hungry and western europe in victor all bands hungary history repeats itself centuries ago christian soldiers repelled the invading muslim ottoman hordes just as modern day savior or band himself has built
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a fence to keep the refugees out in the same way the overlords of soviet moscow have been replaced by pro immigration pro-democracy figures like george soros and the bureaucrats of brussels and though all down denies it jewish groups see another appeal to history in the vilification of soros is really the cliche that. the jews are secretly working to undermine the euro pang a white and christian right external threats and the enemy within there's little talk of real problems like corruption crumbling health care and education just the need for a strong leader like viktor orban jonah hill al jazeera budapest. more to come for you to salah searching for grace's gold mines and bob when mine is finding themselves in a legal battle with the former first lady. say but truly no legal rights who are
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opposing the plight of rango refugees in malaysia where they've been linked to infant decades. and as the woman is asian cup kicks off in jordan we'll tell you why the country has become a trailblazer of women's football and leeks. the weather squatting down nicely warming up as well across central and eastern parts of europe without this little area showers just around the ball to cincy greece as well little further east as high pressure coming in behind that's settling things down meanwhile over towards the west there is a low pressure just part of the unit from the atlantic will bring some outbreaks of right into the person into the far west of france and also into spain and portugal but warm air coming in you can see temps going up to twenty twenty one the for
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paris and for syria sixteen celsius in london with some bits and pieces all right for the central and eastern parts you can see slushy five and dry temps going up to eighteen in berlin fourteen in kiev five in moscow moscow will warm up to around twelve eighteen degrees by the start of the new working week getting up to nine celsius on sunday here's a nice big area of high pressure washing things down brightening things up lots of spring sunshine coming through not quite sunny further west still some rain around temperatures still thanks to betty seventeen eighty degrees there for london and paris the weather that we do have just around spain and portugal just lapping on to the northern shores all to morocco chad just getting up to around eighteen degrees celsius and are bats on sas day similar temperature on sunday we'll see wet weather for northern parts of algeria. we're heading to the place sunday from a true renewables on it's taking us two days on this boat just to get from the
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welcome back a recap of our top stories this hour a palestinians have been killed after the israeli army fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters close to the gaza border. the united states is imposing new sanctions against russian businessman companies and government officials close to president vladimir putin. and the former brazilian president lula da silva has ignored a court order deadline to time himself over to police. so more in our top story now the violence at israeli gaza border at least eight palestinians have died. after being fired at with live ammunition and gas while more than thirteen hundred have been injured on the abdel-hamid has been at the
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border but she's been finding out more about those involved in the protests. the black spoke started billowing since early morning as garrison was dubbed as the friday of tires and for a second week in a row they took to grievances right up to the fence despite this radio army who are doing that it will change its rules of engagement. mainly tear gas and live ammunition sending the protesters running for their lives. some of them had mirrors to blind a sniper's position across the fence at least one hundred according to the army and many hurled stones sixteen year old mohammad was among them during the week he goes to school and on fridays during his weekend he comes to the border area. they fight us with advanced methods we have slingshots and we have stones but they have bombs we want to eat to drink to work but we have no life there is nothing for
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us here i'm angry at everything that anger is the main driving force behind these protests have mass and other political faction seeking to gain leverage and how much fearing the demonstrators will storm defense. three hundred meters leading to the border fence are a no go area for gaza and now this fight the spreads made by israel that it will use exactly the same rules of engagement they did under first then the protest people came here and that is where most of the casualties happened. at times there was you for your among the protesters but as they drew closer they were immediately pushed back. and the wailing sirens replaced the chants is in the afternoon the detentions were highest hundreds of casualties in just a few hours many here are refugees who were pushed out of their homes by new born
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israel back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight going back is a dream passed on from generation to generation. who was kicked out from ny today known as ashkelon in southern israel she was a child then and now she's giving support to the youth fighting for her rights morgenthau timothy's a monk in them about him throughout the year the three hundred meters around the fence are a no go area for gazans despite the threat by israel that they would use the same rules of engagement as they did on the first day. people have continued to come here and this is where most of the casualties happen. garrisons frustrated by did never ending blockade know that in the short term nothing will improve for them but by risking their lives at the fence they hope to refocus the world's attention on their plight as to refugees under siege. gaza. a group of rain the muslims fleeing violence in myanmar been rescued by an indonesian
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fishing boat off the western coast of. five people have been found but the survivors say at least five others died during the twenty day journey hundreds of thousands of rangar fled myanmar over the past few months amid a military crackdown while many rang a fleeing man march settled in malaysia with an estimated sixty thousand living in the country but is the crisis in iraq and say has gone on for decades they're not all recent arrivals some have lived there for years but still have no legal status florence louis reports from. sharjah bibi came to malaysia by boat four years ago with her children as. she was stateless and faced persecution she didn't want to leave my door in rakhine state but had no choice. in my village life was good then to myanmar military started making things difficult for us they beat people burned homes took our lands so that's why i came to malaysia but life here
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is just a stuff if not more. she has health problems but barely enough money for medical treatment and she worries about her children who can't go to government schools or work legally. malaysia is not a signatory to the un convention on refugees so the refugees here have few rights and no access to public services the government has declined to comment but many non-governmental organizations filling the gap. this school is run by muslim groups. who get a monthly allowance the rangar have been fleeing for decades many of them end up living here in the northern state of which are several entry points from thailand which is often a transit route. despite the difficulties summer when you have secured a better future and. has been here for seventeen years making a living doing odd jobs last year his application for asylum in new zealand was
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approved. i'm comfortable with life here about my children. if we continue to study here. he's looking forward to starting a new life in a country that actually wants him. north malaysia. is accusing of invading her farms to mine for gold mine is suing her for defamation it's one of a number of control she has to deal with now since the husband was forced to resign from the presidency november. from a. this is grace mugabe's farm in just outside the capital harare one of several properties the mugabe family owns. zimbabwe's former first lady says these men recently invaded her property and are illegally digging for gold that belongs to
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her the men say in fact their families have been working in this area nearly fifteen years remember. mrs some global just hours away in twenty three thousand here security guards give us four hours to clear out we were told to take all our things and leave some of the miners have sued grace mugabe for allegedly calling them thieves and invaders they are demanding a one hundred thousand dollars in compensation mugabe says the intrusion on her land is politically motivated the rights of a person who is so obvious rights in the person who has any rights should be respected in this instance the legal argument that's being put forward is. our client has both the surface rights and. and the mineral rights jaring the land reform period in zimbabwe property was seized from white commercial farmers and given to blacks and bobbins people will restate old in this area by government the soil is it to be good for growing and below the surface rich in minerals. the
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government dismisses mcgovern's claims that she is being victimized i'm not sure way she's being a crybaby and not following the legal process just like everyone is in court to the courts to tool to ensure that justice is done. is for the allegation that she is behaving properly and since. he has been lifted off i am not our way or any problems except that she is in dispute with here with these miners in villages which is a longstanding dispute is just one of several controversies facing grace mugabi the police say they are also investigating a case in which she allegedly smuggled two million dollars worth of ivory. tobias oversees the m.d.c. accusation that the ph d. she received four years ago was fortunately obtained the mugabe family took the farm in the early two thousand people living in the area were told to leave since they had them regardless of my disagreements with villages and farmers over the use
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of the missouri dam and other resources these minus a grace mugabe is no longer the country's first lady and there's not have the political authority to remove them they insist they are here to stay with the grace mugabe likes it or not that's how to get us out is there a lot of them. a former russian spy in the center of a diplomatic route between the u.k. and russia is no longer in a critical condition doctors say circus cripples health is improving a month after he and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in southern england person blamed russia for the attack but moscow denies any involvement meanwhile the u.k. foreign office has confirmed screwballs niece has been denied a visa to come to person she was planning to take her gaze d'orsay yulia back to russia facebook has admitted it failed to stop people's data from being used by the consultancy firm cambridge analytic or the british company is being investigated for using information gathered illegally in political campaigns including the
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election of u.s. president donald trump and the u.k.'s breck's at referendum john hendren reports from washington. facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg acknowledged the company failed to protect users data showed the company could have protected their data better years ago she made these acknowledgments in a series of television interviews this is what she had to say we don't know what data or if they have any data at all right now we were given assurances by them years ago that they deleted the data we should have followed up that's on us we are trying to do a friends i thought it to find out what they have we started that the u.k. government is now doing their own investigation and they have precedents so we're waiting we don't know at all what data they had that eighty seven million people we notified our people whose data might have been accessed by cambridge analytical so we're giving the most conservative possible estimate and notifying those people but once we can do our out it if we can hone it down and be more specific we certainly will be facebook shares have sent more than fifteen percent and wiped out eighty
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billion dollars in market value since march sixteenth that's when the new york times in the london observer reported that a company called cambridge analytical got access to millions of facebook users data to congressional panels are now looking into whether russia access that data and whether anyone from the truck campaign had a role in providing it on april fourth the company disclosed that eighty seven million users had their data compromised that is up from a previous disclosure report of fifty million users facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg will testify before congress on april tenth and eleventh. a mexican politician has accused the us president of using central american migrants as propaganda donald trump has described migrants traveling through mexico to the u.s. as being plagued by violence and sexual assault echoing language from his presidential campaign john holland join one of migrants and one hacker in mexico.
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one is packing to go again this is been his life since he left his family in honduras to join the caravan of migrants heading through mexico he says he had no choice but to leave put a limit on the lot i had problems with the maras gangs in honduras they wanted me to join them and i don't like those things so they came looking for me to kill me going from poverty to the tween curses of central america especially honduras and el salvador these people are trying to escape the stories are harrowing and helical says gang members raped her twice and extorted her smoot told pti a business until she couldn't pay them they said they take a five year old daughter ashley instead it will be in all this one that they sell the children to people for sexual abuse that was when i decided to leave my country because i didn't want my daughter to suffer what i've gone through. this caravan has infuriated president trump who feared a mass border hope on thursday he appeared to refer to attacks that many migrants
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suffer on route to the states and yesterday it came out where this journey coming up women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before he plans to send national guard reinforcements to the us mexico border many people in the united states including president trump and his supporters say no you should stay in your own country on tourism fixings there why are you running to our country would you respond with this if you don't like that if people need help why not give it why the state u.s. president discriminate against us the caravan that's been at the center of so much controversy. the split some people are still following its route others like the ones on this bus to mexico city have decided to go their own way iva to for refuge in mexico or to try and get to be you know it's just that. many have family back home who depend making it but only. trying to help her husband and three sons you know salvador. media it hurts to part from the family and only see to mean.
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that i have an aim to get the family ahead and raise good men not bad ones. with president trump looking to tighten the u.s. border to the future as she's searching for looks increasingly out of reach john home and how does it a mexico still ahead for you a philippine terrorist island that's been shut down from major clean up but some residents say the government has. in sport rafael nadal makes a winning return to the tennis court that's just ahead when. i. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.
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the philippines is closing one of its most popular and profitable tourist destinations for six months president ordering go to tatay says barak island is a cesspool needs a major cleanup but locals who depend on the area to make a living i'm not sure of how they'll now cope. reports. boruc i may be just one of the more than one thousand islands in the philippines but revenues here make up more than twenty percent of the total tourism industry in the country we've spoken to tourists here and many say the room even noticed the political turmoil that the island is facing with the government but local workers here feel differently obviously then up among that president to turn to what's going to happen to us i hope you can help us thousands of us workers will be jobless six
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months. i hope they don't totally close down the island because so many of us employees will go hungry along with our families president of the good that they're just described boruc i am a quote a cesspool has ordered its government because the island for the next six months for rehabilitation that means thirty five thousand workers are expected to lose their jobs and we've spoken to workers who say who would like to know what sort of assistance will they get from the national government or whether they will even have a job to return to they also criticized the government for granting two licenses to two chinese mega casinos they say that medical simos like this one have no place in a small island like boracay they demand a plan they say from the government was made drastic measures they say without a long clear policy as to how it wants to end it it's time now to get peter
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fruitless for. marion thank you very much we start with the masters golf where jordan speed failed to build on his overnight lead on day two at all goes to the three time major winner was six under par heading into the second round but a two over par round on friday has seen him drop back to four under rory mcilroy who is bidding to win the only major missing from his trophy cabinet is also now on four under after a second round of seventy one and world number one dustin johnson kept himself in contention to four under for the day he is now three and overall one of the biggest stars in the sport of mixed martial arts khana mcgregor is out on a fifty thousand dollars bail after appearing in a new york courtroom the irishman was charged with three counts of assault and one of criminal mischief by the new york police department on thursday that was after the twenty nine year old attacked a bus carrying u.f.c.
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fighters to the barclay center in brooklyn mcgregor lost the school as the bus turned up at the venue for saturday's event that he is not a part of he threw a metal trolley smash in one of the windows and injuring two fighters sexual abuse scandals are increasingly being uncovered in sports in the last few months gymnastics and football have been rocked by high profile cases in february former u.s. gymnastics team doctor larry nasser was sentenced to more than one hundred seventy five years in prison for abusing over two hundred fifty women and children in he's care the same month british football coach and youth scout barry benaud was found guilty of forty three charges of sexual abuse dating back to the nine hundred seventy s. he molested boys and promised to further their football koreas. now argentina is facing a similar scandal surrounding two of his biggest clubs former players from the use
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divisions of the plays and in the bin the end say they were victims of a child prostitution ring has more from where sinus was football is much more than a sporting argentina it's a national passion that in the last week has been shaken to the core i a seventeen year old player within the indian there told the club psychologist that he and another young player had been encouraged to sell themselves for sex at least seven miners were prostituted and ten others i relieved to have been potential victims prosecutors say there could be more. if we don't go on that by those many children were contacted but did not fall into the trap and we are also investigating the potential of the crime known as grooming in many cases they were not successful in carrying out their attempted activities but we are going to ensure that these people no longer have the chance to just throw children. but the
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sex abuse investigations have spread to other clubs. runs a rape victim association and filed a complaint against river plate when she received information that young players were also abused between two thousand and four and two thousand and eleven. i talked of the work at the club wrote to us she had proved that children are also part of a ring she had to take time off because she was told not to get involved we also received a letter where a former player says that children were forced to prostitute themselves to be allowed to move forward in their careers as. has been receiving threats since she can talk to the authorities and is now using what is known as a panic room. river plate is one of the most famous clubs in the country it is a more tie sports club that operates whole stealth for young players recruited from other parts of argentina or abroad the second. well abuse scandals involving young players that live here because they do not have any relatives in one of us. has
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been investigating the abuses and says there is a common pattern. kitty and there are two cases where we see a similar situation we see individual cases but they happen inside the club with children that have a very vulnerable economic situation who are not from when osiris for example a thirteen year old that is from shakur who has no money transfer to where i was a day and pedophiles try to take advantage of that. the dream of becoming a big a star as your name may seem has left hundreds of children exposed in argentina and even though the argentine football association says it will now look at conditions in the host us where young players live that won't repair the damage that has already been done. it is how we'll just see one side of. manchester city have the chance to wrap up the english premier league in their darby clash with manchester united on saturday city have a sixteen point lead over their local rivals in the table if they win they'll be
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the first team in history to secure the title with six games remaining. close to the champion of course got the chance. to go to the believe it doesn't matter because we don't prepare this isn't a thing we're going to win tonight it's coming home so so the question is where it isn't just for. we have to do to win. the women's asian cup kicks off in jordan on friday the competition serves as a qualifying tournament for the world cup and it's the first time a middle eastern country has host to be events and as natasha game reports jordan has moved as a trailblazer for women's football in the region. nine months of intense training and years of building a foundation for women's football in jordan the jordanian team is now carrying the dreams of generations of future players as they compete for a chance to win the asian women's cup and to attain the real goal to play in the
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women's world cup next year jordan is the only team in the middle east competing it's something exciting and shooting something up to the forefront it's really great actually i think the women's and girls are getting more opportunities to play my part to me it's a six press themselves and what they want to do in life. natasha now bear will be in the stands cheering on her sister and her teammates she says she'll also be daydreaming about qualifying for the national team and getting her shot to compete in a world cup one day it's like you're fighting for for something you love i think it's the best. think i've ever felt such as my heart that people say the promotion of women's football can be traced back to prince ali the president of the jordan football association private schools are now offering girls the opportunity to play football there's a club system to develop talent and the country is hosting international
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tournaments i think to devote you to these events on a big motivator for them the game is floating and more girls are becoming interested in this game going to be part of the teams after they watch games in the stadiums but negative attitudes about women playing football persist not only in jordan but in asia just twenty four of just forty six tombs even attempted to qualify for the women's usually caught half of those countries signed up for the rights to televise it. now bears says no matter what people think playing football has transformed her. i started to. take responsibility for myself and to be a determined more and to teach my good of course but it changed me a lot only a small number will ever compete at the highest level but empowering girls and women with the freedom and choice to play the game may be the greatest benefit
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football brings to jordan natasha going to aim algis iraq a man funny tennis and world number one rafael nadal has made a winning return from injury in spain's davis cup quarter final against germany this one of those first match since he had support out of the australian open in january with a hip problem but he looked back to he's old self as he beat coach rival in straight sets. and that's all the sport for me again later now only thank you very much peter well that wraps up this news out but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news see in a couple of minutes. harkness
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