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welcome to the program syrian government forces have begun shelling the last remaining area on the eisel control near the capital damascus. has been under a government siege for several years as well half of it is held by eisel fighters by rival rebel groups government troops say they plan to retake the whole area in the coming days well much of it is a densely populated camp it's mainly home to palestinian refugees who moved there long before the war in syria. joins us live now from the lebanese capital beirut of the syrian army has announced the start of this offensive against in the south of damascus what more do we know. the syrian army and its allies they've been preparing for this operation for some time now sending reinforcements to the front lines the army announced saying that they are targeting this enclave
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a number of districts in southern to mask under the control of ice. so the army moving on following it's a victory really in eastern after taking control of eastern from the rebels and setting its sights on this enclave in the south of damascus really wanting to clear the area around the capital around its seat of power now these districts really are not that densely populated unlike eastern and these districts are smaller in size than an eastern hotel but it's not just southern to mask the syrian army and its allies have also turned a ten. two homes the northern countryside of homs that is the central province of homs they have bombarded the area heavily bombarded the area also over the past forty eight hours at least five civilians have been killed and it seems that they have tried to push into this enclave but so far the rebels are repairing their advance so the government really empowered following its victory in eastern and
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civilians in these rebel enclaves worried that they could face death or forced displacement. this could be the start of a new offensive against rebel territory and hopes. the syrian government appears to be turning its attention to the strategic region following its victory in eastern huta much of the central province has been recaptured in recent years but the opposition has long held an enclave in the northern countryside that area is strategic for damascus if it wants to secure the roads linking government controlled cities in the west of the country the opposition is promising a fight. they weren't able to hurt us with the or two that was shining and they did try to advance on the ground they failed we warn them that if they want to fight they will lose a lot of. every so often the army drops leaflets on these besieged neighborhoods
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demanding rebels to reconcile with the government surrender and leave or face attack that's the way the government takes areas by imposing sieges and then bombing the rebels and the population into submission. we fear they might displace us just like they did to others in other places people are petrified because they don't want to be left without homes or shelter. hundreds of thousands of syrians have been forced from their homes because of these so-called reconciliation or evacuation deals and they know returning is only a distant possibility they have. to be displaced i want to stay with my family and friends i don't want to go anywhere else to be humiliated. holmes says not the government's only target there is a rebel enclave forty kilometers northeast of the capital damascus rebels in the western region have been given an ultimatum to accept a state to rule or leave the faction in the town of the mayor has agreed to
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surrender to stave off a military offensive the opposition has little chance of winning the battles in the northern countryside of homs and in the western and if those areas are under siege they have been for years but it's only recently that the army has been able to apply military pressure throughout the conflict the pro-government alliance suffered from a manpower shortage and has had to prioritize battles. now the army is mobilizing on the front lines in southern damascus. and the opposition controls a number of districts there it seems the priority will be the battle with before a deal is offered to the rebels that would end all opposition presence in and around the capital where thousands gather to celebrate syria's independence day and this year the government is marking the anniversary from a position of strength has never been this comfortable since the start of the conflict more than seven years ago. i know it's been eleven days now since the alleged chemical attack and is it now confirmed that the o.p.c.
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double inspectors will be allowed in tomorrow. well according to the russian military the chemical weapons inspectors will be visiting. alleged chemical weapons attack according to the russian military a team from the united nations will be visiting too much today to make sure that the security situation is safe for the team to enter now russia has been accused of preventing and blocking. access from reaching the. united kingdom yesterday accusing russia of preventing them from reaching russia and the syrian government denying this but the americans are also concerned that the site could have been tampered with by the russian military and we heard the russian foreign minister lavrov said no we did not tamper with the evidence we have to remember when this alleged chemical weapons attack happened the area was under the control of the rebels and then the russian military police entered they inspected the site and said they did not find any trace of chemical weapons so really
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a lot of concern about whether or not. we'll be able to carry out its mission but even if they find out that a chemical weapons attack actually happened we're not expecting any retaliation from the west because according to them they already acted on the basis of the information that they already had the proof that they already had. what witnesses all of that apparent told al jazeera they felt the effects of a poisonous substance many have no arrived at displacement. reports nothing on the turkey syria border this is what paul looks like today for his family on april the seventh they were in duma when it was alleged syrian forces launched a chemical attack. close to where it happened. there was another missile which landed and then there was a very strange smell the first thing was smoke a yellow smoke it had a rotten smell it was like a new thing was being tested on us. although they've been displaced the children
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are finally able to play in the sun without the fear of bombs or near strikes more than sixty thousand people have been forced to leave their homes in duma but tens of thousands more opted to stay duma is part of eastern kuta which was besieged for nearly five years and bombed into submission over the last two months. the intensity of the last attack made gestural islam's fighters surrender the next day in a statement the rebel group says it decided to withdraw to save lives russia and syria continue to deny that chemical weapons were used and see the pictures of the bodies and people gasping for breath is propaganda produced with the help of western intelligence agencies the u.s. u.k. and france didn't believe russia or syria and carried out air strikes on syrian military facilities in retaliation. some people like primary teacher illegally entered turkey to reach safety he doesn't want to disclose his real name or show his face because his family is in damascus and he's afraid they will be harmed if
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his identity is revealed on how bad the governor's office when we came to live there was a war like situation there in egypt this was a bombardment we left couldn't stay alive we don't want to face war again we want to have a normal life thank god again to turkey it was very difficult to cross but it wasn't impossible. medical sources stalled out as they were the dogs were families areas under the control of the assad government will be afraid to say anything about the alleged chemical attack there have been allegations in denials about tampering with the evidence in duma some members of the international chemical watchdogs say they have not been granted access to the site where the alleged chemical attack took place russia maintains that it should be the u.n. which grants access but a week after the incident with a team which does not have the mandate to see who carried out the attack many don't have much hope in what will they find some other job. in the dicky's of a border. syrian air defense systems were triggered a few hours ago by
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a false alarm that's according to state media earlier pro-government reports said missiles targeting two air bases held by the syrian military had been intercepted when the report spots concern coming less than a week after the french british and american strikes on three sites but the state news agency is now reporting the defenses were fired but there was quote no external aggression. so it's coming on the news hour including. a judge releases the client list of donald trump's lawyers who paid an adult film star one hundred thirty thousand dollars to remain silent plus. the. spain cracks down on catalan separatists those who still dream of secession are changing their tactics and in sport find out why the players at this top level german league game at the half time break cut short that's also to come.
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now australia's most senior catholic cleric will return to court next month to find out if he will stand trial on sexual abuse charges cardinal george pell denies the allegations his lawyer wants the charges thrown out saying he's being targeted to punish the catholic church for failing to prevent other cases of abuse under thomas has been following the proceedings in melbourne. although pal is australia's most senior figure within the catholic church he was once asked a question here in melbourne he's also been archbishop in sydney and he was until very recently arguably the third most important person in the catholic church worldwide in charge of all their finances well he found out on tuesday that it will be on the east of my that he discovers whether he'll have to face a formal trial a multiple historic sexual abuse crimes at the place accuse him of the magistrate here in melbourne i spent the last six weeks hearing some of the evidence against him and hearing what some of his defense would be and she said that she'll now take
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the time to consider whether those witnesses all believable she said in court on tuesday but the defense would have to have a noire like to the possibility that those witnesses those accuses could be taken seriously by a jury and that would be the test by which she would decide whether or not a formal trial could go ahead it's not called no pal has been at this call to a number of stages over the last six weeks he wasn't here on tuesday but he will now have to wait another couple of weeks before he finds out whether he will have to face a full trial a judge in the us has rejected a bid by president donald trump's person a lawyer to keep some of his business documents secret the records were seized as part of an investigation into his dealings with an adult film actress who says she had an affair with trump christensen reports. attorneys for michael cohen and president trump asked the judge not to give investigators documents seized by the f.b.i. until they could review them and citing attorney client privilege protect the identity
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of other cohen clients but the judge denied the motion and outed one high profile client conservative fox news commentator and trump supporter sean hannity hannity says he discussed real estate issues with cohen who's an old friend. attorney michael cohen is the one under investigation in the proceedings taking place here. in the federal courthouse in manhattan but it's a possibility that new information could come to light from those seized documents about president truong and his alleged affair with a porn star that's attracting so much attention to you. investigators are looking for possible criminal activity surrounding cohen's one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to stormy daniels who says she was paid to keep quiet about her brief two thousand and six relationship with the president my attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth and the facts of what happened and i give my word that we will not rest until that
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happens. she is suing for defamation of character and her lawyer says the seize documents could be important to their case and dangerous to anyone who's dealt with cohen he is radio active anyone that had any contact with this man in the last twenty years should be very concerned about what secrets that there is are within these documents the judge is yet to decide who will review the documents which include information about the president's business before they're given to investigators cohen's attorneys have asked for the appointment of a so-called special master to do the job they're typically an independent lawyer who decides what prosecutors can see but prosecutors argue cohen doesn't need these special protections regardless of who represents christian salumi al-jazeera new york. or u.s. judges rule that facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology people in illinois say the company broke state laws by collecting biometric data without
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their consent but facebook says the case has no merit it's the latest issue for the social media giant after a british consultancy firm was found to have improperly access to information of nearly ninety million uses in another development indonesia's government has summoned facebook officials for questioning the site admits the personal information of a million indonesians was shared with cambridge analytical and a former cambridge analytical executive is appearing before a british parliamentary committee lawrence lee joins us live now from london lawrence so what's the committee trying to understand from her i mean she wasn't intricately involved in the briggs vote off the rule. no i think i think what they're trying to do darrin terms is to try to get their heads around the way in which data is being use by companies like came to the literature and their clients political parties and movements potentially twenty third to influence elections and in your introduction you just demonstrated that this isn't this isn't only a u.k.
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issue it's obviously become an entirely global issue brittany kaiser the woman who's giving evidence is an interesting character so she's a registered democrats in the states and her history is that she started off working with the barack obama campaign in two thousand and seven alongside people who set up facebook trying to access voters profiles and target them and reach out to them on places like facebook to vote for obama and then over the course of time she met people from cambridge analytic who persuaded her in twenty fourteen to go and work for them on the trump campaign so she switched sides if you like even though she was a democrat and then after trump was elected came journalistic a went to the leave the european union campaign in the u.k. and said so then effectively we're going to pitch to you look at what we've done with trump we could kind of do the same for you but that's basically where it more
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or less ends in terms of our involvement with the leave campaign because the leave campaign didn't actually take up the services in that sense of came to litigation in those terms but what i think they are trying to do is to understand the way in which came to listen and it's methods mights of being used in other ways through through the leave group or because they are concerns that it's possible that the brics it votes on the referendum was in some sense contaminated by fake news and so she's sort of adding to their some of knowledge and saying yeah lauren so how does all of this then play into the u.k. parliament's broader worries about the state of democracy. well there are you know as as i said before they they are deeply worried as the u.k. electoral law isn't really fit for purpose anymore in the twenty first century and it has caught them entirely unawares as in other countries the extent to which companies like came to listen are incredibly good micro-targeting very
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very small groups of people and getting at them with these messages like you know barack obama's best friends with the naked mud wrestling and therefore you can't trust him and this sort of fake news which in some places and with some people can swing opinions and when you have very very narrow margins in all these votes look at the margin of trump lost the popular vote but still won the election bracks it was fifty two the before fifty one the bit to forty nine all of these votes are very very close nowadays and so the ability of companies like this to just tip the balance is enormous and what they're trying to do is figure out a way of bringing electoral law up to speed to counter these things particularly when it's fake news lawrence thank you now two former ministers in spain's catalonia region are expected to appear in the supreme court to be formally charged with sedition and rebellion several politicians have been indicted for organizing
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last october succession referendum bank of the region's former leader cabinets put him on he's been detained in germany or spain seeks his extradition. well spain's government has become increasingly tough on council and some still dream of secession the central government in madrid has imposed direct rule on the region from barcelona reports on how to changing that sentence. an act of defiance by catalan pro independence activists disabling a highway toll just outside barcelona allowing motorists to pass free of charge. and welcoming them to the cattle on the public a protest in action but it ended up with one of the leaders being arrested on suspicion of terrorism she was later released others were charged with public disorder this is the new normal in cattle and grassroots politics. more than half a year has passed since the banned referendum in catalonia and there has been no
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breakthrough in the crisis the reaction of the spanish state has done little to dampen any feelings but there is a fear that the government will do what ever it takes to prevent secession from that a movement has evolved the committees for the defense of the republic were not afraid anymore and the spanish government will do more against us that we will be afraid what they've done to us so far is nothing we appear afraid then censorship is winning and we can't allow that but it has come at a price that. they stay out of proportion so if you were prosecuting us a terrorist people which only crime was being complaining making demonstrations in the three are you accusing of terrorism just because he's a very against the integrity of this of the country that says so how. it's a problem for the state the defense committees were set up in some sixty towns across catalonia and initially it was to protect the voting centers where the
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battle referendum was held well since then they moved on what they want to do now is to bring about a new capital. republic the spanish government's reaction has been to double down on the pro secessionist movement the former castle and president catalyst please the moment is in germany where a court ruled out extraditing him to spain on charges of rebellion but he is still a wanted man. the the the there is an impasse and the committees are keeping the momentum going for now they refused to give in to what they say is intimidation by madrid but the possibility of local elections in july may just bring those matters to a head the desire to have a catalan republic may be strong but the practicality of creating it is still a dream that is out of reach. sony vaio
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al-jazeera barcelona. the e.u. is holding a meeting in the french city of strasbourg of the future of the european alliance the french president emmanuel micro outlined his vision for the union it comes just a few days after the us france and the u.k. conduct the best drugs in syria is this week it will be our kids visit on a european and i want to begin by expressing my emotion and friendship when it comes to seeing the french president expressing himself in the way that he has the truth france is back the u.n. says fighting in democratic republic of congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al-jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing that journey traveling from uganda's capital kampala to the jungle ali refugee camp he then heads towards the landing site where many of the refugees arrived by boat he sent us this report from near the town of bunia where your company governor to areas affected by the violence. homes made of plastic sheet don't
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help much in the rain. it's all people have in this camp for displaced people in the town of poignant in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut and killed people with machetes and burned houses the government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote it was barely roads. they found small towns full of people who fled the countryside came to hear what the governor had to say. the governor saying the must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can to provide security for the people here a skeptical about his method. in each town we visit more displaced people who say it's not safe to go home. the attackers are all from eleven do ethnic groups
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the victims are ethnic hemas and some lenders to two groups have been rivals in the past but most people here say there is no ethnic conflict right now majority prisk is a hammer with many lendu friends. there telling us the government is responsible for what's going on that this is a war of the government they're saying this to us every day. many people here have told us they share the same suspicion of the government's role. un doesn't has the world's second largest peacekeeping force here we met the mission's chief visiting one of the camp people insisting that it's a. conflict but nobody. behind i didn't know. that the government is behind it i did not tell that. the government in kinshasa denies involvement as did the provincial governor. i want to assure everyone that the government has done nothing even the provincial government has done nothing we
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don't have any interest destabilizing our own territories or killing our own population whoever is behind the violence convincing the population to return won't be easy most homes remain deserted behind them fresh graves of those killed some hacked to death others burned in their homes it will take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera province in the democratic republic of congo canada is withdrawing the families of diplomats in cuba the new information about the mysterious illness is which affected started its embassy in envoys from canada and the u.s. first reported headaches dizziness and nausea last year well now doctors say they may have brain injuries says he doesn't know what's behind the incidents latin america editor this in human has more from. the latest episode in the saga involving health issues of diplomats from the united states and canada here in cuba
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involves the families of canadian diplomats the canadian government says it is now withdrawing these families because it cannot guarantee their health this after more than a year of investigations carried out by cuban american and canadian specialists they've never been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation as to what has been ailing or what was ailing these diplomats in two thousand and seventeen the symptoms were nausea headaches dizziness among others and now the canadians are saying that there could even be some brain damage involved last year the trumpet administration practically shut down its embassy here in cuba withdrawing most of its diplomatic staff saying that their health could not began or indeed the cuban government has repeatedly denied carrying out any sort of acoustical or any other type of attack against american or canadian diplomats in this country but this latest incident now involving the withdrawal of the families of the canadian diplomats comes at
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a particularly sensitive time just two days before president raul castro is due to step down signaling the end of a sixty year castro era in calling his cuba. well in a few moments we'll have all the weather with everton but still ahead here on al-jazeera. discoveries the end game is amazing scientists stumble upon a potential solution to plastic pollution. and we look at a water crisis in nigeria that some people say could have been prevented. and in sport reaching the finish line of this year's boston marathon was even tougher than usual but on the stay with us. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooney. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of the. cave are saying some of the lively down pose recent labor
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the process of sliding further southwards over into the lesser antilles months uneek dominic it was seen some massive storms very very heavy rain with some hail and hail is not usual this particular part of the world to see the flooding roads that we have had some really big downpours coming first should turn a little drowsy go on for the next day or so prices sky starts to push in from the south west the weather will make its way towards puerto rico towards dominican republic we've got showers just creeping into jamaica surprise the skies are in the process of returning full of the cloud further north and to cuba this is that cloud has been moving across the eastern seaboard of the u.s. these pictures coming from north carolina post a tornado ripping through this particular part of the state and causing widespread damage hundreds of thousands without power for a time pushed further north into new york avoid hundred forty fifth street i think was the message from a week where we can see here some very heavy rain coming through crisis guys over
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the next couple of days certainly that's the case as we go through the remainder of choose they go into wednesday sunshine returns but notice this area snow that makes its way towards the northeastern quarter it will warm up in boston but staying disturbed. the weather sponsored by cats own and always. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a story of succession and the leadership. as josie that tells the story of dispute and division of the hall. the caliph episode to. jersey. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash as a big business than and forth with a smelly bill thanks to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics
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a blended together then recycling becomes difficult to impossible on the signs that office solutions is very easy for us to have one hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour syrian government forces have begun shelling the last area and i still control near the capital damascus claim of yarmouk has been under government siege for several years afterwards held by eisel fighters the other by rival rebel groups. russia says international inspectors will
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be allowed to enter duma on wednesday to investigate an apparent chemical attack and try to stop this at the attack happened near damascus on april seventh but they won't assign blame the u.s. accuses russia of tampering with the site has been delays on security concerns. and the strain is most seen a catholic cleric to return to court next month to find out if you'll stand trial on sexual abuse charges cardinal george pell is accused of multiple sexual offenses which he denies. palestinians are marking prisoners day in a show of solidarity with thousands held in israeli jails more than six thousand five hundred palestinians including three hundred fifty children and more than sixty women are in israeli prisons more than four hundred are being held without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention according to rights groups one thousand eight hundred prisoners are in need of medical care seven hundred of them suffer from serious and chronic conditions since israel began its military occupation of the west bank and gaza nine hundred sixty seven it's imprisoned more
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than eight hundred thousand palestinians will burn and smith joins us live now from gaza city bernard so what are we expecting to happen there today. darren palestinians around in the occupied west bank of mock prison a day since nine hundred seventy four special such aside to remember those thousands of people in israeli jails i'm joined. from the center to explain a little bit about it thanks for joining us hala story explain why and the palestinians to have specific. if you. would. because the. component of the palestinian community more. in a prison. this is why it's important.
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for. the press. and. how difficult is it for you to get permission to go and see. who are in israeli prisons. you know it's not easy. as a prisoner because there's no. prisoners. in the prisons so it's not. just. them because of the blockade because of the patients because of. them. or for the
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prisoners themselves the have time to join their families in their homes but when the israelis are a pro approach and ask for permission for relatives to go and see the people in prison what what is the response you normally get. always the people. because you know it is. a cross. between the. pair. of the prisoners so. question israel will say well because the bodies of israeli soldiers israeli
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soldiers prisoners continue to do we will not visit these people in prison so. i think. they have. to have. people but the other things it's not the. palestinians under the auspices of the. those responsible for the.
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five hundred the prisoners. seventy five woman the children and the other. doesn't. would likely that you my right if they set it up as a notice of oh thank you very much for joining us so six now thousand palestinians in israeli jails is how events in gaza west bank throughout the day to commemorate those persons down back to bernard thank you. mike is interior minister has resigned after less than a month in the job he's the latest politician to step down following protests against the murder of a journalist and his fiance and a host of reports. of these weekly protests in bratislava have claimed another political scout tens of thousands of slovaks rally through their capital on sunday demanding the head of the police force step down their anger over what they say is
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his failure to investigate the murder of a journalist yan could see ak political corruption instead of the police chief it was the interior minister who resigned on monday. if i think that the farting of the police chief is not right it would create polarization of the public instead of suzi the situation in our country i think that under these circumstances i have no for the right to be the interior minister that's why i've decided to put my resignation in the hands of the president. thomas drucker is the second interior minister to quit fairly three weeks after he took over from robert can't even act that was part of a cabinet reshuffle when the former prime minister. stepped down and in his six years me his six years in the role. did so smarr party is the biggest block in the three party coalition government it's been crisis since the journalist in february could see ike and his fiance were killed an execution style murders at
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their home at the time the twenty seven year old was probing state corruption and alleged links between the government and the mafia and the theft of europe in a fun one of the companies he was investigating is owned by relatives of the current police chief the same person who's been put in charge of investigating the killings and. despite offering the one point two million dollar reward for information on those responsible and the arrest of seven people no one has been prosecuted for the murders despite their latest resignation on monday the current prime minister has backed the controversial police chief and praised his professionalism it's likely to mean protests like this will continue. the british government has apologized to members of the caribbean community who have lived and worked in the u.k. for decades but are now being treated as undocumented immigrants a problem said to think as many as fifty thousand people who came from the west indies after the second world war one of the phillips reports. he came to britain
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from barbados when he was nine years old more than fifty years ago his father had a job in the post office michael married in britain had children grandchildren worked in education thought he was british until the government told him he didn't have the right documents he lost his job as he fought for the right to stay here if i was the porter i don't know what i would to take them on earth if they had no no worth because that is what they. you know it's about work what you know what you could do for you to help britain be the better place than it was a rival of more than four hundred. the so-called women dress a generation named after a ship that carried the first arrivals from the caribbean in the one nine hundred forty eight invited to britain given citizenship it's many of the children who travelled with their parents who are now facing difficulties some of been caught
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out by strict new laws specifying documents they need to prove how long they've been hearing this could not have blown up at a more embarrassing time for the british government the very week in which the commonwealth summit in which it's busy emphasizing its friendship with former colonies as it prepares to leave the e.u. . ministers told parliament they're trying to repair the damage with a special team to help the wind generation a promise to resolve their cases quickly free of charge although the government isn't sure whether some people have already been disappointed in aaron. can she tell the house how many have been detained as prisoners in their own culture can she tell the house how many have been to noise help on the national health service how many have denied pensions how many have lost their job this is a day of national shape mr speaker i shan't be a little gentle and admiration for the people who came here from the caribbean and
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contributed so much to our society in many many different ways and that admiration remains in place i am concerned that the home office is becoming a test become too concerned with policy and strategy and sometimes lose sight of the individual. but who is in charge of the home office with these new stricter policies were being designed yes today's prime minister to resign may so as the public outcry grows there's now a political as well as moral imperative to treat the when dressed generation fairly barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. several people have been detained following a protest outside russia's security service building in moscow they're angry at the blocking of messenger service telegram the protesters threw paper planes and be encrypted service at the f.s.b. building the state telecoms regulator says it blocked access to the after a court ruled that it violated local law as the service has more than two hundred million users around the world. now an international team of scientists engineers
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an enzyme that eats plastic it's a world first and then effort to find a solution for the three hundred million tons of plastic produced every year shot but it has more. piles of plastic in every city in the world in remote regions with nowhere to go. since its invention last century the disposal of plastic has plagued the world three quarters of it sits in landfills floods the oceans even the tampa st that's recycled is simply remold it never truly broken down until now we can break it down to its building blocks and then put it back and . as water bottles and things like this century to recover those urgent type properties a bacteria discovered recently in a japanese recycling plant feeds on the world's most common plastic known as p.t. this is an enzyme aging the plastic magnified three thousand times the scientists
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wanted to study how it works but accidentally spit it out we actually thought we were making the enzymes floor by by taking a few amino acids but actually we've made it faster we've made an improved version of the enzyme better than the natural one already that's really exciting because that means that there is potential to optimize this and say even further the science has a long way to go enzyme can only digest plastic and needs to be scaled up in a commercially viable way basically we can just make gallons of pipe. and then pour in. this is what we're aiming to do so just in the same way. heritance were developed and made more stable been able to work at high temperatures temperatures we're going to do the same. and hopefully create something that we can use an industrial scale every minute one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our
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oceans if we continue this trained by twenty fifty it's predicted there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish it's an all consuming problem that scientists hope enzymes could help eat up charlotte ballasts al-jazeera now lives and livelihoods of two million people in nigeria are under threat because of a lack of water levels in the growing a dam basin of dropped the down provides water for farmers fishermen and families and it just reports from grania for decades water has run through these channels to get a good crops not this year the once lush green fields have been baked by the scorching sun most farmers left but not. who's been cultivating the land so as the dam opened thirty years ago. we've not seen anything like this before it was so sudden some will never recover this year
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we didn't cultivate ten percent of what we used to because a water shortage is dug a while to get water for his crops. but it's not enough. experts say although there's been an increase in rainfall in the region over the past ten years there's also been a rise in temperatures last year and up to dismount meant you did it at which what that is lost is increase and does had it will be a population so it's not surprising that physically that is been subjected to had it we were professional but that is not the only problem the dumb has not been properly manage it that is a big lead bridge not that dumb of course. if you don't discount a problem small islands have sprung up right in the middle of the dam this reserve one holds only ten percent of its one billion cubic meters of water which some two million people depend on for their drinking water fishing and farming. the impact of the receding waters this felt seventy kilometers away or to treatment plants
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that purify the dams water to supply households aren't getting much of it i streams have dried up we experienced a lot of difficulty because the wood their little world was for only in tech down to on board alex and from biota not sufficient enough to cut half of the town so all this dead government. had already secured. or tents for as the trucks distribute water to winds in major towns but many communities are forced to rely on unsafe sources grow new dam relies on runoff waters to feel it but sediments from sophos water built up and dredging will cost millions of dollars for now there is no pledge from the government to spend that sort of money are going to grease al-jazeera where a new. talk about the show break when to come back a novel the sports disc on there is no mark white characters call nothing's going
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to he's got a reason for holding yes no no no no no the line cool that resulted in a shouting match of the. morning.
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welcome back now the reporters who broke stories exposing sexual harassment in hollywood have won the most prestigious prize in american journalism the new york times and the new yorker won a joint put surfer investigations into alleged misconduct by the film producer harvey weinstein the reports lead to his downfall and also spot the global me too
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movement encouraging people to speak out about sexual harassment the new york times and washington post also want to pulitzer for their reporting on suspected russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and reuters photo journalist were recognized for documenting range of refugees who've been escaping a military crackdown in myanmar since last august and in what's being seen as a cultural milestone kendrick lamar's become the first rapper to win the pulitzer prize for music his twenty seventeen album dam has been praised for bridging hip hop with high art well now from hot issue castro. called the voice of a generation thirty year old kendrick lamar mixes hip hop with poetry and political protest his common subjects of race police brutality and perseverance made his songs the anthem of the black lives matter movement in the united states.
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his politically charged performances like this one on top of a vandalized police car have also triggered conservative backlash they're not helpful at all this is why i say that hip hop is done more damage to young african-americans than racism in recent years but it was with a quiet delight that minister the. traitor of the pulitzer prize announced on monday that lamar's latest album was to be honored with this year's award a virtual stick song collection unified by its for nakheel or authenticity and rhythmic diane dimond tism. that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern african american life lamar is the most commercially successful musician to have won the pulitzer prize with his albums selling out at record stores he is also the first non classical or jazz artist to win the honor legitimizing rap music as critically acclaimed art lamar says his music is a reflection of his background the son of a former gang member now
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a cultural icon who is recognized for his contribution to american arts and music i do joe castro al jazeera washington. i talked to some thank you for the downfall of defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors have taken control of the playoff series with the san antonio in the absence of steph curry that's two points from kevin durant's lead the way a for the warriors in game two and it's a hassle. with the golden state warriors style man steph curry missing through injury the san antonio spurs months have been hoping to exploit some previously unexplored flaws the warriors though do still have time all star kevin durant's a call on. the warriors with big winners in game one but the spurs lead a tough time fifty three forty seven three loss of excuse me for on top of that was
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the key for their rounds and play thompson is a further step up they gain. the warriors made fifty three point shots compared to the spurs with it just for old nights. this game the second time that thompson and durant each school thirty or more. gang for the warriors the other occasion was again three of the twenty seventeen finals series which saw the warriors beating the cleveland cavaliers four one to claim their second championship in three years the worry is finishing this game as win as one sixty one i want i can make it a loud thirty two for really want to i guess but take a lot of energy out of me. you know not really flashy play anymore i just tried. the simple and easy with my game. i guess flat on the radar a little bit we're not going to roll over we take the mentality there we had to and
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i know trying to you know trying to take the fight to you know go home with us i mentality and hopefully you know we'll shoot the ball better from the three thank you to the warriors two up in the series with the action now moving to san antonio to game three and the richardson al-jazeera. in monday's other game going away to school twenty eight points and the seventy six is seventeen a game winning streak the miami heat taking game two hundred thirteen two hundred three to level the series. other debates over the use of video assistant referees looks set to intensify ahead of the introduction of this year's world cup the system is already being used in germany's top league but not without problems in this game between mains and freiburg the players had their half time break cut short due to volley while the team's words were also off the pitch the referee
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reviewed and incident that had occurred just before the break and it was decided that the penalty should have been awarded it meant the players had to return to the field so means could take the spot kick manes when tahn to win the game to nil. thousands of fans filled the center of island in hovan in the netherlands on monday to celebrate pearce fee's league title trounced. the side secure their twenty fourth dutch league title on sunday they did it thanks to a three nil win over title rivals i accept over home they now have an unsaleable ten point lead their fans celebrating what's been a great few years for the club the title being the third in four years. this young team had to go through a lot of the beginning they have created a united team i have put down a fantastic achievement not only winning the title but doing it to get to the home and give them a big applause i'm very proud of all of them let's celebrate. south korea have
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booked their place at next year's fi for women's world cup in france they thrashed the philippines five nil in the women's asian cup fifth place play off south korea dominated throughout the match and in the philippines hopes of reaching a first world cup south korea join australia japan china and thailand as the asian representatives at next year's tournament in front. of the toronto maple leaves have moved back into contention in their n.h.l. . series with the boston bruins aston matthews scored the go ahead goal in the second period as elise defeated boston four two the bruins still lead the best of seven first round series two one. about djokovic has ended the run of three consecutive losses that with the first round win at the monte carlo masters twelve time grand slam champion beat fellow say the sun in straight sets for the loss of just one game djokovic has been struggling in his recovery from an elbow injury and
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has slipped to thirteenth in the world rankings. for good which is a lot right you just gone but the marchers were here it's gone nothing's going to be good results over here yet you know not all merican there donaldson that was less unhappy with the line call it made during his match it with i'll bet on most banal us video replays and later showed it on us and had been correct twenty one year old lost the match in straight sets and did later apologized for his behavior initiatory was once again troubled by a long standing wrist injury in his first round match with thomas byrd it took it to curry had started the season playing in second tier challenger tour events but the former world number four was able to come from a set down to beat burdett this time out. i was on the dow has a first round bye as he prepares to challenge a full record eleventh the monte carlo title the world number one needs to win the
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tournament to prevent roger federer from regaining top spots. away at and that windy weather at the boston marathon couldn't prevent a designer landon of producing a rare home win and the women's race and in overcoming the conditions to become the first american winner and thirty three years in the men's race yukiko achi became the first japanese run up to claim the title since nineteen ninety seven he prepared for this event by running a huff martin in his home country dressed as a pundit. and also useful for me will have more for you later on now it's back to darren. parts on a thank you very much that's it for me daryn jordan for the news my colleague richelle carey is up next with more of the day's news judgment on sort of.
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the nature of news as it breaks this was a great election about it was going to win but it was about by how much with detailed coverage the syrian civil war most limited to its t.t.'s but what is new different is that each key some people will live until to morrow so many innocent people will die from around the world the bats and balls are several years old when really good players could end up creating a cricket academy and maybe one day play for the national team.
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bartenders. pay the scene for us when they're on line one says american sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that choosing between buying another commission and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's been out to visit in his post.

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