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or. i. was ition leader alexei navalny and more than a thousand others are detained across russia in and landed near putin protests. hello i'm barbara sara you're up watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program fifty thousand people in desperate need of a better only a quarter have been reached we report from floods hit kenya. to almighty god. look at all flood warnings of more tremors to come in hawaii after a magnitude six point nine earthquake rattles the big island triggering more eruptions from mount kenya where and getting closer to nature why this japanese craft span left his job as a mechanic. to learn the discipline of growing bombsite trees.
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russian police have detained opposition leader alexei navalny as well as more than a thousand of his supporters in anti-government demonstrations across the country i never alley was carried away as he attended a rally against president president vladimir putin in the capital moscow the protests come just two days ahead of putin's inal here ation for a fourth term al-jazeera story challenge has more now from moscow. valley supporters to the left of me to the right of me ultra nationalist for a few thousand supporters and i'm stuck in the middle with you now the police have just started moving again you might be able to see them in the background and it looks like they're starting to grab some of the volley supporters and take them away so you police finally over that valley hold this demonstration because on
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monday bloody may be said the president is big and overrated for his fourth time in office these people here want exactly so i say why they come down they said it was spontaneous they were just passing by i happened to put up some flags and singing slogans one of the things we have to watch for today i think is what this means for the novelli movement going forward because rewind six years to the last time ferguson was inaugurated that was the end of a very volatile period of protesting in russia and now we don't have. quite as serious a valley you can draw supporters of course but this is not a mass movement but of the most humans it's threatening bloody may have parents and i think the person for the most months has the support of most russians and the elite and that means that he is in a position where you can start. moving his domestic and international program i
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will see over the coming days what reasons governments for the next six years is going to look like. outbreaks following severe flooding in kenya and one hundred people have been killed and more than two hundred thousand displaced over the past two months aid workers a say they've managed to help just a quarter of the nearly fifty thousand families in need of shelter after weeks of torrential rains and travelling with one of the teams. here in the neighboring county of khalifi it's the reverse of baccy another major river that's causing all of the hardship right now people are leaving the school here so many schools have been used to shelter but now it isn't nature that's forcing these people away it's
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actually the government because they want these schools to reopen there are seven them seven of them here in gary she alone many others are also being used they've got much better facilities obviously water and sanitation but no these people are going through a camp they're having to move again they're not really complaining that fact that their children need education but everyone is really getting to terms trying to get to terms of the fact that this crisis isn't going to be over within days in mind will be over within months because there could be a lasting effect so many crops lost so many livelihoods lost they had a drought now they've had another extreme to long rains to wrench all rain and the forecast is adjusting the rains could go right into june that means crops will be totally destroyed it would have been the planting season and then you're into what could be another drought afterwards well these people are in a situation where there should be an abundance of crude here but their whole life
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the whole lives are being threatened. at least four people have been killed in violence and in that administered kashmir a civilian died from his injuries and straining after being run over by an indian security vehicle and earlier at least three separate his fighters were killed during a raid by security forces a warning you may find some images in a summer report the starving. this is the moment when an indian security vehicle crashes a protester. the vehicle drives on and the wounded man is left behind he later died of his injuries indian forces say they are investigating what happened that is now under control as a guard that could be of a civilian just going to be a certain make over the fact that all these accounts was more than a dozen people have been killed in escalating violence in indian administered kashmir last month the un secretary general urged that the loss of civilian lives
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needs to be investigated. and get it's been another day of violence. this time it began when soldiers raided homes in a densely populated area in the city ocean anger security forces say they had information that fighters were hiding in that area when they were asked to surrender the soldiers say the fight has started shooting operation is going on things are under control everything is an under control you want to look. there is not much there is more damage of assuming property and another thing so i think that under control. old three fighters were killed by security forces during the operation police accuse protesters of trying to impede their operation and help the rebels. are brothers who've left the path of the left for us and they've taken up arms after seeing the tyranny in kashmir now we have come out
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to rescue our brothers. india continues to blame neighboring pakistan for instigating trouble in the disputed region which pakistan deny its. activists say more than seven hundred thousand indian troops and security personnel have been deployed in kashmir and the army is opposing calls to repeal a special powers act which prevents the prosecution of soldiers accused of abuses human rights watch has urged india to carry out prompt investigations into allegations of abuses and to prosecute those responsible but rights groups say thousands have already been killed in kashmir in nearly three decades of violence with no sign of reconciliation any time soon. how wide is big island remains on high alert continues to spew from its sick. the island has been rocked by a series of strong earthquakes and nearly two thousand people have been forced to flee their homes but anna holmes has the latest. the five days
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hawaii's big island has been rattled by hundreds of earthquakes and then three major train has over a three hour period the biggest a magnitude six point nine. the seismic activity began on monday when the crisis floor of the a volcanic cone on the killer whale started to collapse lava flowed into new he created underground chambers that lava along with rocks and toxic gas is now being spewed into the air and coming up through the years it be the stay active for a short period. start of. killer wears one of the world's most decked evoke a nose vulcanologists say it was never a question of when but where the volcano might erupt what's different this time is that a new fissure is appeared much farther down the mountain challenge with this activity
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is the fact that it occurred in a populated area now the question is will it stay in that area will it move to another part of the part of the volcano and how long will it last. officials ordered at least seven thousand five hundred people to leave their homes including everyone in the town of. this residence a familiar with the dangers four years ago killer ways lava flow stopped just short of the. experts say the gases and highly toxic but well the lever is dangerous it's slow moving that means people will have time to escape even for those who did get close to it but buildings can't be moved and homes have already been destroyed. killer where has been erupting on and off for thirty five years experts say it's difficult to predict how long this irruption will last but
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they're insisting they'll do whatever is necessary no measure the disruption to keep people safe and out of syria. protesters are gathering outside the national rifle association's annual meeting in dallas texas momentum has been building for stricter gun control since a high school shooting in florida left seventeen people dead earlier this year president trump addressed the meeting on friday vowing to protect the rights of gun owners are these you castro has more now from dallas the student organizers were disappointed when they heard president wrestling the n.r.a. members yesterday professing his full support and defending the. right moves. now what they have a glimmer of hope to have been a more. trump who had had shown himself in the days after the park a shooting when he met with some of the students survivors and even said that he would think about raising the age limit of buying assault weapons and he said to
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some of his fellow republican lawmakers that they may be afraid of the n.r.a. but that he was it come the very next day though from that white house meeting trump had already watched he met with the n.r.a. in private and quickly has backpedaled those professed efforts for some sort of gun reform and so yesterday what we heard was the president again feeling that allegiance to the n.r.a. the gun lobby which notably gave more than thirty million dollars to his election and the protesters here the gun control advocates are intentionally staying about a block away from the convention hall they say they did not want a confrontation we'll see that tested a little later today when a group of gun rights advocates in texas planned to be here to run as a counter protest and they plan to be armed with rifles which is legal in this state. well still to come on the program the french president wraps up his trip to
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new caledonia with what's been seen as a symbolic gesture towards the consumer. and the new mission to mars that will dig deeper into the red planet than ever before which. hello we know in iran expect showers maybe one or two in iraq as well but this cloud isn't particularly dangerous is not producing big thunderstorms not just yet so think of the caucasus think of turkey but there is a circulation in the eastern med that will increase the amount of cloud across the levant so showers seem quite likely during monday spreading down across the border into northern side rabia and spreading cloud across iraq by this time much of iran
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is dry afghanistan still is not shown seem quite likely here including in kabul so we've got showers coming into the north of saudi arabia but science of that is just a quiet picture there have humidity is a little bit high for some around the gulf states because there's no prevailing breeze but he could is not much going on dusty which is quite weather as it is now for the most part in all southern africa you can see the line of clarity the circulation that by bringing a shower to into the eastern cape catching durban seems less likely than of late and inquiry is a bit of a breeze in cape town which model of the cloud to come in here and if you're lucky get a share or two but otherwise it's sunshine and it's reasonably warm twenty nine to twenty six and when took lusaka is probably drive a bit further north still showery. of all my friends and coworkers who were detained i am the one who survived they
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were waiting for news of the men was only one. boy killed and. i have only once in my life seen. a bitch a civil war was darkest secret. account on al-jazeera. and the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera russian police have detained opposition leader like sarah palin at a protest ahead of president vladimir putin several curation more than
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a thousand demonstrators were arrested across the country the u.n. is warning severe flooding in kenya could cause an outbreak of disease at least one hundred twelve people have been killed and more than two hundred sixty thousand displaced over the past two months strong earthquakes have rattled hawaii's big island where a volcanic eruption is threatening thousands of homes both the lava is bubbling up around q.a. of ok no causing nearly two thousand people to flee. under a says government says it regrets a change in u.s. policy that could see tens of thousands of him during the immigrants the ported trumps administration is ending the temporary protected status program which allowed people to stay in the u.s. if returning home was too dangerous and the gallagher reports now from washington. fleeing violence and poverty in central america migrants gather at the us mexico border seeking asylum. for the last few weeks this so-called caravan of people is
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a trying to the attention of president donald trump he says the u.s. border is under siege and the immigration laws a week but to protect our families we must secure our borders and the good thing about the caravan people are watching people are watching you watch house horrible they're coming in from honduras they're coming in from other places they're taking this long trek up mexico. now the temporary protected status of fifty seven thousand on georgia's living in the u.s. is set to wind. the program was set up to offer refuge for those whose countries are ravaged by war and natural disasters many end of the program of legally lived and worked in the u.s. for decades democratic leader nancy pelosi released a statement that in part reads today's decision by the trumpet ministration to end temporary protected status is a cowardly assault on fifty seven thousand hondurans which will tear apart families
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and communities across america and joins aren't the only ones affected six out of the ten countries offered protection or to lose their status most are from one jurist el salvador and haiti it will wreck their lives it will it will destabilize their families it will separate their families because we are talking about people who have been living here for an average of eight to thirty years. they have deep roots in our communities critics say the trumpet ministration is all but running down a humanitarian program that began in one thousand nine hundred ninety one jordans have been given an eighteen month extension but over the next two years almost four hundred thousand people who've been legally living in the u.s. for years will be told to leave and gallacher al-jazeera washington. iran's president has criticised the ban on a popular messaging application a son who heinie says blocking the app telegram is the opposite of democracy at telegram was banned earlier this week by the conservative run judiciary state
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television says it was to protect national security iran has been considering the move since january when protests over the colony spread across the country officials say some of those rallies were organized using telegraph. now there a fear is a vital cargo crossing into gaza it could take weeks to repair after it was set alight by palestinian demonstrators during friday protests pipelines which carry fuel and gas into gaza could cost millions of dollars to fix witnesses to the incident say it was an intentional hairy force that has the latest now from gaza one of those potentially damaging events that took place during the course of the six friday protest along the gaza border came in the far south near the only cargo crossing from israeli territory into gaza where five days a week each of those days hundreds of trucks will arrive bringing food medical
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supplies humanitarian aid and there was a group of palestinian protesters who got into the palestinian side of that facility and set about creating extensive damage gas and fuel pipelines were set on fire as were a number of other facilities we saw evidence of that ourselves the aftermath some burnt out huts were being trucked away from the border into gaza the israeli military called it a cynical act of terror but the account that we got from one witness when we visited the protest site near the crossing was very different he said that people had been driven in the direction of the crossing by tear gas once there they opportunistically got inside and then vented their frustrations in what he said was a mistaken way. and that's the i'm a bottom up with element to unload them all good and we get aid from europe and the world through here people know what displaced means it's not the plan of the protestors to burn a place like that it was a mistake and i know i'm not hollow official palestinian sources tell us that the
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damage done could run into the millions of dollars and there were fears when first it was discovered that that could take some weeks to fix up and allow this vital economic artery to flow again however what we're hearing is that despite all the accusations from the israeli military there are also concerns about the impact of that and so there are hopes at least that it will reopen as per usual on sunday we've spoken to the head of the palestinian business association here in gaza he says that the israeli military has been there from very early on saturday bringing in fresh equipment and doing what they can to make sure that things do operate again as soon as possible army officers senior army officers on the israeli side have been saying for some time now that a further worsening of the humanitarian situation here in gaza would carry significant security implications for israel that seems to be
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a motivating factor here. pro-democracy activists in thailand have vowed to march on government house later this month to demand an election be held this year the march was announced during a rally at bangkok university it will take place on may the twenty second which is the fourth anniversary of the coup when the army overthrew the elected government the army has repeatedly promised little the elections only to push the date back. a fight has broken out on the korean border after a prominent affect there from the north was stopped from sending anti pyongyang leaflets boxing have who's trying to send thirty thousand leaflets across the border using balloons and he says north korean leader kim jong un does not support efforts for reunification this fight his historic meeting with south korean counterpart in last week dozens of locals joined police and stopping him releasing the balloons the french president the runner mccrum has wrapped up his three day
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visit to new caledonia he was there to attend the ceremony that marks thirty years since a hostage crisis on their island twenty three people were killed in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight after separatists kidnapped french security officers new caledonia has been a french territory since eight hundred fifty three records visit is seen as a symbolic gesture towards reconciliation ahead of an independence referendum in the event. i was there is under thomas was at that ceremony. in one thousand nine hundred eight a group of pro independence cannot command took more than twenty french policemen hostage in the process four of those placement were killed while they were held two weeks in a cave two weeks later the french military raided that cave in the process of nineteen of those cannot men were killed and they say is where they were buried this is a memorial as well so those men all the time france called those men terrorists
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that was the official position of the french government but on saturday president became the first french president to visit this island and i very symbolic make saying that was all about reconciliation he planted a coconut tree to mark the respect between the french states and the people here in or via he also met with the families of all these men who died thirty years ago gave them flowers and then walked down as the families placed. the flowers on the songs will answer the violence claim a reconciliation process that was always going to take decades that was the plan was always going to end in an independence referendum and that is what is happening in the van but before that actually took place president michel felt it important to come here to feel there was a degree of welcome here and see that process through. well president mccrone may be making waves around the globe but back at home he isn't quite as popular tens of
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thousands of people have taken to the streets of paris to protest against their leader one year into his presidency the protesters are critical of his economic program which they say favors the rich the unveiling of a statue of karl marx sparked celebrations and protests in the german city of clay the bronze statue marks two hundred years since the philosopher's birth it was a gift from china and ruling party says it's carrying a marks for the marxist communist legacy veiling so protests against human rights abuses in china. a massive landslide has sent people fleeing for their lives in southwestern china. an estimated fifty thousand cubic meters of rock i'm sorrier crashed on a hillside in sichuan province unbelievably no one was killed or injured but the landslide did block of road and even partially blocked a river. less is sending
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a robotic geologist to mars to explore deeper inside the planet than ever before. to. the mars inside land there launched from california in the first interplanetary mission to ever take off from the west coast of the u.s. it will take six months for the spacecraft to reach its destination course the southern has. it's a mission to deepen our understanding of the red planet quite literally once nasa is mars in sight lands it will send probes deep under the surface not just to find out more about that world but also our own mars is geologically similar to earth what's different is that it's relatively unchanged since its formation something scientists hope will provide clues as to how the earth formed after the big bang we want to understand what happened in those first few ticks of the clock on the earth
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that evidence has been mostly erased. by instruments point but that's not all the mars insights to your mission will also use seismometers like these to measure quakes on the planet and in a first experiment of its kind the mars insight will be trying out new satellite technology called cube sat two briefcase sized satellites will break off from the insite shortly after take off and follow it to mars but stay in orbit while it does its work below if they can still transmit the data back to earth it's thought they could revolutionize satellite use its nasa is first interplanetary mission to be launched from a base other than florida's cape canaveral but after saying goodbye the scientists will have to wait six months before insight reaches its target and is able to dig deep into the red planet kristen salumi al-jazeera. well meanwhile nasa space
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x. dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way back to earth from the international space station the supply ship will land in the pacific ocean off the southern california coast now it's packed with nearly one thousand eight hundred kilograms of experiments and equipment. on earth bonsai is a japanese art form which uses cultivation techniques that would use small trees in containers it takes years of the supply to condense nature into a small part that is a bonsai craftsman insight he says he listens to the voices of the trees as he works years as story in his own words. co-operative through my name is tom. a bonsai craftsman. i was a mechanic at toyota before this i had nothing to do with it until one day i visited a grower and as soon as i said put into his place i knew instantly that i was going to quit my job and start working with pots and. pans eyes grown in
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a pot cultivating it also involves creating trees that inspire a scene resent the natural world. i find beauty in trees when they're healthy and full of life instead of in the shape. i used to be very ambitious in how i transform the trees some of which were the most admired and respected in japan but when i turned thirty seven i realized how much i had damaged that and then suddenly i heard their screams saying we're alive just like you i felt strangled this experience changed me completely. i try to understand what the best conditions are for each tree and deciding on the spot what i need to do now what i shouldn't do and what can't wait. the trees taught me not to force my own
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a statics upon them that's why i study hard to understand how the trees the sun and the wind can best work together. i give them only moderate amounts of water and fertilizer it encourages the trees to grow the roots out. it's important to give them the strength to survive and thrive on their own. some are more than a thousand years old the juniper ends are around four to five hundred years old it's astonishing but i'm equally moved by the life force of plants growing from the seeds or cuttings. the trees grow into certain shapes to thrive and i respect that what i try to do is bring out their beauty so that more people can appreciate and take good care of them i think that's the job of a craftsman even if they're highly valued i wouldn't say that they're true bonsai unless your heart feels at peace looking at them. you'd give the trees all your
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love and pass them on because they will leave you but hundreds of thousands of years. and now the headlines on al jazeera riot police in russia have detained opposition leader alexina valley as well as more than a thousand of his supporters in anti-government demonstrations across the country the valley was carried away z. attended a rally against president putin in the capital moscow polunin said united under a slogan he's not ours are referring to putin's eighteen years in power the protests come just two days ahead of putin's inauguration it will be his fourth term in office me was barred from standing in the election for a challenge so has the latest from moscow is a person who star rode. the the end of the last main
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protest movement sit in russia in two thousand and two thousand and twelve that was the last time the president was in inaugurated as well so that process basically gave birth in a valley as an opposition leader he now has to try to work out how he's going to keep this going when writing a piece in is looking much more comfortable than he did six years ago the u.n. is warning of disease outbreaks following severe flooding in kenya at least one hundred twelve people have been killed and more than two hundred sixty thousand displaced over the past two months aid workers say they've reached only a quarter of the nearly fifty thousand families in need of shelter. a fight has broken out on the korean border after a prominent defector from the north was stopped from sending and keeping young young young leaflets trucks i have was trying to send thirty thousand leaflets across the border using balloons he says the north korean leader kim jong un does not support efforts for reunification despite his historic meeting with
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a south korean counterpart. last week at least four people have been killed in violence in indian administered kashmir a civilian died from his injuries in srinagar after being run over by an indian security vehicle how wise big island remains on high alert continues to spew from its volcano the island has been rocked by a series of strong earthquakes have more news for you in half an hour with the al-jazeera news hour coming up next the inside story thanks for watching and goodbye. it fought for decades for a homeland in northern spain and southwest france now that separates armed groups
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