tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera May 6, 2018 2:00am-3:01am +03
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the sunday sun routes the stink bomb. from the shah rukh's is the name under which i recorded. regular music is really kind of trip for a very young age it may come from jamaica but i feel that. the talks of are just its quality books of all people on the news of our cricket music has a message that's deeply relevant to this drug especially for a good thing this is kind of all in all the right wing assault on our freedom to os questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being taught it's like students teachers activists in their class right so it's nice all of the been intimidated that some number of people on the street see the protest has reached our doorstep soul in which as a whip i'd like to attempts to contradict some of its.
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this is al jazeera. has this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. more than a thousand arrested in russia in protests against president vladimir putin opposition leader alexei navalny is among them. the u.s. reestablishes the second naval fleet to patrol the atlantic and confront russia. thousands of kenyans hit by floods face worsening conditions in emergency camps. fears of more tremors after an earthquake hits hawaii as an erupting volcano forces thousands from their homes.
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riot police in russia have detained opposition leader alexei navarro me as well as more than a thousand of his supporters in anti-government demonstrations he called for nationwide rallies against president vladimir putin the protests come just two days before putin's inauguration for a fourth term worry challenge reports from moscow. two days before putin's fourth presidential inauguration these russians wanted him to hear their demonstrations slogan you are not ours are not we have a fascist state a totalitarian regime we should do something about it there is no relation and russia almost like. i'm here because i disagree with the politics the government and our so-called president are leading i want to tell him that he is not ours are and that his place in the hague imprisoned. i several thousands joins the
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unapproved protest in moscow thousands born. demonstrated in other cities across russia. it was almost always pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia yes we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all his supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise and at that point the police moved in. so there were arrest that began in other parts of russia i do want
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to say now they started in moscow it was the business of just grabbed a young guy out of the crowd it looked like she was crying so dragging her off to the police and. the numbers of detentions take top words protester after protester was dragged away so too was the man who calls this demonstration alexina valmy he's an anti corruption opposition leader who was banned from presidential elections because of a fraud conviction he insists was fabricated his online videos exposing the corruption of russia's ruling elite have made him a critic of the kremlin and a popular resistance figure among many russians who want something different. for friday may putin's hold on power for another six year term he's tightened control of the media and internet and made protesting much harder his assertive foreign policy is popular with many russians moscow's riot police follow detentions with the next act in their rough clearing the square the valley supporters have been
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through this before and i'll probably go through it all again they feel it's their only remaining way to be heard. al-jazeera moscow. well samuel green is the director of kings russia institute at king's college in london he says in the valleys biggest challenge challenge is proving to his supporters the protests can bring change to russia it is almost impossible to estimate how much support he does or could possibly have obviously he was not allowed to contest the elections and we don't know how many people would have voted for him even if. he had been allowed or he is not visible on television and so his ability to to reach people through formal means is quite limited he has and his supporters have opened a network of volunteer centers around the country which participate in organizing these sorts of things also trying to get involved in local protest movements but the reality is that. most people in russia will not see politics either
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formal politics or earth or street politics as a fruitful way of of problem solving so his or his big challenge is to to demonstrate that something can actually be achieved it's very reminiscent of what we saw around about this time in may twenty twelve just after putin the last time was was reelected there was one last protest right before his inauguration it resulted in large numbers of arrests after which a couple dozen people went to prison for fairly lengthy prison terms i have no idea whether we'll see something similar now but in both cases up until the election the government held back void of the sorts of scenes that we've seen today in order i think to prevail present the elections as relatively open relatively free and fair but then once the thing was said and done certainly wanted to say that the game's over. the u.s. navy is reestablishing its second fleet to patrol the north atlantic that's just
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seven years after it was stood down as part of a buildup of russian and nato forces levels not seen for decades dion estabrook reports the us navy says its second fleet will be back in commission this summer operating out of norfolk virginia the fleet which was a limb unaided in a cost cutting move seven years ago is being reestablished to counter what the pentagon calls a rising throughout from russia at a ceremony in norfolk on friday admiral john richardson chief of naval operations said our national defense makes it clear that we are back in an era of great power competition as the security environment continues to grow more challenging and complex. russia's navy has stepped up patrols in the atlantic and both russia and nato have been building up forces in eastern europe at levels not seen in decades while russia has fewer ships than it did during the height of the cold
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war u.s. officials are especially concerned about its expanded submarine fleet and increased presence in the atlantic ocean but one military expert sees this more as saber rattling than an outright threat of war i think what the russians will do is probably over time react with more submarines operating in the atlantic more messages to us that to be aware but i think that this will be kept at a relatively low level and i really don't see a huge escalation or any escalation proceeding from these actions the u.s. second fleet will be responsible for an area extending halfway across the atlantic and will include a staff of more than two hundred dian us to brooke al-jazeera. plenty more ahead on this news hour violence flaring in indian administered kashmir a protest that dies off to be run over by security forces. u.s. gun control supporters make their presence felt outside the national rifle
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association's annual meeting in texas. and later a smaller legendary football manager alex ferguson is hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage tachyon will have the latest on his condition. told us still ahead but first thousands of people who took refuge in schools after losing their homes in kenya's floods are being moved into makeshift camps the government plans to reopen the schools on monday but as andrew symonds reports from the town of got to be in. the people are now facing worse conditions than before. it's a school classroom but this isn't about learning it's evil thousands of kenya's flood victims found food and shelter in schools but their stay is over it's time to move again the government wants to reopen the schools think i've got nothing in there is
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no way i can refuse to move i have no place of my own anymore right now i have no peace of mind. and so the registration begins and these people are then sent on their way with some basic survival kits they're heading for a place known as the chief's camp but there's little in the way of comfort there they're all homeless with no possessions surrounded by floodwaters and there's no sign of what's going to happen next this camp may have the advantage of being on higher ground but it's a small hill top space is limited and it's overcrowded already the people have had to go elsewhere it's getting really bad for them while the weather is still wet and their conditions of got worse. they have to get
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wood to support the top pullens they've been given need to do is sell shelters and there are no facilities here yet for the moment the nearest source of drinking water is a want to a round trip away by forte and it means wading through these floods no bomb no. longer. the local chief has orders to reopen schools on monday but admits facilities for the displaced place yet what do they have it's not enough about toilets are both what it's not good. these resilient people are remarkably tolerant some accept the education of their children must come first but at what cost in terms of hardship and health risk. about what we are suffering it would be better to have this elderly defined. it's difficult now moved back and forth you never know you might be more.
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uncertainty like the rain clouds hangs over these people andrew simmons al-jazeera khalifi county in kenya. least four people have been killed in violence in indian administered kashmir a man died in srinagar after being run over by indian security forces and earlier at least three separatist fighters were killed during a raid by soldiers a warning you may find some images in a salomon generates report disturbing. this is the moment when an indian security vehicle crushes 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 it is now under control as regarded the other civilian system to be a circuit breaker what are the factors all these accounts. was more than
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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 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 over security forces say they had information that fighters were hiding in that area when they were asked to surrender the soldiers say the fighters started shooting opposition is going on things are under control everything is an under control the want to go look. there is not much there is no damage of a civilian property and another thing so i think that under control. all three fighters were killed by security forces during the operation police accused protesters of trying to impede their operation and help the rebels so. our
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brothers who've left in the path of allah they left for us and they've taken up arms after seeing the tyranny in kashmir now we have come out to rescue our brothers. india continues to blame neighboring pakistan for. to get in trouble in the disputed region which pakistan deny it's. 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 three decades of violence with no sign of reconciliation any time soon as. someone who. is in. a coal mine explosion in southwest pakistan has killed at least sixteen mine is emergency crews are trying to free dozens of workers who remain trapped in the blast in the
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marwat coal fields in baluchistan was caused by a buildup of methane gas inside the mine to other workers died in a landslide nearby. an explosion in gaza has killed six members of hamas his military wing the qassam brigades the blast which injured three others happened in a residential neighborhood neighborhood in the way to hammer says those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded israeli weapon dating back from the twenty fourteen rule. of fear is an oil and gas pipeline supplying garza could take weeks to repair after it was set alight by palestinian demonstrators during friday protests witnesses to the incident say was unintentional harry force that has walked from gaza. one of those potentially damaging events that took place during the course of the six friday protest along
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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 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 time of the mob we get aid from europe and the world
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through here people know what this place means it's not the plan of the protestors to burn a place like that it was a mistake official palestinian sources tell us that the 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. and as soon as possible army officers senior army officers on the israeli side have been saying
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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 a motivating factor here the united arab emirates could be removed from the saudi led coalition in yemen that's after it deployed forces to a yemeni ireland without consulting its exiled government that's according to a senior yemeni official speaking to the associated press have been further protests on the territory in the arabian sea against the u.s. military presence there it's not clear when the troops will leave saudi arabia has since sent a delegation to the island after soldiers from the u.a.e. took over a key locations there last week. a protesters have gathered outside the u.s. national rifle association's annual meeting in dallas texas kohl's for stricter gun laws have been getting loudest since a high school shooting in florida killed seventeen people earlier this year
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president trying to address thousands of gun owners at the convention on friday valiant to protect their rights how do you know castro has more from dallas. a father's pain from losing his son in the parkland florida school shooting turned protest. your story. with. the. man well all over has been painting protest murals since his seventeen year old son was killed and now he says he wants to invite president donald trump to the family's home for a father to father visit. you will see an empty room. very powerful images of my son. all around my house we are. we're still with him every single day we wake up by we cannot listen to he's lofty
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he's. jokes to his music there's little chance trump what except such an invitation on friday the president basked in the approval of the national rifle association the powerful gun lobby that gave his campaign more than thirty million dollars your second amendment rights. are under siege but they will never ever. be under see as long as i'm your president trump expressed sympathy for the victims but has done little to reform gun laws since the florida shooting that killed seventeen that's despite student marches and polls showing that a growing number of americans almost seventy percent support more gun control protesters say they'll show. power in the upcoming midterm elections we see tragedy after tragedy we've waited from politicians to speak up for us at some point you realize or not that it's our time to speak up for ourselves and if they don't support us then like i said come november we're going to start voting people who
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actually care about the american people the students against guns aren't the only ones here protesting this group of civilians armed with rifles and pistols who are legally allowed to carry their weapons in public are also making their voices heard they have a very different point of view their constitutional right to bear arms that's two sides clashing bringing to stark relief to very different america just exercise or second amendment rights we'd like to show that just because you have again you're not going to go shoot children but children have been the casualties of gun violence leaving grieving parents and a divided country in their wake. castro al-jazeera dallas the unveiling of a statue of car mocks has sparked both celebration and protest in the german city of trio the sculpture marks two hundred years since the philosopher's birth it was a gift from the chinese government some groups rallied against human rights abuses
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in china while others wanted to highlight exploitation in capitalism marx remains a controversial figure especially among germans who lived under soviet control after the second world war. are people from the caribbean invited to work in britain after world war two have marched in london they were protesting after a government policy scandal threatened their right to live in the country after decades their members of the so-called wind rushed generation took their protest directly to prime minister theresa may so you're going to go was there. but. the call for amnesty for victims of a scandal that goes to the heart of the british government a scandal that's affected thousands of people of caribbean origin and their fight to remain in the country meant to be their home i still have friends who were affected by the rules some people i know would send back on planes in the middle of
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the night we couldn't do anything about it because by because batman stories so open the wind rushed generation who went to britain between one nine hundred forty eight one thousand nine hundred seventy one were vital in rebuilding the nation after the second world war but for many the right to remain in the u.k. has been fraught with difficulties by government blunders no records were kept or those who will grant to permission to stay permanently and no paperwork was issued to confirm it and in twenty ten the british home office destroyed landing cards that belonged to wind migrants risking the status of people who have been living here illegally in the u.k. for decades many of those affected lost their jobs and where denied access to health care benefits and pensions they were even threatened with deportation while the government has promised to resolve the when brought within two weeks there are still so many unanswered questions and just last week the ruling party voted
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against the release of secret documents relating to the wentworth crisis saying that it was disproportionate during last week's prime minister's questions reason may promise more transparency into how such wrongful deportations and detentions occurred but so far she has resisted discarding further immigration controls despite increasing pressure we all share the ambition to make sure we do right by members of the win dress generation and that's why he will be announcing a package of measures to bring transparency on the issue to inform make sure the house is informed to reassure members of his house but more importantly to reassure those p. who have been directly affected under emergency government measures thousands of people will be offered the chance to obtain british citizenship free of charge as well as the right to compensation for those affected it is perhaps too little too late the little you like here and there telling you you don't belong oh
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well you know the anger and hurt of a generation who were betrayed by a country be believed in sunnydale egle al-jazeera london. two people have died and tens of thousands of homes are without electricity in the canadian provinces of ontario and quebec after powerful winds brought down power lines and toppled trees gusts of up to one hundred kilometers an hour been recorded the winds have been blamed for the deaths of two people in southern ontario thousands of people have been forced to move off to a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook her wise big island the biggest to hit the area in decades that comes after the eruption of killer whale volcano which began spewing lava on thursday several quakes tremors have struck since then molten lava could be seen bubbling through cracks on streets in the states and lenny poona gardens neighborhood from where people have been ordered to leave let's go live now
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to a state in hawaii from where rob rob reynolds joins us so rob what are the latest warnings for people in the affected area. well the latest information that just came out from the authorities here in hawaii is that five houses have been burned in the leyline is states as a result of these then it's with burning lava opening up states is just over in that direction past the roadblock that you see manned by some a hole why the national guards. troops in addition the hawaii volcano observe a spear observatory says that the eruptive activity associated with the mt killer whale is ongoing and is expected to continue fortunately there are no reports of
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anyone losing their lives or of anyone being seriously injured in any of this despite a rather large earthquake that happened on friday and shook people up a six point nine magnitude that damaged some structures including we're told a school people do want to try to get back into their homes i talked to a man not long ago didn't want to be interviewed on camera but he was somewhat distraught because he said he had a sick dog at home he wanted to get in and get it out and give it some medicine and take to safety but he was not able to. go into the affected area and he left late at night without being able to evacuate as pets so a lot of people did leave with very minimal possessions once this eruption began and rob are there any large population centers stand and risk.
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well that's that's an upside if you will to to this. this is the nearest large city is maybe fifty kilometers away it's called hilo and it has about fifty thousand inhabitants but it is nowhere in any of the flow or none of the events have opened up in any of those areas so what is usually happened now with this volcano is it's been erupting for thirty years more than thirty years but usually the bag goes through underground channels and eventually makes its way out to sea where it makes it actually adds to the coastline makes a little bit larger every day but in this instance what happened last week was that there was some shift and the caldera that was full of lava it emptied and it began moving through different channels some of those channels underneath leylandii estates and other of these rural small communities which then opened up and people
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we talked to said they opened up in the middle of the night they could smell sulfur dioxide gas very heavily and hear what sounded like cannon fire as molten lava begins shooting up out of these vents in the ground rob reynolds live for us there in hawaii. that's the end why is this woman this condition was way worse after an operation in mexico and she's not the only one. who are in lebanon ahead of the first parliamentary elections in nine years the willing new electoral system bring about change. and in sport a nasty incident sour as the pinnacle of australian football tachyon it will be here with more.
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well last twenty four hours or of produce storms in both texas and in doing and then actually in toronto to be honest that was the head of the cat that went through fairly windy weather in the tail end this cold front where it's warm has been injected most chagaev the stormy stuff now the cold front itself is going to swing through such the sunday is dollars hasse's it has been still sent to new york for a fairly wet new york the look of it twenty one in washington and the temp is pretty good further west got some clouds coming into washington state still a little bit of snow on the very top so the highest drama not washington thinks it's a cloudy picture to be honest and then it's gone quiet again i mean monday looks like a fine day similar sort of temperature regime nineteen to twenty one eastern seaboard but that's a good ten degrees down from a couple of days ago the most active weather actually i'm probably going to be in hearts for the tailing cold front is this massive cloud here look at the shot back edge to the cloud that suggests active some storms indeed there were but five
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thousand thunderstorms reported yesterday i know it seems a lot is based on lightning flashes was an active massive cloud still circulating through cuba jamaica haiti the bahamas or the small rollins and back to florida not its progress over the next two days. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we didn't get them to from the government to just shoot him soon turned into a battle front for the nigerian government how do you know why. the torrijos for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing and displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins bloody rise of folk who were robbed on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks this is one of the areas where protesters had blocked the road to see higher
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than anything else they could find with details coverage of this extremely. troubling. site from around the world this museum aims to be aware positive region's history and its projected war that has divided tribes here for generations . but again you're watching i just did a reminder of our top stories this hour riot police in russia have detained opposition leader. as well as more than a thousand of his supporters in anti government demonstrations he had called for
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nationwide rallies against president vladimir putin the protests come ahead of putin's inauguration this week for a fourth term. at least four people have been killed in violence in indian administered kashmir a man died in srinagar after being run over by an indian security vehicle and earlier at least three separatist fighters were killed during a raid by soldiers. the united arab emirates could be removed from the saudi led coalition in yemen that's after it deployed forces to a yemeni army and without consulting its government had been further protests on the territory in the arabian sea against the u.s. military presence there. and al jazeera investigation has found that hundreds of mexicans have undergone experimental and unregulated men. procedures by the country's flagship neurological institute over
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a fourteen year period the patients were fitted with a device meant to drain fluid from the brain but in some cases it made their condition worse john harmon has part one of this investigation. it's painful feel and a to look back at the time before she was hit by hydrocephalus a debilitating condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain it's left her with massive headaches and speech problems. everything changed because i was a sports woman before i spent twenty years doing sports and i sold clothing everything and that she hoped that an operational cruise flagship institute for neurology and neurosurgery would help her but what she didn't know was that doctors would hope with an experimental and the north arise device. and not just her four hundred seventy three other patients who went to the facility so implanted they
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were essentially guinea pigs in an unofficial trial carried out over a period of fourteen years they never asked me anything before operating they said something to my husband but never that they were going to do an experiment. three doctors working at the institute at the time spoke to al-jazeera all said that like you learned the nearly five hundred patients weren't told the device was unauthorized nor nobody's case file included an informed consent about the experimental nature of the device not one. the national institute has refused to clarify if patients were informed or not but we got access to six patient falls this is what's key to all of this the medical consent form in one of the cases and it's very general it doesn't mention that this is an experimental device that hasn't been authorized by the health ministry. but that's not all the three doctors
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out to syria thought to say the device was simply a tube that relied on gravity to drain away fluid from the brain down to the stomach area and that relying on gravity meant that if a patient lay down it would flow back other devices used valves to stop that. it's just a tube it's technology from the fifty's it doesn't represent any sort of progress by a published studies the inventor of the two claimed it's precisely calculated diameter did regulate flow and stop fluid going back to the brain even when patients were climbed he said it worked better than valve eula devices. doctors told us several patients had to have the device replaced but it's unclear how many suffered from any ill effects the names of those implanted have been released a many came from poor remote communities is a problem. it's a problem especially with patients without much money they feel ok and they go
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there last. year learned that was able to have another device fitted several years ago but the health continues to worsen at this point hopes of getting better or for justice a fading john home and. mexico city and john has more from mexico in the second part of this special agent investigation he explores how the unregulated practices were allowed to be carried out and discovers the consequences for all involved that's on al-jazeera on sunday. a peace talks between the colombian government and the e l n rebel group will move to cuba and the original host ecuador hold its support for the talks they started or four fifteen months ago in quito after more than fifty years of fighting ecuador stopped hosting the talks after two ecuadorian journalists and their driver were killed by
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a former far quibbles. people in lebanon will head to the polls on sunday in the first parliamentary elections in the nine years five hundred candidates of campaign promising stability and economic growth the country is divided along sectarian lines raising questions over what political changes may result. it will be the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade polls were repeatedly postponed until a new electoral law was agreed proportional representation has replaced lebanon's winner takes all system but some are criticizing the new law for benefiting the ruling political class who have been forging unlikely electoral alliances just to stay in power their main objective is to increase the number of seats. number of seats and. the new law is supposed to give a chance to first time hopefuls but breaking the establishment decades long hold on
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power is not easy the problem is that the civil society represents. not one group now they say that they are. just to say that. in reality they are. i and the only parties that formed joint torah lists at a national level they have long dominated the muslim political landscape but they are facing opposition from within limited but a challenge nevertheless and that is why hezbollah has been campaigning extra hard . against a. new things you know i don't know to what extend this would change the political scene one thing will change prime minister saddle had it he will lose seats because of the way electoral districts are carved out but he is expected to be the sunni leader with the biggest bloc in parliament he does however face opposition from within his community with some blaming him for not taking us.
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hardline stance against the iranian backed has. a. chance to prove that he's a strong leader and can be the next prime minister. christian candidates are also battling for leadership of their community the polls will determine their popularity a few years before they vie for the presidency a post reserved maronite christian. action the long established political divisions of the past are now god. and the pro saudi march fourteenth coalition march fourteenth. military power which is stronger than the lebanese army has been shelved at least for the time being. lebanon's rival politicians have been focusing instead on securing their power if the hope was to bring about a new generation of leaders that likely will not happen there may be some changes
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within parliament but there is a general consensus that these elections will not major changes to the political landscape. of people living below the poverty line and hoping the current political upheaval will bring improvements to their lives decades of financial crisis and corruption mean around a third of people unemployed with many facing difficulties making ends meet natasha name reports. it's dark there are electrical wires haphazardly strong and it smells like sewage this is the hallway of a one nine hundred sixty s. dormitory built for construction workers where impoverished families with no other options now live on this morning social workers are paying a visit to rita nizer yachts eight family members are packed into this apartment
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with a makeshift kitchen on the balcony the grandmother has lived behind these four crumbling walls for twenty seven years but she says this is hardly a home. state isn't just the only shoe but also my have i have diabetes i don't sleep at nights there's no space to walk and i pace back and forth my legs hit to bed chairs tables thinking. this community lives in the shadow of the mets a more nuclear power plant a lack of jobs is keeping several generations rooted in this place they desperately want to leave. poverty and a stagnant economy drove protesters into the streets over the last several weeks the world bank says almost thirty percent of armenians live below the poverty line the official unemployment rate is twenty percent but experts say it's much higher.
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social worker. fillion says the government provides meager assistance to armenia's poor and corruption has pushed them to the margins of society. everything the child is living in poverty and is vulnerable and every child is a family we don't have enough social workers for them and every hundred thousand people is not one full time social worker. some of us are young says grandchildren joined the government protests that led to the resignation of the prime minister she says she wants to have hope but wonders how much change a new government will bring must bear that on the we told the regional authorities who have problems and they say if you look at our problems you would cry and they say we have to cry for them instead of them crank for us they are not even helping the leader nothing for another yacht's the present can only be improved
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at her family's future secured by one thing the opportunity to live in what she calls a real hole the toxic in a al-jazeera meds a more are media. unless a is sending a robotic geologist to mars to explore deeper inside the planet than ever before. to. the mars inside lander launched from california in the first interplanetary mission to ever take off on the west coast of the u.s. it will take six months for the spacecraft to reach its destination a space commentator leo and wright says this mission could uncover new details about what's hiding in just under the surface of the red planet. we know a huge amount about the surface we have mapped the surface of mars as i said in
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more detail than we have mapped the surface of the earth but the most intriguing aspect of mars is what lies beneath not just deep in mars which we know nothing about but also closer to the surface the first half kilometer of mars is where there could potentially be life still harbored against safe against the radiation that would otherwise kill it so this mission will provide us with new information about the conditions in the subsurface of mars and combined with the european nation that is a vow to report to us from orbit around mars we hope by the end of this year to have a much better fix on whether there is life still underneath the surface of mars we may be living in the age of social media but research has found loneliness is becoming a serious public health problem and isolation is causing harm to people's physical
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health as gave reports from new york. a person off in the distance alone in their thoughts sitting in a park in darkness a portrait of a man walking in the snow all by himself a young man playing basketball with nobody else around all pictures of people in new york in situations of solitude perhaps loneliness. to court a sick polish photographer snapped the pictures he says he can relate to the subjects he moved to new york city four years ago knew almost no one and discovered many people suffered from loneliness just by chance many of his photographs were of people alone you know you come here and you are busy with your work life and then you realize that all your family all your friends and social life and then in many ways is behind and i was used to it but i talked to a lot of people
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a lot of new york is here my friends are strangers. and the theme of loneliness just kept coming back according to a study sponsored by cigna the global health an insurance company americans are alarmingly lonely and being alone can bring about serious health risks. research has been done that has shown loneliness the linked to heart disease diabetes depression substance use and other chronic illness as well the study was focused on the u.s. researchers say the numbers are similar in other parts of the world but perhaps what stood out most in the study young people between each gene and twenty two years old scored higher than any other age group in the loneliness survey horrible or lonely than people seventy two and older researchers aren't exactly sure why but they say high social media consumption does not help. we've all seen it a million times young people in parks like this and instead of sitting next to
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family and friends and talking hunched over their phones like this checking social media in social media is very anti social as for luke courtis he is not trying to start a social commentary about loneliness with his pictures he simply discovered taking pictures of people usually showed more often than not the people were alone gabriels on doe new york still ahead on al-jazeera getting closer to nature why this japanese cross when left his job as a mechanic to learn the discipline of growing trees. and in sport it's a fight for survival in the english premier league way even a victory why not be enough.
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maybe on al-jazeera venezuela will hold a snap election as president maduro aims to retain control what lies ahead for a country that has been waiting for light at the end of a long tunnel people in power asked the top u.s. general in afghanistan about his plans for defeating by the taliban and an isis insurgency. struggling with security issues and economic uncertainty iraq is finally set to hold elections as an unseen global battle rages for results is beneath our oceans we all skip the seabed is the territory still to be claimed. commemorating seventy years from now about al-jazeera examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict made on al-jazeera. the town. just.
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trying to support his tatiana. thank you very much legendary football manager alex ferguson has undergone a imagine say thuggery off to being rushed to hospital his former club manchester united issued a statement saying sir alex ferguson has undergone surgery today for a brain haemorrhage the procedure has gone very well but he needs the parried of intensive care to hate his recovery his family requests privacy in this matter. ferguson is the most successful manager in british football history who with in charge of money knighted for almost twenty seven years leading them to thirty eight
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trophies the seventy six year old retired from management in twenty thirteen. only just got there whisper that early on i was hoping i wasn't sure but i wish him of us but i'm tragic i'm going to try and find out i reassured as i possibly can. obviously under the extremely serious when i think you saw him down didn't even send each his own game doncaster today and that officially from the mantra show how much each. shot rish obviously a brain hemorrhage or a bullet brain bleach oh. good arms are now the operation is a major success because. as a friend as a personal friend. you know i hope he has a full recovery. it's the penultimate weekend in the english premier league but with the title already guaranteed to be heading manchester fifteen's way the focus is on the battle for survival up the bottom west brom and short they could still
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avoid relegation with a dramatic win over the top men anything short of a victory would have seen the baggies go down but jake livermore struck in the ninety first minute as they dons but as one nil. the result means the fourth place tottenham on get guaranteed a place in next season's champions league west picked up a crucial victory at leicester southampton live to fight another day off the door and with everton stoke city all going down to the second to the last two one to crystal palace means that out of the premier league for the first time in ten years . he said the motion of the games is still mine. is still there so it's difficult to answer. probably when you answer but i'm going for everybody the book club support was a little bit because of there's a blowing club. in a rebuild and we really strong not too is a bit overly broad in that we were strong so here's what about all means the three
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will go down we know one of those will be stoke that leaves five teams who still on face west ham huddersfield fell pumped and so on the and west brom huddersfield face man city on sunday event as are a step closer to a seventh successive italian title they came from behind scoring three second half goals to be following a three one in three on saturday event as occurred to be crowned champions on sunday that fifth taddeo beat second place napoli with seven points behind. the melbourne victory is celebrating a record fourth australian a league title they be newcastle jets in a controversial grand final at his home and records the old the city of new console north of sydney hosted the pinnacle of a strongly in football for the first time. there tame the jets and finished bottom of the tie believe you earlier and were looking to complete the ultimate turnaround
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but a murder celebration lasted just minutes. cost a bob or assist with the strike for the melbourne victory but it wasn't without controversy there were media claims of offside but the goal stuart the jets had sixty four percent of possession in the first half but were frustrated by victory goalkeeper lawrence thomas who was the game's biggest star. he was also involved in a nasty incident in the dying stages copping a boot to the face from roy donovan the irish strike a lashing out in the ninety second minute he received a red card for his efforts. the open to victory wouldn't allow it to sour this celebration. the old one no women sure an assault title and thirteen seasons for the team conj by kevin muscat the only then other more successful team in elite
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history was the old elease home an al-jazeera. it's the opening weekend of the champions league across africa defending champions we doubt katha blanka played out a one one draw with the mamelodi sundowns who clinched the foul african premier league title last weekend in the other games on saturday togolese de putin's porte were beaten two one by her royal of guinea and algeria zia the taif with russia for one by t.p. mazembe a from the democratic republic of congo cycling now and italian rider viviana has taken the second stage at the judo the italia the first three stages of the race taking place in israel viviane a finish the one hundred sixty seven kilometer leg from haifa to television in under four hours for dennis hopefully to pink jersey the australian taking it from dutch while champion thomas to milan who won the opening stage in jerusalem
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and that is all this ball for now more later to japan now in the ancient tradition of bonsai or creating miniature trees we speak to a bonsai cross from inside thomas who says he listens to the voices of the trees as he works his his story. co-operative through my name is. 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. bonsai is grown in a pot but cultivating it also involves creating trees that inspire scene resent the natural world. i find beauty in trees when they're healthy and full
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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 them 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 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
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them the strength to survive and thrive on their own. some are more than a thousand years old the junipers 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 would say that their true bond unless your heart feels at peace looking at them you'd give the trees all your love and pass them on because they will outlive you by hundreds and thousands of years. well that's it for this news hour back with more news in two minutes.
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citizens unable to vote on represented in washington members of congress do nothing about us like a part of the constituents in their responsibility and that is what's underneath this crisis phone lines visit to the island devastated by hurricane maria and demanding the support of the u.s. government the u.s. citizens in this girl mentality responsibility and no doubt that the forget the. shelter after the storm on al-jazeera he was the world's most wanted man the last
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meeting i had with him was off to the. bin laden was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter before in part two of an exclusive two part documentary all jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin laden he never showed hostility towards me of the west i knew bin ladin continues. of all my friends and coworkers who were detained i am the only one who survived they were all waiting for news of their menfolk was only one word on the image almost all of those saw a boy killed in his father's all but saw my film. i have only once in my life seen men who are scared to death a bit to civil wars darkest secret bosnia to come on al-jazeera.
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