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open in lebanon on the country's first parliamentary elections in almost a decade. watching all jazeera life from a headquarters in doha i'm tell you navigate also heads. more than a thousand arrested in russia and protests against president puts an opposition leader alerts in a volley is among. the u.s. springs back the second naval fleet to patrol the atlantic and confronts russia. and fears of more tremors ofter an earthquake hits hawaii as an erupting volcano forces thousands from their homes. hello in the last hour polls have opened in lebanon on. elections take
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a look at the live pictures coming out of the capital beirut more than five hundred candidates have campaigned promising stability and economic growth while the country is divided along sectarian lines raising questions over what political changes may result reports from beirut. it will be the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade pulsar were repeatedly postponed until a new electoral law was agreed proportional representation has replaced 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 the main objective is to increase the number of seats. that number of seats in. the new law is supposed to give a chance to first time hopefuls but breaking the establishment decades long hold on power is not easy the problem is that the civil society represents. not one
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group they say that they are. just to say that. in reality they are. hezbollah and are the only parties that formed a joint and a torah list 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 thing so i 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
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a hardline stance against the iranian backed. and can be the next prime minister. christian candidates are also battling for leadership of their community the poll term and their popularity a few years before they vie for the presidency a post reserved maronite christian. the long established visions of the past. and the pros. and the. military power which is stronger than the lebanese army has been at least for the time being. have been focusing instead on securing their power if they hope 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. are in major changes to the political landscape. three others happened in a residential neighborhood. those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded is really weapon dating back from the war. riot police in russia have detained opposition leader alexa more than a thousand of his supporters and anti-government demonstrations he called for nationwide rallies against president vladimir putin who will be inaugurated for a fourth term on monday. reports from moscow. two days before friday may putin's fourth presidential inauguration these russians wanted him to hear their demonstration slogan you are not ours are not we have
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a fascist state a totalitarian regime we should do something about it there is no election and russia. i'm here because i disagree with the politics the government and our so-called presidents are leading i want to tell him that he is not and that is places in the hague and imprisoned that again on the. several thousands joins the unapproved protest in moscow thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia. right now almost goes pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values goal. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad 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 my 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
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by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves. tempers started to rise at that point the police moved in. so they will rest the big gun in other parts of russia i do want to say now that. in moscow 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 why him. the numbers of detentions take top words protestor after protestor 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. but
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not even a 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 moskos riot police followed detentions with the next act in their raffaele clearing the square the valley supporters have been through this before and they'll probably go through it all again they feel is their only remaining way to be heard rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the u.s. is beefing up its naval presence in the north atlantic as russia gets more assertive and there has been a build up the russian and nato forces to levels not seen for decades diane easterbrook reports. the u.s. navy says its second fleet will be back in commission this summer operating out of norfolk virginia the fleet which was eliminated in a cost cutting move seven years ago is being reestablished to counter what the pentagon calls a rising throughout from russia at
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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 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 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.
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second fleet will be responsible for an area extending halfway across the atlantic and will include a staff of more than two hundred dianna's to brook al-jazeera robert hunter is a senior fellow at the center for transatlantic relations at john hopkins university he says the trumpet ministration is trying to send signals to russia and the baltic states. they're saying to the russians we do what you are doing a very serious thing more important i think is to try to reassure countries in central europe the baltic states oh and then the like that are worried about what mr putin in russia has been doing in central europe particularly in ukraine after all the united states has a certain number of ships you could organize them in in different ways and if you put them in a new thing and call it the second site it doesn't really change anything except
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symbolically and maybe in a bit of training because ships are assigned by the united states when and where they are needed and what you call them really is a secondary matter there have been protests outside a meeting of the u.s. national rifle association in dallas texas the crowd included parents of children shot dead at a florida high school in february calls for stricter gun control laws have been getting louder since the shooting which killed seventeen president donald trump addressed thousands of gun owners at the convention on friday valley to protect their right. thousands of people have been forced to move after a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook a wise big island the biggest to hit the area in decades this follows the eruption of killer way a volcano which began spewing lava on thursday residents are dealing with a number of issues molten lava has been seen bubbling up through cracks on streets there have been several earthquakes and poisonous hoons in the air runnels reports
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from near mt killer whale. local resident tony lutes shot this cell phone video as new line of the events opened near his neighbor's house the molten rock blasted high above the ground and toxic sulfur dioxide gas streamed through the air sound and a lot of roaring like jet engine and every time it exploded it was like an explosion or as i can i'm going on the new eruption from mount killer way a cause the emergency evacuation of nearly two thousand residents from the small rural community of lay lani estates and surrounding areas one night it was find there was little cracks in the pavement and the next morning. no one having worn it covered roads with rivers of magma and reportedly destroyed several buildings hawaii's governor called out state national guard troops to provide emergency help and keep people out of harm's way it is a difficult thing to watch
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a lava flow is unpredictable and not exactly certain what course it will take on friday a powerful six point nine magnitude earthquake shook the big island of hawaii causing structural damage to buildings including a school kill away a is one of the world's most active volcanoes continually erupting now for more than thirty years normally the lava flows through subterranean channels to the sea but the new eruptions are following a different pattern this is a newly established road block in the middle of the eruption zone now the police and national guard tell us that just a couple of hours ago a new law the event opened up in the trees over in that direction for the people who live under the volcano the occasional jet of molten lava and bone shaking quake are part of the price of living in a tropical paradise i'm not afraid of it just respect it and be aware of.
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you know i don't care if the mountain is unpredictable no one knows where the next lava breakout will be or how long kill away as angry mood will last rob reynolds al-jazeera near mount killer whale. two people have died and tens of thousands of homes are without electricity in the canadian provinces of ontario and quebec powerful winds brought down power lines toppled trees gusts of up to one hundred kilometers an hour have been recorded still heads on al-jazeera members of the so-called wind rush generation say they've been subject to a hostile environment in the u.k. us. a new opposition party is threatening to withdraw from july's election.
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hello spring rain is coming back to the levant you might get an idea of the building of it all this lord platter ranch is a good start and it's in the right shape for circulation so it proves the point it's starting off in turkey in this rain like we call heavy winds on sunday in turkey which stretches across the caucasus dancer azerbaijan emad even catch terror on south so that's looking fine reason to be warm as well thirty four in baghdad and the showers were quite big afghanistan but that cloud in circulation would develop more balls are we get to monday and it's like a wet day for lebanon jordan israel right up through syria again to turkey the catalyst for the head not the temperature back in baghdad to twenty nine degrees we might find that word to showers just come across the border and show cells of thunderstorms in the north in saudi arabia not social sunday but on monday otherwise temperatures in low forty's in many places humid around the gulf coast
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but not too much so and whitish or maybe if you're lucky blue skies there is still a lot of rain running through zambia and catching zimbabwe going cross to madagascar but the science of that to the west generally speaking this is now fine and warm but intervening returning to cape town. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with then was off to new . bin laden was very nervous about nature did not match a western border patrol in part two of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin ladin he never showed up to the cheatwood me of the west i knew bin ladin continues.
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well again the headlines on al-jazeera polls have opened in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in almost ten years more than five hundred candidates have campaigned promising stability and economic growth riot police in russia have detained opposition leader elects in a volley and more than a thousand of its supporters in answer government demonstrations had called for nationwide rallies against president vladimir putin will be inaugurated for a fourth term on monday. thousands of people have been forced to move after a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook a wise big island the biggest to hit the area and decades this follows the eruption
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of killer way of all you know which began spewing lava on thursday. thousands of people who took refuge in schools after losing their homes in kenya as floods are being moved into makeshift camps the government plans to reopen the schools on monday but as andrew symonds reports in the town of garage in kill a few county 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. there is no way i can refuse to move i have no place of my own anymore. 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
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they're heading for a place known as the chief's camp but there's little in the way of comfort that their wall 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 the weather is still wet and their conditions have got worse. they have to get 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 bombs
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no. on the long view. 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 about what it's not good. these resilient people are remarkably tolerance some accept the education of their children must come first but it won't cost in terms of hardship and health risk some of us are going to set up with although we are suffering it would be better to have this elderly to foster. it's difficult now moved back and forth you never know you might be. uncertain sea like the rain clouds hangs over these people andrew simmons al-jazeera khalifi county in kenya this talks between the colombian government and rebel groups will move to cuba the original host ecuador pulled its
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support for the talks. started fifteen months ago and crito after more than fifty years of fighting ecuador stopped hosting the talks after two ecuadorian journalists and their driver were killed by former far. a coal mine explosion in south west pakistan has killed at least sixteen miners emergency crews are carrying out an operation to free around a dozen others who are trapped in the mine the blast in the marwar coal fields in baluchistan was caused by a build up off methane gas inside the mine. at 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 just a warning you may find some images a report disturbing. this is the moment when an indian security vehicle crashes akash miti protestor. the vehicle drives on and the
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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 regards the good or the other civilians just going to be a certain make what are the factors 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 needs to be investigated. and get it's been of the 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 fight to stop the chewton operation is going on things are not under control everything is an under control you want to look. there
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is not much there is more damage off assuming property and and other things so i think that under control. old street fighters were killed by security forces during the operation police accuse protest as of trying to impede their operation and help the rebels so does the money by any go to our brothers who've left 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 instigating trouble in the disputed region which pakistan denies. 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
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thousands have already been killed in kashmir in nearly three decades of violence with no sign of reconciliation any time soon. as in. one of cambodia's strongest opposition parties a struggling to withdraw from july's alikes and saying undemocratic forces are at play the grassroots them across the party only emerged as a challenger off to the previous largest opposition party to solved in november when hay reports. one of cambodia's newest political parties believes it's the only one that truly lives up to its name representatives of the grassroots democratic party are related from the ground up with supporters and members voting for who they want to stand in july general election but party leaders say there are undemocratic forces at work in cambodia we had a day for day and it's fun but in the next two months i'm on until monday if the so there's an inch and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and i said this
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what's why i thought the price of paying the previous largest opposition party the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved in november accused of plotting to overthrow the government its leader kim is in jail charged with treason critics say it's part of a campaign orchestrated by the ruling cambodian people's party which is afraid of losing power the opposition performed well in the last general and local elections including q who won his seat in phnom penh only to lose it when his part he was banned and. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no camborne international rescue party in the election they want to go to. the party headquarters which is owned by another former leader sam rainsy has been seized by the court which may sell it unless he pays a million dollar fine for defaming the prime minister when sam rainsy has. called
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on cambodians to boycott the election there has been international condemnation of the deteriorating situation here with forty five countries signing a letter calling for the opposition to be reinstated and for kim to be freed while the united states and the european union have withdrawn funding for july's votes the government says it isn't concerned about the criticism and words intervene in the judicial process they can voice but it best not the flag of the spirits of all people of those countries so it would still be negative on earth today but the future they will come back to earth is no more. the grassroots party has already faced intimidation with signs and banners taken down in some places apparently by government supporters but in a way and new political force may be exactly what the government needs a strong opposition to give the election some credibility but becoming too strong
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may also come with risk when hey al jazeera phnom penh the unveiling of a statue of karl marx sparked both celebration on protests in the german city of tree or sculpture marks two hundred years since the philosopher's birth was a gift from the chinese government some groups rallied against human rights abuses in china others wanted to highlight exploitation in capitalism tens of thousands of people who protested in paris against president of money. demonstrators marking his first year in office. cards and effigies of the former investment banker the press has stars were critical of his economic policies which they say favor the rich. people from the caribbean invited to work in britain after world war two have demonstrated against a government policy that threatened them with deportation the so-called wind generation took their protests directly to prime minister of tourism in london
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saying they've been left without documents and denied basic rights sonia was there . was a call for amnesty for the 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 family and friends who were affected by this some people i know i was sent back and cleaned in the middle of the night we couldn't do anything about it because but because batman story is 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 for those who will grant to permission to stay permanently and no paperwork was issued
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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 weird process within two weeks there are still so many unanswered questions and just last week the ruling party voted against the release of secret documents relating to the with russia 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. so far she has resisted discarding the 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
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a package of measures to bring transparency on the issue to inform make sure that the house is informed to reassure members of this house but more importantly to reassure those people who have been directly affected under emergency government measures that 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 a little light here and they're telling you you don't mean. oh well you know the anger and how a generation who were betrayed by a country they believed in sunny diagonal london. the former football coach alex ferguson is in intensive care in hospital in critical condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage ferguson is the most successful manager in greatest football history he was in charge at manchester united for twenty seven years leading them to win thirty eight trophies in that time he retired from management in two
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thousand and thirteen. the headlines on al jazeera this hour polls have opened in lebanon's first parliamentary elections and nine years more than five hundred candidates have been campaigning promising stability and economic growth thousands of ballot boxes have been distributed across fifty an electoral districts and those are live pictures from beirut. right police in russia have detained opposition leader of lexan of all me as well as more than a thousand of his supporters an anti-government demonstrations he had called for nationwide rallies against president vladimir putin the protests come just two days before hooten is inauguration for a fourth term thousands of people have been forced to move after the killer wave ok no one hawaii's big island began spewing lava talks a gas on thursday the area has been rattled by hundreds of firth quakes that
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officials say are getting more powerful including a magnitude six point nine tremor on friday brunell's has more from the lani estates of the civil defense administrators said that the eight active lava folds seem to have quieted and that they are sort of joined together but they are not completely done yet they have burned down five homes fortunately no. have been reported to be killed or seriously injured in a officials are now considering whether on sunday to allow people to come back into this area the un 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 an explosion in the gaza strip has killed six members of hamas military wing the brigades the blast happened in the
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village of near the coast of gaza brigade say those involved were trying to deal with unexploded is really ordinance dating from the twenty fourteen war. at least four people have died in violence in indian administered kashmir a man was killed in srinagar after getting run over by indian security forces and earlier at least three separatist fighters were killed during a raid by soldiers there those are the headlines faultlines is up next on al-jazeera. on counting the cost drumming up business why saudi arabia is trying to lure foreign cash even as oil prices head high up the european union launches a new budget blueprint up setting some members plus a look at gold smuggling in south sudan. counting the cost on al-jazeera.

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