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like the a.n.c. the f.-f. now had student lips on university campuses across the country. e.f.-s. clarity about supporting the student calls for free quality education was resonating with a growing radicalism. than. he did he. lose with expedia. if you know the. city. how many people did it if d.c. dish needed all meat dish it is if. i i. i when at the end of twenty fifteen the government announced the university fees
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cross the campuses revolves around. the fees must forward movement included the issues of campus work or exploitation all of which chimed lemmas policy. if f n a c student activists set the fight for access to education was more important that all's politics religion says i shouldn't struggle spoke loudly to malema his politics but it was far bigger than. that. i. seventeen universities joined the national shutdown. when we entered one to look at each
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one will cross the one that in the midst of mandela put it that struck just as shaky. for somebody is in that moment was i tell you before i felt like mandela was him one nation and it was. sort of in a false visit was now about to come that we know peps we are the to have a shot in the hall to give the real vision that this country needs. are we. human beings were. driven from few. jobs. it. was the jews. of the future was. the.
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way during the last twenty years the debate was about the present and the past the current debate the one that is emerging when one listens to especially young people students. protesters and so on so on is about the future what kind of future do we want to create. and in the name of that future why is it important to destroy the existing dispensation. students took the fight to the gates of polman hoping to get the ear of god. instead they were met with tear gas and rubber bullets. again the state chose violence of a negotiation the. us.
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the protests combinator the massive march on the seat of government where the president was with students united across the political spectrum.
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the president had planned to come out. but shaken by the united crowd and functional he decided not to. but the students later was the president that made the decision not to increase fees this year the shootings that fall for hand of a government that seemed to intransigent. bugs worked with the new cross roots movements that represent an impatience for change mean for the party that is always dominated. with local elections of the arisan we're about to find out. the a.n.c. kenda main majority party distin in these local government elections in good east
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sixteenth backed. the biggest upset is going to be losing just one of the metros. rebellion revolution count the movement they always find cities as the most perfect tire ground. to mount challenges to the status quo that's already a question ties kind of populous residing in the city. in the weeks leading up to the local elections tensions became increasingly bloody . violence broke out between and see factions vying for leadership positions.
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in the capital. the ain same poster my old candidate on its local branches and all hell broke loose. five people would care. to list members campaign was also threatened several opposition parties were attacked through canvassing in in c. areas including two year fifty members who were murdered for ten dollars by john mccain. when malema went to visit the area he too was confronted by people who didn't want him if. we saw you doing that should be generalised would return with responsive and not give us in front of police is not an exaggeration. in front of police what happens only sit around for coffee and they said no let's take my limo out you're not taking everyone out you only take my labor event that i asked of those who died.
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the a.n.c. was on the back foot. worried about widening opposition it spent greco amounts of money appealing to voters to stay loyal to the polity of gibberish and. i. include them on their corner and i'm friends here. you want but the best thing is that what is man you know went down on the. world com. world and there are a lot of orders. to. move out of the city soon not who can determine that there need be. no i don't know if not you can turn around bill clinton sounds about the. inner police will soon be.
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appalled through. i'm. not comes. off to to moche as campaign period on third of all those twenty sixteen south africans went to the polls in this major test of the n.c.s. political legitimacy needed fish you need to how was this a debate just a disease. a lot of the you're. trying to make a change and wants to change banks need to give it a different. option.
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as to votes were counted all eyes were on the big cities the metros would the n.c. hold on to their majority. we are trained to toil as into democrats and is the a.n.c. that brought democracy in telecom we are confident dot com that last column to our what would it mets be toted us its one enjoyed respect and a debate. but when the results came in they were devastating for the ruling party was than any of us could possibly imagine. national the ns had lost eight percent of the violent. the party was defeated in four of the five biggest cities.
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it lost the capital she won it as well as johannesburg the financial heartland of the country. the democratic alliance increased their share of the black vote it was neck and neck with the a.n.c. for the first time in several cities in them. all you have done well now we're going to do more good we fix the pipes good we make sure those who are just looking to make sure jobs are created can we cut production we deliver those things muscle. and julius malema also had his day in many municipalities there was no decisive winner. so the fs the third largest party found itself in a unique position of holding the deciding vote on practically every decision the council has had to make including which of the two main parties would later let it be her only.
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one vote for the opposition because it ends he must be removed from power and this is the start of removing the aids from power we can't be utilized if we argued that i was sellouts we are cowards it means we don't want to take is that we're taking a stand and while great vote for the op was easy to take a was no i won't do for them this make those does not mean we're in big together they are a better division or better the agency. for me witnessing the shift in the political landscape of to twenty two years of democracy and especially since americana killings was momentous. the a.n.c. that had led to the liberation struggle was being challenged for not delivering on
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what it had promised the next elections will take place in twenty nineteen and the a.n.c. may well lose their majority to new voices from the grassroots of society. democracy is the contest and it's a better email qantas and what we're seeing in south africa is that the power of the ruling party is being contested and it will be contested more and more and more as we go forward there will be costs to it but i don't think the other players that we need to give up the media is not going to give up the judicial his left going to give up the other political parties are not going to give up. they are preparing for it for a long haul. load . julius malema has a f.-f.
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those small is growing for size lee because of the track thing those who feel let down by the a.n.c. and are impatient for change. as we look towards the twenty nine thousand elections the f.f.t. has to convince the nation it is a respectable column entry party. while remaining relevant to those who are taking things into their own hands. in the ongoing battle of julius malema versus the a.n.c. the question of whether it's possible for julius to lead both a constitutional polity and a revolutionary remains to be seen. in the air.
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it's a centuries old battle and the battle is being passed to a new generation. witness follows a young native american as he takes the struggle into a twenty first century america everybody's the little girl we give you sacrifice. is going to be so nice to be remembered on the phone to go on a knife rage on al-jazeera. we've got some rather disturbed weather coming in across parts of the middle east over the next couple of days i would have heard about tropical cycle war that's in a moment playing around the black sea towards the caspian sea further south it's generally try and it is generally hot be getting up to forty one celsius in baghdad
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or thirty therefore to run twenty six in kabul you might catch wanted to showers in couple summers temperature for twenty six twenty seven degrees here over the next few days here it should stagefright fine and sunny baghdad picks up on the heat forty three degrees by the time we do come to sunday horse enough in karate around thirty five celsius let's take a look at our cycling now this is killing major cause because very close to salonen now making landfall pushing further north which is rico on through the next twenty four to thirty six hours easing lot of the border with yemen pushing up towards southern parts of saudi arabia now the winds will fall out pretty quickly the rain will not in some parts could see maybe two hundred maybe three hundred millimeters of rain over the next couple of days flash flooding is inevitable and we are going to see major problems coming in here that west the weather will not just way further north was for sunday but us guys coming behind with still want to showers.
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a. very big story it's generate thousands of headlines copper each with different angles from different perspectives. this is the only evidence that russia was responsible for the separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's. the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera. thanks love to make amends to sufferance because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day and it is an urgent national missile that it be
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officially request. of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine at this time. u.s. president dog trump rekindles hopes the talks with north korea's leader could be back on track. and sam is a down this is al jazeera live from down also coming up referendum exit polls and i would suggest an overwhelming yes to relax strict abortion morals. side flown the coop new sweeps through amman causing flooding and leaving people in the dark. and
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standoff in brazil as the president calls in the troops to deal with striking truck drivers. it's been a roller coaster of events leading up to what would have been the first time a sitting u.s. president met a north korean leader donald trump canceled that meeting with a letter blaming it on what he called open hostility from pyongyang but a day later revived hopes the summit was scheduled for june the twelfth and single or could now happen trump says he's having a very productive talks with north korea on getting the talks with kim jong un back on track just hours after saying the meeting could still take place next month trump tweeted repeating that same message even saying it could extend beyond the date if necessary south korea is cautiously welcoming the signs of progress robot
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drive is the latest from seoul. this movie has been broadly welcomed here in south korea looking for any good news especially after the pessimism of the past few days a statement from the blue house the president's office says that this is a very welcome development and that the government here is now cautiously optimistic that this summit can go ahead moon j.n. the president of south korea of course has offered his services as a mediator to continue this dialogue push it had south korea of course wants to improve its own into korean relations talks between north korean and south korean officials have been put on hold while this route has been brewing and developing over the past week but now with this latest development and also with the end of military exercises that have been continuing up until this weekend the hope is that in the coming week those talks between north and south can be reestablished. exit
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polls suggest a majority of people in ireland voted to change its strict abortion laws. projected a landslide victory for yes voters sixty eight percent of them favor of repealing what's called the eighth amendment official results are expected on saturday afternoon the vote comes thirty five years after a friend of enshrined some of the world's toughest and the abortion laws into the constitution made parker has more on the referendum from dublin. an early exit poll by the irish times repeated by the news agencies including reuters that puts the results as follows sixty eight percent in favor of repealing the eighth amendment of the irish constitution thirty two percent in favor of keeping it in place the early exit polls seem to indicate a landslide win for the yes vote in some areas turnout was as high as sixty percent
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and at certain points during the day was much higher than in other previous votes including the last general election and including the last major referendum on same sex marriage back in two thousand and fifteen what we're seeing here appears to be a nation at a crossroads a nation that is prepared to embrace change a nation that is reevaluated women's rights and is prepared also bring in changes to bring island more into line with the rest of the european union the official count begins at nine o'clock in the morning local time on saturday the fish will results will be given out later on saturday afternoon but it does look as if the yes campaign will be the side that will influence politics and irish society going forward for many many more years to come. it is the founder of irish central dot com and the irish voice newspaper these are surprised by the projected yes
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result. doctor didn't bark in the whole referendum of the catholic church their advice and their ministrations and their sort of outrage about this bill went out city nowhere and the reason is very obvious most of the last twenty years have been embroiled in horrific cases of kind of city and murder and again to people are saying you know you're not going to influence my vote what was amazing about islam in particular was a rural areas fifty yards of poems right who are in areas almost every county in are and it seems folded fargas legislation now add to the scenario before the vote was taken was a dublin which has got above one point two million people in its catchment area was going to be to keep that there who vote happening in favor and then the rest of the country to vote against but based on his exit poll the entire country or as far and which is incredible if you go back to the previews and then in one nine hundred eighty three the numbers were almost reverse. so it's
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a sign of you saw with same sex marriage you're seeing it now this is a country that's for aggressing on a very very fast rate they have a prime minister who's openly gay and son of an immigrant from in the earth it's a very very different country and i think people themselves are probably very surprised to wake up tomorrow and they realized just what they want on terms of modernizing the country removing punishment from women fourteen year sends if you had an abortion. and so you know they were sick of the punishment i'm sick of demonizing and i think women in particular for who huge numbers. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a measure requiring the pentagon to investigate whether american troops tortured detainees in yemen hundreds of men reportedly gone missing after a search for fighters in the south of the country u.s. defense leaders say their forces have interrogated detainees in the amman but they
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deny any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses rob reynolds has more from washington d.c. . the associated press news agency was the first to uncover the existence of a network of secret prisons in yemen run by the united arab emirates in a report published last year the eighteen secret prisons reportedly have as many as two thousand prisoners and those prisoners have been subjected to a variety of brutal tortures including electric shocks beatings burning and sexual abuse those findings were largely confirmed by a special panel of experts appointed by the u.n. now this legislation passed by the house is part of a much larger defense department budget bill it would have to go to the senate to be then sent on to president trump for his signature to become law the senate
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just recently voted to approve gina haskell as director of the cia his haskell was allegedly involved in activities including torture at u.s. black site prisons in earlier years. according to u.s. law it is illegal for u.s. personnel to be involved in torture however those protections are much less stringent when it comes to surrogates or u.s. allies actually carrying out the brutal acts the u.s. has been supporting the u. the u.a.e. and saudi arabia in their battle against who the rebels in yemen for about the past three years house a come a could who has made landfall in amman bringing strong winds and torrential rains two people died on the coastal city of salalah at least five other people were
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killed when it hit the yemeni island of so called on thursday dozens of others a missing mom of vile reports from salama. it was the storm before the storm the first signs of cyclonic was swept through on a friday afternoon many drivers were taken unawares forced to take extra care while driving the rising flood water to reach home. i saw all these young men in the rain and wanted to give them all right but yes i'm in a hurry to go home and. start to let the game and most of the summer i drove all the way from muscat to be here in time to help people during the storm i hope all will be alright. nothing watching the three of profilers are going to be flooded with heavy rain and high real party yeah everyone. was there from the white state media machine with the assuring messages and returned to safety instructions
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in the face of the predicted major threat thousands of the way from the coastal areas to higher ground families seeking shelter crowded hotels further inland the government says it's organized evacuations were needed but everyone can see the ominous signs if you don't post continue with some of the night and winds gusted close to two hundred kilometers per hour getting cyclonic a highly constrained times and people here are worried about the destruction it may leave in its wake. dizzier southern. all right let's get more on that storm now from our meteorologist difficulties here in the studio so steph is it dying down now in some respects yes it's we've seen the worst of the storm surge we've also seen the worst of the winds the winds are easing now but it's still raining really heavily we shouldn't. just yet because now the water i mean now the ground is a waterlogged mean landslides that's exactly the threat now because the geography
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of there is there's a there's a little coastal plain and the just behind that there are mountains which rise up to about five thousand feet so the storm said. obviously go cross the coastal plain but then after that there's going to be an enhanced amount of the rains due to the mountains that is going to make rainfall and when it rains on the mountains of course there's the risk of landslides for people thinking what they can do it most it's all campy people do and salama well the idea is to get away from the coast but you also don't want to be on the mountainside drenched in rome yeah it's like a no win situation it's a very dangerous situation and the worst part of this is that the cycle hit at right angles to the coast if you get hit at an angle then often the friction of the land will slow down the bit before it hits you but at this case with it hitting at right angles nothing slowed it down and the storm surge ahead of it would just have gone straight into the inland wouldn't just to graze the coast got the full brunt of this storm. or we'll leave it there thanks so much there. still ahead.
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it's a prescription for disaster us police discover a massive hole of an illegal drug being blamed for an overdose epidemic. last seeking safety for me in ma with the world's attention on wrangel refugees we speak to another minority on the persecution. however got plenty of heat across europe at the moment it's hot and it is getting hotter and with the heat we've also got some lively storms you can see there's a lot of storms just coming out of ukraine pushing across austria easing up towards the low countries and a little plot just storms just around the black sea pushing into that western side of turkey get a bit of unsettled weather to into northern parts of spain and portugal easing up
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around the by of basic i could see some lovely showers here as we go on through the next couple days and here's why look at these temperatures thirty degrees celsius paracelsus the afternoon getting up to twenty five in london still very hot so cross a good pos can and they've even stockholm touching twenty four degrees and twenty two there for good measure for moscow with we have got some lively storms a piece of big storms around the black sea pushing down towards the southeastern corner of you of eastern side of the med could catch wanted to show as it stays generally fine had a little bit of cloud there for the big guy as we go on into the weekend in kiev will see attaches around twenty one celsius in the heat of the day there we go i want to say showers towards the southwest approaches of england into wales more so as we go on into sunday still a scattering of showers down across that western side of the med but we are going to see more of those showers towards the east.
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welcome back you're watching out to zero time to recap our headlines the u.s.
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president says he's had very productive talks with north korea aimed at getting the summit back on track donald trump canceled the talks on thursday but for the second time in less than twenty four hours he said the meeting with king john rather could still take place on june the twelfth and singapore exit polls from a referendum in ireland suggest a majority of people have voted to change the country's strict abortion laws they projected a landslide victory for yes voters with sixty eight percent in favor of repealing what's called the gates amendment issue results are expected saturday afternoon cyclon that could new is made landfall in amman bringing strong winds and torrential rains seven people have died across oman and yemen forty people are missing. brazil's president has ordered the military to intervene in a nationwide truck drivers strike the government and the truck drivers union reached an agreement to suspend the walkout on thursday but not all drivers are
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respecting the new deal that the reports. the strike began last monday with truck drivers you years is calling for lower fuel prices brazil is heavily reliant on its cargo being transported by road and after striking drivers are wrecked and road blocks the country was very soon suffering fuel and food shortages especially in the major cities yes sure made us force us fed that ice i called the federal security forces to clear the roads and i'm asking the governors to do the same we will not allow people to go without basic products we will not allow consumers to go without products we will not allow hospitals to go without supplies to save lives long lines formed outside gas stations where some kinds of fuel ran out while supermarkets reported shortages especially if perishable to lower the price of diesel by ten percent but that will leave it with
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a bill this year with the economy fragile of more than one and a quarter billion dollars truck drivers say their income has been hit by higher fuel prices caused by rising world all prices and the weakening of brazil's currency the reality there are more oil for most of the drivers who want to brazilian never even asked about our demands but they want to reach a kind of an agreement but according to the information we have that are present just look for a meeting when they saw the proposal the government's offer has still to be approved by congress.

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