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that is at the center of this presidential battle with the leading candidate on the right calling for it to be torn up and rewritten his main opponent largely backs the peace accord and instead is calling for the focus to be put on helping the country's millions of citizens living in poverty so off we go to bogota here is the syrian human latin american editor with more violence the. model we are at one of all that has largest polling stations the turnout has been pretty pretty light so far i'm going to ask my my cameraman to show you you can see that there very few people voting here but hopefully in the next two hours people will start coming out because this is a crucial election as you have just pointed out that the colombians are undecided they are dissatisfied with the peace deal that was signed nearly a year ago but they have to decide now as you say on whether to backtrack whether to go back to the past or whether to take a big leap forward
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a big leap of faith depending on who they elect and the choices are very very different indeed the results will be out in about six more hours and they will start to come out but they are all this will hinge the future of the peace deal. he's the most politically inexperienced of all the candidates a conservative has an enviable advantage he's the protege of colombia's still immensely popular former president of i don't. like his right wing mentor duke is a staunch critic of the two thousand and sixteen peace accord reached with colombia's fark rebels which many complain was too soft he told al-jazeera he would start by making a fundamental change. we want the leaders responsible for crimes against humanity to be obliged to tell the truth about what they did to compensate the victims and to go to prison. but that wasn't the original deal and many fear changing it could reignite
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a war that lasted for more than fifty years. on the opposite extreme of the ideological divide is former. colombia's first truly competitive left wing presidential candidate. he says maintaining peace and promoting social justice are his priorities as feared by the business sector and others who predict he'd turn colombia into another venezuela. the problem with petro is that governability would be very complicated he would clash with the establishment but. with war and the implementation of the peace accords. but there are other options including with the us moderate former mayor said feel for how little and center right wing former vice president his man voted s.e.'s polls indicate neither is likely to make it to an expected runoff but then lately polls have been wrong but
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this is colombia's first presidential election since the fark laid down its weapons but the army is nevertheless being deployed nationwide to guarantee security here and they're not expecting any trouble but that's not the case in other parts of the country where there are still rebel groups. colombians have several choices the question is whether or not they will choose a new president who will stay on the current course of peace. now come on it seems unlikely that the band duke it would win in a first round but the big question here is who will be the competitor if this does go to a runoff and that's what everybody is looking towards because it seemed like it would be paid to all but in the last few days the former mayor of a made the you know has been really going up and up and up in the polls and so this may actually be a three horse race we would of course keep our viewers up to speed on exactly what is happening here in this very exciting election as the results start coming in and
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i look forward to that as soon human eye latin america editor now on skype from bogota joining us is holder who is a political analyst and director of the conflict analysis resource center it's nice to have you with us before we talk about the candidates i'd like your opinion on what matters most to the voters is it the funk issue which is been such a big thing in colombia for such a long time or is it as it is in most elections around the world on employment jobs health care corruption all of those everyday things it is in the economy these for the first fifty years or more than fifty years we're going to have a little issue based on those social and good issues that matter for the normal life of the voter and not issues related to war against ourselves or finalizing the bees deal as we have seen over the past four or five elections for
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the first time. and the ideology. is that about a change in government one of our viewers on facebook live has actually just sent me a question saying are we going to see change many of the allegations there are against this existing government. indeed i mean there has been problems of corruption and allegations of corruption. in these all remained in the boss two governments led by about a levy and a record there is a need for a generational change there is a lot of discontent that also will drive very many of the voters to support double bed till the left wing nationalistic pop east that is for the first time a viable option to see them it shouldn't in her report just seconds ago and so popularity will come into i mean in the end quite often any presidential election
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is a popularity contest who who has the edge there in your opinion i would say that it's more than popularity i'm sure regarding. how to do to drive that these content how to represent that need for change not only in terms of faces in government but also in terms of social policies and economic policies most i mean we would see that the conservative even and do it will last through the second round we lace what most people expect and we will see leg generic runoff between. april and said he'll fall out of that would be the most likely vote but i don't want this cart that had among voters who supported by parties would be able to compete with those two for the second post in the presidential election in june all right good to get your thoughts thank you for
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joining us. thank you once again the online team has put together a what you need to know that's not it going on there it is no that's not it either i've got a problem with my up and here we go anyway what you need to know in the colombian elections how the vote works there it is how the vote works the key issues the candidates all these details in one place is invented video reports there as well so you just need to search for that what you need to know about the colombian elections. is also what to expect in the form of a reporter's notebook from latin america to the sea and human remember she has years of experience reporting across the region a wealth of knowledge some of which you can read in this article reporter's notebooks you will find all of those in the more menu at the top there at al jazeera dot com and you can get in touch with us as well if you'd like i've already had some comments and questions coming through on facebook live details of that in a moment the hash tag as always is a j news grid if you want to reply to our twitter thread at a j english you can do that with the hash tag looking out for your responses nihad
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is our producer tonight facebook dot com slash al-jazeera is the live stream that i mentioned for questions and comments amongst yourselves and with us and then that number plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine what's up and telegram for connecting with us directly let's move on sixteen is a number for you that's actually how many days we are potentially away from a historic meeting between donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un now south korea's president says the june twelfth summit is back on track after bit of a roller coaster ride these past few days moon spoke after his surprise meeting on saturday with kim where he also said north korea was still committed to genial or is ation under thomas has a report from seoul. the surprise summit the second meeting in a month between moon j. and kim jong un was arranged just hours in advance it was held in secret this footage she was released only afterwards by the two governments of north korea's
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with excited commentry attached. so. what's clear is that the sudden into a korean summit was a direct response to donald trump's letter canceling the june twelfth north korea u.s. summit the leaders of both careers want that back on littlejohn's. we have agreed that the jute hope summit should be held successfully and that our journey to the korean peninsula as denuclearization em perpetual peace should not be halted president said kim jong un once again committed to denuclearize ation and that he had told him that president trump in return would end hostile relations and cooperate economically this was not a meeting president trump was told about in advance but in washington tonight he hinted he could yet be traveling to singapore a lot of people are working on it. will be along very nicely so we're looking at
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june twelfth inching up or that hasn't changed. and it's more along pretty well analysts the splits on who's driving the agenda donald trump is seen as a person who can start a war and the last say forty eight hours maybe more of the fear that dormant thompson is strange is going to cancel the summit and then this view to a new escalation of tensions some probably of what if this year has been decisive others think it's kim in the driving seat they think his commitment to denuclearize ation means u.s. withdrawal from the region to not unilateral north korean disarmament in exchange for the lifting of sanctions i think it's the north koreans driven disengagement consolidate nuclear deterrence they've decided that they can push forward undergoes not only with the united states but also south korea and reengage with china they have a clear pathway forward whoever it is driving the june twelfth singapore summit is
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looking a lot more likely than it was it seems like longer but it was only three days ago that the u.s. north korean summit was suddenly called off since then we've been on what some have called a diplomatic roller coaster but roller coasters run along tracks someone designs them plans the twists and turns this ride is altogether different and a lot more serious under thomas al jazeera itself. and there are also reports just here in the washington post this is just in the past hour or so that a team of u.s. officials has crossed into north korea to continue laying the groundwork for the summit so perhaps it is on even those only pointed out only three days ago donald trump was emphatically calling that summit off that's coming from the washington post with all that in mind i'm not going to point you to any of our recent online content on north korea because it could be out of date within a matter of hours actually instead a reminder of this page where the online team has collated all our info graphics related to north korea means you get the full picture on the two koreas on the
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nuclear program on north korea's place with regards to trade and exports north korea all you need to know explained in graphics it does exactly what it says you'll find at alba zero dot com in the interactive section. now we want to take a little deeper into a story we briefly discussed on yesterday's grid hash tag where are the children is trending on twitter and the story behind it and spunked a lot of outrage this is because last month the u.s. office of refugee resettlement o r r actually admitted to congress that it couldn't account for nearly fifteen hundred children lost between october and december of twenty seventeen behavior is here with more on this one it's sounds almost unbelievable when you when you say it out like that it really is it's actually the top conversation we're seeing online at the moment come all but imagine a government agent taking your eighteen month old child away from you and then you
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have to spend months not knowing if the baby is being kept full well that's exactly what's happening here many critics have taken to twitter using the hash tag where all of the children and sharing pictures of themselves with the sign raising awareness of nearly fifteen hundred immigrant children who have gone missing off to federal agents say that they have lost track of them. but the big question is how did this all happen while this started with immigrants arriving at the u.s. border over the past year fleeing violence in their home countries and on arrival many parents were separated from their children and the kids were then put in sponsor homes for the as you mentioned earlier immigration officials said that last month they were unable to determine what's happened to these kids but what is making this so controversial is that officials also say that they are not legally responsible for what happens to the kids off to their place in temporary homes while on saturday u.s. president donald trump took a step further with this tweet blaming the democrats for this separation policy he
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says i quote puts pressure on the democrats to end the horrible law catch and release lottery and chain must also go with it we must continue building the wall while in response this user has said that children sold into human trafficking is the greatest injustice this is ministration has ever done it's a crime against humanity and for the record the policy was put in place by the top administration and this is what attorney general jeff sessions said earlier this month at a border crossing in the a san diego in california. i am put in place a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry on our southwest border if you cross the border on lawfully then we will prosecute you is that simple if you smuggle illegal aliens or cross our border then we will prosecute you if you are smart doing a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you
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as required by law. well it was an interview with the white house chief of staff john kelly where he defended this practice that caused a storm of controversy he is quoted to have said that the policy would act as a strong deterrent for families trying to come to the u.s. the children will be taken care of to put into foster care or whatever and online many have taken aim at the white house daniel says that jeff sessions and other top officials have happily own trump separation policy trump is pretending he doesn't like his own decision and is powerless to change it and then you have the a.c.l.u. which is the american civil liberties union they tweeted that no law actually requires this separating parents and children is george ministrations choice they say hundreds of kids as young as eighteen months are in danger of suffering lifelong trauma and then you have a lot of hollywood stars as well that are getting involved in this protest online
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including the actress alyssa milano who says that ice is policy of separating children from their families under the term administration is not only un-american it's inhumane well we'd love to get your thoughts on the story connect with us is the hashtag agent is great or message me directly i'm at random homage thank you reveal a year sentence and questions right now because we've got a guest to talk about this on skype from new york. there who is a staff attorney at the u.s. space center for constitutional rights always nice to talk to you and you know the one thing are not getting in all the story so far is the why why separate the children from their parents in the first place. i think we've moved. out of sea and gone on torrents antipasti i think the policy has no basis in reason if there is no data to support it going to turn out i think when you hear trump talk about refer to immigrants as animals and john kelly is accused of sour
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indicate that they'll end up and tossed her or whatever that isn't just gloucester it ends up as a policy and it serves no legal purpose and is really only punitive but again to go back sorry if i misunderstood you know any point but to go back to my question i'm trying to sort out the why here is that because when people try to cross the border they get put into processing centers anyway so they want to keep the children away from that or they just want to what what more do we know on those on those lines. let me break it down this way so unaccompanied migrant children have been placed into our custody for many years over a decade it's only now that children who actually cross with their parents and are accompanied are now being separated and center or custody it's quite unnecessary and actually possibly human rights filers do you think this story and i hesitate to
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call it a story because it's obviously far more important that it's people's lives involved here but do you think it can push past all the other stuff which is going on today with this white house of the moment because of all the controversies and all the things going on at this moment this actually seems to me to be one of the more serious ones people who cannot be accounted for absolutely i think we've moved past reforming these agencies i use a c e o r r and actually are within the realm of abolishing them and perhaps even prosecuting for these human rights violations. and if i mean i'm getting some comments from some of our viewers cynthia saying horrible treatment to traumatize of the children and it's cruel to the parents as well so i mean what can be done by pressure groups by anyone who's interested in this sort of thing what do you think can actually be done there's certainly
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a lot of ground to be covered me out for sure i mean our our which is under the health and human. agency try proposing eighteen million dollars cuts in their budget so that's about twenty percent of their total budget. side indicated if you want to send more prosecutors the national guard to the border where the social workers where our heritage rules are are on a chase each h.s. can't function actively if their budgets slashed i think there is an opportunity for an advocacy movement to actually ministration and congress and to really protect the soul and we thank you for your time on this very important story actually. just something else here just like the march for our lives before the march for stolen children is turning into a movement that's set aside june fourteenth for protest marches across the united states so i expect we will see a lot more of that hash tag where the children were trailer told us about but also
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have to take much for stolen children on our social media feeds in the next few weeks. now to europe the far right alternative for germany party has been holding a march against refugees in berlin remember this is the party which swept into parliament last year on a wave of anti migrant sentiment and is now the country's largest opposition grouping extra police were deployed because counter demonstrations were also organized under the banner of stop the hatred let's check in with david chaser who has been reporting from berlin today tell us about what you've seen and heard today david. let me get you up to date with the figures the the the right wing extreme right wing party and their rally and march through berlin managed to muster about five thousand the sales forces of the overtones of germany but they were completely outnumbered by some twenty thousand counter protesters who staged the demonstrations all across lynn it was
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a very tough job for the police some two thousand of them to try and keep those two sides apart to make sure that there was no trouble but in the end it was a vocal confrontation more than a violent confrontation and many this times during the actual speeches by the alternative the german leaders you couldn't hear what they were saying they were playing loud band music they were chanting they were saying nazis out and so it's very difficult to hear what the message was from the rally but we certainly heard the counter protesters who say the whole complection political election of germany has changed since this party became the main opposition party they had taken the greens there beginning in the polls to beginning to challenge even the social democrats who are member of the grand coalition so they are having a real impact on the german politics and in the bundestag where they have more than
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ninety seats so it is actually for the first time since the second world war they were beginning to hear racists anti semitic and xenophobia county islamic comments not only in the parliament but of course during these rallies on the streets of berlin and this is what has incensed the counter protesters at but i think the change in german politics is now fixed this is going to be a continuing confrontation and it's having an i'm balancing effect on the grand coalition itself of course. david chase there reporting from berlin on those protests and counter protests to do with refugees in germany. and him a good sense of mention germany but really low so you might be here but also we're looking at stories of syrians in germany trying to make the journey home really look that's right come on now since twenty fifteen more than one million syrian refugees have arrived in germany as part of chancellor angela merkel's open door
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policy and last year she agreed to cap the number of arrivals at two hundred thousand a year as a political concession jury in coalition negotiations to form a new government now according to the german pro immigration group called pro a sale hate crimes against refugees on the rise around one thousand seven hundred and thirteen incidents took place nationwide last year and this includes twenty three attacks and other forms of physical and verbal hate crimes well according to germany's a federal bureau of investigation they say that are the syrians represented the highest number of refugees in the country this is about thirty five point five percent they counted for a tiny fraction of the total crimes committed by those of immigrant backgrounds now in the midst of all of this there are reports of a growing phenomenon over the past couple of months it appears that some syrian refugees who illegally settled in germany and now finding ways to get home to syria
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from turkey this is a time classified as reverse migration and it all comes off the back of a law that was introduced to the families for reunion unifications and there was changes to this law and some syrians are very unhappy about it because they're happy with not being able to unite with their families and they often face difficult financial conditions and also hate crimes of as we've mentioned before and social media is playing a role in all of this people are reportedly using of the networks like facebook to smuggle or to help find these smugglers to help them make that journey back well we heard from rafael boss song from the german institution institute for instance international and security affairs he explains why some syrians are resorting to reverse migration. syrians are returning in increasing numbers because the family reunification is blocked their loved ones are staying in turkey or in the region second because the series emas forced them with
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a new decree to register and keep their property start of course because there is also a signal in the labor market and they realize they don't fit in the society but that's only the last and least important reason and we also heard from a syrian refugee in germany she told us more about what life is like for her. it took me personally more than two years here to just find a place and to think that i might be able to to live in this country and not only have to face the hardships that comes with moving your countries and learning new languages from the elephant and trying to integrate in your communities they also have to face the labels that happen put on their foreheads and the baggage of false ideas that comes with it. all human rights watch is also raising concerns it says it wants to refugees reach tekkie they have no visa own legal status so ready hosts at least three point five million syrian refugees more than any other country and
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the syrians there have problems accessing education and jobs and the new arrivals could risk deportation well if you are currently in germany would would like to hear from you especially if you are a refugee we want to hear your story as well connect with us use the hash tag aging is good for here we're hearing from lots of people lots of outrage about the story out of the united states about the children who have been lost by authorities as they tried to cross the border comment i do want to read those actually to do with the colombian elections are like this one mickey has said on facebook live let's vote colombian citizens we still have a democracy not a perfect one but we have a chance also i don't think a president can change a country by himself we all need to be part of the change no matter where we are a good point he and as a listener newman was telling us you still got about six hours or so before the polls close in colombia in this presidential election so get out there and vote and this is the news great if you're watching us on facebook live like nicky was an extra stories coming your way from a.j. plus find out why saudi arabia's crown prince is cracking down on women's rights
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activists and then later another report in our series on living with disability we're in new york one of the busiest most on the go cities in the world but a challenging one if you're in a wheelchair. welcome back we'll look at weather conditions of course levant and western parts of asia first of all you see if i meant applied through the caucuses into the caspian sea region but back you should be drawing us by john some showers are likely across the caucasus elsewhere we've got patchy cloud around but jerry weather conditions looking fine and pretty holding out there forty two degrees still the forty degrees as we head through tuesday but fine weather conditions for lebanon their maximum of twenty seven degrees in beirut now here in the arabian peninsula we still have the circulation from tropical cyclone and is pushing across northern parts of mon and yemen even into the far south of saudi arabia the circulation to keep going for the
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forty hours or so so the potential for more rain here the worst so obviously is over as far as salaam is concerned no more issues developing for the north will see as little bit of patchy client sunny pretty warm here in doha it's of thirty nine degrees on the other saw the potential we're looking at my some forty three degrees on shoes day in mecca and medina that forty one southern portions of africa largely find that we have got a frontal system pushing towards the far side of south africa so cape town could see some quite breezy conditions with a chance of some rain during the course of monday for the towards the east it should be fine nice bright day in durban and a high here of twenty five to greece. getting
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to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can do the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.
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headlines from al-jazeera don't call man what's trending as well u.s. north korea's summit could end decades of what's what kim jong un said we'll find out of it's going to happen. on the story number four zero exposing the match fixing from mumbai you saw part one of that you're still part two coming up and the full documentary from the al jazeera investigative unit lights out on today that is
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what's trending the something i don't see. right here is a president jacob zuma south africans were hopeful to see what his replacement could achieve in office well so cyril ramaphosa has now been in power for one hundred days but already some of the public's early optimism is on the way and critics say he doesn't hasn't done enough to rid his policy of corruption the same accusation that played a role in bringing down zuma so what's changed on the run of course and what next for south africa malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. they called its rama four yeah the reaction of many south africans when cyril ramaphosa became president in february. things have gone from bad to worse for his predecessor jacob zuma his eight years were blighted by a series of corruption scandals. last year people protested calling for him to step down eventually resigned under pressure from his own party to run opposed he's been
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promising to clean up ever since this is the year in which we were. in our public institutions thanks he began with a cabinet reshuffle some of the controversial ministers of the zumiez. but other state including this man. now minister of home affairs leaked documents linked him to major corruption scandals he denied involvement but it seems from a poser has helped investor confidence south africa's currency the rand and its credit ratings have stabilized since he took over but the political opposition says it's not enough i haven't seen anybody going to jail for the corruption top of the corruption in south africa all we hearing him paying lip service to corruption and say he's going to do both and he's going to do that one hundred days i haven't seen anybody been arrested yet. last month from oppose a cut short a trip to
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a commonwealth summit in london and people protested in the northwest province they demanded the governor zuma ally to step down over port a livery of public service is a frequently recurring issue in south africa. another key issue is land since apartheid most of it still belongs to the white minority many black people the landless on the pressure from opposition in february opposes he supported a motion in parliament to try and amend the constitution to allow government expropriation of land without payment historically the a.n.c. is rhetoric has been radical with politicians promising redistributions of wealth but in practice its economic policies are centrist in that respect in spite of the talk of land redistribution things haven't really changed much on the run opposer he's been on the boards of several corporations he's widely seen as a friend to big business with presidential elections due next year rahm opposes performance in the months ahead will determine if the a.n.c.
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can still win the majority it's always enjoyed malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa with us now on skype from johannesburg is grant masterson he is the wait for this one head of the political institutions and processes program at the electoral institute for sustainable democracy did i get that right grant it's. good to have you with us ok so i pointed out at the start of our program that of course i had to govern the country and try to sort out his own party now you technically could do both of those things at once but did you have to focus on one more than the other. yeah i would say at the moment he's going after state institutions and perhaps that's the low hanging fruit as i would suggest getting rid of state officials and public officials is it comes at a lower political cost now dealing with some of the people who are sitting right next to him in key positions in his party that's going to come with a much more baggage think is going to come quite so easily surf and now he said new
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focusing on cleaning up the state and then he's going to have to deal with with his party who is going to probably be a much more tricky issue yeah what happens when he if he goes after the likes of jacob zuma or anyone else within the a.n.c. he was accused of corruption because it's a tight community it is the n.c. prides itself on its internal unity and it's a big element of the i did give someone who is a true and see supported to really be very unified in their purpose in their common good a common focus but the president former president jacob zuma sitting in the dark in pietermaritzburg in front of the court with charges of corruption reinstated these are charges that preexisted his time as president but nevertheless many people would see that the fact that he's back in court in the dark with these charges is because of them oppose it is certainly driving a wedge between the two major affections within the a.n.c.
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and certainly that's going to be some that iran poses got to manage as he tries to balance keening at the state he's also got to try and maintain a balance of power within the party tell me in your opinion what it is that will matter most in the end to the every day south african if such a thing as the everyday south african exists because as much as we've moved on from apartheid there is still on shore a gap disparity between white south africa and black south africa. no question about that is just too much bitterness that if you get to be a white suburban african it has to be a black south african and that gap is one of the biggest problems in the country and the land issue is a symptom of that of course people say it's the prime root cause and it's very difficult to argue with that as a great element of dealing with this economic disparity but i mean the state is an instrument which the a.n.c. wants to use in its own words to drive the developmental gender for south africa into inclusive growth and to bring black south africans into the mainstream economy
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in significant numbers and a failed state or a state that is dysfunctional as it largely became in the last two years under president jacob zuma is no good to be one so clearly wrote those has got to both fix the state and narrow the economic gap between the haves and the have nots with just the largely split along racial lines grant masterson thank you and we like grown so much is going to be an inside story a little bit later on now to see repente for your time next month. was a south africa's public prosecutor from the nine to twenty sixteen during that time she went after corruption at the highest levels and methane her son spoke to only a few months ago just after zuma had left office she said they need to be granted saying introspection looking at what it is within the a.n.c. and within the national ethical framework he said that allowed such corruption to happen it's a great watch upfront with me he has an as ever is in the show's section at al-jazeera dot com here we are the live while having a look at what's going on and what's going on is voting in colombia but we got
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a few different lines coming out there and why in the way slightly i'll move out away but their democracy in progress in colombia remember still about six hours until the polls close in the sea and human in the team they will have all those latest updates once the polls close over the bit later all right let's go to london here's mary in the monthly with more international news i'm area. hi there kemal guess we begin with some of the latest developments in gaza where three palestinians have been killed by israeli shelling it happened east of the city of rough in the southern gaza strip israel's military says and then members of the on group islamic jihad more than one hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli fire in gaza since the mass protests broke out on march thirtieth meanwhile two boats carrying sick palestinians will try to break the israeli blockade on gaza this week a blockade not only prevents sick patients from leaving but also stops medical supplies from getting into the territory but in its midst explains from gaza gaza
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is blockaded by israel on all sides sea included but this week two boats loaded with patients who need hospital treatment and students with university places will try to breach israel's blockade which begins sixteen kilometers out in the mediterranean the passengers have a strong determination to break this siege whatever the circumstances whatever the challenges whatever the obstacles that would have been that would be posed by this really. gaza's hospitals are full of patients who need urgent medical treatment there are those injured in two months of protests and longer term cases at least now i have sixty five of them already admitted those who want to do in the martial for term. but there are many other cases of cancer and open heart surgeries and many other complicated neurosurgical cases of the cases all of them need to travel abroad because of this india was by the israeli blockade in gaza strip and why can't they travel abroad because the bulk of our seed must of time and these
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patients should probably one time he can say to a patient why when cancer come back after three months that he will deteriorate and you have too much complication they cannot wait life long waiting for the support of dropping. the posts that will be used to being kept hidden organizers fear israel will try to destroy them before they leave the port and reality the boats are not going to get any further than israel's maritime blockade which is as tightly and harshly enforced as the land blockade but at least those on the boats will highlight again the open prison like conditions that there are here in gaza the prevent almost anyone from leaving burnitz with al-jazeera gaza iraq's military commanders have been trying to maintain the peace to the defeat of i still in december that working with the u.s. led coalition to help in the battle against the group but the presence of foreign troops remains a contentious issue. has been given rare access to a coalition base run by spanish troops. it's
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a hot day during ramadan but these iraqi soldiers must complete their task officers are being trained to become trainers for their own troops. iraqi forces need to maintain control after the defeat devices and hang that i would have upon them oh we have eliminated i so militarily we have retaken all the iraqi territories now we are conducting hunting down and pursuing missions and intensifying intelligence work our fight now is a fight of intelligence prowess so he will do it as small units are learning how to navigate alleyways in a me controlled territory. a civil guard unit is conducting this course at the spanish run base as part of the u.s. led coalition the commander says exercises are important for iraqi forces to maintain security. to train iraqi forces to be able to provide a safe and secure environment. after years of sharpening their shooting skills it's time for more verbal communication it's important for iraqi soldiers to
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know how to serve warrants and make arrests they need a different method from fighting eisel. training for war equally important as training these troops are not just training for warfare but also how to maintain urban peace in an environment which is close combat. u.s. troops are also helping maintain the readiness of iraqi forces after the two thousand and three invasion u.s. forces were seen by many as occupiers since then there has been a growing military partnership. u.s. led coalition forces have provided weapons and training to build the iraqi army despite their close coordination the presence of u.s. troops in iraq remains politically sensitive and we're going to maintain i'm unsure at the iraqi security forces have what they need the u.s. commander says their mission is important even after isis defeat i think they're still in need of course that neighbor be the decision of this government of iraq and the government that comes because we're here on their imitation but we see now
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that we move to more of an operational and strategic level assistance that we can provide. after the initial collapse against isis iraq's military regroup to hunt down fighters and recapture territory iraqi soldiers are confident they have learned from past mistakes. and are ready to confront challenges head on some of the job you don't do there are a smile iraq india's cause iran going to park is home to the largest population of the protected one horned indian rhino so world heritage site and considered a conservation success story but the rhinos still face two big threats poaches in the annual monsoon floods jacob reports on efforts to preserve the species. these rhino calls love them leaving only what they see they keep that signals feeding time at the center for wildlife we have taken and conservation in. the car between one and five years old and still require. but place boy the rhinos mothers
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were killed either by poachers or. even when i'm at home. or have to take a day slave. early primo offer a glimpse into the heavy rains and floods that killed dozens of people and animals in the northeastern state of as each summer more than sixty rhinos have died in the past three. because they're on the national park is home to several protected and endangered species but it's a conservation success of the one hundred in. this park heritage site. close to extinction in one thousand nine hundred five there were just seventy five left today that close to three thousand and. eighty percent of them by the demand for neighboring. remains a huge threat the conservation. shifted from endangered to vulnerable in two
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thousand and eight but with the ever present threat the poaching. could once again turn the tide against the animal known as the indian unicon. poachers killed two dozen rhinos in the last two years so far they've killed three. this means replacing all guns and aging guards with better weapons and younger stuff which is a struggle dude on the funding outside the park gates heavy traffic and speeding vagos through while of colorado's also pose a threat the challenges are many but assam's rhinos of conservationists and the public on this side sit there i know that i've been to bits that the people who are something that i know you go to right then we go out into the. wildlife teams are
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once again getting ready for this year's flood rescues but their main mission remains ensuring the long term survival of the one honda i know. al-jazeera has their own god national park a son. in law from london of a show and now back to cologne marion thank you for that so how did you feel if your arrived and you couldn't even get in the car door on happy right well that is what activists with disabilities in new york want you to consider they say they're being left behind as transport services change with technology but also the struggling with just the traditional buses and subways this is the second part of our series on disability worldwide kristen salumi reports now from the big apple wheelchair bound valerie joseph gets picked up curbside every morning at her home in the outskirts of new york city for a ride to work is made possible through access a ride part of the city's public transportation system to seventy five base fare
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going from one to. two round trips a day sounds like a good deal if you qualify but trips must be booked twenty four hours in advance and her commute with other passengers can take up to two hours each way nearly one hundred fifty thousand disabled new yorkers rely on public transportation that includes the city's aging subways. new york's subway system has the lowest rate of wheelchair accessibility of any major transit system in the united states only a quarter of its stations are accessible and that's where the elevators are working jose hernandez described one instance recently when they were not. gotten away somewhere something like sixteen subway stops is like a find out of it and that was working that journey alone took me a minute an additional two hours in elevator performance disability advocates have had to resort to protests like this and lawsuits just to
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try to get the public transit authority to comply with an existing law that requires stations be made obsessive will whenever they undergo major renovations just as they sued to win an agreement to make fifty percent of new york's yellow taxis handicapped accessible by two thousand and twenty but then over showed up and were allowed to operate without any regulation so our agreement is at risk the amount of accessibility with sixty thousand inaccessible vehicles added to the city streets. is doing is it's just not what it should be lack of access to transportation advocates say is one reason less than thirty percent of disabled people in new york city work valerie is one of them and a plaintiff in one of several lawsuits against hoover demanding they make more of their cars accessible i am a tax there i go to work i have a life and i need to get out so i can't always plan my life on
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a nine to five and she is willing to fight so people like her can have not only a job but also a life outside of it kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. just to go back i'm going back again to the columbia election. on face book lies how life has asked how will the fuck issue be addressed in this was and actually something we really talked about with i guess before but it's fair to say that certainly the leading candidate doesn't like the deal at all and wants to tear it up and stand again but even the challenger is looking more at maybe change it hasn't always been complimentary of this deal so as much as i think the issues of the economy and jobs are going to be important certainly the factor which was struck by the last president juan manuel santos is going to play pretty big in this election and a.j. english on twitter if you want to get in touch with us facebook live as well as a circuited and what's that plus nine hundred four five one triple one phone line once again for our facebook live u.s.
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bollywood actress priyanka chopra about to learn about her she's calling on people to do more to help or hinder refugee children that story from the teenager plus and then it's part two of allocate match fixing and corruption in cricket it's from al-jazeera is investigative units first though a quick look at some international weather. al-jazeera is investigative unit exposes the criminal gangs fixing international cricket matches sixty to seventy percent yes you can say be safe except.
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bribing professional players. they send beautiful goes to the players they give them houses rolex watches or a book if you. please or i build an. al-jazeera investigations cricket match fix as. you responding six continents across the globe. al-jazeera is correspondent live in bringing the stories they tell you that this was not good enough to let this young. we're at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian but i'll just zero fluent in world news.
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up to now all of the al-jazeera investigative units look at match fixing in cricket teams exposed a match fix a from an organized crime syndicate who claims to have bribed international cricketers to under-perform the match fixing correct correctly predicted how players in two test matches would perform at a certain point during the game here is david harrison. al-jazeera went on the cover posing as wealthy investors to investigate corruption in cricket. that is how serious we are. an e m a now is a match fixer from mumbai he told as we could make huge sums of money from betting
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on his information. both the allegedly fixed matches were played in india and involved in england and australia the governing body for world cricket the international cricket council so he was taking off findings very seriously and has launched an investigation into an intelligence sources confirm that menow works for a powerful criminal organization called the de company now that will be going on it controls most of india's huge illegal betting market said to be worth sixty billion dollars a year from now told us players have been paid to underperform at certain points during the two matches and only two minutes you will now. have he says the fix is all settings were arranged for india versus england in two thousand and sixteen and for india australia last year was the. year. we setting off yet the field or i'm looking at something in his predictions were
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accurate in both matches our investigation also exposed three former international cricket players who were prepared to take money to fix matches one of them is has son reza the former pakistan star he agreed to play in the tournament set up soley for match fixing are you interested person would you play. to sri lanka players. and de lara lacuna t.v. would also play in the band that's just not a good idea the fate tournament was planned by dubai based gourab raj kumar plumbing problem that was totally like puppets exactly yes you were just going to do to control. now what do you say to the millions of people who watch cricket innocently believing expect competition they spend good money watching cricket and you are actually corrupting the game iraq thank you. but now and all three players
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declined to call me raj kumar said al-jazeera had invited him to act in a movie for public entertainment only david harrison al-jazeera london what more to come on this one the full documentary cricket match fixes is online now at al-jazeera dot com and it's also on air today sunday on al-jazeera english twenty hundred hours g.m.t. around four hours from now and that will do it for this newsgroup thank you for your company if you want to get in touch with us please do the hash tag is a.j. newsgroup be it on twitter facebook or whatsapp and the what's do remember if you're out and about in a story you might have been in germany today your in bogota in colombia and you want to send us a video selfie video or some pictures of what's happening around and around you do with that number we'll see you right back here in studio fourteen a fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow monday.
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colombians votes in a presidential election that could test the his story peace deal with fog rebels front on a wants to rewrite the agreement. know i maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the details of saturday's surprise summit in the d.m.z. are revealed kim jong un reaffirms his commitment to denuclearize ation. big money bribery and match fixing part two of the al-jazeera investigative report that's triggered crickets governing body to launch its own investigation. and from a population of seven.
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