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and flash floods are common at this time of the year and so with the heavy rain comes down and enters into some of these valleys up on the volcano that can lead to massive mudslides or could really further volcanic the jury also launches a different risk and want a different dangers for their emergency workers challenges for them in the coming days and coming weeks and just a final thought from you david before you go we know the guatemalans disaster agency has issued new evacuation orders to residents living near the volcano what's happening to those people and where are they going that's right. it's not entirely clear where they're going some of the evacuation orders that we heard about were asking people to go to the municipal stadium in the city of a split law but from the people who we talked to who are coming from some of these communities but not as much these communities as some of the outlying areas because when the near this highway here they were really sure where they should be going a lot of people who were heading for the highway heading south from the city. and
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so i'm not exactly sure a lot of people so far from the initial evacuees on sunday they have been seen either with family friends. or the public shelters schools and things like that. ration orders i'm not exactly exactly sure how they're going to deal with that capacity but at the case is more of a false alert case and more of a just be careful case that it might be that people will be going back to their homes in the coming days so we're going to have to wait and see what happens ethiopia has agreed to end the costly conflict with every train a disputed boundary it's been one of africa's deadliest buddha was seventy thousand people have died since fighting first began twenty years ago some of this explains . it was may nine hundred ninety eight when clashes broke out between the eritrean military and ethiopian police patrols near the town of bad me bad me was in a disputed border area which at that time was under the control of ethiopia within
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a week. eritrea seems soldiers and tanks to attack but me and over the next to me is the conflict spread to long almost the entire ethiopia eritrea border the war ended in december two thousand with the algiers agreement a commission to decide blame and claims for the war each country presented their position ethiopia charge that eritrea a tech military and police units as well as civilians it says eritrea killed and injured its people by shelling mines murder rape detention and abduction eritrea says it was acting in self-defense as ethiopia was unlawfully occupying its territory the claims commission concluded that eritrea was to blame for starting the war and had invaded ethiopia in may one thousand nine hundred ninety yes but it drew up new boundaries that put bad may in eritrea territory and ethiopia had to give it back ethiopia fought the decision and its troops refused to leave bedmate
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until now sixteen years later ethiopia's ruling party under the leadership of a new prime minister agreed to honor the decision it is. a difficult a decision because more than seventy thousand lives out of the right there in darkness and after all of the war is going to last giving up but the man who is a little bit. think it is going to end in ethiopia but for eritrea it's a victory africa's unfinished war is finished they will get bad me the small town that started this conflict. saddam's civil war has left many people suffering with preventable diseases as a result of severe food shortages more than half of the country's population is now dependent on aid even morgan reports from my own county in south sudan. yeah simon has been sick for days and says she would have liked to stay at home but that's not an option for her because there's no food there so she had to come here
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to an aid distribution center to register and get food all of that law and that no one and i like i've had a fever and headache for days and then came the car but it had to come here to get food if not the only thing i can have is porridge so i came to get aid. simon is one of more than one hundred thousand people in my own county who rely on aid so who are in south sudan has forced seven million people more than half of the country's population to dependent aid the war started in twenty thirteen when president salva kiir accused his former deputy rick machar of attempting a coup tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the twelve million population displaced yeah ending guy had to walk for two days to come to my own for eight she also says she's not feeling well we're going to buy back my kidneys hurt we get to space to go to the bush suffer from hunger and get sick i've seen people die in the bush due to hunger and diseases
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like diarrhea hundreds of thousands of hunger related deaths were reported last year when famine was the claridge in south sudan and while the famine is over there are fears that the figures will rise. millions of thousands are suffering from for trying to get in as a result many are getting with violence and the rainy season slowing down aid operations they are concerned that preventable diseases will instead become fatal the u.n. has recently threatened to extend sanctions on faster than if the fighting continues there is fighting all over this state and these are farmers who have led to this place their land is not being tilt at the moment and that totally dependent on this crude date that had to be brought here by air drops is a desperate measure in desperate times in this brutal south sudan area where we've seen food drops now for twenty nine years what is needed here is
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a piece it's rican silly beast that may seem calm and many others like her not get sick simply because they can't get enough food to remain healthy people morgan al-jazeera my own county in south sudan madagascar has appointed a new prime minister to resolve its political crisis former senior u.n. official will take up the post as the country prepares for elections later this year there's been a weeks of violent protests of electoral reform. monitoring developments from johannesburg in south africa. opposition parties say they had a list of names people who they wanted to be made prime minister chris year and say was on that list some of the opposition say they had he made prime minister others say they are need and they are planning a way forward the last time the opposition won happy they had a massive protest the police opened fire used live ammunition and some people were killed the reason why the opposition were protesting is because they wanted some in
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their true laws changed to allow two former presidents. and russia lean to be able to participate in this year's elections they also want those elections to be much earlier in the year and not in november as originally planned now if these elections are earlier in the year would that make a difference some political analysts say yes maybe it could it could in the political crisis but others are saying nothing really will change madagascar's a country that's run by big names a few influential powerful families one power anything to get it and to hang on to it and they feel that it's no longer about the people for example what's happening now is this so much poverty in madagascar there's high unemployment young girls as young as twelve thirteen are dropping out of school trying to marry land barrons farmers because they feel is their way out of poverty the army has threatened politicians and said if they don't resolve this crisis then they will. come on the news hour including. we always will stay with. the no trespassing
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sign goes up at the white house for america's super bowl champion donald trump cancels traditional presidential meeting and holds a party of his own plus. a mentor thomas in sydney on a new initiative to use technology to get women to tell city where they feel unsafe and want. details of the brazilian world cup star who's on his way to the english premier that's all. there's more fallout from donald trump's decision to impose tariffs on his trade teller's remove mexico's says it will levy fifteen to twenty five percent tariffs on steel and agricultural imports from the united states for the mexican government's also complained to the world trade organization the white house says it may pull out of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement
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choosing to deal separately with mexico and canada well head to pearl is a latin america analyst he says although nobody stands to gain from a trade or it may be an opportunity for mexico to diversify its economy. it's it's completely a turnaround in terms of how the trump administration is viewing the negotiation the nafta negotiations when nafta was first formulated it was seen as a an attempt to integrate the three economies and the dutch the trumpet ministration is not seen it in this way it's clear from these actions of creating this trade war that they're trying to see this as a zero sum game in which they're trying to get as much out of it as they can for their own you know particular interests and we're seen the results and it's an escalation of you know with the european union with mexico with canada of this trade we're kind of phenomenon i think mexico can withstand a trade war with the united states obviously it will not be beneficial it's not in
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its best interest to do so but it could lead towards a diversification of its trade portfolio towards latin america towards brazil argentina china the european union and i'm sure the mexican. government has already signaled as much that they would likely do that in nicaragua at least one more person has been killed in violence between police and antigovernment protesters have been more than a hundred deaths since demonstrations against president will take it again seven weeks ago people are angry at his proposed changes to social security critics of accuse the government of targeting protest is with a shoot to kill policy. the organization of american states passed a resolution to begin the process of suspending venezuela's membership the u.s. has long been pushing for venezuela's suspension saying it will send a powerful message to president would you wrote the vote comes more than a year after venezuela announced it wants to leave the group. donald trump as
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counsel and invite sent out to the team that are the reigning american football champions the philadelphia eagles were supposed to visit the white house to celebrate their super bowl victory but trump cool off the meeting after a controversy over the national anthem is alan fischer. it was meant to be a celebration for the american football champions but missing the guests of honor the philadelphia eagles this invited so instead of a president shaking the hands of big name sports stars a medley of the u.s. national anthem and what the white house described as patriotic songs we love our country we respect our flag and we always proudly stand for the national anthem we always will stand with the national the eagles will drop because several players decided they wouldn't attend there's so much that's been kind of swirling around that in ministration. i don't think i don't see it as beneficial right at this moment time to to visit in a celebratory fashion in
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a statement donald trump said he was withdrawing the invite because the eagles disagree that he insists that the proudly stand for the national anthem saying the team wanted to send a smaller delegation but fans deserve better the u.s. national anthem has become a cultural flashpoint many national football league players who are predominantly black decided to kneel during the national anthem protesting police brutality and racial injustice when you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a half the field right now out of the sky. but not a single philadelphia player to kony and protest last year donald trump has invited a number of sports teams to the white house including the top baseball side the chicago cubs and last season's super bowl champions the new england patriots philadelphia's mayor a democrat says the president hated so few players plan to turn up he has a big concern about crowd size and size of things minutes that's him and that's
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he's a dysfunctional person that the atoms of the president america's national football league plans to fine teams where players protest on the field next season during the national anthem one guest at the white house event staged his own protest then left this isn't the first time some sports stars have skipped a white house in the titian because of an issue with the sitting president alan fischer al-jazeera washington. now can technology play a role in helping to prevent harassment an international charity has launched a website to highlight the places where young women face the greatest danger the hope is that data can be provided to city planners and encourage them to take action and to thomas reports from city for young women city streets can be or see a hostile environment one way to improve things in international charity is to highlight which areas are best and which worst for the last month women in sydney have been encouraged to use a website to mark where they felt particularly safe or unsafe when and why more
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than three thousand incidents have been uploaded so far doughtery so powerful and it tells a story three numbers which a lot of the time is one of three ways that decision makers can be swayed these women from the charity plan international and now visiting the hot spots taking photographs for an art project to publicize the initiative among them is a woman with almost a million followers on the social media platform instagram my i suppose. seventy percent women aged eighteen to twenty four which is basically the demographic that way for this particular project although thousands of women are providing that data it's not them but the data is necessarily for this initiative isn't about warning women off visiting certain areas but rather about providing a cache of the city planners to improve infrastructure where women tell them they feel inside. sexual harassment on the streets is
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a worldwide problem plan international has rolled out its website to four other cities as well as sydney maps are being created in camp our lima madrid and new delhi. everyone should be made aware about where we feel safe from where we don't perhaps this will help us and making unsafe place is safe to those behind this initiative hope information will provoke change the more people know whether issues that need to be addressed the more likely they'll address them andrew thomas al jazeera sydney. people in qatar have been out on the streets of the capital doha to signal their support for the country one year into a blockade imposed by neighboring countries members of a local bikers community undertook this rally earlier on tuesday the blockade on cats are began exactly a year ago when saudi arabia the u.a.e.
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egypt all cut diplomatic ties with doha they accuse the gulf nation of supporting terrorism a claim strongly denies well as in any crisis like this the media is crucial there's been a lot of coverage in this part of the world much of that full of rhetoric and propaganda on the airwaves and on line a key demand of the blockading nations was that the al-jazeera media network be shut down something we've obviously rejected outright is which again post of the listening post here on al-jazeera with more international coverage of the year long blockade. when saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt all severed ties with qatar on the fifth of june last year the region's news media were quickly deployed to play their part in the diplomatic showdown the rift was triggered by a piece of news that mysteriously appeared on the website of the qatar news agency although the q. and a denies putting it there the country's amir was quoted in that piece making incendiary remarks about regional leaders and purportedly criticizing donald trump
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as well as praising iran news reports of since emerged alleging that operatives in the u.a.e. were behind that hack however in the days that followed media outlets in the gulf especially from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. seized on the fake story and rolled out what seemed to be a coordinated campaign to put pressure on qatar the political crisis in the region played out in an unusually public way and over the past year a spat that would have traditionally been managed behind closed doors was aired across the news media coverage designed to portray guitar as a regional sponsor of terrorism and the lessons i did the up on with. a lot of i'm going to look we're going to hold low. an unofficial go to colombia doha has refused to see to any of its adversaries demands among them the closure of this network al jazeera or as the gyptian news anchors call the network alekhine
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zero the pig in the media battle has not just been waged within the reach it has spread across the united states where both sides hit the airwaves with official voices to fight in their corners and in the case of guitars and they are to defend his country's news network when he tells me to close a channel like a jersey into history were right one day in fifty or sixty seventy years how it changed the whole idea of free speech in the region however most of what's been going on in washington has happened away from the cameras so. saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar have all spent millions of dollars on public relations and political lobbying as they seek to strengthen ties with the trump administration and to bring the u.s. media on side it is within the region itself where most of the public side of this is being fought on the airwaves one year on though the standoff continues and there is still no sign of al jazeera going to block time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back bye-bye bikini the miss america
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competition has a drastic make over. the reigning u.s. open champion takes a big step towards winning another grand slam to hear that story on. the weather. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china we've got a night to tropical system developing and moving across southern parts of china which is going to have some really heavy rain it'll affect hong kong i think and also merge with a minute by a weather system to get some really heavy rain across this area is going to be extremely wet is also unsettled across much of indo china at the moment some really heavy showers are expected so those are the focus the rain is cheering thursday
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hong kong macao can both expect some flooding i think as a result of that system and again those showers continue across much of laos and vietnam further towards the west for me and my we have got some heavy showers here so young on looks as those can be quite wet at times as you move into southeastern parts of asia here we've got to heavy showers for the philippines surface to borneo it's looking good much of partly find the saying goes up through the singapore kuala lumpur a good deal of sunshine expected and generally those sort of conditions prevail john thursday there may see a few showers affected cushing could see the odd downpour highs of thirty one across into south asia temperatures back a little bit across central parts of india a mere forty two in delhi as a high still plenty of showers down through the west coast of india though but by rather cloudy with heis here of thirty two. the weather. and. the world's pollinators are in decline. in this episode of an earth rise we meet
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entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insects of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k. to see how all industrial sites are being turned into bank reserves in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al-jazeera. it's been one year since its neighbors imposed a blockade on by land sea and. a move that she. the region's geopolitical landscape alliances have shifted and qatar has grown more self-reliant . but what caused the rift between the g.c.c. countries is there an end in sight and can the gulf ever be the same again the siege of qatar on a. welcome
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back a quick reminder at the top stories here this hour israel's prime minister says iran's announcement that its peace and its capacity to enrich uranium proves the nuclear agreement has done nothing to moderate its behavior binyamin netanyahu thinks economic sanctions would eventually collapse the deal made the comments in paris after meeting the french president. new vacuum nations are taking place there guatemala's volcano after fresh lava started flowing down the mountainside at least seventy two people are known to have died so far and many more missing following sunday's explosions. in mexico says a levy fifteen to twenty five percent tire of some u.s. cultural goods and response to donald trump's decision to remove judy exemptions on its allies white house also says it may pull out of talks to renegotiate the north
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american free trade agreement. to italy now where the alliance of the anti establishment five star movement on the right wing the league party has won a confidence vote in the upper chamber of parliament government led by political unknown giuseppe conti was sworn in on friday that followed three months of political turmoil so to get reports from rome. the votes were cast and the government now approved by the senate ahead of the vote in the lower house thank you. new prime minister outlined his government's vision for the country. this is not a simple novelty the truth is that we have radical change of which we are proud this is the new anti establishment force an unconventional union between the more left leaning five star movement and the far right anti immigration leg up party the
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aim is to do away with the politics of the previous government with a promise to provide a basic income for poor italians and redefining its immigration policy and we will stop the business of immigration which has been growing disproportionately under the montreal of fake solidarity and this is the issue that's going to put more pressure on the european union the refugee crisis has placed enormous burden on italy and people here are resentful that brussels hasn't done enough to help what's essentially a country that's the major landing point people arriving from north africa. the new interior minister from the leg up party is known for his anti immigrant rhetoric but they are salvini wasted no time in letting the e.u. know that he wants quotas for new arrivals changed putting him on the same footing as hungary and poland he is reaching forward very much in these days and it seems that he really wants to put in action what he has always proposed that means
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a very hard line a very tough line on the immigration issue the prime minister said that italy would remain a close ally of the united states he also called for the opening of relations with moscow and an end to sanctions and that could lead to more friction with the e.u. . while both main parties of the coalition have talked tough in the lead up to the election they will now be confronted by the realities of governing change may not happen as fast as they would like and there is an obvious dilemma can a coalition made up of such disparate forces hold up to deliver its promises sunny diagonal al-jazeera rome thousands of people have been demonstrating in prague against the prime minister who is said to be given a second attempt at forming a government. but just as opposed to i'm very bobbish leading a coalition because he will have to find support from the communist party he's been
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ruling in a caretaker capacity since january when his one party minority government lost a vote of confidence in parliament. hungary's parliament is debating a bill that would make it a criminal offense to help asylum seekers as part of a crackdown on immigration by prime minister viktor orban as right wing government anyone convicted under the new law could face up to a year in prison journal reports from budapest where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe on welcome in hungary. alone slide when in parliamentary elections in april as encourage prime minister viktor orban and his feet as party to go further fulfilling an election promise to protect hungary and its christian values despite protests by the e.u. and local activist groups planned new legislation will criminalize any supporting committing legal advice given to the mainly muslim asylum seekers who do make it
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through access to justice and due process our fundamental values and this legislation specifically targets that and there are real concerns that the government will not stop there we are afraid of anybody who dares to criticize the government. for any reason. maybe a tag may face serious threats like we do now those who work with refugees who are promoting the rights of refugees and equal human rights for all. the advance of viktor or ban has been unstoppable in three successive elections the advance meanwhile of illegal migration of fear much promoted during the election campaign has been pretty comprehensively stopped there are more than a few hundred successful asylum seekers in hungary it is as if these new measures being debated are aimed less at migration itself and more civil society which brings us to the other great fear that stalks hungary's prime minister the
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billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports the government spokesman explained he made it clear what kind of future he thinks of europe. pro-democracy he's probably. right the kind of democracy in the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the like minded people. the new measures are collectively known as the stop soros bill in response to soros funded open society foundations announced last week it was pulling out of hungary that's a loss to free thinking society but a win for one of europe's most illiberal governments that looks increasingly unassailable jonah hold al-jazeera. spain's former prime minister says he will step down as leader of the conservative people's party after fourteen years he was
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ousted as prime minister last week when he lost the no confidence vote in parliament when the vote was prompted after several former party officials were found guilty of corruption from madrid. some say all political careers ended in failure but mariano rajoy is has been swift and humiliated removed by a no confidence vote he described as a very grave precedent for spanish democracy he told his senior colleagues at the people's party headquarters at madrid it was time to go. get you know in a moment i think the time has come to bring this to an end and for the people's party to continue under someone else's leadership. it was an emotional farewell after more than three decades in politics but he will remain in place in a caretaker role until a special party conference decides who will replace him it was the shadow judges
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called institutionalized corruption within his own party the brought him down but roy said the socialist government was extremely weak and spain was now facing an uncertain future. in a bitter attack on new prime minister petro sanchez he said a frankenstein government was being formed with disastrous travelling companions in the past nationalist uncatalogued separatists who backed his no confidence motion. so that political scientists believe with a new leadership the people's party could reinvigorated space and distance itself from the taint of corruption the government of. never face these political crises they used the mundane all departed the as he was before the make any kind of regeneration of the party so the socialist prime minister spent the day naming new members of his cabinet they included a catalan as foreign minister who had opposed last year's secession referendum the
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former cattle of president carter's push for more fighting extradition in germany described him as a man who had escalated hate in catalonia not an encouraging start of the sanchez and his folks to deescalate the separatist crisis chaytor al-jazeera madrid turkey in the usa a plan to withdraw kurdish fighters from the northern syrian city of monday's and strip them of their weapons will begin in ten days the agreement was reached during a meeting on monday between foreign minister never cover sue new and secretary of state mike pompei o m correct considers the kurdish y p g a terrorist group while the us views it as an important ally in the fight against eisel. protesters in jordan are back on the streets of the capital amman despite the king's efforts to try to end days of unrest his call for a review of a proposed tax hike that sparked a wave of demonstrations and led to the prime minister's resignation trade unions
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have called for a general strike on wednesday mama jump to reports. after days of anti austerity protests and the resignation of the prime minister jordan's king abdullah has spoken out on the unrest and what it means for the region it had good you'll motion and then or didn't whatever and it would mean today's blame cannot be just on the kingdom or its citizens political position in the region played a big role there are many who do not like the jordanian role in the region so this is part of the challenges that we are now facing today but we have confidence in the world and there is a hope the countries will help us in order to move forward we must rely on ourselves and we need to better explain to us citizens these real challenges ahead of us so they can see everything clearly. for most of these protesters it's not about politics or ideology i guess it would have been enough alienation we need not to travel looking for a job to feed our family we need not to get our education overseas this is our
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country and it is the right time to feel stable here. the protests in the capital amman have been directed towards the government's plans for tax hikes and austerity measures many of those who have come out are young. while the atmosphere at this peaceful protest appeared almost festive a times the frustration is clear. asma is an actress she says anyone ignoring corruption in society means they are part of the problem i have done what i shall be here to save this country so that people drown there are many jordanian say the message this crowd is sending must be heard lemme see dman policy there are lead in the country to more death and imposing more taxes will take the country to an unknown path we decided to go to the streets people and youth to put an end to these policies on tuesday king abdullah appointed education minister ahmed eyes us to be the new prime minister and form a government.
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