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natasha going to does iraq. to the americas now what business owners in nicaragua has capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its violent crackdown on protesters maybe one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april level of a pillow reports from a banquet. at the busy medic gadol would be undone open air market in my novel thousands of vendors and shop owners are preparing for an act of civil disobedience a majority of the small business owners say they will no longer pay taxes or utility bills until the government commits to ending the violence that's gripped the country for the last six weeks those that are long gone by out of the island we're not going to pay for electricity because that's the money the government used to pay kidnappers in killings the land ahead is owns a shop here and is one of the organizers of the action. and money will no longer be used to our own people with more than twenty thousand shops and stands the mick
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gatto audience is the largest open air market in central america it generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and taxes every year it lend us says the civil disobedience is the most peaceful and efficient way to protest the way i may have come up with action as business owners is to apply pressure in a legal way that means declaring civil disobedience and not paying taxes why. not everyone at the market is on board with the strike some vendors here blamed the demonstrators for inciting the unrest knowing it was you know way i will not participate in the disobedience we want to take so that we can all went to a place fully. outside the market anti-government demonstrations take place every day dozens of barricades have been set up by protesters along roadways across the country donna the director of the naked eye when association of importers and export are says the longer the crisis drags on the harsher the impact will be on
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the overall. kaname is. why if this conflict continues into the end of the year economic growth will probably drop but a percentage points this would potentially mean more the nine hundred million dollars in losses political unrest has spilled into some of nicaragua's most popular holiday destinations damaging the country's most important source of revenue tourism the government accuses right wing activists of infiltrating the protest movement in order to destabilize the government. well manuel joins me now from managua i mean nicaraguan private sector leaders are now calling for a national strike or what are you seeing in terms of support for the time. as you can see behind me we're in a fairly busy commercial area there so quite a bit of of activity going on people locking around but if you go to that that open air market that i mentioned in the report. if france would normally see thousands and thousands of people shopping there you'd see vendors from all over the country
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vendors from all over central america bringing in goods and products from from different countries that's really not the case it's a very quiet scene there but we're really seeing that big economic impact here and you can i why isn't who or isn't it i was spent several years working up a reputation of being a very popular holiday destination a safe country for vacationers from all over the world and that's that certainly changed over the course of the last six weeks given the unrest so what we're hearing a lot from business leaders and from from overwhelmingly from individuals in the private sector is that the only real peaceful solution out of this crisis is going to be a negotiated exit by president that they got in order to do that that the the strategy that the private sector is taking is this is this call for a national strike we're seeing some participation not from everybody in the in the population but from a lot of business owners who have said they will not be paying their taxes and they won't be paying their bills you mentioned unrest manuel of course there has been
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violence that we've been reporting across the country fold several weeks now what is the situation like right now and is it still worrying the public at large. so hill where we are right now is not it's a fairly safe area we haven't seen anything taking place today that would that we would characterize as violent or high risk a lot of the violence has been concentrated over the course of the last few days in the city of messiah it's about forty five minutes outside of my now one individuals there demonstrators as well as the population are very are very tense we can only confirm one individual who was killed in clashes this afternoon doctors that we've been speaking to volunteer doctors who've been lending support who've been treating the wounded tell us that every night there is an average of somewhere around five individuals who are killed in these clashes with pro-government paramilitary forces there's a sense today specifically that something is building up there's
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a lot of bear it's being set up and doctors tell us that they expect more critically wounded vigils to be brought in for medical care today and just like other nights before these last few nights they're expecting more people to to die in these patients tonight as well as in the days to come and also violence that spread to other tourist cities like they owned it and not that where we saw this the the city hall the mayor's office was set on fire yesterday afternoon so there is a sense that more of this violence could still spark and even get worse in the days to come say well even for the moment to our correspondent in the nicaraguan capital when i thank you. well still plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including a new wave of destruction in hawaii as the killer or volcano spews out more. and the warning from the u.n. as the battle for the libyan city of intensifies. plus we'll find out how the
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weather played a big role in rough and adelle's french open quarter final on wednesday. homes are still being evacuated in guatemala a month for hugo volcano continues to erupt at least seventy five people have been killed and hundreds have gone missing since sunday as eruption rescuers have been sifting through hot ash in the search for survivors entire villages surrounding the volcano have been destroyed david mercer has the latest from city that via about ten kilometers from the volcano. what a mollusc lego volcano continues to be highly active you can see it here behind me and this morning we've seen columns of smoke rising from the cone now on tuesday there was a large explosion that sent gas and hot rocks down the side of the volcano and that
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caused a large evacuation order i'm urgency workers racing away from the disaster site and it was also the evacuation of more villages surrounding the volcano as well as some communities within the city of the city of about a million people major highways were closed as well this morning on wednesday there have been more a few more bodies that have been holed out and they think that there's still a few hundred people who are missing but it's very hard to get accurate figures and there aren't census takers who are going door to door so it's unclear exactly how many people are still accounted for but what we do know is that conditions for rescuers are very challenging there and there's continued activity there's also chances of rain falling down which would cause much lies and further hindering these an effort to try to remove as many people from this is as a sight as possible and get a true sense of the size of this calamity. seem hawaii's kilauea volcano has been erupting for more than
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a month but experts say the past twenty four hours have been devastating lava has reached the big island swallowing communities and destroying at least eighty buildings and the reports. plumes of toxic gas rise off the coast of hawaii big island as a landscape succumbs to the power of killer whales for more than a month the volcano has been spewing lava. hundreds of homes in its past. this unique good many residents have lost everything you've got a pretty good sense of loss and then you know. are you can do is pick up on your wall experts say there are at least twenty four separate fishes each venting toxic gases and larva up a whole beach one of the island's most popular destinations has been all but wiped out this once picturesque bay is now filled with molten rock most residents of evacuated but officials say some are refusing to leave you still have some people.
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who. make up their own minds in decide that maybe they don't need to evacuate when several thora nice tell them that they should evacuate so far around two and a half thousand residents have been evacuated to get away or is showing no signs of slowing down and they gallacher al-jazeera let's go to europe now where the former chief executive of cambridge analytical has refused to answer questions about the extent of its use of people's information on facebook speaking to a british parliamentary committee alexander in explain the global liberal media for the collapse of his data consultancy firm cambridge analytical is accused of mishandling the data of more than eighty million facebook users to help manipulate election results in several countries now they include the twenty sixteen us presidential vote and the brics it referendum. look i'm sorry if members of this committee are unhappy with the outcome of the referendum i'm sorry of members its
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committee on happiness but waiting i didn't see with donald trump being president of the united states but you can't simply. put forward your prejudices onto me and make sweeping assumptions about. our involvement with a particular campaign simply because that's what you want to believe because if that narrative suits your view of the facts when the fire escapes there is no evidence to support your position are you doing now and you'll be building a conspiracy theory but it's just in. terms of thousands of people have rallied in cities across northern greece they're protesting against a possible compromise in the country's long running naming dispute with macedonia. one of the main demonstrations in. the protest here in pella has run for two hours there's been enormous enthusiasm from the crowd even though it's been a fairly small one of one thousand or so people but they are all entirely agreed in
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the basic message here the message that's being conveyed in twenty three other rallies across greece tonight as well which is that there should be no use of the word macedonia by the former yugoslav republic of macedonia that that country should choose an entirely different identity and therefore these people reject the basis of the ongoing negotiations which started in january and that basis was that they would be a composite name one that included the good macedonia but also a qualifier such as you will all north and the location of pella is significant because this is where the ancient macedonian kings had their capital this is where the palace is this is where alexander said how from to conquer asia and it is here that excavations are covering a vast four hundred hectare city that represented the glory and the wealth of the
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engine macedonian kings and the greeks believe that that kingdom is their cultural inheritance their historical right they do not believe that there is any basis any legitimacy for anyone else claiming that heritage or asking to share it with them the people north of here they say are ethnically different they speak a different language they speak a slavic language the ancient macedonians spoke greek and therefore we have no coincidence we have no kinship we shouldn't be discussing this now the u.s. defense secretary has played down the impact of a trade war on military alliances with european countries and canada jim mattis said tariffs on steel and alan minium imposed by the trumpet ministration won't damage security ties the fact that there are good. agreements i recognize those make knew all the harmony of what's going on the growth and budget and that's kind of not new you know that that's what we expect but we will focus it's almost like
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you have an orchestra play and you've also got symbols clashing will address the symbols no problem you know they wake everybody up at the start and nod off in the audience you know but that does not refute the fact that the violin during harmony and for a lot of other things ok well still ahead here on al-jazeera we'll tell you why the war in syria is creating tension between russia and iran plus. when he was all about trying to create change and trying to make the world more just like the vision that lives on fifty years after the killing goal of the kennedy who never became president. with just over a week to go until the world cup egypt are confident the bahamas seller will be fit to play.
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welcome back a look at the weather across the americas this time so as we look at the weather across north america you can see we've got an area of clad across the upper midwest and through into the canadian prairie so some showers are likely here too in the course of the eastern seaboard is all looking fine much of the west is also looking pretty reasonable for the brain over the rockies but no big deal and then as i move the forecast on and see that system begins to move further towards the south and east certainly for chicago it could be a wet day at times of heavy rain but with our southerly flow is still looking pretty warm that washington d.c. in the upper twenty's meanwhile down in the caribbean region you see there's still a fair amount of cloud across cuba and towards the bahamas but otherwise jenny weather conditions not looking too bad despite the cloud the still be enough sunshine for lights of kingston jamaica there with highs of thirty two through central america still plenty of rain guatemala is looking pretty wet at the moment and that rain extend southwards once you get further north you can turn potential in mexico looks fine plenty of sunshine but mexico city could see the old shower so
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heading down into south america we've got some heavy showers still across venezuela northern parts of brazil and towards ecuador and colombia further south we've also got a weather front just affecting southern parts of it still so rio could be cloudy its eyes for the chance of showers in the mice and temperature of twenty five. the fraternity. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is
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a unique sense of bonding where everybody teens in that something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're also working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. you're watching the al-jazeera news are i was the whole rahman a reminder of our top stories this hour iraq's parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's parliamentary elections and
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with allegations of widespread fraud it comes as at least ten people were killed in twin bombings in a baghdad stronghold of the other of souther the shiite cleric whose bloc won an outright majority in the election. also the president of argentina's football association has apologized for canceling a friendly match with israel saying players' safety was at stake honestly answer protested against the game being held in jerusalem which is a contested city. more people are leaving their homes us where go volcano here in guatemala continues to erupt at least ninety nine people have been killed but hundreds of gone missing since sunday rescuers have been sifting through hot ash in the search for bodies and potential survivors. now u.s. president donald trump is hosting his first white house dinner to mark islam's holy month of ramadan the move surprised many as trump skipped the annual traditional
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dinner last year the press secretary says about thirty to forty people mainly cabinet members and diplomats are expected to attend several muslim civil rights groups are hosting their own if they are to protest against the president arsalan iftikhar is a human rights lawyer and a senior fellow at georgetown university joins me now from sterling in virginia via skype good to have you with us on the program the president didn't host this dinner last year but he is now are you surprised. so the short answer is yes i mean i think that you know with donald trump's long standing islamophobia history books on it can pinch your head and it is a vision most recently with the high profile firings in appointments some of the figures late secretaries did my part hero john bolton cia director gene as well i don't think that there are many suffer spoke to muslims in the united states and no
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one ever going to translate us from understand. according to one source on twitter only ambassadors are being invited potentially as a group will be very mindful of the language they use in that environment or at a situation that perhaps double trouble the administration can control. yeah i think you know we're going to see a lot of the diplomatic corps primarily gulf country and this year presented as you know people that trump has been kowtow in towards in both his domestic and international speeches but i think again i think what's important here most of you know is that you know this underscores you know seven million american muslims who are felt the onslaught of the trumpet ministration in both public policies and personnel which he is airing. if the olive branch had been offered to various
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groups across the united states to join the president in this did it would it really have been an opportunity you might say for muslim groups to bend the president's. i don't think as you know and i think that you know there's this president has. his one position position himself as a full fledged islam before you know the supreme court of the united states is a very shortly going to rule on his muslim travel then you know this is a president who wants to put c.n.n. host anderson cooper that islam hits us and say i think that if if nothing else any muslims there would go to a ramadan of typo's debate on trump would only be normal azinger is reason it's bigotry there's a whole range of issues that double trouble to deal with not just. muslims but black or women's issues how does this all fit into the much talked about midterm elections as america bills up to trying to decide who their lawmakers will
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be in what could be quite a decisive presidency for him in the latter part of this term yes here i think you're a really good distinction here i think you know any muslims going to his or more than of tire would be the moral equivalent of early african-americans going to the martin luther king day celebration by donald trump you know when it comes to. hispanics or african americans or people of color of the community you know he's really marginalized a wide swath of the american public and you know we saw yesterday you know in many primary alleged and all across the united states particularly in california we're starting to see a democratic upsurge in terms of representation and we might see. the midterm elections in november twenty four see what does happen but for the moment arsalan iftikhar thanks so much for joining us thank you. fighters loyal to renegade libyan
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general khalifa haftar into the eastern city of daraa of the city has been held by the al qaeda linked group but the self-styled libyan national army has besieged it for two years the u.n. says fighting has reached unprecedented levels and there are severe shortages of basic supplies more the bill what he reports from the libyan capital. from one history to another forces loyal to libya's when he gave general felipa hev to storm into the eastern city of there now. after heavy fighting his troops have taken control of a strategic locations in the city if you move that you make two or three days we can say that the battle will end in the city of turner we are currently in the seaport of turner which is now under awful control some terrorist groups can currently be seen in some streets and god willing within two or three days we will eliminate them completely. hefted is a forces enter the city on monday morning they have been laying siege to the city
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for the last two years according to have to his forces fighters allied with that there are no protection force please be asleep in control of the city retreating faced with artillery fire and era strikes. i can tell you that the enemy is completely collapsing there are only some remnants of the terrorist groups who are moving from a building to another from an alleyway to another and hiding among civilians. civilian areas including the schools have been damaged in the fighting egyptian and u.a.e. warplanes have been supporting hefted his forces by targeting civil areas in durban now. dozens of people including civilians have been killed since have to announce it the battle for there now on the seventh of may this city is short of basic needs including food water and medical supplies but any gay general. he for hefted is
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accusing slater's indiana of being terrorists but they deny that and say they have defeated eiseley in the area they also say that you believe is the government does not seem to be able to intervene to in this conflict despite the heavy toll on civilians. jubilee. and overcrowded smugglers boat has capsized off the coast of somalia with forty six people confirmed dead the un's migration agency says the group was on its way to yemen hoping to find work sixteen others are still missing presumed drowned over one hundred people were reportedly board the vessel when it left port in somalia or choose state now the u.s. is warning that the u.a.e. against launching a proposed offensive to capture yemen's who data port the red sea port is the main lifeline for getting much needed aid supplies into the water on country now the saudi military says the yemeni government forces its barracks is part of
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a coalition with the u.a.e. and now within ten kilometers of the control city your own experts are warning of a humanitarian crisis if the military assault against the area gets under way i have heard from many experts. during this visit of the grave of the grave anxiety. about an attack on the data. and the significant and avoidable humanitarian consequences that would result now the united nations has warned of a significant escalation in arrests interrogations and detentions in egypt it's part of an ongoing crackdown against activists bloggers and journalists critical of the president of the fact that c.c. was reelected in march winning ninety seven percent of the vote but on wednesday home position figures who call for a boycott of the election say their ramadan party in cairo was attacked by sisi
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supporters. a journalist who remains in jail in egypt is al-jazeera is mahmoud hussein and his detention has been renewed again so far he's been jailed for more than five hundred days without charge hussein was detained in december twenty sixth seen an accused of deceit emanating false news which he and al-jazeera deny. seven years of war in syria creates a very complex battlefield strolling global and regional powers russia and iran are both allied to president bashar assad but a russian troop deployment is creating tension between tehran moscow center hodder explains from neighboring beirut. the region straddling lebanon's eastern border is an important supply line for hezbollah syria is the land link to iran for the lebanese armed group russian troops briefly took up positions here the russian military didn't comment but its troops were soon replaced by syrian army soldiers
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in russia trying. to iran in syria the. russian troops the military police are ready to deploy wherever they want. it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets under way his envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advisers are not present in the area was. there any is receive
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a strong message from israel with the stepped up air strikes that it's want tolerate iranian presence in south syria that's why iran withdrew from southern syria the iranians know that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefit. and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threatened the assad government hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act for russia which enjoys good relations with iran and israel israel doesn't just want iranian and iranian backed troops away from its borders it wants them out of syria altogether israel sees them as a strategic threat and want russia to ensure that their military influence doesn't grow. it's not just israel's demand other regional international powers want to limit iran's influence moscow to wants a strong syrian government to help broker an internationally backed political settlement not interested in long term run ins increasing influence in syria
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because the. so basically russia is interested more in stronger than. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save that the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying for position and influence in post conflict syria iran and russia included. beirut well south sudan has been torn apart by conflict its five year long civil war has left many suffering from preventable diseases because of severe medicine and food shortages more than half of its population that's around seven million people depend on aid and since twenty thirteen tens of thousands of being killed and millions of people displaced the u.s. has recently threatened to extend sanctions on south sudan if the fighting continues now the head of the norwegian refugee council yacht egland says aid
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workers are ramping up their efforts despite the threats. south sudan has a lot of land it has a lot of potential for cattle what is the problem well it's the fighting it is that the various armed groups are not willing to make egremont at the negotiating table and we as humanitarians we end up with the civilian population in the crossfire one hundred colleagues have been killed since december twenty third dean but we're not giving up we need to have this to lay an effort now in the next three months when there is the lean season in ensuite don and when millions will depend on our really what will it's appealing to the government and to the doctors for a humanitarian ceasefire in the next three months so that we can reach out to all of those millions who are totally dependent now on humanitarian relief in the
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middle of this conflict what we want is to be neutral independent impartial and and do whatever we can to help the civilian population but also very blunt in saying. the government and the armed opposition activists need to defend the civilian population not attack them i've been meeting too many you know women widows mothers who tell of sexual abuse rape terrible things and it's happening with impunity there is no military other leaders who are really put accountable for what they've done but said to south asia now india's ruling party is under pressure from hundreds of thousands of farmers who are demanding officials help them get more of their produce. farmers in northern and western states are in the middle of a ten day strike spilling milk and that's to balls to block roads and highways but
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they want the government to intervene by waving loans and delivering on promises to ensure that their paid will for their properties. now the united nations has signed an agreement with me and that could lead to the safe return of rango refugees from bangladesh and outlined steps towards the voluntary and sustainable repat tree ation of some of the seven hundred thousand refugees. bangladesh agreed to the move in the refugees fear their lives would be at risk without international monitoring they fled a crackdown by me a mass army which the un has described as ethnic cleansing securities being stepped up in singapore ahead of the historic summit between donald trump and kim jong il the leaders will meet on choose there's a luxury resort old said tozer island scott looks at the preparations we made with the date set the starting time confirmed we now know the location for donald trump and kim jong un's first meeting the ultra exclusive capella hotel singapore's
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sentosa island a colonial era building transformed into a six star hotel by renowned british architect norman foster a decision that has amounted to a couple of being the choice has not just been about security to see but on top of this the hard security considerations it's also been about the aesthetics the optics of the summit as well this is a hotel that sits right smack in the asia pacific right by the same time it has cost more politan western story to it saw east and west if you like it's been reported that the north korean delegation favored the hotel and sentosa when they were in town last week negotiating with just for something singapore's resort island of sentosa it is known for its beaches casinos theme parks and golf course with the personal interest of these two leaders a perfect setting for the summit or even a joint family holiday the city state has set up two special event areas that will start just before the leaders arrive.
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