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there are also about internally displaced people who cannot go back home. it is though thirty three thousand families have been displaced from. since warlord clipper have to launch his military campaign in eastern libya they include fatah muslim. she's lived in tripoli for three years is sometimes out of nowhere the owner of the house could just happens person past wages the tell you i'm not renting the house anymore you have to leave you know you just think every day what's going to happen. i mean i feel like sometimes a stranger you know he i mean like there's no support whatsoever from the government omar and thousands of others continue to rely on humanitarian assistance until they are finally allowed home for fatima and her family going home is a distant dream they need a political breakthrough n.p.'s what i do hate. tripoli
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still had on al-jazeera trade war fear the european union is ready to retaliate against us terror us. hello maybe somewhat surprisingly there's a good scattering of pretty big showers thunderstorms wandering around west profiteered soon away easy in some parts of indonesia the obvious is there's more clear air between but they're there all the same and they like to be robbed next day or so they will be coming in houses in places probably not getting jakarta is pretty close they are to need to go through places like singapore and kuala lumpur same sort of system stretches that far as taking away some of the energy from the skies above the philippines where do something particularly recently been in the forecast i think a little less winter settled in properly now in australia so you get fronts across
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the party every now and again we've had the most active ones i think so it's sort of settled weather now temperature wise around about the fourteen mark in melbourne adelaide quiet days frosty nights twenty one up in brisbane and in perth not much different to be honest again it's fairly quiet weather the rain has not stopped there twenty one but i'm a good saturday rather cool picture of course in new zealand but the contrast remains the discoloring christchurch's that in oakland which is the case more or less as to what's happening weather wise don't very much cold even frosty nights of course but by day it's generally bright possibly even sunny point actually. amanda really funny tim did you notice people. its resources. now long held resentment it's
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a turn in violent with deadly consequences and you cannot use that as an excuse to go over human rights the people in power travels to south america to discover the finds of the milky cheek and. you're watching al-jazeera and these are the top stories right now after mounting pressure from both republicans and democrats u.s. president has signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of splitting up the migrant families at the southern border children will now be able to stay with their parents for up to twenty days seven former detainees and prisons
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run by the united arab emirates and yemen have described what they call a system of sexual torture told the associated press they were raped and abused by you many cars under u.a.e. control of the u.a.e. denies managing or running prisons in that country the saudi amber i.d. coalition in yemen says it has taken full control of the airport and her data the streets of the city are deserted as fighting near the army is now blocking the road between your data province and the capital sana at an effort to cut rebel supply lines. malaysian police are reopening a murder investigation that could have links to the embattled former prime minister najib razak among bolian model was killed by two former police officers and two thousand and six the officers allegedly worked as. bodyguards for knowledge of but he denies knowing the woman and actually was also being investigated over claims he stole billions of dollars during his nine years in office he's accused of taking
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money from a state fund the new prime minister mahathir mohamad reopened the corruption investigation after winning last month's election i was not didn't have any knowledge whatsoever of monies coming in i would not have couldn't do it and allowed it if i knew subsequently i believe that cohen had monies from several sources. and this is to be to pull but as far as i'm concerned i'm not privy to bang bang records you know unless you have special clearance from the bank then you would know what a source of funding or and i knew i accepted at face value would it just was coming from from saudi from king obama and his b.s. you know at his instruction florence lloyd joins us live now from kuala lumpur so let those two important things to talk about first let's talk about this murder case what else can you tell us about this investigation. well according to local
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media reports the inspector general of police has confirmed that they are going to reopen the case of the murder of altantuya shaariibuu among golan citizen who was killed she was shot dead in two thousand and six and then her body was blown up using military grade explosives and as you mentioned two former policeman have been convicted and sentenced to death and at the time of a murder she was they were the personal security detail of not your brother at a time when he was the defense minister now her family is not convinced that the right killers are behind bars are now or have been charge because they say the original case did not look at motive so her father has been here he's been trying and fighting really hard to get authorities to reopen the case he's met the attorney general he's met the prime minister of malaysia he launched a police report on wednesday he's just finished giving his statement and insists report he said the police should have been looking at the motive for the murder
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because he says this was not looked at in the previous case and they and they were also not that and they were also they also didn't consider how these to perform a policeman got hold of military grade explosives so he said you know there were a few things missing in that first investigation now his lawyer also said they believe they have new leads new evidence they didn't want to say what those new evidence were but they believe that the case should be reopened and his lawyer also added that they now believe that a former aide of the former prime minister najib razak who was in a witness in the original trial should be investigated ok so let's talk about the fraud case where an object has insisted he has done nothing wrong will there actually be charges filed in that case. going from the very recent statements by the current prime minister mahathir mohamad who took office after the surprise victory election victory on the ninth of may it's charges could be laid
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out a trial could even take place before the end of this year this is what the prime minister has said no not yet however is maintaining his innocence this is a stand that he's taken all along he says that the seven hundred million dollars nearly seven hundred million dollars that was deposited into his bank account was a gift from the saudi royal family you heard him say that in an interview that was that he had no idea how that money ended up in his bank account but it malaysian police and the attorney general had previously investigated and they found no evidence of wrongdoing they believed him that this was a gift and in fact he said that this is money that he has since returned to saudi so there's no wrongdoing there but the new administration has been absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this corruption scandal that has engulfed the country and has put it into debt now the new government has already formed a task force police have raided several properties linked to knowledge about his
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family and they've also seized i think nearly thirty million dollars in cash as well as more than four hundred luxury handbags and other back stuffed with cash and jewelry now none ship and his wife meanwhile have been banned from leaving the country while investigations are ongoing lawrence laurie live for us in kuala lumpur thank you. european union says it's ready to engage with the u.s. to resolve a trade dispute a day before the beginning of tally atory tariffs kick in against washington starting on friday the e.u. will impose a twenty five percent duty tax on three point two billion dollars worth of us kids the list ranges from agricultural products such as rice and orange juice to beans whiskey motorbikes and various steel products the counterterror triggered by donald trump's decision to impose a ten to twenty five percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports the u. has called this illegal it could yet but it could escalate. to full
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trade war which would be bad for the whole world because we are so new zealand is and you've been union we are so interlinked in the global economy also in the chinese and in the u.s. with the global value chains so it will affect us as well it would affect our companies it would affect our consumers and we are also worried that countries are acting outside the rules that we have created jointly in the w two. years and already is an international economist at lancaster university he says the first round of tariffs could pave the way for more severe measures in the future. it is a way to leave the door pane three point two in the numbers he says so small that we should not worry too much for the direct effect of these thought if so what these in more of a concern as the commissioner was saying that first a step or two more measures and also on much of these adoption do we will serve the now what a trade flows because of global value chains or so that you target one products and their fates every pull through the economy to places where you do not expect it so
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the european union is a standing firm a needs commitment that they want to follow the rules of the trading system and that's why they impose these measures but it is same time they say let's told but the let's dork of franklin we doubt keep changing our mind or a tramp's administration minds on what to do on which the mountainy switch countries and then that is the political concern of the day international system breaking down and not only necessary breaking down on trade matters but on other issues economic and political as well place in thailand are carrying out raids on factories in an effort to stamp out the illegal imports of electronic waste or a waste since china banned imports recycling companies in thailand have been taking in more ways than they are allowed scott heiler reports that have police officers gather at a factory gate just outside bangkok they send up a drone to take a peek inside before scaling the wall and going in this is the latest in
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a series of raids on electronic waste factories for the past month the authorities have been cracking down on illegal operations and investigating imported the waste some companies are bringing in more than they're authorized to import and using illegal factories like this one. it's the largest raid of its kind yet police estimate that there are six thousand tons of illegal waste in the sprawling compound for all these seven company canyon park but now we found out at five of seven. bought not that literally today factory but to another in the gun factory five importers have now had their license is suspended for a year intelligence gained on previous raids led police here to this plastic facility it's not even registered to do this kind of work now this is a stack of old router fronts now there are thousands of stacks like this on this facility and it's clear that this particular one came from overseas on the back of
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them there's a sticker with an american customer service number on it customs officials say that the import of plastic material for recycling including waste totals two hundred thousand tons for just the first five months of this year that's double the amount for all of last year i believe that. we solved from the bomb from china in the in population today country so. spotting countries tend to fly some other countries to stay into and might be one of those countries environmental group greenpeace also think the chinese ban has led to an increase their concern with the contamination electronic waste causing heavy metal in water and soil and airborne toxins but the more immediate concern there's no specific law that deals directly with the waste management so picking the cow dumping up somewhere from other countries that mean we don't have
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a cup of it the we don't have five till at the end we don't have infrastructure to do that he says there's another domestic ways to keep the current businesses open so there's no economic reason for thailand to take in other countries garbage got hardly al-jazeera bangkok's. the number of people feared drowned out for a tourist ferry sank in indonesia is now one hundred eighty authorities had originally estimated the figure at eighty you've been revised it to one hundred thirty now it's understood the wooden boat has three times the number of passengers it was built to carry bad weather has been hampering search efforts since the ferry sank on lake toba off sumatra island on monday south sudan's rival leaders are holding talks in ethiopia to end a five year civil war president salva kiir and rebel leader had not met face to face sense a peace deal fell apart in two thousand and sixteen but in the sharjah go into exile he is helping to mediate the talks tens of thousands of people have died in
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the fighting in millions have been displaced. australia plays denmark in the world cup later on thursday the team known as the socceroos need to when to stay in the tournament football is not the most popular spectator sport in australia but it is helping migrant shoulder and integrate into society andrew thomas reports. in western sydney this is an innovative program to get refugee and migrant children involved in sports football united has been running for more than a decade helping newly arrived children to integrate into their local community. these kids would play twenty four seven i mean we can't keep and have programs going to satisfy them i think i've heard thousand times i want to be a soccer when i grow up but love for the national team the socceroos isn't universal on television football competes with two types of rugby rugby union and
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rugby league cricket and australian rules football which is hugely popular in the cities of melbourne and adelaide. the round ball game is sometimes to ride it as a migrant sport. but in participation terms football is number one and this diversity is reflected in the australian national team players who fled wars in the balkans have been at the heart of previous world cup campaigns this world cup in russia a representatives with lebanese samoan iranian and croatian heritage more than half the scored have non english speaking backgrounds reflecting modern australia we're all australians but we have different heritage is and football's been a great bonding tool for that for the country but despite more people playing the game australia's top domestic league has seen poor attendance figures this past season putting the sport's governing body under pressure our challenge is to turn
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those grassroots participants people who play the game love the guy and turn them into fans of the professional future is very broad but at the moment it's still in a very much a converted the barman tim cahill who was with everton in english premier league for many years is now it is fourth world cup for australia he began. the samoa is a teenager and is an inspiration to others wanting to be rude it makes me take a big step towards more you know motivated to never did seem to me more and i can be one and be just like them in such a competitive environment in australia versus e of appeal is its greatest assets and al-jazeera city. to send our has become new zealand's first prime minister to give birth while in office she announced the news by posting in this picture on instagram. for the next six weeks
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with the prime minister stepping up and running the country is only the second elected leader to give birth on the top job the first was pakistan's been his or bhutto nearly thirty years ago and it is a girl in case you're wondering is it our web site when you get a moment al-jazeera dot com all the up to the minute news from around the world keep it here on that date on the headlines on the other side of the break. these are the headlines on al-jazeera after mounting pressure from both republicans and democrats u.s. president has signed an executive order to head his controversial policy of splitting up migrant families at the southern border children will now be able to stay with their parents for up to twenty days now claims he wants to keep them together even longer the european union says it's ready to engage with the u.s. to resolve a trade dispute triggered by washington's decision to impose tariffs on steel and
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aluminum imports will impose a twenty five percent duty on three billion dollars worth of u.s. goods including bourbon and motorbikes and will start on friday. it could yet but it could escalate. to full trade war which would be bad for the whole world because we are so new zealand is and europe in union we are so interlinked in the global economy also in the chinese and in the us with a global value change so it would affect us as well it would affect our companies it would affect our consumers and we are also worried that countries are acting outside the rules that we have created jointly in the w two the saudi immorality coalition and yemen says it has taken full control of the airport and her data the streets of the city are deserted as fighting nears the army is now blocking the road between who date a province in the capital sana and an effort to cut rebel supply lines seven former detainees and prisons run by the united arab emirates and yemen have described what
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they call a system of sexual torture it told the associated press they were raped and abused by you many guards under u.s. control the u.s. denies managing or running prisons in the country malaysian police are reopening a murder investigation that could have links to embattled former prime minister najib razak among bolian model was killed by two former police officers and two thousand and six the officers allegedly worked as bodyguards for nigeria but he denies knowing the woman and she is also being investigated over claims he stole billions of dollars during his nine years in office he's accused of taking money from a state fund the new prime minister mahathir mohamad reopened the corruption investigation after winning last month's election those are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera people in power as next of us at our website al-jazeera com.
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al jazeera says it's just sweat and. the mukherjee people of southern argentina and chile have long protested but also from stressed lands at the hands of colonial era settlers territory that's maraton and cheap by huge timber a states which have left the region environmentally depleted and the indigenous inhabitants mired in poverty but recently the simmering resentment have been coming to the court weeping to find that water.
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passing game in a vast wilderness of lakes forests and mountains that straddles then days across the southernmost part of south america. it's dan central home of the indigenous mature people who were here when spanish conquistadores first arrived on the continent they have a full hundred years ago. since the nineteenth century it's been divided by the border between chile and argentina. but
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for the most that's always been over tree by andrey. for generations they fought and mostly failed to get their rights to these lines recognized by both nations. so you know what i don't know but there was a thought i told you. in up an elephant past your stomach on the last of us and when know those ancient simmering resentments a once again bursting into flames. from the poochie say they've been pushed to the brink by a surge of environmentally destructive industries such as logging. violence is spiraling and the region has seen a spate of olsen attacks against timber companies and landholders. until a group of the lenders and i say actually paul came out on the internet i don't
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think when that got me on it and i don't. expect they look to say that only now let me that he says he understood i offered. them all over to our us and got a second bank gotten it away. in both chile and argentina it's brought from the one small into conflict with the forces of the state. plotter one is i raise argentina's most prestigious museum of natural history it's a trikes millions of tourists every year. but the museums basement hides a dog secrecy. unbeknown to the visitors scurrying above there's a room strictly off limits which says much about the state's list while attitudes to its indigenous people. here all the schools of by. thousands of mapuche
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a captured in killed in the late nineteenth century as european settlers pushed science into patagonia in what is euphemistically called the conquest of the desert . their remains were on display until the one nine hundred sixty s. for more sailor or former band and i still can't see we owe it to toss. them better left foot or f.e.'s haddam our complete us electrical italia complete around a secret or capitana. door has sunk around us well to us simply meant it in a kind of body it'll no matter the end if it gets here because honey had been on marcelo valko and spent many years studying crimes committed against the mapuche join the does it campaign. well into the eighteen eighties children were being sold off as slaves even through advertisement in the national press her mother then he says yeah but entering. in yes cannot be on
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a hindi course ina or syrian. i'll put it i woke up and honestly an interest. in ascii characters. and on the face of it prejudice against the country's indigenous people is still common particularly in the media. in the home of if whether or not they guys were mad have enough enough from israel from india. he not suffer fatigue our same level here now either here in a given year. jose ramos is one of alton tina's most controversial t.v. hosts his new show is watched by millions. of people but he was going to do we're. going to be. on the. killer to be in that young
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because i'm a mess. and you have. to get a wonderfully i don't condone this here but in a sea of time you know just in the you know you think oh boy the you will hit us here here you know it is real romano you're the you know anybody else this is you're with us into the office of using google you know that moment that you know about the middle of the hand again only given given syria would want to. get to a point that been there is overwhelmed by the. much of the men to choose and some stroll land is now in the hands of foreign billionaires. like a child including mike next to bennett's home. who's a state company's nine hundred fires and act as. an area of hole for the size of wales and nine percent of the region's most comfortable land. i
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still love to get perspective if you have to but i sat. down and. got to make it on top of us yeah i meant that it be a lot go to the senate to make you sick you know like the. minutes of the thirty minutes. two years ago a group of the pooch a reclaimed a tiny fraction of the benetton a stage and begun to foam it. many violent trades by special police units followed . oh yeah no but he will if he are allowed under some but as i said i feel that. he let more list. should not critics say that since the election victory of president marusya machree two years ago the state's attitudes to the mapuche he has become noticeably worse. last august the issue became a p.r. nightmare for the government when sunday all game old and older a watchman pucci supporter disappeared while fleeing from police when the camp on
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the benetton estate was raided. it traumatized origin tina awakening painful memories of the country's thirty thousand disappeared who vanished during the dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. . the president appeared on t.v. to deny involvement. you know what was it that it could say a young get off for somebody and for that boy you're going to see him basim really if they really know him or got to go. in a cell or somebody said i know you. for three months the country was gripped by the fate of malden all day and then his body was found floating in this river cause of death drowning according to the autopsy. however the body appeared inexplicably in almost exactly the same place as he had last been seen fleeing the police and there had been numerous searches of the area leading many like nobel
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peace prize laureate adolfo paris ask a girl to die of fear fishel version our doubt the poet of necessity waterborne ario. but he thought. about all this and they're going to want to show my face because they don't this year or wall . not. so that we are you corsican i stunk allowed us to go. over the border in chile in part again the police are on the trauma fences.
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but the problems of our own county is designated a conflict. the regional capital to move is full to bursting with paramilitary police. and the out oconee region there's this sense that there's a violence that is out of control and that should be somehow addressed by the authorities of course it's not that we validate the violence they're being committed in the region but you cannot use that as an excuse to go over someone writes. a group of militant pucci calling itself according to dora become a yank or come is engaged in a campaign of sabotage against the logging industry which it sais is destroying the environment. so far no one has been injured but the
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group has caused millions of dollars in damage. the government has responded by invoking an anti terror law drafted joining the time of former dictator general pinochet. it's affects the whole community they arrive violently they raid every house or they fall tear gas not clear why. one very recent case affected a preschool that was in class with little children the side that were all affected by the tear gas in some cases had to be taken to hospital. in the heart of the conflict zone the small son of cosy prove he is celebrating its in turn around. the festivities have a distinctly morsel and. not
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far away at the regional course has the when to call is waiting at saïd. on the company the only damage to the table. until. she chose is that a year ago her son was shot in the back by a police dog and while trying to defend his twelve year old brother it's the first court case of its kind and for the mid future hopes so high that the perpetrator won't get away with it this time as it turns out the sergeant doesn't even attend the hearing all the surprising say activists no policeman has ever been convicted for the shooting and the poochie but there is a new diet who she holds responsible. for one that at the end of it a scene when you know it all came out all the same what they owe.
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him a quick sale of the senate building and a low a low that will leave. a pool. and sand but i am in a little. fine with that link it to some other us. that we want to go and i'm a whole lot on the. front end of it one way gilligan's with the. song don't better not. include those who. got a clue the bullet coming last activists say brandon is one of hundreds of innocent peachey shot by the police in some cases fatally since
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the reintroduction of the empty chair a law then we can get off on sunday ok come on the lot of us at the see a little little last night ok and. there's a lot in sign for mandela confront accident. we asked general friends only he was in charge of the conflict zone to comment. on. like every political or law enforcement official we approached in chile and neighboring argentina the general refused to give us an interview. in contrast to the apparent immunity enjoyed by the police it's almost impossible to find him a peachy leader who hasn't spent time in prison. hugo lekan ira
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named environmentalist has been a community leader for ten years. and i knew i mean for the pre-med and got to say that me and the thought of to defend their limo to deal with they i knew and got to say no and. got a second. hugo was wrongly accused of terrorism held for three years and then released. but i mean. i mean i don't know i read a little bit of them up with him at dinner but it's a human d.n.a. . better man at the met the gun control. there have been cases level to people that have been accused more than once for terrorist crimes and acquitted in all of those cases so these people have some may have spent years of their life that were spent in prison for absolutely no reason. it's an issue this protest hopes to highlight the movie and argue and. tell this to
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look in and can tell it all my portrait. now solomon think of sarah not solomon that's a scene that scene i get them in south our look for that but i don't know tell me you are not in. the mood to say they have a loss to protest a bias and demonstrations like this one in the capital santiago are common. but they are often brought to an abrupt end by the police. last may far below those watching a peaceful protest from the relative safety of the roof of them a p.c. university into muka when the police suddenly attacked swat thank you from which. the door give you don't. and i can secular to. your software like.
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to. you know i'm going to you're. going to get. better because you. said i didn't hear. that's the heart of the conflict is life. in the poochie say that for decades they've been pushed to the margins of that ancestral homeland often to make way for forestry plantations where fast growing trees unsuited to patagonia have wrought havoc with the environment. you know the fatalities she has. little. if the feel of the love you.
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like well it's just. like your soul. that we're looking to get and yeah i want to first olds you know the. young people that the threat of violence is never far off. that when his brother complained about a stolen horse to a policeman two months ago he was shot dead by the officer leaving a widow and child illegally. for the last twenty years the mapuche have been trying to take back their land occupying and protecting the environment. the authorities response is all too often deadly.
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this is like we pray which is surrounded by logging concessions it's a primary center of the poochie resistance. you. go. the way you. feel the looking. at. the scene calculate. their. second offer for for you know the train of them going on and off but. the people in the passages. very many prefer peaceful protests some within the mapuche community feel that direct action is now the only open. we've been invited to meet handkercher jade to the leader of the group responsible for
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the acts of sabotage. we have picked up that's a rendezvous in a remote village and then taken to a hideout in the mountains. that are less than any sound the. wood on it i'm going to. the time he. picked them up with. hector tells us he survived three assassination attempts to spend ten years behind bars during his campaign manager. under the weight of. what they call the name up once again but the process would have been three thirty and. they somebody sione. them all over to our us and. thank god turn it away will. be.
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here said i want people to action they take that case by and. they must give ammo they could convict on again on a sort of shown in a court of us. with a picture of conservative sebastian pinera in last year's chilean presidential election some feel that the conflict is likely to intensify. the can do. is to quote just take it out. they'll kill it. during the campaign piniella received this glowing indorsement from oregon teen is also cross-check president. and i'm quite sure. he has heard the series you're just like us so here you are at the end of your career is going to be here thank you for the. joint approach with neighboring own container to the moat
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preachy question is now being formulated and piñera has voted to broaden the scope of the country's already fierce unteach are of those we are worried about what might happen we have always said that a terrorist law needs to be reformed but that was for us to be done in terms of ensuring due process standards and going in that direction will likely do the opposite. back over the border in argentina the situation is also deteriorating. this is by our last check on the shores of lake no one notable for its zero point style architecture. it's one of origin teen as she kissed resorts deep within party guinea and. but there is tension in the air.
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while we with a manhunt was in progress and there had been another shooting at the mit peachey community is he at them you know when opus i'm ok yeah then you know one of the sort of yes i will go a lot more to be so you know rough i don't know where it was the end but on the cme look on the mark and this is the him again i'm one of them look at them russia was part of a group of some fifty line the sma to change which is occupied a small area outside our law in order to fall. you know they're not that i'm all about that i thought ok. you know i got a career that. they're not bashing of. the authorities said they were terrorists and raided the community. and so i don't know. and i don't know. that i wanted to. they didn't want to go but you know many died and other.
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you know thought they were going to go imo what are all they did you know yeah. you will. bet that they are going to. it's full in months to the day since the disappearance of santiago molten all day the ronnie organized in the results time to move the date is not also remembering the rough and long while he was also become a monster to the cools as an old news as protesters mix with holiday makers. effigies of president the police chief and benetton a car each to a statue celebrating general rocha the man who led the desert campaign to pacify the mapuche in the nineteenth century. one hundred thirty years ome and the still suffering the consequences.
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as it takes a tougher line on migrants organized crime is making fast profits from their misery . people and power investigates the state funded reception center is where the helpless are reduced to commodities ripe for exploitation. and the migrants on al-jazeera. business updates brought to you by qatar oh we're going places together.
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business updates brought to you by qatar oh we're going places together refugees are heading for a better life in australia in two sentences and sent to remote islands indefinite detention in conditions of conscience and i don't understand how you can do this to
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smuggle any eyewitness accounts the main thing in doing for paper or even asking them not tons of luck to kill themselves witness chasing asylum. on al-jazeera. this is. jane dutton this is the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes bowing to pressure donald trump signs an executive order to end his policy of separating migrant families at the southern border accusations of rape. and beatings or prisons run by the united arab emirates and yemen. a dumping ground for
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electronic waste a ban in china is causing problems for other countries. and the most sensible we'll have all the latest from the world cup in russia. spain to one to win over iran as far technology again plays a part and the result. was a rare reversal for a president who prides himself on being tough but after days of public outrage and political pressure donald trump has signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of spitting up migrant families at the us mexico border but the order provides little clarity on happens to children who've already been separated from their families and are being kept in detention gabriele arizona went looking for answers in brownsville in texas near the border with mexico. after
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washington announced an end to family separation of asylum seekers at the border there was no celebrating in brownsville texas instead of confusion. the law states families seeking asylum that are arrested in the u.s. can only be kept together in detention for twenty days trump's legal team says they'll go to court try to extend that and the so-called zero tolerance policy it remains in place so there is no change in policy on arresting asylum seekers and charging them with the crime the thing that concerns us the most is that ultimately what this will result in as far as we can tell is indefinite detainment of families sounds like you don't think this is a solution absolutely not a lot of confusion still in the days ahead yet there's a lot of opacity still around this and ultimately until we see an end to zero tolerance we don't think that this is. we don't think that you can address these issues without ending zero tolerance with not enough shelters or detention
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facilities to how's everyone tent city detention centers for children like this one in a remote desert area near el paso texas will remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celcius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents. this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation is just giving way to another. creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a of
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a innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's on do brownsville texas. hours after signing that executive order president trump was back to his tough stance on immigration speaking to his supporters in the state of minnesota this is what he had to say. so the democrats want open borders let everybody come in. let everybody pour in we don't care let them come in from the middle east let them come in from all over the place we don't care we're not going to let it happen. and by the way today i saw i did executive order we're going to keep families together but the
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border is going to be just says stuff as it's been. democrats don't care about the impact of uncontrolled migration on your communities your schools your hospitals your jobs or you safety democrats put illegal immigrants before they put american citizens what the hell is going on immigrant children as young as fourteen being held at a juvenile center in the u.s. state of virginia have reported systematic abuse they say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement some also reported being left nude and shivering in concrete cells stuff at the facility have denied all allegations of physical abuse many of the teens were sent to the detention center after being accused of belonging to violent gangs like m.s. thirteen most of the children there were caught crossing the border without family
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members they were not among those separated from their families by president zero tolerance policy. many americans were outraged by images of crying children and young kids sleeping on cots in cages the mayor of new york says he was shocked to learn some of the migrant kids separated from their families were brought to his city without his knowledge because the saloon has more from new york. at an hour well past most children's bedtime a group of girls is led down a dark new york city street and into a social service agency this footage captured by new york one shows the same children being let out a short time later their faces and identities hated to be taken to foster homes later in the light of day the agency got a visit from the mayor of new york city a critic of the family separation policy we're all shocked at what we think is something happening far away i have to tell you i am further shocked to find out
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today how much this policy has now come home right here to new york city and right here to this location america new york said he was shocked to discover that two hundred thirty nine children had been brought to this facility alone he says the city had no advance notice them to this day has no idea how many children in total have been brought to new york even though the trumpet ministration now says it will keep detain families together the governor of new york state says he plans to sue the federal government on behalf of those already separated they had no plan or accommodations for separating the children and that's why you see the picture of them in cages and candles and shipped all of course the country several states have absorbed more than twenty two hundred children who've been taken from their families since the policy came into force in michigan the director of one facility caring for kids says they're doing their best but the children are suffering children talking about you know not having
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a chance to say goodbye to mom or dad often going to the foster home crying crying throughout the night having nightmares waking up calling from mom and dad with no clear plan to reunite families already apart new york officials are vowing to keep the pressure on until they're back together kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. out of the worn yemen seven former detainees in prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen have described what they call a system of sexual torture they told the associated press they were raped and abused by yemeni gods under you and control but the u.a.e. denies managing or running prisons in the country the ana karim reports a window into what's being described as a world of rampant sexual torture impunity these drawings were smuggled out of iraq to run prisons in yemen made on plastic plates with ink detainees held without charge or trial described humiliation to the associated press news agency one
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caption in arabic says it's real terrorism in another drawing prisoners being transported in a pickup truck are naked blindfolded and handcuffed seven former detainee spoke to reporters about what they've witnessed they say rape electrocution and beatings took place at five detention centers including at the iraqi forces headquarters in the country the u.a.e. mission in geneva tweeted that it has never managed or run prisons or secret detention centers in yemen but the accusations don't come as a surprise in march human rights groups accuse the united arab emirates of making arbitrary arrests in southern yemen. we have got the best that the u.a.e. is responsible for. over an hour. in europe. for months many residents demanded to know where their missing relatives are u.a.e.
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military commanders in yemen have repeatedly denied running secret prisons there. the hadley government said it best to go with the u.n. he has continued to deny any rule. but if users continue in all their resources. the three year war in yemen has caused a complete breakdown of law and order especially in the south where militias operate beyond the control of the courts and the internationally recognized government in addition to the disappearances in torture there have been reports of executions and assassinations diana carom al-jazeera. the saudi m. arrived he coalition in yemen says it has taken full control of the airport in her data but who feel rebels deny that the rebels have posted this video online in recent hours which appears to show their fighters still have access to the airport compound for two days the coalition has said it is in control of the area the
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airport is seen as an important milestone in coalition efforts to retake the city which has been under british control since twenty fourteen mohammed atta has the latest from across the red sea in djibouti. despite claims by the saudi led coalition that the control of the port both the fighters maintain but is not the case they say they are still resisting this is something confirmed also by reliable sources who say the still pockets of resistance within the compound of the help. and as the fighting gets closer to residential areas there are fears of a humanitarian crisis residents of the city say that aca has been targeting closely positions in groups near the airport as well as the highway that links. to the capital sanaa on their strongholds. and. the coalition forces say that they are trying their best to minimize civilian casualties but the queues the.
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fighters or losing tons of what in the middle of residential areas the main concern of the humanitarian community up the money from street by street fighting that could see a rise in the civilian casualties seen so far is a discipline to the services of vital importance with a lifeline for millions of yemen is we have to depend on. one year ago mohamed bin salman became the crown prince of saudi arabia shortly after his country led a blockade against cattle and over the past two hundred sixty five days he's worked to reposition the kingdom's power in the region and globally as defense ministry launch a military operation in yemen to fight the rebels now in its third year the conflict is costing billions of dollars and has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis in november here recent government government ministers princes and business when accusing them of corruption they were held in riyadh right.

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