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over the years you know rewind on al-jazeera. he's president he's reelected with sweeping new powers as the opposition concedes defeat while urging him to be a president for all. welcome to the program and jonelle this is al jazeera live coming from london also coming up italy and libya look for common ground to resolve europe and north africa is growing migration crisis. the escalating battle over the land in central nigeria close to one hundred people are killed in three days of fighting between farmers and nomadic herders. and environmentalists accuse australia's government of failing
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to protect the great barrier reef. is returning to office with sweeping new executive powers after a victory that he's calling a win for democracy international monitors of criticize the outcome of the presidential elections saying the ruling party had unfair advantages is main opposition rival has conceded defeat but warned the ones growing power is dangerous sunday's vote is in a powerful new executive presidency long sought by zero to one who insists they will be plenty of checks and balances. he will now be able to issue decrees but not on issues where there is already a law in place the president also has the authority to appoint and remove ministers and civil servants without parliament's approval and he can choose six members of
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the country's highest judicial authority parliament gets to select seven of them he can declare a state of emergency for up to six months but parliament can shorten or scrap of that decision and under the new constitution no one can run for another term which means he could stay in power for ten more years or let's go live now to. who's in ankara for us to. now has sweeping new executive powers he's parties well placed in parliament is not a lot there to hold him back is there. well i mean the way in which you are the ones set this up so four years ago when he outlined his vision twenty twenty three was that he believed in his party believe john of the turkey required a more central life form of governance that in order for the economy to continue growing and for the country to advance it required very more rather clarity and its
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government governing system prior to this i had it was a parliamentary system but there was still a presidency and all the presidency was mainly more ceremonial in the position did enjoy a certain powers which at some point made bureaucracy may be a bit of a herd all as far as to on in the party were concerned in terms of holding him personally back in his ambition although he was there resoundingly victor in these elections he was given a good run for his money by my how to enjoy the c.h.p. is candidates and also in the parliament it's important to note that the party lost its two thirds supermajority in most able only to maintain a simple majority which he said was a clear sign when he was doing his victory speech that he had received a clear sign from the people that his party required to change required was required to maybe listen more to the people's couldn't cern's them that is something possibly that people will take positives of the people who didn't vote
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for him because he did say this was a victory for all turks and that's he would not allow for any form of discrimination you know his target he against those just because of their political leanings suppress regions or use so moving forward to the hope amongst stark's is that with this new strong centralized government it will be a strong government that's what benefits everybody and not a strong government that's what hurts those that don't agree with it's obviously only time will tell well one man who doesn't agree with it is. the main opposition candidate he's called the election quote unjust he said it is quote very dangerous and could lead to one man rule what else is being said about those sort of ideas. well i mean him and his party have been critical of the shift towards a presidential system from the outset so they campaigned. firstly against the.
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revolt through the constitutional referendum other sorry the referendum a few months back and unfortunately for them the loss that's of all told some of the the problem that's the opposition has faced every single time these elections have taken place is that they have failed to convince the public that they have own alternative so they focused a lot of their rhetoric that this is negative moves by the act party that the our party will be dangerous if they were given another term but they failed to convince the population that they would be any better the recent criticisms that have come out from injury was that this has now become a one man states in that it is a presidential system but ultimately with eighty six percent of voters taking part and it being killed is largely a free and fair election the people wouldn't necessarily be convinced by that.
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think you. see them as moral in the public reaction from istanbul. the election was full of surprises especially for instance are gone the unexpected majority in the first round it was a well count by his supporters and by many media outlets just saying that just as dawn stormed to victory and the people's alliance the alliance of the ruling party and the nationalist m.h.d. secured the majority in the parliament confusion i think that this is all to be beneficial for turkey in the hope that this new system of governance will be good for our country. i think it was quite surprising that every h.b. was able to win this mean the world. to people there's nothing more to say. our society is going through somewhat of a stockholm syndrome how long can we go with the current system i cheered for the opposition so i can say i'm very happy. this is all turkish media says the election
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results one of the leading tabloid newspapers of turkey says that zipper down are down as a superhero all front pages are spared for the election results saying that aired on had a historical victory with the people's alliance the alliance between the ruling party and the nationalist m h p but now wanted to remind that most of the newspapers are in direct record told by the government and its supporters however there are still some opposition newspapers and the leading opposition paper you worry it says that the palace is trapped by the wolf wolf is the nickname for the turkish nationalist on the other hand there are other no opposition papers saying that they will be continuing the struggle against their one man rule this is how the turkish media the election.
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the libyan coast guard has picked up one hundred forty eight african refugees and migrants in the mediterranean sea they include dozens of women and children who were taken to a naval base in the capital tripoli before being transferred to a refugee camp in the town of homs one of those rescued said an italian vessel had refused to pick them up. or the latest rescue operation comes as the italian deputy prime minister and the area minister matteo sell beanie was in tripoli for talks about the migration crisis he said he'll do everything possible to help libya stem the flow of migrants to europe but salvini met the libyan deputy prime minister in tripoli on his first official overseas trip he's already started rolling out how hardline policies against migration on sunday he ordered foreign charities to stop rescuing people from the waters off libya. we believe that it should only be the libyan authorities who control libyan waters with the blocky non-government
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organizations from these borders who want to replace governments and help illegal immigrants. we reassured italy and europe that levy is ready in its plan to deal with migration we agree in many areas when it comes to illegal migration however we refused completely uncategorically the creation of any camps inside libya for illegal migrants this issue is forbidden under libyan law and it does not apply in any of its aspect. of mahmoud had rather more now from tripoli. both parties the italian interior minister vini and the libyan deputy prime minister. have highlighted efforts made by libya's cause to god in terms of controlling their illegal migration human is smuggling and human track trafficking vita the mediterranean sea
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we understand that the number of migrants reaching italy via the mediterranean from libya to tours have fallen dramatically during the last year especially after italian navy vessels have been docked in a navy base in the capital tripoli to provide technical support maintenance and training to their patrols belonging to libya's coast guard also this visit is the fittest for minister. and it could be an extension to the agreement the member end of understanding that was sealed by the libyan prime minister face alive and therefore the italian former prime minister gentlemanly in the war in february last year and by virtue of that agreement the libyan side
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should receive funds and technical training in order to contain and control their illegal migration via the mediterranean old europe has been accused of abandoning more than thirteen thousand refugees and migrants in the desert the u.n. says they include pregnant women and children who've been left without food or water denies the allegations which it says are part of a malicious campaign victoria can be reports. disorientated and de hydrated these migrants have just been deported by algerian border guards and dumped in neighboring nizkor the nearest village is a fifteen kilometer walk in the sahara desert and they have no food or water. the un migration agency says algeria has expelled an estimated thirteen thousand migrants in this way in the last forty months janet camara whose liberian was
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pregnant when she was deported last month she suffered a miscarriage while walking in the desert she buried her baby in a shallow grave in the sand baby was killed when he was lying. because there's no one. starvation she went. away. another librarian jew dennis filmed his deportation from a detention center in algeria. you can see some together with a group of other migrants they were loaded on to trucks and driven across the border tunisia reporting live from the desert to train a cheery are in their fish. can see this is going over there and is a massive massive lead to pull in blood. and it think i have injured all women and
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children into this into destruction. some migrants are rescued by a team like this one from the un migration agency others died trying to make it across the desert. they come by the thousands i've never seen anything like it there are even babies they even expel pregnant women women who give birth one or two weeks later it's a catastrophe. the algerian government denies committing human rights abuses it's ratified international treaties on human rights and this was the algerian red crescent last year helping to transfer the migrants to their home countries. the european union has asked north african countries to do more to stop migrants headed north to europe the e.u. says it is aware of the mass deportations and says algeria needs to comply with international law many of these migrants say their experience proves otherwise
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victoria gayton be algis there are more to come here on al-jazeera including this. l.a. law. labor unions in argentina launch a nationwide strike as the country struggles with brize inflation and the weakening currency. and we visit the deprived suburbs of paris where someone from his world cup stars grew up now the new generation hopes to follow in their footsteps. how i when i'm pleased to say we have got some dry weather now pushing into the southwest of china we've had some pretty awful conditions just around you and i'm province still a fair amount of cloud in place here but this was the scene just around twenty four
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thirty six hours ago where the very heavy rises led to some widespread flooding all four conditions you can see the disruption that these very big downpours has caused as i said things will turn a little try a little pride for over the next couple of days the plan starting to recede away the skies opening up hopefully by the time we come to what the state the state should be largely dry still a few showers down to the southwest in kona but across the south as well even hong kong still seeing some wet weather for tuesday wednesday will be fired into and you can see drier skies down towards the southwest at this stage as well know the parts fan and seeing some showers the showers across i stretched away right across into china me and ma saying some big a lot of the showers the northeast of india bangladesh still see some very heavy rain but look at mumbai right of the western ghats it's been taping down two hundred forty one millimeters of rain in twenty four hours is around haul for the chain average in just one day the showers stay in place as we go through each is
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day and never too far by one state. on counting the cost of a stronger dollar spells trouble ahead for developing market economies. digital addicks we look at how the tech industry uses human psychology the fight for control of libya's oil price. counting the cost.
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welcome back let's take a quick look at our top stories turkey's president branch of time has been reelected with sweeping new powers in a victory he's called a win for democracy but international monitors have criticised the conditions under which the election was held. the libyan coast guard has picked up almost one thousand african refugees and migrants in the mediterranean sea they've been taken to a naval base in the capital tripoli. algeria has denied allegations that it left more than thirteen thousand migrants in the sahara desert without food or water the associated press news agency has collected videos showing hundreds of people walking away from buses and trucks as they head into the desert. more people have been killed in ongoing violence in central nigeria bringing the number of dead over the past three days to ninety four. the fighting in plateau
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state is between farmers and some in the magic herders of the do has called for calm and imposed a twenty four hour curfew in the area the decades old conflict over land has escalated sharply this year leaving hundreds dead in the center of the country with interest as more now from abroad just. bloodtest it is always been a flashpoint in central nigeria but the for the last one decade or so the state has been relatively calm compared to neighboring states like. and ben what states this crisis the latest crisis is an escalation which the state has never seen before in a very very long time and a lot of people believe that this crisis may escalate before it gets any better the government is trying to come nerves but the underlying problems are already there and they've been there for
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a very long time conflict on land between farmers and cattle herders as more and more cattle herders move from the aboriginals down south largest it is and central parts of nigeria more than more like the link between the north and the cells where migratory men move to graze their cattle and get more water now in neighboring states of ben we've seen from the start of this year hundreds of people have been killed in tit for tat clashes or some of these clashes of late have been identified by security forces to be not associated with land issues or farmers and cattle herders crisis it's more like politics being played on a wider scale and a lot of people believe that situation may be maybe a bit messy as nigeria goes into the campaign season a lot of politicians are just in for positions and this has brought president
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mohammad a bloody who promised to bring most security to the country under a lot of pressure. syrian government helicopters have bomb the rebel positions in the city of daraa they've also dropped propaganda leaflets as part of their offensive in southern province it's one of the last two major areas still held by rebels who promising to keep fighting the have a gem jhoom ripples. in debt on the bombs kept falling villages struck from the sky as government forces continued their advance attempting to take over the city known as the cradle of the syrian uprising. in violation of a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in efforts to bring an end to the seven year war for its part the free syrian army remains defiant announcing the establishment of a central operations room in the south of syria. let them know that this is the
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hour of decisiveness and the victory of truth of a falsehood the hysterical bombing with all kinds of heavy weapons supported with warplanes is only confirmation of that desperation the world should know that the south today is united under one word and one army carrying our slogan proudly in the sky of truth we will not betray the blood of our brothers and we will not give up an inch of our land the united states has reportedly told syrian rebels not to expect military support in southern syria near jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights a deescalation zone was established there last year which includes parts of the provinces of dead and canape the rebels there are now facing a syrian government offensive. for years the free syrian army was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but rebels have been in retreat in the past few years they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan and while they validate continue their fight
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many wonder how much longer that fight can go on. and. a state of emergency has been declared in the syrian city of iraq where u.s. backed forces have imposed a three day curfew commanders say they inform information that i still fighters inside the city of planning a bombing campaign the syrian democratic forces took rocket from eyes to last october with american support who threw rebels in yemen say the saudi and amorality led coalition has carried out five airstrikes in one day the province part of the offensive to recapture the strategic port city of data they've also released images of another airstrike in the city of i'm running north of the capital sana who thinks main news agency says twenty four civilians most of them women and children were killed. meanwhile the warring sides of exchange prisoners in the southern province of. the spokesman says seventy four of their finances were released in exchange for forty fighters from the coalition. into new
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labor unions leading a national strike against the government a breach of mockery they're angry about his economic policies which have caused the local currency to drop in value and inflation to skyrocket to thirty five percent more from. when a friend is completely paralyzed there's no buses subways trains or lights the city is completely empty as the largest labor confident ration in the country has called for a national strike early on monday morning left wing groups were blocking the major entrances towards the capitol to prevent people from coming into the capitol and the reason why the strike was called by labor unions is mostly because they're claiming that people cannot make ends meet with the inflation the double digit inflation that has been tormenting i didn t. news for years and that was exacerbated by the recent devaluation of the karen c.
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with a strengthening u.s. dollar recently the government was forced to demand an emergency fifty billion loan from the international monetary fund and the government of the film market he says the current strike does not help the country help the situation is that right now economically and financially in spite of this people are saying that this strike is necessary and the only thing they have to fight for their rights. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees is warning it's facing an unprecedented funding gap and is weeks away from cutting emergency assistance the agency when asked for more than two hundred fifty million dollars of the donor's conference on monday it says it struggled since the u.s. cut contributions earlier this year the head of the agency says there's a desperate need for assistance in gaza. i was really deeply marked by my last visit to the gaza strip because i went to the hospitals i went to our health care
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centers and i saw the number of young people injured through the use of live ammunition. many of the injuries very severe to the lower limbs ankles knees and others you know really shattered with real risks for many many young people to live with lifelong disabilities amputations and others the fact that there were more injured in gaza following a few days of demonstrations and throughout the entire two thousand and fourteen war is a message the world should wake up to environmental organizations are upping the pressure on the u.n. to investigate what they describe as australia's failure to protect the great barrier reef written to the united nations as the you know sco world heritage committee meets in bahrain global warming is seen as a major factor in the death of large parts of the reef but environmentalist's also accuse australia's government of adding to the problem with its agricultural and mining policies image and that of them is the great barrier reef campaign director
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of the australian marine conservation society she says the government is reneging on its promises to protect the raise. you're straying is not meeting its commitment to the world heritage committee that it made back in twenty fifteen their commitment was to improve the water quality of the great barrier reef which is very poor and the poor water quality is exacerbated by deforestation in the great river catchment and unfortunately it's been a huge increase in the ration of clearing of the catchment and this training government is just not done enough to stand out that problem what happens when they and it's clear which is mainly is done well grazing development is that at least three who are exposed and you get heavy rainfall if it results in the fall washing off in order courses of employment to the great barrier reef and discharge large
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volumes of wind sentiment that incident dirties that water. and harleston other organisms need clear water to thrive very dirty water also in smother the corals the grasses and other organisms directly it can lead to increased elbow growth at the expense of coral growth and i can also exacerbate up rates that are leading chrono star fish. the last round of football world cup group games is underway in russia one team already through to the knockout round is from. play their final group game against denmark on tuesday excitement is building in the most deprived suburbs of paris
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where some of the top players grew up but i want to make the. he's one of the stars of france's world cup team nineteen year old striker killing him back pays already scored in the tournament in russia he's carrying the hopes of a nation but he's also inspiring young people back home for him but they grew up in the paris suburb of bondi and children of his first club are bursting with pride. i'm so happy that becomes from here when people ask me where play i said and immediately to know where i come from to train here so when we train here we want to be like in. france players plays matthew d. in the goal or can say are also from paris's suburbs places where unemployment is high and people often feel marginalized these teenagers from on a superstar say the footballers are role models who have kicked away stereotypes. by job lemieux's if they came from misery and now they are successful people think
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everyone in the suburbs are scum but that's not true all the big players come from the suburbs. when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eight many people saw the team as a symbol of multiculturalism that would help heal divisions today few expect a french victory to change lives but excitement still running high a paris is all the airport children from on they prepared to fly to russia their school raised money for the dream trip. for these teenagers this is a trip of a lifetime not only are they going to the world cup but they may even get to meet some of their favorite players is that. there's jack's. we're really lucky it's not everyone gets to do this it's unique and we want to make the most of it usually i still remember the trip so i went to another child but nothing like the world cup final so they will never forget it. whether or not frogs wins the world
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cup the players from the suburbs have already won the hearts of these children and encourage them to reach for the stars natasha al-jazeera paris. well just time before we go for a quick look at our top stories again turkey's president. has been reelected with sweeping new powers he's called it a win for democracy international monitors have criticised the outcome of the presidential poll saying the ruling ak party had unfair advantages the main opposition rival. has conceded defeat but has warned the ones growing power is dangerous. as more from ankara although he was there was around and victor in these elections he was given a good run for his money by my heart of the c.h.p. is candidates and also in the parliament it's important to note that the party lost
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its two thirds supermajority and was able only to maintain a simple majority. the libyan coast guard has picked up over nine hundred african refugees and migrants in the mediterranean sea they include dozens of women and children i would take into a naval base in the capital tripoli before being transferred to a refugee camp in the town of homs one of those rescued said an italian vessel had refused to pick them up. italy's deputy prime minister moto salvini has been in tripoli for talks about the migration crisis he's promised to do everything possible to help stem help libya stem the flow of people trying to get to europe he's already started rolling out hard line policies ordering foreign charities to stop rescuing people off the waters of libya. algeria has been accused of abandoning more than thirteen thousand refugees and migrants in the sahara desert the u.n. says they include pregnant women and children who've been left without food or
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water derrida denies the allegations which it says a part of a malicious campaign in syria government terror helicopters have dropped barrel bombs on the city of dera the raids are part of the government's assault on the syria's southwestern region which is one of the two major areas still held by rebels people have been killed since last tuesday. eight more people have been killed in ongoing violence in central nigeria bringing the number of dead over the past three days to ninety four the fighting in plateaus state is between farmers and semi nomadic herders president has called for calm. from asked to stay with us counting the cost.
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hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost and i'll just hear your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week why a stronger dollar is becoming a headache for developing market economies. also this week digital addicks we look at how the tech industry uses psychology to design products we can't put down. plus a major setback for libya's oil industry is finding of. future production risks. the prospect of a trade war slowing down the world's economy means investors have been reassessing where to put their money in recent weeks developing market currencies.

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