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saturday into sunday morning here at the mouth of the cave seal divers navy seal divers have been in the water for the last several hours and several teams have been going back and forth we know now that they are at the furthest distance they have been yet in the cave but they haven't gone that far right on the sea it's only about two hundred meters further than they had been further than that three kilometer mark there kind of stuff because of weather over the last several days and now two hundred meters further in but their immediate goal is to get to a place called the beach it's a cavern named after a famous beach here in thailand they are still four to six hundred meters away from that they're trying to get there because they believe that could be a spot where the boys and their coach might have retreated to when floodwaters came rushing into the cave system here so that is the incremental good news coming from the cave here we also know that teams are still working for a way in from the top in the hills in case how is this massive cave system they're still looking for a way in a new cavern a new tunnel downward tunnel was discovered over the weekend they are still trying
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to access that they're still trying to get down in there we know that in a couple of cases they have dropped supplies so that is still being exploited up in the hills above the cave now we know seven nations have joined the search and rescue operations here u.s. navy personnel here australia has sent some forces japan is here the united kingdom has diving experts here so a true international effort but right now there is a little bit of good news but still no definitive proof to fit into evidence where these boys and their coats might be. well still ahead here on al-jazeera concern over hill fill iraq's political vacuum after parliament's mandate expired. and beating the drums of a nuclear war fifty years on from a landmark deal to end the arms race.
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i just phoned. me the weather sponsored by cattle. hello there the western parts of asia as well would begin first of all some showers in eastern arizona. could see the old downpour but otherwise pretty warm conditions it's fine around the caspian sea tehran coming in at forty degrees baghdad not far behind at forty three in iraq and around the eastern side the mediterranean generally is looking fine plenty of sunshine the weather across turkey is good as well i've lost most of the shower activity and as i move the forecast into monday not a great deal of change forty five degrees though for baghdad you'll notice now it's not that hot here in katsav temperatures are only forty two degrees but around the gulf states generally the wind is now full and very very light so we tend to draw the air in off the gulf and as a result the humidity is very very high so extremely sticky conditions here at the moment the other side of the peninsula is much drier in terms the humidity so medina that forty four degrees but it will feel nowhere near as uncomfortable not
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a way to change from monday forty five forty to forty four for mecca then into southern portions of africa we've got a frontal system threatening cape town during the course of sunday indeed as it goes so it will still remain fairly cloudy at times with the threat of further showers but it should be fine when she gets through towards the eastern cape hasa twenty three sunny across be in zimbabwe with highs of twenty five in new soccer. the weather. a new series of rewind can bring your people back alive i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from the till now. distance rewind continues with alfred's free press. we know from the public of what's happening in the adventure site they have been some changes of work over the years you know rewind on al-jazeera.
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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm single rob the reminder of our top stories tens of thousands of people in cities across the u.s. have been protesting against the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance migration policy more than two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite president trump signing an order reversing the practice. also u.s. president donald trump says that he's convinced to increase its oil production by up to two million barrels a day in a tweet trump said the extra oil would help offset a decline in supply from iran after the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may and rebels are losing ground in southern
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syria with several towns and villages accepting government rule syrian and russian forces have been waging an intense bombing campaign on their a province for almost two weeks talks to end the fighting a failed. an independent judicial body in belgium has suspended for licenses for the sale of weapons to saudi arabia it follows complaints by human rights groups about saudi's role in the war in yemen saudi ember r.t. military coalition's been bombing rebels there since twenty fifteen and last year we had bought nearly one hundred eighty million dollars worth of arms from producers in the belgian region of wallonia the council of state ruled that the local government failed to examine the potential use of those weapons. while fighting in yemen has forced more than two million people from their homes most remain inside the country but hundreds of thousands have fled overseas according to the u.n. hopes the are fifty one thousand have gone to neighboring oman another forty
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thousand are in somalia which already has one point five million internally displaced population it's followed by saudi arabia which is leading the coalition war effort in the arab and djibouti a much smaller number have traveled to asian countries like malaysia where they can stay visa free for three months most yemenis trying to get to europe via libya making them vulnerable to mistreatment and. hundreds of yemeni asylum seekers have landed in south korea triggering sharp reactions in local communities was hundreds of protesters gathered in central seoul to support refugees and to welcome them but many also turned up to express their anger against seeking refuge at the resort island of shay's shu. behati is an asylum seeker from yemen he says he has no choice but to go to your island in south korea. your island was the only
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country you have a level for us to go to without a visa and claim asylum because we can go into a few countries in the world without these but they don't accept refugees or they didn't sign the. united nations convention we meant to accept pretty easily stuff. of south korea but it's i mean we can't go to south korea we can go to. and it's dali country now while we can go to. claim asylum because obviously if we go to another country and stay there with. if i want visa expires than we will be stuck in jail or debilitation censored because in order to be deported back to that expired us and then you have to go through a neighboring country because it isn't that and that was there's not there is a derek's place we can go to back to yemen we can't go back because of the war anyway but if let's say you want to go back. because you need to get
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a visa to go to a neighboring country. the mandate for iraq's parliament has expired with no new leadership confirmed the country still waiting for the results of a manual recount of suspect ballots from last month's election got underway in some regions on chewstick will take about two weeks leaving iraq in political limbo mohamed vall possible. your x. politics is a moment when the clock struck midnight local time and ticked over into sunday the mandate of iraq's parliament expired. a new parliament was supposed to emerge following the general elections last month but differences over results are still under dissolved which presents a constitutional belamour for iraq after weeks of discussions about whether the outgoing parliament should extend its mandate it has finally decided to end its term from now and until a new parliament is in place we're iraq will be in a constitutional vacuum who can put things back on track legally or speaking i mean
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so the government has the opportunity to do so so the government is responsible for implementing the law and the constitution and the courts are responsible for overseeing that the implementation has taken place in accordance with the law and the constitution so the government the courts can do so together. the results of the may twelfth election came as a shock to the ruling coalition led by prime minister betty it came in third contrary to its expectations a nationalistic alliance of mostly secular parties but led by shock lyric mokhtar the souther got the most seats fifty four of three hundred twenty eight in second place came in alliance of iran groups. several parties cried foul alleging irregularities that included vote rigging glitches in new voting machines and destruction of ballots prime minister hyderabadi said security agencies had evidence of unprecedented violations on saturday the independent high electoral
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committee decided to start a manual recounting of votes only in areas where irregularities were reported that will begin to be and other provinces on tuesday some parties say that's not enough and want a total recount. these are serious problems none of which were resolved before the current parliament expires which adds political uncertainty to a long list of problems for iraq one hundred five a disease. fires a strong body as a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations he says iraq's constitution needs to be reexamined i would say that we have a constitution that was written in haste. overfill an american a timetable at the time in two thousand and five it will follow out. some of these problems aren't hiring that critical. that you could have
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a backlog of some sort and so i would say that there is i advocate and it's not a popular thing to say amongst the iraqi political class that these are really examination of the iraqi you should. you know we've had that even the americans operated under the article aeration for about ten years and then dropped it in the american you should i think we've been through enough cycles and had enough problems at a look see that perhaps it's time to really look at the future i hope there's a serious discussion of that even though i understand there are also in french interests. that benefit from the sort of constitutional ambiguity but i would look to the constitution once accused in the failed us under the current conflict and looking for ways of strengthening the future. mexicans will head to the polls on sunday in an election that could held a major change of political direction for the country left wing candidate and the
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rest will look as over the wall is the favorite to become president traditionally the country has elected leaders with more right wing inclinations but voters are angry at widespread corruption a lack of response to cartel violence. it's fifty years since world powers reached a landmark deal to bring an end to the nuclear arms race the nuclear nonproliferation treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and in time eliminate them completely but some experts warn the danger of nuclear war is greater than it has been in decades barring the hold possible. it was twenty three years after the us dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima six years after the cuban missile crisis five nuclear armed nation signed a deal a nine hundred sixty eight the brought the world back from the brink of a potentially catastrophic war the us russia u.k.
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france and china undertook in good faith to give up the nuclear weapons the risk to the world pledged not to acquire them. every country in the world signed up to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty known as the n.p.t. with three exceptions india pakistan and israel we are willing for the banning of or that dummy yes everybody else agrees to all three now have nuclear weapons and then there's north korea it walked away from the n.p.t. so what could exploited peaceful nuclear technology to make nuclear bombs itself something around and others are also accused of as it stands now there are nine nuclear nations and by that assessment the n.p.t. was a success dire forecasts of a global nuclear arms race never came to pass nuclear warheads once in the teens of thousands plummeted by around eighty percent but if judged by the pledge to reduce
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nuclear warheads to zero well it's fallen far short the stock crime international peace research institute all sipri is to make zero most fifteen thousand nuclear weapons worldwide all but around a thousand of them are in u.s. and russian hands. signatories to the n.p.t. weren't required to abolish nuclear weapons completely they simply had to act in good faith to disarm experts say if it's towards nuclear disarmament a slowing prompting warnings of a new arms race as nuclear weapon states like the u.s. and russia look to inject billions of dollars into modernizing and developing the nuclear arsenals but they resist strong push for change even if the world's nine nuclear armed nations and the realize are resisting it just last year one hundred twenty two countries signed up to a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons it also prohibits nations from allowing nuclear weapons to be held on the territory sanctioned by the united nations it was the
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product of a ten year if it's for the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can but the nine nuclear armed states refused to turn up and the u.s. urged its allies to vote against or boycott the u.n. conference i came won the nobel peace prize last year for it if it but it has a tough job a here it needs fifty states to rectify the new nuclear ban treaty to make it legally binding to date only ten countries have done so none of them major world powers medium hond come to zero. african union leaders are meeting in mauritania fighting corruption is top of the agenda now the u.n. says the continent loses one hundred forty eight billion dollars a year in dishonest dealings in kenya the series of multi million dollar scandals have left farmers struggling catherine soy reports. mesha kiplagat spam is one of
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the largest maize farmers in the rift valley but this has not been easy now we're stuck with this maze thousands are struggling to sell their crop government warehouses off for the cereals but has run out of money to buy more grain and private millers are buying cheaply families accuse boat officials of fraudulently importing maize from uganda and mexico instead of buying locally it's a nineteen million dollar corruption scandal implicating senior managers and politicians do you think corruption is the biggest problem for you. here corruption is the only problem this is. because you find middlemen kimmie. imported maize. and sold it to the cereals board now when us genuine firmus. we're told by the syrians bodies food. they have now reduced by half the amount of maize they've planted. this maize will be ready to harvest in
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november in a good old fetch the kiplagat family about ninety thousand dollars but this is definitely not a good idea they're not even sure where they're going to sell the grain the may scandal is just one of many government corruption deals in which tens of millions of dollars have been stolen in the last five years dozens of people are already in court and president. has ordered a life style audit of all public servants kenyans are angry. those are cvs they are stealing our money when dealing with this the president should start at the top. we vote for people when they go out there to steal the build big houses and buy airplanes where still hungry african heads of state are meeting in mauritania for the african union summit which is focusing on the fight against corruption and how and to graft mechanisms within the e.u. can be strengthened there are some countries that have done very well in the fight
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against corruption and. very well international random orishas botswana and others but if you look at the c.p.m. up you notice that africa is generally. which means that you have a. problem of corruption was this kenyans recently took to the streets to demand better accountability with a huge public debt of about forty five billion dollars and a third of the budget last annually in corruption and mismanagement they say the government needs to do better catching al-jazeera why ban the rift valley. whole raman these are all top news stories tend. of thousands of people in cities across the u.s. have been protesting against the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance migration
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policy with more than two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite from signing an order reversing the practice. but. i want the. freedom. to them was the minister you. know. raising of children from their. home living in harpers reality rebels are losing ground in southern syria with several towns and villages accepting government rule syrian and russian forces have been waging an intense bombing campaign on their own province almost two weeks talks to end the fighting have failed the free syrian army says it refuses to surrender. us president says that he's convinced
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saudi arabia to increase its oil production by up to two million barrels a day in a tweet trump said the extra saudi oil would help offset a decline in supply from iran after the us pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may. an independent judicial body in belgium has suspended some weapons sales to saudi arabia it follows complaints by human rights groups about saudis a role in the war in yemen last year brought nearly one hundred eighty million dollars worth of arms from producers in the belgian region of wallonia. south sudan's latest cease fire has been violated just hours after coming into effect with at least twelve people killed in the north government forces and rebels are blaming each other for breaking the truce which was agreed on wednesday. and they view divers have got it two hundred meters deeper into a flooded cave in thailand in the search for a boy's football team and their coach video released by the tiny baby shows how many key waters and complete darkness have hampered the weeklong rescue operation
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in the cave those are the headlines and back with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's rewind to stay with us. each year childhood ends for an estimated fifteen million girls globally omeri before the age of eighteen. young girls compelled to marry after fleeing the war in syria share their stories and talk to him just zero. hello and welcome to rewind i'm come all sons of maria over the last ten or so
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years here at al-jazeera english we've built up an incredible library of award winning documentaries and on rewind we're taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing what's happened in the years since they were first shown this week we're going back to two thousand and twelve and a remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and sixty four percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovia's disadvantaged poor from the witness series in two thousand and twelve here is alfred's free press.
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l o o. l. what we're doing is like this our responsibility it's a mess of a new so you'll recall we had that sort of information only from those who either newsmen tell you or to receive. our job. for just leave and i'm the fun and creative director and they didn't talk. to create in people that will be on the street and everybody. agrees people just believe that discontent will never come into reality. but. that's the kind of president. i believe that people should be informed of what is happening.
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the leaders of the war really didn't want to harsh. it is this war that prompted the creation of the digital i saw elite of people wanting to be reform but there was there was no means of getting information soon the idea of the book came to me to deal talk news put that in the chalkboard news people and some to begin to click to me you can start it was just like food. diary. as sauce or refract to be on
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the scene there in town on one of our asian vice on the and the salaries that made . it makes sense you had to. get out more wrong doing well who would have wanted to fight drug use. every time i walk along the avenue i usually make a stab like ten or fifteen minutes in a reader there and know what is going on a rom in the city what is happening in my country and around the continent. when the war was coming to the country people will force the take you and they give you gone and the rich life you see you who are fighting you know. it happened to me. but i
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used to used to. take it for the seven ball and the whole country where i was so i was compared to do it for my life as like you take and go to hunt for animal in the forest and to take you and you hunting one another. man in time of france friend of mine got one. less loser. and even lose the life. i'm an activist this is what i do to make a living. i use a bullet empty case and creates thought. how ideas are
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transformation from war to peace. this is how we make. this is across germany in front of you. know all those dreams that i think. one of the problems my mom would have with me for some time is i don't stay with my family. alone. you know she wanted to walk out of but know that i have or don't sit with the family every day he's busy this for a lot of people call no story yeah ok let me call you back many please yeah ok. new story coming in again.
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and all of the thing you know. her in the room are. always good every morning to get information. information is a bridge between field and sources. say it's. sixty six yards just from war of. many to go ahead one is not enough. so that we know where we can bring them back together religious and lots of folks just. during the war my parents left me their rental way and they left me and i left
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alone. i. can't stand in messenger to various schemes shifts. as you go see this side no. we are trying to build a church. and now now you come yet to see a new body on your feet high p.c.'s something is happening around you yes i think change is coming to liberia did he change what do is try to link this is sort of doing to people feel that go is still with them.
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seeing where. they will form and is hoping to be updated. by somebody that we don't know maybe this is what i'm i'm i'm pulling up to the nearby exactly how did it how being a boy was involved into its things i believed it would be. just the opposition. alone. good morning wasn't it i had this morning i would describe him in a bad. light. oh i was just going on. and then about a dozen of us who were running away hoping that. one of when it's good to get out of that you have to tell me what's coming here that. i thank you cause of what you think. what it will be. you know what it will all fall. or not. and you don't want to hurt the. place i just
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yeah sure. he will be. and it. made your point this morning you know what they're pretty close to the mail well all i want to know where you are and it's in the groups on the ballot you know. their voices. and. if you don't have the signature office you can get to be used by just sitting you have to block the p.c. . i don't have t.v. if he done this in the video game news if you don't mean use the phone in the place we're going to get news is folded it up. in the laundry. on my shift.
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i just had to do it to live. but. i am warning and believe such. and one. hundred one into right in called gay baiting and so. well what to avoid a one in two going to have a two children. who will go to use it. in their own launches school into. the fire. and response while they both live with me. responsible to feed him.
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is not going to be a problem because we're trying to move it along and they see what i'm saying. given as me. and i can tell you this and to make an. intermediate level from debuted out of the attic it does have raised a number of a gene down. there which got so many down again they don't know. how. they did it all helps to educate people.
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who speak around so it got me interested. in crime i work i love doing it. cos he look reasonable that. it is to defy the me because. it is also. my country yeah. from. input issues especially from china. and i've. been using this route for the. five years i wail almost every day.
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to all these. issues. to do with. my dream. in the hour i will be very very discouraged. here and. i mean you put all. the. good does dream you know now my life. is not business. i don't want to sit and want better. one day being at. the numbers in. mourning. i want to be made and. my usual costume is the white
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people and the lashon and people like you when people. in the evening time like this they can be these bitches having a good time and we can't go there when the average blacks to be able to sell what i produce myself i feel happy. does somebody say i walk on i was overcome i told on in jesus name. when a minister goes. to counseling people i feel much. in and out of tune upon the. lucky i have the good news for you. now whatever did i not bother to today know that it will be well with you in jesus name. it came a time i love to hear that people are wrong in focus the places you feel that go to
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not the lefties again but today you might enjoy. to vet you look around you you are no longer you haven't cosigned well let me know how people in the past that the past go for the past rectory that is still hope for this country i want you to believe that if this possible in your generation now you can be the cause of the transformation of this country. the bureau would be one of the best country to walk in jesus' name. i came up band on and gave it a little way. and i again want to stay with a. difficult well what to do. money not in my house. my real with my children.
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is now behind. the dead and gone screwed when it was treated. above them i'm now training. for our society in liberia. yeah quiet it gives you a good job is is there a. while and then who is. so no longer bloody. so. you do to help them. i get. i get frustrated. because you're you talking to they made you try to teach him he's not be attention to me.
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i was like my don't take it i want to business i'm doing you know and if you are good enough to just do it. if you mix money to grew up passions for what you doing it's like. you're visions ok and what if they're not. going to. be disciplined so when you. go out to the land of the. right. one nation and. labor just if your own. there shall i go. for. you so that's less in.
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the mood in a million than in the we believe in them and you want to money need in a new the new. mood and then there are mistakes. this month the mood. alfred's free press a wonderful film which was broadcast more than six years ago now so rotten show you're wondering what happened to alford what happened to his news chalkboard rewind went back to monrovia to find out what has become of the daily talk of alfred and his rate is.
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low from the public on a daily basis of. what's happening in the average society. that vessel changes before over the years you know. kind of the oh you don't know you know you know i don't know one of the we came up a wish on which we would inform the public about it. we keep factual information the information is up. to the people crossing on a newsgroup or everything that we see how we research it before. i think. this is the news room this is where the news stories is published and is how it's done it like i said the newsroom is
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a junkie so let's get going for you look at these are all things i work with and good news with. this is. the decks news decks and. decks. are the stories and this is the story of the house and that's not the board i have in the story. it's hard to work. on is. what you're for time and and do with your family hundred percent it's very difficult you have to spend half of the time running out the stories you have to have time to research and all of those things and from from where i come from and look you know especially liberia in your story. in the press freedom it was difficult.
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because what you people come after you you know it was a very tough. my shot was broken down it was the mahdi each it broke me because i never would. doesn't know where i was a dog at the muscle. mateen mon sunday anyway when it broke i guess that out all was lost i said though i get i get i myself in the. so a must win dinner to go out there and these also encourage me and i may keep it all so i got a common stock in a new friend called me a man i used to make an issue that they had about my house so they didn't get better shoes and then that i started from.
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believing god that we were we had me one day and i always did this i would do what i had timed out or does the b.b.c. all of what we were. just another clark is preaching what we were. if you have to be heroes used to put to good use you will have the money to people so they didn't get judges news from heroes news people and they get put out to. get sent up point out a refill. it did it very very great problem also got some time with.
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the amount to buy a newspaper get information on this say well. yes you are really making a lot of my hope for liberia is that one. liberian. opportunity for all of the rich and everybody else as cool. everyone. would rose wouldn't what. well that's it for this week of course you can find out more about alfred's free press and watch other films from the series on the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com i'm come all santa maria from the whole rewind team thanks for joining us. a new series of rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new
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updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from baghdad till now is distance rewind continues with the return of them is again steve child and one east upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera. july on al-jazeera in a new series of head to head maddie hasson tackle the big issues with hard hitting questions pakistan is going to the polls to elect a new government what path will the country take people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world a generation of voters in zimbabwe grew up knowing only the leadership of robert mugabe now they are electing a new president and for the first time since independence his name is not on the ballot on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary
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potential of social media to disseminate news. july on al-jazeera. every year in pakistan hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killings one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between old beliefs and modern life and al-jazeera. tens of thousands take to the streets in the u.s. against president trump zero tolerance immigration policy. so robert you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming
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up donald trump says he's convinced saudi arabia to increase oil output citing what he called turmoil in iran. also a syrian government troops take several rebel held areas in the southern dara province after a truce talks fail. and installed machines disappointment argentina are eliminated by france in a breathtaking encounter at the world cup. welcome to the program massive crowds have marched in cities across the united states protesting against the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance immigration policy protesters are calling for families to be united quickly as well as an end to immigrant detention on the travel ban targeting some muslim majority nations also in jordan has more from washington d.c. . tens of thousands gathered outside the white house on
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saturday to condemn the trumpet ministrations policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the us mexico border they will never be the same even if they are you know. here ability to see to process to trust others in future relationships it's. donald trump wasn't home to hear them the people in the park didn't care. they are outraged by the video and photos of some twenty three hundred children including babies paged like animals in detention centers and by the fact the government doesn't know where their parents are being held there's a lot of data i that we don't know that we need from the top administration but they've got a list of parents apparently they've got a list of killed. they've got to be reconciled we need to know where every parent is that matches up with every child and they've got to tell us that in
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a publicly accountable manner and i don't think they're going to feel compelled to do that unless there is public pressure even though the trumpet ministration vocal to public pressure and stop the forced separation of children from parents at the us mexico border it's now going to detain entire families perhaps indefinitely perhaps and military reservations across the u.s. that has rally goer is here in washington fed up and that's the sentiment being repeated at rallies across the united states the signs in the messages were the same across the country obey international asylum law protect children stop the government's breaks his policies honestly the only reason our president is doing this is because of his ego he has no excuse these people are bad people they are running away from their homes that take a lot in must be big to make them do that the accomplish some sort of change in the policy that we have and really move our legislators to actually get something
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accomplished the challenge is taking the white hot anger on a hot summer's day and turning it into political action there's no guarantee people will do more than this even though they say they will rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. chicago protests as well as to the local offices of federal immigration authorities told him to was. thousands of people have gathered in the streets of chicago fifteen thousand registered on facebook saying that they would come to this event and many of the people i talked to said that they have not registered at all so we don't really know what the numbers of many of these people are wearing white as the organizers of the event have asked them to do to make a dramatic statement but of course many of them are you see signs here that say things like families belong together there have been some counter protesters wearing signs that say things like reunite families in mexico but by and large this is a protest against president immigration policies john to
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a man who said the last time that he went to a protest was in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was a protest against the vietnam war but he said he was furious about the president's immigration policies that he came here to protest once again that he is now an elderly man is not popular in chicago he lost chicago in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election and he lost the state of illinois he remains highly unpopular here and he often uses the city as a whipping boy talking about the amount of violence in the streets here and that feeling is requited by many people in this crowd the big song they're playing is pink floyd's the wall everybody chants at the line that says leave those kids alone . well that also the protests on the mexican border thousands gathered to accuse us of always of turning asylum seekers into criminals as part of the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance approach to undocumented immigrants and they demanded
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an end to child migrants being separated from their parents. u.s. president says he's convinced saudi arabia to increase its oil production saudi and fellow oil exporters had already agreed to an extra one million barrels a day at an opec meeting last month trump tweeted just spoke to king salon of saudi arabia and explained to him that because of the turmoil and dysfunction in iran and venezuela i am asking that saudi arabia increase oil production maybe up to two million barrels to make up the difference price is too high he has agreed. but saudi arabia made no mention of numbers in a statement about the phone call which reads u.s. president trump and king saul mom stressed all efforts must be made to maintain stability of global oil market and the world economy's growth both leaders emphasized that endeavors made by producer countries to meet any possible shortage of supply must be endorsed. we is
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a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university he says the move has the potential to cause opec to implode as a trade organization while so far we have two sides to the same conflict within opec we have the saudis and the russians who happen to be the top order exporters so they have a lot of clout in the decision making of this organization and then we have their own ears and their allies so if we look deeper i think this is another confirmation of an ongoing trend where wally that is like trump like c.c. like and ham and been sort of men are those who are willing to be members of the club of the powerful and by moving this way or pushing this way they are ignoring or kind of jumping over all these treaties and international organizations so unfortunately we are now in a war that we're all by lack that elevations of between strongly that is more significant than the traditional kind of alliance and global diplomacy. rebels are
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losing ground in southern syria with several towns and villages accepting government rule at least fifteen people were killed in the town of devore province on saturday and the fighting of failed the free syrian army says it refuses to surrender country lopez are doing as well. with the celebration over syrian forces claiming control of rebel held town isn't dora province syria's state media showed these images allegedly showing unwavering support. but on syria's border a desperate plea more than one hundred sixty thousand civilians have fled in just five days jordan says they can't afford to take in more syrian refugees i don't know if we came from the city of hama it was drawn by bombs and came under siege
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with pleading with jordan and its king hoping we were left to go through the. airstrikes led by syria strongest ally russia have gone on for at least ten days rebel forces have been all powered peace negotiations and on and off cease fire deals with russia follow. the previous ceasefire deals had been breached before. that vision syrian regime forces launched an attack on the other side so who made this agreement the united states and russia they both have responsibility and this needs to stop. daro was one of the last rebel told areas in syria symbolically it's much more it's here where the uprising against syria's government began seventy years ago now its fate may have international implications it has a very important strategic value for israel because it's about its north border the u.n. warns the situation could turn into
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a humanitarian crisis many of those who try to flee now have nowhere to go katia lopez so the young al-jazeera. navy divers have gold two hundred meters deep into a flooded cave in thailand in search for a boy's football team and the coach video released by the tiny navy shows how murky waters and complete darkness have hampered the weeklong rescue operation in the cave some progress has been made since the weather played on friday but the still no sign of the team. ball from granny a little bit of good news coming overnight saturday into sunday morning here at the mouth of the cave seal divers navy seal divers have been in the water for the last several hours and several teams have been going back and forth we know now that they are at the furthest distance they have been yet in the cave but they haven't gone that far right on the sea it's only about two hundred meters further than they had been further than that three kilometer mark there kind of stuff that because of
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weather over the last several days you know two hundred meters further in but their immediate goal is to get to a place called the beach it's a cavern named after a famous beach here in thailand they are still four to six hundred meters away from that they're trying to get there because they believe that could be a spot where the boys and their coach might have retreated to when floodwaters came rushing into the cave system here so that is the incremental good news coming from the cave here we also know that teams are still working for a way in from the top in the hills in case how is this massive cave system they're still looking for a way in a new cavern a new tunnel downward tunnel was discovered over the weekend they are still trying to access that they're still trying to get down in there we know that in a couple of cases they have dropped supplies so that is still being exploited up in the hills above the cave now we know seven nations have joined the search and rescue operations here u.s. navy personnel here australia has sent some forces japan is here the united kingdom has diving experts here so a true international effort but right now there is
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a little bit of good news but still no definitive proof to fit into evidence where these boys and their coach might be. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a mother's heartbreak point people like her could have a big influence on mexico's election plus. more. hidden from view high in the hills the mountain lawless streets that have now been added to the world heritage list. hello there eleven thousand western parts of asia as well will begin first of all some showers in eastern arizona. could see the downpour but otherwise pretty warm conditions it's fine around the caspian sea tehran coming in at forty degrees baghdad not far behind at forty three in iraq and around the eastern.

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