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two teenagers killed by a wave of israeli airstrikes on gaza as rockets are fired across the border into israel. well armed citizen this is news out live from london also coming up iraq has placed his security forces on high alert as language protests continue in the south of the country. rich areas president promises to resolve his country's dispute with ethiopia as he begins a three day visit to add a sound of a zero zero zero zero zero. zero i'm protected from the protests against his the u.k. visits president trump practices his swing on his scottish golf course.
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two teenagers have been killed in the gaza strip as israel carries out the longest daylight attack on hamas since the gaza war and twenty fourteen israeli jets targeted several neighborhoods in the gaza strip and the military says it's struck dozens of hamas targets meanwhile hamas has fired more than seventeen mortar bombs and rockets on israel nearly a dozen have been intercepted amassed says the attack was meant to stop israeli escalation and its myth is live for us and gaza but what more can you tell us about these deaths and indeed the trading of these two a tux. well so i can tell you that we've just heard in the last couple of minutes local media is reporting that a ceasefire egypt in egypt and security officials have mediated ceasefire between hamas and the israelis that comes into play now seven o'clock local time so just
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started a couple of minutes ago but before that news that i've just been given we've become perilously close to a very serious escalation as far as i've been able to see those two teenagers were killed in an airstrike that was hit a target just a couple of kilometers from where i'm standing and shook buildings all around me and we're right in gaza city the airstrike was sort of on the coastal edge of gaza city and that's where those people were killed israel's earlier strikes that targeted mainly hamas facilities israel says many sort of training compounds a lot of them in open fields open areas and nobody had been killed in those attacks it seemed a calculated. targeting by israel essentially to warn off how mass but those strikes have seemed to escalate but as i say maybe we'll see what happens in the coming coming hours and then people just chilling in might be thinking what
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is provoked this violence what is what is really left is in a situation where there is this amount of violence and people are being killed. well israel says they have launched these specific strikes not only in response to it says rockets coming over from gaza but particularly because of burning kites and burning balloons that have been floating over from garz into israel joy in the last recent weeks of the friday protests burning fear a burning that they say that landed israeli territory and so fire to israeli crops are benjamin that you know has been under enormous pressure from border communities and israel the wider community israel for not being able to stop this and israel's military very sophisticated can stop these fairly rudimentary balloons and kites from crossing the border so he's threatened hamas to stop these kites coming over they've not stopped so it seems he struck very hard there is a domestic audience in israel wanting to see netanyahu do something about this
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a warm school of thought is this is him showing that he is trying to get the upper hand against hamas going to. life for us from cancer. iran has placed its security forces on high alert as anti-government protests spread across cities in the country south the unrest began in the southern city of bans or six days ago of the high unemployment and the lack of basic services mohamed el baradei says has more. it's nearly fifty degrees celsius in iraq's southern city of basra and people have been feeling the heat. the city's unstable electricity grid and dwindling infrastructure fuelled angry protests over the past week the week how they know more the german general here. g.'s protests of the
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oppressed people of we are asking for what is rightfully ours the government should provide clean water. electricity and basic infrastructure these basic needs are the responsibility of the prime minister and the company. demonstrated you burning tires blocking roads as they marched on government still ations even attempting to storm a bus or oil facility to protest escalated after thirteen year old sad was killed when security forces opened fire on crowds. prime minister hi there i bet he flew to buster and met with the city's governor as well as security officials to try and ease tensions bussau is iraq's richest oil province but despite the city's wealth and natural resources unemployment rates have skyrocketed and that's mainly due to most of the jobs in the oil industry being filled by foreign workers rising living costs contaminated water supplies and lack of basic services in the city aggravated frustrations with the government. there are presented of grand ayatollah ali al
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sistani expressed his support for the demands of the shia majority city. a lot of amon all we can do is shore solidarity with these people in their righteous cause we feel their suffering we're concerned about their difficult living conditions and it's all due to the incompetence of former and current officials the prime minister has vowed to revive the economy which has been ravaged by years of conflict abed is keen to calm frustrations as iraq struggles to build a new government two months after parliamentary elections that have been marred by controversy the middleburg d.c. al-jazeera. eritrea's president says history is being made on his first visit to neighboring ethiopia in more than two decades as he asked off where he received a warm welcome by the capital to the capital by ethiopian prime minister meant is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last
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weekend the leaders signed a pact to restore diplomatic and trade ties bring an end to a twenty year military standoff eritrea split from ethiopia in one nine hundred ninety three how for a long battle for independence but they fought another brutal border war just five years later it began in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight near the front here town of bani a disputed area under ethiopia's control around seventy thousand people were killed and tens of thousands displaced fighting along the one thousand kilometer border only ended in december two thousand with the signing of the algiers agreement a border commission was set up as part of the peace still in two thousand and two and un backs ruling granted contested territories to eritrea including but the theo pier refused to withdraw its troops was until prime minister right came to power in april this year since agreed to fully accept the terms of the algiers agreement and
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normalize relations well let's go live to who is in ethiopia capital addis ababa this where the rain and thinkable mo just a few weeks ago how are people reacting to this news. well that's very soon there is a general sense of exultant here and the hope at the end if you appear could be inching closer to the last thing. and there is a lot of excitement about president assad who work is visit the first time he has done so in twenty years not such a short time because if you're curious also the state of the african union and the size hundred. all laws of the communal summit was held in abyss of about that in the period of conflict now he's an. excitement on the whole
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partly it's by explains the jubilant and mood with which he was welcomed by. help of thousands lining up the streets between the airport the prime minister's policies where he had a meeting with the prime minister. the highlight of the pork is when it is on sunday when he is going to you open the embassy which they're very trained in but you know this of a goal which we closed for twenty years and he's really serious about achieving lasting peace i think it is something to benefit. well as they say the very serious and so far they have covered so much ground they have managed to agree on the opening of embassies the complement of the diplomatic relationship not what's the fuss. why you have
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a really big ally and why african standards. in twenty years with money not only one study also telephone lines between you have to have been connected for the first time in two decades so so much has happened but the. he's going to be when they stop discussing the nitty gritty of the little details of. the disputed area some been awarded. awarded to ethiopia and the people who live there some of them who've been protesting in the past few weeks in their countries not the getting older some of them saying they want to be part of it here the other thing they want to continue being part of it it will be very interesting to see whether these mostly are called yalit and compromise will continue once they stop discussing this really quickly here that's how many there
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are life for us in our case and i thank you mary. ten thousand people have been protesting against donald trump in scotland as the u.s. president spends the weekend playing golf as his luxury resort. that's out some of the demonstrators even made it to the edge is also a president's goal of course intend great wes knight because of been deployed as fronts of tight security measures on fresno more official engagements in the u.k. before heading to helsinki for a summit with russian president vladimir putin on monday that involve a has more from him. we're calling this a carnival of resistance at this park in the middle of edinburgh you can see the blimp the balloon of president trump as a baby has arrived now some protesters did want to take it up to the turnberry go for it or on the west coast of scotland where donald trump is spending saturday and
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sunday he's tweeted on saturday that he's there for talks or for kohl's but also he says hopefully for some golf which he says he's only his main form of exercise well perhaps if he switches on the t.v. he will have seen pictures from london as well as from glasgow on friday night where there was a demonstration but this is the main focus of the scottish protests thousands of people marching through edinburgh from the scottish parliament to this spot under the banner of united against there are many different themes that people have been highlighting including the perception that donald trump's policies towards migrants are racist. condemning his separation of children from their parents at the border criticizing his decision to pull out of the paris climate change agreement. meanwhile small scuffles have broken out at approaching rally in london
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several hundred people showed their support for the u.s. president many wearing red hats with the slogan make britain great again demonstrators called on the u.k. to adopt trans anti immigration policies and praise what they call a strong and decisive leadership. still to come on al-jazeera tragedy as a critically endangered black rhinos dying kenya during a relocation designed to protect them and students under siege pro government in my car militaries around activists in the next nicaraguan capital. hello again we have some heavy rain across southern parts of china at the moment and it's still a supplementary some quite angry looking cloud into parts of india china too so i
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think for much of vietnam it's looking pretty wet at the moment the same goes for laos and me a more heavy rain is likely for hong kong but once you get north of hong kong is a better situation fuzhou should be fine fine conditions all the way up to shanghai more heavy rain for hong kong you're in the course of monday so let's then head across into south asia where we've still got some pretty heavy rain down through the western ghats looks to be fairly steady at the moment so i don't see anything particularly nasty rotten giri coming as some decent rainfall us what you expect really with the monsoon at its peak and then you look at the forecast the circulation across the eastern side of india so kolkata the sort of very like you see some very heavy rain over the following forty eight hours still some decent showers across central areas delhi for the most part looking draw on sunday monday i think there's a risk of showers much of pakistan expected to be drawing and then across into the arabian peninsula and here in qatar we've got more of a northerly wind picking. reducing the humidity but it does mean the temperatures
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will rise so as we head on through into monday every chance we could see temperatures of forty six. it's like the wild west they can do anything and the really hard for them to get the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and a threat somebody who controls ten thousand one hundred thousand voices. in the echo chamber world of faith can use in cyberspace the rules of the game have changed there are no precedents people out investigates dissin from asian and democracy part two on al-jazeera.
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welcome back reminder of the top stories two teenagers have been killed in the gaza strip. the largest. since the gaza war in twenty fourteen iraqi security forces on high alert as anti-government protests spread across cities in the country south and eritreans president says history is being made on his visit to neighboring ethiopia after more than two decades of hostility. haitian prime minister john. is fighting for his job as he faces a no confidence vote following four days of protests. started after haiti's government proposal to remove fuel subsidies which in turn would have hiked fuel prices fifty percent it was an agreement between. the monetary fund.
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and that was the plan would not go ahead the protests as are still demanding his resignation. is in the haitian capital port au prince so we're hearing that's going to be. what's the significance of this. the significance is really clear it's going to decide perhaps the fate of prime minister jackie love. the prime minister been the prime minister for seventeen months now he's never held public office before he's a trained medical doctor he is in the political fight of his life right now this country in deep deep political crisis now for over seven days since the prime minister proposed this gas price increase and quickly suspended it after by protests of last weekend so the parliament meeting now lawmakers are trickling in here to parliament as i speak will be here is not here yet but just to give you an idea of how much pressure is on this prime minister just
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a little bit ago this morning we spoke to gary he's the vice president of the national assembly here probably one of the most powerful politicians in this entire country the minister i asked him straight question should the prime minister step down he said absolutely he should step down and if he doesn't. mr both. in parliament might force him to step down the vote here at the parliament could happen any time within the next hour or two more standing by for that but clearly this is very much going to determine the political future of this country at least with this prime minister we're losing a picture a little bit will soldier on with that with just ask you another question if i can all we likely to see an escalation in violence whichever way this. but i can tell you right now there are some protests in the streets of port au
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prince not too far outside the gates here of the parliament of parliament so far the protests are peaceful but. i think a lot of people here are hoping that's the case but we're certainly going to watch this very closely i can tell you the security forces here are definitely on high alert there are riot police outside the parliament building security very tight as you could expect or something like this everyone hoping that it remains peaceful but clearly the protests are kicking off here in the capital right now many. of them being at the very latest from haiti. now it was meant to be three days of peaceful protests in the. bloody siege with pro-government paramilitaries surrounding student activists in the capital some of the students remain trapped in a church where they've been live streaming the. protests calling for the resignation of president daniel ortega having ghost the school central american nation since april. yeah it was no come up students
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behind barricades at me that i was national university. unarmed and terrified don't know me this student lisa recorded message from her mother. because it was on this day of national strike they were now to defend the country but if i want to wear it i mean i know they think they're going to die and. just a few hours before government supporters followed the love data in a caravan commemorating a day in the sun east of evolution thirty nine years ago that helped topple dictator and especially from us in that we all think i spoke about peace with the world to the enemies it took so much for most of nicaragua to find reconciliation and now there's a group of nicaraguans who don't accept it and that's because in sought of them they carry the poison of hatred. or think the supporters say he's done
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a lot for he got out it came out of them out he's given most poor nicaraguans a guarantee for their rights to food education entertainment and freedom of expression. but as the caravan left the city of the size uniformed police armed with rifles an r.p.g. opened fire in the neighborhood of money leaving two people dead. more than two hundred fifty people have died in almost three months of civil unrest pension reform protests turned into opposition calls for us resignation. letter on friday thousands of the god i once showed the president their support in his cabinet as the answer was yes right x. our government supporters at the punish them smash up their strategy in the crisis off the main highway the capital menow and most of the country remained mostly shut down streets empty gas stations banks shopping malls. most businesses closed.
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but at the immigration offices a queue of people mainly fearing for their safety. was getting passports for her two sons get home until they could be kidnapped just because these students and i want to protect them. three months of bloody protests and knew and didn't sign with police in the crossfire than one hundred twenty people who disappeared and hundreds wounded among them some of the students trapped under the gun the sea of police and paramilitary but innocent just. five people including four attackers have been killed in separate car bombings this somalia's presidential palace police say one explosive went off after a gunfight with armed men at a checkpoint in the mug an issue the second device was detonated in the same area shortly afterwards the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the
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attack. the united nations security council has naturally voted to impose an arms embargo on south sudan nearly five years after a civil war erupted the u.s. backed resolution bans weapons sales and imposes a travel ban and asset freeze on to military officials but there are concerns it could further d. rail the peace process her least fifty thousand people have died in the conflict it's also created africa's largest refugee crisis since through a london genocide. the troll boys and football coach rescued from life for that cave in thailand will be discharged from hospital next thursday else when a star says they're all recovering well physically and mentally after the eighteen day ordeal concerns however are being raised over how they will deal with the sudden fame in a video released on saturday some of the boys spoke of their gratitude. i wouldn't even want thank you for worrying about me and thank you for going into the cave to
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help me out don't worry about me now i'm saying how. i'd like to thank all the navy seals who came in to help us and thank everyone for their moral support until today . wildlife conservation is have declared an environmental disaster after eight critically endangered black rhino stellate in kenya the ram animals were being moved to a national park the surviving rhinos are being closely watched and that relocation is have been suspended lower burden manly has more just two weeks after eleven black rhinos were moved to a new reserve in kenya three quarters of the have died. early investigations indicate they were poisoned by the high level of salt in the water and then you know we've been doing this for decades moving rhinos in order to manage the populations because they are all isolated you want to prevent any inbreeding but this was a new sanctuary in south east we used to have rhinos there they were all put out
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and now we're bringing them back to that area so it's a very exciting possibility for kenya but it's ended in tragedy this is actually a national disaster kenya's tourism and wildlife minister has ordered the wildlife service to suspend the relocation of black rhinos while investigations continue. moving rhinos can be a risky process it involves putting endangered animals to sleep for the journey and then reviving them but the loss of so many in one go is unprecedented. in the past twelve years about one hundred fifty rhinos have been moved in this way but these deaths have doubled the mortality figures. the u.k. based charity save the rhinos estimates there are fewer than five thousand five hundred black ryan is the walt all of them in africa. poaching is forcing wildlife parks to take such drastic measures nine writers were killed in kenya last year and three more shot dead in may and the horns removed kenya is leading the push for
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a total ban on ivory trading world wide in april president of hurrican ja to order the walls largest stock of ivory and rhino horn to be destroyed. while rhino ivory fetches a high price preventing poaching remains a challenge. about a man made al-jazeera. thanks. belgium had finished the world cup in third place after a two nil victory over england and of course leaves one more game in the turnaround the final which will see france take on croatia on sunday france one is first and only title in one thousand nine hundred eight but in two thousand and six the sign was beaten on penalties by it's only this time around expectations are high that
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they can take home four balls biggest prize natasha butler reports from paris. and we don't have that report right now i'm afraid a drought in ireland has dried out several crop fields on revealed on an ancient monument has just been hidden for thousands of years a photographer who flew a drone over the boy with valley discovered a near little henge which appears as a perfect circle in the color of the crops. ancient constructions that include burial signs and religious structures according to local media the henge may have been built around five hundred years after a nearby unesco heritage sites which dates back to three thousand b.c. . hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world who don't mind getting dirty are converging in south korea for their annual mock festival is
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the twenty first running of the festival. which takes place in the western coastal city of bari young is a big event last year organizers estimated five million people attended with more than six hundred thousand coming from overseas as you move play with a change of clothing. don't forget you can see much more on our website news features and video including the very latest on those attacks between gaza and israel just click on al-jazeera dot com. to give you a look at the top stories now make human news on al-jazeera two teenagers have been
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killed in the gaza strip as israel carries out the largest a day like attack on hamas since the gaza war in twenty fourteen israeli jets targeted several neighborhoods in the gaza strip and the military says it has struck dozens of hamas targets hamas has fired more than seventy mortar bombs and rockets at southern israel nearly a dozen have been intercepted when exploded near an israeli border community no injuries have been reported girls a smith is in gaza. local media is reporting that a cease fire mediated by gyptian security officials came into force at sixteen hours g.m.t. ceasefire between hamas in gaza and the israeli military but that ceasefire didn't come into force before we came perilously close to a rapid escalation of a confrontation between israel forces in gaza. iraq has places
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security forces on high alert as anti-government protests spread across it is in the country's south the unrest began in the southern city of bands or six days ago the high unemployment and the lack of basic services i return as president says history is being made on his first visit to neighboring ethiopia after more than two decades of hostility as i asked where he received a warm welcome by the came to the capital by ethiopian prime minister. ten thousand people have been protesting against president donald trump in scotland the day barber has more from edinburgh. well they're calling this a carnival of resistance and one of the ways that the thousands of protesters gathered in this park in edinburgh a trying to register their opposition to donald trump is through schumer and that joy and balloon over there showing the u.s. president as a baby in a nappy featured in the london demonstrations and it's now made its way up to
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scotland to those they weren't allowed to fly it over the temporary go for where donald trump is spending the weekend well away from the protest this they did once a flight over the scottish parliament as well that's where they say opposition march set off on saturday but now that it's here it's getting lots of attention and in fact along the march route there have been plenty of homemade banners that people have brought along using humor to or to ridicule the u.s. president but also to remind her that of the titians that there are issues that they feel very strongly about teaching children is not ok separating children from their fear and so on a caregiver's is not ok any which way you proceed and detaining them separately or with the parents is no case we don't make a sound if we share the bodies from the street how will america notably our son with him half of magma and half of america who did least not the way that they meet
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now that the world stands with them ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ha well on sunday donald trump travels on to helsinki for a summit on monday with the russian president vladimir putin there are protests already being organized there but these are demonstrators in scotland's hope that they've made an impact haitian prime minister jacques guy left in town to see fighting for his job as he faces a no confidence vote following four days of protests in restaurant after haiti's government failed a proposal to move fuel subsidies which in turn with her fight fuel prices by fifty percent. as they come in.
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recent elections most notably that's of donald trump as u.s. president to apply logic the role played by social media in spreading malicious propaganda and fake news in this old sense of cyber reality fiction becomes fact become truths and political consensus becomes almost impossible to achieve in the second of two special reports. investigates allegations that russia and the far right have been using the technology to undermine democracy.

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