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al-jazeera has teams on the ground documentaries and news on air and on the. this is. live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the newsgroup after five deaths in the gaza strip on friday could have become so much worse. brokering has reached an agreement with israel to restore the previously place but how long can it last. without an end to the israeli siege. on elections only a few days away so we're looking at the rise and rise of. twenty six years since he
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left the cricketing field but the charisma and the fight that he's been part of his politics ever since twenty eighteen looking like a good chance for him as well and a journalist pulls back from twitter doesn't seem like much of a story but the new york times maggie haberman. toxic as an intellectual dishonesty sexism just too high for her to engage with the platform and her eight hundred thousand followers looking we're looking at when twitter becomes just. and is being called the loneliest man in the world video of the last known survivor of an amazonian tribe killed by bombers has been captured after. living alone in the jungle. and. facing. online. with the news great to live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in a delta. the result calm and what's been called
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a restoration of calm seems to be holding so far between israel and hamas in gaza palestinian factions have agreed to return to come with israel after a day of violence along the border fence between gaza and israel a hamas spokesman says egypt and the un mediated that truce remember for palestinians at an israeli soldier were killed on friday on what was the seventeenth week in a row of protesters gathered along israel's along the border i should say against israel's occupation of the gaza strip we're off to gaza now to talk to child stretford about this hi charles talk us through then what court in court a truce looks like in this saturday. but it's fair to say that has been calm throughout the day there was an incident this morning according to the israeli military that is ready tank talkative day hamas position in the north of the gaza strip off to what israel says were palestinian suspects trying to
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cross the border it's also true that we have seen old a lot less balloons will just from gaza today there were reports in these radio media citing a single israeli official that was saying that ham ass had agreed to put a stop to these attacks by the balut by the balloonists the people launching these balloons and kites carrying these in syria devices that have cooled so israel says so much damage across the board however there has not been any kind of formal confirmation by ham ass as to whether it is in fact done that so you can imagine this there's still a lot of questions being asked today still a lot of tension there's still a lot of fear in the streets by people here very concerned about an escalation in the conflict but as i say so far today it has been calm tells you have any indication of how people in gaza feel about what's happening the deals that are
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being down the hamas leadership given the you know the back and forth the fighting and the ceasefire. how do they view it all. well talking to people in gaza today people are very relieved i think thankful that there was what they describe as restraint showed by and us last night there were. numerous attacks by the israelis against hamas positions hamas military bases we know that there was summary missiles launched by ham ass two of which were deceptive by the i and. the fact is is that nobody wants war here let's not forget that have houses for three will is with israel since taking power again in two thousand and seven the gaza strip two million people so that live here have suffered twelve years of israel's scene which so i think it's safe to say that certainly they all
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support chief over what they describe as restraint from him so i think it's also important to look at the kind of the wider political questions and won't have mouse and fatah trying to do with respect to reconciliation we understand that have masses accepted the latest egyptian proposal for this sort of reconciliation looking forward to a potential unity government in gaza but we understand that fatah have now got that proposal and we're waiting and also for an answer from them that seem polson so analysts say because it would they if there is some sort of reconciliation between fatah and hamas and a unity government it would put more pressure on israel to potentially lift the siege thank you charles stratford live for us in gaza on the news grid. yes some comments coming in already actually henry on facebook live is saying i hope it can be reached but with this current political climate it looks difficult
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and what charles was speaking today you've not just gone home as dealing with his row but also hamas dealing with internal palestinian politics now we've also got stephanie decker has been out about in gaza looking at what life is like for palestinians living under the blockade here's her report. away from the politics and away from the military escalation between hamas and israel it really is about the almost two million people who are blockaded inside gaza life looks like it continues as normal it does continue as normal but everyone you speak to here will tell you the same thing that life has become increasingly more difficult for many people will tell you that what they're enduring here is not a life regression we can't live i make a maximum of three dollars a day isn't enough we all skim if we can make ends meet there i can't afford any of the ocean to work as a killer in israel before double cape i made around a thousand three hundred dollars a month of the moment i can't even make three hundred dollars
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a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night my that's the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated but can't find work people are straight on to pressed people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there is no electricity this is really painful and sad now this is the second ceasefire between israel and hamas in the space of a week the pattern of escalation ceasefire escalation ceasefire will continue unless there is a long term plan that will improve the lives of the people here in gaza even the israeli military and the intelligence how to mourning the politicians in israel that the blockade is not sustainable and this is what's happening behind the scenes there are talks about a plan that would ease the blockade it is complicated it hasn't happened yet but certainly people here will tell you that they cannot continue living like this. yes so we're back in this so-called stage of calm technically that stretches back to
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twenty fourteen when after the deaths of more than two thousand one hundred palestinian sixty four israeli soldiers and five israeli civilians a few days of fighting came to an end with the ceasefire brokered by egypt was a bilateral deal it included hamas agreeing to stop all rocket and mortar fire into israel israel also said it would stop its military action including air strikes and ground operations israel also agreed to open more of its border crossings with gaza to let humanitarian aid and reconstruction equipment in israel was also expected to roll back its border patrol to allow for more farmland and to extend the fishing limit off the coast of gaza should be said that once the war was resolved it was both sides claiming victory hillary mann leverett with us of the political risk consultancy strategic middle east analyst joining us from washington always a pleasure to talk to you think that last point is actually a good one to make there that both sides thought they claimed victory when arguably i would say and i'd like your views no one really wanted the. i would share your
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assessment of this this this situation does not produce any victors on any side the people of the palestinians of gaza continue to remain in her if it conditions two million people facing their twelfth year under siege with an overwhelming military on the israeli side and the israelis to they they are they face a situation of ongoing instability and insecurity in their territory so there's no real there's no real victor here in any sense that a question hilary from one of our viewers on facebook live mohammed thank you for your question who said how can peace be restored with the existing blockade with limited supplies of basic necessities crossing the border what do you think it would actually take for israel to roll back the siege in some way shape or form. that's a really that's really what we would call you know the million dollar question i'm not sure that there really is something at this point that the israelis are willing to do short of an all out surrender by hamas and its leadership to israel and even
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then i'm not sure that that would work because in many ways hamas is useful to the israelis it provides a policing force of the population particularly in gaza so i don't see a clear solution a clear negotiated solution that would involve israel and the palestinians over gaza what it would require is some sort of even more serious crisis than there were then we're facing now that would bring in the international community and bring in bring to bear upon the israelis and israel's allies some real force of international strength to to really impose an agreement how much would it help if there was proper and full reconciliation between hamas and fatah over in the west bank the reason i ask is because whilst reconciliation sounds goods and power sharing sounds good if hamas is still involved then it's hard to see israel doing
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business with any sort of joined in to tea. and we really had a test case of this happened in two thousand and fourteen before the last cease fire. before the lassies fire was negotiated at that point the the war that israel really brought upon gaza came about principally for political reasons because hamas and the palestinian authority at that time were the closest perhaps they've ever been to trying to to agree to a unity unity government or some sort of unity partnership and it was that political development that could have brought about a unified palestinian leadership that could negotiate with israel from a position not of complete weakness it was that political development that i think so scared the israelis that precipitated the twenty fourteen israeli bombardment of gaza and our last cease fire so we really know from precedent from history and not that long ago from two thousand and fourteen that a unity government between hamas and the palestinian authority is not something
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that the israelis will warmly embrace and will bring about peace unfortunately we know that from from president always good to talk to hillary mann leverett in washington d.c. we thank you for your time and you've been getting in touch with us already will put the contact details up on screen for you i have heard from shaikh who is on facebook live who is asked what is the u.n. doing over the situation i have to do something to restore peace in gaza well they were part of the brokering of this particular necessary action and hostilities egypt and the u.n. brokered it together but other than that well we know it's un resolutions which are in place but would have to be adhered to by both the sides for them to which to be effective a lot of people question how much the u.n. is actually doing and can actually do in the occupied territories hash tag twitter facebook whatsapp telegram you can tweet me directly as well. we're moving on now to pakistan campaigning in full swing for wednesday's election to choose a new government there bilawal bhutto zardari is among those running for prime minister the leader of the pakistan people's party the well remember oxford
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educated some of the first female prime minister and how he's done benazir bhutto who was assassinated whilst on the campaign trail nearly eleven years ago towards the end of two thousand and seven as he campaigns we're also going to focus in though on one of the other front runners there in that has him run com we're going to be in for a graphic from al jazeera dot com here which is a good start you see the three faces there of those most likely to become prime minister bill allows on the left on the right but it is this man in the middle we want to talk about imran khan from the p.t.i. pakistan three in self party we all know cricketer turned politician twenty six years ago he left cricket to start his political career and has as he's seen there led protests in the past and demonstrations against the p.l.o. and alleging corruption in their parties so we're going to talk to come on harder about this a little more hasan bashar stronghold of imran khan's pakistan in stuff you know.
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for me i still we were discussing this before the show i still almost think of imran khan as the cricketer with and i said it before that charisma and courage that he had on the field he's been a politician for a long time now is this a long time coming for him this sort of rise to a point where he could even be the next prime minister. no doubt about the fact that they did not make it or break it for him or on khan although there was a raid she had damage ordered t.v. critics. did not perform the. form. of the fact that the coming election is going to be a test for conj party because most people believe that the election they need to lead to some sort of a coalition no clear winner. chief
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minister of the province. being a national accountability. of. their project which was supposed to be made forward to. show their nation. but it isn't going to be for emraan it is going to be a make or break and situation the people of pakistan are deficient. and some of them really wouldn't tell you that they're now looking for a one night king and a kingdom of the blind. is more important here is that the policy or the man himself because you talk a lot about people being disillusioned with politics in general does that then become so important for there to be a strong thinking ahead a guy who says i will say this sounds. well it
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buggiest on can order afford one man show a. new. law some of its. people. some of its supporters they have now jump on khan on his bandwagon trying it. that he wants to win no what. but there are question marks about morality some of doors open ition figure in which i have gone and joining them around con it's not unusual in a country like pakistan where never did a window change the politicians from the bandwagon and join any other party so that opportunism of course being a part and integrity part of the pakistani politic but i wanted more important it's not just bush anality what did important. political party. have a leadership crisis and it is not a one man show but more. fair it's going to be fascinating isn't it.
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thank you so much for that we've also got to some a binge of aid reporting on these elections he's in the hole the capital of punjab a state which has dominated politics behind me through the much talked about proof of performance of the city. which was in power in the previous assembly that is the development that many political parties in their respective areas are talking about right to say that this is what they have achieved in kenya and that's why i think the question is on her option. to even run he's woken up the masses and sent a top corrupt man to jail. all the corrupt to account just one individual. this is the quintessential in the city of the whole home to about twenty million people people in the months come out and. this spring and like that
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question of whether to have it with or without ice people in the horse are divided on whether to vote for. which is who is the leader of the pakistan in the currently behind or the war for iran hun who's promising change. my vote is for imran khan because it's time for a new generation to take charge. to know i should put in my votes only for no was because he's done a tremendous job including the china pakistan corridor which no one else could bring to pakistan. activists and human rights have raised concerns about the curbs on media and the rise of the right wing for the first time many religious bodies that used to be on the fringe of the political spectrum and are now involved in the political process people are expecting that this is going to be one of the most actively participated elections in pakistan's history and along with that info graphic that i showed you earlier there's plenty more context and helpful explain
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is that al jazeera dot com this is the elections at a glance the numbers behind the vote is the regions the parties if you search for pakistan elections and click the in for a graphic filter on the left you'll find that there's also a deeper dive on the parties and the players involved the elections just a few days away now full coverage on al-jazeera of course so looking at the live while we've got belgians national day happening some ambulances seem to be going past at the moment and down here unfortunate there on a shot there of a screen there but we're looking at the cuban congress this is the first one presided over by president miguel diaz come out you just think about that cuba without cancer officially there is not a castro leading parliament and they are having their first. congress today in havana whoa ok sue turton in london here she is with more international headlines for us hi so. syrian rebels who surrendered in southwestern connector province have begun arriving in opposition held their areas of the
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country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of no broke in hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage and a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have sense and to the city of connection the deal is a major victory for president bashar al assad forces have retaken much of the south adam. is in the rebel held area in hama where these rebels and families have arrived. was one of them have filler political vacuum ration buses carrying people displaced from connector have arrived in hama province fifty five coaches containing more than three thousand people this is the first group from connecticut and will be followed by many others the total numbers will be more than thirteen thousand going from south to north this displacement followed a wave of offensives by the syrian and russian military says it takes place after negotiations between opposition groups and the government which resulted in the
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opposition surrendering heavy weapons and allowing people to leave from south to north syria this will take place today tomorrow and the day after there will be more people coming here coming from south to north there will need to be a lot of resources and a concerted effort to accommodate such numbers of people they will initially be taken to already prepared shelters in northern syria. town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take and thereby city zarb it is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious institutions and mosques it south of her data which a coalition led by saudi arabia the u.a.e. has been fighting to retake from the rebels dozens of air strikes have been launched to dislodge the rebels. a church in the caruthers capital has reopened after being besieged by lee army student protesters who are taking refuge inside the catholic church in managua last week when gunmen loyal to the president began
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shooting at them rights groups have criticised president daniel ortega violent crackdown on anti-government protests almost three hundred people have died in three months of demonstrations. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of australia to call for an end to the government's policy of using off shore camps to detain asylum seekers the agreement with authorities are now room and manner silent was signed in twenty thirteen since then anyone who tries to enter australia by sea illegally is sent to one of the two pacific islands for processing the policy has been consistently criticized by the united nations and human rights groups. dozens of wildfires are raging across weeden which is experiencing its worst drought in seventy four years it comes after months of high temperatures and has prompted an appeal for help from other european nations the government in stockholm is also calling for emergency imports of grain to prevent cattle and
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sheep from dying of starvation the swedish prime minister says always sources are being mobilized to prevent a greater disaster. reeling in. the government is ready to take all necessary decisions and supply all needed resources our duties to support all agencies so that they have what they need to get to fire is under control and therefore the government is following this event closely every minute every day to make sure the agencies have the resources they need. waves of plastic and deborah have washed up on the coast of the dominican republic conservation they say they've already removed sixty tons of rubbish at the beach near the capital of santa domingo but there is so much waste that the military has been brought in to help with the cleanup. vigils have been held for seventeen american tourists who drowned when their duck boat sank during the storm they amphibious bus was overpowered by waves on table rock lake in missouri none of those killed are from the same family some
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of the thirty one passengers on board say the captain told them not to wear life jackets. suffer man london to do so thanks for that we're going off the grid now with sora way off the grid right this man the loneliest man in the world you know that's what people are calling him and the reason why that is is because incredible footage has a mode of the last known survivor of an amazonian tribe in brazil he's one did wonder rather the rainforest alone for twenty two years after the rest of his people wiped out two decades ago the brazilian government agency an eye which protects isolated tribes filmed the man from a distance chopping down trees in a remote rain forest in the rondeau near region and he's locally known as the man in the hole because of his habits of digging protective pits he spends most of his time hunting forest pigs birds and monkeys and he thought to be in his fifty's and in quite good health. i was trying where were formally identified in one thousand
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nine hundred ninety six and that's when the protection agency made a number of attempts to contact the tribesmen but it stopped trying when he made it very clear that he simply wasn't interested in contact from the outside world and i want to show you this picture because this is a hot that he lifted and he also has a mini. corn but nona's and papaya now the agency so these tools that axes and sees them in places where he often passes and also checks on him from time to time from a distance to make sure that he's still alive but many indigenous tribes in the ams and came under threats in the nineteen eighties when the government built a motorway through the region filing cattle ranches known logo's moved in and were able to state claim salon's if they could prove that no indigenous people live there and the last record of the type on the forest man's tribe was in one thousand nine hundred ninety five where they thought to have dwindled from about twenty five people to just this one man but since then the area has become protected and the agency believes there are one hundred thirteen tribes in brazil alone with most of
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them still isolated from human interference but a tribe nearby to this lone survivor has some contact with an ngo studying the indigenous ways so last year our latin america editor to see a new man went to parts of the amazon rainforest which is home to the largest number of non-contact to people in the world and they've been living in reserves set up for their protection but because of a country's economic crisis and growing pressure to exploit the rich resources in the area many communities in the reserves face threats from extinction. that is one levels of the isolated tribes as they're called here live very nearby we're told that they're deep inside this rain forest precisely because they don't want to be contacted they know that outsiders are dangerous not just because of their weapons but because of the diseases they carry for which they have no immunity now we're always interested in a hero also have any indigenous tribes maybe in some way you know you can tweet me
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at the top of banks are very pleased to say we've got fiona watson with us today head of research the group called survival and i'm reading here on your website fiona how you have visited this territory you have seen and photographed these huts just paint the picture for us tell us what it's like going to a place where so few have been yeah well that's what i went there with a. team that it's their fault tree it's man's land so absolutely it wasn't that the policy as your correspondent said in brazil is not to make contact with these people and he clearly doesn't want contact but getting into his forests was extraordinary because i did get the sense that he was perhaps watching out for us. as he's the only person there are no signs other than him his twenty hots his goggles which sort of fortunate that was good to see and one of the interesting things about the video that the indigenous affairs department of brazil has
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released is he looks remarkably healthy and i think this is the fault if you can see it shows that follow a sea of not make it from tat of respecting their right to live and then in their own way to peace is work he said still a bit of a conundrum though because i realise you keep saying you're right here into the policy of not making contact but by the same token you're going into his territory something which he clearly in a fiercely protects there how difficult that is to to strike the right balance. while it is obviously extremely difficult but i think what is unfortunate is that the that the authorities have to make sure that he is alive and in fact a few years of trying to see to the territory tonight of the engine that generates offense department rats that they then went into the forest because they have these previous attacks on his tenants on his life and they found gunshot cottages littered around so the threats a very real i mean one of the things that impressed me was even before you go into
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his territory it's a small patch of anderson forests and rounded by this sea of completely denuded landscape just sort of sort of plantations cattle ranches so you know the threats are so real and many politicians in this region that choose to not have invented these people said people toots of this film shows that actually this man does exist he has the rights to and they must. as i understand for another group which i talk about has had its budget. quite severely cut and this could be sort of a political issue in brazil do you think there is a commitment to making sure that well not that contact is made but that he is kept monitored and that other groups like his are. yes that's a really important question and i think that's another reason the video has been released because it showing that workers fight that if they don't have the funds which have been severely sashed and not going to be able to continue to protect the
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souls who by this land and the land and the many other uncontacted and contracts the charts there is huge pressure now on the arms and and in the brazilian congress you have to block politicians that you link to the agri business sector so things like you know cattle ranching soya plantations mining all these. streets there is more and more pressure to make more money and of course the last remaining areas of tropical rainforest are precisely where the indigenous people are because they are what best conservation is they've been conserving that forest and of course we all now i think know that the embassy force is crucial for their survival but also for the people in prominent in the role it plays in regulating climate change and global warming wonderful insight from you fiona watson thank you so much for joining us really glad you could talk to us today thank you for having me. this is the news great if you're with us on facebook live on a story coming up for you now from the want to when it's time telling how the power
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rich buddhist past is under threat and then later ethiopia's parliament has passed an amnesty bill for protesters of a jailed for up to three years where in the or on the original writer find out where the young people think the jester will resolve these long running for streets . hello there we're still seeing showers over georgia they've been with us for a few weeks now and you can still see them on the satellite pictures stretching just from the northern parts of turkey there and across towards the caspian sea these downpours have been very very heavy and we've seen some rather large hail out of them as well further south is just dry as you'd expect at this time of year so force in beirut we're expecting a temperature of around thirty or thirty one degrees over the next few days and in baghdad will be up to around forty three so more hot weather for us to further towards the south and here in doha the winds are going to be
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a real feature of our weather as we head through the next couple of days that we firing down from the northwest so picking up a fair amount of dust but it will be dry so a draw i heat for us we're looking at a top temperature of probably around forty five as we head through monday for the south a little bit more cloud might be around the coast over there might just give us a little bit of drizzle and for the west it does look like we'll see a few thunderstorms that are down towards the southern parts of africa we've got a few more areas of cloud that are plaguing the southwest they give us a few showers looks like it should clear though as we head through sunday so then cape town will be up at around twenty two degrees and been told at around twenty three for the east little bit of cloud just around the east. whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to please god don't let this person have been someone that we released on parole gate
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keepers of the parole system you're asking us for a second chance rape was important to me on the other side of the fence and now i get to the other side of it was a man who served remembering a good amount many times you've been in prison exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera. the world's primary could change producing nation. is at the forefront of the war on drugs some of that we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry both of whom of this business will go on for ever get from a change all of the global qualities the who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes on al-jazeera.
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a headline from al jazeera dot com and what's trending as well. store in. three years one of the survivors of that terrible they call it a duck but it's sort of it's just a different story i'm trying to find writers people to sort of wonder what happened
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what went wrong plenty more fear of course made on hamas eritrea as well have a look at what is trending this saturday at al-jazeera dot. com and american journalist has announced she's pulling back from twitter because it's just become too toxic for her to be a part of this is maggie haberman reports on donald trump in the white house for the new york times and has even had twitter clashes with the president himself now one reporter taking a personal decision about social media may not seem like much in then of itself but we're going to talk to sorry about as i think there's a bigger story out his are about what twitter in particular has become and for us as journalists how we choose to engage with it yeah and let me just go back is the song says with the article written by maggie which i'm sure if you can see the go she posted that she wrote this rather for the new york times announcing she's giving up twitter well sort of because her opening line if you have a look here she says i woke up last sunday morning feeling and sizing this is
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something many of us can identify with west specially when it comes to using social media now exception to breaking news and her own stories maggie is taking a break she says because twitter doesn't really help the discourse but what does she actually mean by that was political journalist nike says twitter has stopped being a place to learn things find information free of errors or she says even engage in a discussion with constructive criticism bots is not the first time that she's quit in fact law says she quit twitter for a whole week now mikey compares twitter to a video game and how it's changed over the years she writes viciousness toxic ponce's and i'm go into the actual does honesty motive questioning and sexism all at all time highs with no end in sight a place where people who are unjust. stand to be upset about any number of things go to feed that anger with the underbelly of free speech is on says most billionaires now particular story of maggie's. intense public rebuke from u.s.
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president donald trump himself he called the pulitzer prize a journalist a third rate reporter known as a crooked flunky now increasingly politicians and celebrities all waging a social media war no standing up against him or exposing them in fights and often the journalists are the target of a social media does give voice to the voiceless it's important to remember that however it has become toxic in the process warhol of a million tweets is said every single minutes across the world evidence shows it isn't quite the force of good we think it is in fact a new study released just this week found that scene ages that use social media heavier up to twice as likely to develop a d h d and sign to depression and accuracy are also symptoms of the fear of missing out what we call phone wire with feeds looking more like a stream of endless rants and insults matches. but how many of us have said will quit social media and actually manage to follow through well if i have had
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a quick look i actually just by googling actually how to detox from social media and you've got plenty of articles there giving you advice on how you can cut yourself from the social meds now the pew research center a few. months ago had actually released a report they found that fifty nine percent of young social media users in the u.s. think it won't be hard to give up social media back at the same time the number of those who would find it hard to give it up has actually grown in recent years to becoming increasingly attached this issue media and to is a useful and important platform is a good aggregator for breaking news and it even in fact helps people like us on the news great hit this into your fuse as well but genesis increasingly churning out some one of those that said he was going to take part in that and in solidarity with maggie is john roberts he in fact he's the news is the fox news chief white house correspondent and he knows that he too has to pay back from that information
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highway and also a prominent u.s. author. who's also quit so he actually deleted his twitter account so now she credits last year off her public spat with harvard professor cornel west so he's another person that's unplugs and there are plenty of other examples out there seems to be slowly on the rise. now from london so the woman a former b.b.c. journalist now a social media consultant trainer for journalists nice to see you so i chose to engage with someone on twitter about this story today rightly or wrongly and they replied to me and said maggie just couldn't handle democracy twitter isn't perfect but it is also full of brilliant people from all walks of life maybe she's just having a word with me moment and i have to take that into consideration and say that that is how twitter works that's how life works there are good people and bad people and maybe you can just go suck it up sometimes. sometimes you have but i do think she has a point that is it gets her quite way don't want to suck it up anymore and you do
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need to take a break but i don't think there's any homeschool in taking a break and all of us whether you're a journalist or not these what is it designed to design to give you that sort of gets and make you want more and more important so i think it's a good idea to take a step back and realize it's not necessarily the real world you know this is a life that we had in this you know things to do aside from stone i miss interviews so as a train of them how do you advise journalists and maybe i'm just fishing for you know free training here but i want to understand journalists because you know it's tempting to to write back to every comment that we don't like or it's tempting to engage all the time because we want to get our name out there was what we want to get out views out there we want to hear from other people there's a fine line to tread isn't there. it's absolutely a fine line to tread i think you need to be really strategic when you start using social media as a journalist got to think what you want to get out and what you want to get away by using it so i would always start with and i'm trying to journalists or you know
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athletes or you know our leaders whatever it is i tell them to sort out their privacy settings still might be somebody better to tell your publicist to settings how much do you want to share with people so first of all start with making it private and think strategically about what you want to get out of it and how you're going to use it and initially i think people did too much just the broadcast as opposed to the conversation so it's a kind of one i'm trying with you know presented or temporary so i think of it like a traffic light that's the red part of the traffic lights whereas the stuff you don't want to reveal you don't want to share with people you know the stuff you just shouldn't talk to use make shouldn't talk about and the greenbacks is obviously aware of what you're doing and getting the news out there providing context and insight and the amber part is a little bit about you and it's about your personal life but without being too personal so just be really careful and imagine if you're always on air you always bring us into what i do think as he said there are some fantastic people out there it's brilliant but at the same time i don't think the platforms are doing enough to
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protect people what more could they do. i think there's very clever bunch of people there must be ways of dealing with the use of filtering out threats and certainly as far as we're concerned you can decide not to take notifications on twitter from people who don't follow who don't follow you or popes who haven't verified their image of us i think this is the only good thing in banning you know just killing off millions actually millions of votes but that's a little bit too little too late i would think they need to sort of freshness all of the met they're clever enough to work out when something is abusive but they possibly don't want to because it's all about numbers and if you start banning people they're saying it's one speech but free speech is not hate speech is not abuse that speech so i think there's a line to be drawn and somebody needs to stand up and be stronger about this it's just not good enough to let the hate speech continue top tips from sarah llewellyn social media consultant and former genesis of great to talk to say thanks and use
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it just like you and just building on what sarah mentioned briefly earlier the idea of disconnecting from social media for all of us not just journals this is a great watch it's an edition of al-jazeera correspondent with phil avail checks into a digital detox clinic and tries to adjust to life without his smartphone and his tab and his computer and he learns about what too much digital connection is really doing to us check out the pictures down here when he goes to the detox camp hang on i get that that doesn't make you want to watch it i don't know what will out of their correspondent my digital addiction in the documentary section at al-jazeera dot com. now ethiopia's youth started a movement which led to a change of guard earlier this year and now the new prime minister ahmed has launched a series of measures to calm ethnic tensions and push economic growth but by enough to win over ethiopia is youth how to donate funds are. when a group of young men started protesting here against the location of us school playground told private developer little did they know all the while starting
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a movement that the ventura led to a change of leadership of the days of protest in the small town dudes in other parts of all media neighboring i'm hotter region become protesting for political rights university student up this was one of the first to protest in. you know better than either but i mean. it's a sieve everyone else listen for a creed are the planned expansion of and a city which would take only land from many from us put one of the perfect grievance parady upon and then we started calling for more freedoms. hundreds of people were killed during two years of protests from two thousand and fifteen tens of thousands was arrested. as one of the protesters at the literalist from prison is just the muttering about was tortured in prison they would heed to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was a lot tensions among the four parties in the early coalition on how to deal with
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the protest led to that is english and of the then prime minister i limit him to selling. after weeks of closed door negotiations forty two year old former army officer abi ahmed was elected prime minister by coalition members. the new prime ministers from the ethnic group his elevation loadout intended as an olive branch to the restive or more region. during the protest the people of this region and what they call the historical my generalization of the people emphasizing how they have been pushed to the margins of mainstream midfield here three months after one of their own was elected to lead the country some here are still uncertain whether the presence the new deal there why dictating. we consider him just a pin i'm not a curate what pm the future depends on the next election is on whether they are free and fair since taking office in approve the new prime minister has hit the
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ground running promising widespread economic and political reforms and ordered the release of political prisoners in their thousands the prime minister fully believes on love unity as well as forgiveness saw. everybody resign. every issue is we need through an ism all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of calming the uncle of ethiopia's young people and there are many of them in the population of one hundred million who complained they are politically and economically marginalized he will have to deal with hints of discontent within the ruling coalition whose one hundred eighty council members are far from unanimously behind him. i'll just zero in jeannie tupas or you. know we use the phrase social media influence sometimes and i admit that can sound a bit vague some would argue it's not
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a real job but there is no doubt when you've got millions of followers on whatever plot platform it is your words and your thoughts do have the power to influence and to cause controversy and sorrow has got one such story for us now from kuwait have been fact the beauty and fashion blogger sundress of qatar has two point three million followers on instagram and all the other social media platforms and is facing a huge backlash over her posts this one particular which is this video she filmed of her complaining about changes being made creates kafala system which is also sponsors system it now gives migrant workers the right to days off and keep control of their own possible it's rather than having to hand it over to their boss now these changes have come in place after a number of controversial instance well went viral and has human rights groups and governments up in arms and the come of it really broke the straws by cause when a video last year went viral showing the horrific treatment of
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a kuwaiti to have made it shows in a few opium a dying going from a seventh floor window in equates and her employer filmed her and then posted the fifty on facebook is here to moment says she was trying to escape the use of employees she then fell but luckily lived to tell the tale now another incident earlier this year was when a filipino major was murdered by her lebanese employees earlier in the and her body was found in a freezer this incident led to a diplomatic standoff in which philippines president rodriguez a demanding better rights for the two million filipinos in kuwait and temporarily banned citizens from shafting that belong to the people or do them you come home. so. look for money don't you. come home and leave the be here now people following sunday's on social media called her
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a racist and i've actually accuser wanting to have a slave rather than an employee and just to sum up some of those tweets one user says she doesn't want to human being to get a day off she wants to enslave them another person had also added a comment saying why don't you work seven days a week and give your possible to your boss where's your humanity they ask and this was from another user who writes a day off is the minimum she's a huge human being not a machine but also did try and reach i we haven't actually heard back from her but it's important to know that in most gulf countries migrant workers operate on a fallacy and thus a sponsorship system that allows employees to exert ownership over their workers and government data shows that a quarter million filipinos working in quake many are as maids as the third largest population in the gulf the house behind stage arabia and the u.a.e. and estimated ten million filipinos work overseas making them one of the largest populations of foreign workers anyway in the world and the money they send home
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accounts for roughly ten percent of the country's g.d.p. so quite important for the economy there but we'd like to hear from you maybe you know of any stories in your region or area that are very similar i guess and such i mean the hash tag is a janie's grid. cole thanks for that just quickly before we had a break let's you really pleased to hear from us through the well and on the twitter story and you know one of the reasons we spoke to her was because it's not just advice for journalists i think it's good sound advice for all us about thinking about what we parsed on social media how it affects as professionally and personally and as it passive what we want out there about ourselves that's good advice or should probably take some myself. get if you want to get in touch with us once again for the same on facebook live i pass as a story for you now about how over one hundred thousand people in the u.s. could be considered living in slavery and then some us here with sports where donald trump is once again calling for n.f.l. players to be banned from mailing during the national anthem but look at some international weather now.
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egypt is now china's biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo and wanted to see the permits in september one thousand nine hundred five became my friends to egypt many started a small trade is better now successful in business shifting and i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at the time it was small but then it began to expand underage al-jazeera will meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera the nature of news as
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it breaks although thousands of women have reported for other sexual atrocities in south sudan's war rats are going to dish and say this figure is likely much higher with detailed coverage nearly fifty schools took part in the drive. each one on the other like a different i doubt it will supply it's clothing from around the world circle football is still very near the players are very old for that they won't be able to read goals are great people born in the void or the introductory like. it had been a don't need trump three needs great until now. karma how many times you've done
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this story come august never going to go away a whole united states president donald trump has repeatedly used social media to attack and f.l. players especially at politically difficult times the controversy put into one of the biggest stories online last year with millions of tweets using the hash tag taken me and it so up to again after another tweet from trump a calling for players it's to be banned the way it says the n.f.l. national anthem debate is alive and well again come believe it isn't it in contract that players must stand at attention hand on heart the forty million dollar commissioner must now make a stand first time kneeling out a full game seven time meaning out of four season no pay while in may the n.f.l. introduced a new policy that would see team fined if they fail to stand but that is now being contested out of the players' association recently filed a grievance claiming the policy infringes on the player reiss. as you would expect
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of the has once again been a critical response on social media almost all of it centered around trump's recent summit with blood to me putin this one from an american guy which is he's saying he's tweeting which is worth taking and need during the anthem to protest injustice or selling your country out to the mere puton wall of this cartoon of trump kneeling in front of a green in putin was widely retreated also the street offering pay is a different choice a grand bargain the open n.f.l. games with both u.s. and russian national anthems play is a must stand for at least one of them while to have more on this will go we're joined from washington by our correspondent atika and patsy first of all this is not the first time that trump uses the n.f.l. when he's under fire politically. no this is become a thing of
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a pattern actually i mean let's put it bluntly president donald trump had a really bad week he has been pummeled by people in his own party the pundits critics democrats basically saying that he behaved as if he was an assett of the russian government we had a republican congressman a former cia undercover cia operative write in the new york times that he's concerned that president trump has in fact been compromised by a foreign government by the russians so now he latches on to this the dolphins the miami dolphins have come out and said something internal document leaked that was going to find players if they kneel during the anthem that i felt came out and said wait hold on we've got to figure this out we'll do it together is the n.f.l. put everything on hold donald trump saw that and he saw an opportunity to play to his base remember a lot of what is fueling some of trump's base supporters is the race issues in this country and he sees this as a win it has been for his base now you might be wondering why did you bring up the
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commissioner roger goodell's salary well the n.f.l. has reason to be concerned about what president donald trump does they are officially a charity in this country which means they pay very different taxes this is a billion dollar industry and if the president wanted to really put the squeeze on them he could push the us to say that they're fact business not a charity that would have a huge impact on their bottom line but it's interesting point that you made that the commissioners are basically focused on what trump has to say do you think his recent demand will they take that into consideration. well there is a really bad position here because a lot of their fans are white high school educated men and that is the only demographic in this country that still supports donald trump for many they see this as a simple black and white issue pun intended they just see that players kneeling is disrespecting the flag and as the president likes to say the american fighting
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force so there's not going to be a lot of daylight between the president and that core base but the n.f.l. those are many of their fans so what could they do well we saw them try to come up with a bit of a compromise in the past they told their players to stay in the locker room during the national anthem if they wanted to protest if they thought that that was going to appease president trump on an issue that he says clearly seizes igniting his base they were wrong the president continued to hit the n.f.l. after that so they're really in a tough position a lot of their fans don't want to see them do anything the players they think it's a first amendment issue but a big chunk of their fans think it's disrespect so will be interesting to see what they decide to do live from washington thank you very much for that well fowle be back with more but for now back to come up some a thank you so much for that nice to see patti talking sport as well little to the news grids that's how you get in touch with us on twitter facebook and. all for
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