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daughter of protections grow the dog a body becomes a reality counting the cost of al-jazeera. pakistani political groups reject the election results or see him run khan on course to victory. hello there and you want all of this is a live from london also coming up two palestinians including a fourteen year old are killed us both sets continue on the gaza israel border the search for those missing out to the lives dam disaster goes on the survivors ask why help took so long to come. and it's a p.r. disaster for iceland the images that have prompted a renewed call from
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a complete ban on whaling. we begin in pakistan where the off position multi parties conference has rejected the results of wednesday's election a promise to rally for a new vote earlier the ruling party officially conceded defeat except saying that former cricketer turned politician in wrong khan will be the country's next prime minister well this is how the results stand so far khan's pakistan tehreek e insaf or p.t.i. party is leading with one hundred sixteen seats his closest rival the ruling pm el and of jailed former leader no i sharif has managed to get sixty three seats the policy of the assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto the p.p.p. has got forty three of the smaller parties combined forty five seats but to form a government khan needs coalition partners to get a majority of one hundred and thirty seven seats. in
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a slum for us hi there kemal so all those opposition figures of just been speaking what have they been saying. what did happen days the opposition meeting was called by that. all of that it. should be remembered that he had been defeated along with many of the big. stranglehold on pakistani soil or day to day of course are angry and they warned. that day going to appeal to all of the parties go join their agitation where there should be a reelection rejecting the. war that the people of pakistan have cost and. mean that they have serious implications. so far i have also been able to speak to. p.p.p.
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needed that in the progress on people's party a party which they believe in parliamentary politic they do believe in democracy and although they have been allegations against them they are saying that they are . the opposition parties. that religious right and of course the. national party they're the nationalists. and they have suffered a humiliating defeat the question now is what's going to happen next you only come out what then are the implications of this as a whole going forward. it doesn't all go. on because the country is in an economic crisis and now you have guards. over fifty percent of pakistanis that. means that over fifty
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million people have most of them are young people who warned opportunity to in a country where they have seen leadership they have seen lack of opportunities for the young and the young people who have come. did the ones who have voted in this election that women have come out of their homes toward the nation. that people like concerned they. should be there for them and they did that people. this sort of situation would have grave implications for august on it could lead to a civil war like situation. so far shutting down like karachi like something was done nationally. so the next few days we will see what sort of agitation to put together. they're going to put pressure on iran but one thing also clear that emraan khan had
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a very strong vision and if the people. i mean. then perhaps they can read the storm otherwise the country could be heading for political instability something for them all i did there joining me live from islamabad with the latest. two more palestinians have been killed in the latest friday protests of the gaza israel border in separate incidents a forty three year old man and fourteen year old boy were both shot in the head by israeli soldiers one hundred fifteen people have been injured on hundred fifty one palestinians have not been killed since last fall's has started at the border at the end of march strafford has more from gaza. a lot of tension here in the soft
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anew in this the eighteenth week of protests by palestinians the protests today coming on the title of our children hamas every week changes the day the headline if you like all of these protests we've seen a lot of che got fired by the israelis we've also heard what sounds like a lot of live ammunition fired certainly in the last few minutes we understand according to israel that at least nine fields have been burned there blaming those incendiary balloons that palestinian protesters i'll just get out of the way here now so you can film some of this to gas being fired as i say from the drone. understand these two guys these exceptionally strong as well and a number of those injured today have been treated for to gas inhalation the situation as you can see is desperate for these palestinians they have said that they will continue to protest and they have literally been endorsed by hamas hamas
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describes these protests as being peaceful it says that it will defend them with their weapons if israel attacks meanwhile the language from israel still very strong the defense minister lieberman today saying that if israel is forced to go on red alert with reference to rockets and what it describes as projectiles being fired from gaza then gaza will be having to be put on red alert also. an internal israeli military report is expected to find no grounds for a further investigation into those recent killings palestinian protesters by army snipers along the border fence in gaza israeli media is reporting the army will law professor any soul just in the military police over there conduct reports say the militia is blaming operational mishaps for the death of anyone who was not an intended target. again so they are some mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem
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have been wheel and calls for three hours following clashes with palestinian warship purse. will stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse crowds have gathered for friday prayers all entry into the mosque which is one of his mom's holiest sites was banned under simmons is outside the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem. this is one of the main approaches to the al aqsa mosque compound and it was closed along with four others a five hour standoff with the security forces in which they actually surrounded this entire area with barricades and when they were lifted this was the scene right here so many protesters who've been praying outside the mosque here to protest also and try to get past the cauldron is being managed by the israeli police it was a negotiated end to what had been a very tense atmosphere inside the compound there had been an attack because it was
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described by the custodian as all of this mosque complex that's wax on behalf of the jordanians they said it had been an invasion by the israeli security forces however it's a pretty forces were accusing some people of throwing rocks and throwing fireworks and that was the reason why backup was called and so many security forces opened fire or with sound grenades and also some tear gas at one point and people were told to evacuate evacuate the building evacuate the whole complex but many refuse not lead to a situation whereby four gates were locked stopping people from getting in or getting out and there were twenty arrests of youths inside the complex it was a symbolic situation that upset so many power. because of the israelis asserting
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what they see as their will thoughts on this situation however the situation now appears to be a very tense atmosphere but nevertheless the rights to pray or book said to you a coalition aircraft of launched air strikes on the yemeni city of whole data or who data holds a strategically important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the countries food aid well those coalition strikes are in response to an attack on abu dhabi airport on thursday which has been claimed by humans who see weapons andrus craig is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college in london and he says the movie's claim is difficult to believe. if you look through social media if you look through the evidence that's out there so whatever the who these provide have provided as evidence cannot is fake basically these are photoshop images which you know have nothing to do with the reality. and in an equally the the usa you haven't done enough to provide evidence that it did not
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happen or provide an explanation that someone logically incredibly explains the disruption of flights yesterday and the thing is here that the country that were known for falls information and a country that really is very secretive about what's going on in their country and they have quite a good control over social media domestically so leaks are very very difficult to come by so both sides have a long track record of not telling the truth so very difficult to ascertain who is right. but there is no causal link between a disruption in abu dhabi and the claim of the who these particular when we look at the technological ability of the who these at the moment when it comes to the drone capability the distance between you know a potential control center of the who these in yemen to the airport is around thirteen to fifteen hundred kilometers depending on where you measure the sum of three if you look at it is quite an extensive drone this is not a small toy there's not a quite as we might know it so having such
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a huge vehicle penetrating the airspace quite deeply and then thinking that the air defense system wouldn't issue a warning and pick it up before it actually reaches a critical infrastructure such as i would be able it seems to be very very unlikely . the number of dead from monday's dam collapse in lives has risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred missing as water levels recede villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner flora's the census this report from stung train province in neighboring town. as water levels begin to recede people start to return to their homes to clean up to repair to salvage what they can monday's collapse of a newly built hydroelectric dam in province in southern laos flooded villages and farmland in both laos and neighboring cambodia the scale of the disaster remains unclear information from state media in this remote part of laos has been sketchy and sometimes inconsistent many survivors tell
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a consistent story however water levels rose so fast they never experienced anything like it. a little i felt so desperate when i saw the sight of the water i thought i might die the water was rising and rising and everything in the house was all washed away the search for the missing continues the lao army and teams of international experts are helping to look for survivors who know i'm looking for my brothers i'm worried about them and five thousand people in neighboring cambodia have been evacuated from their homes the water level in the sacred river remains high but it appears to have peaked here in still trying providence it's about twelve point four meters roughly the same as twenty four hours earlier the cambodian ministry of water resources and meteorology expects water levels to fall on saturday as water levels recede in places villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner and there are conflicting reports on when cracks in
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the dam were first spotted florence al-jazeera trying province cambodia. still to come here on a look at what the reporting of china's fax and scandal tells us about the government's changes in the u.s. social media. and could more have been done to stop this quick time being ravished by far and to save the lives of those killed. under the sun been blazing down again the wind directions brought dust to many sides of the iraqi planes as a result it just gets hot you don't see much profitable a great day which has nothing to stop the ferocity of the run about the fifty mark not far away from kuwait just up into the southwest of iran and the middle of iraq baghdad's four crosses
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a mere forty two very far away and you get to forty eight quite happily for the west coast levant twenty nine in beirut very pleasant and the breeze has been quite dusty running does he go for recently the eastern side of saudi and bahrain has dusty skies in qatar as well the breeze is dying little bit the temp has also dropped forty one but i would be under hostile middle forty's in the middle of oman and still there you don't associate the cloud is bringing drizzle claudel for easily daily to salalah beautiful green part of the world at this time of the year running to the biggest tauriel parts of africa to the dry winter months just recently they haven't been there's been some more rain in cape town it's gone from the western cape a long way east even touching durban now the forecast sees no more than a cloud and a fairly warm sixteen in cape town. on
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the atlantic coast of west africa communities are at risk. as rising sea levels and a manmade disaster of threatening people's lives on land and at sea. al-jazeera world expose the impact of climate change and a catastrophic human era. on senegal sinking villages. mind of our current top stories here on out is iraq pakistan's opposition multi policies conference has rejected the results and when you see the action promised
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to rally for a new vote to more palestinians have been killed in the latest fighting fontes of the gaza israel border in separate incidents a forty three year old man and a fourteen year old boy were both shot and led by israeli soldiers citing a coalition aircraft have launched air strikes on the yemeni port city of data main entry point for most of the country's. iraq's top shiite cleric has demanded that a government be formed a soon as possible to deal with corruption and poor basic services grand ayatollah ali sistani call eccles the demand of protesters across iraq demonstrations started in the oil rich city of basra in the side thousands of protesters there say the government is neglecting the region while exploiting its resources politicians are struggling to form a government after the election in may which was marred by. among com has more now from baghdad. protests in iraq a failed to materialize in the collings of numbers that we've seen in recent weeks
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in basra and here in baghdad also that despite a campaign a very active campaign on social media trying to encourage people to come out in the streets now why is that it's likely to be because the protesters demands have been listened to by the government the government has struck deals with its neighbor kuwait to supply electricity generators and kerosene to fuel those generators saying that will supply electricity for at least seventeen hours a day in the south and you'll remember the. these protests were sparked when iran says it wasn't paid a billion and a half dollars in electricity bills by iraq and cut off the supply to the south and now the protests didn't blame iran for that they said this was government incompetence government corruption and simply that the government wasn't functioning now also on friday we had the halt by the sermon given by the spokesman of the high shia religious or forty now he's throwing his weight behind the protest movement he says that the government must be expedited the his words and it must be
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formed immediately and it needs to take into consideration all of the protesters demands now the reason for that is that the shia clerics here are very worried that the protest movement if it spreads not just in the south but across the country as well that they'll come in for criticism for not backing the protest movement so this will avoid the protest movement as well however it looks it feels like right now that the protest movement is simply waiting and giving the government a chance to meet their demands china's fake baby vaccine scandal has stirred a lively debate on social media despite strict censorship state media it was social report that story but the government swung quickly into action so as government decision making increasingly being led by social media china correspondent adrian brown reports china's social media users were unusually energized this week it's one of the few ways people here can let off steam the hash tag chunk chunk of
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vaccine case was viewed more than four hundred and seventy million times chung chung is the name of the company that sold fake vaccines that were administered to more than two hundred and fifty thousand children. food is involved in a project that tracks censorship on china's social media he's based across the border in semi autonomous hong kong where laws governing freedom of speech are more relaxed in the vaccine scandal fu says the government is monitoring rather than listening in one way the government. morning or the public at the same kind of different. media as well as the propaganda machine you tried to we at the rock two different comment in the in the public eye also on social media the vaccine scandal was being discussed on social media days before
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state controlled media were allowed to report on it that only began to happen after china's premier league could chung issued a statement just before midnight last sunday just five days earlier the premier had spoken out after another health issue had stirred debate on social media. it was prompted by a new film based on the true story about a cancer survivor who illegally imports drugs from india to help other sufferers who can't afford them. it's not clear if the premier saw the film but he called on the government to do more to help cancer patients. the two cases have struck a chord with the public. i believe what we say online play a big role in what the government does what people say on the internet as powerful . we're worried what we say will be censored and some of the posts have already been deleted and we don't know why. are the posts deleted by chinese
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census are captured by food and his team they try to work out the various ways users try to disguise their descent it's an endless cyberspace game of cat and mouse adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. association of human rights says more than four hundred people killed an anti government process over the past three months it accuses security forces of detaining opponents of president daniel ortega in secret torture centers america and it's only seen human as the story. it's been one hundred days since the began burying their loved ones killed in a conflict too reminiscent of the country's civil war in the one nine hundred seventy s. this week at least three more people were killed in the northern city of reportedly by pro-government paramilitary forces while in an aga a brazilian medical student sympathetic to student protesters was gunned down by unidentified sale it's. at
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a news conference nicaragua's association of human rights said it had tallied ninety seven killings in the last two weeks alone and four hundred and forty eight deaths since april eighteenth when i walked out. was seen operations outside of the framework of law by armed groups paramilitary and thought this who are carrying out detentions torture terrible selective assassinations as well as writing homes destroying private and public property motivated by political party and ideological fanaticism. human rights leaders tell us that in these one hundred days in the rubble has become a part of the. stage at sea you get the answer everywhere you can see it on the road for example it's only at this hour what beats the traffic but instead if you are to sleep there are lessons to get out before it gets dark. a small group of students nevertheless came out to mark the anniversary of the civil uprising last
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year. we say to the governments that we aren't afraid they say they want peace but they are killing us. president daniel ortega blames the killings on alleged terrorists who want him out his wife and vice president. went further in a radio broadcast this one a little read. they are drug addicts and alcoholics linked to all sorts of delinquency the nicaraguan people that some have taken their own lives so they can blame the government. rights organizations refute the claims and accuse the government of setting up clandestine detention and torture centers. we're seeing monstrous repression with all the perverse methods that the state can resort to jeer in war time even though the country isn't at war and it's using them against its own people president insists that the country is getting back to normal but the rising number of deaths and disappearances of opponents tell
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a different story. you see in human al-jazeera managua good prime minister alexis tsipras says he takes full responsibility for devastating wildfires promising the government will work quickly so improve safety regulations opposition parties accuse the government of not doing enough to save lives and protect people weak officials suspect the fires which killed more than eighty people were caused by arson and they've bought has the latest now from the. officials looking into the causes of the fires now believe that there are serious indications of arson this is prime minister alexis tsipras says early suspicion given the speed of the fires that sprang up both east and west of athens also because they appear to have been started similar taney asli we know that earlier on in the week officials have been using an unmanned drone to fly over the entire area looking for anything suspicious well the layout of the town of monte is also being blamed for making the situation
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here much much worse many of these houses sprang up in the one nine hundred seventy s. eighty's and ninety's with no consideration for escape routes particularly down to the beach where the still a lot of debris here people returning to slowly clean up their own private properties but take a look at this this is what they've got to contend with a telegraph pole completely burnt to a cinder at the bottom resting on the top of a burnt out car very treacherous the people passing here well the search for the missing continues there's no official figures yet but we've spoken to local officials superficial who believe the figure is in triple digits there's also a search going on out at sea a new information of more bodies that have been found at the top of a cliff here of course they are trying to flee to the sea but never made it. activists are pushing to ban whale hunting in iceland industries back under the spotlight after a cross between fin whales and the protected blue whale was killed and also shore
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from posts that clark reports from reykjavik. iceland has much to boast of when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal springs draw tourists in their millions and there's the marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that whales are still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backwards into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but the whaling in iceland show that people is not doesn't have a low buzz they really think to show the world that they are so it's something of a p.r. disaster when photographs like this appear what is suggested to be a highly endangered and protected blue whale killed and brought back to shore for
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processing d.n.a. sampling has since shown the whale was in fact a rare hybrid between a fin well which icelandic whale is do have a quota and the ban on blue whale kristen lawson he runs the company that killed the whale says his whalers acted in good faith their way is working for us they've been doing it for decades and to be sheep you went all the time here and when be approached and receive visibly what i'm going to leave you to look for in which. they went after his one i think on our own there is no question in my mind. nothing else than a finn way when it was taken but turned out to be a hybrid these are images of a fin well being legally processed at the wailing station most of the products are exported to japan the killing of the hybrid well which is banned from export has led to more coolness for the industry to be finally heated in iceland this hunting is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between
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a hybrid bluefin wage and often which they cannot make a distinction that's what they say between the two so you know for that sake they should absolutely stop it so this is workable as to where the ships come in from the ocean with their catch and take it up the fuel to the processing they hunt for about one hundred days a year between june and september and this year they have a quota of one hundred sixty one fin whales it's an activity that has drilling support among so icelanders ten years ago about seventy percent of the population were in favor of whaling today that figure is more like fifty fifty and as tourists seek out whales a line even the wild still there's a pressing issue what to do with several tons of hybrid whale caught up in a freezer with nowhere to go nick clarke al-jazeera reykjavik iceland sky watchers around the world are getting ready for the longest blood woman as it's known the
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eclipse of the twenty first century and the winds are expected to turn a red prime as it rises with a total eclipse lasted for nearly an hour and three courses these part of the eclipse is visible from europe middle east africa australia most of asia and also in size america you can find much more about stories head to al-jazeera dot com. remind of our headlines this hour pakistan's opposition multi parties conference has rejected the results of wednesday's election promise to rally for a new vote early of the ruling party officially conceded defeat accepting the former cricketer turned politician and run khan will be the country's next prime minister two more palestinians have been killed in the latest friday protests at the gaza israel border in separate incidents a forty three year old man and fourteen year old boy were both shot in the head by israeli soldiers hundred fifty one palestinians have now been killed since the week
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the protests began at the end of march charles strafford is at the border i'll just get out of the way here now so you can film some of this tear gas being fired as i say from the drones. will stand these two guys exceptionally strong as well and a number of those injured today have been treated for two guys inhalation the situation as you can see is desperate for these palestinians they have said that they will continue to protest and they have literally been endorsed by hamas hamas describes these protesters be peaceful it says that it will defend them with their weapons if israel attacks the gates of they are scum also a compound in occupied east jerusalem have been reopened. only a stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse worshippers who gathered for friday prayers all entry into the mosque one of his lambs holiest sites was prevented for
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three hours following that violence said the u.a.e. coalition aircraft of launched air strikes on the yemeni city of her data data hostess to teach important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the country's food aid. rescuers in lives searching for more than a hundred people still missing after monday's dam collapse twenty seven people and confirmed dead as water levels recede people are returning to their homes and questioning why they weren't moved to safety earlier there are conflicting reports on when the cracks in the town were first spoke to. those eye or current headlines here up to date i'll be back with a phone news hour in just over twenty five minutes time rag after i dated behind the headlines on inside story hope to have a company that. how
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big a threat is i salute to the syrian regime the young group says if ever that coordinated attacks killing dozens in southern syria as the army backed by russia and iran continues to crush the rebellion by the opposition i still like to talk to this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program eisel fights as of carried out that deadliest attacks for months in southwest syria suicide bombers targeted a vegetable markets a hospital and the public square in the government held city of the way to own
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weapons day of the gunmen raided nearby towns and villages dozens were killed including pro-government fights.

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