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dr evil face one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war . but i'll miss them from the house of the martyr the resistance will continue until the occupation ends defiant words from a palestinian teenager to she's freed from an israeli jail. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up vote counting begins in cambodia after a vote but it's not expected to trouble the prime minister. i didn't realize how much my. ride home made to me bunning and broken
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more people are fleeing as california wildfires show no response. at a leap in time after sixty years we explore why it's no longer all about being quickest to the moon and back from nasa. and she's unrepentant the palestinian teenager who became a symbol of resistance against israeli occupation has been freed from jail seventeen year old had to me was greeted by a family and supporters after being locked up for nearly eight months she was arrested last year for hitting an israeli soldier who had entered her family's property in the occupied west bank. and the elements them from the house of the martyr the resistance will continue until the occupation ends the female prisoners are all strong and i salute everyone who stood by me and all the prisoners and i.
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call on everyone to attend the press conference later. travel to ramallah to visit the tomb of the former palestinian leader yasser arafat her case is highlighted israel's detention and treatment of palestinian minus let's go live now to what the village of not be solid which is where the to me family lives i was in as andrew symonds is there in the occupied west bank what more do we know that about to meis real essential. well i had to me is beginning to represent something more than just the rights of children who are detained it is ready jails she's being promoted by the palestinians as something of an i call on all of resistance and we're seeing now a growing clamor to get her involved in the holes host of events to be revealed stage by stage you've heard about it you referred to her visit to the grave of yasser arafat's it's possible she will meet president mahmoud abbas as
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a later stage father a well known activist who's done a number of jail terms and self has spoken about his daughter he spoke to al-jazeera ahead of going out for the reunion. i had face changed a middle of the biggest in that then this is a commitment that they see that and this make us look for them this have been because of kemet and media. barons in the wood would like that to be like this strong facing in the me and men i think to have a like i had no must feel but out so what are your outside her home what sort of place is eaten and what does her release mean for the hundreds of other miners detained in israeli jails. well firstly this religious one of resistance no one here would do anything other than resist israeli occupation it's like so many others it has a neighborhood nearby of jewish settlers it also has security forces surrounding it
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with all the necessary paraphernalia including an observation balloon a far as the issue of children in jail goes there are in fact just under three hundred right now in israeli jails under the age of eighteen most of them sixteen upwards but quite a large number of children young eight nine ten years of age and they are all treated as criminal offenders even if they're just in for a term of detention while something is investigated this is the cause of that is of uppermost in the minds of n.g.o.s like this one. child activist i believe that. they related so i look to hear through this for the others the men an activist. see had a problem that i saw that is from one person to another but. for
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sure she is victim and the from other people could be here. so what happens to ahmed to me now she's planning to give a press conference later. that's right she's going to really set out what she thinks what she's experienced interesting to see what. is put to her in the way of questions because everyone has a very view on this certainly mainline palestinian activists see her as an icon however the israelis would see her as really symbolizing the enemy the images the battle of images going on in this conflict is profound the images filmed by her mother of her resisting the soldier send one message to palestinians and possibly the outside world but to israel as was her defying authority when the authority was not in fact reacting to her slapping the
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face of a soldier but actually showing some level of restraint so differing images differing views but certainly she has a long way to go yet this is not the end of this affair is probably just the beginning after many thanks indeed i was here is andrew symonds there live in the occupied west bank iraq's prime minister has suspended the country's electricity minister a power crisis that spurred on weeks of protests on a body has imposed curfews and cut off internet access in several cities as unrest continues to spread across the south of the country more than a dozen protesters have been killed in confrontations with security forces since the protests began. polls open in mali for voters to choose a new president there are twenty four candidates including the cumberland ibrahim boubacar cater an opposition leader sue maybe you see say security is a major concern of photos let's go live now to the capital bamako and our
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correspondent mohammed vile the race mohammed is being described as a very tight one why and what's the likelihood of any real democratic change after the vote. yes adrian we have just spoken to some of the people who voted yes and we asked them why are you coming here to vote they all of them told us we are voting for peace that's very significant here in mali it's the key word now in mali people have been fed up this is what they have been telling us they have been fed up and the world they want to know more of the situation that is going on now they are against this the status quo and they say that the incumbent president if i were talking to has miserably failed in stabilizing the country remember that attacks have increased more than ever before since the civil war of two thousand and twelve hundreds have been killed on mass graves found in the central regions of mali so peace is the key word as i said and people here came to
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try to change the government even though there isn't a viable is the incumbent president and that means in some countries the possibility to use the state funds state influence to stay in power however we have seen also the opposition leader so my dismissing gaining some momentum during the last few weeks particularly during he said he said electoral campaign and people here predicting that's probably there will be a surprise when the opposition leader wins this vote it's never happened in a while you know sitting president in the history of mali has been dislodged from power by an opposition leader or a rival in any election if it happens this time around many mollies probably those of close to the count situation will celebrate. many thanks have a have a doll that lives in mali's capital bamako. vote counting is underway out of cambodia's general election with the ruling party already predicting a landslide victory for prime minister hun sen human rights groups of call the poll
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a sham the main opposition was dissolved and its leaders jailed or exiled more than eight million people registered to cast registered to vote in the election wayne hay reports now from phnom penh this could have been a day of political change for cambodia instead voters lined up knowing there was little chance of that the choice was vote for a continuation of prime minister hussein's thirty three year rule back one of nineteen small opposition parties most of which can't be called truly independent or stay away. but that i came to vote because it's my right and my obligation every five years i want to see my country develop more at this polling station in the capital phnom penh came so car was still on the voter list he's the leader of the band cambodian national rescue party which called for people to boycott the votes this is where i would have cast his vote if he were not in jail awaiting
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trial on treason charges this could have been a day of big celebrations for him and his party given they almost won the last election five years ago the assumption is they became too popular so had to be removed by a government determined to stay in power see an r.p. is desirable. it is and our party so we don't want to raise about this matter we wondered what cambodia can do for the future of democracy. across town the prime minister voted early in an election that's been dismissed as illegitimate by many even longtime supporter japan refused to send election monitors. among cambodians choosing to stay away was conveyed at who want to seat in local elections last year only to lose it when his party was dissolved he now drives for a living and hopes one day he can reenter politics. i will never give up and i strongly hope that in the future my party can be revived through cambodians voting
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for it and i believe that come bowden's will provide justice for the c.n.n. r.p. with fingers stained purple for those who voted there will be no hiding for those who didn't and may now fear repercussions the government including the prime minister try to intimidate people into voting even though it's optional another sign say critics of his increasingly all thora tyrian rule that seems set to continue when hey al-jazeera phnom penh emergency teams from thailand are helping the military in neighboring laos to rescue people trapped by the dam collapse five days ago boats and helicopters are being used to find one hundred thirty one people who are still missing flooding from the dam has devastated infrastructure and as a pope province delaying efforts to bring food and water to survivors. two days of torrential monsoon rain in india's most populous states has caused the deaths of nearly sixty people landslides in it was a pradesh have destroyed hundreds of homes and large areas of the state of flooded
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paul china g.m. reports. seemingly endless to rental rains have flooded streets and the de lucia in the northern state of which are project has triggered landslides delays we've recorded dozens of injuries and deaths since friday night a large number of houses have also been damaged animals have been reported dead. six members of one family including children were killed when their home collapsed and home of the famous taj mahal rescue operations are underway and emergency crews are trying to clear roads and provide relief. all of our civil servants are in the field visiting those affected keeping an eye on the situation we are working together with residents and local officials using flood pumps to remove some of the water and doing whatever is possible. the monsoon rains between july and september provide much needed water for farmers across india but the annual rainy season is
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also responsible for the loss of life and property weather forecasters say more days of heavy rain are on the way. and we'll get a weather update thanks to zero then a popular tourist holiday in tunisia is hit by an earthquake will have the latest casualties. catholic priests join the call from nicaragua's president to step down . big shots been showing up again. there but they all they're concentrating rather. more in sumatra than anywhere else i've got a figure for you hundred fifty six in which is better with that they say they are rare but they're becoming more and more free with it might be as far south as per dying singapore you might see and if you're in indonesia chances are you probably
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won't but they are still trying to comfort assess the concentration raise still further north thailand cambodia recently have all seen some pretty heavy downpours let's drop the other season another windy front as blowing through the southeast corner and still raining in tasmania and probably the rain starts again in adelaide as the next systems on its way through the forecast for monday's increasing cloud forty deadly twelve in melbourne five for most the rest of australia sixteen you'll notice in perth the clouds and rain both concentrate just on the coast south of adelaide the time we get to choose to and of course all that goes across tasmania heads towards new zealand you have one day of fine weather i suspect the sun's i know clint not a breath of air ten degrees in christchurch and then this cloud in the green which represents rain closed in on both islands from the west for an increasingly wet tuesday.
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in the deprived villages of northern argentina there's one man with a solution to every problem. for engineer a self-proclaimed inventor fernando and he's crossed a ninety four to seven ford truck no child into small village too far in his latest mission he constructed much needed for generator the drums and file board if you find a latin america driving change on al-jazeera. again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera palestinian teenager had to be me who
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became a symbol of resistance against israeli occupation has been released from prison she spent nearly eight months in jail for hitting an israeli soldier family's home in the occupied west bank. vote counting is underway after cambodia's general election promise to one side is expected to stay in power after the main opposition was dissolved his critics of branded the vote a sham. and polls are open in mali where people are choosing a new president there are twenty four candidates including the company president abraham and the opposition leader some a c. say security though is a major concern after dozens of people were killed over the past week. entire neighborhoods have been destroyed in northern california by boats being described as flaming tornadoes at least five people including two young children and their great grandmother have been killed in the fire as police say that seventeen people missing in the city of reading kristen salumi reports. smoldering scenes of
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devastation after wildfires blaze through shasta county in northern california the fast moving flames leveled entire neighborhoods claiming two lives and some five hundred structures i want to give the word a caution to folks here that if they do receive a call one time if they're on a home phone or a cell phone or they see something on social media that if they have an evacuation at their house or that zone i would like them to leave this fire is very unpredictable and we have seen it overrun neighborhoods fierce winds whipped up at least two flaming tornadoes that toppled trees and shook the ground residents say it was unlike anything they'd seen before it was a big swirl it was like it was just just like in oklahoma issue like on the wizard of oz then also you just seen boy was like a wall flames and then there are sheets of metal flying around like two hundred feet near the fast moving fire is still largely uncontained at times firefighters
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had to switch from defending property to helping people escape some thirty seven thousand people have been ordered out of harm's way the fires created real close to some residences up here the unstoppable flames even jump the sacramento river is just crazy it's just out of control while in southern california another fire is putting people and property at risk. they didn't realize how much my. buy homes make to me yosemite national park is close to true respects to yet another fire in central california looking likely to make this a fire season for the record books the wildfire aspect has intensified over the years so we need to experience more and more damage the wildfires it's like throwing gas in. these type of fires they wrapped in a spread so fast explosive and deadly and with more high temperatures and mohammed he expected in coming days not likely to end soon kristen salumi al jazeera.
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internees is government is urging everyone on the island of lombok to stay calm after an earthquake killed at least fourteen people and injured many more the magnitude six point four travel damaged hundreds of homes and triggered landslides small one hundred aftershocks have been felt causing more panic on both lombok and neighboring bali where it is peak tourist season which is a step vast in reports from jakarta of course we have many earthquakes in indonesia also in lombok very regularly there are earthquakes but six point four is i have you one so it was actually even found on our islands as well on the neighboring island of bali where a lot of tourists are at the moment many ran out of their hotels went to the street went to the beaches to wait for safety but in the last couple of hours more than one hundred aftershocks shocks have been recorded so still quite some some nervousness there in the bali and lombok to see this aftershocks will be finished
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a lot of people of course have been rushed to the hospital immediately after the earthquake a lot of people have been they were under all these the breeze that came down when their houses collapsed so the situation is pretty severe that the damage is pretty severe especially in the north and east side of. the saudi u.a.e. led coalition has renewed its airstrikes on yemen's main port city of her data it follows a who's the attack on saudi vessels in the red sea after what's thought to have been a drone strike on abu dhabi's international airport who the rebels say that saudi and amorality jets of launched dozens of strikes across yemen the country's been locked in a civil war between the between its internationally backed government and the who these for more than three years now. hundreds of syrian refugees have begun to return home from lebanon as part of a russian brokered plan three buses took refugees back to syria through the must
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now border crossing around thirty buses have been deployed to transport them lebanon's president michel aoun says the russian initiative aims to return in total nearly nine hundred thousand syrians. the un's special coordinator for middle east peace is in cairo for talks on preventing an escalation of violence in gaza palestinians have been protesting every friday since march to call on israel to lift the blockade israeli soldiers responded with gunfire killing at least one hundred fifty people shall stretford reports now from gaza. recent weeks have seen the worst escalation of violence between israel and hamas since the two thousand and fourteen war on gaza israel targeted hamas' military bases after an israeli soldier was shot dead by a palestinian sniper on july the twentieth. abbas responded by firing rockets towards israel most of which were intercepted by israel's iron dome defense system
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. another three palestinians including a twelve year old boy who shot dead on friday during protests at the gaza border fence. the u.n. special coordinator for middle east peace nicole i'm ludden office seen here in gaza earlier this month is leading efforts along with the egyptian government for a last thing ceasefire. hamas says it doesn't want war i mean if the holic rules of . efforts are ongoing and we haven't reached a dead end yet the palestinians have a right to protest the israelis are the aggressors and the resistance has a right to defend and recently ate to calm the situation the siege should be completely lifted without delay. there are thirteen different groups in gaza islamic jihad is the second most powerful they disagree with hamas about any future reconciliation with the palestinian authority dominated by the rival fatah party but like all factions islamic jihad say they will defend the protesters. a
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shovelful of in the end today the palestinian people incapacitated have tried to use all means to break the siege and failed so now they using weekly protests these israeli soldiers are not snipers they are killers hiding behind their uniforms they have killed our children and elderly people. these really government has been under increasing pressure from some politicians the urging a large scale military operation against hamas and the various dollar factions in gaza after the fires started by incendiary carrying balloons and kites burnt crops and learned palestinian protesters have launched far fewer of the balloons carrying burning rags in recent days mediation efforts led by the united nations middle east peace envoy in egypt continue on the standoff between hamas and israel goes on but both sides know that any provocation risks another war at al-jazeera gaza.
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thousands of people including priests of marched peacefully and nicaragua's capital against president take as government they're angry at the second of doctors and nurses in two cities medical workers say that it was in retaliation for treating people injured in anti-government protests human rights groups say that more than four hundred forty people have been killed since the unrest began in april last in america reports from the bank well. it's been three months since antigovernment protests began here in nicaragua and as you can see they show no sign of abating this particular march has been called to show support for nicaragua's catholic church which originally had been requested by the government and by the opposition to barter a peace negotiations at the end of a dialogue but right now the government is calling them cool mongers earlier this month catholic church leaders were attacked by pro-government mobs and the peace talks that they were mediating were called off. this march is also called to show
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support for more than thirty five doctors nurses and other medical personnel who were sacked on friday for showing their opposition to the government and for giving first aid to many who have been shot by police and paramilitary groups during the protests that. this family is carrying the photo of their year old son taylor who shot dead but what they say was a paramilitary bullets last month as they were walking down the street. i am on i have never taken part in any antigovernment protests before but now i will not stop until this government is out and we see justice. in the last two weeks the government has succeeded in clearing the streets of barricades most student leaders have gone underground but not this young woman nicknamed commander much was almost reached rock star status among government opponents man i've been given the honor to represent the youth. and we're not afraid. so far this march has transpired
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peacefully and there are no signs of the police while president daniel ortega is sounding more determined than ever not to resign or bring forward presidential elections as people here are demanding many former sandinista revolutionaries like who do not base are optimistic that his days are numbered and that little. daniel is defeated strategically defeated he can no longer stay in power indefinitely he's lost the streets and these people the only question is when will it fall without it right at the on the margins that ended in front of me and i was cathedral here a priest has just addressed the crowd appealing to nicaraguans not to be quote tempted by violence he is referring of course to the use of mob violence by some government opponents during the last three months in which an estimated four hundred people died in a sexual harassment scandal at the u.s. broadcast a c.b.s.
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has caused its share price to fall after the new york magazine published allegations from six women against chief executive lez moonves the sixty eight year old admits that he may have made women uncomfortable in the past but always respected the principle but no means though the organization to put men on the moon has turned sixty years old nasa has celebrated triumphs and experience tragedies in the race to space returns he takes a look about what the future may hold for the u.s. space agency. when president eisenhower signed the bill creating nasa there were fears in washington that the u.s. was being left behind by the soviet union space exploration has always been a matter of geopolitical prestige for the us will be here well we are behind and will be behind for some time in manned flight but we do not intend to stay behind but national politics have been key too and one reason why i can hear it long term
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plan for nasa has been impossible for example george w. bush directed massa to return to the moon only to have president obama scrap of those plans and direct master to land on asteroids with a long term goal now donald trump has ordered nasa back to the moon this time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to mars just look at our political leaders keep moving the goalposts around changing destinations from asteroids and war. i mean these are long term horizon goals are going to take decades to achieve a lot of. how like one goal the plan is for us astronauts to be back on the moon by the mid twenty twenty s but timeframes keep being pushed back and it should be noted that the us count even ferry astronauts to the international space station that loaned the moon nasa has been reliant on russian spacecraft since the space shuttle was discontinued president obama pushed private public partnerships with
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boeing and space x. to create u.s. space craft but they're well behind schedule that may mean no u.s. presence at all on the i assess for a time and liftoff of the space shuttle just u.s. priorities shift for human space travel but that represents just one of four areas of activity for nasa the other aeronautics sons and space technology here innovation continues with unmanned space travel satellites and space telescopes nasa isn't just studying outer space but the earth to the president and when donald trump named climate change denier jim brandon stein as mass administrator there were fears that earth sciences would suffer but remarkably up to six weeks in the drug brighton stein converted i don't deny the consensus. that the climate is changing and i thoroughly believe and know that the climate is changing i also know that we human beings are contributing to it in a major way this year congress passed the highest budget for nasa since two thousand and nine rejecting the trumpet ministrations attempts at cuts so even as
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uncertainty and delay characterize nasa is human missions into space for the moment at least the agency's urgent investigations into the state of our own planet are secure shihab rattansi. it is good to have you with us adrian sitting in here in doha the top stories this hour an al-jazeera palestinian teenager i had to me who became a symbol of resistance against israeli occupation has been released from prison she spent eight months in jail for hitting an israeli soldier who waited a family's home in the occupied west bank a video of the incident was streamed online and went viral. from the house of the martyr the resistance will continue until the occupation and the female prisoners are all strong and i salute everyone who stood by me and all the prisoners and i call on everyone to attend the press conference later to me is now travels to
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ramallah to visit the tomb of the former palestinian leader yasser arafat's cases highlighted israel's to tension and treatment of palestinian minus. polls are open in mali where voters are choosing a new president there are twenty four candidates sync looting incumbent president abraham. and opposition leader so may see say security is a major concern for voters after dozens of people were killed over the past week. a vote counting is underway cambodia's general election prime minister one said expected to stay in power after the main opposition was dissolved his critics have branded the vote a sham. indonesia's government is urging everyone on the island of lombok to stay calm after an earthquake killed at least fourteen people and injured many others the magnitude six point four traveled damage hundreds of homes and triggered landslides more than one hundred aftershocks have been felt causing more panic on both logbook and neighboring bali where it's peak tourist season two days of
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torrential monsoon rain in indonesia's most populous state of course the deaths of nearly sixty people landslides in pradesh have destroyed hundreds of homes large areas of the state of the water more rain is forecast iraq's prime minister has suspended his electricity minister after weeks of protest against power outages the other body imposed curfews that cut off internet access in several cities where the demonstrations spread across the country's south. thousands of people including priests marched peacefully and nicaragua's capital against president that it will take as government they're angry at the sacking of doctors and nurses who treated people who were injured in anti-government protests michel's good news for you in a little over twenty five minutes after of you find the last of america. on the atlantic coast of west africa communities are at risk. as rising sea
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