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moments up to the asteroid bodyparts us two not injured children some with limbs missing lie in. it was the was children since humans put escalated in two thousand and fifteen according to unicef. in a cemetery in sa the previous twenty nine child sized graves have been dug but a joint fin role for the children has been ruled out due to security concerns heard on both the fighters say they feel at the gathering would be targeted by strikes. the sodium an article or nation initially did night aiming at civilians and defended the incident as a legitimate military operation our response is sayed to a ballistic missile fired into so did it bia the previous day but i was later the coalition promised an investigation who to fight to say that willing to call preety in an inquiry in condemning the hog on twenty of will tell us the un secretary
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general also called for a swift and in some national investigation into its false would something growing chorus of condemnation is instilling some hope in yemen is that the war in the country is finally getting some attention how about the world visitor djibouti. aid is continuing to arrive to the indonesian island of lombok where three hundred eighty seven people have died after last week's earthquake the air force has delivered nine hundred tons of aid including food medicine tents and blankets almost three hundred ninety thousand people that's about ten percent of lombok population now homeless and displaced. well lebanon is the world's third largest producer of illicit marijuana and now it's preparing to legalize cultivation export the drug for medical use it may take months before there's a vote in parliament but they're hoping this will help revive the flag on a me say no other has more from beirut it's illegal but cannabis is planted
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almost everywhere in lebanon's northern because region in recent years the government stop destroying the crops because it couldn't provide the impoverished population with alternatives now it is considering legalizing cultivation for medical use but some farmers are concerned it could cut profits. the high supply means it's not very cheap so if they don't go lies the cultivation its will have no value we have to go as the trade for twenty years and they were against it and now they want to do this to gain political support from the people who are fed up with the politicians. it's a multimillion dollar industry which an international consulting firm says could help levanon struggling economy it would first have to introduce new seedlings that have medical properties a draft bill has been proposed in parliament proponent say the people of the region
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will benefit. and i propose this will help farmers they have been the victims they can't openly sell it because it's illegal so dealers benefit most by imposing a price on the farmers and selling the product for higher prices and those dealers have political cover if. it's not the first time the idea has been put forward and it may take months before parliament votes on the bill. the farmers say they have little choice but to grow cannabis in order to survive people are poor and there are little economic opportunities they blame the authorities for neglecting their area the livelihoods of tens of thousands depend on this trade which is controlled by the region's powerful families growing cannabis is cheap and alternative crops can't survive the harsh climate here that is one reason why attempts to eradicate the cultivation after the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. failed there are those who believe the government should support this industry. today you have. been all. so it's very important
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for to cultivate such amounts of land where you can get more than forty projects. the best the you can just get it out of that. it's out of that the united nations says lebanon is one of the largest producers and exporters of cannabis in the world politicians now want to cash in on this lucrative underground market but in a country known for corruption some question the government's ability to control and regulate the trade so in a. northern because lebannon. and fell ahead this hour the leaders of spain and germany to discuss their vision of how to accommodate migrants arriving in europe. zimbabwe's supreme court ponders whether to overturn last week's election results. and then as for this dynamic duo are back in training ahead of their season opener
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and the french football league. al of the big shop tensions returned to the caucasus you can see the white cloud here and also turkmenistan the far north of iran if you're really lucky they probably weren't the other one to shasta potentially around the caspian but i think iran is going to go towards tashkent and be on the amati to find decent rain is still there in the far north of pakistan little less so in the south but again wouldn't share if you're lucky otherwise the picture is a dry one still a dusty we're on in iraq still about about thirty one mark on the coast of the woods no i'm sure breeze of the east and met now recently the breeze is come out of iraq has brought more humidity with it to cut out the u.a.e. that's like to go back to the dusty size a dusty in eastern side of saudi temperatures rise as
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a result forty for the full cost which is rather hot the mecca the potential for shyness is still there in yemen and of course the saudi if you still blowing in salalah big shots from tropical africa up in the south a useful addition around the eastern cape there's a lot of cloud recently some decent rain and the system is just going offshore as you can see doesn't mean every bone dry they for the next couple of days the still charles the increase in the western cape and get a bit of rain into cape town itself which is sitting there about sixteen at the moment. al-jazeera follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't often have told by the people who live them. a brand new documentary
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series this is year a coming soon on al-jazeera. a new village commit to lisbon. and is grappling with the obvious tosca sustaining a community but the residents of this chinese village have grown impatient and have one concern inside. the reclamation of the land. democracy is complicated. hot to live a six part series five years. china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. ban. land.
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again here's a reminder for top stories knowledge is there are thousands of people have been protesting against israel's controversial nation state law a law officially affirms israel's jewish character but critics believe it makes non jewish minorities second class citizens. the u.n. special envoy to talks between warring parties next month will focus on disarmament international criticism has been growing over an airstrike by the saudi ever ought to coalition which had a box full of school children in the northern province. no one says the u.s. has turned its back on turkey after president donald trump announced that he was doubling tariffs on steel and alimony a move deep in turkey's economic crisis as its currency hits an all time low. german chancellor angela merkel says no european union member can dodge the challenge migration poses she made those comments while meeting spain's prime
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minister petro sanches as a migrant exchange deal between the two countries comes into effect sania gago has the details. the city in southern spain may be an absolute cation to european leaders to partner up over a divisive issue migration agreement the german chancellor hopes will help quell the argument over the refugee crisis with the help of fellow member european union countries. just a few kilometers from the african coast similar to multiple sicily so this is a challenge we must cope with together and no country can dodge this time. the aim to stop refugees and migrants using the border free schengen zone to travel to germany a country that has taken in already more than a million asylum seekers since two thousand and fifteen those who are already registered in spain will be refused entry at the german border and deported within
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forty eight hours. we want the solidarity of the e.u. and its members with this migration challenge that we are facing in our country but you also accept our responsibility regarding the control of secondary movements that are affecting in this case germany. if this bilateral agreement sounds familiar that's because it is it's based on the existing dublin agreement that was suspended by mrs buckland twenty fifteen as a result of the refugee problems that year the german government has portrayed the deal as a breakthrough in the current immigration crisis a similar pact is also being made with greece and there was never any doubt that this agreement with spain would go ahead as spain has recently become the new preferred route for asylum seekers attempting to reach europe and there are fears that it will be yet another transit point for migrants to reach germany germany is also working with italy to agree a similar deal a challenge given the immigration stance from politicians now in its government so
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a diagonal al-jazeera. anti-government protesters are rallying for a second day in romania after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence with police on friday and. these are live pictures from bucharest were thousands of people have been protesting in the remaining capital against the ruling social democrats many of the protesters are remaining migrants who have returned home to demonstrate against corruption police have denied that they used excessive force on friday and they used tear gas and water cannon to dismiss the protesters. twenty four years after the end of apartheid south africa's racial divisions are still stark and it still made matters like land rights a burning issue more than two thirds of fur thailand and south africa are owned by only seven percent of the population most of them white farmers now in a direct challenge to the government hundreds of families from an informal
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settlements outside cape town have taken to illegally occupying private land for me the miller has more from stellenbosch. slivers of light shines through the simply furnished home of no one decent she's been living on this land illegally for three weeks there are dozens more roughly built homes dotted across this hill in still and bosh near cape town an area known for its affluent vineyards and estates. it's because of our government that we are here we have asked for lent before but they have not helped us we have to make a lot of norris and fight to get this land here a court is ordered that no moral most can be built and those that have been occupied be destroyed but as night falls people scurry to bring in more building material. is the believe this is our land that was taken from our ancestors even though the current owner bought this land the previous owner stole this land and so now it needs to be returned to us while we are taking the land. according to
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government statistics of africa's white minority population owns more than seventy percent of privately owned farming land under political and public pressure to reform land ownership the ruling african national congress says it will support moves to change the constitution to allow the seizure of land as long as it does not harm the agricultural sector or the economy but it's unclear how this will be done and who will qualify for the land while acknowledging the need for urgent land reform presidents forum up or supposed to be struggling with a balancing act this week while addressing investors he said the government would not allow land grabs and an alkie wanting to calm the fears of the business community but deciding between what land those people need and what investors want may not make everyone happy the government says it plans to seize one hundred and thirty nine farms across south africa before the constitution is changed if
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successful amendments to the constitution could be avoided there are fears seizing land without compensation could. investors violate property rights and hurt food production critics say talk around land exposed creation is a ploy for votes ahead of next year's elections rather than a sincere attempt to reform land ownership and that expectations should be managed meanwhile people here could face eviction as the landowner returns to court in the coming weeks to have them removed from al-jazeera stellenbosch south africa. zimbabwe's supreme court has two weeks to rule on a legal challenge against president. electoral victory the main opposition party insists its leader won last week's vote but my god our supporters say the elections were free and fair or metacity has this report from harare. it's the first time in zimbabwe's history the inauguration of a president has had to be postponed the main opposition leader nelson chamisa filed
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a court application on friday challenging president in a similar election victory the move to stop sunday swearing in ceremony from taking place well basically. the country has to wait until it gets a president and that is dependent upon what the court says and takes a maximum of fourteen days so that means avoidance to it including the international community leaders in the opposition m.d.c. alliance say the evidence they filed in court proves last month's vote the first since robert mugabe was forced to resign as president was rigged they say nelson chamisa won we had an opportunity to the demise of opportunity to do things right. conduct and manage a free fair and credible election which is a very simple task but we have decided that it must not be a simple task by interfering in this a little process election officials deny allegations of voter fixing officials in
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the rulings on it here party say they are not worried about the court challenge they know they were there when. militarists so what's going to happen is going to be thrown out when it's thrown out what are they going to say oh the courts are biased. that's a get out of jail card statement to play which is quite unfortunate again because that will mean don't want to using. the system. western governments and investors will be closely watching to see how independent zimbabwe as you decide he will be this is where the inauguration was supposed to happen the national sports stadium if the constitutional court orders a fresh election that has to take place within sixty days the military is busy hersey for the annual defense forces day celebrations on cheese day a public holiday but everyone here is keen to know how strong the evidence by the opposition is and whether it could change the election result. the economy in iraq semi autonomous kurdish region has been struggling since the
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battle to push out i saw in two thousand and fourteen iraqi kurdistan was once booming with economic growth and there were high hopes for a surge in foreign investment gone i am has this report from. the story of flyer below is one shared by many here creating the first regional airline in northern iraq became a dream deferred. the war to purge ice all grounded the airline then a political dispute with the federal government in baghdad brought more delays in june three years after the airline was registered it began flying passengers from erbil to cities in sweden germany and holland to meet flight had to be and how to. make the name of it is well known internationally so people have more curiosity to visit good distance and it is the safest areas in iraq and the most economy stable . can grow if things are stable construction cranes dot the or appeal
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skyline but there are also shells of buildings scattered throughout the capital of iraq's kurdish region reminders of the grand aspirations. of luxury condominiums shopping malls and businesses yet to be fulfilled there are one point four million people working for the government and public sector in the semi autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq that's more than one fifth of the population employers have seen their salaries cut some months they haven't been paid. this stems from a dispute over oil exports and budget payments between baghdad and the regional government here in two thousand and fourteen the iraqi government stopped providing funds to the region the money pays the salaries of government and public sector employees such as kahar hussein and his wife her teaching salary has been slashed
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in half they say they're owed twelve thousand dollars in unpaid wages and. there is a lot of pressure on us we can't afford any vacations we can only afford food and hope to survive every month and every year this year the federal government resumed payments but not at the preacher thousand and fourteen level or maybe country had any percent the hope of the people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they all connected to the economic problems hussein says year after year they keep hearing the economy is improving.

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