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for the rohingya who fled violence in me and more last august life here was supposed to be temporary but in the past twelve months cox's bazaar has become home to the largest refugee settlement in the world now with each passing day the refugees here worry that their existence here may become permanent nowadays signs of construction are everywhere but as the camp grows so does the frustration living conditions have improved and yet they're still very difficult elliot's and his family also fled the violence in iraq and stayed in august two thousand and seventeen and have not going to pull my children are missing their home they always say they want to go back home his daughter sharmeen was born while they were all hiding from the military in a forest in me and more she'll turn one in just a few days eliott says older children long for
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a home they no longer have but for his youngest it's a home he fears she may never know. i'm a gentleman dizzy it at the good you belong refugee camp in cox's bizarre on the dish still ahead analogies era. opposed to zimbabwe's president after a disputed vote. and can pope francis secure the future of ireland's catholic church as it reels from the sex abuse scandal. hello there we've got another weather system that's galloping its way across north america you can see it on the satellite picture is this spiraling mass to gradually edging its way eastwards and pulling plenty of cloud to the south of it as well so
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they have through the next couple of days that is going to be across this lawn where we've got the showers and it's going to remain more or less unsettled and where it is over the next few days so toronto chicago down all the way to arizona that's where we're expecting the heavy thunder showers to the northwest of that should be fine and dry san francisco about eighteen degrees for the southeast it's also largely dry here just a couple of showers if you're unlucky for the central americas though plenty more showers here in fact look at what happens to cuba on the satellite picture there practically the entire island is covered by that huge cloud almost all of us or shower then plenty more showers as we head through the next few days not only for cuba but also for most of us in the central americas really only in the far eastern parts of our map across some of the lesser antilles where they should be broken sunshine as we head through the next couple of days as we head down towards south america so many of us hey it's been quite cool recently and that cool weather is now pushing further north rio still warm for now at thirty on saturday but on
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sunday it's cooler and what. he is a self-proclaimed messenger of god painting millions of devoted but his path to enlightenment involves the rape and abuse of his followers when he used investigates the fall of one of india's most powerful spiritual gurus on al-jazeera on counting the cost crippled by its currency crisis will reach venezuela take desperate measures to deal with its struggling economy plus it has a market value of billions but is yet to turn a four year profit we delve deeper into what's going on at tesla. counting the cost and i guess you know.
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you're watching all just here a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump says china is to blame for the lack of progress on the denuclearization of north korea it's the first time he's acknowledged problems with the outcome of the deal he signed in june with north korea's leader kim jong un he says beijing isn't helping as much as it should be since he launched a trade war against it last month. federal prosecutors in the u.s. have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire vizsla bug has been questioned as part of an investigation linked to michael cohen trumps fall more personal lawyer implicated the president of breaking campaign finance laws. a judge in ecuador suspended some of the entry restrictions for venezuelans manlier this month ecuador announced that venezuelans needed to have a valid passport to get in the court order means the now be allowed in with just that id cards for the next forty five days. somebody as president demo synagogue
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was calling for unity after the country's top court confirmed his disputed election when his main rival nelson chamisa challenge the result saying this july thirtieth election was rigged in favor of man and god what but that's been rejected out of a tussle reports from cutting. supporters from zimbabwe's rulings on a pay party celebrate fight as constitutional court ruling nine judges unanimously said the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has no case the court finds that the applicant has failed to place before you clear direct sufi sharon and credible evidence that is the regularities that he alleges monti the election process materially. existed. you know that there was no
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proof of the happenings of irregularities as a metal fact lawyers representing the opposition m.d.c. alliance believe it wasn't a phase judgement so ultimately they had spoken. the proceedings. to come up with a. but b. is a serious legitimacy issue story. the election board admits it made some clerical data capture areas that. was initial total of votes he won from fifty point eight to fifty point six seven percent they insist this did not change the outcome of the poll according to the constitution the when a has to be sworn in within forty eight hours that means present when god was in operation would be on sunday opposition leaders and says the lesson was reg's and they said we'll carry
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on fighting the course decision is final there is no room for an appeal we are to wait it within the law whatever we are going to do we are going to do these things within the law we are we have convened we are going to convene sort of the national council of the. of the of the party on wednesday and this will come with their way for violence shortly after voting day itself had raised tensions the army shot at protesters who are unhappy with the delay in releasing the results six people were killed the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says his supporters are still being systematically targeted. emerson and gore won by a narrow margin political analysts say he now has a child night a deeply divided country he also needs to turn around some obvious struggling economy but he needs outside help to do that. and democratic republic of congo opposition leaders are being told he can't be
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a candidate in the upcoming. eventually race they are c's election commission says it's rejected his application because he's been convicted by the international criminal court bamber seen as a possible front runner for the job is returned home to take part in the vote after serving a decade in prison for war crimes he can still appeal against the decision ahead of december's election migrants stuck onboard an italian coast guard ship for more than a week are on hunger strike italy and the e.u. disagree about who should take them in the european commission it says it will not buyouts and threats made by italy over one hundred fifty people being held off the coast of sicily it's of the deputy prime minister luigi demolish says he'll withhold twenty three billion dollars of e.u. funds unless other member countries take in the refugees for the first time in almost four decades ahead of the catholic church is visiting ireland pope francis lands in a country that's changed significantly in that time numerous cases of clerical
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sexual abuse have seen the population turn away from organized religion and what was once a bastion of cathal ism the future of the church itself appears to be in question eve barker reports from dublin devoted can flag flies over the irish capital it's thirty nine years since the last papal visit congregation numbers are falling but more than seventy percent of people identify here is catholic. when john paul the second came in one nine hundred seventy nine three quarters of island came out to welcome him since then there's been a massive social revolution divorce contraception gay marriage abortion all predicted by the church and now legal and the church now faces perhaps its biggest challenge in modern times its legacy of child sex abuse survivors want pope francis to take robust action according to church papers thirteen hundred priests have been
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accused of abuse in ireland since one thousand nine hundred eighty five but there have been less than one hundred convictions. i want from the pope i want the pope to start realizing that the church can't continue this charade any longer. vincent he was molested by two priests whilst at school i was abused in one nine hundred sixty nine on and the nine year old boy finishing up then in junior school the first pretty certain i felt who had an interest in prepubescent boys was actually trying to enjoy horses was to try a way can in you your first sexual experience there was an open wound in irish society in nearly every diocese and every corner of the country there were victims of clerical abuse many of them were silenced or ignored for decades these were serious crimes carried out by so-called men and women of god crimes the pope cannot ignore the head of his visit pope francis issued
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a statement to the world's one point two billion catholics asking them to help root out what he described as a culture of death. pope francis has gone further than any other pope in addressing abuse victims wanted to do more to hold the guilty to account and fully disclose what the vatican. colm o'gorman was fourteen years old when he was raped by a roman catholic priest he's now the head of amnesty international development we have to speak to ensure that the vatican is subjected to proper accountability. i'm not the only way we're big we can be confident that we've done everything we can in our power to protect children and memorable adults wherever they may be pope francis is abide across the catholic world as a reformer but can he restore faith in catholicism the biggest risk to the church is future in ireland is the church itself leave barca al-jazeera doublet. a new diplomatic row has broken out between the u.s.
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and pakistan's new government the two countries disagree of what's being said in a phone call between pakistan's prime minister imran khan and u.s. secretary of state my pump aoe washington says it stands behind its earlier statement that pump a zero specifically discussed terrorism islamabad says that didn't happen there are comes ahead of a planned visit by pompei go to islamabad in the first week of september honey we need to understand the desires of the united states and they need to understand ours it is not a unilateral relationship either bilateral ties in a relationship that is bilateral and in which the objective is common you do have to understand each other we will not just understand them but we will also make them understand. and investigation in the u.s. state of arizona has found the border patrol's been under reporting the number of migrant deaths for years that is being used to help identify people who died trying to cross the us mexico border and the gallacher has more from tucson.
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head north we're going to head this site for years alvarado enciso has been scouring the sonoran desert with one goal in mind a colombian born artist wants to expose its secrets by honoring the dead along with a team of volunteers alvarez planted six hundred crosses each represents a life lost on a deadly frontier. when the families see that because there's somebody here that cares in this to sort of give them a little bit of a voice to the casualties to the fallen heroes you know that to me they are fallen heroes to come all the way from there to leave everything behind the to look for a better life here it's it's quite a journey that should be. then aerated in some way alvarez works inspired by arizona's so-called death map it's a joint project between state officials and activists that shows close to three
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thousand people have died in the last fifteen years this does it covers an area of more than a quarter of a million square kilometers in the summertime temperatures exceed one hundred degrees at night it gets very cold and yet those seeking a better life continue to try and cross and they continue to lose their lives what's happening here in the borderlands of arizona is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis you can see we have some of the long bones from the lower extremities and we have portions of the power of us around one in three of those found to go and identified that corner gregory has who helped develop the map wants to change that if somebody is missing and people are looking for them clearly that provide can provide a sense of closure if they are found even if it is kind of tragic but it also provides us a sense of satisfaction to try to answer those questions for families activists say was the number of illegal crossings has fallen migrants are being forced to take bigger risks this is the consequence of paramilitary techniques being used over
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fifteen years of death mapping what we see people are dying closer to the international line and farther from towns and roads we're literally pushing people to their death their sonoran desert has a secret three thousand people have died here two thousand missing over a will continue to plant crosses in the desert but says he doesn't have enough to pay tribute to those who lost their lives and a guy like rogers era tucson arizona. the company that makes the iconic a k forty seven rifle has unveiled what it calls an electric super car the kalashnikov c.v. one is seen as russia's dancer to tesla which makes some of the best selling electric cars in the u.s. its boxy design is inspired by a soviet hatchback car developed in the one nine hundred seventy s. a russian arms firm says the c v one can travel up to three hundred fifty kilometers on a single charge and it says it will be several times faster than current models.
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now is the first time in history that two cities are hosting the asian games jakarta and the southern so much in capital of palembang the events back in indonesia after over five decades and it's expected to bring big economic benefits and rising up the medal table might help the country hold an olympics or a world cup one day school had no reports from jakarta. the people in the country of indonesia are taking these asian games very seriously success at the event on and off the pitch is viewed as a big test do well and bigger things are to come and indonesia has been performing well but they have a high benchmark officials say they want to win it at least sixteen gold medals and make it into the top ten on the overall battle board. it is the athlete who put their first gold on the board. it means a lot because it's the first match in games and this is the first time in the nation got a gold medal i hope and a nation sport can be better and
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a chief more in international world like the olympics i know you. and the fans who come out to watch also feel the gravity of performing well as their country is in the global spotlight it's everything for you to michigan's because we knew that we had been. asked point last weekend and we have many tremendous tragedies and problems. and. this is everything we've been doing from five am to buy a ticket so we're very excited as you can see behind me will be how we cheer for ours. so we have been to. indonesia was brought into the eighteenth asian games late just four years ago after vietnam pulled out as host citing financial concerns the country had to act and act fast with little time for new builds many of the values were adapted or renovated to improve the host team's performance last
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year president signed a presidential decree fast tracking funds to the ministry of sport for athletes salaries and for training. the president has attended a lot of the host matches a good showing at these games is good news for the country from the outside looking in but will also give the president political capital at home. be. the if and presidential election for the incumbent for the existing government it would be a very big on the sets of the will have to do. for the incumbent so the pressure is on for the team to keep those medals coming in for the organizers to keep the games on track and running smoothly it's got harder al-jazeera jakarta. this is all just you know these are the top stories donald trump says china is to blame for
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a lack of progress on the denuclearization of north korea it's the first time he's acknowledged problems with a deal he signed in june with north korea's leader kim jong un he says beijing isn't helping as much as it should be since it launched a trade war against it last month she hard times he's got more from washington d.c. just a few days ago don't trumpet i'm pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters that pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization the missile testing had stopped and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however it has to be said my compares last trip to north korea was a bit of a disaster by many accounts kim drumming even snubbing pump air there was a great deal of pressure for something tangible to come out of this one federal prosecutors in the u.s. have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire allan vassal bags being questioned as part of an investigation linked to michael cohen trumps former personal lawyer on tuesday cohen pleaded guilty to
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breaking campaign finance laws and accused the president of directing them to do so . a judge in ecuador suspended some of the recently imposed entry restrictions for venezuelans fleeing a deepening economic and political crisis earlier this month ecuador announced that venezuelans needed to have a valid passport to get in the court order means they'll now be allowed in with just their id cards for the next forty five days zimbabwe's highest court has upheld the result of last month's presidential election it says there's no proof of voter regularities emerson man and god now really won the vote for the opposition's refused to accept what it called fake results when god was going to be sworn in on sunday ranger refugees living in bangladesh are holding protests to mark one year since a military crackdown forced them to flee from their homes in me in march the un's described the military's attacks on that a hinge as a textbook case of ethnic cleansing more than seven hundred thousand of them in
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camps in bangladesh those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after a one zero one east fife and. it takes discipline and camaraderie. this is not a game or is it. what is a healthy balance between work and play when playing is a job at hand and fortune combat to make. the story of the highs and lows of young idols fast paced world of the pro gamers. state of play a witness documentary on i'll just leave. it's a land famous for its mystic spiritualists a place where saints and swamis guard the secrets of an ancient wisdom.
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for thousands of years people from india and abroad have devoted themselves to these holy men in their quest for lighting. but some girl whose have proven to be far from divine accused of rape murder and mass castration. i'm steve chapman on this episode of one of one east reinvestigate one swamis spectacular fall and a blind faith many still have. to be i know. they call him the rocks down to. the not so subtle swami of spirituality.
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this isn't laugh challenged holy man is good meeting romper him saying and can say is he's the messenger of god. center for almost thirty years he has led the data such as sought out a place of truth sect in northern india creagh and then it. was a really good one it was one. he claims to have sixty million followers worldwide an exaggeration perhaps but his fans are certainly enthusiastic was. her. right for a better. singer revels in his popularity he has funded several bollywood style films starring himself. not to mention his many music albums. but it isn't cool discos and
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dancing singing has made headlines for his charitable works spearheading environmental drives campaigning for women's rights and tackling drug addiction. up hot that are going to give young people you mentioned that some people his charity work has won him some influential friends. this is rumble last sharma a cabinet minister in putting on a stage was it was a was he's not the only politician to bow before the screw in the two thousand and fourteen state elections almost hoff of the ruling party's candidates sort sings pleasant. to his do they tease he is
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a god. that others have called him the devil in disguise. in two thousand and two an anonymous letter was sent to the most powerful man in the country. to the honorable prime minister shri. it was from a disciple who lived in. hindi as his day what she wrote about the guru shocked the government respected. one day at ten o'clock at night i was informed that father has called me to his room. she found her guru lying in bed next to a gun watching
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a pornographic film. taking me in his arms he said to me he would like to make love to me. the woman said she tried to stop him but saying wouldn't when i resisted he said there was no doubt that he was god he said that he can kill me without any harm being done to him after that he raped me and has been doing so for the last three years. the woman also revealed that singh was abusing other girls. if any girl dares to open her mouth against all this. has ordered to finish her off. she begged the central government to investigate she could never have imagined that dozens of people would be killed after she sent her a letter. i cannot keep silent. almost
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three hundred kilometers north of india's capital news of the lead has spread through a town called sears it's the headquarters of good me thuram rahim singh sect. of the dare i had a lot of influence people were scared of it. they had political power in. uncial church of the day was born and raised in syria. he says almost everyone in town followed will feed the guru. then in two thousand and two local officials and journalists began receiving copies of the anonymous letter. he would let us a little while wherever that letter was circulated people would be better not
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crashed people's offices were attacked but if they found out a shot was photocopying the letter they'd attack the shop. people would whisper amongst themselves nobody had the courage to speak out against them. no one except on shills father ramchandra chapter but the was a small town journalist with a big reputation he ran his own nice paper called food as such or the whole truth. he didn't run his newspaper like a commercial business he ran it to serve our society whether it was social issues or corruption or political issues he would raise his voice against powerful people . for years darkroom as had been circulating about sing and his day or whispers that he was involved in land grabbing corruption and mysterious
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disappearances of the north that in those the. he's no media and so so would speak against the darrow they were scared of but even in this environment of fear my father was reporting. and chills father published the anonymous letter with its explosive allegations of rape immediately and got threatening calls i immediately started receiving threatening calls telling him not to report on this but he said you can't stop me from publishing the truth. those threats soon turned deadly. on a cool of tobit evening two men road towards the journalists house. uncial a university student at the time was home with his father. abuse. we were preparing to have dinner. outside the house somebody called my father sleep it
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better be. a bit of a big. ranch and richard looked at the left his son and went town side. within seconds until heard five gunshots. you know he sort of me i never thought that they would go to this extent it never crossed my mind. the gunman fled in opposite directions but they didn't get far. one missing actual data or where one of the shooters was apprehended at the police post close to our house. they seized the weapon in a walkie talkie set from him and. prosecutors say the two suspected gunmen was sings disciples and the items seized from them were registered to his darragh
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allegations that singh rejects. the nation devastated chapter but his family and his community. are no beach or beach. as the funeral procession was going through. there were men women children standing on the rooftops they were throwing flowers on my father people was so shaken by the terror inflicted by the dera. assholes who are. that day i realized that people were saluting the crusade that my father had started we felt proud of him whatever he did it wasn't wrong was help me.
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ever since then uncial has been fighting for justice he has invited me to his home in sears or where he lives under twenty four hour police protection. fire. i'm firing. on my father in this city to go. until is preparing for yet another hearing in his father's murder trial the state has charged singh with two murders including that of uncial father but the case has dragged on for over fifteen years and there's still no verdict in a body the truth is what's giving us strength we've taken on such a powerful empire what are we in front of them with nothing. uncial says the guru and his followers tried every trick in the book to prevent him from testifying.
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on it threatening they never directly threaten me but indirectly they tried really hard through my relatives through a local administrator through a former state chief minister they tried to get me to compromise jeff. my reply was what more can they do to us there's nothing more valuable than life and that they've already taken. for the past eleven years the central bureau of investigation has assigned uncial and armed bodyguard the threat he says is real the gurus devote on just followers they fanatics. this fanaticism spilled onto the streets last august when good mitterrand written scene was convicted of sexually assaulting two of his female disciples. my own estimate plus
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