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strike since friday. peru has brought into force a new entry restrictions to limit the flow venezuelan migrants trying to escape the deepening economic crisis back home over the past week thousands have been trying to reach peru before the new rules are imposed which require them to show valid passports instead of national id cards on friday ecuador opened what it called a humanitarian corridor or to allow bus loads of people through to peru in time now the u.n. estimates that more than two million venezuelans have fled the country since twenty fourteen causing a migration crisis across the region the majority have fled to neighboring brazil and colombia brazil has taken in tens of thousands of people while more than a million venezuelan migrants have entered colombia in the past fifteen months then he fell as way venezuelans then make long treks by land ecuador and peru where they hope to find greater acceptance and benefit from easier migration rules but over
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the past two weeks both nations and else tighter entry rules officials from colombia ecuador and peru are due to meet in bogota next week to discuss the crisis but the other such as reports are from the peruvian city of timbres on the northern border with ecuador. hoping to escape the economic hardship gripping their country desperate venus williams who pouring into peter's world with it whether by bus by car or by foot before saturday's deadline meant to tighten in tree requirements. fifteen year old joined the ladies traveled more than four thousand kilometers with some members of his family he says he never imagined leaving the house when we did that work at the my lab we were at the best time of our lives with friends school family but we had to leave to find a better life in venezuela we were hungry. separated from their families with a risky future ahead cinelli for the biggest venture down the road with friends
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leaving her career behind what i am but i am a good about it it's sad i graduated with a bachelor's degree now i can't begin my career nor we all gave up our future and venezuela we don't have a chance exhausted ill or even penniless men even a swill and have had to rely on handouts to eat most of the people arriving here at the border between it well that and b. who are young adults who has been a mecca for these refugees for the past two years more than four hundred thousand vinous winds are already living here open border policy allows them to work legally but now they will only be allowed in treaty with passports the united nations office for refugee says it hopes this policy stops this is very important for you in which possibility of exo school by asking for asylum. so we very much hope that. the government select people and most province when once don't have
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passports they're expensive and it takes many months and bribing to get them in venezuela but there are forty say they've imposed restrictions to prevent the lincolns from entering the country at this point of crossing or trade it in a while the temperature was intense there are no controls. witness will and may still working to put an illegal however thirty three year old looks a bill matina says they want to have a chance to hook i guess what it was to have dignity we must work that's why we are migrating to another country not to receive handouts but because we like to work. it will be in a three c. they will be flexible with children the elderly and pregnant women who don't have passports and last protect those who apply for asylum in the uk well we're lutheran for you know according to our refugee laws whether they have the documents or not if a person asks for asylum we have to process the request and allow them into the country the foreign ministry receives thirteen thousand requests each month and that number
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may groom as the exodus of the nist will continue many desperate to find a better life for their children and the innocent just just you get to be speeding . or plan to get here all the al jazeera news hour including the physical and mental scars of conflict al-jazeera meets a young victim of israel's twenty fourteen war on gaza. also he's down but tease out of the presidential race why the man seen as a frontrunner has been disqualified in the democratic republic of congo. mark yesterday and so it's. very things like i said. answering the williams defuses the controversy over her cap suit at the french open we'll hear more of that from joe in sport.
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bring it refugees in bangladesh have held protests to mark a year since the military crackdown against their community in me a mass rakhine state the u.n. says systematic attacks on the muslim group are a textbook case of ethnic cleansing let's take a closer look at how it all began well in august last year a ring of fighters attacked me and my army post killing twelve officers military offensive in response and several files and people fleeing to neighboring bangladesh two weeks later the number of refugees rose to a quarter of a million doctors without borders reported at least six thousand seven hundred ringrose were killed within them. of the crackdown many of them where women and children by january around six hundred eighty eight thousand were living in makeshift camps in bangladesh selling to deal with me and to return the refugees but many of the nearly three quarters of a million too afraid to go back home a job june has more from the below in cox's bazaar the scenes out of critical on
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campus they have been absolutely extraordinary thousands of or hinder refugees demonstrating i have been to cox's are bangladesh this is my third time covering the range of crises and i have never seen demonstrations of this magnitude the refugees had to get special permission from the bangladeshi authorities in order to stage these demonstrations what we saw men women young and old demanding their rights demanding justice asking for the international community pleading with the international community to do more to help them but also saying that they want to make sure that the perpetrators of genocide as they say genocide has been taking place against them inside of me and they say that the perpetrators of the genocide of the accused being i mean the army they need to be held to account they need to be brought to justice by the international criminal court so really a remarkable day yesterday when we were speaking to organizers we were told that this might be some type of a sit in it might be even a quieter type of protest today very loud voices people in bold and to express
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their opinions to demand justice he asked the international community to do more for these seven hundred thousand actually more than seven hundred thousand people that have come here fled the violence in iraq and say to me and more in the past year now living in the world's largest refugee settlement where circumstances even though they're slightly improved are still extremely dire. four of afghanistan's top ministers have resigned from president musharraf's gandhi's government they include the ministers of defense interior the president's national security adviser and the top of the national directorate of security the resignations follow chooses rocket attacks on the presidential palace and assaults on villages near the city of gaza and by taliban fighters in recent days. palestinian leaders have accused the trumpet ministration of resorting to cheap blackmail over its decision to cut two hundred million dollars in aid for the occupied west bank and gaza strip the state department says the money will go towards high priority projects elsewhere in
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january the us slashed its contribution to the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees or after this latest funding cut the palestine liberation organization said palestinians would not be bullied into giving up their rights dave hartman is a former assistant administrator with the forward a department of the us government he says the move by the us will only empower hamas the united states has essentially ceded the political space to hamas and other rejectionist were creating a vacuum by leaving gaza and the west bank and in so doing not only have we turned back on the palestinian people but we've also created greater risk for israel so now we're leaving now we've concluded that we have other priorities and and so doing we well have empowered hamas i mean it's just as simple as that and you don't even have to take my word for it i mean you can simply ask any of the security
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professionals american or israeli or palestinian track those very closely when we leave that will be filled by hamas and other reaction this. well half of the two million people living in gaza or are under seventeen some of them have already lived through three wars in two thousand and eight two thousand and twelve and two thousand and fourteen the scars remain under sevens visited a young girl still living with the trauma of a head injury. look into her eyes and you would never guess what this child has been through. namable food is six yet she's suffered both pain and anguish for most of her short life. she's aged two here in the twenty fourteen gaza war she sustained what was described as life changing head injuries intricate surgery in turkey and three months of recuperation there saved her life.
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it was an israeli air attack that very nearly killed nama. not this one. nor this. these are recent strikes a whole night of bombardment with outgoing hamas rockets and continued attacks from israel claiming it struck more than one hundred fifty m. a star gets before what's meant to be a truce. the sound alone was enough to make namma relive the war and. than any other when she hears the sound of what planes she gets very scared at and says i want to go back to turkey there's no warplanes in turkey. dead beaver able to sleep and have our awning voter when we mash and divert she starts screaming and heights that i had do you want to go. over and over nemesis turkey i want to go there and whispers take me here now as mother is
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distraught she says she often cries for her daughter she and her husband won't let her play like the boisterous children know that doorstep. and even though she wants to go to school her parents work letter. her father says he feels helpless because he can't support his family on a good month he might earn a hundred dollars on a market stall in the street but it barely covers his rent his landlord has an eviction order place the family live in a neighborhood where poverty is the norm rather than that they're inside the rules of gaza effectively it's like a prison what is life like in gaza well that's not really an accurate term more of an existence and this existence phenomena is one of many short sad stories different and don't tell the suffering is much the same. nama has to depend on the love of a family and hope that one day some sense may prevail instead of
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a resumption of the war that still rages inside this little girl's. andrew symonds . gaza city. but said to africa now as a bar boy's main opposition leader has rejected the top court's decision to uphold president i'm a symbol of god was election when nelson chamisa challenge the result saying the july presidential vote was rigged but the court ruled he did not have enough evidence to back up his claims zimbabwe's current leader was named the winner with just over fifty percent of the vote in the congress will be inaugurated on sunday but chinese are still insists he is the legitimate leader. president. as a leader i. say that i am supposed to believe the people of zimbabwe changes and change is where it is delayed is another thing it cannot be denied change.
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and it is going to come sooner than we think we need to go up there to the fundamental issues. dealing with the issue of the disputed. so that we're able to vote for but there are big concerns over the zimbabwean president's role in robert mugabe's government at least twenty thousand people were killed by the army when i was when the guy called was the state security minister in the nineteen eighties malcolm webb spoke to some of the survivors who are still seeking justice it was right here that henry cabot says soldiers abducted him and tied him up he was in one thousand nine hundred eighty three zimbabwe's government said it was fighting a rebellion here in a matter belly land region henry says even though he was nothing to do with it he was taken to a concentration camp and tortured for three weeks he saw prisoners died daily from their injuries their bodies burned in a pit. and. been
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to thirty five years on is still hard to tell the story. he says he narrowly survived when soldiers try to execute him in a forest and left him for dead the pilot. when robert mugabe sent the army to matabele land in the one nine hundred eighty s. investigators say at least twenty thousand people were killed many in the region say the massacres were to suppress the support base of his political rival at the time survivors say there's been no justice and mugabe has finally forced from power by the army nine months ago led to elections that took place in july and some people wondered if zimbabwe's presidential election might bring change the opposition say it was rigged the electoral commission denies it the ruling party's presidential candidate incumbent president. was announced the winner he was once the right hand man of former leader. at the time of the massacres he was state
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security minister the first major investigation into the killings was written by human rights lawyer david coltart. he says the involvement of managua and some of his ministers and things were changing i think it's unlikely that they would ever want a complete truth telling because the entire story of their involvement will unravel from their perspective. and that would be very damaging politically to them so we don't expect justice under them one guy good friend a commission to matter baby lamb to investigate shortly after taking office in november. this is the reaction it got protesters blocked proceedings of the government says it will deliver justice with the commission's independent it's doesn't doesn't work under the direction of anybody it will do what it feels is right we expect nothing but for accountability and for and taking off what happened
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at the inception of a state which henry and the other survivors of still waiting he says he just wants an apology from the people who ordered the atrocities and compensation he doesn't know if he'll ever get it malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe while still ahead here on al-jazeera when syria's able a province to see how people are coping with the threat of a massive government offensive plus. i think it's up to the nineteen sixty eight riots of the democratic national convention in chicago and to government protesters are back out on the streets. and lewis hamilton secures a pole position in the for sunday's belgian grand prix jay will have all of the highlights from qualifying coming up in the news out.
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lots of heat across north america still some lively showers to accompanying that heat some big showers there just moving out of ontario towards cool back out on the other side of the lake some of that what's the weather just slipping down towards pennsylvania and heading towards new york so some show is certainly a possibility here as you go on through sunday to the east of that is generally fine and dry still going up thirty one there for d.c. and also for atlanta good deal cooler a good deal fresher air which was the western side of the country eighteen celsius in seattle north of the border b.c. will police seeing some cloud and some rain that's also the case to into alberta just making its way towards scotch one as we go on through the next day some of those showers some long spells of rain they will just slide their way down across the mountain states prayer is to seeing some pretty wet weather as we go on into monday east in fact is generally fine warm and sunny ots where twenty seven celsius back up to thirty one in new york and right the way down towards miami five and try
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to across a good part of the caribbean particularly around the last around here this here is looking settled and largely sunny little more cloud though just around the great around it is so you might just catch one or two showers into haiti pushing across into cuba hopefully not too dry for jamaica. and instantly shifting news cycle the regime change in america treat the listening post take sports and questions the wild need all the data will be of the details the kind that cannot be conveyed can two hundred eighty characters or fewer exposing how the press operates in their language and their culture and their context and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored we can have a better understanding of how news is created for going to have a better understanding of what the news is the listening post on al-jazeera full of struggles. when police look at it yeah if it came over they said pretty much
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full of pleasure. out of the goodness of we were in the wrong place about that but i mean the reality of what if an intimate look at life in cuba today is work and there will be like a saying ok but but but the comment that lit a year of my cuba on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching the alps there are news arrives a whole robert these are all top stories pope francis has this bit of feeling shame about the catholic church's failure to prevent sexual abuse by members of the
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clergy in ireland he's referred to abuse as repugnant he's trying to reinvigorate catholicism in the country rocked by decades of scandals involving the church palestinian leaders have accused the trumpet ministration of resorting to cheap blackmail for cutting two hundred million dollars in aid for the occupied west bank and gaza strip the state department says the body will go towards high priority projects. elsewhere and peru has brought into force a new entry restrictions to limit the flow of venezuelan migrants trying to escape the deepening economic crisis back home over the past week thousands have been trying to reach peru before the new rules are imposed which will require them to show valid passports instead of national id cards serato is a spokeswoman for the united nations high commissioner for refugees she joins me now from bachata in colombia via skype good to have you with us first second off
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now peru how nervous are regional neighbors becoming off that migrant crisis as it's being termed and how nervous are you as an organization who might have to deal with it yet so you know governments in the region have great generosity yesterday that eighty to date or we have to take into consideration the secrets no one point six million that is so and refugees that migrants have left that as well as. ninety percent of them going to countries in south america but i would say country seen. by actions in a store that they have begun to invest in is that they have a place or there are. other loveliness willems a. country they can access health they can access cation they can access work but what are you doing there and you talk about the generosity of regional neighbors misurata but in terms of the u.n. high commission for refugees what are you doing are you monitoring the situation or
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are you putting in a plan in place ready for something bigger if it happens. yet we are both we are monitoring the situation in all the borders we're scary enough were aware we're support and our it's use them supporting the border they're us but also in that were it as well the innocent side of writing for us and we understand this growing pressure in the countries but one thing that is key is that any of these measures allows the those venice when that's in need of international action to seek asylum and to access safety and that's why we're asking the international community to support farther this region the countries in the region to continue in these efforts or for providing solutions seems ok then are you then concerned that sudden influx is could receive sort of the same treatment as those who crossed into brazil and those very individuals that were attacked. in the nation and so on but we
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need to keep in mind these. events. minority doesn't like this one that has been shown not only by the countries but also by the communities like for instance into investment that were there with that will and in some small towns in the good of young whatever and so i would see. siegel and guess what opened their houses to welcome us then as well as that right so is the same the support from the international it's very important to allow the countries in the region to continue providing that status and i think meant that the venezuelan force today came for my thoughts that bring to resist that being being left in the brain of yours for greece and for that the acting in the board that it is at the moment you seem very confident both. high commission for refugees and the regional nations are able to handle this at what stage or what needs to change for you to go to
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for example the un security council or to look towards diplomats and international capitals to start putting pressure either on those countries that are bordering venezuela or from the administration in caracas if the situation takes a turn for the worst. we are seeing the government. so i'm going to be our meeting next week in. whatever we do not so much for the situation in country countries cannot look. at the situation country by country so we cannot respond also a humanitarian community and also by the international community into the likes of the minister last that are moving not only when. it will but also. sometimes but that we shall see what does happen for the moment older serato from
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the un high commission for refugees thanks very much for your time thank you will staying in the region police in brazil have arrested hundreds of people for committing crimes against women more than one thousand men were picked up during a nationwide sweep nearly a quarter of those arrested are wanted for murdering women. now the democratic republic of congo's main opposition leader says that he will appeal the electoral commission's decision to reject him as a presidential candidate. have returned home to take part in an upcoming election after serving a decade in prison for war crimes but the former vice president's application was rejected because he still has an upcoming case at the international criminal court peter sharp reports. the decision by the country's electoral commission to reject bemba and his opposition party from upcoming presidential elections in the congo will do little to lessen the tension on the streets of can. the former prime
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minister has a strong following in the capital but then this party secretary eva ziba appeared to call for calm. we'll stick to the law and contest the electoral commission decision and then. can the city as president of the republic the first procedure of pearls will be to go to the constitutional court and after that we'll see what direction our political party wants to take member return to the country to declare his candidacy earlier this month after eleven years in exile he was excluded because of his conviction by the international criminal court for bribing witnesses burma was acquitted of war crimes conviction from the i.c.c. in june the electoral commission which is supposedly independent has long been painted by bemba and by its supporters as deeply partisan as coming up with inflammatory statements or inflammatory rules so what is most likely to happen is indeed supporters will take to the streets and will seek to find other ways
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extralegal ways to try to shape this this election this process perhaps even to boycott it or to try to derail it president joseph kabila has held office since two thousand and one and his rule over the mineral rich country has been marked by corruption and civil unrest two weeks ago he signaled he would not run in the election raising fears among the opposition he tried to stay on is the power behind the throne the opposition will log its appeal at the constitutional court on tuesday failing there it's feared violent protests on the streets can't be expected to shop al-jazeera. well millions of muslims across the world are celebrating either harder this last week but for thousands of internally displaced yemenis the festival is a time to cheer reports now from neighboring djibouti. there's no place for celebration here this is a time for survival and little more. for thousands of families who escape the
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fighting who did you know stay in an old school block in sanaa it's somewhere to live. but not a place anyone would call home. eat used to be more joyful as we used to celebrate the occasion with our families relatives and friends on the contrary it here in the camp is filled with sorrow and grief as we are living the tragedy of being away from home and our loved ones however we thank god for what we have for many here a moment of joy when a smile breaks across a face is a stall and moment. a chance to forget the reality of where they are and what they are. in the past we used to celebrate aid with family and friends today we feel like we're being imprisoned in this camp we cannot go out or have fun we used to visit our relatives and friends joining us to go to the beach of the park but here there's nothing at all. most of the families here came from the port city of who did are thousands of families have come here since the coalition began the largest
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the song says that almost four year war began aiming to seize the port and the city's airport. it's estimated more than one hundred thousand people have fled the city since the beginning of june as muslims around the world wrap up the eve celebrations for the refugees here and there's no point in celebrating that will be kept for another day. i will. eat used to be paradise on earth but now we're living in hell just eat if. we can our family joy or pleasure of their teaching nor can our children as we are away from home for data when the war will be over we will return home and celebrate the best eat ever there's no eat away from our home. it is meant to show the bonds of muslim brotherhood and sisterhood a time when everyone is equal but for those in yemen who feel neglected and forgotten it's not something they're ready to celebrate alan fischer. djibouti
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the turkish foreign minister is warning against a possible syrian government offensive in a province it's the last remaining opposition stronghold and home to the world's biggest population of internally displaced people a military operation will put millions of lives at risk a sit in reports from city. nearly three million people are trapped in the northwest and probably suffered at that syria's largest remaining rebel held area if the government launches a full scale attack two and a half million syrians could try to flee to the turkish border that's been a factor lisieux since two thousand and fifteen. many here are now preparing themselves for the worst case scenario. of why should i be scared assad has already been killing us for seven years our families brothers and sisters even the children it does no difference i did mama dummy won't leave our nation alone again we will defend our people until the last breath. is that has provided
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a refuge for some syrians roughly health of its civilian population is displaced from elsewhere in the country. the so-called syrian solve ation government is a civil authority formed in the province last year and backed by the hardline rebel coalition. formerly known as the nusra front a group the turkey russia and the us consider a terrorist organization and was once linked to al qaida. such as how would the salvation government step into prime minister joschka who say's they are not an opposition but the revolution itself so. it would be a disaster and they catastrophe if such an attack happens because even rich and able governments can't evacuate three or four million people quickly in such difficult conditions that we are living in it is a part of it that's at the center the obvious stronghold for the syrian opposition this is a calm here compared to other offices and held areas but if there is enough that
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this will be the last battle before the syrian government takes full control of the country opposition groups in it that are attempting to unify international army with turkey's help to try and overcome and a division but. has not offered its support yet president bashar al assad has dropped leaflets over there calling for rebel groups to surrender and this may be the new unifying factions that he and god willing and we hope that it could help the country and the revolution we hope all the factions can be joined under one name that there would be tickets and usually what you would never waste our martyrs on the widows blood we need to remember those who suffer in the. prison was in the womanhood right there for now those living in syria was lost opposition stronghold can only wait to see what happens next seen up to solo al-jazeera at that city northwest to syria. at least sixteen people are being killed and twenty seven others injured after a tourist bus crashed on a highway in bulgaria police say the vehicle overturned and fell down
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a side road while on a weekend trip to a resort near the capital saffir the government has declared monday as a national day of mourning community activists in the u.s. are marking fifty years since the infamous chicago riots in one nine hundred sixty eight a ten thousand strong protest against the vietnam war turned into a day of violence with police the months preceding it so racial and political tension grow many of the city see similarities between then and now one hundred reports. this is a protest half a century in the making the message is the same one heard on the streets outside the democratic national convention in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight let's just stop the wars and also the police violence and particularly in chicago it is a peaceful tribute to the protests that erupted when the whole world was watching was in the months before the august convention fifty years ago the quiescent
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