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zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up homes ripped apart roads blogs in northern philippines the most powerful storm of the year moves on toward southern china off to a destructive twenty four hours receiving a hero's welcome leaders of an ethiopian opposition party once branded a terrorist group by the government are welcomed back from exile. and nasa launches a rocket to measure the world's polar ice sheets as global warming continues to
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melt the glass. on paul recent all with the sports lewis hamilton produces a stunning performance in qualifying for the singapore grand prix the f one tard to lead a surprisingly outpaces is for raleigh rivals to take pole position. welcome to the program at least twelve people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year typhoon mangat lost some of its power after it landed on luzon the largest filipino island roos for ripped off homes power lines were downed and heavy rains caused landslides. alan duggan reports now from the northern province of young. typhoon monk arrived just as predicted vicious with its force pounding over most of northern
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luzon the early hours saw power and phone lines cut off in the ghetto city in calgary and province incessant rains and strong winds crippled many of the operations planned by emergency teams. but the destruction here is nothing compared to what we saw when we ventured out of the city. throughout rural communities we saw homes and farmland destroyed access into these remote areas is difficult which means eight he slowed to a right to. like so many places here the town of bugout bore the brunt of the typhoon spirit marine commanders say many people here lost their homes. on. property and with crops in the power lines so we expect that the high point can be over how soon people here tell us they were aware of the
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forced evacuation order by the government but following it is easier said than done that is because often their homes and their livelihoods are just in one place and this is all what they've got these are their lives possessions they went through something similar already two years ago a super typhoon hit their community and they've barely recovered. julio salah says her small cafeteria was your only means to support your family now it's gone. it really hurts us we don't know where to begin and everything happened so fast and now my business is gone the destruction is similar all across luzon the largest island in the philippines the majority of typhoon victims are from small farming communities the impact has yet to be fully assessed and the cost counted the philippine government says efforts to help are will under way but from past
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experience filipinos know it's never enough they barely had much before the thai food and now they have even less. to al-jazeera the in the province northern philippines. richard gordon is the chairman and c.e.o. of the philippine red cross he says severe flooding is making it difficult to distribute aid. thirty days fear. of. dr fall of the storm. and. percent of them are ready and a lot of the almost. a lot of movies about the go system has to be to create a lot of walls out of houses with. this story. really partially and of course we cannot for our requirements for.
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livelihood and markets are still closed so we will have to be supplied with prudently than we have begun a here are three rows that the market is going to make it difficult for us to supply you don't materials out the. block play landslides and flooding so i hope that we can. mitigate that right there really. meanwhile hong kong and parts of southern china are now bracing for severe weather is typhoon mungo travels across the south china sea expected to make landfall on sunday with wind speeds of up to two hundred can always has an hour hundreds of flights have been cancelled in hong kong while old ferry services across china's guangdong province have been suspended the chinese government has issued its second high storm a lot well now to one of our all the top stories members of a rebel group once banned in ethiopia have received a hero's welcome in add to sabah fifteen hundred fighters from the aroma liberation
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front had been in neighboring eritrea for the past twenty six he is there a ten comes off to prime minister ahmed removes the group from a terrorist bomb a vile has known. the jubilant crowd in the each open capital addis ababa on saturday supporters of the almighty variation from wellcome leader doubt if saw home after years in exile in neighboring. island fifteen hundred or less fighters accompanied him among the welcoming party or lefts general secretary because despite his frail condition the fact that mr doubt and his are biters be any. rival are going to be for the past seven years i am now well. heroes this saves a lot about how my. very sure that all.
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of them are just ethnic group in each opiate but for decades they've been complaining of political marginalization liberation front says it represents the aspirations of the obama people it's militants took up arms against the central government for years they described the former regimes in each opiah as an oppressive and demanded self-determination for the oromo the oil f's been banned for years live on top of it by the ethiopian government in july if your peers newly elected prime minister ahmed granted an amnesty to all dissidents if they denounced violence and agree to talks involving government leaders from the ethnic to the political situation remains volatile there were violent confrontations earlier this week provoked by internal rivalries some fear groups that have seen their long standing status undermined by the political changes are determined to disrupt any form process. now iraqis frustrated by months of
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political deadlock following may's election could finally be getting a working parliament but there are concerns that control of iraq's politics might be swinging towards pro iranian parties rob matheson reports from baghdad. after months of political deadlock since the last election iraq's parliament may be growing into gear m.p.'s have finally elected a new speaker of the house he's mohamad a sunni muslim with strong support from the parliament's probably around shia coalition and. they were aided we need to unify our efforts some members of parliament can reach political consensus and choose our government capable of facing the serious security and economic challenges ahead other posts are expected to be filled soon including the president who will be kurdish according to political tradition he will ask the leader of the biggest parliamentary bloc to be prime minister and to form a cabinet there are three main blocs to choose from the pro iran shia coalition
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headed by former prime minister nouri al maliki and heidi who is head of the fetter bloc the umbrella body for shia armed fighters the pro u.s. bloc of prime minister hyde that all about and the iraqi nationalist bloc led by the influential shia cleric knocked out al assad or he won a majority in the may elections but the result wasn't accepted by the rest of the parties there are two countries who are going to be very interested in what happens in iraq it's called iran and the united states it's well known that iran has a lot of influence in iraq's politics and in its daily life but in recent days there's been a backlash against the level of that influence the u.s. has supported by mr hyde at all about it because he is in his turn pro united states but also because the u.s. sees him as a moderate the can pull together a fractious iraqi government. if however high that all about he loses his power
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within the iraqi government it may come that the u.s. two loses its influence in iraq. and the government riots recently in basra were directed at politicians including prime minister buddy protesters in the oil rich south blamed political corruption and negligence for failing to provide jobs as well as the collapse of their water and electricity supplies. the offices of local shia armed groups backed by iran who set on fire. iran has been pushing for a consensus to choose the speaker and his two deputies that would guarantee its interests in iraq the u.s. wants an independent iraqi government and a stable political process away from iran's influence there is an apparent conflict of interests between iran and the u.s. over iraq's political future iraq's political problems are far from over but the apartment of a house speaker is a step towards a solution rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad and egyptian court has ordered the
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arrest of the former president hosni mubarak's tucson's on charges of insider trading ally and gamal mubarak are accused of illegally benefiting from the sale of a national bank their father ruled egypt from one thousand nine hundred eighty one until the revolution of two thousand and eleven when he was replaced by the democratically elected morsi it to achieve back in court next month sarkozy's belongs to the egyptian american rule of law association she says the arrests could be an attempt to stop them entering politics. well the timing is not coincidental because in the last year and a half particularly in the run up to the two thousand and eighteen presidential elections. or seen multiple times in public in ways that made them appear very connected to the people and down to earth and at a time when the economy has been struggling and it's affected many egyptians from
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the upper middle class all the way to the poor because the subsidies are being removed inflation is high wages are stagnant and so many egyptians reminisce and the man to the days of the mubarak era from the economic perspective so when demand i let come out in public and are spotted and it's all over social media this signals to the regime that they may be seeking to get back into the limelight and to political life and if there's one thing that is clear about the failed revolution have two thousand and eleven is that although democracy didn't take root in egypt what did happen is that there was a change in the governance structure the old regime that was within the mubarak's inner circle including his sons is out. still ahead for you on this news hour from london we have a special report from greece's largest refugee camps overcrowded and facing closure because of its appalling conditions also. i'm scott heiler in hondros city known as
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a chinese financial technology hope it's also home to e-commerce giants are about ten years into the global financial crisis there's growing concern here about a spike in the failure of online investment firms that story coming up. and in sport two of the world's best oxes get up close and personal before their title fight albeit with that story in all. caps in bob way where the government has banned public gatherings in the capital harare to try and prevent the spread of cholera twenty five people have already died from the disease the deadliest outbreak in a decade residents say poor hygiene on the streets has contributed to its spread from harare haram which us the reports there also is from blocked and burst pipes flows through a poor suburb of harare rubbish piles up nearby another source of disease
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zimbabwe's government recently declared a cholera emergency in the capital norman has lived nearly fifteen years in that time he says the abnormal is becoming normal every year people get sick very worried. because the the dreaded should be should be cleaned. become and be should you come. in the trenches some households in harare haven't had running water for years people who live here say it's been like this for months you can smell the roar silage in the houses are really close by they save us a city council to do something about it but despite the cholera outbreak nothing is being done. politicians are blaming each other for the crisis the new health minister of a dime oil has to have the opposition run city council is mismanaged and corrupt the opposition says the government should provide more money for water and
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sanitation harari city council workers say they need nearly ten billion dollars to repair water sewers and roads the funding is not being so much for coming also partly because the customers who use the infrastructure do not pay their bills the city is in it is of seven hundred eighty million by its customers which money if you did come could have gone towards the end of the with the water system this latest cholera outbreak is present investment in god was first major challenge since he won the election in july residents representatives complain of corruption even the pipes that have been laid underground through corruption they look at the . companies companies with the relationship with the guns of the shows council managers councillors and government to lay down some of the pipes in these pipes could not sustain the huge population that we know we have but they took away money this is a bit b.s. money if they need to be held accountable. the government has banned stores selling
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street food in harare some vendors are growing the order saying is the only way they can look after their families health workers warn if nothing is done about harare sanitation crisis the number of dead from cholera and other water borne diseases or continue to rise. heavy flooding in eastern sudan has displaced five thousand people tens of thousands of hectares of farmland have been destroyed in dozens of villages submerged authorities say more heavy rain is expected now in the coming days rwanda's president paul kagame e has ordered the release of an opposition media in jail since two thousand and thirteen accused of terrorism. is one of more than two thousand prisoners who sentences have been commuted prominent musician q.c. to me he is also being freed he was jailed in two thousand and fifteen after the government banned a song he released about genocide greece's largest refugee camp is being
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threatened with closure because of appalling conditions the camp on the island of lesbo says home to nine thousand asylum seekers three times its capacity authorities say overcrowding there is led to uncontrollable amounts of waste and sewage. reports from our camp in the last boss. this is a bus room in morea camp there's a laboratory for every seventy two people and the water doesn't always run the streets between the tents and housing units smell of fetid waste water this iranian woman shares a tent with an afghan family and gives the children lessons in farsi since there is no education for some three thousand children in the camp the government provides one doctor for moreas nine thousand residents but doctors without borders have set up a surgery outside the camp for women and children the government could move sick and vulnerable populations off the island but this year hasn't done so we had
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a most of them. cut that that part of the problems. have been problems. about what he had even when they have betty some months ago a medical report from there must be that. they need the remove and in the tent city beside the official camp the aid group movement on the ground has built terracing and drainage and provided wife and elektra city but new arrivals are spilling beyond this into the olive groves surgeries can provide them with only a top pull and the rope about twenty thousand asylum applicants have arrived on greek shows this year all of them forced to remain on east asian islands while their applications are processed at the moment new arrivals are looking at waiting periods of fourteen months before their first interview because like others here this afghan family has stripped all of trees to cook forced to forage refugees
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create problems for local farmers one of them shows me his carpentry workshop looted and burned his house was stripped of plywood refugees used for shelter you know longer picks the olives that used to give him half his income at a public that had come every day and i catch them inside i called the police there is nothing. they can do greece cannot protect us greece is like a vineyard without defense but the refugees don't want this any more than he does judd is here because the taliban nearly killed him he just wants to finish his degree in psychology this country don't anything. we don't want hot water we don't want anything we don't know their food we just want to let us leave this camp to be ok and if i could find a job could the rent a house ok no problem. living on. the
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scorpions yet this is the foreseeable future for our lee and eleven thousand refugees on the island jump. lesbos refugees and migrants stranded in west and bosnia say they have been beaten strip searched and robbed by croatian police seventeen refugees told al-jazeera the abuse took place while they were attempting to travel through croatia to germany croatia's interior ministry has denied the allegations has emerged as a new route to western europe with thirteen thousand refugees arriving there this year now a funeral has been held in indian administered kashmir for a top separatist commander killed in a gun battle with the indian military. and four other fighters were killed in the town of chow come news of the deaths provoked violent anti indian protests in the area as paul brennan reports. hundreds of mourners clung to every available vantage
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point the body of the rebel commander girls. was released her burial. hizbul mujahideen is kashmir's largest rebel group recruits its members almost exclusively among ethnic kashmiris from the indian administered territory so the local sentiments and the angry chance and slogans were very much in support of the slain fighters and against the indian army although. parts of it end up in the lobby of the dump i don't simply indicate a lot of that that really was and it indicated that. and the fear. question is. who you are holding and in shallow you do and you are paid till the dollars that you would visit got and yeah get to paternity for mass killings we face here is the reason that our educated youth take up arms of the fight for our freedom and for the same reason these five rebels took up our lives today were killed by the tyrant army. over the past year so many are getting injured
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so many were martyred is anyone really concerned about this about why is this happening this is all because we want our right kashmir belongs to us. the indian army said the operation was launched after it received a tip off that a rebel unit was in the village of child camp soldiers first surrounded the village and then attacked blasting at least one house with explosives killing all five rebels but the use of such deadly force by the army provoked a furious reaction from ordinary civilians anti india demonstrations escalated into violent clashes with hundreds of residents chanting pro rebel slogans tried to march to the site of the gun battle one man was killed and more than a dozen others injured when government troops fired at the protesters paul brennan al-jazeera. here's the rebels in yemen say they signed a memorandum of understanding with the un to get critically injured fighters out of the country for treatment the deal was agreed by who the officials and the un's top
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humanitarian official in yemen lisa graham day anderson men's is in djibouti this announcement comes from the who three rebels and it could amount to a potential breakthrough following on from the failure to get the delegation from the hootches to geneva more than a week ago they've been in the money capital muscat meeting u.n. officials including martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy now what they're saying and they've published a picture of lease ground a signing a document which they who things say amounts to a memorandum of understanding they say there who says that they have gotten an agreement to transport a number of injured people to amman over a period of six months for treatment for serious injuries on the battlefield in the u.s. tropical storm florence is slowly weakening but it's still causing catastrophic flooding
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in north and south carolina at least seven people have died in the storm and with more rain and storm surge is expected government officials are warning people of the dangers kristen salumi reports from fayetteville north carolina. florence arrived in the carolinas and like an unwanted gast refused to leave the storm continues to pound both states with a brain swelling rivers you know somebody said the other day it's like being stuck but turtle this thing will not move up the coast tonight you know the way we continue to just get copious amounts running the rescue of trapped residents continued in new bern north carolina a city that sits on a peninsula between two rivers residents elsewhere are being warned not to get complacent the risk of catastrophic flooding and mudslides remains remember most storm deaths occur from drowning in freshwater often in cars. don't drive across the ending on moving water emergency management is sharing flood
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projections with local officials if they tell you to evacuated please do so immediately you can save your life the national weather service says more than fifty centimeters of rain have fallen in some areas with more to come this is one major source of concern the cape fear river meteorologists predict that it could reach flood levels as soon as sunday morning cresting two days later and the flood waters they could linger for weeks with businesses closed and close to a million people already without power some restless residents ventured outside to get a look i am a little bit surprised by how high it is right now because it's different like i was wondering like how high can they get can get pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. so ahead for you on this news from london the head of south america's regional bloc visits venezuelans who fled the crisis in that country promising that
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all options are on the table to solve it also. i'm catherine of the kenyan coast where boat made over the plastic waste is i'll be telling you why it's such a milestone for the people here. and in sport the maldives a huge upset to win the biggest football tournament in south asia. however the skies are opening up nicely across a good part of europe now see plenty of september sunshine coming through still some showers over towards the eastern side of the continent though just around the black sea ukraine western side of russia up towards the baltic states clear skies for central parts but a chance of one or two showers around the age matic and still some rather lively
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showers over towards that western side of the med just affecting that he's inside of spain that'll be the case as we go through the next couple of days over the next couple days you will see wet and windy weather sweeping its way towards the british isles we've got laws a dry weather to go on through sunday twenty two celsius there for london it's a piece of yes into those northern areas but for central parts there's a sunshine of twenty four degrees for the area basin pieces of rather heavy rain at times over towards that eastern side of year of sixteen celsius seventeen celsius there for moscow it dries up it brightens up as we go on through monday so looking even better still far to try to central areas there we go with first signs of our wet weather pushing up towards arland and scott in the still a few showers there just around spain and portugal in those showers still a possibility of somewhat weather across the far northwest of africa but for most is fine i dry.
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us to teach it like it's a very important place for al-jazeera to be. welcome back a quick look at the top stories at least twelve people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year for ripped off homes power lines were down then heavy rain caused landslides on the main island of luzon. members of the once banned the roma liberation front of received a hero's welcome in the ethiopian capital addis ababa they returned from exile after twenty six years in neighboring eritrea. and iraq's parliament has named sunni politician hamad as its new speaker the move paves the way for
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a government to be formed four months after national elections. now it's been ten years since the global financial crisis a period which caused the world to fall into the worst recession in a generation in that time much of the banking industry which triggered the collapse has been overhauled but if another one were to take place what shape would it take and what would trigger it scott hide a report from the chinese city of hang joe on why it could come from china. thirty two focuses all her tension on building her well this motivation she says comes from growing up with very little. money is very very important because money come bring me the sons of security i don't want to live poor. living in hong joe johns joe embodies the entrepreneurial spirit in this city known for its financial technology industry and home to e-commerce giant ali baba but she and
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millions of other people in china have lost billions of dollars after investing in what are known as peer to peer lending platforms or p. to p. amid stricter government oversight than the panic withdrawal of funds by investors more than two hundred firms have failed in the last three months. p.d.p. firms gather money from investors and then lend money to small businesses and individuals with many promising high returns on those investments and that concerns economists as the p.d.p. industry in china is the world's largest with more than one hundred ninety billion dollars a play this on the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis for the problem i think it's a had a mom in china for a long time but now it looks especially dangerous because of lot of a lot of those debts are tied to the property market and like the recent crisis much of the borrowing or used to finance their housing market is speculation and
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she says some aspects of p.d.p. lending are similar to the sub prime loans in the u.s. that led to the two thousand and eight global financial crisis the outcry over the failing p.t.p. companies was so big in july that the government here hon joe had to use athletic stadiums to how is the complaint centers for the thousands of investors looking to get their money back or simply find out where when i heard some of those who lost money took their anger to the offices of one p.d.p. firm protesting out front chanting we want our money back. as a business woman and investor joe has diversified her investments not just in p.d.p. firms she's lucky as many other chinese have lost their life savings in the crisis but moving forward she has learned her lesson she won't blindly invest her money and will be much more cautious and careful but for many it's too late it's got her out zero. one country that's greatly suffered since the crisis.
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as it's had strict austerity imposed in exchange for bailouts to service its debt a policy largely driven by gemini but the german government has little remorse for its actions as lawrence the reports from berlin. in the corridors of power in berlin there are reasons to be cheerful ten years ago the german economy was so well insulated that the big crash was never going to cause a crisis so much has changed in other european countries but not here in the first six months of this year alone the german economy around a budget surplus of over fifty billion dollars that's almost three percent of germany's gross domestic product or annual wealth it's the kind of figure that makes other countries either extremely jealous or absolutely furious it was the german government that demanded after the banks started to fall that the european commission impose new rules on countries like greece forcing them to adopt a hugely destructive tax raising powers in return for bailouts and loans
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a decade on stagnant economy is in huge unemployment levels of what's left the proceeds went to the banks not the people many economists hold germany directly responsible for bankrupting greece it is very anti democratic approach but it is something that gives assurance to general politicians that there are rules and that they can be here too and that things will work out but and i think that kind of comfort is illusion it is defense germany would argue that if other countries have behaved in the right way in the first place then the wouldn't have been a problem most of the political class here bears few regrets about driving policies which proved so controversial no absolutely not i think that was the only way the fact that we are successful in all these countries shows that this was the right way and it's like in the it's like in the private sphere. if you don't
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half debt you are a free man and if you have debt you have to listen to the persons who gave you the money or has the one area which germany has suffered from. in recent years has been the rise of far right populism born partly from economics in poor areas but also from anger toward chancellor merkel's generous asylum policies for refugees this week though the german government announced it was devoting billions of euros to tackle long term unemployment a certain way of diffusing anger germany is able to make these choices in ways others can only dream about lawrence li al jazeera berlin. the leader of the regional bloc in south america says he's not ruling out military intervention to overthrow the president of venezuela the secretary general of the oas has been speaking to venezuelan migrants in colombia at least one and a half million people have fled the political and economic crisis. reports from
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kuka tower on the colombia venezuela border. he was the secretary general of the oas. as wanted by venezuelan migrants and photographers as he tries to make his way through the simone bolivar bridge. migrants shout freedom for venezuela as others to shake hands and cry for help. we need them to do something anything we need countries to unite to help democracy and food to return to venezuela it's. the visit to the colombian border town of kuta is the first stop of a series of meetings in countries across south america strained by the growing exodus of venezuelans a newly formed work group has been tasked to design a more coordinated regional response to this unprecedented mass migration. at a press conference only restoring democracy in venezuela can solve the crisis and
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that a military intervention can't be ruled out. yet we've never seen such an immoral government in the world one so on willing to allow humanitarian aid to enter their country when they are in the middle of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis this is absolutely unacceptable the colombian authorities are asking for financial aid and want the united nations to appoint a special representative to coordinate to the international response almost a million business well answer currently living in colombia but the real number is likely higher as a tory these make it more difficult for venezuelans to cross legally new unofficial and often dangerous routes open up as migrants make their way to countries as far as ecuador imperial. this is the scene repeating itself they're after day here at the border we've been here just ten minutes and we've seen dozens and dozens of
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venezuelan migrants trying to cross illegally into colombia many of them carry bags try to smuggle meets or scrap metal or truly anything they can sell for real money to continue their journey remember we haven't had anything to eat for four days we bring metal and plastic i don't know how much i will make with this but at least enough for a piece of bread a more structured regional response to the crisis might help struggling receiving countries like colombia but no one believes that unless there is real change in minister that the flood can be stopped. the u.s. space agency nasa has launched an advanced space laser into orbit it will be used to measure how much ice remains on earth as global warming continues to shrink the world's classiest it will morgan reports three to one.
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nasa is calling its most advanced space laser launched on saturday i said to have time satellite will are based on a billion dollar mission to find out how much of the earth's ice is melting as the climate warms i said it was all about measuring elevation and a natural question is how do you know you're getting the right answer or go out collect a reference data so i will be ready to compare and evaluate the green laser light from the satellite bounces off of this thing goes right back up to the satellite again super reflective so these things his data with others like i saw two i said two is the first mission in nearly a decade that will be measuring ice levels. its predecessor i sat launched in two thousand and three operated for six years the new satellites will use an advanced laser and camera system known as atlas to measure how long it takes individual particles of light to leave the satellite bounce off earth and return these tests
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will be repeated four times a year providing scientists with a continuous record detailing changes in the ice its will also help them better understand the relationship between the melting ice sheets and the rising sea scientists have been warning for a number of years that the global average temperature is rising the four hottest years on record have been the last four and the constant reliance on fossil fuels for energy means levels of greenhouse gases continue to mount but the u.s. administration and the president donald trump seems intent on slashing projects that aim to study and curb climate change the ice had to mission should last three years but has enough fuel to continue for ten if the mission manages decide to extend its life but that will depend not on the scientists but some politicians morgan al-jazeera. saturday marks world cleanup day where volunteers pick up rubbish on beaches around the globe the biggest pollution is plastic it's estimated
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more than a million tons of it ends up in the ocean every year but in kenya a unique boat has been launched to highlight the problem catherine soy explains from lamu on the kenyan coast. thank you after two years of trials arras and incredibly hard work flip floppy takes to the water of the indian ocean for the first time. it's built and highly of recycled plastic waste collected from the shores of the indian ocean by kenyans the project leader says it's the world's plastic revolution but it is really simple we have to end single use plastic recycling is not enough we have to put an end to single use consumption. its first full year was around i live in long while. he's expected to sail to zanzibar in the coming months making stops in villages along the indian ocean coast those aboard will be allotting communities about the dangers of plastic waste
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and what they can do to protect the environment but building this boat is not the end game the team of boat builders say they use the experience for the next project we wanted was a big about long twenty metres and good voyage from the captain some of them but all these talents thus we decided drop this prototype one now so we have seen what we wanted where because most of the material one of deficient. the launch of flip flop he was on the world clean up the when millions of people volunteered to clean the beaches put twenty four hours the united nations says more than eight million tons of plastic finds its way into the world's oceans every yeah that's a serious dumping a garbage truck for every minute. there was a mob of using plastic in the right perspective you can use plastic but you
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can't recycle it and today we have seen from rubbish to abort. the islanders in law. of the villages. and hope the. psalmist far away is asia stopped washing up the home soon and everyone played down parts in season. conference on al-jazeera on the kenyan coast. so for more on this let's speak to emily was in washington she is the executive vice president of ocean conservancy thank you very much for speaking to us and we've seen today what's been billed as the largest global one day event give us a sense of the number of countries and the people participating in world cleanup day. yes thanks for having math having me on to talk about this
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this is the single largest volunteer event in the world and actually this year it is world cleanup day but every year the ocean conservancy hosts on this day the international coastal cleanup we join forces this year with the world queen of data and courage even more people to come out so we'll will time will tell how many people we've been able to engage and get out across hundreds of countries that should be participating today in the international coastal cleanup last year we were successful in getting eight hundred thousand volunteers to come out on a single day to clean up the beach there waterway their favorite park and to collect over nine thousand tons of trash from those beaches and waterways plastic pollution we were just hearing in kathryn's ois report is a big problem it affects the environment it's polluting oceans it's affecting wildlife how serious a challenge is this because of course we as humans use plastic and its production levels are extremely high. yeah i mean this is
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a tremendously huge problem i mean the statistic that your reporter gave eight million metric tons a year the equivalent of one garbage truck a minute dumping into the ocean and we know that when it gets into the ocean it interacts with marine mammals with fish with birds there are there are in fact over eight hundred species of marine animals that have been found to be impacted by this plastic either by ingesting it or by getting in tangled it and we find it everywhere from this in the bellies of the smallest plankton to the bellies of the large blue whales from the deepest ocean trenches into the remote parts of the arctic sea ice and and there are still questions about what that really means we know it's getting into the food chain and we know that twenty five to twenty eight percent of fish when you pull them off the market shelf have plastic pellets in their bellies now usually humans don't eat the bellies of fish but you know there are a lot of questions that still has to be answered in terms of what the real impact
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of this tremendous problem is so how do you tackle a problem it's extraordinary to have mobilized so many millions of people for one day event but how do you get people to change that every day have it. well exactly i mean and the truth is that individuals are incredibly important that's why we love the international close to cleanup and world cleanup day getting people out to clean up their local parks and their their local beaches it can definitely feel like as an individual you can't have an impact but think about that number i gave last year alone our volunteers cleaned nine thousand tons of trash from that kept it out of the ocean i think it was over twenty one million items plastic that didn't get into the ocean so that's a really important starting place and it's important not just because of the plastic that we caper out of the ocean on the cleanup day but because individuals taking action whether it's through a cleanup or by skipping the straw or by using a result bag or reusable coffee mugs what you're doing is you're signaling to governments to industry to civil society to your friends and neighbors that you
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care about the ocean that you care about pollution and that you want change because it really in addition to individuals it's going to take governments it's going to take businesses it's going to take multiple strategies and multiple actors to really solve this problem from washington emily welcome thank you still ahead. flying high while staying grounded visitors to a london museum a treated to a hostile balloon experience without leaving the building. or defending champions france will have all the answers in the davis cup all have that story and much more . what really makes a good doctor. to have empathy at canada's pioneering medical school we follow the young trainees walk into a school great for integration and explore how the experience prepares them for
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life and death decisions what do you tell a mother while there's a very strong possibility that she can be burying her child canada's new doctors on the people's health on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks because people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help with details coverage here in gaza more than most places the contrast between scenes like this and the realities of daily life for so many from around the world forty years ago it was all but impossible for a foreign man or woman to live in china let alone marry a chinese but today just are no longer exceptional.
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al virtual reality is taking uses to new heights in london an exhibition in the u.k.'s capital means visitors can now take flight in a horse without ever leaving the ground but it's not just for fun developers hope the technology can have practical applications as well jessica baldwin explains seven metres in soaring in the atrium of the design museum all thanks to brain waves the weather balloon is controlled by visitors minds their electric brain pulses power the robotics which ultimately control the textile airship and now we're going to see. the each of these through virtual reality goggles the pilot sees the balloon lift inside the atrium go through the roof and soar over west london you see yourself sort of going out over kensington and yeah you just
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you just feel a bit like a balloon you sound very low in every it's amazing. but the trick is to relax the more relaxed your state's the more this balloon will will saw and rise so it's kind of based on sort of metaphors around sort of breath and meditation and this idea of like sort of consciously soaring and rising it's a fun activity for the london design festival but there are also practical applications it can help those with tents minds learn how to relax and it can revive storing adventures for people who can't move it's also a way for the museum to attract a different audience new visitors who have no interest in sleek scandinavian design when you see a balloon you're like oh wow to her memories i can i can connect with that it's cool it's the mind pilot is also about a more inclusive future where people with varying physical abilities can become
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pilots using their thoughts to fly jessica baldwin al-jazeera london time now for those with paul martin funks very much well we start with a result that has given other teams hope that new zealand's rugby union players can be beaten the all blacks lost to south africa in the rugby championship on saturday their first home defeat against the springboks in knowing years south africa were on a six game losing streak against the world champions going into the match in wellington but they went twenty four seventeen up after all and the most the new zealand have ever conceded in a first half home a thirty six thirty four defeat for them just their second loss in fifty eight home test matches. well the result really shaking up the table with south africa now with threats to the all blacks at the top another shock on saturday australia losing at home to argentina twenty three nineteen in that one the puma's first win on australian soil in thirty five years well formula one world title leader lewis
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hamilton is in pole position for the singapore grand prix after a stunning performance in qualifying. this year fifty lap. street circuit was expected to favor the ferrari of hamilton's title rivals at last in vettel but the mercedes driver was able to claim the seventy ninth pole of his career while vettel finished down the third red bulls match for stuff that will start sunday's race second on the grid. wow wow that was a hard core of my existence. that felt like magic. i don't really know where it came from but it all came together. naturally want to say thank you to to the team back to factory you know i was working so hard really really hard to pull out of the actual bids and today i just can't manage just that one lap just to get it right realm of dread of drop their first points of the spanish league season drawing one one at athletic bilbao but barcelona have kept up their one hundred
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percent record the defending champions went to goal down to real sociedad his elliston those scoring for the busk side but goals from that man luis suarez and. got all three points well former rail star cristiana and aldo will be looking for his first goal for your ventus when they place us through low in the italian syria on sunday column one slot is not pally made sure they kept pace with uva at home to fewer untying on saturday arcadius milica picked out lorenzo in sing eight for the only goal of the game with just over ten minutes to play napoli are second level online points with you very you have sunday's game in hand. liverpool of made it five wins out. five in the english premier league they beat tottenham to want wembley goals from jeanie one album from a no continued liverpool's perfect start of the season erik lamela scored a late consolation for spurs it's liverpool's best start to a campaign since one nine hundred ninety it was
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a very good performance maybe all best against tottenham opes so all in all the years since i'm in. well no mention only five percent less and probably would have lost probably so that's really hard and told them it's probably not have been the moment with the result in a bit of performance but because we broke the good was so difficult for two of them today i don't think the problem bluebird reigning champions manchester city beat fullam three know what for the last one hundred percent record after a two one home defeat to manchester united chelsea a top of the table on goal difference after a four one win over cardiff at and scoring a hat trick the maldives have beaten india to win south asian football suzuki cup it's the second time the country of less than half a million people has defeated india in the final the last time was ten years ago so a whole new generation was on the pitch in bangladesh's capital dhaka abraham hussain put them one zero up after ninety minutes and allie fuzzy had doubled that we've just over twenty minutes left
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a late goal couldn't change things for india who have played an under twenty three team of the tournament they miss out on an eighth trophy he wants the maldives in this final cannot a go of can and cannot alvarez had to be separated at the weigh in at of their middleweight title fight the rematch between two of the best pound for pound boxes in the world is coming up in las vegas their first fight finished in a draw this one should have happened in may but alvarez failed to drugs tests for the steroid clenbuterol for milan likes welterweights world champion i'm a car was beaten by alvarez two years ago can told us earlier that alvarez is doping history may give goal of can an advantage in this fight. allo is not a big not the speaker you normally use he's a lot more live now with a lot more. in there and he used to be no escape so you know you don't know if maybe was something he was taking for a long long time now what a fight you is off thinking and some sort of substance like stay right the way out
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one mentally when that's taking away from your mentee that's going to play a very big part in the game because it's going to seem power is going to the seams is going to be s.b. and stronger. so this is what's going to tell a little bit i mean you're not going is there to champion the best don't beat the best not get one out of the. limbic champion himself and i just think you have the number four on the fly again even though the first fight was very well i just being this fight i could see a lot of q knocking out her mellow because maybe he is off all those substances french tennis player beneteau retired after the u.s. open this month but an injury crisis in his country's davis cup team meant he got an emergency call up for france and has now seen them through to the final he teamed up with nicola who as france took their tuna lead over spain into the
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doubles on saturday. and showed that's an old dog new tricks and when a point with them to. spain's marcel granollers unflinching on a lopez unable to take a set off them and expect a dream ending to benetton his career barring another comeback for the final. olympic champions brazil have fallen to a surprise to fit to the netherlands at the world volleyball championships the dutch are lowly twenty fifth in the world and fell a separate high in the number one ranked brazilians but they won the next three and go above the south americans in third in pole be their last world championship win against brazil nine hundred sixty six. mario in london ali thank you very much full well that wraps up the news but i will be back in a moment with a full news a full round up of the day's top stories coming up very shortly do stay with al-jazeera in a couple of minutes time. we
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