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it's not in me it is in the people of canada hear their story on talk to al jazeera . more children among the dead in the war in yemen as the saudi led coalition intensifies airstrikes against you see rebels. hello again peter will be here in doha you are watching al-jazeera these are the other top stories voters head to the polls in syria's first local election since the start of the seven year long civil war. a storm surge sends huge waves into hong kong as the city is forced into shut done by typhoon monk court plus. they call themselves the gypsies of helping you and they lived in this neighborhood for centuries and now they say local authorities want to throw them out from the
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fashion popular reporting from southern france. our top story a new wave of airstrikes has been launched on yemen targeting a key highway in the province of the data who the rebels are reporting more than thirty five air strikes since early on sunday morning the saudi and iraqi coalition strikes have been targeting what's known as kilo sixteen heading east to the red sea ports is one of the main supply routes to the capital sana'a which is held by who's the rebels simmons has more now from djibouti just across the red sea. by the day there have been escalations in the offensive against the data and the who the rebels who are trying to defend it however now it would seem looking at all the multiple reports that it is now much heavier than ever before and for those on the ground civilians and fighters alike it's very intense indeed there are reports that
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a radio station has been attacked the who things say four civilians died there the saudi. led coalition disputes that saying it is a command center for the who thinks i don't it is a target and then we have outside of the battle grounds in the data a situation that gets more desperate all the time people actually vine leaves as a form of survival this leads to a whole series of other medical problems for young children and babies unlike and there is now a critical situation getting worse over time involving malnutrition all this maybe pressure on the politicians and the diplomats but where are we right now well the u.n. he is leading a diplomatic offensive suggesting that data has to fall in order to bring the who is to the goetia asian however there is themselves have been meeting u.n.
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officials in amman and the u.n. special envoy martin griffis is supposed to be going to sana'a to see firsthand the situation a memorandum of understanding has been signed in amman in which the booth is will get permission to move people who are injured from santa to reportedly now karo in egypt that is what we're hearing whether this is going to be leading to any form of breakthrough is very unclear bearing in mind a week of fighting changes so much in the stance of the u.s. a saudi led coalition may be very different now to what it was a week ago that is speculation but this is not just fighting it's also politics and diplomacy all mixed into warm very lethal mix. the polls have opened across government controlled parts of syria in the first local elections there since the start of the civil war in twenty eleven state t.v.
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show voters casting their ballots in damascus and other mostly coastal areas local council is considered the first step in the reconstruction process the government says more than forty thousand candidates are running for almost eighteen and a half thousand seats for the first time the syrian government is promoting the centralisation newly elected members will be expected to have more responsibility particularly in areas such as reconstruction and development syrian troops now control around two thirds of the country after scoring a series of military victories over recent months including around damascus and in the south of the country. as a syrian government's expert and research or with the london school of economics and political science he says the law makes the vote complex. the general election law in syria or what's called the law number five for two thousand and fourteen it's the rights to votes for local elections or bays or something called the
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electoral look ality which means that you can only vote physically in the place when you were born or in the place that you have. been so if you're a from alipore and been living for in damascus for thirty years you cannot vote for the misspell of the mascot's you have to physically cast your ballot in a liberal in order to to be able to participate in these elections so these these the law hasn't changed so in a way that we have now six million more than six million i.d.p.'s they don't have the right to vaults. unless the kents physically cast their ballots in their areas and we all know that's that's that's up possible for a lot of areas there's no safe ways to reach into areas in order to put speed in this process so all of the most of these six million i had these are not allowed to vote forward based on this the syrian law of elections also for her bits absentee voting or voting by proxy so all four local elections are also refugees or people
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living outside of the syrian borders also going to vote so we say we we are we're facing a very strange elections when half of the people they cannot participate freely in these elections so who's voting morse of the people voiding who are living in their areas right now but they cannot avoid for the municipality s. in their original homes. the syrian government says is intercepted israeli missiles fired at the airport in damascus street t.v. broadcast this video apparently showing air defenses that work israel has neither confirmed nor denied the reported surface carried more than two hundred tanks against iranian targets inside syria in the last two years. the store. that's already left twenty five people dead in the philippines has created a day of chaos in hong kong the city was in complete shock for much of sunday with the highest alert level in place typhoon one court cranes and shattered windows in
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high rise buildings across the city many main roads were blocked as dozens of trees fell with winds of up to two hundred ten kilometers an hour but the storm is slowly leaving the territory and heading towards the southern province of guangdong in nearby macau the government turns for the first time shut down all of its casinos due to the extreme weather the former portuguese colony also issued its highest storm alert officials have come under heavy condemnation over how they've been handling another signal ten typhoon last year which left widespread damage and killed twelve people sarah clarke now from central hong kong the worst of it has now passed but we still have a t. ten in place which as we've discussed before is the most powerful hurricane signal on the right so we're still feeling it strong winds there's still storm surges across the harbor and offshore and now i think people are starting to emerge to have of the destruction that this typhoon has caused today we work appeared we were
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told to prepare for the worst however this has taken many people by surprise with saying basically windows blown out in huge residential and commercial buildings we've seen massive flooding intensive flooding in hotels waterfront hotels and low lying areas in the territories so as you can see and as you can hear it's been quite an extraordinary typhoon and certainly one that no one expected to be as damaging as it has been. well in the philippines at least twenty five people have been killed by the same weather system that we can slightly after it made landfall on the biggest island new zone in the early hours of saturday has left a trail of destruction in the northern province of. is there. typhoon monk arrived just as predicted vicious with its force pounding over most of northern 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
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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 may be slow to arrive 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. property and with crops in the power lines so we expect that the hype would be over soon people here tell us they were aware of the forced evacuation order by the government but following it is easier said than done that is because often
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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 and. it really hurts us we don't know where to begin 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 the 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 well under way but from past experience filipinos know it's never enough they barely had much before the typhoon and now they have even less.
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of the province north to please the south korean president is preparing for the first summit with the north korean leader kim jong un says singapore meeting with donald trump when gene will be accompanied by the plane by the pyongyang by the c.e.o.'s of the leading south korean companies when he's looking for closer economic ties with north korea despite sanctions over its nuclear program is in so far as this delegation is concerned what's your reading of the makeup i mean the people who are going to be there. it is a large delegation peter some two hundred delegates are involved if you include all of the members of the media that will be going up with this delegation and there is as you mentioned there a big emphasis on business a lot of senior executives from south korea including of course from the major corporations here the likes of hyundai and also samsung represented this i think
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reflects the moon jay ins optimism just about the process that he is now embarked upon and about the possibility of future economic cooperation between north and south korea the the possibility for example of road and rail links running the length of the korean peninsula and so on but there are also a number of other interesting inclusions on the delegates list there are for example representatives of religious groups there are also women's rights and labor rights activists included even a few sports stars and musicians so it's clear that julian i think wants to engage with north korea not only on an economic level but also on a number of different other levels such as cultural ties deeper cultural ties across the d.m.z. but of course it does come at a time when the relationship between north korea and the united states is stalled and i think the hope is from the officials here that as they've done before they
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can use this summit to kick start or to move forward the negotiations between north korea and the united states again to think isn't it once i was in there was the president has explained the goal of the upcoming summit the first is to improve and develop into korea relations secondly to mediate and catalyze the dialogue between north korea and the u.s. for denuclearization the third is to end military tension and threats of war between south and north korea. now the officials from south korea remain convinced about north korea's sincerity in all of this peter officials were saying only last week that in talks with their kim jong un that kim accepts the fact that there will have to be denuclearization within donald trump's first term which presumably means within the next two years that does seem to be a tall order given the extent of north korea's nuclear and missile development
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program but then we have seen a lot of extraordinary things in this diplomatic dance this year so who is to say what the coming week might indeed bring peter rob many thanks still to come here on al-jazeera a deadlock is broken in iraq and the parliament there finally elects a new speaker plus. the six million people in south sudan are desperate for food we'll tell you why. hello again we do want to update you on what is happening here across southern parts of china with our tropical cyclone man cood as you can see right here it is making its way just south of hong kong and really down here across the northern part of the south china sea look at the cloud extension all the way from the north and the south so the philippines still being affected by the backside of the storm
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heavy rain shows up here to the north in hong kong you are looking at really power outages transportation has been shut down across the city and we are going to be seeing a lot of flash flooding and localized flooding across much of that area let's put this into motion i want to show you what we can expect to see as we go through the next couple of days because the system is going to be making landfall probably equivalent to a category one hurricane if it was in the atlantic it is going to drop down to a tropical storm but look at all the rain we expect to see so in this rain we do expect to see some more flooding as the system makes its way towards the west and then it is going to come to the north part of probably vietnam over the next few days if we're going to be seeing some very heavy rain showers across that region very quickly across parts of south asia we are going to be seeing more heavy rain across much of the central areas here including maybe thirty four degrees with rain in your forecast but down towards the car that we are looking at partly cloudy conditions in temperature there of about thirty five degrees.
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it was a big problem because it was different people in the center of night live in beirut in the married miss universe hugh was a buoyant character on the other hand a ruthless operative fighting for the palestinian cause some israeli intelligence sources claim that the planned operation and for years these really try to find him and kill him al jazeera world examines the life of ali has son salaam the hunt for the red prince.
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welcome back let's just get a quick reminder about top stories this hour you see rebels reporting more than thirty five airstrikes in who data province since early on sunday morning the saudi emma rotty coalition has been targeting the highway heading east out of the red sea port is one of the main supply routes to the capital sana'a which is held by the who's the rebels. polls have opened across government controlled parts of syria the first local election since the start of the civil war and twenty eleven state t.v. showed voters casting their ballots in damascus and other mostly coastal areas. one of the story a storm surge has brought huge waves into hong kong as typhoon man caught passes close by the city was put on the highest alert for only the fourth time in twenty years. north carolina is bracing for more destructive flooding a storm florence continues to dump heavy rain on the eastern u.s. eleven people have died since it made landfall on friday christine salumi reports. florence arrived in the carolinas and like an unwanted guests refused to leave the
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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 it will not get out of the way and we continue to just get copious amounts of rain to 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 fresh water often in cars. don't drive across standing on moving water emergency management is sharing flood 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
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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 at how high it is right now it's different like i was wondering like how high can they get. up pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. iraqis may finally be getting a working parliament m.p.'s elected a new speaker on saturday and months of political deadlock but concern is growing the control of iraq's politics may be swinging towards pro iranian policies but matheson is in fact at home i mean 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
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a sunni muslim with strong support from the parliament's pro around shia coalition and. though he did you will 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 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 high that and the iraqi nationalist bloc led by the influential shia cleric knocked out 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
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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 within the iraqi government it may come that the u.s. to 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 the water and electricity supplies. the offices of local shia armed groups backed by iran was set on fire. but of
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a nuclear 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. years of conflict in south sudan have left more than half of its twelve million population in need of food aid for survival many have been displaced from their homes and farms and aid organizations say fighting makes it hard to reach those in need his help. this is a regular scene at sub a hospital in south sudan's capital juba children suffering from severe malnutrition come to this world every day to be treated one of them is agnes
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a russia's baby girl that she's been sick since she was six months old i try to feed her but they will i find food you have to buy food here you can't farm if his money i buy food to feed my kids if not we go to bed hungry agnes's daughter is just one of the hundreds of thousands of children unicef says are suffering from severe malnutrition here five years of civil war has left seven million south sudanese relying on relief supplies tens of thousands have been killed since president salva kiir accused his then vice president riek machar of attempting a coup the worried economy makes daily meals and affordable to many including millions of children says the outbreak of war in haiti that we have never seen this number before in twenty eight dealing with limited two hundred seventy thousand children suffering from c.b.s. given the before this is a huge number and if we don't respond quickly we will lose all districts but aid
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groups have complained repeatedly to the government about being blocked from reaching those in need by the worrying sides. the latest peace deal has been signed to end the fighting and pledges made to allow humanitarian access. witnesses that assigning say much needs to be done to ensure that happen safely with the signing up to revitalize the agreement we should publicly acknowledge it is but once they are on the road to peace but one which lies the plantation all their followers. agnes hopes that the peace deal works so she doesn't lose her child to hunger a hope shared by many mothers whose children are starving he will morgan are just their own. refugees stranded in bosnia see the been beaten stripped searched and robbed by croatian police seventeen people interviewed by all to zero said the abuse took place during attempts to pass into croatia bosnia has emerged as a new route to western europe since the e.u. tightened its borders or issues interior ministry denies the allegations. the gypsy
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communities neighborhood in the french city of purpose is being threatened with demolition son jack is one of the poorest parts of france and city officials say it's in need of renewal natasha butler is there. the sound check neighborhood is a maze of narrow streets and color for buildings for more than one hundred fifty years it's been home to a unique catalan speaking people who call themselves the gypsies of pappy but now they say the city council is demolishing the area and trying to push them out the brutal rip why destroy our history this is our neighborhood we've always lived here together it's a beautiful district so why not make it like granada was seville somewhere that tourists could come and not be scared of us instead no one helps it's dismissed as a ghetto. in the past three years local authorities have demolished more than fifty houses part of a hundred million dollar urban renewal plan they say many of the buildings are
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unsafe but people here disagree is that the middle i've lived in this house all my life i was born in it and they want to destroy i'm scared because if this form in the street i wouldn't know what to do. so campbell is part of a group of residents who say the neighborhood needs to be regenerated not demolish he says the councils ignored the area for years providing few services opportunities for people rubbish israeli collected there are no play areas for children three quarters of people are unemployed. what we want is to work with the council we want better homes it's a stay in the neighborhood a contractor back to hold community wants. some residents say city officials haven't consulted them about the plans but the deputy mayor says they've been dozens of meetings on the projects and. never wanted to there's never been a desire to gentrify the area chased out the poor population those who want to stay can and we will help those who want to move out we're not getting wise and they're
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about building homes that are clean and safe people here say it's not only about breaking buildings it's also about breaking up our community tearing apart generations of family and friends this woman says local officials i asked her to leave her house she thought she'd be gone a few days when she returned home she'd lived in for forty years was gone and she's not been offered another. they demolished my whole house with all my furniture everything i thought was only living a few days so i left all i have inside most here agree that santa jack and his people are in need of attention it's one of the poorest neighborhoods in france but what they want is to hold on to their rich past and have a say in their future natasha butler al-jazeera. more than eight million tonnes of plastic is estimated to end up in our oceans each year but in kenya unique boat
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has been launched help tackle the problem catherine sawyer reports now from a lamb on the coast of kenya. after two years of trials aras 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's 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. it's first voyage was around islands in long beach are famous for building. flip flop is expected to sail 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 and what they can do to protect the environment but building this boat is not
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the end game the team of boat builders say they used experience for the next project we wanted to have a bigger down off long twenty meters and voyage from around the cape town itself. but for all this challenge us we decided to up this problem time so we have seen what we want to plant because most of the material in one of deficient. the launch of flip floppy was on the world cleanup day when millions of people globally volunteered to clean their beaches for 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. kenya into the wild mob of using plastic in that way the right perspective you can use plastic but you can recycle it and today we have seen from rubbish.
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islanders in lamo continue to marvel at the boat builders plastically and hope the tide of trash sammis far away as asia stops washing up their home soon and everyone plays gap part in saving the ocean catherine so why al-jazeera on the kenyan coast . welcome if just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha your headlines yemen's who's the rebels are reporting more than thirty five strikes and who data province and so early on sunday morning the saudi m. iraqi coalition has been targeting what's known as kilo sixteen the highway heading east out of the red sea port is one of the main supply routes to the capital sanaa which is held by who's the rebels under simmons is covering the conflict from djibouti. both sides is the saudi u.a.e. a u.s.
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led coalition are reporting that there has been an increase in this offensive around the red sea port of the data we know we are told by both sides that a radio station has been hit though these are reporting that four civilians have been killed radio station in her data the saudi media are saying that this was an attack on a military installation in the radio station we can't verify any of these reports because there is no neutral observers on the ground a storm surge has brought huge waves into hong kong as thai food court passes close by the city was in complete shut down for much of sunday the highest alert level in place for only the fourth time in twenty years the storm knocked down cranes and shattered windows in high rise buildings across the city all businesses were closed and all public transport was closed down. in nearby my car with the government house for the first time shut down all of its casinos due to the bad weather the
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former portuguese colony also is huge its highest storm alert on sunday. at least twenty five people were killed as the typhoon hit the philippines on saturday the homes of hundreds of people have been destroyed in the northern province of color yun and some remote areas have been cut off the south korean president is preparing for the first summit with the north korean leader kim jong un since his singapore meeting with donald trump wingy in will be accompanied to pyongyang by the c.e.o.'s of leading south korean companies mr moon is looking for closer economic times with north korea despite sanctions over its nuclear program. those are your top stories so far today up next on this channel it's inside story i'll see you tomorrow usual time usual channel.
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the wrongs of its colonial past for the first time since the war of independence in algeria sixty years ago a french president admits freedom fighters were systematically. doesn't matter whether recognition of what he calls crimes against humanity change anything this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's an admission of guilt that's been shrouded in secrecy and denial for around sixty of this week french president. for the first time the one.
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