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an election that many were calling a test of the young democracy has resulted in the president conceding defeat mean appeared on national television to acknowledge he had lost the race to his only rival opposition leader mohamed salam for official results show he won fifty eight percent of the vote for the news our reporting. many had expected monday's president abdullah yemen to win the election then it was feared that he would not accept the result but hours after early poll results showed that his rival one yemen conceded defeat. of deviant people have decided what they want to the results from yesterday. has been in political turmoil under yamin during his five year tenure two former presidents a prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in controversial trials on the eve of the vote opposition leader ibrahim mohammed so hales campaign office was raided by police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered preliminary
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results on monday showed that so one fifty eight point three percent of the votes electoral commission said voter turnout in the country of four hundred thousand people was eighty nine point two percent the u.s. had threatened sanctions if the elections were not free and fair the message is loud and clear the people of the most want change justice and stability. in the next five years we will consider their democracy by guarantee in human rights and ensuring accountability we will establish a peaceful than just society for the electoral commission will announce the official results in seven days but with president conceding what is left now is to see if the hale will keep his election promises and try to reform the country morgan algis there are a lot more news still to come for you including these stories the u.k.'s opposition leader flirts with the idea of supporting a referendum on brics it. hello
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welcome to another look at the international forecast the weather is set fair across southern and eastern parts of china now a little area cloud there into central areas and that will just drift its way further south which as we go on through the next couple of days you can see the hans some very heavy rain possibility some localized flooding further east twenty four celsius in shanghai thirty one in hong kong similar temperature as we go on through the next couple of days there is a wealth east winds continue to drift in but that rain will just sink a little further southwards in the process but for the for the time big central and eastern parts down to water southeast we'll see a more in the way of drier weather dry weather to wade through a good part of india but up towards the north into which all protest we're seeing some very heavy rain recently beneath this band of cloud further south there we go
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we want to see showers right down the western gas the northeastern kona seeing some heavy rain showers long spells of rain too into bangladesh and also into the northeast of india see temps going up to twenty nine celsius in new delhi picking up to thirty four as we go on through where to stay so the winds starting to come back in from all the south westerly direction thirty one there in karachi fine and but plenty of rain to the southwest. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing humankind in the twenty first century war climate change and technological destruction facing realities whatever is there is not in me it is in the people. hear their story on talk to al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job.
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these are your headlines so far today let's just have a skip through the top stories for you russia supply a specialist missile defense system to syria it comes just a week after one of its planes was shot down by inaccurate syrian anti-aircraft fire killing fifteen the russian defense ministry says israeli jets hid behind its aircraft which the israeli air force denies. the president of the multi-verse has conceded defeat in sunday's presidential election mean appeared on national t.v. to acknowledge she'd lost the race to his only rival the opposition leader mohammed sala provisional results show he won fifty eight percent of the vote. a second
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woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh allegations in the new yorker magazine go back to capitals time and he's denied both the allegations. a new report has found the teenage girls in conflict zones are facing increasingly catastrophic consequences including sexual abuse and thoughts of suicide the study is from plan international an independent humanitarian organization it documents the. experiences of girls in south sudan the lake chad basin and the refugee camps across the border from me and ma cox's bazaar in bangladesh gets on as the c.e.o. of plan international she joins us now from the u.n. building in new york and. which countries are we saying he worst affected when it comes to this issue. well we've
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we've done these studies in. in in south sudan and in the refugee camps in bangladesh and around the lake chad reason region but we have reason to believe that in every crisis while everybody is deeply affected the adolescent girl is as you said catastrophic effected we're talking about seven in ten of the girls that we have interviewed that talk about rape violence and the deprivation of all their rights they live in daily fear how do the numbers stack up between those well between one region and those three countries that you're talking about what if it's possible what's the total number of young women who are in this situation. well in each of these prices we're talking about children being at least half of the population of refugees so so with the global refugee crisis of over sixty
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million we're talking twenty million young women that live in daily fear that are rapes that have no access to services. and what we're really fearing is that while a patient only goes get mentioned the humanitarian reports they are really. at the center of the debate and that's what we're trying to change why does it happen and is there a risk here that it's almost becoming normal lines to mean for the past eighteen months or two years we regularly have conversations about rape being used as a weapon of war and there is no one organization nationally or internationally stepping forward and saying this shouldn't happen but it should be policed you know those refugee camps say for the reading goes for the n.g.o.s they've got a difficult job just running the refugee camps let alone safeguarding these young
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women from this kind of problem. you know we have become so professionalised in the humanitarian world and there are so many things we can do we can bring water in we can bring health services in we can bring education in many of these situations and of course we can also with real dedication and focus listen to the young girls have them help to sign the programs so if it needs political will it needs real intent by the humanitarian community to listen to the girls in the programs we are deeply embedded in some of these camps and we often find that young girls aged ten or fifteen or or eighteen have never been. what they would like to do hopes and dreams they fear just starting by listening to. the humanitarian professional field really needs to
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step up and with the dedication. work with these young women ok. in new york at the u.n. building thank you so much. a small independence political party has been officially banned in hong kong in a move raising new questions about the territory state's freedom of speech the government accuses the group of threatening national security. it's a small group promoting independence from china but the government has deemed a threat to national security the party is now banned in hong kong what. is. all the. spreads hatred and discrimination against maine and on call the police made the initial recommendation
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the government agreed but the party later says he doesn't advocate violence and made this statement at the city's foreign correspondents club in august due to the nature of how the chinese propaganda machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to this single word independence in reality what the national party is choosing now is no different from what many homeowners wish for the team of democracy the decision to ban this group is unprecedented in hong kong but is considered a strategic move by the government to muzzle the problem independent sentiment as beijing acts on any challenge to its sovereignty the vast majority of hong kong people do not believe that independence is a realistic option but there has been increasing the sentiment against
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a tiny so far these against intervention in hong kong and naturally hong kong people feel that they're all bad news their lifestyles have been sacked a phone call is a semi autonomous territory under the so-called one country two systems deal which is part of the official handover from great britain to china more than two decades ago that means hong kong enjoys freedoms unsane on the mainland including freedom of speech but that space for political dissent is shrinking. pro independence activist and a chair was prohibited from standing for election six democratically elected pro-democracy politicians were disqualified from the city's parliament the national party plans to hold a public protest on tuesday but the government says any member of the group will be fined up to twelve thousand dollars or face up to three years in jail if they speak out sirrah clock al-jazeera hong kong amnesty international is calling on china to end what it calls
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a campaign of forcing minority muslims and so-called reeducation camps is demanding beijing reveals the fate of an estimated one million muslims swept up in a crackdown in xinjiang province medalists as the east asia director for amnesty he's in bangkok nicholas bekele and one million people that's an unprecedented number are you sure about the statistics here. well yes we are pretty sure that we have two million people who are not currently i would simply enter into normal range. is based on what facial document where local officials report the percentage of the. anthony groups that they have a put through cans full of the photos of rewiring the political thinking in raising their islamic belief and reshaping their identity so this is
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a president did prices even for a region that as long. a time is ruled and has become a open air prison for this minorities will still make the majority of this region ok even to separate to my next question because i was going to ask you are these reeducation camps in effect prison camps you seem to be saying yes they are but when you talk about them having their political thinking rewired are these people who are being held overtly politicized anyway i mean have they got an individual or a group history of proselytizing or not or are they just being taken away because they self identify as being muslims. well this sounds like down to five. being members of ethnic minorities in china john i recovered i did fifty six ethnic minorities among the band and we were as in the kazakhs in xinjiang and
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just by virtue of being a member of this group the chinese government considers them suspects it inactive regulations called regulations against the extremely thick ation in two thousand seventeen where you can be a target for already geisha and simply for wearing a beard of they're not allowed to roam lands wearing a hit job talking to about religion to your children praying five. a day. fasting during the run of down this is also considered to be a suspect behavior and a sign of religious extremism so no there were no. real. concrete objective criteria for the government to arrest detain and often torture people in these camps just being an ethnic minority in the
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complex can is a not very briefly nicholas please are these people told when they're taken to these camps are they told you here for three months you're here for six months or does the door get locked behind them and they are in there indefinitely. well i think that at this point this is what the chinese government wants but the reality is that this takes place outside of any legal process so these people are there possibly in indefinitely and out is why the families of the people we've interviewed are afraid and why i've been speaking out where are their relatives they have hundreds of thousands of people in prison camps and no one has any formation about them it's high time for the chinese government to a calm for years and force these appearances and explain to the world why. we're doing up to a million people are in prison camps simply for their religious belief ok many
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thanks ukraine's prime minister series may holding her first cabinet meeting today since e.u. leaders rejected her bricks it plans at a summit in salzburg mrs may is expected to come under intense pressure from probe ranks of m.p.'s to pitch her plan and accept a free trade deal the stalemate prompting the opposition labor party to push for a second referendum they're having their party conference in liverpool not in barbour is that. well the new labor text on its bricks it starts came off to five hours of difficult talks on sunday chaired by kiss down with the party's shadow bricks it negotiates her and many and she breaks it campaign is here sounded extremely happy afterwards because they said that the would had basically taken away the option of the party pushing for a people's vote on any british deal and now it simply says that if there is no
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general election then the party keeps open all of its options including campaigning for a people's vote of people's votes possibly meaning either accept the deal which the government has come back from brussels with or the status quo remaining in the european union that's what the anti brics account here want and in the last few hours kids stahmann has said that option has not has clearly not been ruled out but the shadow chancellor john mcdonald has hinted very strongly in an interview that the the people's votes would simply be on the deal and it would not speak about whether or not britain should stay in the european union one of his big union allies len mccluskey head of unite the union says that the a re running as he sees it of the twenty sixteen referendum would be seen by many labor voters as undemocratic and damage the party some opinion polls suggest that in fact moving towards that anti bricks and stones would pick up hundreds of
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thousands of votes around the country that the debate here is still going on the party gets to vote for it at conference on choose day but clearly the leadership favorite outcome in the next few weeks or months is a general election where they will say how they plan to take the country out of the european union with the least damage to the economy and to workers' rights that's not good enough for some people here but it's all very very much up to play for at the moment. well you just joining us my name's peter dhabi this is al jazeera live from doha these are your headlines new weaponry will soon be on its way to the syrian military but russia says it's about protecting its planes the kremlin has announced it will be sending the s. three hundred missile defense system to its ally now that comes just days after one of its aircraft was shot down by inaccurate syrian anti-aircraft fire on sunday the russian defense ministry blamed israel for the incident in which twenty five u.s.
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service men died it says israeli jets hid behind its aircraft pushing it into the path of syrian fire israel denies the russian accusations world leaders have started gathering in new york for a un general assembly that's likely to see some intense discussions the us president donald trump has been at the u.n. h.q. building at a meeting on global drugs problems but the interests is in the days ahead he's set to speak to the general assembly on tuesday as is the iranian leader hassan rouhani tensions between the two powers is growing following an attack in the iranian city of ours two days ago a second woman has now come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and the allegations go back to cavanaugh's time at yale the senate judiciary committee is preparing to hold a hearing on thursday for kavanaugh and christine blousy for the first woman who said he sexually assaulted her as a teenager. the president of the mall deaves has conceded defeat in sunday's
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presidential election mean appeared on national t.v. to acknowledge he had lost the race to his only rival the opposition leader. provisional results show he won fifty eight percent of the vote hong kong's band of pro independence political party accusing it of being a threat to national security this unprecedented move means anyone who runs or supports the hong kong national party can be fined or jailed the government invoked a colonial era law that was previously used to target organized crime britain's prime minister to resign may is holding her first cabinet meeting since e.u. leaders rejected her brics it plans at this summit in salzburg in austria mrs may is expected to come under intense pressure from pro bricks of m.p.'s to ditch her plan and accept a free trade deal the stalemate is prompting the opposition labor party to push for a second referendum you are right up to speed with all our top stories up next it's
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a machete. this will have to political dynasty is being revived in indonesia twenty years after the fall of the president named as one of the most corrupt and brutal leaders in recent history. the youngest son so hostile this meeting a new political party to run in elections next year. don't be so hostile. time to give him his proper name is aiming to reinstate the policies of his father who ruled in the only she could japanese. upstart fast and so on this week on talk to al-jazeera were following me so hot the western
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tories helpful regions in indonesia and this year. the palace in full of a special royal title to gain popular support despite accusations that his family has amassed billions of dollars of corruption money doing so have to rule i know nations willing to give and not a chance. they've . been given. the money. so. it becomes many others of them are seen as i did a lot of my love to get back on the evil good german young who loved me and. i
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never saw the bottom but what i knew how to step above the. other the only thing i got invited to the. united nations and also transparency international have sat that. has stolen more from the nation state than any other president has done and asked between fifteen billion to thirty five billion dollars ask the met what do you say about that. but ended up. with a new young maybe i don't know a lot of the. seriousness about it a lot of the somebody's got a. lot of money but as a body we can but at the gaps or the. number that made a lot of them i don't. want to do. and you don't have very open
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of my issue that my dad had. a. corruption with debbie ben so. it's about to see the new that. young young young man did at that minute and said i. got up. twenty years ago one thousand in lesions are estimated to have died during the riots that destroyed shopping malls and homes in the capital jakarta at least eighteen ethnic chinese women were raped the bloodshed began after the asian financial crisis caused the currency and the stock market to crash the unrest asking me to twenty all just shot for students at the university military and political leaders sad so has to have lost his grip and abandoned him politically
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isolated to step down on may twenty first one thousand nine hundred eighty. but it was regularly every month out of one of the doubt of seeing the bike and i'm back in my life so i had a moment i'm going to be separated them i said that and that i am. up in the. well . and i did i just had a fancy to see but i am bringing up a body of men and some of. them that we. and i'm among them better than you that we have but that's to me that's sort of. near the last. of my home. to the needy mathematic i some of them with a mini they've been the when the that the number of days with them by this but i said. when we go back to maine one thousand nine hundred eight and your father was
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forced to step down do you remember what was the situation right then and what were you feeling. yeah it's a government money the. schematic that we keep that i knew what we're going to busting up with the why do best to go bust but less made it on to me. and i put the but i'm not going to my monkey get on with mung be. seen go up and i'm like i better to be can. be they the. the. amount christmas money they get up there that they do bury what i want to buy a lot of money in the mission up with the same number like i was when i see the ceiling. when i bessie and among them can buy that on when we get the putting out and being in there with them and beating it up be then
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that i am young. i could say i'm good equipment and. so you saying this whole thing was organized orchestrated so who was behind it. so there are men women but i think a lot of the so i bet i know hearing young i'm like those white men that i am you know i did a lot on him in africa than i. think. they have been accusations against former general a bull has actually been a presidential candidate in two thousand and fourteen that he was behind a finance is that true. mcginty but i looked up and i have a. very good sort of given up when. i got on line and up on that he said the support. among among but no idea.
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do that do that but it would and i did that we did that but we did. what. n.p.t. and i think ninety eight exactly twenty years ago thousands of people students took to the streets all asking for the resignation of your father don't you think they really want to tempt to go yeah don't you know that even if that's the south the or the that much is what you that most of the are. going to do then with all of this i am. myself as much as. you like i'm not i don't like. sort of other than that and but i pressed on about a lot of it that i did up on. and when we play and when you see that i wish that i wouldn't do that it will go up and going to. follow when she'll have to say resignation time so thousands of students demanded
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justice for a day sat for human rights violations and widespread corruption more than one million indonesians died during mass killings during his rule in the one nine hundred sixty thousand. others were jailed without any legal process. despite the demands for justice and the return of the billions he and his children were accused of stealing from the state the former strongman was never brought to court the united nations and transparency international to clear it so hard to have stolen more state assets any of the world leaders long after so hostis down in two thousand and eight supreme court judge's order to his family to repay nearly four hundred million dollars that money taken from state companies was transferred to private suharto foundations register a scholarship provide us the money has yet to be returned. if the government for example would establish
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a team to go look for all this money for all these billions of dollars what would you say. but that's not happening because i'm not saying that no matter but we didn't want to put out a book the it was the one issue politically and was very open with the. and then there is the verdict against the foundations the soeharto foundations and you are ordered to pay back four hundred million us dollars by the supreme court in two thousand and fifteen until now no money has been returned. there but i've never believed it but little. yes on the way up on the mayor yeah some. so i mean nobody. is going to give money seven. you know double number yes and it's also the. on the message that man was good with that he but i don't not that one hundred that it will mean that it. will be. that i'm sort of.
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up on this one. than that but i think that my understanding. that young man with. a little bit in. that mode but i mean the idea of. when one's young woman that it's a long time that especially. now that the bible you know if. i get a bang do that as i'm going to be. in the past twenty years has become one of most vibrant democracy with regular elections down to the lowest level of government even if speech vocal protest on the socially. or widening gap between rich and poor has become the main focus of the opposition parties including those you form work party.
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to join coming of the young in and number way ticket and my son that any young get us to the door without. a pharmacy that we can be better. than get up and. get the besetting. yet. i don't think i've been set on the strictly come and then you read about it because we see. in a moment to economically i've been. very very it played it. by them don't you think too many people are still traumatized by the presidency and the policies of president a hostile and they won't vote for your party. god i don't know i don't want to.
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see that in order but i do think that and then perhaps it is. my when i got into it i mean i don't need to study what exactly do people miss from the time so fast and so high school. and some of this and i said no it is more the end economy you know but then we'll be back again. how did i go but i knew that would be the jungle but many indonesians would say that the reforms have given them more freedoms this democracy there are elections now do you really seem to want to give that up so i get asked. about it the that. would be more pressing. i wouldn't. do that then i don't see that because i'm a monk. but i still am there but the bottom of. it and.
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when i've done that. with the. club have been done i. mean i'm looking. i thought william when he can. so i somebody. you don't like. to become but them when economy be that it's about. i get about people back then but about them what they get i get that i don't seem up. but out the smell a bunch of them but. when you open. but he didn't but. what about you got him to get at the marriott. to get at the minute. but actually the depth at the moment are less than that that's going to time off precedents for house to which were fifty seven percent off the g. and now it's less
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than thirty percent so what you're saying is actually not true yet but it may be about on my step i make my believe. that. the children with the baby with you know when they might be. going to make it better. than. i remembered by the time i invest i think i did the initial. money going with the wish to debate the baby. was one of the victims of this so hard to believe as a student activist he became part of the underground pro-democracy movement he was kidnapped in one thousand nine hundred eighty and taken to a secret prison where he was tortured and by so have to special forces.
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few weeks after so have to step down from power to. the new order or his emotion out of. authoritarianism repressive. and also brutal. so that's for me based on my life experience and i think that is also exactly the reason why i. made two tickets to go. move and rise. and i seem to go and. have been on then nineteen and the edmund i was abducted by the special i'm porthos of the army. for did you know look at that portrait for two days. and. you know it it. changed
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my life this is the family of soeharto and i had this like the you know criminal crimi know yes the operator of the people those who stole the people money and his the family of soeharto you know loss so there is writing here for me the. right for me here as the son of the criminal and also who commit the corruption call us and then the pollution and they put these i'm after what happened to you during this a hostile regime the torture and the kidnapping how do you feel that his son tommy soeharto is now going back into politics. first thing that's democracy that we have now which is the result of our struggle to
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tickets to go and everyone has democratic right to including to establish a political party but i believe that the idea of a five thing they're teaching the practice of the heart of will never be accepted by the initial people what will they sell to the people there is no peace into our time prosperity there is no price but at the as in in suharto time the prosperity in that the you know they sell to people is fake you know it's not that it's not true that when they said at that time the price is very cheap of course at that time was very cheap also because of the failure of money and now is a year but also because why it was cheap at the time is because of the foreign debt you know the subsidy huge subsidy which make us not able to do anything at the time
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and yet the time is like orderly peace because we are silence. you know because every sailing in our house is like the intelligent if and the people cannot criticize the government even in the family during they are having dinner for example so at the time the country is built on fear if we look at all the students around us they were asking for so have to be brought to court and also to bring back the money that he allegedly had stolen from the indonesian state where now twenty years later he has never been to court yet the money has never been found or we turn how do you feel about that we are disappointed suharto and the crazy is not yet brought to court. but we are sure that it is
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a matter of of of time you know that policeman for new order is seen is not only in the form that so hard as a person is brought to court. it can also happen with the show punishment by the people for example that the political parties get into a fight themselves as the political party of three hundred dollars can also be punished by the people by the people not for thing to thing that political party and the young people now is are already you know knowing what happened in the past and also in the. short past two tickets ago but what happened in one thousand in ninety eight and they will be the one to for the election. dummy soeharto is the only member of his family convicted of corruption
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a supreme court judge sentenced him to eighteen months in prison for eleven million dollar land deal scam instead of going to jail eighteen years ago so have to son went into hiding soon after the supreme court judge sentenced him. in two thousand and two to was again sentenced this time for fifteen years for ordering the charges murder he was released after serving four years. you've been convicted in a murder case when a supreme court charge has been murdered you got fifteen years in jail don't you think this will have a very bad impact on your political party and your electability. milly by a bigger. your own power. he didn't tell you. that.
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but i do them. but i don't then when the mater say he doesn't know whenever. he hears how much of the. movie i think. that's what i think that's what my. point. but i mean. when i'm going to. think upset i. decided.
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that. if the damage about it we're going to go. down when you have got. the body but i don't i said i. had to go up but there was. that there was a there. there was i did. if you're going to be elected president would you keep this current democratic system in indonesia. and among the deputy that it. will be. funded by
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the. high cost. you know and then he does it as how that is a box with yap a high cost and i see that i don't need to play see them as. well because we. don't move on me to let the middle. become what i have been that might perceive it to have a similar demand that that least. a me on. the if i may have been able actually to sell a bit of. english put my finger up on how to. get that. would let me put. it into the be said jackie please then when i do a pickup would work out and say you've got me so i don't. think anybody can grow up with. that much out of the.
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the grid on strike the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees that had its funding topped by the united states so now thirteen thousand workers walked off the job in protest they say it's a warning about the dangers threatening to stop if they remain on the front and i thought the concerns of the moldings election not being free and fair turns out the opposition has won and convincingly look at what lies ahead for the people of the old days and their president elect him. and hundreds of people are protesting in haiti they're accusing politicians of stealing money meant for social and economic reforms and comment. on the hash tag. lead. with the new. streaming online through you tube facebook live and at. al jazeera dot com and russia has announced it is going to supply a specialist missile defense system to syria now as ever the timing is interesting
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just a week it is after a russian plane was shot down by inaccurate syrian anti-aircraft fire on sunday the russian defense ministry blamed israel for that incident in which twenty five servicemen died saying israeli jets hid behind its aircraft thus pushing it into the path of that syrian fire israel denies those russian accusations israeli air force regularly syrian air space saying that it targets hezbollah positions well the assad government has long wanted to get its hands on this s. three hundred missile system but russia's actually held off selling it in recent years because of pressure from israel the soviet designed system can be spread across hundreds of kilometers with radar and warheads based on several flatbed vehicles can be used to defend against aircraft and missile attacks and fired at targets on the ground in iran and china own versions as well of the s. three hundred greases got them as well it is considered powerful but not all in
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recent years some western powers have developed technology which it's believed could successfully evade detection from the s. three hundred let's try to clear all of this up with rory chalons following events from moscow for us good evening rory the kremlin says this is about protecting its planes on the face of it that makes sense it doesn't want any more of its planes shot down but how much for that is a go than that. well it's interesting i think that the kremlin and the russian ministry of defense seem to be coming from slightly different angles in this the kremlin is saying that it regards what happened a week ago the downing of this plane as an unfortunate accidents and the supply of s. three hundred at offensive to syria is not targeted it is right it's not targeted at any third any other country it's basically about private protecting russian
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service personnel inside syria the ministry of defense though has a much angrier take on things it is pointing the finger specifically at israel it is linking the supply of s. three hundred to syria to what happens last week and says that basically israel has changed the situation and that's why it has to supply syria with this weaponry the weaponry essentially is going to give sophisticated modern missile technology to the syrian military for the first time in the course of this conflict and it will have to make israel think twice about its tactical approach to striking targets inside syria something that it's done so you hundred times over the last few years that may have finished some of that relationship that i mentioned it just a moment ago between israel and russia where there's been this pressure not to sell the s. three hundred from israel or purchase from israel i should say. yeah
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you're right i mean russia and israel have a pretty good working relationship when it comes to many things but also when it comes to syria now you know russia does. not particularly like what israel does inside syria that you know israel strikes against hezbollah targets it strikes against iranian targets but russia acknowledges that israel has certain national security interests which it allows. israel to this you inside syria so you know that has been the status quo essentially for the last two or three years at least and it has worked pretty well both for moscow and for israel. we have basically now entering a new dynamic a new relationship between these two countries something that is much more
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adversarial we'll have to wait and see i think how hard israel tries to work to get back to how things were before this event seems to have soured relations significantly whether that is possible or whether israel tries to kind of work with the new premises that russia seems to be setting for israeli military activity in syria for i can suffer a challenge live in moscow for us on the grids and now to our strength visiting fellow at the center for conflict security and terrorism at nothing in university nice to have you with us again is the bottom line here well there are many bottom lines i suspect that is one of them the simple fact that syria gets missiles the strength and sophistication of which it hasn't had before. well it does seem to be that that is what's going to happen. come out but nothing is certain in politics as you have already explained in the beginning of this
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program that these missiles were. kept back from the syrians the syrians had purchased them but because of israeli pressure on russia and russians willingness to cooperate with israel they've kept these back what we now see is that. russia appears to be convinced now it wasn't originally that this downing of the russian aircraft was not a tragic accident but something that they believe the israelis had premeditated if that there is any truth in that the israelis will probably except that they need to negotiate with the russians they might provides alternative assurances to the russians in return for them not sending these missiles forward so there is always room for negotiation this threat to our or this declaration of the
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missiles were going to be supplied to the russians may well be part of the diplomatic pressure that russia wants to put back on to israel to to draw some military concessions so we at this stage i think it's too early to tell how this will pan out clearly if there is a diplomatic understanding it will be good if there isn't the the israelis will not be very comfortable and it could escalate tensions into something less pleasant does it look like a regardless of whether happens or not a quote unquote smart move by vladimir putin once again putting him in the middle if we imagine it almost like a chess board he's able to play all the pieces at once. well i'm not sure that this particular incident is designed to do that it's a reaction what i think president putin and his ministration is doing is
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letting it be known that it will not. stand by and have its military targeted. if they genuinely believe this was a deliberate target a denial if you like operation which they now are probably have some electronic intelligence to show that it wasn't deniable it wasn't an accident it was premeditated if that's the case i think. president putin will be on a bound from his perspective to make sure that the message comes out loud and clear to the israelis indeed to the u.s. and its other allies the gulf states and that is russia continues to have a role to play it is cooperating with the coalition but that cooperation is is dependent on good relations from the other side so it's part of than the
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narrative that's been continuing through the the syrian conflict for the last several years or so it's always a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time. plenty of comments coming through already on the live stream content it has on screen if you just now but i'm hearing on facebook already a lot of you actually saying well done russia in this case a bear saying thanks to russia for helping syria farzana says russia is the only country who isn't afraid to stand up to either america or israel but jonathan also pointing out while people actually see russia or as the heroes in differing opinions that's what we always like facebook dot com as they were for the live stream plus one seven four five one triple one four nine for a what's up and telegram line priyanka resign duty to not producing looking for your comments and questions the hash tag is a news group we move on now to the maltese where there's been a stunning upset in sunday's presidential election president abdullah i mean was widely expected to win mostly because all of his rivals were in jail but he has now conceded defeat to the opposition leader abraham mohammad so the victory what looks
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to be over fifty percent of the vote has been morgan has the full story. many had expected now this president abdullah yemen to win the election then it was feared that he would not accept the result but hours after early poll results showed that his rival one yemen conceded defeat we are going to be hard i'll give you and people have decided what they want i've accepted the results from yesterday that. has been in political turmoil under yamin during his five year tenure two former presidents a prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in controversial trials on the eve of the vote opposition leader ibrahim mohammed so hails campaign office was raided by police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered preliminary results on monday showed that so one fifty eight point three percent of the votes the electoral commission said voter turnout in the country of four hundred thousand people was eighty nine point two percent the us had threatened sanctions if the
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elections were not free and fair. the message is loud and clear the people of the most want change just this instability. in the next five years we will consolidate democracy by guaranteeing human rights and ensuring accountability we will establish a peaceful and just so society for all military commission will announce the official results in seven days but with president yemen conceding what is left now is to see if the hill will keep its election promises and try to reform the country morgan al-jazeera. we've got patricia goldman with us now an associate director at human rights watch joining us from brussels to talk about this hi patricia my first thought actually is even though we have had a concession from the president is this also not get do we should we still wait for official results and have it one hundred percent confirm because you just feel it could be a chance he might still want to hang on to power well.

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