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demanding disclose the location of the church body. while the journalists fiance has given her first t.v. interview since his death was confirmed speaking to the turkish broadcaster turk. he had not wanted to go to the saudi consulate which he entered on october second before being killed by police in the u.s. have named the suspects arrested in connection with parcel bombs sent to critics of president donald trump. who was detained in the city of miami in florida people that included the democratic senators the president and former intelligence chiefs . and this one person died in kenya after a building collapsed several people are trapped in the rubble in the town of melinda the rescue workers are on the scene and more than a dozen people have been pulled out so far locals believe the collapse may have been caused by strong winds it's been more than a year now since u.s. trade and economic sanctions against sudan were lifted but since then the country's
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economy has continued to struggle with cash shortages in the banks and soaring inflation rate here but morgan reports now from the capital khartoum it no matter how mad is trying to withdraw money from his own account he needs cash to put food on the table and support his family but he says it's often not possible. to get it done us proud so i wanted to withdraw five thousand pounds or about eighty five dollars and days ago i couldn't withdraw it all sometimes there's money sometimes there's no money in the banks. economic problems began more than two decades ago when the u.s. imposed financial sanctions accusing sudan of supporting terrorism most of the sanctions were lifted last year and sudan devalued its currency in january but the economy has taken a downturn with inflation rising to nearly seventy percent people are withdrawing more of their cash to keep up with the rising prices but in recent months banks announced they didn't have enough funds to meet the demand. people came to
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us asking to withdraw money depending on the cash we had we could neither serve them or we could imagine if we couldn't we told them to look at all the ways to handle the finances such as transfers or checks if we want them to find alternatives to overcome the liquidity crisis. but that may not be easy since u.s. sanctions were lifted last year many sudanese had high hopes that the economy would improve instead getting cash from banks has become more difficult that's because sanctions weren't the only thing hurting today and the economy so then relies on oil exports for about seventy percent of its income but that took a big hit in twenty eleven when south sudan with seventy percent of the oil reserves became a separate country the government recently announced it would tighten previously introduced us thirty measures even further in an attempt to ease the situation because. of tax exemptions will be slashed except for materials needed for production some vehicles provided to officials will be withdrawn we also plan to establish a commodity exchange for gold and currencies to reduce the average inflation and
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stabilize the exchange rate of the powell. a president has forced it now almost and many others to live day by day with little cash or sometimes no cash at all people morgan al-jazeera of whom brazil's two presidential candidates are wrapping up their campaigns before the runoff vote on sunday opinion polls show the leftist workers' party candidate for now trailing the far right. road has been the cue. making sexist racist and homophobic remarks so that doesn't seem to affect his popularity to resupport for reports now from rio de janeiro. this fact checking agency is working nonstop in the days prior to the final round of brazil's presidential elections they're trying to detect false information that's being spread around the country better value less says the volume of misinformation in this campaign has been unlike anything she's seen before usually elections in
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brazil it's a strong relation with television people usually usually vote on the candidate that has more time on the t.v. campaign and this is the first year that didn't happen the candidate that had more time on t.v. didn't get that much force what we see this time is the presence of social media and the phone apps spreading a lot of choice for almost half of brazilians is said to be the messaging app what's up around one hundred and twenty million brazilians have access to this app because mobile service providers allow unlimited access to subscribers we're going to be some of the people who are fighting them with information campaign by the amount about we don't know and we saw part of a network around the country who are not only detecting this information but hitting back with facts they send the information that they question they somehow think that might be false this energy was reanalyzed and then we verify it and we
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send it back to then he was in the water so this is our main source of communication and they create animations with very fight information so it's easy to read this is why we want to share this information. gives. us short last week a local newspaper reported that companies had been hired to bulk transmit to what sub users messages attacking the leftist. and the date in the race for the man who had that and alerting about the possibility of fraud in the lections and even though the extreme right candidate also now has denied any wrongdoing if i read police an electoral court are currently investigating the companies that could be behind the massive spam well stadium's emails we would love to have the radio and effective solution but in fact we do not have one big news is not new what is new in this election for says is the speed of circulation and the fusion of this news
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which is really damaging me whatsapp has already said it was taking measures to stop companies using its service to send out bulk messages but for many the damage has already been done they said what rio de janeiro donald trump says he is sending eight hundred u.s. troops to the southern border and he wants them to stop the thousands of people from entering the united states from a seven thousand strong so-called migrant caravan they've been walking north through central america for more than a week now most of them from honduras and guatemala and say they're trying to escape poverty and gang violence john heilemann reports on the state of chop us in mexico. a slow moving stream of around four thousand five hundred people heading to the u.s. border it's unlikely they'll get there for another month or more. but they're marching these pictures of been a dominant factor in the run up to the u.s. midterm elections that's why many in the u.s.
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from the top down have speculated on who's behind the caravan of whites coming now to president hernandez upon the earth. told me that the caravan that's now making its way through mexico headed for the southern border was organized by leftist organizations and financed. by venezuela. and we is as we've seen the democrats moving and the democrats. they offered no proof those in the care of the. unlike tanya and her sister told us they weren't even aware of the u.s. elections yet my daughter not them let them wear migrating because of a lack of jobs because of the criminals not because of presidents or politics or anything like that the coming for a better future for us and our children. they say the caravan began with groups between those planning to head north when the news spread to home during t.v. others like yearly and his friends decided to join him or they climbed up but i don't
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know that just yet i realize because of reports on the t.v. the carbon is already gone ahead but just be fifty or so people and it got bigger and bigger so we came after it. but the one during government claimed this man was the mastermind behind all of it former position congressman and long term migrant activist bottle of fuentes he told us all he did was support the caravan on facebook conspiracy theories aren't necessary in this case he said the reality is simpler. it's not trump that organized this nor the democrats and not venezuela either it's hunger and poverty that i'm proud of that long term problem is just one of many factors behind the movement a previous caravan earlier this year made people see the when they travel together they were safer from gangs and also migration authorities here in mexico it also taught them that that way they didn't have to pay out fouls of dollars to people smugglers when you add all of that to the poverty violence and political
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dissatisfaction that many experienced back in honduras it's a powerful incentive to get out and to get out together. that could explain why this caravan is not the only one on the road to the u.s. and others a ready following hot in its heels john home and i would visit a chop us. the united states is imposing new sanctions on the lebanese group hezbollah and signed the measure into law before attending events to mark the thirty fifth anniversary of the attack on the u.s. marine barracks in beirut hundred forty one u.s. service personnel were killed in that bombing during lebanon's civil war islamic jihad organization claimed responsibility for the attack and senior members of the group went on to join hezbollah. inflation in yemen has nearly doubled the cost of feeding a family while at the same time having incomes charity save the children says the crumbling economy is causing more children to die from easily preventable causes
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bernard smith has more than that. doctors have told needs to buy a course of three injections to treat his daughter for diarrhea and inflammation but he can only afford one course because of soaring inflation and the collapse of a yemeni real. was in the last year before one injection cost two dollars now it's three dollars and sixty cents she needs three but they can only afford one we're suffering because of the high price of medicines and even children's milk prices have gone up in a crazy meaningless way. children end up in hospital because parents can't afford enough nutritional foods the cost of basics such as flour rice salt oil and sugar has nearly doubled since the war began three and a half years ago pharmacies are running out of medicine in the besieged port of the data gathered about them some drug companies have increased prices by fifty to sixty percent and there was a radio price hike two or three months ago sales have dropped because patients are
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only buying a quarter of what they need and that affects their health. data is yemen's major port and controlled by hoofy rebels yemenis who live here are in the middle of a battle for control between the who thinks the saudi u.a.e. led coalition fighting alongside yemeni government. for six months of fighting a school severe shortages and soaring inflation that's compounding the nationwide humanitarian crisis. with guns and then within their behinds the price of bread has doubled now if we have we eat and if we don't have we don't eat we don't ask for help from anyone we drink when we can afford to buy water if not well can we do that now my father were hit by the exchange rate we don't make any profit sell something for a certain price then you go back to the wholesaler and are shocked to find the same thing cost more than i just sold it for the market and. save the children says ten
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million people risk slipping into preform in conditions by the end of the year if the conflict continues bernard smith al-jazeera. tens of thousands of people remain homeless on the indonesian island of see a month now since the devastating earthquake and tsunami there are many of course trying to rebuild their lives but for children who lost their parents life remains a struggle reports from. in the shadow of destruction some schools have reopened as much as possible given the scale of the earthquake and tsunami rebuilding classrooms will take a long time as well rebuilding the confidence of the children on the first day back after the disaster less than a third of students showed up at this school just outside the city of palu. many students have difficulty getting here the roads in the north are still cut off in many places some of them are also injured so maybe they're still too traumatized to
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come to school. for those who did attend the makeshift classroom offered a form of healing and the sense of togetherness. and i really wanted to go back to school i was waiting and waiting but i didn't hear any news about the school. there are many children who remain unaccounted for probably way more than the officially registered number of just over one hundred fifty children who have lost their parents or have been separated from immediate family members there's an increased risk of abuse or becoming victims of child trafficking is. of course we worry there could be trafficking cases especially if the children are still babies they can't say anything yet so confirming identities can only be done through the parents and people around them. social workers visit camps to try to educate people about the need to report
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details of children who may be in need almost a month on from the disaster they're still receiving tipoffs every day on this occasion they investigate a report of an eight year old boys. in a nearby house they find that his aunt and uncle had been caring for him but he's now been taken to another city far away to stay with distant relatives this case highlights the challenges that social workers are facing in trying to find missing children they've been able to confirm some details about the boy whose entire immediate family is believed to have been killed in the disaster and are now recommending that he be brought back here to where he used to live but the point is that until now no one in an official capacity knew that he even existed. with communities still in disarray it's a confusing scary time for the youngest survivors in some camps the government and aid groups of sit up safe places to children to play and receive psychological
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support when given the opportunity to draw what they want they often choose houses perhaps reflecting on happier safer times and looking forward to their return wayne hay al-jazeera palu indonesia to a place which was branded a cesspool and then shuts down but now one of the world's most popular tourist islands has reopened in the philippines six months later but typically welcomes two million visitors a year but mass tourism resulted in pollution forced to close to allow time for a clean up. as the full story. this is supposed to be a new dawn for an island dubbed one of the world's most beautiful for the last six months only residents and local workers have been allowed on baraka i now they're preparing to welcome visitors once again. this is an island rebranded with its rehabilitation some of its newest attractions upgraded sewer lines and drainage and an improved transport system that rain's been hampering construction efforts. or
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thirty's of bulldozed illegal structures and shut down the island's three casinos and there have been other sacrifices tens of thousands left unemployed people here say they're desperate for life to return to normal. vehicle photos here like a war zone what a ghost town we who lost their jobs had to go home to our provinces and white for six months before we could work again. in this new baraka fewer than twenty thousand tourists will be allowed on the island at any one time that's less than half its previous peak capacity back in germany as you heard that this island will be closed he said wow that's a good thing to really close the whole environment to nature is like can rest assure a second. in april rule sewage was being pipes directly into the sea and the island's landfill was overwhelmed by more than ninety tons of rubbish daily the government
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said half of barak businesses were violating environmental rules and decided to close it for a six month cleanup i will prove. what upgrade is says. despite being criticized for an abrupt decision and disregarding livelihoods or dorothy's pressed ahead with the shutdown. tourists replaced on the beaches by riot police trails and trash collection teams twenty five need to meet the needs met the required that's basically what they wanted from the very start there's no temporary structures there and the beach should be really full of tourists who like to enjoy the eye and then now there's a slew of new rules for its freshly pristine beaches no drinking no smoking and no vendors so no more of its multi day parties then nor its famous photo up sand castles and while authorities admit it will take longer than six months to clean up
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baraka they say this has been a good start. al-jazeera. spoke for we had the break up got a little update on our top story of course the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi a turkish source has told us that the saudi public prosecutor will be providing testimonies of the eighteen suspects in the case to the turkish prosecutor remember the saudi prosecutor is coming to istanbul on sunday but turkey's president reject type one actually wants those suspects to be extradited to turkey for questioning he wants them to face justice there the saudi public prosecutor is saying he will bring the testimonies. right up to washington d.c. we go u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is speaking about the possible bombs that have been serbs to critics of donald trump right. to that respect for law and process that allows our people to accept legislation elections court rulings with
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which they do not agree this is the central feature of our system of government you advocate for your beliefs enthusiastically but we peaceably and lawfully comply with the results please know that from the beginning this investigative team has made this matter a top priority focusing their great talent. it's an expertise on neutralizing this threat they have moved swiftly and professionally using extraordinary technical expertise to apprehend the one alleged responsible this is a demonstration skill of capability and determination.

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