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would allow employers to force people to work more overtime and even delay payment for up to three years while nationwide protests have been held since last week robin forced to walk has more now from the capitol but a pest. after ten days of public discontent hungary's opposition hoped their president would think twice about signing two new laws they say will make their country less european and more like a dictatorship he signed them anyway this week so protesters marched to his palace to express their anger i don't know the ality keep telling me that nothing is going to change i feel like we shall see. if there's a protest i won't be there the first floor of the opposition says it will force hungry stretched workforce to work harder a second gives the government will control over the judiciary there is in direct pressure to do judges fear
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a bad outcome or three year in the courts prime minister viktor orban has accused the protesters of being violent agents of the hung garion liberal philanthropist george soros but on friday demonstrators with discipline and diverse as a genuine movement there's no one behind nothing strange nor strange movements in all soros or just normal people pensioners students housewife a sock sort of as a technique or bottle the government should take note that unions and parties and citizens and everybody else is demonstrating together and this is unprecedented but what's different about these protests is that this time for the first time. on both sides of the political spectrum you know it's it's in their criticism of victor government. hundred straight unions and now organizing the nationwide strike action the government hopes they will go home for christmas and for their robin first year
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walker al-jazeera for the past. time for a short break here not just when we come back we'll have the latest on the hunt for the drone operators who caused havoc that britain's second. busiest airport and we report from cuba where this debate on an upcoming referendum that could transform the communist nation more in that stay with us. hello again we're here crossing ited states we have been watching a very powerful system make its way across the eastern seaboard bring flooding rain and windy conditions to many locations as well as snow the good news is by the time we get toward saturday that system begins to move out we're left with much dry conditions here for the eastern seaboard a lot of people are traveling so there's going to be a lot of catsup expression at the airports that had a lot of delays and cancellations down towards atlanta cooled
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a few at ten degrees but sunny but out here towards the northwest we are looking at another pacific storm coming into play across parts of washington oregon british columbia for the cascades that means a lot of snow in the forecast there for seattle a high temperature few of nine degrees down towards los angeles we are looking about twenty one as your forecast high well that same storm system had a funnel boundary pushing through cuba there it is right there down across parts of the bahamas as well a little bit cooler behind the front but really more dry air than anything we'll be seeing nasa twenty three degrees really staying like that as we go towards sunday maybe a shower too down here towards jamaica but for panama it is going to be cloudy and rainy with attempted there of thirty one degrees and then very quickly we are still seeing some showers across parts of southern brazil rio de janeiro a very warm day for you at thirty five degrees but better conditions of what is out us with a temperature of twenty six. young
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african footballers are traveling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when east investigates thailand's football factory on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here the south the us federal government is just hours away from a possible shutdown the president from refused to back down on funding for his
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border war with mexico forcing congress to adjourn without a deal on spending. the u.n. security council has approved a team of observers for a cease fire and yemen's keep port city of the data and u.n. monitors who won't be uniformed or will be deployed for an initial thirty days and demonstrators have rallied in hungary to protest against a new amendment to the label of what critics are calling the slave law would allow employers to force people to work more of the time or even delayed payment for up to three years. british police have made two arrests in connection with destruction caused by drones at london's gatwick airport flights are gradually returning to normal after drone spotted on wednesday cause the airport to shut down for thirty six hours more than one hundred twenty thousand travelers were affected by cancellations maybach reports. thirty six hours of transport misery is slowly coming to an end a limited number of domestic and european flights were allowed to leave and land on
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friday but most long haul flights remain counseled the airport is coping with a backlog of tens of thousands of passengers many forced to bed down on the terminal floor overnight the reopening of the airport is being cautiously welcomed i think is something to relate. you know more than causing panic they've made this sort of thing you're going to madrid in an hour and they were saying it's console one another saying we're flying so it's all quite the decision to reopen get with follow the arrival of specialists military equipment on thursday police said they would be willing to shoot the drones down if they reappear again they were thought to be at least two drones described as being of industrial specification but in a much better place to say that we were yesterday in terms of the options available to us so we are in a really positive position in terms of detecting the drone tracking it mitigating the threat that it poses secondly the last confirmed sighting was just before ten
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pm last night so we've had a significant period of time where the drone hasn't appeared the hunt for the rogue drone operator or drone operators has drawn in multiple government agencies the police british intelligence the authorities say they're all following multiple leads but it keeping these details of the tight control for now airport management to calling the incident commercial sabotage whoever is responsible could face up to five years in prison that we had ten thousand past is he didn't fly on wednesday we had one hundred ten thousand passes he didn't fly today and we're going to see ongoing destruction today and into the into that we can and it's been a very you know situation i just like to apologize to all the passengers who finished version that has been posted in by this criminal act events here at gatwick have major implications for airport security around the world the union of air traffic controllers is demanding stricter regulations a more counter drone measures to safeguard airports and protect lives.
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al-jazeera that we can port. israeli forces of shot dead three palestinians including a sixteen year old boy during ongoing demonstrations in gaza more than one hundred fifty others were injured according to the palestinian health ministry the teen who was shot in the neck as a named as muhammad judge you. have been holding weekly protests for the right of return for palestinian refugees along the gaza israel border fence almost nine months well oppositional candidates in the democratic republic of congo are urging supporters to show restraint as a large protest group city is right across the country the latest on the rest follows this week's postponement of a long delayed presidential election malcolm webb has this report from the congolese capital kinshasa for. these opposition supporters chant if there is no election by december the twenty third people will be killed. president joseph kabila has let the democratic
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republic of congo for seventeen years he did you to step down for the last two. this man says you would know could be his cunning he never stayed in power and there's no election who send filters but he can't kill us all. and this boy says we want the election it could be that doesn't want it he has to go. people here support felix he's a kennedy one of the main opposition candidates. they've gathered outside his party headquarters in the capital kinshasa. they don't have much patience with the government he said this man's a spy from the ruling party sent to stop violence to have it beaten. he was lucky to be handed over to the police. elections that would have been delayed fighting.
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all the people here have been protesting what actual to be held since before that right there broken up violently by police they are for life people by the people here are frustrated electoral commission yet they're not l.a. and they're waiting to hear what their leaders say. position presidential candidates including she security skeptical about the seven day delay program. we think this perspire and win is a way to push supporters to violence to burn election materials so that even the promise of an election on the thirty is the december cannot be fulfilled people here in kinshasa are waiting to see if they'll be trouble leaders have called for calm i feel that this isn't for this was just two words and the start up until fifty december and the. article sixty four of our forces
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and ask them you got to work. full and party officials told us then not allowed to comment the lot of people here are wondering if the election really will happen on the thirtieth and wondering what will happen if it doesn't. malcolm webb al-jazeera kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo. nigerian police say they have arrested a boko haram fighter believed to be the key plotter of the twenty fifteen bombings in the capital abuja abdul malik and several others who confessed their roles were arrested in lagos the twin blasts killed fifteen people and injured dozens more in sudan a state of emergency has been extended to the northern white nile state as protests against rising food and fuel prices spread nine people have been killed in the cities of barra and get arrests are already under emergency rule and on thursday demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum schools and universities have been
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closed their protest is around bring about a seventy percent inflation rate one of the world's highest the economy has struggled since the independence of south sudan in two thousand and eleven when it lost the majority of its oil revenue now there are fears of renewed violence in. eastern region of but action has long been opposed to the central government it has its own culture and languages but says it's being ignored by those in power in the capital de shawn bay in his latest series al-jazeera as child strategy reports now from coral where the army has sent it was sent in after protests earlier this year . it takes fifteen hours to get to the channel. the capital of the semi autonomous gorno but action region in east until you can stand the broken road winds its way through the permian mountains bordering afghanistan the people here have long complained their demands for better infrastructure jobs and respect for their distinct culture or ignored by central government the mountains about action
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are provided a natural defense against all those who try to impose their wealth already on this region for centuries the chinese the russians the british all have struggled to control people with a distinct culture a distinct identity. but recent protests here suggests that the government. is facing similar challenges even today the majority of going about it shuns approximately two hundred seventy thousand population ishmaelites in september there were demonstrations against what protesters say has been gears of neglect and intimidation by the predominantly sunni muslim government. unemployment is estimated to be around fifty percent there are no major industries which could offer jobs. president and will mali rock on whose roots as you can stand for more than twenty five years has fanned opposition parties imprisoned political leaders
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and journalists and crushed any independent media across the country he's also criticized local leaders often described as warlords as well as regional government officials for what he sees as their failure to crack down on drug smuggling from afghanistan it's a national and senile cultic say agencies say corrupt officials are involved. tons of heroin and opium a smuggled across the border every year. this government mind refused to let us interview anyone on the streets and wanted names of anyone we had trying to talk to . we contacted one person by telephone and recorded disk on the sation. we were. quite.
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unleased say president is aware of the risks of a crackdown in gorno box on a region that accounts for almost hauffe of to. which. the people of that action are easy to mobilize it's a conservative society it's enough to just call someone a brother he didn't bring a thousand five hundred people from his village to support the authorities know it is a risk of crossing a line that's what president rahmani scared of president sent to me into the region in two thousand and twelve off the bottom intelligence chief was stabbed to death around fifty armed men civilians and soldiers were killed in the fighting that followed the risk of renewed violence he's testing the government again one that critics say has to be year is relied on its intelligence services police and army
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to silence dissent. zero hawg tajikistan. cuba's new president miguel diaz colonel is overseeing what's being called the modernization of socialism cubans have been giving their views on a draft constitution which will be rubber stamped by the national assembly before a referendum in february this in human reports. after six decades the signs of decay in the western hemisphere's only communist country are evident and in recognition that nothing is in more need of modernization cuba's political system ordinary citizens like roberto ramos are being allowed to weigh in on the draft a new constitution. something interesting is happening in cuba people have the ability to meet to debate publicly not in a physical space but in a virtual space. dr barrett though who runs a tattoo parlor is an activist who's pushing for the new constitution to recognize
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same sex marriage expanding those still expensive access to internet is allowing him and many others to make demands publicly at all. one of the most pressing is for economic reform but it's being resisted by some clinging to the old economic model of total state control it's a tug of war i think there is a part of the goal to do. which are people more mordor more open minded looking at the world looking at the track these bottle of the vietnamese bottle i don't doubt that. because i have seen it i have heard that musician assess like many others is making perhaps the most difficult demand of all. and that is for the constitution to give legal recognition for the right of anyone to have different political opinions whatever your political opinion may be in that you won't be
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considered a traitor or someone who's trying to destabilize the nation the draft constitution will no longer allow officials including the president to perpetuate themselves in power and it also recognizes limited private property but when it comes to the political system the only change so far is to make it explicit that cuba's communist party will remain as the only party as the supreme and guiding force of society and the state even above the constitution cubans will be asked to approve the final draft in a referendum in february whether it will resemble the kind of constitution that they're asking for is still a mystery when we see in human al-jazeera have an. uneven catch up on all the latest news on our web site there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com.
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time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. federal government is just hours away from a partial shutdown that's after president trump refused to back down on his border wall funding forcing congress to adjourn without a deal on spending if we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approved so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long well the looming shutdown has spooked the already i'm settled u.s. stock markets the dow jones and nasdaq indices so their worst weekly losses since two thousand and eight concerns of slowing economic growth and
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a recession have investors worried the u.n. security council's approved a team of observers to monitor a cease fire in yemen is key put city of data the u.n. monitors who won't be uniformed armed will be deployed for about thirty days demonstrators have rallied to hungary to protest a new amendment to the labor laws what critics are calling the slave law would allow employers to force people to work more overtime and even delay paying them for up to three years have been held now since last week and british police have made two arrests in connection with destruction caused by drones at london's gatwick airport flights are gradually which adding to normal of the drones spotted on wednesday shut down the airport for thirty six hours. israeli forces have shot dead three palestinians including a sixteen year old boy during ongoing demonstrations in gaza more than a hundred fifty others were injured according to the palestinian health ministry the teen who was shot in the mc has been named as muhammad. honest amends have been holding weekly protests for the right of return for palestinian refugees on the
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gaza border fence now almost nine months and opposition candidates in the democratic republic of congo origin supporters to show restraint the call comes as a large protest group cities across the country like some rest follows this week's bus postponement of a long delayed election those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one i want to know what. beautiful modified car six hundred for its power feel the happiest. women tearing up the trunk in the west bank. stereotype. living life in the. sisters on the.
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west african footballers are leaving their homes and loved ones. and. they arrive with nothing but their talent and a dream to make it as a professional player. but the competition to get on the field is intense and discrimination and exploitation is all too common. on this episode of one when we meet aspiring african footballers as they try to make it in time big league. lamenting closure of the room which you feel cool and off on to move. up as your fish at the other the bottle is in the song with david always on with the broad
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community of the bottle appraiser in five days at the you know what within us what would it go for a place to make you. say it is a muffin lover listen i got yes i think it's all or not oh i'm not there is that us off the counter they had one. job as best you nobody. in this job uncle fred if i'm going to. see you now put in me show up and. get him out the alley easy your way to much and i'm going to humanities you they've got to get on the club. was using the fencing as it was supposed to do it didn't technical news of people new to surveys and the fed me
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me me by the sea. tests a roof first arrived in buying call one month ago he shares a room with fellow army to football is. very good if you do. it in office now then why are you for. such a nice because i'm a preference of well as it often and i did it in a much as your employer doesn't offer you a jump in india and amazingly only i said it did if it. because it's in their condo in new york their own decision and with the. somewhat higher prices. after myself and through to them that this process of tasa route took out
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a fifteen hundred euro loan for this trip and entered the country on a tourist visa. he has two months left to get signed by a club. tessa roux is one of several hundred foreign armatures trying their luck in thailand the country is on the cusp of becoming a major footballing nation in ten years it has created a homegrown footballing enterprise comprised of four professional divisions supported by around one hundred clubs. the salaries can be as high as ten thousand euros a month. the youth has turned from boxing to embrace the beautiful game of every inspiring success stories there are plenty left behind.
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just north of the capital one team is fighting for survival. the lucky sand. the lucky sand easton's children is named as a tribute to the country's poorest region. after being relegated to the fourth division between is now trained by a foreign coach. bozeman shareef good. has spoken thai is perfect albeit with a give me an accent. jerry has an axe professional himself now turned asian football pioneer is. it movie at long. island or doing it for no. good. i mean. you know.
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if. i left is the. what. was the last. earning six hundred fifty euros a month push shareef a long way behind manchester united's manager. but he does lay claim to the title of tomlin's first professional coach of african descent along like they don't sit there but if. your boss the time under my good is going to do goofy movies ome don't get that. go memoirs and speaking. with us you know man i say do these go see this actually i'm going to go. see me along and then let them know. i know it's. a long. leg you know as
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i see happening lookee son have the smallest budget in the fourth division around one hundred fifty thousand euros this pace is sonorous of twenty five players a mix of time and international talent as well as a coach and his style is a moment of long enough but tall. i know. him i found full enough and he. does go up in front of them on this you know if. it's only. they keep under one. currently holding fifth place in the championship the team could still win promotion to the next division i am not coming out of p.t. the team could propose a meal for the end of each training session. and.
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it's a welcome recreational break for the team. that . i don't know if you are wrong. and i mean did you know that why didn't. anybody in your people know. even if you know. that. if they did more than one more than i would no matter. how. thailand has a southeast asia's second biggest economic power and its business class have
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ploughed investment into football. the national league is already listed at sixty million euros on the stock exchange. forty four year old ted is a successful market speculators and has amassed considerable personal wealth. and . betrayed if you do that you and your. kind of people if it. sits on the boards of several companies. is also found the time to invest in a football club as the owner of the lucky sign they. are. well you have a. whole. to be
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done tom de lay believed other than paul good day they were clearly of the public good it would. get arrogant. since its relegation to the fourth division the lookee san has lost all of its sponsors leaving konono chose to finance the club alone. god knows when calling with them on the phantom team the. team. hauled in team led which oh you will not be able man highline well. if a tie if a needle but none in line bought into down in that's online they've been a lot longer than. that on high seed on. the up in some of the big behind the no one. despite these financial issues still managed to find the money to buy some form of stars of the first division a guinea and striker under defender from sierra leone. he also sends coach sharif
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to scout for fresh talent in the stadiums of bangkok. eat. and. drink make. later that night in rum command an homage to tournament is underway shareef m.p.t. are on the lookout for a diamond in the rough. something of. on display is a mixture of both toy and foreign players. while its. players from the ivory coast cameroon and guinea are in abundance. to avoid oh no no no.
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i'm going from dreaming. up. coach sharif is known to most of the african players here to. be clogged and it's. a long. war. you need to do with it and. he says there. is. no more. competition amongst the african players as tough. those in the terraces weren't able to earn a place in the tournament like peter kenyon in a dire situation. having arrived in thailand on a tourist visa he was exploited by his club manages one thai gorge conducted we in
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the us asked me if i have it drug industry or the how little bit cool it really made will be two o'clock in store again to do our much work there but i didn't leave for the five for the money.

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