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you're destructive on all of us if you would wish we could see stocks of. us outside the stadium louis is with g.i. activists from the pool and lost on me. the last only includes members of the extreme far right. as the most a funds arrived pretty full heads to the front of the crowd. that. the bottle is throwed. were tons of the scoff he stolen from a ma say find. something for the. next. generation identity has already been tarnished by its links to the lost on me.
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the mail you the look your heart on nicholas brooks you can not tell the boys let. it go it's a way to go but i do what's different here. close colleagues come to me with a look at. the last colony ben but you used to attend the citadel is yo on mute we filmed him after a court appearance. since. mute is awaiting trial for his alleged role in a man's death the body was found in a little river commute was also a member of the now disbanded known. nazi group even
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a little more yeah they. call it peace corps would you call a bit more cool just because you just saw or thought of. as she gets to put. in episode one of generation hate rémy follies takes part in a race attack. was. wrong. for felice the activities of the last call me go beyond football hooliganism. but this war. was actually. it struck which you were. following me to rest pictures emerged of him with the citadel regular.
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on match days to joins the last colony as a pub close to the stadium. went to esau met millie at the citadel he said violence helps g.i. members to bond but. today he's suspicious of louis. he thought it was the lessons of what they'd done which was totally think about israel because i thought it was it would offer you wouldn't go through what we're doing a lot of the job it was one of those who was the opposite of us i go up that very manages to reassure him and offers to join him on a night out it's about that whatever it is whether you like watching the billionaire that or the other lawyer it's the other with. the last army has a reputation for file and it's forty one members of the last call me were arrested when neil paid at bordeaux in december twenty sixth eighteen among them well to
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easily you know i mute on the. already employed hassle they were charged in the course had all of the verdicts are under appeal. to go then we're going to scan each other buckelew switch to serious stories to go over there. as a missing illegals main square vassal tells louie about a movie used against rival football fans. what are you offering to them when we saw an opportunity this was a solution to the world who feel it's such a little too close on the surface but i thought if you think you know just a couple could you look for a little sympathy vote they can keep on such a hired gun. control have a constitution the evil person could have choices really kill the well you know. the definition of the jello shot off and. he concludes with the blogosphere making a fair until the thing was all too clear that each thought there was something of
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such a thing i please press on here that all of this quote we can say also get. later at the citadel basle tells on the cover of course at that last call me members are not welcome at his ball. because it's a goal of. us as a result he's feeling us yet. he tells louis that generation identity rejects the phylum far right. wing which as you said it was the height of the only idea lender of those. awfully i don't give a company that was going to decide my purse over just over a stupid which would you consider an awful awful you it was you
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know i was going to hurt you thank you going to. go to war despite the hassles claims inside the system till there is an overt racism. if you play here i'm just something else in this nation also. because you know there's a new you should. be good in for me is this how you know you have a mission to mars and the move you must produce and the community to be some people believe it's going to be because it's louis he has many anti semitic remarks that this is going. to go. there's one guy. that's up
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louie tries to take photographs in the bar for a second time. the middle of a show that it was so surreal because of all that the hustle is constantly trying to prevent outsiders knowing what goes on in the citadel i think your points are going to come up when you say feel so much more powerful than for you know she's crazy shit you should get all the book takes louise photos if they want them because in the early levels you know both of them said you know what the devil you were three years ago. the legal g.i.d. makes it clear that members have to play by his rooms. twenty five hundred bucks a day was going to. change not just any rentals all hanging. on somebody's motherhood's.
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it's the night before a planned national protest by generation identity in paris. the hassle receives the message. if it's already broken by the minute you know. if i'm. just going to the dogs or the fact that i hope they can dig him up to a. left wing activists attack a generation identity but. much so i get with the let me get let me on a little beyond last week so it's really a series of work for the. following morning activists gather at the citadel before leaving for paris. this is it is easy to shoot the full fifty.
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generation identities demonstration has been banned by the french cool it's due to fears of file and it's. a police call to surround hundreds of g.i. activists from across europe. they include members of leo g.i. . g.i. activist later stage a demonstration outside the box a cloud of theater eighty nine people was shot dead by islamist assailants join the twenty fifteen paris attacks. outside the ball damaged by left wing activists the national director of the identity and is with hostile until the g.i. leader has. plans to exact revenge for the attack that's been put on hold. not
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because it was on the six hundred seventy. six it's not because of its. clearly jail monye was in the bar at the time of the attack so it was also a contest to something that is about it and something happened to someone who knows i mean something that. a week after the ban demonstrations activists watch a video of the paris bar attack posted by on some fascists chloe jail nobody has trouble to legal. was. the justices but. loney reveals that talks about a revenge attack have taken place with another far right groups so he's not asking
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for something simpler just to. tell them all is there any suffering is a little. song for this course about. the group union defense is a neo fascist organization. that has a long history of conducting violent attacks. before the grouping in defense was formed after may sixty eight in france as a reaction to trotskyist another leftist movements. the group is radical in its ideas but above all radical in its violence the principle is that violence is a goal in itself it's in the static that's taught to young activists. members of generation identity all worried that the media will find out about the plan to work with the good.
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it's. not one u.s. mission. is due in part. because of the few. troops up in the middle east to want. to. see. some of it was. you know. it's the weekend that leo hosts the national front congress. lou. goes to a meeting on europe's future hosted by right wing publishing house generation identity has a stand the hassle is with the friends club and be done. with
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it. all next on up to deal with. al-jazeera obtained a video which showed fidel in the room when good members assaulted the former president enough that you end up. going off to fidel believed that the former good leader edouard klein was too weak to run a far right organization for us to design us into politics. exactly there's a lot. said a few dahlan to all those faces soul charges one hundred six i think this is interesting that if he was with two of the living. in the open source of the hassle joins vigil in mocking klein to the wall and the
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limits on the elizabeth. if you vote in. regard to the experience of. the mysteries of this is. going to be there for weeks i read something. at the citadel lean meats a visitor from the capitol. to the even believe. the physical. we all know all of us are going to become valuable to. the for. the good was for many dissolved in twenty seventeen falling into. annele rouse activists continue to operate under its name alongside members of generation identity. to.
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record the existence of a culture president clinton with one of. the good has been linked to a number of attacks on left wing students. everything for him a good for the big issues or addition to everything from the one for the good deal with up to. the woman it all makes a lot far right activists have storm several universities and francis year some of the attacks have been violent like the one in to paris school several activists came in to be from the good that arrived giving fascist salutes and shouting slogans all the food all one of them was convicted in france last summer it is also . illegal so that's because i'll always. he was given a year's suspended jail sentence for punching a female student who could push. for univision also said members of the good attend national front runner alongside g.i. activists say for your views on what you've been told it was. the company.
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also. every year the citadel hosts an event called qantas night. it's a medieval germanic tradition involving singing and drinking coffee during a break claridge elmo only gives more details on generation identities partnership with the good. ones or not. because. of a similar type of signal. that. i don't know it's all about some others here. but you know all that. the dalai lama advises it. because the officers were just gets to keep most of the us open to the world
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that god should be doing looking good dudley's a little. bit of. nothing. at all well over the years in the sun lotion i'm. all shook up. by the. impulse to a member of the national front this is the citadel on two posts about his street fighting skills still nothing there's a good deal of a bomb on the to be worth up to the night and one of the pen his closest friends says immigrants will be expelled from france if he wins pov very successful. my son gets a spawn. they
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want to sell to three billion pounds with a weapon that was six billion pounds in commission. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small cobbles people for really really good misfits. in essence we in the united states have privatized the old time a public function more shadow on al-jazeera. hello i'm the star with the top stories on al-jazeera a tsunami has struck the indonesian coast killing at least sixty two people it hit areas along the thunder straits between two of the country's biggest islands the local disaster management agency says almost six hundred people were injured when waves overturned cars and damaged buildings young girl found as with the
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international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he says people had no warning they were great deal of tectonic activity. so we're going to trigger and i to be honest i'm not sure. that the. so this. morning. we. retreat you know i'm going to need so much worse the top u.s. official in the fight against i still has quit over president on a sudden decision to pull troops from syria. part of follows the resignation of u.s. defense secretary james mattis and the u.s. government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse
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on budget spending the standoff is over funding for president trump's planned mexico border wall the senate has now been adjourned until thursday. a u.n. team has landed in yemen to observe the departure of saudi government forces and truthy fighters from her data the two sides agreed to a cease fire in the port city during talks in suisun the area is the main entry point for most food aid into a country that's enjoyed almost four years of war. sunday marks two years since al jazeera journalist would hussein's arrest in egypt his imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release he's not faced any formal charges and is in solitary confinement protesters and police officers have forty during more demonstrations in the french capital against president and his government fighting broke out in one area when protesters threw misfiled one policeman took out a gun to disperse the crowd but that had the opposite effect officers were
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surrounded and forced to flee on most of bikes those are the headlines i'll be back with more news after al-jazeera investigations. step into the. with central america's first ever. production by actors with down syndrome. a life journey illuminates one stage. performer transform with the raise of occurred. witness time to love a back stage to. al jazeera is on the cover of has infiltrated generation identity. it's one of europe's fastest growing far right movements in part one of the g.i. leading illegal promotes street violence as a political tool. to works it will have an issue in the future the.
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generation identity calls for really migration where no one european immigrants and their families all send back to their supposed country of origin a reporter was about to discover a plan by senior national front figures to secretly adopt these policies. that you know that's not that's then walk in your back i don't really want even to add up. oh god. this year's national front congress is in lille.
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following the twenty seventeen election defeats this is marine le pen's first big opportunity to galvanize has supporters the senior party figures are gathering. among them filipe a mary. it's. a mary was exposed in episode one this generation hate hiring g.i. activist to work for the national front. dollar or get a lawyer is. that we reveal the links between sebastian shenouda and generation identity. things that she does always tonight you're going to give us just sort of some games to the extent of what you call the good old the books if you pick up most of up the good you look at what did you does it exclude women
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a look at what it's equal they don't issue that could be journals or that the book has at the city. but our investigation found evidence that she knew knows already in basle the g.i. leader in louisville. or you know this initiative was the first. case it's just. with the national front congress in town it's a big weekend at the citadel. delegate some senior policy figures are expected to stop by. there are gods outside and further checks inside following concerns that journalists may also try to enter. the lot of the eurozone you have a. lot of the in the. among the visitors is club a vigil a former activist with a violent likely movement the good he's in legal for the national front congress
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the american criminal. louis wonders if he too could attend the congress. difficult to push for contributors. of form of the personal. project. the far right activists such as video can access the national front congress with these new push to. this position not for the little known to be on the. doing this with national front delegates are you all over the wishes of the members of the family. scalpels who didn't.
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show up to tell you something mamata even to the book they were put through mixes with leading party figures including nicolas face a senior official and member of the european parliament. you could get more money if you didn't make up we're going to reveal some of the you would have a group. because you know little bit about the future much of. some of the. moment like the. citadel is attracting some influential figures into the league of g.i. leader jokes that he doesn't recognize them well those were all. the benefits of. those kids the. crawshay is a good friend of marine le pen and joining him another cold feet all of the party
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leader frederick shetty don't. see on crawshay face fraud charges in connection with election campaign funds. for hostile greek shouting all of the tools to draw down our zero zero zero. zero zero. zero zero zero victory over the bushes to. the fisa annoyance to place that in twenty seventeen a french television documentary was broadcast about the financial scandal. chatty on crossed. unknown in the french media as marine le pen's men in the shadows. senior national front figures are accused of embezzling millions of euros of public money a fish a program focused on the alleged roles of crawshay and shut down the pre-draft.
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these f.a. additional small to combine civic to highlight the don't question differences unique abu hussein. seems to at least to do see some to me to not some. new bin to be the documentary was based on a book by investigative journalists to stultify a murray in turkey. he could actually fit it should also make it a crushing and frederick szechuan really are marine le pen's men in the shadows they are not in the official organizational structure they're not in the media yet they're the ones who pull the strings from behind they've been your friends for thirty years they control the parties communications and finances and work for the national front of the european parliament when astronaut are on the cover of puerto met crawshay the night before the national front congress. that would be called a vote in the fight. to the extent of the. spirit of the law wolf not sure what all the. new
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issue says i think going to find it hard to ignore. crawshay speaks about a trip to italy that he'd recently taken with a shotty all put into almost fell on with the bill because it has a whole lot of. people you should fear. cast the pound is the new fascist political movement in italy. that staged a rally to mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of three far right activists . after the rowdy left wing activist spots chatty on crawshay. well that's just. for the peace of the. debate shock sets you up so you know
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what she's a misuse of. people that you need to decide. in the end the two men managed to escape. that's the front doors. but you get to cease its immediate so civil so i give a shit what it took to get all their bodies. to tell. me quickly for the nickel or crochet and frederick szechuan are toxic because they are already linked to financial scandals affecting the national front today but there is another much more ideological aspect to frederick shetty on he is the radical who is close to re in the pan and he was president of the good degree that . was president of the extreme far right good movement as a student in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's been accused of anti semitism in the book she does not trust many people but
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she trusts her former chief of staff told me that le pen said that she can count on them for life and death so there is an enormous trust there. of a citadel of undercover reporter met more leading national front figures who align themselves with a generation identity. because there was a little bit you're also going to only give her all her life but it's not just your belief in all of us coordinates of where we're sitting up throughout the world they're going to kill bin good or if the individual will shut up so let's get the significance of a civil. most of it is just a little disappointed. what's the good news to say we're just a few of the fittest of the nose on the you would also want something to follow you want to focus on good luck to go to. college.
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nearby the party congress is on the way. she still has value is a member of the european parliament for the national front. she's voted on to the policies national council i asked her about the number of muslims living in france . and. that their own thoughts is the name too little easter song is you know just a good idea. so at least if you know a lot of basics you don't and it will just as soon as you don't look at focal point it's all some folks yeah in the town where young folks for young. get these don't get these killers for the so no see fall victim if they meet people are going to. know i know not the speed of the cities makes them do what i think you know best going to school to. put your own stuff.
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evolves and one of the founders of the identity area movement is also elected to the policies national council. he has a conviction for inciting racial hatred. one of the guests is steve bannon president trump's former advisor and right wing ideologue let them call you racist leslie leslie was a let them call you son of folks the menace it is it was appeasing of let them call your native us let's see if it is up to. wear it as a badge of honor. but. yes even to me i mean our camera captures little valley was young from swap the drone and who worked for a local party in normandy. at
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the citadel a drone no introduces a list of value. a national map incident to his general and it was it that you have not had outside of . that and if you thought he's going to have no doubt that will not was. right you. know the only new you. know. that's just really are. you not going to. be at the let me look. let me say oh yes. what shocks me and what tells your journalist is that many of the national front
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leaders support generation identity's program and ideas. but what is also telling for me is to see a national front m.e.p. in an identity tarion bar surrounded by violent openly racist activists just. vassal dances with his national front guests. shot yawn crawshay also enjoying the evening. alongside remy follies we filmed punching a woman in a race attack. louie asked cross a why he's then. yes i definitely will not get my number let them help me save them . as more prominent national front guests arrive at the citadel basle jokes about the risks they're taking. before you hear of the photo the body of the officer you want to.
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go to the. dillies wife sylvie golden is another m.e.p. louis also if a prominent party figure should be seen as a g.i. bob. she. really really hungry heart just so you. know socks off something you know you can. feel her chest. we see here ya go right down to something in the jar your guts if that's what i mean it was good of us what we see is what we're. being asked to live here people don't see if we're. good at it well.
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i felt perhaps naively that they were no longer on that terrain. the fact of entering into positions of political responsibility that could also change their personal line towards the identity ariens there obviously this was not the case for everyone and this is an unwelcome surprise for me. knowing that we're going to have one of. the best service to thought i'll ever know and yet another one of the underground i'm going to write a book. with the french chateau looking on marine le pen prepares to make an announcement about the national front future the panel wants to broaden the party's appeal. tricky through sudan of the sit down the feeder c.v.s.'s sure. the pan believes many voters associate the party's name with
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extremism. so no one issue not. a book don't use draw it p.k. go you never serve. do gooder francais. men due to the influx of crimes you could kill who was one. of those i don't call of foreigners or non there viendo ha song on the show not. the pen hopes the name change will attract the moderate voters she needs to gain power. ben sits what matters to marine le pen is what you see in the media not what's happening in the party's back rooms when he said if they try to put a positive spin on ideas that french people view negatively they try to change the form and the way they communicate these ideas and not the ideas themselves but is
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the enemy. of the citadel the pen's former accountant legal across shape is reigning against the european parliament. talk to you through the talk to. get to. see what the jury has created or what you will see. behind closed doors senior policy figures expressed views that look penn wants to hide from the public and any thoughts of justice in the us this is a question about it that's not what i was able to get to did. earlier. that's right it's but it's not a slam on us whenever it's not needed. don't for listening to what's worrying for those who might vote for the national front of the ideological consequences of having identity aryans within the party that is specially regarding the migration and the great replacement of the two main ideas
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of the identity area. migration is the return of immigrants to their countries of origin of the great replacement is the idea that french people are being replaced by immigrants these are extremely radical ideas incestuous saw is the extent. of it and there's a reform in the. military got some very good sense of. my song i thought it was only a. small feat which is what you mock shock he was. particular so bunch of i was only. able to think. much to the point but we call of duty three more and more he thought. he can a shift in conflict. and i struck. the fact that people from the national front can openly say that they support re migration must
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concern and worry people. because it means that your cousin your sister your girlfriend can one day for a reason unknown to us be sent back to a country which is allegedly their country of asylum. does. your position to you and the people you love all your choice to get so. bad in that they're right of course of action. not up to the standard that means that he should have followed right. there go badly when the exact result probably was a lesson. that all of the. well that's the level of. get up so maybe this is a. force that folks like look. there are things here which we have never heard and never seen in france. we can really see
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that the national front is keeping links with violent far right satellite groups around the national front movement on us right now or even the pens d. demonization is torn to shreds by these images and the links and the interviews of the people that we see in the film whether she's in. some communities or maggie going to. miss you two days you. don't dish this is one of them put that to them and you know why. don't they have let's not let us then. we have spec really was a little really. well let's not get you. a lot of. she's not coming we have a kid testimony from someone who says that we agree with the line promoted by the
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identity but we cannot express it we can take that and we will see afterwards i think that must serve as an alarm for everyone at. home get it done in metallurgy quandaries i let you go then so what if you do. this in the fullness fernanda. if the national front comes to power notably with groups like these in your documentary we can be afraid the racist hate speech gets institutionalized that racist hatred and hatred of other people gets totally left out of this that there would be a. into coming over islands or even into ethnic violence which is what the identity obviously want in this country.
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the pen said that since becoming thought she'd suspended or expelled all members who'd been violent racist or anti semitic the pan disagreed with. statements saying the n.e.p. supported a line that members had rejected when they elected president. le pen said it was unreasonable to reproach federal. involvement with the as a student. of the pan that already. has never been a member of aa movement and is banned from joining. a merry said party assistance at the regional council we recruited legally. sebastian she said that while the hostel did contact him to say he was not allowed into a political meeting he did not go looking for him. already in the hassles lawyer said the citadel did not represent generation identity and welcomed the wide range
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of members of diverse persuasions. said that being secretly filmed in a private place is detestable countries discovery of this it irritated him the hassle did not respond to our request for an interview. so i went to see. me. to do what you. but up almost. fifty. he's going to. six feet under and won't meet a call from god what you. see who. steve
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knows who with your shoes when young all you are is what you eat it. long. since our investigation has been sentenced to five months in jail for assaulting two north african use he claims he is innocent and does lodged an appeal generation say he's no longer a member. eric dillies and sylvie gordon have left the national rally. after the first episode of generation hates the measure of leo called for the citadel to be closed down the public prosecutor has launched an inquiry. hello you know welcome back we're here across the levant we are looking at some
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cooler conditions not much in terms of rain across the region we do have some clouds slipping across parts of central turkey going into the eastern areas but we don't expect to see much in terms of rain out of those clouds over here towards the west a lot of fourteen degrees few here on sunday down towards beirut about eighteen degrees maybe some clouds in your forecast really staying the same as we go towards monday so a fairly stagnant situation across much of the area in terms of weather down towards queen city winds coming out of the northwest cooler day for you with the temperature there of about nineteen degrees well here across the gulf a little bit cooler as well temperatures into the low twenty's for many locations over here towards riyadh it is going to be the high teens staying like that as we go towards monday really we do have some clouds over here towards medina the highest temperatures though on the map look at this we are going to expecting mecca to reach a high of about thirty three degrees going down possibly to about thirty two degrees by the time we get towards monday and then very quickly as we go down towards the southern part of africa most of the rains going to be well to the north over here towards parts of mozambique as well as madagascar but we are watching
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a psych loan out here in the indian ocean that's going to be some heavy rains to riches not make a land fall but also some big swells there over here towards durban it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with a temperature few of about twenty five. a volcanic eruption sends a tsunami crashing into indonesia without warning sweeping away people homes and hotels. and i'm just audio tape and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up
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a state of emergency remains in parts of sudan after violence triggered by storing prices. angry confrontations in paris as yellow vest protesters continue to campaign to shrink the divide between the rich and poor and frogs plus the giant mural that's transformed an industrial i saw and a south korean ferry a place in the record books. a tsunami has hit indonesia killing at least one hundred sixty eight people and injuring more than seven hundred others waves between hoffa nice and i'm also high struck areas along the sunda straight between two of the country's biggest islands reports. a concert by the indonesian pop band seventy in western java came to an abrupt and when waves from a tsunami swept away the stage musicians and found. the water flowed up to twenty
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metres in land killing dozens and injuring hundreds. more so. we. retreat you know under our leader so this could be much worse. indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency believes the waves could have been caused by undersea landslides from the eruption of kaka toa that's a volcanic island formed over years from the nearby carcass how a volcano search and rescue operation is now underway for survivors who were very. cute we are people that are truly sad. because this is a traumatic event especially given all of the things the indonesians suffered in the last you know four months in september more than two thousand five hundred people were killed by
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a quake and tsunami that hit the city of palo on the island of soloway sea which is just east of borneo indonesia in the ring of fire. it's it's it's there's always volcanic eruptions happening there always sometimes there are tsunamis. and it's really no more active than normal actually it's just every now and then there's a confluence of events which unfortunately results in people being kind of literally swept up in these disasters and the number of casualties from this disaster over a holiday weekend is expected to increase as rescuers reach affected areas dorsetshire pari al jazeera we had there from robin george andrea's a science journalist and vulcanologist he told us how a partial government shutdown in the us is having an impact on the of this disaster . it is great that the indonesian authorities are working around the clock to
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provide the most up to date geological information that's really helpful to both journalists like myself and people on the grounds and a.j. agencies but it is a great shame that what i think is one of the best you know scientific organizations in the world can actually help out in a moment because of the eight thousand or so staff there working i think you know maybe you know a few dozen actually allow the workers some so it's a great shame the opposition in sudan is calling for nationwide protests on sunday against the rising cost of food and fuel these ten people have died since the demonstrations started on wednesday schools and universities are closed in at least five states and the city is about barangay director under emergency rule that speak to have a more organized in the capital carter in here about where now approaching the fifth day of protests is there any kind of end in sight well it's not clear enough to hear if there will be an end to the protests the opposition came together or at least some of the opposition came together and said that they wanted the people to
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continue protesting not just against the economic crisis and the fact that they were proposed hikes that to bear prices but the fact that the country generally speaking has not been doing well the opposition are saying that the government is behind the current crisis now the government responded by basically forcing all schools around the country so now the suspension is nationwide the high schools secondary schools primary schools and universities nationwide have been suspended until further notice basically the protest started and river in our state on wednesday but it has since then expanded to many other parts of the country including the capital khartoum where people have been complaining about the rising cost of food commodities. this is one of the main markets in battery north of the sudanese capital shoppers here see all the produce for sale have one thing in common. crosses a hard tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it cost forty pounds and i will everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things
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you can buy and then there is the bread crisis. the bread crisis sparked protests around the country when the government announced its plan to raise the price of a loaf from once a nice pound to three there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews and others and it tried to block social media platforms including facebook twitter and what's happened dozens of people have been arrested. the protesters are just frustrated at the rising cost of bread in the past year inflation has risen to almost seventy percent in january the dollar was worth thirty sudanese part and now it's almost worth thinks this is a nice pounds which means higher market prices and people have to queue at banks to get their cash which with the inflation barely covers their knee. the government has been using live ammunition and tear gas to disperse the crowds this is they're trying to solve the economic crisis but won't tolerate protesters damaging public property but. the government did acknowledge there is
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a crisis we did not tonight and we are working on resolving these issues when it comes to economic crises these things are not magically resolved overnight it takes time there are more than one party involved more than just one factor or another. president omar al bashir has ruled for almost thirty years he's been reelected several times most recently in twenty fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote now some up a session groups are calling for a change in the way the country's government eat. his lunch we need a new type of for regime a new system a new leadership the issue here is not who's ruling sudan but how to govern this nation first we need a new recipe for peace we need a national transitional unity government real consultations when it comes to the constitution. to protest on a scale not seen before dear time as president sudanese people seem to have lost patience and want to see an improvement in their living conditions sooner rather
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than later. well since then they're in there in the government has held an emergency cabinet meeting to try to resolve the crisis sudanese local media are also reporting that the prince of the share of qatar share how much been tell me has fallen the president omar bashir into the other and has support it's not clear what kind of support will be offered but the but the government here is saying that he has offered one billion dollars in aid it's not clear if that is true or not but even if that is true if people here have been protesting not just like i said the rising cost of food commodities but the general economic policies the general away the the country has been governed and they've been calling for a change of governance a change of regime and it's not clear if any kind of support would be able to given by any other country would be able to stop these protesters from for testing have been moving speaking to us there in khartoum thank you have. four million ballot papers the jews who arrive in the democratic republic of congo's capital to replace
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those that were destroyed by fire last week the blaze in kinshasa also damaged more than eight thousand voting machines the presidential election origination job for sunday has been pushed back by a week catherine so it has. become painfully chaotic as it was. and presidential candidates have agreed to wait until the election but the question many people are asking now. will they let me put everything together to be able to . credible election we've heard from the president of the electoral commission saying that one of the biggest problems they're facing is the prices in. a warehouse burned down last week destroying most of the food to materials from the what to be used in the capital city some of the materials are still getting in and they have to be deployed to different parts of the country and this is a country we've very poor infrastructure so it's
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a logistical nightmare just getting this materials to where they're supposed to be the government has all help financial and logistical help from the u.n. and other countries as well some people are saying another is another problem it's going to be interesting to see how this week plays out the president of the electoral commission saying be patient. we're trying to do everything we can to make sure that we have an election that is there but a lot of people with talked to really saying that this election given all the circumstances might just end up being another election. video has emerged of a french police officer pulling out his gun and pointing it at protesters during the latest street battles linked to the yellow vest and he government recent the officer on the holster the weapon as another tried to lift his motorbike. off the ground while the crowd moved towards them they then quickly sped away as
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demonstrators held things out of the protest as the protests began more than six weeks ago against high fuel prices and have often turned violent that smith was among the protesters in paris. this is been protest. through the street. from. the day they've been. to. police it's very soon. very soon will be all of us protesters have wanted it to be peaceful and they tried to make sure that everybody stayed on the right side. there are about a thousand people at this time of the day number similar to last week and many people here that we've spoken to. interested in the concessions prison manual how to make they say they don't go far enough or too little too late and they will keep
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protesting right into the new year. former british politician paddy ashdown who was a leading figure in the bosnian peace process has died from cancer at age seventy seven ashdown served as the u.n. high representative in bosnia and herzegovina between two thousand and two and two thousand and six helping the country to rebuild in the aftermath of the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. before that he led the liberal democrat party the u.k.'s largest political force at the time for eleven is he also served in the british army special services. large crowds have taken part in the funerals of four palestinians killed on friday by the israeli army thousands of mourners gathered in gaza for the burial of the men who were killed during the week the protest against the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territory among the victims was a sixteen year old boy palestinians have demonstrated at the border every friday since march. the weather is next then another resignation.

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