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conflict that. on the turkey syria border protests in sudan have continued for a fifth day forcing hospitals schools and universities to shut down across the country several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand of change of government there angry over rising fuel and food costs and blame president omar bashir for economic mismanagement and also this evening there's been tear gas fired by police at hundreds of protesters who blocked a road in the center of the capital khartoum reports on how see john got to this point. driving his minivan is the only way out the living he says taking passengers around used to bring in enough money but with the fuel crisis in sudan that's no longer the case. we can stay from the day before till the next day waiting for fuel with the fuel shortage sometimes you have to look for fuel in the black market for a higher price and even then you can't find fuel easily unless you know someone who can direct you to find around two gallons just so you can drop people off. fuel
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isn't the only thing scars in sudan this is a shortage of money too over the past few months the sudanese have been forced to line up in front of a.t.m. machines for what little cash is made available queues also appeared in front of bakeries as the shortage of hard currency mentalists wheat to make bread the proposal by the government to lift subsidies on wheat and human prompted protests in many parts of the country last week as a result curfews and emergency rule were imposed in at least five cities and schools and universities have been shut across the country to prevent large gatherings of people real and bread shortages may have triggered protests across the country but other factors are helping to keep them going people seem to be frustrated not just by the comic crisis but by the way the country is being run and they want to see change the. demonstrators have been met with life fire and tear gas by police causing a number of deaths and injuries but the protests continue along with the demand that president omar al bashir who has ruled for almost thirty years to resign some
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analysts say it's time for others to take the lead. this crisis can't be left to the government to solve alone other political parties need to come in join hands to find a way out of the crisis the crisis is no longer an economy process it's now a political process and people are blaming the government for it. sudan appears to be at a standstill with the people on one side and the government and its policy on the other people morgan al-jazeera part and. which still to come on the program or in the d.r. see where ballot papers have arrived to replace the millions destroyed by a fire last week plus we meet the nicaraguan artists who are challenging the government's brutal crackdown with pens and art brushes.
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hello there is cool down for some of us in western australia now on saturday we got around forty one degrees in perth and then we had a change in the wind direction and now we've got a bit more in the way of town as well that means from monday our maximum temperature will just be twenty seven degrees out where we're still going to see some showers mostly across the northern part say for some of us in the northern territory and across into queensland we'll see a fair few showers at times but for the southeast it should be fine for the hawks in melbourne but that heat a fraction as we head into choose day for new zealand very stormy here at the moment look at all the cloud that's working its way across us we're seeing some very very heavy downpours across many parts of the north island particularly there across parts of north and and that system still with us for monday and then eases a bit as we head through choose day choose day though still looking very wet for many of us particularly in the north island for the south island a better chance of a dry day here particularly if you are in the south now for the northern parts of
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asia everything's quite quiet weather wise at the moment but it's not that warm we're looking at a maximum just of eleven there in tokyo they could be a bit of cloud around at times that could squeeze out one or two showers and for the west it's also going to be cool here in fact downright cold force in a maximum temperature of minus twenty four. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. with nice documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera.
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are one of the top stories here on jazeera at least two hundred twenty two people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a tsunami struck the indonesian islands of java and sumatra the u.s. president has announced he'll be replacing his defense secretary james mattis two months earlier than expected just resigned on thursday after disagreeing with the president's foreign policy of withdrawing troops from syria. and sudanese police have fired tear gas as hundreds of protesters gathered in khartoum pouring a football match colors after thousands took to the streets across the country on the fifth consecutive day of demonstrations and rising food and fuel prices. papers for the democratic republic of congo's long awaited presidential election of
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arrived in the capital kinshasa up to four million cases for shelter arrived by saturday place those destroyed by fire last three days in the capital left eight thousand voting machines damaged the presidential polls originally sunday have been pushed back by a week catherine sawyer is in the capital kinshasa with more on the millions of ballot papers needed for the country to hold elections those four million people men who are that are in the country now which is a big relief to many people the voting machine that had been recalled from the different problem is we're told are already here technicians are reprogramming them now out of what the materials that were meant for other parts of the country are in the different regional headquarters they will be or are being transported to the various then. eventually the polling stations as well but that another big problem
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logistically this is a country that has a very poor infrastructure we're talking about places that you cannot get using up here coal or even a bicycle you have to walk around with this is also the rainy season of parts of the country as well and they are they've been a boy outbreak in the east so all these complications making it even more difficult for the electoral commission and it's also important to note that the government has refused all international help to call help financial help from the u.n. and other countries as well a lot of people really just watching to see how exactly this week is going to play out this is going to be a very difficult we could not had any word from the government or not had any what either from the president joseph kabila and causing a lot of concern here. for the first time ever in the u.k. government has published figures for the numbers of homeless people dying on the streets and in temporary accommodation. crisis says the number of rough sleepers
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could be as high as twelve thousand and the mother reports one. remembering a friend who died too young jeweler a measure rough sleeper from hungary was found dead in this london underground station right opposite parliament bore a fellow hungary and is still traumatized and just come down to say good night to my friends and i saw him laying on his stomach and his head was so good when i was telling my friends something not right he's not breathing is all blue so then they turn him around the league if i'm simply on. july was just forty three his death came in the same week as government figures reveal the total number of deaths among people sleeping rough or in temporary accommodation they estimate almost six hundred homeless people died in england and wales last year that marks a rise of twenty five percent in five years more than half of those deaths were due to drug poisoning alcohol abuse or suicide the vast majority who died in recent
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years were men and their average age was forty four for women it was just forty two in the city where you live or you're a visitor it's virtually impossible not to notice the shocking number of rough sleepers was not so easy to grasp is just how difficult it can be for those people to get off the streets even when they're determined to do so in the run up to the new year the charity crisis is running drop in centers for homeless people in several u.k. cities at this one they're offering not just hot meals and medical treatment but somewhere to sleep at night and advice on housing. that's become a national emergency because of a fall in social housing stock and other cuts in services over decades of failed to build the social housing that's needed so now much more no people are relying on the private rented sector which is a bad thing in itself but it's rents go up and benefits all freeze and then more and more the cost of housing isn't covered by the social security system so that's
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been driving home this week it's up with david's one of those who fall in through the cracks he returned to the u.k. in november after decades abroad with most savings in no way to stay for now he spends his days on the street whatever the weather it's a miserable day like today it's a good question. charging the opportunity to. be based here for several days i don't have to worry about. striking a boat you belong means it is history. this charity says the real challenge is stopping people becoming homeless in the first place but for now it's trying to attract more donations so it can provide alternatives to life on the streets with the barber al-jazeera the. hundreds of protesters a rally in lebanon's capital an anger at the political stalemate and western economy some scuffles broke out in beirut after right place tried to stop the demonstrators from reaching government buildings calling for lower food prices tax
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cuts and free medical care and also want the formation of a new national unity government more than seven months on from the last general election. it's been two years since al jazeera journalist manhunter saying was arrested and detained in egypt it hasn't been charged with any crime as imprisonment has repeatedly been extended despite international calls for his immediate release alex could offer us reports. for two years mcu saying has been locked inside an egyptian prison his right to trial denied his legal rights rejected the al jazeera journalist flew to cairo in two thousand and sixteen to visit his family after he landed he was questioned the detained without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse the carter based journalist of broadcasting what it describes as false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he strongly denies the allegations and so does al-jazeera echoing international outrage the un has been
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calling for his release rights groups have reported in our poll crackdown on egyptian journalists since the military deposed the first democratically elected president mohammed morsi in two thousand and thirteen the suppression has increased under former general now president of the federal sisi the committee to protect journalists say at least twenty media workers are being held in egyptian prisons hussein's detention has breached egypt's own penal code and since he's being held without trial for more than eighteen months the maximum period allowed for anyone being investigated for a crime he should have been released or taken to court neither has happened and two years in his family and others are waiting for justice alex to topless al-jazeera. cuba's national assembly has agreed the wording of a new draft constitution the referendum will be held in february to determine whether it will be passed into law a major difference is that it recognizes his right to own private property and
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maintains the country is a centrally planned economy ruled by a single communist party and after pressure from the catholic church plans for legalizing same sex marriage were removed. the fundamental laws we have approved reaffirms a revolutionary socialist path and allows the state and the people to work towards protecting our society it's reinforces the prevalence of the constitution that ensures inclusion equal rights and empowers the people over cuba's government. the political crisis in nicaragua continues to deepen a national law banning dissent has pushed critics of the government to find alternative forms of protest such as art which is there is money is in with a story. at a private studio in the nicaraguan capital political cartoonist is sketching out an idea well the sketch is coming along it's illegal to protest against the government
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here but bedroom says with few civil liberties many government critics have turned to art. despite how bad the crisis has been the positive side is that it has spar creativity in people because spaces for freedom of expression have been closed off not letting people march or anything else people are now looking for an alternative way of expressing themselves so. the violent clashes of a few months ago on the streets of mine i want have stopped at least temporarily a photography exhibit and you can i was university of central america highlights the increasingly repressive tactics by national security forces to silence critics of the president. cloudy a good deal curator of the exhibit says simply having these photographs on display creates a high risk of reprisals from the government. if india. were all definitely very afraid this isn't easy but the university wanted to take this
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risk which may or may not be prudent and it could have consequences. across town local artists have put together another exhibit showcasing thirty paintings representing the thirty articles of the universal declaration of human rights are to scandalize yet to be read says or gives people a way to express themselves when there is no other alternative would have been set up by law that any words can get you thrown in prison in this country i don't think i would be arrested for a painting or maybe so but that's a reality the moment we can no longer make art what's the point of living life and if i. am a lot of not even. artists in my now was a few places are willing to host art exhibits if they're perceived as anti-government since the start of the political crisis hundreds of people in the guy will have been sent to prison many for voicing their opinions or sharing them
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online back in the studio is finishing his sketch depicting the cat i was president then you know what they got and his wife the vice president as to puppets scattered on his desk or the portraits he's drawn of children activists and journalists who've been killed by government forces since the start of the crisis in artistic statement in a country where words of dissent are not allowed. i just read a month. or two days after that interview with a political cartoonist federal money is news judea was raided by members of nicaragua is national police action by the government part of an ongoing crackdown against members of the press in the country. an industrial city in south korea is now home to the world's largest outdoor painted nurul covering nearly twenty four thousand square meters and is right mcbride reports from incheon city it's become quite a source of pride for locals it dominates this part of incheon skyline
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an industrial i saw turned into an eye catching thing of beauty standing nearly fifty meters tall a facelift in a city known for its industrial grime. is a city of manufacturing and industry where we have many buildings like this which poses a problem for us this is what they were grain silos but with an imaginative i it wasn't hard to see them as a row of books on the shelf so that is what they became sixteen volumes that tell the story of a boy's journey from childhood to adulthood while depicting the complete cycle of the four seasons incheon is probably best known to people outside south korea as a location for the international airport that serves the capital seoul but officials here seem determined that the city should be recognized for far more than
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just the place you fly in and out of with hopes that some of the millions of passengers who use the nearby airports can be persuaded to stay a while in incheon the city has big tourism aspirations and now other industrial buildings are being looked at as potential canvases for more art. a lot of companies with similar silos have said they want to paint them aware that one might please the public don't put those paint brushes away just yet robert bryant al jazeera incheon city south korea. reminder top stories on our jazeera at least two hundred twenty two people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a tsunami on the indonesian islands of java and sumatra it happened in the sindar straight between the two popular tourist islands scientists say it was triggered by
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an underwater landslide after the anarch krakatau volcano erupted on saturday water crashed in land destroying homes hotels and roads out of there as andrew thomas is in chile gone on java island and said this update there are already hundreds of rescue workers in that disaster zone in parts because of how close this nominee hits to jakarta indonesia its capital where all the emergency services are based the fear now is of a second tsunami if move all kind of activity causes more on the water landslides and that's why i'm here in chile going about five kilometers inland from the coast up a hill the authorities are saying that nobody should be along that coastline tonight in the dark in case another wave hits. the u.s. president has announced he'll be replacing his defense secretary james mattis two months earlier than expected mattis resigned on thursday after disagreeing with the
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president's foreign policy of withdrawing troops from syria the deputy secretary of defense patrick shanahan is now due to assume the role at the start of twenty nineteen. sudanese police have fired tear gas as hundreds of protesters gathered in khartoum following a football match comes after thousands took to the streets across the country on the fifth consecutive day of demonstrations of the rising food and fuel prices. ballot papers for the democratic republic of congo's long awaited presidential election arrived in the capital kinshasa up to four million papers would you by saturday to replace those destroyed by a fire last week the blaze also damaged more than eight thousand voting machines the presidential poll which was originally scheduled for sunday has been pushed back by a week. it's been two years since i was there a journalist was hussein was arrested and detained in egypt without being charged with a crime is imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls
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for his immediate release there's a top stories do stay with us next stop it's witness thanks very much indeed for watching easy. on counting the cost two thousand and eighty three year the u.s. and china by trade tariff poca gregg's it could be used to everyone and quit opec will review the year that was as new dynamics to shaping the global economy. counting the cost on.
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