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speaking out against intolerance. she travels the world with the result of a grieving mother who lost a son don't do the generation. latifa. with this documentary on al-jazeera. a military coup attempt fails. to suspect the plotters killed and five captured. hello this is al jazeera live from london also coming up president trump is to address the nation and visit the border with mexico as he digs in over funding for his war britain's government begins rehearsals for the potential chaos of
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a no deal breaks it with an exercise that many of grand a waste of time and money plus bohemian rhapsody. a bio pic of the british rock group queen is a surprise big winner at the golden globes board diversity took center stage. though thank you for joining us we started the program in the barn where the government says it's retain control of the country after an attempt to overthrow president ali bungle was undergoing medical treatment in morocco soldiers took over the raid the state radio station in adorn raid but security forces stormed the building and killed the two soldiers arresting the coup leader and four other alleged plotters nicholas hawke has more. lieutenants. from the presidential guard bursts into the national radio and television center. for
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a popular uprising against yvonne's president ali bungalows. the eagerly awaited day has arrived when the army has decided to put itself on the side of the people in order to save kept on from cowes if you're eating stop if you're having a drink stop if you're sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors rise up as one and take control of the street. outside gunshots electricity in the internet are shut down as get any special forces stormed the building in a statement the government spokesman says calm has returned the situation is under control the african union in france which maintains nine hundred troops in the country have condemned the attempted coup president is in morocco seeking treatment after suffering a stroke last october and his new year's address to the nation he appeared frail a time slurring his words. go took over power in two thousand and nine after the death of his father who had ruled the country for forty one years. during the two
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thousand and sixteen presidential election the bongo dynasty was challenged the opposition leader jumping to claim victory but the constitutional court ruled in favor of congo in an interview with al jazeera after the court's ruling he said he was accountable to the people i was the candidate of equal chance you know giving really every guy when he has a chance to really make it i'm not the i'm not the candidate you know or to restore privileges and yet high unemployment and a sluggish economy heavily reliant on oil exports have made life more difficult and costly many young people are now calling for change seeing their leader as absent and distant everything crises education health care and everything so people want to do something about it. armed vehicles are now patrolling the streets of the capital. but with this latest coup attempt the bongo didn't hold on power seems fragile and uncertain because hawk al-jazeera for me to miller has covered for
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al-jazeera and sent us this update from johannesburg. after an absence of more than two months from after suffering a stroke in october last year the new year's eve message by president other bongo certainly wasn't enough to allay fears that he was incapable of running the country at least for the a group of soldiers who attempted a coup in the early hours of monday morning bongo has been out of the country their concerns around what is happening just who is running cobol and some moves are made towards the end of twenty eighteen to change the constitution to allow some powers to be transferred to the prime minister and vice president this of course is field of anger from opposition parties to who though say they have nothing to do with the school that taken place two attempted coup rather and now the government responded
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to this move by soldiers from the republican guard he took over a radio station they responded with they responded by arresting at least of five of them and killing the two others the. reaction from the government was quite swift the government is government saying that it's restored order and this is not anything to worry about despite some of the grievances we were coming out of by people who say that the economy is in tatters that the unemployment and poverty levels are too high and that a politically specifically the bongo family has benefited from the country's oil riches. on a government would now most likely be looking towards the army specifically if there are any divisions within it just how far the discontent goes and if this
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poses any further threats there wasn't very much public support it would appear to this attempted coup it with reports indicate a few hundred people coming out into the streets but this attempted coup essentially quelled very quickly by the government. the white house has announced that president trump will visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure congress to end the partial government shutdown fellow trump also says he will address the nation on immigration and the southern border on tuesday trump is the man the more than five billion dollars to build a border war with mexico something the democrats strongly oppose he's threatening to use emergency powers to get it built but this feud over the funding of the wall has led to a partial government shutdown which has so far lasted seventeen let's get more now from rosslyn jordan who's following all developments for us in washington d.c.
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tell us a little bit more about the latest announcements is making a statement on tuesday and actually going to the war on thursday what else do we know about what he's going to do. well we don't know barbro where exactly u.s. president donald trump is going to visit on thursday except that it's going to be some where between the city of brownsville texas which is on the gulf of mexico and san diego california which sits on the pacific ocean somewhere in there we expect the president is going to tour and to try to build public support for what he says is a security necessity a vol on tuesday the president has said on twitter he's going to address the nation at zero two g.m.t. but we don't know whether that's actually going to be carried over broadcast television the u.s. television networks have the right to refuse airtime to any politician. rules fair use and. parody practices here in the united states but
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suffice it to say the white house is trying to build public support for this posture in the face of what they are seeing as extremely resistant to democratic and liberal opposition to the construction of a security wall along the us mexico border and so rosalynn because of all of that of that opposition and the president obviously being quite determined we've seen seventeen days now of this partial government shutdown what's actually happening at both behind the scenes and front of it i guess to try to end this shutdown. well there were some closed door meetings between white house officials and congressional aides over the weekend but members of congress both the senate and the house are not in washington today and so there aren't any meetings happening as far as we know this is probably going to be the case until at least tuesday that said that doesn't mean that top politicians aren't stating their opposition chuck
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schumer who is the democratic leader in the senate the minority leader in other words gave a speech on monday morning in new york where he talked about the financial hurt that this is causing to those federal workers who live in new york state he pointed out that not only are people unable to pay their bills but people who wanted to buy homes which constitutes a significant portion of the u.s. is economy are unable to do so because they can't get the federal agency approval for those loans one of the unintended consequences chuck schumer says is happening because of this government shutdown he also had this to say about the president's posture on the matter if every time president trump throws a tantrum and demands he get his way unless the government will be shutdown it will create disaster will encourage his worst instincts which are bad enough now in
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march we have the debt ceiling coming up people you know people go along with this. you know nasty way of governing imagine what will happen when the debt ceiling occurs imagine what will happen when the march budget occurs the government will only ravel further than it has. and there's also this concern federal workers should be getting a paycheck in the next four to five days it's not expected that they are going to be paid because they have been sent home for the duration of the shutdown and there is real concern now that not only are they not going to have money to cover their expenses but that there's going to be a spill on effect in their local economies shops won't get any money people who are provide services such as mechanics and plumbers and electricians won't get paid if people need to have those services provided and so this is of course causing great
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calls for a nation in the business sector we've seen of course of volatile stock market through the end of twenty eighteen and we've already seen it today in the fifth and sixth day of twenty nineteen. joining with the latest there from washington thank you a senior who is the official says a new round of talks between yemen's warring factions mean take place soon in jordan u.n. envoy martin griffiths met the who these before heading to riyadh in an effort to ensure a recent deal reached in sweden is fully implemented. has more. peace in yemen won't be easy but the united nations envoy martin griffiths remains confident it will one day become a reality griffith's the region to ensure or the parties will implement the agreement reached in sweden last month the deal calls for the who are these to
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hand over control of yemen's but seaport of her data of the warring factions remain divided over who should step in and run the facility where much of the food aid comes in. the exiled government says it's ready to take over and move dismissed by the who thiis who don't recognize the government of president abdullah muscle handy . we hope peace efforts kick off aggression comes to an end and debility prevails in airports reopening. the un wants to bring yemen's rival factions to a new round of talks to discuss ways to improve the economy and tackle the deteriorating humanitarian situation on his arrival martin griffiths was shown children affected by the almost four year old conflict the war has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes yemen faces
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the worst humanitarian catastrophe in warden times according to recent estimates as many as eighty five thousand children may have died of hunger since the start of the saudi u.a.e. led war against the houthi is the deal that was reached in sweden with the first breakthrough since the start of the war in two thousand and fourteen but the deal remains fragile fighting has resumed in some areas and a prisoner exchange is on hold the internationally recognized government insists the who these must hand over their weapons and pull out of the capital sanaa before there's any final peace deal but the houthi is who controlled most of the country remain adamant there are yemen's legitimity leaders but are al-jazeera.
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sudan's government says it's arrested more than eight hundred protesters at the government demonstrations held across than over the last three weeks the interior minister says there have been three hundred eighty one protests reported since december nineteenth when the government hiked bread prices are to say at least one thousand people including two security personnel have been killed in clashes during the demonstrations but the rights group amnesty international says that number is actually thirty seven. still to come in this half hour of the u.s. and china whole face to face talks to end the trade war that's moved to the international markets and accused of a cover up a notch the ship goes on trial in france in connection with the sex abuse scandal. a lot of welcome back here in the national weather forecast or here across europe
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we're seeing a slight break in the snow here across central europe but it's not to be lasting for very long because we have a new round of snow and this one's going to be followed by some very gusty winds across parts of central and northern europe tickled your forecast map here on tuesday the snow returns across much of central europe and then behind the system look at the winds we are expecting to see here across germany poland also back here across parts of the netherlands as well we're also going to be seeing some rain coming in from the north as well for berlin it could be a rainy day for you but for vienna the snow is back with a temperature there of forty degrees down here towards the southeast we're looking at more snow for parts of turkey you will finally get that break as we go towards wednesday but another storm is brewing here across parts of italy and that is moving towards greece as well well for the other part of africa we are talking talking still some windy conditions across much of the area out here towards the east though it is the rain we could be dealing with alexandria you'll be seeing some rain showers in your forecast for cairo a mostly cloudy day for you here on tuesday at eighteen degrees but by the time we
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get to wednesday it is going to be mostly cloudy and we're going to see those temperatures drop slightly to about sixty degrees there tripoli windy conditions few with a temperature of sixteen and the ghazi attempt of sixteen as well. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you joined us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for is a dialogue the government has had an eagle protest and instructed police to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice. reasons what's the difference like to join the global conversation on how does iraq.
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welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera two soldiers involved in an attempted military coup in have been killed and five others arrested among them the man suspected of leading donald trump will visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure congress to end the partial government shutdown over his controversial border plan and the un special envoy for yemen is in the saudi capital riyadh to meet yemeni government officials he's trying to convince both sides in the civil war to comply fully with the cease fire agreement that was reached in sweeping. american network c.b.s. has broadcast an interview with the egyptian president despite a request by cairo not to air it the fact that sisi told the program sixty minutes
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that his country's forces were closely cooperating with the israeli military he also denied human rights abuses by an s. the book has more. u.s. television network c.b.s. said the egyptian government demanded it not air an interview with journalist scott pelley it would spell a question egyptian president. about a human rights watch report that claims egypt is detaining sixty thousand political prisoners many of whom belong to the muslim brotherhood the political party l.c.c. outlawed a lot of. i don't know where they got that figure i said there are no political prisoners in egypt whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers. l.c.c. claimed any extremists that were being held would receive a fair trial a contradiction for rights activists who say many are in prison and face long detentions. pelley also questioned about his government and israel cooperating in
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the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant would you say that this is the deepest and closest cooperation that you've ever had with israel side that is correct that the air force sometimes needs to cross to the israeli side and that's why we have a wide range of coordination with israel other than a slightly futile sequence it's been estimated there are about a thousand terrorists and china with more than a billion dollars in us military aid to every year why haven't you wiped them out with them as it up to stuff that went in and why hasn't the us eliminated the terrorists in afghanistan after seventeen years and spending a trillion dollars l c c's comments could inflame public opinion in his country which regards israel as an occupier of arab lands the two countries have a forty year old peace treaty and diplomatic relations but despite that many
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egyptians still think of israel as the traditional enemy last year egypt's military denied press reports that it was cooperating with israel to root out i still affiliated fighting groups in the mountainous sinai region bordering the two countries c.b.s. says the interview with the egyptian president was taped a few months ago but didn't say why it had been held until sunday dian estabrook al-jazeera. u.s. and chinese negotiators have had their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade dispute that the trade representative jeffrey gerrish said led the talks on the u.s. side donald trump says he's optimistic about the new round of negotiations two sides will continue talks on tuesday while the u.s. says impose tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods since july it covers a wide range of industrial and consumer items from handbags to railway equipment
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china retaliated imposing tariffs on one hundred ten billion dollars worth of u.s. products including chemicals coal and medical equipment and soybeans but china's economy is already showing signs of strain sales of i phones are down house prices are falling and manufacturing profits have also dropped but while the trade talks were happening a u.s. navy ship sailed in near disputed islands in the south china sea china has lodged a complaint with the u.s. asking for the vessel to leave the area the guided missile destroyer was close the paracel islands which are claimed by china taiwan and vietnam dozens of trucks have been taking part in an exercise in southeast england them that testing plans to deal with long queues at the port of dover if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal in march the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities with some experts predicting forty five kilometer queues as new customs checks come
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in john holl watch the exercise. in the light of traffic jam emerges a convoy of trucks simulating the queues for customs checks at britain's porch following the new deal brinks it. this was a live exercise operation broke the government's plan to ease congestion on major southbound routes by diverting trucks to the disused manston airfield from there forming an orderly procession through the kent countryside on smaller roads to. the contingency plan traffic management measures the department of transport described it was given another label by one of the drivers involved having is a last minute thing because it was in the floors of the stock and it just was a self it is a bit of fun. to prove what. i get a lot to do in something. that's only that's all it was but it will be done nothing like money not even the local m.p.
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from the governing conservative party was particularly impressed i welcomed the part of the transport ramping up preparations. just about one hundred lorries when ten thousand lorries come to the port every single day this isn't the right routine the better thing is to use. an airfield. it's estimated queues for customs checks at dover in the event of a no deal briggs it will stretch more than forty kilometers involving thousands of vehicles and taking many hours to resolve it wasn't immediately clear what this exercise involving just eighty nine trucks was designed to demonstrate a cynic might suggest that all this is political theater part of the government's last ditch efforts to convince doubting m.p.'s the tories amaze brings a deal that they'll be voting on next week is better than the chaos of a no deal exit from the european union where this live test did succeed was in
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showing off the very last minute nature of the government's no deal planning and it served as a timely reminder of the vexed state of british politics they're never going to agree they don't agree on anything so then a little. it was one thing conservative woman was laughing stock is never the never going to agree one thinks that it was going to be a thought. beyond the relatively clear roads and a largely traffic free though the port on the first working day for many of the new year with misleading your hardy few who expect no deal to be an easy ride jonah al-jazeera southeast england. the highest profile trial yet in the french catholic church sexual abuse scandal has begun in the city of leon the archbishop of the only is charged with failing to report serious abuse allegations in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's. reports. sixty eight year old cardinal felipe one
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of the most prominent catholic figures in france arrived for the start of his court proceedings the archbishop of leon is accused of helping to cover up abuse in one of his parishes five others from his diocese are also facing charges the case is about father bernard crennel who has acknowledged abusing boys and is set to be tried later this year more than eighty five people say he abused them during the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. his alleged victims came to court hoping for answers but this most of the cardinal is responsible for the diocese and in two thousand and thirteen he promoted a priest as dean who some years before had admitted to having abused children when you're responsible for a person who has admitted to having abused and raped children to promote his deen and thus putting him in contact with many more believers and children is simply irresponsible in the most awful i think that at last we will know to truth about the mechanism of silence and i think that these three days i want you for us to
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have real answers as you know how it was possible for a sexual predator to remain in this position for fifty years to have responsibilities without being asked a single question. cardinal faces up to three years in prison and a fine of fifty four thousand dollars if convicted of failing to report the abuse of minors he denies the allegations. there have been numerous cases of sexual abuse of children within the roman catholic church. and pope francis has reiterated the church's commitment to preventing such crimes. she. can't refrain from speaking about one of the plagues of our time which sadly has involved some members of the clergy the abuse of minors as one of the violence the most heinous crimes conceivable such abuse and absorbedly sweeps away the best of what human life holds out for innocent children and causes a reparable and lifelong damage the holy see in the church as a whole are working to combat and prevent these crimes and there concealment. this
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case will likely hinge on whether cardinal barbour who should have reported the priest under his responsibility to police once he learned about the allegations against him for now the cardinal will have to answer some very hard questions in this courtroom in the days ahead. al-jazeera. the actor kevin spacey has appeared in court in the u.s. state of massachusetts facing in the senate the sole charges his legal team pleaded not guilty on his behalf to assaulting an eighteen year old man that he met at a bar in two thousand and sixteen spacey faces several other allegations of misconduct which led to him being dropped from the series house of cards that there were some surprise winner is that the golden globe awards in los angeles including the queen bio pic a bohemian rhapsody but the focus both all new and off screen was on empowering women and celebrating diversity alter their engine has more. the star showed up on
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the red carpet in beverly hills as the two thousand and one thousand awards season kicked off with hollywood's first major award show the seventy six annual golden globes last year was the beginning of an ongoing with the not until everyone was safe for women so the serious times the times today where they're making enough that to double the amount of people from minorities we not of women at the helm within this industry and within every industry and so simple to make sure that we keep the conversation going those conversations included unity in the united states solidarity in the world and equality in the entertainment industry host sandro calling attention to one an expected blockbuster crazy rich asians made over two hundred million dollars at the box office sad asian moms everywhere. any movie sound like they go over. the civil rights bill green book took home three prizes including best picture in the musical and comedy category and best original
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screenplay. it's got the movie and i want people to see this movie because this movie's united brings people together across product. and drink in new line regina king accepted the award for best supporting actress for if beale street could talk a film based on a novel by civil rights activist and writer james baldwin and directed by barry jenkins i love you with all my heart thank you for your empathy thank you for telling stories so rich and thank you for giving us a film that my son said to me when he saw it that it was the first time he really saw himself with. his for he could b.b.c. series a very english scandal actor ben whishaw and used his acceptance speech to applaud the l.g.b. t.q. minority he won the best supporting actor award for his role as norman scott who took on the establishment with a coverage and a. defiance that i find completely inspiring he's
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a true queer hero an icon and norman this is for you that. the golden globes are handed out by the hollywood foreign press association and they're usually indicative of which films will get an oscar nomination bohemian rhapsody. this year's warshel colonnade with the freddie mercury biopic bohemian rhapsody winning best picture in the drama category the full list of winners is on our website paul sugar john al-jazeera. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera gabon's government says it's foiled an attempted military coup two soldiers involved in the plots were killed and five arrested among them the man suspected of leading the attempted coup the officer read the early morning statement on national radio that said president gore was no longer fit for office about the eagerly awaited a as
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a ride from the army as he started to put itself on the side of the people you know to say. if you're eighteen stop if you have a good drink start your sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors as one and take control of the street the u.s. president will visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure congress to end the partial government shutdown donald trump is the man the more than five billion dollars to build a wall along the u.s. mexican border something the democrats strongly oppose he's threatening to use emergency powers to get it built that this feud over the funding of the war has led to a partial government shutdown which has already lasted seventeen days. more than eight hundred protesters have been arrested from hundreds of anti-government demonstrations held across so than since last month's interior minister says there have been three hundred eighty one protests reported since the sembler nineteen after the government hiked bread prices authorities say at least one thousand
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people including two security personnel have been killed in clashes during the demonstrations rights group amnesty international though claims that number is thirty seven u.s. and chinese negotiators have held their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade dispute donald trump says he's optimistic about the new round of negotiations the two sides will continue discussions on tuesday and the round ninety trucks have taken part in a trial in england the aim that preventing long queues at the port of dover if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal at the end of march the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities but some experts predicting massive queues as new customs checks come in trucks have been driving between the ports and a disused airport to test traffic flows though over is the closest u.k. port to the european mainland i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next it's the street by.
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fire for me ok today uprising in sudan a look at the impact the current wave of anti-government demonstrations are having on the country we also want you to share your thoughts about what's happening in sudan so send is a chat via you tube on twitter of course. i mean you. know with africa and your. anti-government demonstrators are once a.
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