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west bank and gaza use facebook is therefore a vital space for activism and debate but the organizers of this forum say it's far from a safe space israel has detained hundreds of people over their social media use and there's been powell crackdowns by hamas in gaza and the palestinian authority here in the west bank it has detained journalists and activists and blocked websites under a recently adopted cybercrime law on stage the israel palestine director of human rights watch cited what he called intimidatory detentions in both gaza and the west bank quoting one recent detainee despairing of the fact that a regime had emerged before a palestinian state it was a direct challenge to a leading prosecutor from the palestinian authority who had himself been condemning israel for abusing online freedoms i mean he denied there was any organized campaign against free speech saying the with already did its utmost to protect human rights for those who don't believe it is. the things which the these authorities may believe that. so the.
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thirty three will they will think twice before what was a big or anything against either the authority or of course there is a very and her colleagues can't do much about the restrictions on their digital space but they are determined to use it to help change the way their generation of palestinians see themselves and the seen by the outside world are a force it. hundreds of honduran asylum seekers have crossed into neighboring guatemala as part of a migrant caravan heading towards the united states u.s. president donald trump has seized on news of the advancing group to build support for a wall along his country's border with mexico manual repeller has the story from san pedro sula. i think. it's the middle of the night and one of the most dangerous cities in the world and hundreds of hundred citizens are walking out of town. most
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of them say they're fleeing the country and are headed for the guatemalan border am also fair i'm here with my daughter and we've already suffered enough what can i say they say the path is dangerous but i've never experienced it and now i've come to experience this never mind if i have to suffer so will my daughter what can you do about it. there are many women and children in the group and human rights observers are keeping a close on. when people make the decision to leave it's our obligation to respect it and to accompany them we have insisted that if the national government will not guarantee the rights of people so they can stay in the country they must at least respect their right to migrate. as dawn breaks the caravan begins to spread out. there's no jobs the hospitals don't have mates and there are many things wrong in this country and the government doesn't do anything energy costs are high they are no jobs or opportunities for young people. those trying to leave
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by foot no the journey is long it's also difficult to keep up with the pace of the larger group. for many their best bet is to rely on the kindness of passing motorists. as many as one thousand one hundred nationals have joined this latest caravan that departed from some pivotal sudha their logic is that it's safer to make the journey traveling as a group migrant caravans from central america remain a focal point of be immigration debate in the you know. it states that it isn't the number of people fleeing the region that is increased but rather their visibility and without addressing the issue of widespread violence and poverty there's no slowing down the cycle of migration let up a little. something. coming up in sports it's a very special day for one footballer from can't get stung they will be here with all the details.
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if you're looking at this from the outside it would really wonder what was going on but what is this race is it a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pave the road smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains coming soon more than two thousand five hundred leaders from governments business is and international organizations will meet at the next world economic forum to discuss the global political and industry trends one twenty ninety dabbles special coverage on al-jazeera.
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it's time for sports. thank you so much the australian open defending champions are still in the running to win the tournament again roger federer and caroline wozniacki are both bidding to reach the third round who's just a much simpler task for one more than the other reports. for roger federer a anything other than a straight sets victory would have been something of a slip up as he took on qualified don evans one of the men who will carry british tennis hopes after andy murray's imminent for a time and. but evans pushed federal hard taking both the first and second sets to a tie break federer shaded both of those and was then in no mood to go down to the wire again in the third. evans is just one hundred eighty nine in the world after returning from a drug bans on the third seeded swiss showed his superiority in the end winning
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seven six seven six six three. one of the first major shocks of the year came his twenty year old american francis to dumped out south africa's fifth seed kevin anderson last year's wimbledon finalist losing in four sets to the world number thirty nine the women's defending champion caroline wozniacki was up against lawson denmark versus sweden in a risk on the navy and much up at the grand slam danish supremacy was never really in doubt although lawson made wozniacki work for the winner of. a convincing six one six three victory the world number three if elliott fifth seed sloane stephens was taking on have former doubles partner a timea boss of hungary the american wasn't going to let friendship gets in the way of progress winning six three six one to cruise into the third round. hole aris al-jazeera. well after those match as
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a world number two rafael nadal was in action he showed no sign of his recent entry struggles though the spaniard beating australian matthew abin six three six two two six. and reassure povo eased into the third round of the australian open with a six two six one win over a back up pietersen shared kobo only dropped a three games in this match she will next face off against defending champion caroline wozniacki. two time asian cup winners south korea are on their way to this year's last sixteen as group c. winners thanks to a two no win over china on wednesday and both sides had won their opening two fixtures so this was a straight shoot out to see who would top the standings they were also both through to the knockout stage but winning the group was likely to bring a somewhat easier second round opponent weighing joe's penalty and a second half strike by kim n.j. wrap it up for soft korea. and you may not have heard too much about vitale looks
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but he has become the first man from kurdistan to score a had trick in an international football match he picked a good time to do it to kurdistan playing the philippines in their final game in group c. knowing that a win would give them a chance to reach the next round of they'll have to wait on other results to find out their fate but for now the germany base looks is at least a national hero final score three one to purchase a. confirmation there of south korea's place at the top of the final standings and group see china go through two while it will be a waiting game now for kurdistan to see whether they can go through as one of the best third place teams and iran finish top of group d. after a goalless draw with iraq both those sides progress to the last sixteen and lycurgus in vietnam will have to wait to see if they have done enough to move to the next round after a two no win over yemen. now the n.b.a. are staging a regular season game in london on thursday but there will be
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a noticeable absence from the new york knicks they will take on the washington wizards without star center and it's cantor he's been an outspoken critic of turkish president risk of type early ones government kuntar is a turkish national but feared that by traveling to london he would put his life in danger because passport was revoked back in twenty seventeen. that he couldn't tell me that that's a big. that's a big hit. as a team compared to him and they just having him around he's amazing guy to be around so i mean i'm going to extreme you say that he's not. the president of the russian bobsled federation is suspended for two years for doping violations this is not the first time though that alexander's of golf has been in trouble back in two thousand and seventeen so-called was stripped of his two gold medals from the winter olympic games in sochi in two thousand and fourteen also for doping three other russian bobsledders have also been suspended until twenty twenty the interim
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president of michigan state university has been asked to resign after making comments about the u.s. gymnastics sexual abuse victims john engler recently told a local newspaper that the gymnast who were sexually abused by former usa gymnastics and michigan state team dr larry nasser were quote unquote enjoying the spotlight while the university is trying to get back to work larry nasser was found guilty in twenty eighteen of sexually abusing gymnasts report say anger has been asked to resign before he is fired on thursday for his comments. masser a tia is on the verge of winning his third dakar rally title the qatari sealed his third stage when of this year's race and finish just under five minutes ahead of second place not the roma others though struggled to make it seven time former champion stefan petter hensel crashed out of the race with his co-driver david suffering a back injury in the accident the drivers have the final stage ten coming up on thursday no mariana sanchez is there and sent us this report. well this is the
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ninth stage of this race that began last week people here cheering drivers arrive in the next to last in twenty four hours there will be a definition of finally who will win. dakar rally however all people all the experts here tend to say that it would take for. driver not not to win this race he's ahead of dakar legends like stefan peter hans of the frenchman or. have been in this race many of whom have won several doctors but not the favorite so far there's been a lot of criticism of this doctor took place only. people who say that the race damages the territory but also there's been criticism from within the
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a race driver stefan peter hounshell saying that there's been too many loops a lot of sand. that's dr used to be another venture and he hopes like many others have been saying that this race goes back to africa the city of atlanta and georgia in the united states is preparing for one of the world's largest sporting events in less than two weeks the super bowl is coming to town and with it thousands of fans the city's mayor says the ongoing government shutdown is actually one of their biggest concerns. we aren't a stranger to large events so i do believe that we are as prepared as we can possibly be certainly there are factors that we don't control such as what's happening with our federal government shutdown and with the long t.s.a. line because right now we have i believe about seventy or eighty thousand people who go through hartsfield jackson atlanta international airport every day that
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monday i believe we expect to have one hundred ten thousand people going through the airport so it's my hope that by then the federal government shutdown will be his shirt that's it for me now but we'll have more later and that's also it from maine for this news allan i'll be back in just a moment with more news. for
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you. new leaders place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds work his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is a least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. in the
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next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of engineering. the heights of sophistication in mechanics at the time was the extravagant elephant cloak. written around age fifty eight the book contains a range of ingenious inventions and contraptions science from a golden age with jim alkaloid on al-jazeera. it's time for us to come together put the national interest first and deliver on the referendum the british prime minister survives a vote of no confidence that faces the tough task of taping a new breakfast deal by monday.
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hello i'm saying this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up american soldiers and civilians are among the dead and an isolator on a popular restaurant in more than syria. freezing weather kills fifteen syrian children living in refugee camps and now the storm is battering the region. group al-shabaab claims responsibility for an attack on a luxury hotel in kenya that killed twenty one people. well british prime minister to reason may is not giving up the bricks that fight politicians to put self interest aside she wants them to work together on a consensus deal for the u.k.'s exit from the european union she made the offer to her government survived
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a no confidence vote called by the opposition leader three hundred twenty five m.p.'s voted against motion while he got support from three hundred six that means the government won by nineteen votes from westminster paul brennan begins our coverage. she's not just clinging on she's fighting on this evening the government has won the confidence of parliament this now gives us all the opportunity to focus on finding a way forward on brics it i believe it is my duty to deliver on the british people's instruction to leave the european union and i intend to do so far from quitting over tuesday night's historic defeat to resign may return to parliament on wednesday incompetent moot. the prime minister knew that the rebels who voted against her brics a deal would vote with her this time the eyes of the right three hundred six the no use of the left three hundred twenty five. it
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gives her the breathing room to start talking to opposition leaders about her plan b. i would like to invite the leaders of parliamentary parties to meet with me individually and i would like to start these meetings tonight mr speaker. the government approaches these meetings in a constructive spirit and i urge others to do the same in response the opposition labor party urged her to take no deal off the table. the government must remove must remove clearly once and for all the prospect of the catastrophe of a no deal breaker to me and all the chaos that would come as a result of that europe has reacted with some alarm to the turmoil at westminster the u. nations have started accelerating their preparations for a no deal breck's it on march twenty ninth the commission regrets the rejection of the world withdrawal agreement as representative of the council said because we do
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believe this was the best possible outcome yes we are making preparations for a no deal scenario we have to do that now that doesn't loot checks the ports and airports and but we're not making preparations for checks on border but having. thus. the only way they can avoid a hard border long term isn't through goodwill isn't through the right words it has to be through an agreement but suspicion is growing that the prime minister's plan b. will look remarkably similar to the deal so emphatically rejected already the u.k. is really now in the realms of the unprecedented many m.p.'s are so skeptical of teresa mayes chances of finding a workable plan before brics it's that one group is actively seeking to strip her of power and handed instead to the powerful palm tree liaison committee for across party solution on the government would be legally obliged to follow its recommendations it could advocate a new general election another referendum perhaps on the m.p.'s would effectively
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be in charge of the executive these are indeed extraordinary times paul brennan al-jazeera westminster hall to resume has begun meeting opposition leaders to try to secure have rex at dale lawrence lee was monitoring me as late night statements and sent us this update. three's a maze of parents outside downing street designed to coincide exactly with the main evening news bulletins here didn't say anything at all that she hadn't said previously in the house of commons but what it did do was stamped her all forward see back on the entire process just twenty four hours ago after she lost by a record margin withdrawal agreement votes she's now saying i'm back in charge of the inside process she said that this evening she met leaders of all the opposition parties except for jeremy coleman the leader of the main labor opposition he's refused to meet her because he says he's not going to until she rules out the
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prospects of the u.k. leaving the european union without any sort of deal at all and so there she was saying i'm in listening mode i'll talk to anybody who's prepared to listen we've all got to make concessions in the national interest and the only person who won't talk to me is jeremy colvin and boo sucks to him so it was a very important moment for some reason may not just to say i'm in charge and we have to pull together in the national interest but also to ease the jitters i think inside her own conservative policy which is deeply splays does or does want to leave the european union with no deal the rest of the policy has no idea anymore than the rest of us to what exactly the future holds over the next few weeks what we do know though is over the coming days these backstairs talks inside downing street will continue and on monday she has to come back to parliament with a new plan now the european union has warned the brics a deal agreed with may is the best it can offer but the e.u. may be more flexible on when the u.k.
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needs the block david kay to has more from brussels it's a relief to the leaders of the european union that they will be talking to terry's in may there was always the remote possibility that you could fall in this vote of no confidence but that least they do know who they'll be talking to. same when they've been talking to for more than two years now over this deal and the e.u. say that they will not change the details the important details of the withdrawal agreement but what is being increasingly talked about now in brussels is the fact that the march the twenty ninth deadline the the cliff edge that everybody is talking about the withdrawal agreement might be suspended they may look on that very favorably it's all a case of how long will it be extended so this is a pressure coming from the president of france and the chancellor angela merkel of germany to come to some sort of flexibility on that not on the deal but on the time
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being allowed to allow the term or that we've seen in the house of commons to die down and for these across party talks to come up with a new strategy an evolution of the politics in the united kingdom this is what they want to see and the only way to get that is to allow time for it to evolve so we might see a quite a long extension of the withdrawal agreement and so march the twenty ninth will not be the cliff edge that everybody is facing because nobody here in the you want to see a new deal breaks it so that's the feeling from brussels and from the european union . i sill has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack that killed nineteen people in northern syria among the dead for americans to soldiers and civilians it's happened just weeks after president donald trump announced he was pulling u.s.
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troops out of syria because i still had been defeated has he culhane reports from washington d.c. . that blood on the streets a popular restaurant blown apart american helicopters rushed in to help the wounded and remove the dead in the city of men bitch the u.s. military confirming on twitter that u.s. service members were killed the islamic state of iraq in the levant says they are responsible and that they were targeting the coalition of the u.s. senator lindsey graham directly blamed the attack on president donald trump's promise to pull u.s. troops out quickly my concern about the statements made by president trump is that you'd set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting you make people who are trying to kill you wonder about us and as they get older the people we're trying to help are going to going to get more uncertain saw this in iraq. and i'm now seeing it in syria he urged the president to reconsider but that
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seems unlikely because just after the attack the vice president made this claim we're bringing our troops home the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. one of the leaders who most clearly does not want to see the u.s. president change course the president of turkey who weighed in the me. i asked has claimed the responsibility for the attack and this may mean to affect the decision that mr trump has taken but as i know mr trump's determination about this issue i do not think he will step back against this kind of a terrorist attack. donald trump has been criticized by both parties for his decision to withdraw u.s. troops his secretary of defense quit in protest now his claim that i still has been defeated will be openly questioned after this attack but he's still not showing any signs he will reconsider political hay al-jazeera washington. and the lives of
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displaced syrians living in camps under threat again from the second severe winter storm the u.n. says tens of thousands in northern lebanon including many children battling the freezing temperatures and makeshift shelters fifteen children have died in camps inside syria in the past month or so in a hot a spoke with people in our cell close to the border with syria. is very ill. the two year old is suffering from respiratory problems temperatures regularly drop below zero during the winter months in this corner of lebanon but this year is particularly harsh and these children refugees from syria are the most vulnerable they live in tents made of flimsy plastic sheeting it is a struggle to keep warm and it is hard to stay dry. most of the united nations gave us money to buy gasoline for the whole winter but their mark you can purchase is not enough what a month and a half we need ten dollars
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a day i have three kids it's hard for fathers like up to when they can't buy medicine and meet the needs of their children these desperate families have survived one severe storm already this year and now they're bracing for another storm the second in less than a week the united nations says twenty two thousand syrians were affected in the first storm flooding heavy rain and snow whipped by strong winds destroyed their tents last week many fear the worst is yet to come. i am scared of the upcoming storm because i suffered in the last one my tent was flooded and we couldn't stay inside my family and i had to live with others in another tent . and i'm sure this would happen again imagine how much harder it is for the elderly ninety four year old has harbor and his daughter.
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