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at root he knows the deal is unpopular but vows to push it through parliament with his one vote majority by the end of the week jumps are open al jazeera athens. sudanese security forces have fired tear gas to break up protests in the capital khartoum and the city of. trucks carrying security personnel were deployed to undermine after protesters blocked streets demanding the resignation of president bashir and their daily demonstrations began in december in response to the rising cost of bread activists say dozens have been killed a sheriff says the protests are being organized by traitors and has rejected claims that security forces were responsible for the deaths of protesters. learned some young men wanted to express themselves in protest following but there were some infiltrators and she took the opportunity to put their way they are the ones who are burning and destroying public property so they are the ones who infiltrated these protests to kill demonstrators. has the latest from khartoum.
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more protests broke out today in khartoum and also in the city of man protesters have been planning to converge on the parliament and once again demand the government to step down and the president omar bashir but soon they were dispersed by security personnel using heavy tear gas or so in other parts of the man in the forty third street where i was there heavy to gas how has been used and a cameraman working for dizzier has been as a freelancer has been apprehended and that's a part of a systematic crocodile on journalists particularly if they used t.v. cameras and t.v. cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protesters he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government
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a process is and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are pretended to do something he said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government the television news cameraman has been killed in libya we haven't been highly fair worked as a freelancer for al-jazeera and other leading news organizations they said the five year old was hit by stray shell fire on saturday whilst on assignment following a libyan militia hundreds of people being killed in fighting between rival groups since the fall of moammar gadhafi seven years ago. and some news just in the turkish president richard tayyip erdogan has told the u.s. president donald trump that turkey is ready to take over security in one binge in syria without delay at once said an attack that left four u.s. personnel dead last week in member was an act of provocation aimed at affecting
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trump's decision last month to withdraw u.s. troops from syria from beaches controlled by a militia allied to the u.s. backed kurdish y.p. gee who last month invited syrian president bashar assad into the area around the town to forestall a potential turkish assault well more on that story later in the program. it's our sullivan. is now able think understand too that we can't alter some germ of a pen we'll talk to me later on. now israel says that it has shot down a rocket from syria its missile interception system took down the rocket aimed at the northern part of the occupied golan heights the incident came shortly after syrian state television said government forces have prevented an israeli air strike in the south the withdrawal of the americans from syria with the increase of tension between that is that it is and they are millions they are it is with the
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things in their own hands from now on because they believe that they cannot rely on on or on the other party that says that americans are our leaders or most or you are going to see more of that actually likely strikes inside syria in the coming weeks and months saudi led forces have launched air strikes on yemen's capital sana'a the watch as news agency is reporting two people have been killed the coalition said the raids targeted seven hoofy military bases used for drone operations local residents say homes were also damaged is the first time the coalition has carried out airstrikes on the capital city yemen's warring sides met for un backed talks in sweden last month. five hospitals in the gaza strip are facing closure due to fuel shortages hospitals rely on diesel generators because of blackouts from gaza's only power station israel has been refusing to allow the delivery of five million dollars in cash to buy fuel reports in gaza.
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city has suffered kidney problems all his life the ten year old needs dialysis treatment four times a week could fuel to power hospital generators is fast running out his father says he has applied many times to have rafah treated in israel but they have always refused to shorey our neighbors. or for the world i'm really concerned because my son relies on the streets because that is unique to city even these machines and keep my son alive because we stop him with and that scares me the. ministry of health says at least five hospitals where hundreds of patients need vital lifesaving treatment for various illnesses including cancer or face closure alyson fuel is supplied soon. fuel shortages throughout israel's world and ten you can see blockade but the ministry of health saying the situation of hospitals like this one with respect to the amount of fuel they have for their generators has
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reached a critical point and there are numerous reasons why the palestinian authority led by president mahmoud abbas based in the occupied west bank has restricted gauss' electricity supply for years to put pressure on hamas. reconciliation efforts between hamas and fatah which dominates the palestinian authority have failed to heal the rift which is lost more than a decade the israeli government is also being blamed it blocked the third installment of fifteen million dollars from cancer after rockets were fired from the besieged palestinian territory earlier this month the country cash is needed to pay thousands of hamas employees and to buy fuel for gaza's only power station but many israelis objected to the government allowing any money into gaza hamas hamas denies accusations of exaggerating the fuel crisis so its employees get paid his
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ministry of health says money from international donors to buy generator fuel has all but dried up. we have for the last two weeks been in a very complicated situation it is very serious this has become a critical humanitarian issue for thousands of patients in hospitals across gaza amount to and thousands of palestinian patients like his son know the difficulties of getting life saving medical treatment under the siege will go on trial strafford al-jazeera gaza. ten un peacekeepers have been killed while repelling an attack in northern mali armed assailants north and assaults near the village of argo hoc the head of the peacekeeping mission said the attack demanded a robust swift and concerted response twenty five other people have been injured the identity of the fighters is not known zimbabwe's president amisom and has cut short an overseas trip to deal with the ongoing unrest in his country at least
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twelve people have been killed and hundreds have been arrested during demonstrations against rising fuel prices local activists say seventy eight people have been treated for gunshot wings with hundreds more suffering other injuries a spokesman for the president says the police crackdown is a foretaste of how the government will respond to unrest. via skype by alex my guy so he's a lecturer in north kent university also served as an adviser for the former zimbabwean prime minister well when trying to write thanks so much for being with us so how what kind of scale of unrest are we talking about at the moment and scale of crackdown well this is something that isn't. suddenly the amount of force that is going to move them all excessive. hocussed one if you look at year the people and the. thousands more. limited. to tell us
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about the original protest about the price of fuel being raised suddenly what was the thinking behind right raising it so quickly. well as a map with the home and is always. a minute and look policy is always. consistent but when they raise balances that we. bury in managing that. than all of those workers traders but the government does not know that we eat well and so a lot of people saw their savings in gold it overnight and people thought that enough was enough this was just a combination. of basic you remember it was a go. slow. but in that this was a move on
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a lot of people are. what is at the end of the first floor and now we are at minimum one guy has been out of the country and he was going to be going to davos and is now the sergeant to cancel out and go back to zimbabwe is it your impression that he would have approved the kind of crackdown that's been happening or do you think things might change once he gets back well if the president and that's true i don't believe but it will be done without his approval so that last year the elections people killed the pain the severity of what you have but eventually commission said that he. approved this all just getting in. so if you want to belittle the president he knows what he doesn't know and certainly is not but it doesn't deserve to do this. and excitement are so thank you very much indeed and i apologize for the cross here they already are not on. well the
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opposition leader in the democratic republic of congo is challenging a top court ruling that his rival fixtures a k d one the presidential election martin for use calling for peaceful protests but others a hailing the first peaceful democratic transfer of power since independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight from a to miller has more from kinshasa. the highest court in the democratic republic of congo announcing the next president felix. constitutional court judges dismissed an appeal by his rival mounted by you who alleged widespread vote rigging on polling day last month. are you accused you say kitty of making a power sharing deal with outgoing president joseph kabila both deny that by you lose refusing to accept the court's ruling and is urging everyone to reject. this i consider myself the only legitimate president of a democratic republic of congo i call on the congolese people not to recognize
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someone who would take on that role in legitimately nor to a by orders coming from him. while for you know calls for peaceful protest the streets of the capital kinshasa appeared as they would on any other sunday calm and quiet. unlike the celebrate two scenes by security supporters that greeted the final ruling by the constitutional court. some of service say despite the allegations of vote rigging the promise of a new face of the presidency may be enough to allow for a smooth handover of power and that it's both a victory and a loss for congo's opposition should understand our concerns joseph kabila will wield power when he leaves office is behind the scenes is behind the decision but it depends the way just the kidney we rule during it is there or if you can cut its relationship with god but this system.
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is not yet finished you still there despite the allegations and denials of murky deals to get elected just a kid is due to be sworn in on tuesday there's been a mixed reaction from the international community the southern at. development community has welcomed the results appealing for everyone to accept the court's ruling while the european and african union say that have serious concerns about the final results what they have to say may be of little importance for many congolese who want to separating change from their new leader from either my love al-jazeera. still to come when they are. angry us federal workers to moan to the politicians work together for a compromise to reopen government. colombians come out in anger against the bombers who killed twenty one people at a police academy in the capital. and in sport one of the greatest queues of all
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time contemplates early retirement one of that story coming up. monday would be a day of snow for some parts of ukraine the very few other people found his cotton diane sawyer at the european play in the alps yes or covered in snow is not much more to come at least twelve hours there will be actions for the south and central train that circulation is of rain but it's stuff in the balkans you can see small snow for central turkey and rain to cover the already flooded area along most of the sides to be honest to the west where it was raining what the end of the weekend is by the portugal so it's all fine again and the sun's a but then the next storm system comes in it comes down through the u.k. obviously it's much colder weather is snow when it's forward flank has
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a big change of direction and that would eventually hit the out into tuesday night or wednesday was to circulation africa bit more active bringing rain through it's really through the domination and course snow beyond that up towards the south and garion plates are actually back of the water that means the dow geria to new zealand probably morocco will be involved in the picture of a monday rather cold analogy is rain coming on sure it's dying actually about hugo fifteen degrees to enjoy and that's in the sunshine come tuesday and although it is still disappointing most of the rain is skipped across northern to news here on tuesday it's actually warm further east. portrays one of the. city's seen through the eyes of those who know it best they see birth certificate of. al-jazeera world goes on the
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road with palestinian taxi drivers living and working at the heart of one of the most hockey contested locations home a. jerusalem is a palestinian cabbies. the latest news as it breaks the difference is that convulsed bottles ossified this that authentic in the ritz with the this time go for the truth is to not come up with detailed coverage though has already said that he's ready to take over as intel in precedent and call for you elections . from around the world volunteers are doing what they can that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness it hundred.
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and i'm going to remind the top stories here on entre zero fifty two fighters have been killed in a u.s. air strike on somalia a strike was launched after attacked a somali army base on saturday. police in athens used tear gas to stop angry protesters from entering greece's parliament building thousands of people have been demonstrating against the proposed name change to you with the former yugoslav republic of macedonia. and sudanese security forces of fired tear gas to break up protests in the capital khartoum and the city of. the protesters have been taken to the streets for two months now to demand the resignation of president omar bashir. the turkish president richard tayyip erdogan has told u.s. president donald trump that turkey is ready to take over security in syria without delay where some of the binge of aid joins us now via skype from. the syrian border
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so what else was said in the phone call. well this is an continuation of trying to bridge the gap between the two countries if you remember a couple days ago the us president treated a tweet which turkey took very angrily and reacted very strongly to where the president said that if he doesn't abide by what the states want to take normally something after which the united states president. but on wednesday there was an attack of one of the deadliest attacks on u.s. forces there to u.s. military servicemen two civilians were killed in this town. a place where u.s. senators have visited a place where the united states had been showing as a sign of progress where you could fight is the defeat of i so and it is a sign of stability something that is clearly not the turkish president just all of the u.s. president that this was a clear problem it is an attempt to derail the u.s.
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pullout a pullout that welcomes because turkey's long standing demand that it wants a safe door along its border with syria so this line that he's ready to take over security in significant is this. but it is it is one of those longstanding turkish desire to go further deep into syria and establish its foothold especially against isis as well as kurdish fighters which are the way. turkey considers them as a terrorist organization and the united states clearly doesn't the united states be partnering with them to try and defeat isis as a turkey would want to have a role in it if there is a roadmap the united states and we have been working on that have been diplomatic exchanges notes senator lindsey graham was here just less than forty eight hours ago or so there is a lot of progress that turkey wants to be made on this area and it is very interesting because this is an area controlled by kurdish fighters in case of a u.s.
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pullout these kurdish fighters have been indicating that they might go to words the bashar assad government or the iranian proxies who fight for the charlotte the government of which neither turkey or the united states want. thank you very much indeed the partial government shutdown and the u.s. has entered its thirtieth day and in a few more thousands american workers will miss their second paycheck president trump attacked democrats for rejecting his proposal to end the shutdown and provide funding for his border will democrats say his plan is not a compromise and it was not offered in good faith practical hane is the latest from washington. a sign of the times a food bank sets up on the streets of the nation's capital aimed at feeding federal workers that are not getting paid many live paycheck to paycheck so for some this is the only way to feed their families. they aren't getting paid because u.s.
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president donald trump says that democrats want to put them back to work he needs money for his often promised border wall democrats have said no they'll debate border security but only after the government is reopened i can't see us keeping federal employees if hundred thousand people of work while we go back and forth on the go shave since these negotiations get to three of four weeks also appearing on the president's favorite conservative network fox the vice president seemed to admit the federal workers are leverage and i mean you don't really think you just want to leverage and what and that you figure if you don't keep the government closed that then they're going to go nowhere well again i i go i was there i was sitting right next to the president when speaker pelosi said. if you if we reopen the government and took thirty days to negotiate but that she would not give the president and i want to i want to ask you what your security or wall house speaker nancy pelosi actually said no to a wall democrats say they will fund border security the president walked out of
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that meeting but as the polls turn against him and his wall he's making democrats an offer he will reinstall the protections that he took away from around a million migrants in exchange for his wall so far democrats say no it is the impacts of the shutdown continue to spread across the country from long security lines at airports to federal loans not being given americans are wondering how this ends with no answer in sight. al-jazeera washington well this is the longest partial government shutdown in u.s. history and the plight of hundreds of thousands of employees working without pay has gone viral on social media really a moment as will well the shutdown now in its fifth week is the longest in u.s. history a startle workers face more uncertainty over their financial future many using the hashtag shutdown stories listing their personal experiences on twitter of not being
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able to make ends meet but first started by them applying for an unemployment insurance and receiving food stamps just to make ends meet is unnecessary uncivil shutdown it's cost me under stress and uncertainty that will continue into the forseeable future it's gotten to the order of all belongs in congress and on the backs of federal workers and i was talking about ways to get around it and help those in need for example airport staff in miami are getting help from the nonprofit group branches a pay pal president dan shulman says the company is committing twenty five million dollars in interest free cash advances to help some of the eight hundred thousand federal employees suffering because of the shutdown and a mobile pantry has been set up to distribute bread eggs and milk. and former u.s. president george w. bush has delivered pizza to security staff who haven't been paid and the hash tag for feds is growing too with restaurants nationwide opening their doors to feed
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hungry civil servants we are afraid that food stamps or what we know is snobs may be about to run out that means millions of americans many of them mothers single mothers with children will go hungry so wasn't rocket chicken is always there to make sure that nobody will go hungry and finally muslim volunteers along with other communities are helping clean up public parks in washington d.c. hoping it will bring people together in the two years since president trump was sworn in the white house says why did being seen as plagued by conflict chaos and confusion can really help it takes a closer look from washington d.c. . it's an understatement to say the first two years of donald trump's presidency have been different we have peaches we have three hundred hamburgers many many bridge for us so help me god with the promise to bring washington to its knees and
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drain the swamp trying to work to fulfill his most popular phrase we will make america great again in many ways trampas change the country sometimes by default there so much this watching the show much uncertainty there's so much chaos right now that we simply don't know which way is up he refuses to act like previous presidents often using twitter to announce big news or get that son of a off the field to insult his opponents they call or pocahontas he often shuns advice from his top aides which is led to a stunning number of departures including his secretary of state his defense secretary two chiefs of staff and two national security advisers. unemployment is at its lowest rate in fifty years but economists warn that may not last in twenty nineteen trumps also pointed to conservative judges. but it is his
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biggest campaign promise that has proved to be his toughest challenge we are building a wall trump has made it clear he wants a wall along the southern border of the united states with mexico to stop illegal migrants from crossing his stubborn insistence has led to a stalemate with his democratic opponents who reminded him he also promised mexico would pay for the wall. in december the u.s. government shut down over his request for five point seven billion for a new wall it's now the longest partial government shutdown in history no collusion no nothing there's no collusion there was no collusion whatsoever although his first two years have been overshadowed by a department of. just as investigation into whether his campaign worked with the kremlin trump has proved over and over again he can weather the hefty legal and political fights that come with it but is twenty one thousand gets closer to twenty
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twenty a presidential election year trump faces new challenges for democrats who want him out of this is our moment in history some analysts say he may survive that too you have a progressive base that is simply i think more interested in fighting bin they are in unifying the party but perhaps one of the biggest promises donald trump has kept is that he governs like no president before him kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house a senior u.s. republican sent an instagram says he will urge president trump to meet the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan so they can devise a plan to end afghanistan's seventeen year war graham made the comments following a meeting with pakistani president imran khan is now about a mile high to has more. the rejected by the u.s. senator lindsey graham comes at a time when the special representative for peace and reconciliation and i would run
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a stand. has just left islamabad he words all things that made the afghan taliban head and up august army captured however the afghan taliban walking out of the orthodox saying that peace and reconciliation was only possible if the americans were willing to give a timeline for withdrawal it must be understood that the senator. who wants the president's all for u.s. forces to continue and of running a stand as relevant in syria he has already met the pakistani prime minister. said he agreed with the charges on him prime minister brown kron that their relationship would bog standard we are strategic one and not our transactional one is also praised the august on the efforts to fence the border are done one is done something that the governments are not happy about but he said that he will be recommending to the u.s. president that he should in white or hold the dogs were up against any prime minister and dr archer of ronnie as soon as possible however the of one taliban are
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continuing to stick to their demand for the red drawl of foreign forces and there are problems ahead we broke with a u.s. senator about the fact that the engagement has continued for all more steward decades and yet there was no end in sight to dad bloody conflict senator it's been eighteen years since the u.s. launched the attack on of honest on in reprising. and it's cost a trillion dollars and there is no end in sorry to period that the taliban are much stronger than they were when you first came in so how long did the united states committed to stay in a one historian and then lead willing to spend all that money to continue this campaign against the of one taliban thank you that's a really good question as you get that question asked all the time. what did it cost us since not eleven a lot more than
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a trillion dollars pay now or pay later the good news we're at a point where our military presence is literally ten percent of what it was ten years ago that most of the fighting is being conducted by the afghan military support from us that we now have a new partner in pakistan that the pakistan military has done things in the last eighteen months we've been hoping for for eighteen years as to time the whole saying is you have the watches we have the ties to the taliban acacia listening time is not on your side demonstrations and they cannot be in capital bogota have marched to condemned thursday's car bomb attack which killed twenty one people president even took a lead to run it toward bogus saas plausible about the bombing at a police academy was the worst attack in the country in fifteen years government leaders blame columbia's last remaining rebel group the e l n for carrying out the
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attack. northern irish police have released c.c.t.v. footage of the moment a car bomb detonated in london derry on saturday the device was placed inside a hijacked delivery vehicle outside a courthouse there were no injuries this isn't republican group the new ira have been blamed for the attack four men have been arrested the police who were evacuating the area at the time after receiving a warning and described the bombing as incredibly reckless the un envoy for human rights in me in my eyes visiting the coxes bizarre region of bangladesh home to almost a million regina refugees a special report young the levy is on day two of a six day visit to bangladesh the rango were forced to flee across the border from in ma following a twenty seventeen military crackdown mainlines government has ceased corporation with lee and has refused to entry but to have a name has more from cox is bizarre. the un special rapporteur on human rights in
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myanmar has been shut out by me in march the government won't allow her access to the country and is not cooperating so her work is confined to neighboring countries and bangladesh factors in greatly the u.n. says there are now more the nine hundred thousand will hinder refugees living here the bulk of them came during a spike of violence in august twenty seventh and now they are spread across a mega i can't here in cox's bazaar now it's the dry season the monsoons are behind people and life has become a little easier but as you can see sanitation lack of access to clean water and latrines can used to new to be concerned if you look here there are workers trying to prepare the can for floods that are inevitable in this part of the world there is also concern about a lost generation of children two to the lack of schools the mood here has improved
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considerably since last november that is when the bangladeshi government abandoned a repatriation plan in an undisclosed agreement with the government of myanmar bangladesh had hoped to return about twenty two hundred refugees to me and bar the un warned that that could be a violation of international law there was a real outcry here and that play and it was halted so now the un special report her is shifting her attention to an island called bastion sorry it's a remote island and the government is hoping to shift a significant portion of the road into refugees here to that island it is in the path of typhoons and cycles it's prone to flooding it's literally called a floating island it's comprised primarily of silt but the bangladeshi government has already begun construction on housing and human rights groups say that refugees might not have access to basic services.
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