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al jazeera. and. the wife of the missing sudanese activist calls for the president to step down as he makes his first trip abroad since the protests began a month ago. but i'm daryn jordan this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up venezuela's leader accuses the u.s. of interfering in his country's affairs again and orders a revision of ties with washington. the u.s. senate will finally vote to try and end the government shutdown that is promising to be a fight. to free damage to national damage and so on
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a warning on climate change at a meeting without leaders from some of the world's worst polluters. so the president has arrived in qatar and what says first trip abroad since violent antigovernment protests began last month omar al bashir was in doha for two days of talks he's due to meet the qatari emir shift i mean been hammered out there any in the coming hours meanwhile back in sudan bashir is facing daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year long rule rights groups accuse the government of cracking down on demonstrators at least forty people have died since the protests began but sudan's labor minister says the government is working to start a dialogue with the demonstrators with my views and if you are new we required to exhibit more if it's an. coming days and this should include
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a teams to find common grounds with the youths protesting it is known that they took to the streets as a spontaneous response to the government's failures they have no clear cut political affiliations it is the for judy it's a state authority to find channels of communication with them to find common solutions. morgan joins us live now from the sudanese capital khartoum heber so the sudanese president is now in qatar but back home the protests are still continuing yes there are people say they will continue to protest and till president bashir actually steps down like they want him to now this has been going on for more than four weeks the biggest challenge to his presidency since he came to power and nearly thirty years ago people seem very determined and they have been criticism against the sudanese government for using out what some governments called excessive brutal force that people say they're protesting peacefully that they're on armed and that all they want is to try to voice their frustration with the with
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the way president bashir has been governing the country but instead they've been met with tear gas and live ammunition rights groups say at least forty people have been killed but the government is saying that that figure is only twenty seven so people are concerned about their safety but they seem very determined and every single time the police respond to using tear gas and live ammunition people seem to be gaining more strength and more momentum. just tell us a minute because of course the other story is that the wife of an activist arrested in sudan is pleading for the government to release her husband and calling for bashir to resign so the news american order was detained by security agents a week ago when the capital khartoum his wife nancy told al jazeera says she's per preparing to take part in a demonstration the next day well nancy as a husband as a peaceful activist she's urging the united states to help free him. i do hope that they will put pressure on the sudanese government to be able to assist in his release definitely counting on them with any leverage we have with the sudanese
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government to make sure that that happens as quickly as possible along with the release of all of the other political detainees he's always been a peaceful protest or he is. has been concerned for many years about the state of sudan and he has been trying to bring change. the voice of all the sudanese are really crying for freedom for peace and for justice. no ruler should be in control for thirty years so i'm really calling now for omar al bashir to step down. is a dictator that has been exploiting and oppressing the people for for many years so he just hearing this from would one would hit his wife nancy how much concern is there about how the government is cracking down on activists protesters. what we
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spoke to the family yesterday and they said that they have not seen and heard one diode but would they do know from people who were with him when he was arrested other activists who were later released they understand that he has been beaten severely and that he is injured on his head and on his back and he is in desperate need of medical conditions so they're saying that he needs medical access but they're also saying that they've heard about other activists as well and we've spoken to people who have been arrested and later released reported that they've been tortured inside the prison cells and let's remember the government said eight hundred sixteen people have been arrested opposition groups and other activists say the number is at least one thousand if not more so there are concerns about their safety but that has not stopped people from going out to protest more protests are planned in the coming days people say they will continue demonstrate until the president steps down something he said he's not going to do until elections comes next year or he were more in the car to me but thank you. now threats between venezuela and the us escalating just hours before protests president nicolas maduro
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says he's all that aggravation of diplomatic relations with the u.s. and that's in response to u.s. vice president mike pence declaring support for demonstrators and opposition leaders solid balance reports the. energized protest is in caracas rally the a movement hoping to push the president from power play. out with the usurper as unrest happened last year our armed forces the country soldiers many of them began to demonstrate their own happiness and today there are over four hundred officers in jail who have been tortured simply for raising their voices against the regime has broken the constitutional order. venezuela's opposition has momentum over the weekend twenty seven soldiers rebelled against the government they were later to tank by security forces. until monday they moved through caracas the streets with pots and pans a statement that reverberated all the way to the white house by mike pence the vice
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president of the united states and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people let me express the unwavering support of the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom. nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power. he's never won the presidency in a free and fair election and he's maintained his grip of power by imprisoning anyone who dares to oppose him while protesters and the opposition have a powerful enough vocal ally majeure accounted with a t.v. address of his own he warned vandals who attempt a cultural scene to named off the role that sarah the late socialist politician a little member of that is going to capture them all they all went to prison and that's mum penalty for the fascists hard hand to hand of silda the jurors vice president then took direct aim at the us. simply because mr pence
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doesn't have a job now he wants to come and run venezuela handing out instructions on what should happen in venezuela openly calling for a coup d'etat in venezuela i will say it like the venezuelan people would say to you yankee go home. on wednesday the race or it will be challenged on the streets it's the end of the story of the full of venezuela's military government in one nine hundred fifty eight the opposition mocks it with nationwide matches but they say this year it's maturer who needs to go. ballasts al-jazeera. the u.s. senate will vote on thursday on competing bills to end the month long partial government shutdown is the longest in u.s. history with hundreds of thousands of federal workers going without a paycheck mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the clerk will read a communication to the senate in this largely partisan battle the faint flicker of a compromise senate leaders agreed to put two competing bills to the vote on
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thursday on saturday president trop rolled out a bold comprehensive offer one drawn up by republicans mirrors a suggestion made by president trump this weekend the plan includes five point seven billion dollars providing funding for the beria along with temporary protection for those in the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. and a three extension of temporary protected status a proposal. president trump that will consider here in the senate is the only proposal the only one currently before us that can be signed by the president and immediately reopen the government. but the proposal has been rejected by the democratic party leadership the president and his team have tried to spin this proposal as a reasonable compromise with concessions to democrats that defies credulity the second bill is similar to those passed by the democrat controlled house. which
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provides short term funding for the department's now shut down but excludes any provision for the wall this would require the backing up at least thirteen republican senators to meet the sixty vote threshold ny the bill is likely to pass the senate despite another plea by the leader of the house open government open the government let's talk cannot have the president and the time he has an objection to say i'll shut down the government until you come to my way of thinking and as the shutdown drags on a public plea by the f.b.i. agents association the f.b.i. needs to be fully funded so that we can do our jobs stop the terrorist attacks prevent criminal activity arrest bad guys that's what we do. we need to do that to keep this country safe we want our. paychecks are due at the end of the
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week but yet again all indications are that more than eight hundred thousand government employees once again not receive them mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well more still to come here on al-jazeera including mexico's deadly pipeline explosion proves to be a test for the country's new president. why not year round is one of the highest poverty rates in africa even though it boasts rich oil and natural resources on the students. hello there the weather is all quite messy over parts of europe at the moment in the south of got this huge massive cloud that's given us a lot of rain and snow and that's gradually marching its way towards the northeast and then as that works its way away from us we're seeing yet more cloud and rain work its way and that's also giving us a fair amount of snow but in the north it's breaking up and then going to be in the
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south where we see that system intensify as we head through wednesday so more rain and strong winds here and that working its way across italy and across the other side of the adriatic as well so watch that system then as it works its way north woods it's working its way across the southeastern parts of europe but not so across the northeast heads following and draw there's a problem with missed him for going to certainly not warm we're looking at the top temperature in warsaw just a five degrees so find a dry and cold in the northeast and all unsettled in the south a matter unsettled weather across the mediterranean is making its way into the northern parts of africa too so we're going to see quite a few outbreaks of rain there over parts of northern area and into parts of china zero as well and then as that sinks its way southwards it will drag in some cooler air so more of that will be turning to snow over the high ground as we head through thursday for the central belt of africa plenty of fine weather to be found here perhaps a couple of showers around the coast of nigeria but most of the showers of the south.
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whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has coalface an eagle protest i'll strike to police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice vote for lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks join the global conversation on how to zero. welcome back a quick reminder at the top stories here the south sudan's president has arrived in
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qatar what is his first trip abroad since the violent anti-government protests broke out last month amar all bashir was due to meet the qatari mashup to mean been hammered out on wednesday. but she was facing daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year rule. but as well as president nicolas maduro as all that a revision of diplomatic relations with the u.s. it's a declaration by vice president mike pence and support for opposition leader one brito calling on venezuelans to protest on wednesday. u.s. senate leaders will vote on thursday on bills to end the month long government shutdown is the longest in u.s. history with hundreds of thousands of workers going without a paycheck. well nigeria's trafficking agency has found thousands of missing girls and women in southern mali and he had been sold as sex slaves and gold mining camps the agency says there are between twenty to forty five thousand and could not women in mali plans are underway to repatriate them to nigeria. this girls where
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exploited by virtue of their bony we believe from the brule communities in various parts of nigeria six different states to be precise and tricked into going into mali giving the impression that doing to be getting jobs in the hotels and the usual story some of them are actually we're actually doctored the arabs in your school uniforms on their way to school or back from school to a snatched by the kidnappers or the traffic. talks in qatar between the taliban and u.s. special envoys down there how do you have entered a third day the talks proceed as details emerge about one of the worst attacks against afghans intelligence service in the history of the seventeen year war the taliban attacked a training base in may down shah and wardak province on monday morning the n.d.s. said thirty six people died and fifty eight were wounded in the attack or somehow bar as more. it's one of the worst attacks by the taliban says the
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group was pushed from power by u.s. forces in late two thousand and one a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into a military compound what followed was carnage officials and witnesses say several dozens of people have been killed in this up and it was a very dangerous use again and the sound of the explosion was very loud the windows of our house and other houses close to the area were broken and the wounded ones were taken to different hospitals here and leak out of. the facility is a brun by an elite intelligence unit in charge of training tribesmen to fight the taliban.
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