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or four one. zero. with the headlines. venezuela's president has ordered the closure of its embassy in the us and asked diplomats to return he's accused the u.s. of trying to stage a coup to donald trump recognized opposition leader why though as an interim president washington has asked some of its diplomats to. the security. reports from. the colombia. one after the other venezuelan regional military commanders took to the airwaves to declare loyalty to president nicolas maduro saying that the opposition efforts to replace him with the transitional
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government were an attempted coup. a position rerated by the country's defense minister bloodied by between. i learned the people of venezuela that a coup is being carried out against our institutions against our democracy and against our constitution against our president nicolas maduro the legitimate president of the bolivarian republic of venezuela it was a show of unity and strength for the embattled government of nicolas maduro and it came the day after the largest anti-government demonstrations in the country since two thousand and seventeen and after the younger position leave their door proclaim themselves the legitimacy interim president. outside business well a number of countries including the united states have backed way those claim to legitimacy and on terror is the us secretary michael insisted moderate stand was up for the time for debate is. the regime of former president nicolas maduro just
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illegitimate. his regime is morally bankrupt. economically incompetent and it is profoundly corrupt the president answered ordering all venezuelan diplomats home from the united states in giving us diplomats in venezuela seventy two hours to leave other world powers like russia and china came to my rescue warning the us external intervention in the country. is the true it is another flagrant interference into internal affairs of a sovereign state as you know that has been several attempts to oust from power including attempts on his life just. here on the border city of thousands of venezuelans keep crossing into columbia on a daily basis in search of food medicine and basic health services they can't access back home they say they've received the latest news from venezuela with
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a mix of hope and wariness i look at we needed this to happen to bring about change and unfortunately it will take more injured the country. is not an option. twenty six people have been killed since the latest wave of protests against four days ago the president called for dialogue with position. more turmoil the coming days. the un special rapporteur for arbitrary killings says should travel to turkey next week to head to head and dependent international inquiry into the murder of sa the journalist. agnes kalamata will evaluate the circumstances of the crime and to what extent states and individuals are responsible for the killing of the afghan taliban have named one of the co-founders of the leader of their political office and cut the. brothers
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appointment comes at a time when the group was engaged in talks with the u.s. to end the seventeen year war activists and say at least two more protesters have been killed in anti-government demonstrations there have been rallies across several cities calling for the resignation of president bush the democratic republic of congo's new president has called for the reconciliation during his inaugural speech the opposition leader swearing in marks the first democratic transfer of power since the country's independence from belgium the u.s. senate has failed in its latest attempt to end the partial government shutdown to break the funding deadlock were put forward by republicans and democrats but neither got enough votes those are the headlines on al-jazeera what this is coming up next.
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when i was a lot. of prophets are present i'm one of many who want a crap what level a name is but a body. cut from. a grew up in a place called christmas creek it's in western australia. as a child i remember stories about the past i heard about
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a life in the great sandy desert i'm a family go home. i heard stories about a war olds that helped them sell by. the condom dealers or living or. i have never seen them. or them of the level of their war from the desert. their parents or their provoke them from the desert never lived their. christmas creek or the callistemon where my family were working. my father. had stock when you had to sell a burger of what they are and that's how the government going to your name roll for . one may you and i must tell my family took me to a color station called. people have said a broad mining on to say good land. to feed their
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kids into our genes. that's me. it was the first time i went just my people fighting for their country. back yes the mining company ended up grinning at me. but for us it was still a big tree. it put out fine for a man writes on the map. i am but as a kid i remember the excitement of being there being out of something big. back. when we return christmas craig my father as usual was away working and mustering camps. but i never felt all alone. we had big mobs of all people good enough for us. for me it was like having a big extended family. literally my grandfather
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from my mother's side was very special to me. is a man of. no urgent matter no it fundamental wisdom and that is if you want him to fail to catch up with what you don't. or spider. brother what he was always a grandfather to me. us different. he told stories all the time. together with his wife kelly what fish are causing for you. ever since i was a young boy spawn i was always singing. singing and dancing at all our community
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festivals. it was always about corner and the great sandy desert. the country that you were forced to leave after the county came the white men. always dreamt about getting the land in the desert back for many years we had been fighting for land rights. in ninety ninety two things began to happen. way talked up for additional lands and smash them for additional wildlife where you brought the vapors and the alcohol. where you committed the murder. where you talk to children from their mothers for the first time australia has recognised the legal existence of aborigines prior to white settlement the high court has recognized there were people here and their descendants have rights. the mabo
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decision chartist that we could legally claim our land back. to claim it back we have to prove we have a continuing relationship to a country. in one thousand nine hundred ninety four my grandfather where only a spotter took me to day country. and been banked there for forty years. it was my first trip to a country. i decided to shoot a video it was a new way of showing evidence for land claim all i had with the old being camera.
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we took a white photo with us to skin name is jalen a cut in. the land council asked me if i would be interested in conducting a lamb climb under the new native title act. one of the first people that i met was fighter who told me that his his country was quarter oh damn. when they were going to go there. i read you know how to get to where he wanted to go and he drew maps of his country on the sand in fitzroy crossing and really it wasn't done to scale i'll tell you about. no one grows in this part of the great sandy desert no one travels in it it's almost an excess of. like it was like a different world for me. to see the dams. and know as
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i think all. things began to happen we knew that we were going to close it because people were starting to burn the spinifex. and that if. i only hear stories about that snake spirit living in the water and i didn't believe it i followed my camera. it was hard to keep up. the running and shouting coming to visit the admit we have family. we have got to get better. but they took us to a small wet spot in the desert who was just this small puddle this small patch of wetness and this was this a very important point is that i've been telling us about for the last five days.
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were numbered there and they're going to be a lot of some of the young fellows that we were with and myself we started on what do you know. now yeah. you know what i want to. know what. i think if anything i'm going to let you know that we came in. and under orders. they were going to. come out of it oh no we're going to be like i don't. know. i never saw my grandfather what are you so happy. that it will kill you but i don't know. what that is just that. there's just such fears.
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that. week. that i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah boy. sitting around a lot of power but no cooper amount of mail to stories that told me as a kid. i really want to go understand what was going on here. is a man's area. man bring woman now covered take a nap the little. only spot is wife she leaves the woman. that is throw water. so at the just makes no wood a ah and the damn visitor.
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took the woman back to camp but then i could see that something else was happening . but i was using the good and the mud pulling out. to make this god get around a want to get over. it. told me that it represents the dog that same thing goes what did colin. see there could have been a day owning it represent a cloud and water that tip it over that's the rain it's coming down. there without without. them without without our all over on our own. that you would have to ask for the first time i understood when the grandfather's dance came from. and the
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meaning of his headdress. the. being in a place where spot it literally grew up was really emotional. you know they'd like it like going back to a place. if they've come back to you on one country. oh no you believe going home. not. literally and spider we're talking to something less than sort of feeling a lot of times they were doing it. alone they said we had to go we had to go now like right now. ok so we packed up the camp and headed off a spider and literally really can only get as far from the place as possible and we drove and we drove and we drove and looking out into the west where the water hole was located were all these storm clouds and lightning rain.
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and then i realized that is the rain making plays dead was what already and spado are doing today. they brought the rain. ritually made rain to her drive parts of australia and they were known widely as the as the rain makers. but on a first one that day with my grandfather literally. i saw something that changed my life without any person on the trip. and they'll be able to trust that me all believed in me to carry on this responsibility i mean it's a big it's a big thing big. but to get a good day fitting for more people at the transfer market will. it make you feel
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good inside. the four. that confessional causing daniel get the damage it can lead to from the trip. he started to ride in a bottle with. for me the trip that were not made me want to find out more. i wanted to learn about our history. when one fellas came into our country in a teenager they want to water. they drove us off our land and turned our country in a huge cal state.
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and then added counting camel he wanted us hundred one dollars or they cattle. at two thousand kilometer trek through our tribal lands. of becoming stuccoed and it destroyed the traditional way of life. itself just three cellars us but. if. you want to. be used as a good water holes to make fifty one wells for day kill. on a problem that can infer that he didn't there were any clue where the water was so he kept it as a people. and them up get them sold meant stop the water. and he let them go if one of the trucks at the ran to get water.
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they imprison the one inside metal and wood folks. and wells were closed to several more people ground trying to get dad because they want to. most of my people had to move away from their traditional way of life. among them well my grandparents spot i was a young man when he left the desert to find only his promise wife. she was working as a housemaid and i got a station up my white grandfather. now better off that he didn't like desert people because the uterus various cattle. when he seems potter or better over it jade him off if i was going to have to frighten him so as bada ran down to aruba and he climbed up a robot creek. bed rover he went dead document just under
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a tree or he was on top when he's in the fire coming over he jumped down and he landed next bottom and on more falls that's why his name is padda. spot and only ended up working on christmas gray color station. you know more than a parachute that. they're holding up and we know there were billions it was there you know have been more than answers and they're made the station folks to what they're doing. we finally became citizens and got a kharaj after the nine hundred sixty seven referendum. but even the station owners refused to pay more people equal wenches. after decades of working there they were loaded on to trucks and dumped on the banks. that was to build
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place a bus ride crossing. fitzroy went from a population of sixty people to a refugee camp up to a thousand. they had nothing to do no work no nothing. while. system. wide. blue. was dry. dry spot and ali kept their country alive by learning the paint. it comes naturally because of ceremonies and painting up on bodies and sand drawings. it was the beginning of great interest never you know not the. straw they became famous artists and the paintings sell around the world used to be
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into a new york london you name it they've been everywhere. this is one of spotless paintings the only paints gordo. i want to hold a left in the desert. back . it's. going to mama bone paper from the ground sandy desert came up with a b. plan to get their country back. they were going to paint their country for evidence. they traveled to burning me on the edge of the great sandy desert with more than fifty people from four different language groups. i knew and you know what i love my god. the first man that was planted on the lawn or
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a canvas represents the canning stock route. it was to have to come here to watch for this. it was important for the own people to paint their country because take on. their no speak english and they can't read or write. the canvas is like a map a bird's eye view of their country that shows the stories and where people used to walk. and it's a pretty damn good map. it took nearly a week to finish the painting. and then came the time to use it as evidence and came. along at thirty. five i told fred chaney from the native title tribunals or about. what our. country. club up and about i want to look at it. i
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mean that this was all just so you know every. day in the modern day and i know not. what friends. do you know nothing and then you know. this is where you dance. that i get that. this is. right. in order to land them along its own people to canvas to camera i wanted to show the politicians and the country belongs to us.
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my sister nearly she was just. this is a country that represents our songs and our dance and our culture and not only that but as you can see with the you know the vastness of this map it's a link up between all the different tribes in great sandy desert trying to explain aboriginal society you know in an aboriginal background not a region people is is a task in itself. or that it's a rain dance so we hope you don't get rain yeah this time. i . have it i'm going to hand my hand i heard the people loved it but the politicians interested. so the national gallery borrowed the canvas for an exhibition. it was like to
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live in a country with strangers. no family to look after it. they were a canvas i spent the last two years at the national gallery and something like a million people stored. by door people who wanted it back and sent me to canberra to make it up. and. that's my little cousin brother. would spot. me. this is his first glimpse of the jeweler. down. here we're not. when they stand on it it's just like standing on your
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homeland it's like going home. most of them will never see in the country. they too well. it makes them sad and they cry. they cry for thanks if this guy was benched and home today but. never let me know how that battle we're going to end. sat here has never been a real easy sell for investment how much are the reserves the thrill or the understated or overstated they own those shares in your company for the people baas. as it takes a tougher line on migrants organized crime is making fast profits from their misery
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. people and power investigates the state funded reception centuries where the helpless are reduced to commodities ripe for exploitation. and the migrants on. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what is this gross is 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. trying to break through the world smaller and smaller we don't
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want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. and there's the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered the closure of its embassy in the u.s. and asked his diplomats to return he's accused the u.s. of trying to stage a coup after donald trump recognized opposition leader anwar though as interim president washington too has asked some of its diplomats to leave venezuela for security reasons i wanted. now in venezuela henceforth the president is to be elected in washington and whoever wants to be president can take the oath in the street they want to dismember the republic they want to dismember the nation and the very conception of the democratic state they want to intervene in venezuela the
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way the chosen to do that is to impose a puppet president who self proclaimed defacto unconstitutional the un special rapporteur for arbitrary killings session travel to turkey next week to head an independent international inquiry into the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi mix kalam od will evaluate the circumstances of the crime and to what extent states and the vigils are responsible for the killing the afghan taliban have named one of their co-founders as leader of their political office and cover up the gandhi brothers' appointment comes at a time when the armed groups engaged in talks with the u.s. to end the seventeen year war activists in sudan say at least two more protesters have been killed in anti-government demonstrations there have been rallies across several cities on thursday calling for the resignation of president omar al bashir . saddam is hosting violators from central african republic for peace talks government representatives and fourteen are at the meeting backed by the african
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union the country's been crossed since since rebel forces took over the capital bangui in twenty fourteen they were pushed back after french and u.n. intervention say on has remained on the brink of civil servants the democratic republic of congo's new president felix jessa kerry has called for national reconciliation during his inaugural speech the opposition leaders swearing n. marks the first democratic transfer of power since the country's independence from belgium and the us said it has failed in its latest attempt to end the partial government shutdown which is now on us thirty fourth day two rival bowls to break the fondant deadlock were put forward by republicans and democrats neither got enough votes while those other headlines on al-jazeera what most continues next.
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it was a sad day in the late ninety's when my job. in the country and. what was happening in my life. i was worried. he already lost two grandsons to group and was desperate to help me. and. it was important for the langley to take are not more young people so they can learn on a country. with the youngest one on the trip. it
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felt good to be out there no pomp and no destruction. spot it taught me to not fires or not know we are coming that's fine a good life i mean up to the closer we got to go down the faster you let them find us. when you got to do is want to everywhere it was flooded out. i first got on it was good plenty of warning. but then i saw my dad he was upset. over the. god that. i don't know your mother ever made. it.
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or not was over coming up with water when i am going to be out of my. the little patch we cleaned out bring up no ground water it now was covered. but already on the. left or so in the course. you're. not with that margaret i've never known that i was. so i know why don't i know. that having already got a lot of. data
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is determined to make for listen to. what. he does there would be new nose value fires and singing. enough for sun that he's alive. it's good to see the rain it means.
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what out. all night and here's part of. the next morning. yeah there is no one there now i know that will let every i mean by a. gun the other night. a lot of my.
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own people i mean been back there for a long time it's like meeting someone you haven't seen a long time. his own life gotten only well blown out here and then the spurs come back you're going . to live. forever is clearly. oh. yeah. get out of the.
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country's reputation spreading into what. we're getting ready to go on the road. to prisons festivals everything. on the tommy. yet again i mean that literally and in the world of the. fortunate. for. a little bit of it. was great being on the road
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meeting new people. it was not so free broke and every night not a party. that i felt like iraq's got. mobile home. park and this poor woman told me recently that. our land claim took nearly fifteen years to get through the cold and many of the are people of god away. but it looks like the big day has finally arrived. we having the determination yet been any where there were a canvas was painted. the sound. bites the core. servant it.
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would have put you. in the river they are so much quicker looks quite fit. with you because you've got your breath on a three. digit plant running she was. right. humans are. starving. and every year. the law says to all the people of syria. this is your last day ever. that it always has been your. going to tell you who want. thank. this bad thanks i had meant i had a feeling something was wrong. why did. the judge called out spotters name.
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and. some people cut their country pretty. much but he got nothing. and i got a guy here i really. hope that everyone can read and understand that you're not. all that hard work and nothing was all gone. and. it took them weeks to find out their problem was the boundaries the glenn claim. asked the old people when a country is going to hear its pros trendline on a map. groundless that's not a boundary. spider
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can understand what the confusion is all about it's his country and always has been his country in his mind and never lost it in the first place. the problem is the one federal law it's written on paper and it always changes. the book for or is written in the. underground and on the countryside and it is never changed. ever seems to determination. the time was running out to possibly known it was there that i love them never i think they never they are very. very good idea that. that got that.
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only a little boston and one of his mates seem interested in or spied a. spot i won't be here for long. i don't think they'll be any more for him. one thing i knew i had to help him. not if and if you. look at what i'm going to lay on your neck about. iowa lies are well. known people pass on the knowledge.
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that. if. i decided that long commo grandfather would only let me die. when somebody dies you can say the name they used to be. it's a big thing in the family decides it's the right hundred answer.
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to. this time really that i'm a lot. the boundaries of the land came. through that line a different way could this have been getting stuck would. we have to map the boundaries properly on the damage. once again. was happy to join us.
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going into the middle or did you. and there were a lot of his growth on the side now david and i going to kind of going to dinner is going that would seem good or we're sort of a good yeah yeah. yeah i've pointed out it really happening learned about money i know and very. troubling was caught in a frustrating. spot i was always insisting he knew the best way to go i think a lot of all that really right when i leave that i would have i believe that in that event that we did on that. but you know man that i was given that he had no idea when that will go over what is going on over there and i'm learning playing with a what you would have under what don't but then play a. little bit of a part of the right i don't think they're going to let me get on and then let me
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i'm the one that you've given but. never do any let up on the world that what i don't know yet and then forget dale and we're not really good at it or not. the room. for that then. we're not a m. . we're far more credible. and i. did not have any of that with you know one of the larger. world.
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that led to it i don't know yet again we're going to now i'm going to unravel even a little bit of a campaign where you know we do it we really nothing you might never finish but we're there by you i already let you know no one here having i don't know yet kerry reading. she's warning about. if you dead now well let's go in there. country than. they used to seed people i had left them and. country was going to. clean and whatnot off. of the country. and now it is. really me. just like my soul. we're
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nonaligned now the one john. we're not allowed to go. over now. i love my dad not. only. for the right. you're right that i know. that for my going you know we're never going to win.
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over the place if it did the way. i kept busy can focus on my attention on the spot of land came and a final trip. now who would love the legendary. concrete and. all of the country. strong. if. i did it and. and i don't need me.
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in terms of the. day show to hold a country that gave us but a country. we've got to. go on day one. twenty years ago only and go down on but be canvassed. credits and. first in first and then just. only angered me and she penned it last. week.
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we finally arrived at or not after five hot days. and it was dry. never to. be here now my learning of the. game. over. to and
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or. i knew it was the last time spider would ever say good on he was here to say goodbye to the one all he loved his whole life. and handed over to us elephant us.
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we woke beyond our people. following in their footsteps. i'm holding out just drove for spider and or more people. we made a mess brain make is up the desert. it's like a circle of life the own people deposit down to us and we're going to pass it on to our children and they're going to present to their children.
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i also became a grandfather for the first time out of five daughters i finally had a grandson. it helped me understand my grandfather. i would be able to take him out bush like they did for me to jim the country. as for what happened in that war i can put it in the metal box at the center infrastructure. is just like our land here and nigella is fighting to be free in the car look after. you can't let him get caught up and leave him like that you're going to dig him out pin him up so that the water can be free. the bolivian salt flats. a place like no.
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for generations found by the sun later. but the discovery of precious lithium below the salt threatens to change their way of life forever. witness. are now just. we are now starting to see dry weather pushing in across the central plains of the u.s. still got this very active system now in the process of pulling away from the eastern seaboard with that relatively mild air making its way away so temperatures drop
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like a stone once again two or three celsius the top temperature in new york candy and they say but at least we're looking at some crisp sunshine by that state chrispin off in chicago and in minneapolis stoppages now them around minus fifteen one sixteen celsius that was still left for what he picked but a largely dry couple of days coming up as you try to have a towards the western side of the u.s. western parts of canada basin pieces of cloud rolling through and we should stay settles and fry i have it was eastern seaboard by sas dataset it cold enough for many temperatures do recover in chicago to around minus ten celsius now that weather front which has made its way out into the atlantic also bring you some slightly cooler air into northern parts of cuba some wet weather too as we go through friday much of the caribbean stays five and five some lovely sunshine and that will continue as we go on through the weekend so jealous of want to say showers maybe have its walls the lesser antilles but by
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a lot betty of sunshine for all. the cards from. the latest news as it breaks to the front is about to blast bottles ossified says that authentic in the roots roots of this limbo for truth is. with detailed coverage has already said that he's ready to take over as interim president and for you elections. from around the world volunteers are doing what they can that's not
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