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a. severe we're. not. the only thing yeah let it go. unless there was. according to an american and called the borgen project which has reported in detail on morocco three factors influence maracas development illiteracy inequality and economic instability. despite economic growth the gap between rich and poor in morocco is wide even if she didn't live in such a remote marginalised area like the atlas it would be very hard for have to move out of poverty over a quarter of morocco's adult population is still estimated to be illiterates far

more in rural communities like hers. many of the men folk of happy does village of ticket get seasonal work in farming which accounts for forty percent of all jobs and nearly twenty percent of g.d.p. . but moroccan agriculture is volatile only eighteen percent of the country is army and despond two variable weather conditions adding to these people's. and insecurity. and you. need. love you. so. so so. so that's when. i let the record to good enough.

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a long walk to the nearest primary school after breakfast not surprising in a mountain area. the moroccan government does support education and women's rights but the biggest challenge in the national fight against poverty is how to reduce the high levels of illiteracy. in some rural areas one report suggested that as many as eighty three percent of women are illiterate few girls in the villages of the atlas mountains are able to continue their education beyond primary school secondary schools are usually several kilometers away and parents can't afford the travel expenses or they're in larger towns and they can't afford to pay for lodgings as well as being too mistrustful of the accommodation facilities to allow their daughters to stay away from home charities have now started to build boarding houses for female students aged between twelve and eighteen they get meals access

to computers and the volunteers supporting them to look after them giving some girls the chance of secondary education and. was not lucky enough to benefit from such a scheme is that. what they knew well i'm a bit of mom who has the kind of market at the biggest that. that every way out of course share a lot of. what a new democrat was i don't think this is there are things they could get admitted they were unsuccessful those of us chick receiving it. big. area.

area. the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. but the remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the mike two of the country's investors and putting high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on a. february on al-jazeera reinvestigate the toxic legacy of south africa's mining industry and examined exactly what is hiding beneath all this talk sick

waste africa's largest democracy heads to the polls join us for live coverage as nigeria books al-jazeera well it showcases the best of the networks documentaries with powerful untold stories from the middle east and north africa as cubans are set to vote on the possible changes to the constitution what impact will the outcome have on the country the world sunny day witness visits ghana in sweden where community polarized by mining towns questions the heritage february on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie in london just a quick look at the top stories now venezuela's president has proposed holding early congressional elections nicolas maduro has been battling a challenge to his going to ship by the opposition leader. it was greeted by

a warring crowd as a rally in the capital caracas white only needs the congressional body that would do a proposed elections for an. last month declared himself interim president meanwhile madieu insisted he was not going to give up power as he marked the twentieth anniversary of his predecessors rise to power. to the opposition reflect on twenty years of conspiracy twenty years of cool after coup of defeat after defeats when are you going to stop hating the country in all the headlines president vladimir putin has announced that russia will withdraw from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty on friday the us said it would be it would stop observing the arms control act in six months time two countries sign a treaty nine hundred eighty seven but both sides of accuse each other of not keeping to the deal. peace agreement has been reached between the central african republic and the end fourteen armed groups the agreement was struck in sudan's capital hard to there has been fighting between muslim seleka rebels and question

and fighters since two thousand and thirteen thousands of people have been killed in the violence the taliban are saying that president donald trump appears to be serious about pulling u.s. troops out of afghanistan the spokesman for the armed groups says such a withdrawal is the first goal towards ending the seventeen year conflict earlier this week the u.s. envoy said that in this there's been agreements towards a framework peace deal but it was drawn up without input from the afghan government which the taliban regards as illegitimate. a suicide car bomb has exploded outside an ethiopian military base in somalia killing at least four soldiers it tack happened in the town of beit here in the south of the country. has claimed responsibility. and belgium has agreed to take in the former ivory coast president on following his acquittal by the international criminal court but spent seven years in custody at the hague and was the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. it was charged with crimes against humanity often violence erupted following the

disputed election of two thousand and ten zero zero top stories much more on everything we're covering in the news hour that's coming up in twenty five minutes time i'll see you then. some remote villages in the atlas mountains in central morocco offer no means for men to support their families so they're forced to leave them for long periods to do agricultural work or city jobs long distances the way they send money back home but this is a harsh unforgiving and onerous life for their wives and children. the women have to keep house care for the children and do subsistence farming. even getting the kids off to primary school every day can be a major operation and one that doesn't always sponsor.

like that. and if there were any left. on the other end of that i would advocate either. going to have some sort of answer. like. to be educated in a. his mckinney's. in the us again mclean says she was like officially he was eleven just it was the second shift of the lot of nicholas from. she. came she gave the limit to

a house in america that mattered she said because given the years because of their local. market has showed this which it is a little because i did. feel most heavily on what i tell a slum of lustful she led. her that could be less subtle aleman she worked it out in about toss their numbers to the end she can question him so much i told her that. and i just. thought it was a little bit of it ok not to have the whole neck in the church at the moment. what do you want to get there let you know i was an occasional know what i'm up but i'm going to. hell i'm going to consider. sometimes husbands can't come home for family ok since like eight peter's husband tristan is serving in the moroccan army in the western part of. that is.

what i love the left. serve if you don't miss it i'm going to. have problems but i think i've got this enough. that they're going to take you out. and see if the family did the best. they did. listen to their men they would never give up there's a little i mean no they're as i love this is the deal we really do you want to see a minute so i think her. character has the list of cars running. now.

fatima's husband's job done the has to be away for two or three months at a time to do seasonal agricultural work. even though he's often away he's an important father figure in the extended family because his brother for same is a soldier and away for much longer periods while his young family is growing up. you know me. only a game where you really think there's an equal and you know.

it's really not it was real. outside and when you had one really let them. learn the. game way through you know let me move. on and i'm already going through thirty seventh for the game had said this week and now you know. there was even a little bit i had them send their guns and they got a little bit yeah yeah yeah yeah then the more they get hurt the less really. well and and that's really my new rule.

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there's a song about separation from family written by an unknown moroccan soldier it was banned in morocco in the one nine hundred seventy s. under the authoritarian rule of king house and the second. i guess i don't want to go out tonight and grew out of court girl boy. and there was no one well. one village. or the. other. and as general george tenet were ten and adamant that i had a ruler and

a modern. horatia used governors used to have the rough as an aside i have asked about us i'm sure that he had that is swell makinson have been in my pleasure have a katakana come and measure and measure had his hand over it you should know who you were as you're going to wash the wool. that's come from nervous about the new how did he get his of that. or what would that mean you think. that's gonna come in men do lead lead men and their late exceed my man do not get on i'll tell you how young men do get them and they don't get several cars were much kind of you know i'm not in agony as she added a measure of. as you cannot get over here debit they are getting here she added the editor's gentleman from our mission is to mash as. was his and he asked and as he said your family meant what about coffee i mean she is i meant she you see its

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decades. story is a true reflection of an entire life lived in one village in this region.

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get the urge. and i guess. the us. don't. coming up is a big day even in the context of fatima's long and eventful life here. she's getting ready for a landmark day for her family the son of her daughter fatima is going to be circumcised. as the columns

you. want. to. read and some parts. of her i'm sure. you hear this is never was big day this is with his mother fatima. in islam creetown can be done at almost any time in the boy's early life and the timing varies from family to family as well as across different countries in the muslim world. and. the celebration starts in the morning with all the women of the village present. food is

important of course as is traditional and chanting along with it's really high pitched you use. two powerful forces behind these atlas mountain communities together. their shared m a z of language and culture going back centuries typified by rites of passage like this village wide family celebration for now. and they're extraordinarily resilient women.

the. way. that. the women are the rock on which these communities are built but this way of life is precarious and the question has to be asked as to how sustainable it is into the third decade of the twenty first century. education could improve their standard of living lift families and women like these out of poverty and stop them from falling back into the act. as n.g.o.s working in the atlas outside children like maybe twenty sisters need to acquire skills that's might ultimately take them out of their communities.

but only by doing so and they break the cycle of the clocks these women into such an unforgiving way of life. and enable them to become productive members of the workforce and moroccan society as a whole. the canadian one that kind of ensure. that the financial analysis then cancer was that kind of life that's a designation or is what doesn't give you a vision is that where that they're going to they're going to. get ahead and have you know how long now did they not have often asked jensen genter now are they going to be developed less and if you have. that. question does it have. shut down or you know it alls will launch into you know on.

in the first thailand's of home in mesopotamia where the first settlements foamed the cradle of civilization iraqi people who've depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution outages or world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers.

well you know welcome back we're here cross queensland we're still looking at some very heavy rain over the next couple of days this area of low pressure this is the monsoonal trough and it has been here with us for the last four days causing rain across much of the region take it was your forecast map here on sunday and for townsville you are one of those cities that has seen rain and the flooding has been excessive we are going to be seeing a big problem of course in the upstream areas when that water starts to make its way down flooding is going to extend as we go towards midweek as well down towards the south though it is going to be the heat particular here in parts of melbourne where thirty nine degrees is finally going to be dropping off here on monday to about twenty two city not a bad day for you in adelaide at about twenty eight degrees in your forecast well

across the north and south island things are looking better we did have one from the body make its way towards the north and over the next few days things are going to look quite nice across much of the area temperatures are going to be coming up for christ church we're going to start about twenty one degrees and by the time we start the week twenty seven is going to be your high and then as we go up here towards parts of japan well it is going to become quite messy over the next few days we do have one weather system coming off the korean peninsula and over here towards tokyo your temperatures are coming up from thirteen to eighteen on monday. mean it's just six. hours been enough from a new eleven sloughed i did it. because i'm in my money but still everybody has one. so that's how i came to bed.

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in and feel poor little bit people. it. is a very big god. the management. team. the strength of al jazeera is that because we have such an expensive network people will come to us and actually share the information with. the mantra that.

ghana stamkos the else geology both mentally resources and. why are they so poor to measure you guys would finally form a government. of the toxin when essentially nowhere the more we would close down the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was do we sit and wait or do we surprised them with a preemptive strike tom bodett until. this is zero. hello i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next

sixty minutes then as well as nicolas maduro proposes only congressional elections as he faces new pressure over his leadership. supporters of self-proclaimed president why does opac the streets of caracas demanding the do right step down. and our other top story this hour a reciprocal response from pollution suspends russia's involvement in a major nuclear tree. the following a similar move by the united states. about peterson in doha with all the sports but they're off to winning the asian cup cottle's footballers are given a real welcome home in doha of the celebrations on not close to finishing yet. but we begin this hour with the ongoing power struggle in venezuela where president

nicolas maduro has proposed holding early congressional elections as he battles a challenge from opposition leader. why don't you try it himself the country's interim leader just last month gaining the support of venezuela's neighbors and western countries in venezuela's capital caracas the ante madieu of a mental has been growing thousands of people have protested in support of. their message is clear they want the douro gone adding to the pressure a top ranking air force general declaring his support for on saturday although he was later dismissed by the military as a traitor but the president's supporters have also been pushing on a show of force they were marching to mark the twentieth anniversary of the inauguration of madieu rose mentor and former venezuelan leader hugo chavez. to the opposition to reflect on twenty years of conspiracy twenty years of cool after coup of defeat after defeats when are you going to stop eighteen the country

. well in america editor lucien human has been reporting from inside the venezuelan capital caracas and joins us now first of all you see of this core by the duro for early congressional elections is there been any response from the opposition are they likely to be satisfied by that. marian there has been has not been as of yet any response from the top leadership of the opposition but i venture to think i could venture to say that this offer will be rejected for a very simple reason the opposition already controls the national assembly they won two thirds of it in elections that were regarded as legitimate however as soon as that happened the government decided to create an alternative body a constituent assembly completely bypass the opposition controlled national assembly there would be no reason they would argue to have other elections where they again would be ignored and not be allowed to legislate or for there or for

that institution to be respected by president mughal and besides they want something much more they want him gone as you already spent and they want to have a transitional government and new presidential elections and it is very unlikely that they will settle for anything less. lucy we were speaking about counter-rally is taking place in caracas there were those that were out in support of madeira very difficult question to answer but is it possible to gauge the extent of support for the government in the country right now. well if you can measure it by or if you want to gauge it by the number of people that came out onto the streets today president maduro has has his work cut out for him there were far less people there a lot of members of the militia the government the army but the streets of the avenue that the that used to be full to bursting at the seams when president chavez used to call for rallies was very very bare and on the other hand we saw the

opposition rallies a normas not only here and that access they also brought out people all over the country and in spain in countries like colombia as well so as you say the momentum is really really growing they feel as though the transition is just about to happen and they're feeling more and bold in than ever before after nearly twenty years of trying to unseat first president chavez and now his successor president michel and all eyes are on the military what they do next could be crucial in how this standoff unfolds there was one high profile defection today wasn't there. yes there was. a smuggler who didn't mention if a little the air force did tweet that he was a traitor and that they weren't surprised that this nephew of another general who is being investigated for corruption should do this but this has certainly made the opposition happy it's made them even more optimistic that the end is near and that and in the march they referenced this they said now the only thing that's missing

is for other comrades of this general to come out and support them and they're hoping that this will happen very soon and thank you very much our latin america editor lucien human reporting there from the venezuelan accountable caracas meanwhile the country's economic crisis has forced millions to flee the country and many of them have settled in neighboring countries and they've been holding their own protest lisi was just mentioning there against the doers rule are some drum p.s.e. reports on this now from colombia's capital book a time. biggest well and so broad to have to make it once again through the straits in a number of cities in a process the world in support of their combined interests and how inside minister who are protesting against the government nicolas maduro who am in support of one nonwhite dog the leader of the opposition movement and the self-proclaimed interim president of the country the protests here in bogota is actually smaller than the

last ones we've seen but the people who are here are saying it's important to continue putting pressure internationally is they believe that this time around my daughter will be forced to step down i think this is the only way and finally we found a way to get rid of my doodle as we speak a king large rallies are being held today in my dream capital of spain also in the united states in miami and washington in the york a number of south american countries whether or brasil in chile where many venezuelans left more than three million venezuelans up left since have left their country since two thousand and fifteen third's or more than a million are here in an actual local actually local authorities are saying that those numbers have increased since the beginning of this latest crisis more and

more are crossing into colombia many on foot and walking for days to try and reach the capital or other countries in south america. you with the news hour live from london more still ahead for you tens of thousands of civilians fee fighting in northern syria the u.n. says they must be given safe passage we'll have that story also the cyprus construction boom field by russian oligarchs attracted to a controversial golden visa scheme and then later in sport as you. another victory for a lot of skiing's biggest stars peace will be here with the details later. president putin has announced that russia will withdraw from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty on friday the us formally announced it was suspending its obligations under the agreement both sides of accused each other

a violating the treaty which was signed in one thousand nine hundred seven morry chalons has more now from the russian capital moscow. vladimir putin held a meeting with his foreign and defense ministers on saturday shown on national t.v. and he explained what russia would do now that the united states has pulled out of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty by stupid solution. we will do it this way our response will be symmetrical our american partners stated they will stop their participation in the treaty so we will also stop they stated that they will do research and development of arms so we will also do the same he also said russia would not get into a costly arms race with the west that doesn't mean that russia won't pile into new weapons development just that initially at least it will try to do so with an existing defense budget years of military modernization have siphoned money away from social spending and with the real incomes of russians for willing for five

straight years now more defense spending is unlikely to help me a putin's falling popularity defense minister sergei showing who recommends a land based version of the caliber cruise missiles russian ships have launched against targets in syria also a land based medium range hypersonic missile the new frontier in missile technology and there's the land based cruise missile russia already has according to the us this has a range that broke the terms of the i.n.f. treaty and was the reason washington gave for pulling out of the agreement there will be more briefings with and we're going to travel to military sites and factories really produce these weapons to scare the europeans and the and the world public opinion that they should come to terms with russia that they should make deals with russia not ignore russia because russia has terrible things putin

says the door is open for new disarmament talks but he's made clear that russia will not cause the u.s. on this if there are to be any new arms treaties which we moscow and washington hootin says it's washington that must break the ice will reach islands down to zero in moscow. well i spoke to tell nichols professor of national security affairs at u.s. naval war college is that that washington's with a droll highlights how confused the trump and the distractions policy is the russians now have the ability to look like the gracious and magnanimous party the americans are the ones that flipped over the table and walked away and let's be clear about something well as be clear about two things first i don't represent the us government and it's this question but the other thing to be clear about is that the russians were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.n.f. treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could bait the

americans in the simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i sure think it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the core skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we've just pushed that horizon further out by dumping the treaty instead of trying to rescue one that's still in the fact we need to stay in contact with the russians and the russians for their own safety they need to stay in contact with us i mean this is an essential role of communication that we kept even during the worst periods of the cold war we stayed in touch with each other we tried to be relatively transparent to each other and i think if we lose the new start treaty we're going to lose that it would be a terrible blow but the americans this this particular ministration just doesn't like treaties the president doesn't like anything associated with barack obama.