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today there are fewer boots on the tigris compared with when he started out with his father. making a living here is tougher now than ever. but the dad has been through appalling a people in the past three decades and that has affected the river environment as much as the land. at war. with one. or. heard around and with. iraq i want to hear well. as the capital baghdad has been the focus of the outside attacks and internal turmoil that have hit iraq in recent years.
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but for the people of the marshlands in the south disruption to their way of life goes back further to the one nine hundred fifty s. . in some ways little has changed here for the past hundred years nets are still produced and hung just as they've always been. the long canoe shaped fishing boats are still builds to the same design as they were in the nineteenth century. but between the nineteen fifties and one nine hundred ninety s. large areas of the wetlands in the. i chris euphrates river system where people
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like that and his wife live were trained. the reasons were primarily political to force the mad dan people or marsh arabs out of the area by diverting water and to punish them for their part in an uprising against saddam hussein's government in one nine hundred ninety one. that saddam reduced the nine thousand square kilometers of wetlands in the one nine hundred seventy s. to just seven hundred and sixty square kilometers when his government fell in two thousand and three. the displacement of over two hundred thousand marsh arabs and the campaign of violence against them let the international community to condemn it as ethnic cleansing. the united nations has described the draining of the marshes as
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a tragic human and environmental catastrophe on a par with the deforestation of the amazon rain forest. but the marshes were later reflooded and hyde and his wife returned to the water. on a local affair and i got around. to hear. them read the heart of the middle very. very well you know how with your war. right now long one tab there are no i am astounded at marco. ah. i don't know if i had been telling the whole yarn a fatalist in atlanta had i had him. and why that. the promise of what if i should i said when i saw the shiite identity of a lot of citizens in white i'm not and i didn't go outside that's like me out of
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out of the. i've got a sniff it out i never had a face my broken bottle and i seven have no want to not only the litter box. or what not to love you head out of heaven she was and over sick of the man of the . god of those times and when i say god honest of she will hide what on this since you hide the loons i don't have a side issue that i know of you never had a lot more energy level and glad i got on the town hall in the. garden of your when i lived in any given to. a guided id to refuse to go to war where you know who was going. i had a very little article we're.
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going to have to have no one. else will have an l.l. will for one. you know. love is the law. and while the other article i. don't hide there's area of champaign is now recovering thanks to the reflooding following the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three. large
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areas of the martian and and three ancient cities have now been included in unesco's list of world heritage sites but the reflooding has not restored the wetlands to their pre-drilling it states. the damage to the iraqi environment has also not been limited to the marshlands. iraq as a whole has suffered massive turmoil in the past thirty years. saddam's invasion of kuwait in august one nine hundred ninety led to the first gulf war and defeat by a coalition led by the united states the effect on the country was described as near apocalyptic taking iraq back to the pre-industrial age. then the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq and fall of saddam hussein's government the occupation and violent insurgency caused further widespread destruction the armed group i saw
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was a major part of the post-war insurgency its military activity in iraq and the campaign against it by the iraqi government and western forces have led to huge damage to infrastructure and the environment. the tigris in baghdad where ahmed khalid ekes out a living has been badly affected by this prolonged period of violence and instability . if i'm if i go home so north with. a lot of sun a social. i don't have the belief now what did i miss. that she was one of the best so much usual. out of the. house only now because she doesn't know i'm innocent.
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all of our no one. was. not head to. head the cia would not have. been one had on the other not a question any in the head and fear. the instability and tighten security down have led to an increased police presence on the river. harvey. said. no question about that with a morsel another one. of the soldiers that is one of the fellow with one of those who are innocent had to get through with them i mean the moment i think.
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right. in the way. i believe i got. my lodge and they did. not want to. know. that i was on one of the back with a gun because i want to. its problems on the tigris are to do with restrictions on his movement but on the euphrates in the south the issue is with water quality. salt levels have risen because of dams higher up the river in syria and turkey
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there is waste from agriculture. and sewage from cities all effect. was. bad. and the good bishop of feeding.
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at the door. from one end of. the war. couldn't lives ona city a city where people cannot drink the water from the euphrates because of the drop in water level increasing its salinity. furthermore in the twenty
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eighteen tens of thousands of freshwater fish died in the euphrates south of baghdad and soaring pollution is believed to be a major factor behind the sudden death of the fish i mean. how wildly how. monopolists. we're doing on a song that's a lot of. a lot of while about how. you measure i don't. i mean it's not so much and if you watch a lot all shop so much as it was. a. lot of muscle me there's just a well i still. think i've gotten really. good
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a mother. oh. no i don't. just. well just. the dams built up river on the euphrates in syria turkey and iran are also having an effect on the marshlands in southern iraq. this is impeding conservation and restoration efforts in the wetlands the dams have reduced the flow of water reaching iraq since one nine hundred seventy by as much as the hof. hundreds of
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people have been forced to migrate from iraq's once fertile central marshes because of the lower water levels still at night and all i got out of here i've never had all the of a live in their feet quite not at all and i've never seen or made it harder to metal and well. now than we are now he'll be. ok i know he's a flea i hope. of lead us down a good out here only one would have arrived. and there weren't within their war room so i didn't want to do it it alone might lead the world on monday you know did i get that i did i did my little i would argue. the.
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punch out of my wealth and i know he didn't know how. one might and i didn't. know what i will yell and where did you get any of them how about i don't. know we had it in. my head right now is there one lot of knowledge that you. i don't know. but the problems of the marshes and the upper rivers extend on a larger scale beyond the points where the two inch intruders the tigris and the euphrates merge at basra. from here the vast channel of the shuttle out of waterway runs through basra province into the gulf. coming up the shuttle a lot of waterway faces an environmental catastrophe it's taking with it livestock and fisheries and i really want to get out there walk it and let you know what. the
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animal from what i say and as this year is now in majority in malaysia and i start here the eve of ashura. and iraqi fishermen say they often fall foul of the kuwaiti and if we need these patrolling maritime borders on the frontline of a dispute that once led to out an outdoor others are all the yes but and anywhere. near where abdullah. then they are loyal to them in. public work but not me that bellman of me and me and others in the rubble out of. many. of us are ya. afghanistan has the best geology of all both mentally resources and hydrocarbon good why are they so poor that most of you guys are trying to form
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a government that we may have the toughest land essentially the more we would close down the more they push back we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike. on the body or another just yet. it's forty years since i was home a humming the return from exile to lead a historic revolution in iran. a moment the transformed the country shapes a man's relationship with the wider world to this day join us for special coverage of the iran the evolution forty years on on al-jazeera desperate for a mole we've heard news about newton's babies as if you want to take a week or two off he said i need to work i need the money part of it i think it's humiliating because i thought i'd be somewhere else in my life and i'm not risking it old dot. com told log arrangement. for
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a better future are we saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on us. on al-jazeera. as venezuela is on the brink. with two men facing all for power. one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. talks to al-jazeera. hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the united states says the time for dialogue with venezuela's president nicolas maduro is over it backs self declared interim leader one guy doe it is calling from a duro to hand power over and leave the country washington's also announced visa
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bans on members of the probe a constituent assembly as to discussions with dural negotiating with him on his departure is fine if we ever get to that negotiation obviously he may flee some day or he may seek to negotiate conditions but that's not what he's done in the past what he's done in the past is to use these negotiations to prolong his stay in power and to try to demonstrate his legitimacy and that were against nicolas maduro has launched a petition demanding the u.s. stay out of venezuela's affairs speaking at a rally in the capital he once again denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of their meats oil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing and to national coalition heated by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily attack venezuela under the false excuse of
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a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. we will go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling for pinas wyler to be respected demanding peace for being as while on the elder sister of thailand's king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in next month's elections the move breaks a long standing tradition of tyrol to staying out of politics should be up against . a retired army chief who's been prime minister since leading a coup in twenty fourteen elections will be the first since the military seized power. the un human rights envoy investigating the murder of the journalist she says that it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the findings by a special repertoire and your skull about follow a week long mission to turkey to examine the evidence of these two people have been killed and fourteen police officers injured in protests in the haitian capital
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thousands have been demonstrating in order prints against rampant inflation and corruption those are the headlines now and i was ill let's get you back to al-jazeera world. for thousands of years two famous rivers the tigris and euphrates media iraq one of the most fertile regions in the middle east. the first urban settlements grew up on the lines between them the cradle of civilization. but today things are dramatically different for the rivers and the people who depended on them decades of war sanctions upstream dans pollution and a phone in water levels have seriously damaged iraq's engines rivers and water resources. the sutta lot of
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waterway runs one hundred eighty four kilometers south from the confluence of the tigris and the euphrates in basra province and forms the border with iran. it provides access to the arabian gulf iraq's vital source of commercial sea fishing. either the deal how i just tell us i am zero out of the literal and i was resolved so i. got a tunnel so. dollars i want to. help the commuter lot work as it. does not at the most part at the down and already. some out of saudi are known as law a model of the how will. and etc. as they are i have been out. here then mark will power in the dollar. as some of the as i thought i was there
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out as they want to. make a me out of. dollars now that are not as ours are out alive. have a collective human is going to. have an image on it unless i have a two hour harley out on a tandem with the saudi and i know what how far left but give me a message to mr g. to be a how hard to serve on your machine doesn't matter how it stalled here and the car i think got to start over but first i'm a sodom of our god to our love we are gods and the show on earth and make of it said how is it not the only animating you are doable upon until the gross margin death was that of achieve only only on some sort of time while the sun went down market in the world was it because. of his side then just that it took those who would hurt bourbon with millions to muster seven million in most of
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the support which is a jew you know there was a group most of the hundreds of are there most of us are so bottom. the how to get them is of utmost going to the house to them are not so they also have the world of us alone. it will. me a me of them see that. these boats now stand idle in the port of an foul at the south east end of the and fall peninsula on the right bank of the shuttle. rusting old diesel boats pollutes the waterways. and fowl has around forty thousand inhabitants and is a traditional fishing community but town officials admit that's hundreds of families have now left in search of other work leaving the ports in danger of
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becoming a ghost town. without. an eternity. i was just going to complete nothing. to. that meeting. as i believe god to me has to be with me. but when my father. get it is they were. right i want. out of. that if we're. on. our blog at that time our. one side of a peninsula is a fifty kilometer stretch of coastline peace in kuwait. the
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other as the shuttle watch away which runs alongside the marshes of southern iran. pollution. and produced fish stocks in their own territorial waters. have forced iraqi fishermen to risk sailing close to. the water is believing them richer in fish stocks or to deliberately trespassed into foreign water used in the hope of a quick and easy catch. these fishermen used to be protected by the iraqi navy but that's now to peta and largely kartini the country's oil terminals.
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and. out of. out of me really a large. oil and just try. to tell you that i invest heavily to put. through it was always a lot of through us i want to quote through had the money. there is neither why. they are in the. euro how they me on arab. media. will be a. mess and a living will do it with me then. and then where you know. what i've done. not in my robin is yet to do and i'll say i do enjoy then. go out on them in. public for not meet up and when those mean mean
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there is a lot of adults. many. of us are. as if pollution. and the perceived threats from kuwait and iran were not enough the fishermen on the shuttle are up and in the gulf have to deal with iraqi security checks. as one jalapeno developed out of a lot of the good market would work as well keep the ball going to be there no longer you could dorio about it are going to go to amazon and the hours that i'm going to. get out because of the board have been like all other result of malaysia
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me you know that will have a lie or the gravel on it that they're going to do with those i don't buy only out on an a lot of work will. go to. the wrestle for control of the shuttle what i'm watching where he was one of the causes of the long costly and bitter war between iraq and iran throughout most of the one nine hundred eighty s. . that border dispute is still not settled. or. kuwait and iraq have also had to agree on a sea border in negotiations which have been going on since the dam for sainz invasion of kuwait in one thousand ninety eight that sparked the confluence.
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many fishermen at the docks fake iraqis are viewed with hostility by iranians and cretins who are still bitter over their conflicts with iraq and the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's. on the shuttle out of the in basra province this is not the size of fish or catch the days men meet to earn a living. it's a meager b. turn for a day on the watch. the shuttle hot up here suffers from increasing pollution with industrial waste domestic sewage and agricultural fertilizers after finding their way into its waters no surprise then that fish stocks are diminishing.
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the salty tide from the arabian gulf has also advanced north up the shuttle ata resulting in an act of fresh water and. some fisherman have also resorted to damaging ways of catching fish including using poison to bring them to the surface league syria or jordan at any minute join us and with. jani i had in a while. as a ticket that i sent you and i both. a and.
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dynamic. john. and that's it all with. the animals and what are they and as this year said now in majority my list up as i fear jerry the bash up the month off and i've got a market i tell you that been much and i shop for and now i live off i don't mind me no job us no one god then and headed man and i thought i'd been wise when i damaged already i would and i could outta shut the a room or hide them i died out i didn't murder my child.
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to learn that i'd heard of say the best. going to. be good you know i love die if you will but i will be a test. in the series what it means what it is i just really just said we know how to do the dishes in the chicken yard he said and said i said i was then exactly when i said i got the bit i did when you look. he doesn't have a plate i don't want to how do i not do with another because. i have said this a lot of well you know her. well luckily not just because but. when i see justice and. know what i am i not to mind a shop. and i settle with that at the shop. i shall see
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china as at them russia of course i was there when i might you know most of the younger i do are when i shop. back in baghdad. now talks in a similar negative way about life on the tigris. not had minute. not had one law missed me and one how to why. i had not thought of not as high as it like. and how long and hasn't of it i now bought. and on the southern marshes inch by inch the u.n.
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environment program sees that thirty seven percent of the permanent twenty lands have now been restored. their food recovery will take many more years. what if you buy your mom market we're going to look at another john model year when i was in the a while when i was adored and i was you know another now when i was in the i have thought oh my god girl i'm going to very much for the third of the wood near all of it i would than the amount of coverage i'd like i had my own more than i had a live there and the rats were not even know under five hundred i was under the yard undercover i was there and i got out. you know you know i give your my i give you not only any. oh. oh.
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here. but away from the problems facing professional fishermen and the pollution of the euphrates and. there is one positive heartwarming story. i mean i that i know. that. doesn't come
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from a fishing family but has befriended a local tigris fishermen. and discovered a love of the ancient river. like a god. or their. backyard and. given a should get more. together. at their better. wherever their bit. as a lot of us are there said i was so with it. at the end there i said.
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and i had letters. just. a matter. so what i need yet i am. not on the record tele. attack the lawyer and definition also civil to my oh i only tell. five madonna time so when she's trying to sell with brought. a lot of dollars they. have
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government and about five not anyway i family of of them. i'm going to go look at the not so much comes in below me and you can go to any college and was layer by ramtha county near if you're going to run you're at the start than good night money no way. after honeymooning give this much effort a sniffle in on hi fi i'm gettin shovelhead up and you. are no business in a two way different how on a sign you lucky high thing and how the only fragile net showing your leg. then the letter where. damage of the damage that did that for john your partner how to make that an affair while you get how well it was not the novice even
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a monster. that loosely trouble. oh now as it is it alexander shot. this you know under this the i'll be out as how as i will play largest what i'll let the child of god well. i ought i only. alert on the stuff that i love for
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a lot of cattle well. that's just a. mess good is a traditional mr putting in this made by cooking seasoned fresh water car on the fire. i've done cooked it in the marshlands and it's often considered iraq's national dish. but that prides itself in making the best mess go with the up you know was district almost dedicated to the dish in its dozens of fish restaurants. had no gullibly. say live i live. i one what i meant of another went on as what had been. a sleazy me
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push as i was just a. that i. suggested story shows how iraq's greet each inch rivers are still close to the heart of its people. today's crisis means that iraq once so abundant in water resources now imports sixty percent of its fish. but above all it's threatens the roots of iraq's identity as the land between the two rivers the tigris and the euphrates on which the country and its people have depended for thousands of use. a story of revolution defiance and murder i'm told by. a major figure in the war against the french occupation biology
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a friend. whose bravery even impressed and untrue inspired others in the fight for independence after his death that if you're good you're going to be banned mcgeady the algerian revolutionary on al-jazeera. hello again it's good to have you back well we have seen one weather system coming out of the mediterranean take a look at the satellite image all of the clouds right there that did bring some rain to parts of cairo and as well as we did see some dust coming ahead of the storm as those thunderstorms kicked off i want to show you what we can expect to see as we go towards the end of the week and into the weekend the rain is going to continue across parts of central iraq down across parts of saudi arabia as well to the north though it is going to be possibly some snow in the higher elevations of turkey now as we go towards sunday not too much movement especially for the northern part of that system but out here towards the east couple it is going to be
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a chilly day for you with the temps are there and clouds in your forecast at about eight degrees well here cross arabian peninsula we're still going to be watching that same system making its way across parts of saudi arabia as i said it is going to be rainy with those clouds so from india as well as into north saudi arabia that is where we are going to be expecting to see the rain riyad you'll be on the edge of that for doha here we do expect to see clouds come into play by the time we go toward saturday night maybe even seeing those showers by the time we get towards sunday and then here across parts of madagascar well the cycle that we're watching is beginning to move away we do expect to see of the next few days the rain increasing particularly on saturday where we could see some localized flooding in your forecast. you know what i am no l.b.j.'s and i believe simply
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to finish. very good before. i know fifty. we have been playing see do it but it's not funny we have a separate call me and me right yes it is definitely going to but we want to do a good way for the future then she gave me a few test frames that i am not some big bad this year has been in service and i also the day two weeks addition to me could make a massive. new burn and leave and many national pains are still pending we see d.p.'s farmers continue to do the same due to comments coming in. here i don't just go there you wonder to me you were good so i thought the more to learn from one is to do to do this and no it's become so much off says they're not doing
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. so sometimes their mother needs to come back to me that. doesn't just the do not over to them but now i need to make you. feel better i'd be good to fight them understand this to have to. force her to ditch the don't. know they're doing and help people straight. to the bank this came to them because he does it tend to figure and we have the main. issue or opposition to the spirit of these we don't want to make right before and of all was too late to court of law was the no fifteen spent money on. the book edition how i. have a good day every. new city. my
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friend to be sure that i have good business in the city. billions of dollars have been stolen from malaysia meet the whistleblower who exposed big deals and criminal cover ups. when east investigates the world's biggest heist. on al-jazeera. inside venezuela's crumbling health system with aid to the border children a dying as hospitals one short on that's.
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all i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up breaking with tradition the sister of thailand's king is entering politics to vie for the position of prime minister. the u.s. president's advisor and son in law is headed to the middle east bush's plan for peace in the region. and syrians who escaped the war are using music to spread happiness and promote a message of resistance. the u.s. says the time for dialogue with venezuela's president nicolas maduro is over washington wants him to leave the country and hand over power to a transitional government. trucks carrying food and aid from the u.s. arrived at the colombian border city of kuta but it's not clear yet how that aid will enter venezuela without the support of the military which still backs
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president nicolas maduro one area which desperately needs aid is venezuela's crumbling public health system in the coastal city of barcelona fourteen children have died this week alone from contaminated food or water hospital workers there say there's a dire need for medicine to raise a bow as our exclusive report. this is a pretty atrix emergency room at the louis b. hospital in the venezuelan city of. about three hundred kilometers east of us here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water. daughter is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned the out of air my daughter has diarrhea she almost had a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood
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in it and they are vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us. we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week fourteen children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children on each one of those where people are telling us that there's no medicine and there are not enough syringe is among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madeline in my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin in the didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son as did the. people who
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believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. with any of them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol thrown out of syringes all serums to hydrate children. the government of president . denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the revolution because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can reach everyone like it should be and socialism. the situation in the last city
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hospital is one of the reasons why the self declared entering precedent of venezuela one way though says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed well you want to put in work on the market humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive. but of venezuela more on that u.s. aid shipment that's waiting at the colombia venezuela border or sound of m.p.'s he reports. honking their horns two larger to. six mile or trucks
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arrived in the border city. carrying the aids relief. by the united states relief agency usa this is part of a larger plan by the opposition together with its international supporters to try and start a humanitarian corridor. but it will not be easy given the fact that president. remains steadfast and its refusal to let the aid in the bridge called the last. should become a humanitarian corridor is blocked. with barriers and large trucks the aid will be brought or is being brought in a a warehouse where it will be stored for the next few days so we know that there is food and medical supplies much needed by the population and we'll get more
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details the morning of friday when us here together with the colombian government and four deputies from the national assembly will give a press conference and give us more details of the aid and their plans on how to bring it inside. a newly formed group backed by e.u. and latin american countries which held its first meeting in europe wise capital says it will send a team to venezuela the international contact group says it. will provide humanitarian aid the group wants a credible electoral process to emerge within a timeframe. meanwhile president duras launched a petition demanding that the u.s. stay out of venezuela's affairs speaking at a rally in the capital caracas he once again denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of oil
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resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing and to national coalition he did by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily attack venezuela under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling for pina's wyler to be respected demanding peace. turkey is accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the investigation into the murder of the journalist. ankara says its findings are in line with the u.n. human rights envoy investigating the case a special report for our newest column on says that death was
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a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials she's been on a week long mission to turkey to examine the evidence but all this comes as a new report in the new york times says that the saudi crown prince threatened to go after the journalist in twenty seventeen according to the report muhammad told an aide that he would use a bullet against jamal if he didn't return home and end his criticism of the kingdom conversation was intercepted by u.s. intelligence agencies to show she was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october last year let's go live now to rainy istanbul and zero stephanie deca is there let's start with this new york times report what have we learned stuff. well the new york times report i think the timing of this is interesting adrian because it comes on the day that u.s. president faces the deadline of the magnitsky act which was triggered by twenty two senators where he has to look and to responsibility particularly the role of the
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crown prince mohammed bin sandman into the killing of this report out this morning is that according to u.s. intercepts and again with all this age and they're quoting anonymous officials but saying that the crown prince spoke to an aide in september of two thousand and seventeen where he said that jamal khashoggi needed to be returned to saudi arabia and if he didn't do so willingly it would be done by force and that he needed to stop the criticism of the kingdom and if you didn't do that he would be given a bullet so these are extraordinary allegations again they're all quoting anonymous sources also the article highlights that it seems that these transcripts are done recently because of course these intelligence agencies are looking into the role of what exactly happened to. we also know you mentioned there on this the un special rapporteur for extra judicial submarine arbitrary killings she is waiting to speak to the cia and american sources also about what they know into the killing. of
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course going to. finalize her report in a couple of months from now adding to the pressure on president trump as you said. the u.n. human rights envoy and the findings of course backing up what she was saying and. accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent. yes and in the sort of preliminary statements if you will that she's issued she says that saudi arabia. made it difficult for turkey's investigators to go into that consulate it took them over two weeks to get access of course then you question what kind of forensic material they could have gathered in such an amount of time she mentioned that she also wanted more information from the turks particular when it came to forensic scientific and police reports into the killing but she says that she had been given access to some parts of that gruesome your reporting that turkey's intelligence has they haven't been able to independently verify it because
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it seems reading between the lines in the statement that they were given a copy of it but of course you mentioned that i think most damning me she does for me point the fingers of planning and perpetration of this killing with saudi officials so again we're going to have to wait and see what she says when it comes to the human rights council a couple of months from now and whether that will trigger a real international inquiry stephanie thank subzero stephanie decker about live in istanbul in an unexpected twist thailand's upcoming elections have become a battle between the country's royals and the military and the sister of the king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the first elections since the generals took over in twenty four team she'll contest on behalf of the tiny rocks a child policy who made the shock announcement one of the members have the boyfriend name. is the most appropriate name. to be happy didn't leave.

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