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eighty thousand just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable to see there's the vegetable of the sea right there. on al-jazeera. supporters of venezuela's president take to the streets of caracas but his opponents hold their own demonstration and it's far larger. for the back to go you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha also ahead a in spain the trial of twelve catalan separatist leaders threatens to reopen at divide that could tear the country apart. as strikes on a syrian village focus attention on i saw its last remaining pockets of territory. and as nigeria prepares to vote for
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a new government report from the northeast where security remains a major could say. the air. thousands of people are protesting in venezuela's capital backing opposing sides in the country's power struggle on one side are those who support opposition leader one who declared himself interim president last month and on the other side are supporters of president nicolas maduro holding their own rally elsewhere in caracas that is as venezuela's border there's a standoff going on there over tons of aid sent by the united states has ordered the military to block the convoys saying the much needed assistance is being used as a political tool by washington there is a boy who has this update for us from caracas. we're. having you on their. feet. again. they're saying that people are tired.
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cannot afford. many other things that demand on these days a free and fair elections but also. talking to the military directly i know telling them to aid. arriving in the field to be allowed into the country the other demands of the government calls for free and fair elections that the opposition says even if that's eventually elections last year were filled with their main leverage isn't that right any development can. be happening anytime soon. in other world news what's being described as a trial of the century and a stress test for spanish democracy is underway in madrid twelve cuts separatist leaders involved in the failed independence bid two years ago are on trial in the supreme courts they face up to twenty five years in jail if convicted of rebellion
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sedition and misuse of public funds the former council on president charles carlos called tomatoes in germany fighting spain's exhibition requires says the trial is an alarming act of spanish state's repression. trial. that started in madrid this morning. is a test for the whole judicial response system. and therefore is a stress test for the spanish democracy because the judiciary system is one of the basis of the rule of law in our democracy is. so full that all democritus around the world must be inspired by the struggle for democracy. and the image of our civil and political. trial concerns of all who believes in a stronger democracy and our just there is david tate a has more now from the
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supreme court in madrid. the catalan separatist supporters see this as entirely one thing a political show trial yet the spanish authorities are saying there live streaming these pictures out of the supreme court in madrid behind me to prove that they have a transparent judicial system that stands up to all the values of the european union but it is the case that the catalan separatists leaders now face three months at least of of a trial and they have to they have to prepare for it say their lawyers about she said that this is actually nothing but a show trial they also agree with that the former. catalonian president now in exile in in the european union has also said this is nothing but a show trial but nevertheless the spanish authorities will continue it and it's
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believed that the spanish prime minister socialist leader pedro sanchez is going to try and get some sort of support from catalan separatists m.p.'s so he can pass his budget tomorrow but if he doesn't get that then it looks like we're facing a snap election here so a very complicated process and throughout these three months the politics will be shifting around this courtroom u.s. military commanders are accusing the last remnant of i saw fighters in east in syria of using civilians as human shields children were among at least seventeen civilians killed at a mosque which the u.s. says was being used as an eyesore command center as imran khan reports kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing stiff resistance from myself. coalition airstrikes it's hard getting isis fighters in eldar who's. the village is their last remaining stronghold in northeastern syria the safety of civilians caught up
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in the fighting is becoming a major concern. during a lull in fighting on the ground kurdish led syrian democratic forces and i saw fighters are reportedly negotiating a monitoring coital to let civilians out there is a way out if you know the right people and can afford it to wives of isis fighters both french paid smugglers to get them out of the village. we have nothing to eat only iraqis are locked have food they're allowed to go outside while we're locked inside i just have to keep my children alive. commanders say the majority of the estimated six hundred to a thousand eisel fighters who remain are foreigners with plenty of combat experience. there are two factors that have a direct impact of this battle first of all the terrorists here are the base the terrorist group from different foreign nationalities including europeans afghans pakistanis and iraqis these are all professionals and have past experiences in
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other terrorist groups including al qaeda and so on the second factor is that they are defending their last headquarters. very concerned about the civilian population . because of it. and that. will take longer than we originally estimated. afghan interpreters of work for the british government british soldiers are pleading with the u.k. government to grant them asylum many are in hiding after getting death threats from the taliban which sees them as traitors tony berkeley reports some kabul intimated that they were on the front lines with nato forces in afghanistan but now they and their families hide in the shadows hunted by the taliban which calls them traitors i'm scared of that and i'm sure if the kids me they will kill me because
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the have we have evidence of them when interpreters like afghan like i don't of there has been kids so did is no difference for them for the taliban they're too scared to show their faces too terrified to give their real names these men serve british forces as interpreters often in the most dangerous provinces but the u.k. government has refused to give them asylum even though their lives are in danger why did people have been abandoned by the british government what is their forte where are the human rights where that a high ranking officer they don't care about us why the british parliament don't care about us why they have turned on their plant blind eye i honest they have certificates of commendation medals awarded to them they were the eyes and ears of british units in the frontlines and their work was essential to operational safety it made them hated by the taliban and i saw definitely they were not talk to us any
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more so they were still there they would kill us not only me everyone because they did fall in the past we saw time and saw this the biggest they are not leave us alone they've been refused sanctuary in the u.k. and denied protection by the afghan government they have reason to be afraid. sec'y dad afghan was an interpreter for the americans he was abducted tortured and killed by the taliban and his body left in a car pool street as a warning he is one of many afghan interpreters who be murdered the interpreters who work for the british victims of a hardline immigration policy introduced by prime minister to resign may when she was home secretary of afghan interpreters are only allowed to settle in the u.k. if they served in helmand province for one year between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve most of these men serve for up to six years but before that period the united states and other nato countries have be more sympathetic to
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afghans who work for them in afghanistan the us for example granted asylum to nine thousand former employees and seventeen thousand dependents britain by contrast has given sanctuary to just over a thousand and their position has been widely condemned by many including ex-military i think were treated very badly in texas gave it gave a lot of their lives to the people injured were being killed by without we could not have done our work in afghanistan and so for them i think i believe they were genuine and honor. to them abdul served the british for four years three of them in helmand he had to escape from his home in logar province because of taliban death threats he now lives in hiding with his wife and seven children he was in there how could the when we have a lot of enemies we are hiding and we are moving from one place to another we are all in danger including the children and we always worry about what will happen when we leave home because there are many taliban's buys around. abdul says he's
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not resentful towards the british government but he wonders how it can abandon those who loyally served with little thought for the consequences tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. now nigeria the country with the most people in africa and largest economy goes to the polls on saturday mamadou a promise to fight corruption and defeat when he was elected president four years ago is samarra security is again a major election concern in the northeast and state of borno particularly which continues to suffer frequent attacks reports from the state capital my degree. despite stitches from mrs here and say three that are what kind of truck for two days with a trip let's just keep book while at the end of last year the children were barely two weeks old when the family fled back in for the second time she arrived my degree a city the family left six months are yet to rebuild their lives. minus the
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recent attack i'm boggled was more ferocious i came face to face with boko haram i saw them i was very frightened that is one of several thousand people displaced by the renewed fighting. the nigerian army has recovered at the areas briefly occupied by the fighters and says it's consolidating its gains by motivating and rearming its troops. from issues new formations to come from the new challenges the having us michel is facing is indeed across the country but despite recent successes by the army displaced people like zara and considering the return to baghdad. i was wrong we're not going back we went back and nearly lost our lives will stay in my degree. launched a new so you're seeing all these try during two thousand and nine aiming to establish a caliphate the violence in the decade old conflict has killed tens of thousands
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and displaced more than two million people. in affiliated with heisler has claimed responsibility for most of your thoughts in the region where targeted at me music or people's isn't government agencies to go into it's my favorite government to gamble tried is going to nigeria need to order to deliver the product. some falling it was in nigeria including the united states had earlier want of possible attacks my book i had of the elections and was a few days to the vote that was in sight in some remote communities in nigeria as all the east. nigeria. now we want to take you back to venezuela and caracas where major protests are underway this tuesday for and against the government of president nicolas maduro let's bring in latin america it's in the sea and human. protesters on the streets once again today what's significant about the demonstrations who's got the most supporters right now
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on the streets. absolutely funny this is really meant as a sign of force from all sides to show just how much popular support they have and certainly the opposition has put out a very impressive display in fact there are so many people that have been walking for hours and hours to get. to a stage that's two kilometers more or less in front of me they don't think so organizers are asking them to just turn back which is what we're seeing now many people have been thinking under the hot sun waiting to hear. the opposition leaders speak in the meantime downtown the government had called for a similar demonstration and rally of support but very very few people turned up president nicolas maduro was supposed to go there but we haven't heard well or it seems that some of these so far he's not planning to do so so what if this is supposed to be as a korea ambuhl what is going to be clearly
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a showdown when the opposition tries to move the. to food and medicine that think across a bridge into venezuela and if that doesn't happen then they will very likely raise the stakes yes and i was going to ask you to see the opposition strategy we're watching live pictures right now for why don't speaking to his supporters what is the what do they see as the way forward here in this crisis. this is meant to if the government does not allow this aid to go through and it is made it very clear that it will not president modeled on his supporters call this aid a trojan horse to allow for foreign intervention and they have put armored trucks soldiers the borders have been fortified to make it very difficult for this so-called humanitarian corridor to get through that doesn't happen after that one of the very unlikely scenarios that we're seeing now is that at least some members of the opposition will call on the opposition controlled national assembly to
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authorize what they call a humanitarian intervention by any means necessary and i am quoting now members of sloyd that is when i was one of these coalitions a year ago when they were calling for a humanitarian intervention it seemed like a very unlikely option but now it is actually very possible they're calling on colombia brazil and the united states to man that and that is and that is another way of calling for some kind of military intervention and how do ordinary venezuelans work towards an area venezuelans make of that i mean how do they see about the idea the prospect of a foreign intervention. but clearly it depends who you ask but i would i would say that the vast majority of course do not want to see violence they did not want to see intervention they would like to see a peaceful solution to this growing conflict and confrontation but both sides have been trenched themselves and have and are using to speak to each other about what
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either one believes in and certainly the opposition says that nothing short of cream and international action basically to ensure the president will ask my little leads the government is acceptable he says he will not accept that so people are afraid they are afraid thank you for that lucy and human and latin america and it's a reporting there live on the streets of caracas thank you lucio asin ahead on al-jazeera. just so you know we're building the wall anyway promises from donald trump but a compromise reached by democrats and republicans to avert a government shutdown want provide complete funding for the barrier. hello the rain is falling heavily again in iran this massive cloud that suggests that much the same of course for some it's going to be snow maybe the further north
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and further above sea level iraq the mall is it is to be snow afghanistan the most obvious case here once it's gone the sun's back at were eleven degrees in tehran all went back to the levant is looking fine for wednesday but your time has come again for more rain coming through lebanon israel and probably syria consists concentration is turkey and the induced suddenly breeze ahead will be a fairly dusty world one it will bring about a warmth i suppose up through northern saudi arabia but the country breeze the northerly still bleich the lighted downs for the gulf states or from kuwait your bahrain to qatar twenty seems typical but the skies now are clear once more and there's the picture that suddenly breeze increase in temperature in riyadh to twenty four now has jumped sense through the tropics to southern after this familiar line the climbers law school line of showers from angola dancer exam be a towards the southeast and parts of south africa every day produce and big storms
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out of this and this is no exception i think the next two days will see just a was durban also in the firing line of all twenty six. a story of revolution defiance and murder i'm told by. a major figure in the war against the french occupation a. friend of mine whose bravery even impressed his enemies and who inspired others in the fight for independence after his death that he gets paid for getting a lot of the ben mcgeady the algerian revolutionary on al-jazeera. welcome
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back our top stories on al-jazeera by fictious from venezuela's capital caracas right now where demonstrations for and against the government of president nicolas maduro are taking place these pictures are from the anti-government rally which is far larger than the government one opposition leader one quite a addressing his supporters to. what's being described as a trial of the century and a stress test for spanish democracy is underway in madrid twelve cats and separatist leaders. are involved in the involved in the independence referendum two years ago face up to twenty five years in jail if convicted of rebellion and satish . and u.s. backed forces in syria accuse eisold of using mosques ties command centers and civilians as human shields as coalition forces continue to push the group out of its last remaining enclave at least sixteen civilians were killed in a u.s.
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strike on monday according to monitoring. republicans and democrats in the united states have reached a tentative funding deal to avoid another government shutdown it includes funding for president donald trump's border war with mexico but it's sim unclear how much money has been allocated for the projects congressional aides have been quoted as saying it's as much as one point seven billion dollars however that falls well short of the white house a man for five point seven billion dollars there's still no guarantee the deal will go through as it still has to pass the house and senate and president will also have to agree to sign it rob reynolds has more from the border city of el paso where trump has been campaigning for the wall. president onil trump came to the west texas town of el paso calling again for a border wall and railing against migrants he claimed bringing in crime and drugs where you have thousands and thousands of people coming from guatemala from
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honduras and el salvador and they march up through mexico and by the way if we didn't have walls in those areas in some cases that we put up in many cases where we reinforce in many cases where our great military helped us with barbed wire. so you would have people pouring in trump is not popular in el paso he won only about twenty five percent of the vote here in two thousand and sixteen while the president was being cheered by his supporters inside the el paso county coliseum a protest of his visit was underway outside led by former el paso congressman and potential democratic presidential contender in two thousand and twenty or rourke o'rourke pushed back against trump's message of fear let's make sure that we refer to our human beings our fellow human beings with kindness with respects with
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dignity let's not be afraid of our own shadow or who we are let's own this moment and the future and show the country there's nothing to be afraid of when it comes to the us mexico border. many people here are upset with trump's false claims that el paso was a cesspool of crime and violence before a border barrier was built here in two thousand and eight since last time he said a couple of live so i don't. i don't know if you care too late how many lives as lived here all my life i will say the mayor of el paso and other officials have pointed out the city was among the safest in the u.s. even before the border barrier was built but trump scoffed at the local officials and their facts i don't care whether a mare's a republican or a democrat they're full of crap when they say it hasn't been i think i am
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in a remarkable coincidence of timing as trump visited el paso we're broke in washington of a budget breakthrough to prevent another looming government shutdown. we reached an agreement in principle. between this poem the homeland security and the other six moves. we are staff so we work in feverish sleep to put all of the particulars together people familiar with the talks reportedly say the deal would give trump only enough money to erect just eighty eight kilometers of border barrier still a long way from the large scale project trump says he won't give up on rob reynolds al-jazeera el paso. australians have given a hero's homecoming to refugee footballers. he spent two months imprisoned in
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thailand fighting extradition to bahrain a twenty five year old who fled their five years ago feared for his life if forced to return to bahrain andrew thomas saw him land in melbourne was in a bangkok prison for more than two months i came al-arabiya dreamed of this moment but until monday it looked less and less likely that it would happen then suddenly he was released and soon on a plane to australia i would defend. this to music to see how did people like there's several years before every year this is what it is and i just i wanted to think that a little. bit. more than a hundred people waiting for al-arabiya at melbourne airport nonfederal even twenty four hours earlier they'd be here now we had a good word for it last night because it is very frightening the traffic is back to strong man is safe now it's not. ellery right for
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australia and twenty fulton after being accused of vandalism during pro-democracy protests australia recognised him as a refugee by last year he was playing professional football in melbourne but in the event l. araby got married and flew to thailand for his honeymoon as a refugee with residency rights in australia that shouldn't have been a problem but somehow an alert was issued and when he landed type police arrested him bahrain began extradition proceedings and despite international condemnation thai courts seem to be pushing them through the thai government said it wasn't its right to stop them on monday though came a sudden change to thailand sports minister made a trip to bahrain thailand's government announced the extradition request has been dropped. was for him to leave a little more than twenty four hours ago this seemed a very very long way away the public campaign to get back to our. the three didn't seem to be going anywhere we now know the pressure to find the seeds was it was
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a flurry of diplomatic activity there is still unanswered questions about the process that led to a rabies arrest and off the rates the lack of support equal. like the asian football confederation the campaign is say a rabies case has had one positive effect it's shown a spotlight on bahrain's human rights record the world now understands the absence of rule of law we've all come to learn that there's over five thousand political prisoners in bahrain jails. doesn't yet have an australian passport but this he says is hard not the country he played to it but the one that's given him shelter under thomas al-jazeera. anti-government protesters in haiti have been fighting with police for a fifth day in the capital port au prince they want presidential been on ways to resign demonstrators are angry about rising inflation and the government's failure to recover billions of embezzle funds some protesters have been looting shops
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bringing the normally busy city to a standstill. firefighters in india's capital are trying to pinpoint the cause of a hotel fire which killed seventeen people the blaze was in a budget hotel in a tourist district of new delhi some of the injured from the blaze jumped from upper floors to escape dozens of others were rescued from the building which police suspect had extra floors illegally and it pakistan is facing nationwide fuel shortages and it's affecting all sectors of the economy for a major industries to consumers come on higher has this reform from is one of the. it's another cold windy morning in islamabad and that the how did you cross are doing brisk business because of the cord read by gore days across the country including businesses such as bakeries are complaining that their three northern gas
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pipeline system is not able to give them the gas necessary to keep their businesses running the country is seeing a shortfall of all the more than fifty percent and above when it comes to gas delivery pipelines. because. they're shipping and and that all the so-called viral thread us consumers. are already complaining that there's. no market for their gas. sods they passed a previous bills with sixty to sixty five thousand but from last month it increased incredibly a winter gas office they said gas is going to be expensive and you have to pay it we have this small business and we have to pay sellers and other expenses we all think you to shut down our business. we have fed up of paying bills we're not able to give education twa children me a pain electricity bills gas this is just tom and tonight's we've come here at the
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gas office but no one's listening to us they can indeed a serious crisis for a country with a lot of ready cash strapped a budget gone the rupee is losing its value and it seems the people across the country are now also losing their patients. and i'm fully back to all with the headlines on al jazeera thousands of people are protesting in venezuela as capital caracas backing opposing sides in the country's power struggle on one side and those who support opposition to one client joe who declared himself interim president last month and on the other a supporters of president. nicolas maduro was being described as a trial of the century and a stress test for spanish democracy is underway in madrid twelve catalan separatist leaders involved in the independence referendum two years ago faced twenty five years in jail if they're convicted on charges of rebellion and sedition the former
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catamaran president callus belgium on days in germany fighting spain's expedition requires he says a trial is an alarming act of spanish state repression. the trial. that started in madrid this morning. is a test for the whole. system. therefore is a strange question for the spanish democracy because. one of the basis of the rule of law in our democracy is the way. all democritus around the world must be inspired by the cut or struggle for democracy. and the image of our. political leaders will try all concerns or who believes in a stronger democracy. u.s. banks forces in syria accuse i sell of using mosques as command centers and
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civilians as human shields as coalition forces continue to push the group out of its last enclave at least sixteen civilians were killed in a u.s. strike on monday according to monitoring groups in the united states congressional ago shares have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline it also includes some funding for president trump's desired border war with mexico. fighters loyal to libyan war i have to say they have seized libya's largest oil fields the so-called libyan national army tweeted that it met no resistance to take control of the oil fields the l n a seizure follows weeks of fighting with several armed groups with headlines on al-jazeera inside story make stay with.
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us the future is independence movement separatist leaders accused of rebellion face trial and the trid divisions in spain b. why did this is inside story. welcome to the program i mean there's a problem when catalonia pushed for independence from spain and twenty seventeen government leaders in madrid.

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