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well looking good and they're just a model in your program going to come before the. circus libya. when he quickly became a scout group leader and started to learn military basics his mission in life was developing. how to be asked to work in a french military barracks in the ammunition department no one knew why at the time although an algerian officer called last hired noticed he was quote curious. what had to go soley soli so legally with. girly man child ask up who were and who had just overheard the help was. a shock to me the. poor gal was because she never asked and only.
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go to a lot of. them are. below that case malcolm recruits mortality be. sure to touch. but. bad back. door marked the. bad girl you how you have your cult. god. killed for. good to. get me. to. the shoes just you have a mask on the matter what the feet yet you are the enemy that cannot ask ari if you know c.n.n. on those is now. so the government said this was so that he jet and you met and. well you know for sure and it meant that your benefit. yeah you gotta say edwards yes.
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in one nine hundred forty two billion he joined the algerian peoples party the. it had been banned by the french in one nine hundred thirty nine but was secretly active in biskra. a local p.p. activist mohammad is sami had spotted the young bynum he in the scouts and recruited him to the party. this gave him an in to leading independence movement figures like mohammed. and mohammad bill with dad who would later become his close revolutionary associates. and. funny. but the p.p.a. was banned by the french so other leaders of the independence movement like for had
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to have a bass started a group called the friends of the manifesto and liberty which brought together all the nationalist groups in algeria it was effectively a cover for the p.p. a been him he joined the biskra branch. on the first of main algerian celebrated international workers day and a week later the official end in europe of the second world war. many men had just taken part in the french war effort against nazi germany and had been promised more rights if they helped the allied victory in world war two. but instead a month before the french had exiled the leader of the algerian peoples party.
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to the congo another colony in africa. or goodness and in a new is do philip or me me. lucky and they are. lucky to get. more that are there and. a year in as many believed that now i'll be a bit uneasy. most orders they made it on. the lead and you know. the marchers banners sad an end to occupation and free missile had. and the protests turned violent when a fourteen year old muslim scout in city was shot dead by police for waving an algerian flag. the violent clashes escalated and led to the death of over forty
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five thousand l.j. in men women and children in cities gelman and. what became known as the massacre of the chief lasted two months. some death toll fakers are much higher. some welcome good of about the bad. any most of. us when your mail comes out of en. route than a few. well you can walk out with all of that in that movie as you have them in the comfort of marine. one occasion in kandahar of the new zealand the and then you're going to meet them in you email we need to the real world what that is abetted. by a nerd or as of zero zero zero in. bed with that is it me any better what you say
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it mean. what kind of a. game that it would have been about the her. money and forgive the medium of the edit she had that monsieur when i got there was that one way decision. yes. i mean we're. hearing. what herrick's yet there is that when abbey. after his release from jail been him he was a marked man by the french considered to be armed and dangerous. his details were widely circulated to our friends security posts. it was now that's been him he adopted his own nickname the part time after him ileana is the pattaya
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a peasant who became a major figure in the mexican revolution thirty years before. the potter commanded the liberation army of the south of peasants and farmers and fought guerrilla battles against the mexican elites. but made him he wasn't just of the parts a movie fan he was also an actor and performed the leeds rule in a play based on a novel translated by an egyptian writer called for the sake of the crown. he used to play about a revolution in the balkans to push his independence message to the algerian public and when the french figured that out they banned the production across algeria. album and you can he stammered little i had shot. some bad bad.
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many americans or ran. a hive. and one of. my jobs are. out of me rather bitterly been made huge imagine a chair where were added to. our friendship of us heard it it didn't need. them as well bottom number. has a bit of. live you would need the bad. if i would have a really is that of those as a. revolutionary actor and sportsman the algerian peoples party had the football team in biskra and been kept ten. the squad were all members of the nationalist movement the article mr yeah the iraq the
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iraqi loom gurkha literally a big book we'll see the most brilliant feed mill not of no let me briefly you give him an illusion of the feel good look at all. this of a book. such a book. of terror there are no the local me sore spots chief. or other. would lie articles that would lie or latics i really would love a collage that records. so. you're an idiot that has what on who or what the who did what then would they know they are. in july nine hundred forty six. returned from exile in the french congo but was
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placed under house arrest in algiers. founded the movement for the triumph and defense of liberty is the m.t.l. deal as cover for his algerian peoples party. which was still banned after the city for massacre the year before the movement no longer started struggle as purely political. at the first congress of the combines p p a and m t l d in algiers in one nine hundred forty seven it decided to launch a paramilitary wing called the special organization. when the party leadership patch up point the head of the paramilitary special organization in biskra law to be been he was the obvious choice.
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in the spring of one nine hundred forty nine billion he didn't have to biskra and move to constantine. yes measure. a ship in somewhat of a. mad one shot see a c. be the one you should do what you then have the one pause now. and ask. where leader was says that and one of them i said. i mean i was about eight i haven't can't see him. can't. one of the must. back at s.s.e. . in one of must. build up so. well a kid. when media can suck little milk
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a shark idea it don't sit they can consider g.e. a key. schmoe previously proved in the regime who are properly. illiterate. pre-holiday it no longer stick your they're actually called her more pathetic my daughter. the. look. as the head of the special organization constantine law to be been in he does home became his base for meeting other leading party figures and officials. his father allowed him to use his younger sister three far as his private career around the city as the french administration would never suspect a young girl. three five remembers a twelve. can you with that and
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a new regime and definitely be less than good when your christian behavior. and he said there are many of them as you may said yet you will acquit on the battlefield of the present. but only you and you go away yet i am and not. content to have that measure. when i would carry bishan with that something that we love if they any lemke know we have any. city feel he said briskly back terrace and their head and yes we are yet. when other than when and have but that's how we get it when it's just very young man a shit that may have she did that young and that may have been about that and yet. in one nine hundred forty nine billion he became head of the p.p.a. armed wing in both cities and constantine and then deputy chief of staff of the
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special organization for all of eastern algeria in one nine hundred fifty replacing mohammed. the aim of the organization was to develop into a viable paramilitary force to take on the french but three years into its development it was discovered and dismantled. more than four hundred of its members were arrested. in him he demanded to escape and left for algiers but was convicted in his absence and sentenced to ten years in jail. by. mean having who. were dark. and. be. near
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death. but have been back at. shot of. the year. or. one of. the demise of the special organization led to a split in the algerian peoples party with one side loyal to its leader mr. and others calling themselves centralist. been in hedy and his supporters thought that military action was the only effective way of achieving independence and in march one thousand nine hundred fifty four set up the revolutionary committee for unity and action. they tried to reconcile miss ali and his supporters with the centralists but failed the revolutionary committee our crew
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finally ran out of patience with messily and the refusal to embrace military action and this was a turning point for the whole movement. the only way forward for the crew was to split completely from the algerian people's party that. they would go on to form the national liberation front the f.l.n. and launched the war of independence on the first of november one thousand nine hundred fifty four the fight for the future of algeria at began. with the most billion people in the world food production is under increasing strain to keep pace with a growing global population al-jazeera is environmental solutions program discovers
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the opponents of the president's now have two options they could pass a bill forbidding him from using these funds for a border wall that would likely pass the house of representatives where democrats are in control but it would likely not pass in the senate in even if it did the president could veto it and then there would have to be a two thirds majority in order to override that so they're unlikely to succeed in that route the other option they can take is to go to court and say this is not a national emergency the senior democrat on the u.s. senate foreign relations committee wants the trump administration to hand over documents related to the killing of saudi journalist shoji senator bob menendez is requesting records about whether any senior saudi official was responsible for the death of shoji was killed last october he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul his body has never been found president nicolas maduro has invited donald trump's
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new special envoy to venezuela to visit caracas in an interview with associated press he also revealed venezuelan officials have been holding talks privately with the u.s. despite the standoff it follows a pledge of support from a doodle by about fifty member countries at the u.n. on wednesday the trumpet ministration has repeatedly called the medulla to resign and recognized opposition leader one way though as the interim president. haiti's president has addressed the nation after a week of violent protests at least eight people have died since the rallies broke out in the capital port au prince last thursday protesters are calling for jobs to resign they're angry over rising inflation and allegations of corruption india's frei minister is threatening sanctions blaming neighboring pakistan for the worst attack in kashmir in decades on thursday a car bomb attack on
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a military convoy killed at least forty four people it's our desert world now stay with us. a young man from a small village in eastern algeria had joined the algerian peoples party and risen through its ranks to become a leading figure in the fight for independence from french colonial rule in the one nine hundred fifty s. . he was a lot of. and he and his fellow river lucian aries decided to split from the party because of its refusal to endorse military action as a part of their strategy. on the twenty fifth of july nine hundred fifty four twenty two men met in this villa
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in a modest quarter of engineers. their edge and there was to discuss the launch of a national revolutionary war the only way in their eyes to rally the algerian people around the idea of independence. the twenty two at india's elected leadership committee of six. when they expressed concern about the lack of potential revolutionary fighters across the country. through the revolution into the street he fads and the people will embrace. that. walk. around the local remember familiar with. will never cease to be the sort of movement of her little girl.
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sarah. who. has a coup to form a procedure. there isn't really enough and in. the night and battle and they have won for the in the oh. no i was million in. march and. then i have an amendment and were at their hague and we may have been million of all your friends are on top of. him and most all have been plenty of the. month of the year with the. bad bad blues. kennedy.
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been a. lot of been here. but i'm. home . that opt out of the op who is him him the. money. there are many and him or her usual people. will be there. in the heavy limb and the admission while if you are by your back you know those who are where had been with they want to be alec which is alien here monday but. for the long. that i met can. kill him. what a smack in the neck and i reckon some me comes in to add on the first of november one nine hundred fifty four the committee announced the formation of a new political party the national liberation front or f.l.n. and its military wing the national liberation army. they divided algeria into
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five zones and been he was made commander of zone five the whole of western algeria . his dream of seeing algerians finally take military action against the french in the fight for independence was about to be realized and maybe the author who lives alone. in the navy or from there from a. the war will call. mercier here and there were a warm crowd. handy early. you were. the man.
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at the let me just get at the ball to get it to my. heart of the evolutionary war it was announced on the first of november one thousand nine hundred fifty four at twelve midnight. but only twelve hundred combatants took part nationally with just four hundred weapons and a few conventional bombs. the initial attacks targeted john darm or east asian military barracks weapons depots as well as property owned by french settlers. the dates and time were chosen as a surprise military tactic and because large numbers of french soldiers were going on leave for the christian festival of all saints. bynum he did lead operations in the orange zone in western algeria.
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must have been with aid and then taken on. comes as it were head it off it was. a method of arms iot but you had to follow the media. and the f.l.n. first priority was to contact all the different independent groups and mobilize them to join the revolution. but the lack of weaponry was a major problem. in him he also lost right hand man like abbeville malik come dawn in the first few days of the war and i met the band captured in april one nine hundred fifty five and least three give teens. with him he traveled to cairo where the f.l.n. had its main political branch there he met ahmed among others who agreed to send
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weapons be a morocco buy ship. we have do a new. head of the jet and with a mate and i damn with of a meal on the. via comes a home scene where you have a judge and then out to be. with it but look them with the could have you thought i was a law that i do most go. without that the attic either would at that the adult or the other after the middle man are very occasional and the going forward will be either for the cars or the other for their fields as any a million a year. in august one thousand nine hundred eighty six nearly two years into the war the f.l.n. leaders met at the small forest location in this two man valley. a lot of people and he chaired the conference. before
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tsunami the f.l.n. had struggled to recruit troops obtain arms and raced finance. after saddam they emerged with a clear strategy and genuinely shared leadership at. the conference also promoted bin hedy to the rank of colonel moved him to be commander of the capital and charged him with launching the battle of algiers. he'd be thim self in the old city the cost and began planning a bombing campaign. where a very intimate. scene months or. a bit with. visions of them vive. and then how would it just. seeing them out of the us hobby a dialogue now that phil being. a female about him seeing. the battle of algiers started on the thirtieth of september one nine hundred fifty
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six and lasted just less than a year. been in he decodes need to durban operations by guerrilla fighters are few day even based in the narrow streets and passages of. he also recruited explosives and bomb experts to produce devices to be that's needed in city streets for maximum impact like the famous milk by. attack. it's was carried out by two women. women had now joined the ranks of the fedayeen it was easier for them to move around the city as they could often a void detection at checkpoints especially if they were not veiled.
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the war of independence was no longer confined to border zones and the mountains it was now on the streets of the capital and bynum hedy was constantly coming up with new ways to broaden the conflict and attract greater attention. that meant mccalmont as. i know. i don't have to be but. if you had it in. it that. you would show me what you were shouting would ask him at bet you have been given me yet is that what you mean is that what you have. been in he seized the moment to quote throw the revolution into the street. the eight day general strike into a rally all around the f.l.n. and internationalize the algerian question. the twenty eighth of january one
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thousand fifty seven turned cities across algeria into ghost towns french troops forced shops to open and rounded up people to take them to work. they detained twenty three thousand people but a further four thousand went missing one hundreds were tortured or killed. them being. talum acid out of the nuclear looked at eye to eye to me out with look at me he had me data i mean yes that is the measure shad that both of the four are so i mean it's yes the old i mean the. value of i don't have to side with at this audience i'll see you all play better hand. can mean a lot for all because somebody way it really was sure that i had been him to be a new developments to you and just as you saw it i thought it was just
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a beautiful without. any beauty was now a seriously marked man and the french ramped up their efforts to capture him. as they searched the cost in moved rapidly from one hideout to another. the net was tightening. then on the twenty third of february one thousand fifty seven been in hades luck ran out. a lot of people in v.t. feen smiley and here with his captors was tracked down in the european quarter by a french officer must fend be shot. when not that but can you not be sure you wouldn't notice. that a bear now had a nation that gives the men in matter. ok when it is moving we
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need a ladder. lee and you can bet which basically any and. again would have. been have been nice new moshav be had. i don't know where you know but might want war with them and about it would be shock if the demand that be mad at you would get me mad and have me tell you i have because make it you make it. necessarily half way to get enough of us. in the mold. come up with a doomed human at the so what. wish to human is no they have thought they. had. a tough year to how out of my home
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could have been out there. have been lost got even i cannot alas got a year and when do worry diminish when i am at ascot really do it as an area where that they are thirty will be there were maybe five times that they would be going any what i had just a country last year will be thirty going to go home i listen to what i heard it is the moment that. lifted it colonel fell bizarre was commander of the third colonial parachute regiment and personally interrogated bin he. was impressed by bynum he does defiance in the face of adversity. he put huge pressure on been he but the algerian refused to crack. he continued to smile since his arrest. it was a symbolic smile of defiance which inspired those who came after to continue the struggle. and be shot out of that and you have to feel that me said jean in
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bed. early. and that doesn't mean i don't thought mother see if i will be any did we should have been a witness. for just that oh well we're mad. that he. was silenced what was i was minimal about out of it when they didn't. know who kind of martin you. could to help you to look at an immediate result yet the. years you've been used that there was any commuter parking was any sign of a bug up by the bees only in the media and they call it a kind of he was a part of there were. in fact i said he thought it was he had a p.c. . i don't know whether or not i mean do you know mickey in ship.
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and i don't know if you know printer we've heard of them and paid out a couple. i don't know when i go and i knew personally i have the going with the have the. test on my best method of a father. who thought as. i am i don't know something kylie and i can to. join the. i what i want sort. of been he could have been. how they are. there were some scenes and i bet. amanda would in a. fear as math adam would you go to the because i want to have some of the fantasy i'm looking also as mature as honest let me get out of here in the national field i've been here a little haven't finished said to have been. you know don't be shot. on an honor.
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the commander of french troops in the battle of algiers was general jackman. he became frustrated with slow progress with ben p.d. and ordered him to be transferred into the hands of major paul both of us on the night of the third of march one thousand nine hundred fifty seven. he was beaten and tortured with water and electricity. is reported to have removed some of the skin on his face as a form of torture but bending he still wouldn't talk. when we do hit live the it's a list of the sort of force there was the bashir heard a moment
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a hack. scheffler. back at. school when he did. that my bet is declared can work and which are crumbling just a country had hassle is declared. bad before we. say no paki deal. say may. no more in the world today. this is as i see now. the. lab in medieval secured the boom in jail by example see don't. sample a more clark county. about the events of the third of march one nine hundred fifty seven to the french press in two thousand forty three years on.
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he told how when him he was taken to an isolated farm outside and dearest there his unit had more freedom to operate beyond wartime conventions. handcuffed and blindfolded he was then hanged to make it look as though he'd committed suicide. the french press release two days later than he had hanged himself with strips of material torn from his shirt. japan school in the classroom. their lab in midi. can a city bus receive day. may i feel me city the extreme more. unity. no cell of your. day. executive.
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power i did talk to the. last year on the. verse. which had many of them and what they would go to here are two that come with them see that you had as a government with a mission what it was about us and them. were off if you were going to mission. and to another but there you had it it's about. one of our it up without us with. you then. where you're the one the mule. but look how on earth any of them and. buck years who would. have been.
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insane and. i meant that if you're. insane and. maybe. the mcconnachie heathen and jesus is the martyrs memorial and commemorates the war of independence. the algerian war ended five years after the death of edge of people. on the nineteenth of march one thousand nine hundred eighty two and independence from france was declared on the fifth of july. the food details of been p.d.'s death didn't come out until less by then a general spoke to the press and wrote his own account of events in two thousand and one. without any apparent humorless a father has talked about his death squads in algeria and said he'd acted with the tacit approval of the french government in paris. a famous poem
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about many. called him a son that kept shining until the dream of independence was realized. when papa ok. where there can a some sort of the sadder cafe is i have a war zone where no pocket most are covered for a lady or don't wear them front of year there's some say led by the ill. part of the last hour of policy when and this is a was somewhat of the forwards there on the circuit in the difference. after independence this street where the battle of algiers was fought was renamed. as a tribute to the un julian revolutionary. between
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hello times the next batch of what i suppose you can still call winter weather it's spinning up again in the eastern med much of that type will turn into rain the snow it's some height now it's going to be turkey ready for the most part those rain it dips as far south as northern egypt spreads across quite happily lebanon syria and northern iraq of course president iran differential between snow and rain is entirely due to high to the as not particularly cold i want to show you still left with eighteen in baghdad nine eleven which is above freezing at least they were disappointing and showers to follow in devon by rich is a fine example of that so the rain comes south but probably skips across most of northern parts of society and kuwait this might just end up being plowed ahead of it quite warm to twenty nine hundred twenty four and hard the wind increases certainly but it hasn't yet turned back into the northerly so even by saturday
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the news as it breaks health officials say vaccination rates here have dropped significantly with detailed coverage that spurred on to the streets to celebrate their countries has worked when despite being the underdog to tournaments. from around the world there's growing resentment towards this currency you know exists here in senegal throughout. africa. the u.s. congress reaches a border security compromise to avoid a government shutdown president trump is threatening his own action. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up india vows to isolate pakistan
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after an attack an indian administered kashmir plane from islamabad. breaking his silence haiti's president addresses the nation after days of protests calling for him to step down. the. british prime minister trees amaze another setback in parliament as she tries to renegotiate. u.s. president onil trump is on a collision course with democrats in congress after saying he will a declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border war with mexico a bill to avoid another government shutdown was passed by both houses on thursday but it denies trump the money he needs to build the beria john hendren has more from washington d.c. i actually think it's bad politics as president trump ended one showdown with
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congress he set off another the yeas are eighty three nays are sixty ending the threat of another government shutdown the senate and house of representatives passed a spending bill that does not include the five point seven billion dollars president trump wanted for a border wall with mexico but as the president signaled he would sign that measure the white house said trump will also declare a national emergency on the border giving him access to contingency funds that congress has already approved he will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time and i've indicated to him that i'm going to prepare got to support the national emergency declaration democratic leaders immediately promise to challenge president trump couldn't convince mexico he couldn't convince the american people he couldn't convince their elected representatives to pay for his ineffective and expensive wall so now he's
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trying an end run around congress in a desperate attempt to put taxpayers on the hook for it make no mistake. congress will defend our constitutional authorities in every way that we can democrats say it's hard to argue that illegal immigration is a crisis when border arrests are at a forty year low we will review our options we have to respond appropriately to it i know the republicans have some an ease about it no matter what they say because if the president can to clear an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency an illusion that he wants to convey just think of what a president with different values can present to the american people democrats and even some republicans warn the president is setting a dangerous precedent opening the door for future presidents to achieve unilaterally what they could not get out of congress
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a future democratic president could one day declare global warming or gun violence to be national emergencies the democrats who control the house have already signaled they will vote on a bill to block emergency funding for a border wall but in the republican controlled senate that measure is unlikely to pass if trump can overcome a certain court challenge that would give him the chance to fulfill his promise to funded two thousand mile wall if not the promise that mexico would pay for it john hendren. washington. india's government is promising a strong response against pakistan but to blame is for the west attack an indian administered kashmir for decades at least forty four indian soldiers were killed in the day the rebel group says it was behind the attack pakistan's foreign ministry has denied allegations that it supports the group india has a valid to isolate and remove its trade privileges. reports.
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multiple casualties after a blast along a highway in indian administered kashmir one of the worst attacks to hit the disputed himalayan region in almost three years. according to reports the majority of those killed were indian paramilitary personnel when a car filled with explosives rammed into a military convoy in the district of pull. the attack happened on a main road that connects the state capital street to guard to the city of jammu pictures from the blast site showed bodies and body parts strewn across a wide area. now in the very hard i was sitting inside my shop and all of a sudden an explosion happened it was very massive and felt like the building would come down i came out on so small that the side of the explosion and the breeze from vehicles in there kashmir has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred seven both countries claimed the area i think we've seen this coming. through gesture what they've been trying to get out.
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for the last few months especially because a couple of indigenous. groups like. there being were less contained but indian security course especially so question which is you know. in the last to go into the tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades in the uprising against the indian administration this latest violence comes just a day after dozens of high school students were wounded when there was an explosion in their classroom in kashmir. al jazeera. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has lashed out at donald trump saying what he calls the u.s. president's infected hand is harming his country maduro is refusing to bow to international pressure to step down promising to rebuild venezuela's shattered economy he is accusing washington of stealing billions from his nation and then
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offering crumbs of aid which he will never allow in despite the standoff maturer has invited us special envoy to caracas and says venezuelan officials have held secret talks with the u.s. meanwhile venezuela's top court has ruled that opposition appointed oil executives must face criminal prosecution earlier the opposition controlled congress named a new board of directors for the state oil giant as well as its u.s. subsidiary a move welcomed by washington the decision by the supreme court controlled by president maduro is the latest move in a tussle for control of venezuela's oil revenues you see in human reports from caracas. in the capital of the country with the world's largest fossil fuel reserves practically everything you see was built with oil money and now that money along with venezuelan oil production has been reduced to a trickle. last month the u.s. blocked the transfer of dividends from citgo the state oil companies us subsidiary
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it's crown jewel. citgo represents about seventy percent of in as well as hard currency the government that is already experiencing an unmanageable fiscal deficit and to suddenly deprived of seventy percent of its income and a government with no one who lend it money is simply economically viable. that's the point of the u.s. sanctions to strangle than israel economically to force president nicole last month out. we had a large shipment of medicines to last the country through in europe and a large battle for all materials for food the contras. rosen the contracts are cancelled and the money. they suffocate us stede our money and then say hold on to the scrum and put on a show where venezuela with dignity since no to the global show knowledge on the oh no. and now to add insult to injury the opposition controlled legislature has named
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a new board of directors to take over the u.s. based company. citgo operates refineries and supplies some fifty five hundred petrol stations in twenty nine u.s. states. and israel is supreme court which is loyal to president nicolas my little issued a rapid response. to this is yet another assault by the national assembly which has been declared a more full against of it as well as most vital resource its decision regarding. a constitutionally protected company void and have no legal effect the judge also ordered the extradition of the board members named by the national assembly the court's ruling will likely have no bearing in the united states because sicko operates under u.s. law and since u.s. economic sanctions stipulate that circles assets will be held in an escrow account until in new democratically elected government is sworn in in venezuela the
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opposition's move will have very little economic impact but politically it is a bitter blow for the government. and it's not likely to be the last as the trumpet ministration prepares to announce u.s. war sanctions aimed at further tightening the economic news on president. c. and human got access. well around fifty members of the united nations have pledged their support for nicolas maduro his government they include russia china cuba iran and north korea the u.n. has been divided between countries that support opposition leader. and there is backing maduro the u.s. is leading efforts to remove the president and recognize as the interim leader around fifty european and latin american countries are also supporting him haiti's president says he will not step down a week after violent protests or the death of at least eight people. he has called
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for dialogue demonstrations began last thursday there's anger over rising prices and corruption during the protests police have resorted to using live bullets to disperse crowds. has more from port au prince we're in downtown port au prince where people are picking up the pieces after days of on rest thousands of people took to the streets of port au prince and of practically burnt down a good section of the city a lot of this debris that you see used to be shops used to be stands this would normally be a bustling part of town with lots of commerce it's practically at a standstill today if you see down the street those are barricades that people have set up to prevent access to the to the parliament to prevent road access so people have a hard time just getting around the city the big concern right now is over further loss of life as there have been several people that have been killed already within the context of this political crisis now the root cause of this why are people so upset a lot of it has to do with the federal code even scandal were billions of dollars
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in money that was allocated for social development projects is simply unaccounted for so not only are haitians calling for the resignation of the president saying that there you have zero confidence left in the government with they're asking for is where that money went whether is next still ahead on al-jazeera. every day it feels like the shooting is happening again or happened yesterday or will happen tomorrow. in florida. and taking its business elsewhere. now. on the very edge of europe and certainly.
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