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the prisoner of the prison who came together to end apartheid in south africa. and . nigeria's president calls for an investigation into why the country's election has been postponed by a week and we have an exclusive report from northern nigeria where fighting between christian farmers and muslim herders has left at least sixty six people dead. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program pakistan recalls that some are from new delhi as tensions in india administered kashmir continue to escalate kurdish forces in syria warn of
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a nice time bomb as its prisons overflow with captured fighters and we report on iraq's fight to revive a sports with an illustrious history across the region. hello thank you for joining us we begin the program in nigeria where the president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week in the past hour the electoral commission approved the resumption of campaigning after the vote delay while many people who are is ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital of which are earlier on the election commission's a surprise decision to move the vote to saturday and a jury and later criticize the commission saying that he needed to explain its quote incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after polling takes place.
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we have a very. well some of the jury is leading presidential candidates have condemned the decision many blamed each other for the delay announced on saturday by the election commission just hours before polls were actually due to open there's also growing concern about the economic impact of the interest reports though from the northeastern city of my duty these days the only thing that wicked woman does is sit or cool with the children he wants to work but no one is hiring because of the uncertainty around the elections. to his problems is all the children have been sent back from boarding school until the vote has taken place. the struggle to feed the family is tough enough for someone who depends on daily arguments it's
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been made had that now because no one is true of what will happen the disruption doesn't stop with people like you. prayed in borno state had been picking up over the last two years following attacks by book or of fighters on the security clampdown to stop the violence. centuries old trade routes between neighboring countries had reopened but if you want to do business during election season this is a major reminder market it's worth traders from cameroon chad is here to public and beyond come to find bargains but in the past few days not much transactions after you can place here you know as we talk to say most of the buyers from across the border i keep me waiting until after the elections. most of us has seen his weekly earnings grow from eight thousand to a few hundred dollars mostly because the local after the little. will just be done
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. a lot less we know about the hope now is for a quick and peaceful conclusion of the vote. when income is affected. limon and it distributes your no income it's going to be destroyed and as it is not too difficult to get them out i think it will impact on the house the election commission is resettled national elections for saturday with state elections coming two weeks later the cost of the delay and the insight associated with it is difficult to estimate but businesses expect to be hit hard and any recovery will depend on who gets elected. al jazeera. nigeria well authorities in northern nigeria have confirmed that they have sixty six people in a wave of violence which the president mohammad people hari is called violent and barbaric police discovered the bodies in eight villages across kaduna state on friday twenty two of them are children mohamed of the met some of the survivors.
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is one of the survivors of the ball not by hundreds of men armed with guns and machetes ishaq was scared with a bullet wound to the arm but twenty two members of his family including his wife four children and is a limit on further were killed. imagine example mike that you know well let's go back to no i have no hole or anyone left what wrong did we commit to deserve this brutality several villages in area in could do no state of north or no judio are tucked among the rules of the bodies found while at least twenty two children under the age of ten these at the hospital in could do nothing or tumor could die is taking care of two grandsons four year old. and two and a half year old but she both were injured in the attack they are the only surviving
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members of my extended family doctors operated only brought him to remove at least thirty pellets in his interest bags in between tears she talks about the moment her life changed forever. they gave it as a community square my husband was the first to be beheaded anybody who tried to escape was shot he came to finish his own. government officials say at least sixty six people were killed in the tuc it's a figure disputed by community leaders difficulty is still on but assad yesterday is over sixty seven and the counting is the because over one hundred something and something are still missing yeah i mean most of the cows are not the opposition are where they are i'm not it's not known we met some of those who survived huddled together in the open they're still in shock skirt by what they witnessed the killings beheadings and torching of houses the pain of seeing their loved ones
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getting killed by the attackers is still vivid in the minds of these people there i have here after a three day strike and now say they need help with food clothing and shelter against the call lights. the killings in could do not shocked the nation within hours president obama bahati called the attack vile and the body was an attempt to say to stock religious conflict between christians and muslims in this region we're not g.d.s. muslim north meets nigeria south is prone to religious tension how does a nick flemmi a muslim muslim while the farmers a mostly christian where there is break down into community relations this had a kind of things that society so far from for the past twenty years has been neglect of you doing and architecture for kamani a square existence won't rule communities of nigeria respect and resolutions
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however red and with the demand for land growing by the day there fears the violence may only intensify mohammed at all jazeera kaduna nigeria. tensions a war between india and pakistan after thursday's deadly attack on security forces in indian administered kashmir india has accused pakistan of orchestrating the suicide bombing prompting both countries to recall their ambassadors on monday fighting flared up in kashmir again as indian forces searched for those responsible . ports now from new delhi. another day of violence in indian administered kashmir among those killed four indian soldiers and a civilian after a prolonged gun battle between indian security forces and two gunmen who also died
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at least one of the gunmen is believed to have been a member of the pakistani based armed group jaish e mohammed which claimed responsibility for thursday's suicide bombing that killed at least forty one indian paramilitary troops. this upsurge in violence is further raising tensions between the two countries and prompting protests india says jaish e mohammed and other armed groups are allowed to operate freely inside pakistan from where they launch attacks on indian forces pakistan denies its involvement and says it's being blamed without any proof and without any investigation but there's anger on the streets we should take revenge the separatist leaders of these rebel fighters are in touch with most of them. there should be a whole our soldiers by the border of being mahsud for the country the country should in one sweep take action this should be action india's prime minister says there will be retribution. but the mockery the attack and pull woman clearly
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demonstrates that the time for dialogue is long past now the whole world needs to work together to take concrete steps to deal with terrorism and their supporters we should not hesitate to take action against terrorists and their anti-human values because if we don't. it would mean we are encouraging them. but analysts are warning any escalation in the violence may work against the government but the government has. painted the self into a corner it does not have very many options they say prime minister modi has to strike a balance when taking action the challenge of course is to take action that will be seen to be sufficient by the domestic audience but will not seen be seen by pakistan as gribben off the water and an immediate response because in the media response that is the danger of that escalation. meantime the region remains on high alert pakistan has announced it's recalling its ambassador from new delhi for what
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it calls consultations analysts are seeing it as a response to india's campaign to gather international support to blame islam about for the attacks but pakistan says there's no proof it was involved and there's been no investigation it says india should look into its own security and intelligence lapses instead. al-jazeera new delhi. two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifty more the u.k. based the syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour it has been hit by several bombings in recent months but a wounded and killed scores of people the city is controlled by there. which is formerly an affiliate of al qaida. the commander of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces called for up to fifteen hundred international soldiers to remain to help finish off i saw the kurdish lead as the commander in
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chief made the remarks during a visit by general joseph votel the head of u.s. central command he also expressed hope that america would stop its plans for a total troop withdrawal but votel said the pullout is. kurdish authorities meanwhile in northern syria say that they won't release the eight hundred foreign eisel fighters being held in prison insisting it's up to individual countries to take responsibility for their citizens but they've warned that the just aren't enough jails for the captured fighters and they're worried about what could happen if they escape. or germany's government says it's in talks with france britain and the u.s. about the return of foreign i so fighters u.s. president donald trump wants european allies to take them back and put them on trial germany wants to prosecute its citizens who join i saw but says it will be difficult to order organize the repatriation imran khan has more now from. on the turkey syria border. a member of the foreign relations committee for the syrian
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democratic forces a kurdish group has been speaking he says he's very concerned about the eight hundred foreign fighters isis fighters that they have in their culture. but there are about fifteen hundred women and children. who were married before it says that this is becoming a problem for them they simply. i don't have enough prison space to be able to hold them all and dozens more myself being arrested or surrendering every single day exhaust the international community to step up to kate france germany and britain however we don't know exactly how many of those are still fighters belong to france germany or britain is likely to be a lot more fighters that come from countries like pakistan or iraq or. pakistan now as all of this is happened the germans have been speaking as well the german interior ministry had a press conference and they said it was a fundamental right for every german citizen to be able to return back to germany
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but they didn't give any details about how that might happen the germans had said that they're going to send. offices to those prisons in held areas to be able to provide consular services and to be able to bring them back britain has been a little bit more resistant it's the idea that it will send any of its consular staff to prison saying instead if. the wives and children can get to embassies within iraq or turkey they will be offered consular services so there's a real concern from the democratic forces that their prisons vulnerable because they've they're worried that they might be subject to an outside attack all free those are suffices. to regroup amount attacks within territory. still to come on the program venezuelans seem to brazil describe how unbearable
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their lives being even before the latest crisis and we visit a southern town of the hot. debate. we got more of that lovely mold weather the spring like weather across much of your part freshest and chatted about clear skies across a good part of the cold little more cloud over towards the the east the far east of the region but even in moscow thirty dry and bright here dry bright weather extends all the way across the mainland europe push up into the british isles with a little more cloud around here it has to be said that clouds and rain will sink a little further south was and a switch so they'll be some wet weather to come for a time across the low countries pushing across into germany bright skies come back
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yard level twelve celsius for london and paris well up into double figures two for berlin and also for warsaw glorious weather here then to the southeast we get into seventeen athens so some warm sunshine coming back in here at long last and that will remain the case as we go on through wednesday little more cloud up towards the boat six days but again the mild weather continues three in moscow as don't bad here as well twelve so she's fallen a fair bit of cloud by the way the stage is pushing across the british isles and northern parts of england scotland could see some damp weather but otherwise thought about it so chance of a little bit is that weather to into the far northwest of africa seventeen celsius therefore we're back what we got to love a ninety by wednesday afternoon. whether online. or if you join us on the sat all of us have been calling for some fashion is
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a dialogue we are talking about illegal friend to me you have seen what it can do to somebody. and some people. everyone has a voice. or twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation amount is iraq. and the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera nigeria's president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week and a jury and criticize the election commission surprise decision saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence pakistan has recalled its ambassador from new delhi
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as tensions in india and mr kashmir continue to escalate at least for indian soldiers and through rebels have been killed in a gun battle in kashmir is in northern point one a district. and germany's government says it's in talks with transpiration and the us about the return and prosecution of foreign i so far it's. several members of the european parliament have urged the e.u. to suspend contact with venezuela's government after they were blocked from entering the country the group was invited to meet venezuela's national assembly by the opposition leader that's one why though is also trying to enlist volunteers to confront the government blockade of u.s. aid at the border hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to try to defy the blockade. by carrying supplies across the border on saturday but. our parliamentary group demands that the e.u.
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foreign ministers meeting in brussels decide to withdraw from the international context group we had our passports taken and we were sent back to our plane without reason we did not go there is tourists or to create any problem we were responding as members of the european parliament to an institutional invitation from the parliament to have a working meeting with its president who is also the interim president well as the standoff intensifies between president nicolas maduro venezuelans continue to leave the country the crumbling economy has already forced more than three million to seek a new life abroad mohammad john jr spoke to some of them in the brazilian border town of that i'ma where hundreds are crossing every day. on brazil's border with venezuela the migrants continue to arrive many of them relieved at least for the moment to have seemingly put their desperation behind them back home jackson maria just twenty three years old had quit school to work in a bakery on
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a little organise an awesome we face young people like us can't achieve our goals in venezuela i had to stop by a couldn't make studies because it became a choice between studying and eating. but even that choice difficult as it may have been didn't make things much easier philip i know that the money i made from one week zero four was only enough to buy me one kilo price his friend i modify ghetto also twenty three tells me things were unbearable well before the current political crisis and can't help but laugh when describing the dark absurdity of the past few weeks ok even the so you say it made them so he said no ok so people are now saying we have two presidents one issues in order the other refuses it one last for eight the other says the eight won't pass it's public disorder in politics and neither of them is looking out for the welfare of the people but at this processing center in
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the town of pocket i'ma run by brazil's federal government and supported by the united nations refugee agency exhaustion is also palpable officials tell us that today alone over six hundred venezuelans cross from venezuela into brazil and many of those migrants will be applying for asylum and many of them will be seeking medical care so now we see more people arriving in very bad conditions arriving in urgent need of medical attention so a lot of people coming here right here because you need to immediately transport to the border these different. some people arrive here we actually do nothing but they will still be wearing stefania decided to leave when she realized it would be too expensive to have another. in venezuela. my sister said she couldn't believe i was leaving i said yes i'm going i took my child and left time i got here by getting rides and travelling for two days and. like many
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others here she's happy for a brief respite in this very temporary setting where children play with soldiers and things do albeit fleetingly seem a little bit better. and parker dima on brazil's border within israel or the british territory of gibraltar says a spanish warship ordered commercial boats to leave the waters around the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched two vessels in response the government of gibraltar called the maneuver foolish and a nuisance but great as long claimed the tiny peninsula should be under spanish control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole of gibraltar. japanese carmaker honda plans to shut its british plant by twenty twenty two putting three and a half thousand jobs at risk the plant at swindon is the company's only factory in
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the e.u. more than ninety percent of the cars produced there are explore exported to europe and the u.s. it's reported the company plans to consolidate production in japan and didn't take the situation because of bricks it bad of the u.k.'s labor party jeremy corbyn says he's disappointed by the resignation of seven of his m.p.'s the group of opposition politicians to say that they left the party in protest of a corbin's approach to breaks it and claims of anti semitism the labor party is the vide it on how the u.k. should leave the in the issue of holding a second or a friend. it was once heralded as a model of successful racial integration but now residents of riyadh say it faces ruin hundreds of refugees who helped bring the taliban town back to life have been ordered to leave and it's suspended mayer is now awaiting trial for aiding illegal
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immigration from the southern italian town of reaction sunny reports these quiet streets were once bustling with activity people and purpose but reaction has become a shadow of its former self raffia has been living here for four years she came from pakistan her family made this place their home and they are one of the few migrant families that remain here because before the project is from. the u.s. everything's. finish the project is finished crumbling buildings were turned into shops restaurants and homes now lie empty again the occupants left after pressure from the old thirty's those that lived his say had once been full of optimism now no more. this playground used to be
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full of children now nothing no one's left here. last year the mayor the when he was arrested for allegedly encouraging illegal immigration the main accusation that he arranged a marriage between an italian man and a nigerian woman who had been forced into prostitution so that she could remain in the country. reaction is integration model breathed new life into this village but it became a target on to immigration politicians including the deputy prime minister. who frequently voiced his antagonism towards this project so now once again the actual lies practically deserted and all the effort that went into rejuvenating this place is now wasted while the mayor was praised for pioneering a model of integration that benefited the area matteo salvini led a campaign to stop the movement of humanitarian rescue ships out of italy's ports
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and revelled on social media what mr luker was arrested. no longer allowed to set foot in riyadh mr lucado is awaiting trial and says he is being used as an example for those who do not meet the new immigration policies. the message that came from here was that for once it was possible to create a diverse multi-ethnic society and that wasn't allowed. instead they created political success from propaganda which turned the least people against each other the quietness here a reflection of the new normal immigration is no longer an issue of assistance but of control those who remain say it is a sad place hope of new life has been abandoned and the welcome it once promised no longer allowed sunny diagonal al-jazeera reaction southern italy or war and political instability in iraq have held back its economic development for decades
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and surprisingly investment in sport has also suffered one discipline in particular has great cultural significance for iraq and the wider region shaw stratford went to baghdad to find out more. it's cold tent to take in an ancient horse riding skill believed to be practiced by all means around the world over two thousand years ago and some of these a rocky ride is a rather good at it. is a member of the iraqi equestrian team he rides an eight year old arabian thorough bred cold she has. since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three up until now i have one around forty five medals and four of them were gold but the equestrian sports here are no longer taken seriously they said for lack of government support and of private investment iraq's equestrian federation used to be
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a sporting institution that the country was proud of his club was a favorite hangout for saddam hussein's sons to show off their wealth both owned horses worth millions of dollars which they kept at the stables years of war political instability means the club's facilities for the long haul times iraq's a question federation was set up in one thousand nine hundred twenty two during the year is over iraq's short lived more to keep the six thousand forces here that psion were raby and sorra braids the envy of the questions and breed is around the world now during the war that supple saddam hussein all the horses here was stolen and even today the federation still struggles to survive but a few of iraq's elite who didn't flee the country still come to ride secondary school students in shell assad harmeet writes an eleven year old whole school in show low represented iraq at the utility pigs held in argentina last year she came
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twenty fourth out of thirty participants in the horse jumping event. i feel comfortable i feel i am or i am going to heaven when i am writing courses because it's my honest because it is a culture of our town because the horse is for the for the killings it's it's my history that strict international quarantine rules prevent iraq you write is like inshallah taking their horses abroad to compete in events instead they have to write animals supplied by the host nation the world health organization says iraq relax sufficient expertise to deal with infectious a coin diseases. we cannot participate properly an international tournaments because of these quarantine laws cannot show our true potential this is the biggest challenge we face. the writers here say despite the ban they will continue to
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strive towards international success and recognition and preserve a cultural tradition so in take rule to iraq arab world. baghdad. much more on that and all the other stories that we've been covering on our website the address al jazeera dot co. take another look now at the top stories making the news on al jazeera nigeria's president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week mohamedou biharis ruling party had been emergency meeting in the capital of on the election commission's surprise decision to move the vote the saturday the nigerian leader criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence.
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was staying in nigeria in the north of the country have confirmed that that's of sixty six people in a wave of violence which the president mohamed hari called violent and barbaric police discovered the bodies in eight villages in kaduna state on friday twenty two of them were children that li clashes between christian farmers and mainly muslim herdsman have been rampant in recent years as both groups compete for land and water. pakistan has recalled its ambassador from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continues to escalate at least four indian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in a gun battle in kashmir is more than twenty one a district a twenty four hour curfew is currently in force after dozens of security personnel died in a suicide bombing on thursday pakistan based group jaish
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e mohammad has claimed responsibility for the attack. to bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of it may have killed at least fifty people and injured fifteen more the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour it has been hit by several bombings in recent months that have minded and killed scores of people. and germany's government says it's in talks with friends britain and the us about the return of paul and i saw a fight was the us president don't trump wants european allies to take them back and put them on trial germany wants to prosecute its citizens a joint i saw it says it will be difficult to organize that the patriot more news and half an hour the street is that.
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