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pakistan has complained many times that indian projects in fact in the end of january and india pakistan team came to india and objected to the height of a dam being built now those objections are likely to fall on deaf ears it's part of the hard line that india is taking against pakistan in light of last week's attacks in india move mr to schmear which india blames on a group based in pakistan if anything this shows that they are continuing their hard campaign against pakistan and at the very least not going to pakistan any favors. france will adopt an international definition of anti-semitism and consider and he zionism a hate crime president emanuel has been announcing new measures to fight anti semitism after a series of high profile incidents speaking at an event organized by the jewish community that legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may on tuesday thousands of people rallied across france to denounce hostin as he towards jews david has more from paris. the french president emmanuel
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macron was saying that anti semitism has now reached its worst levels since the second world war the figures published for last year show the number of anti-semitic attacks at risen by seventy four percent now france has the biggest jewish community in europe of course and he was speaking to community leaders at an annual dinner he promised in new legislation to ban hate speech on the internet he also asked his interior minister to take action to ban extreme right wing groups who were promoting and fueling violence and discrimination but perhaps the most significant thing is that he said that he would now consider taking action to make auntie's zionism a part of anti semitism legislation we don't know exactly what form or shape that will take or when it will take place but of course the zionist movement was the
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political movement that established israel is israel as the homeland for jews in palestine now this is a very controversial measure it's been proposed by some of the m.p.'s in his own party before but he turned his back on it so this is a significant development to include and design ism in the legislation against anti semitism the two main challengers to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have joined forces april's election centrist candidates benny gantz and yep it will run together and then you alliance is expected to shake up the ruling party's campaign and its net has more from western. israel's general election in april looked like being a foregone conclusion with another victory for benjamin netanyahu good party but all out change on thursday morning when two centrist parties one of them led by any
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council former israeli military chief of staff these two parties joined forces to present a bloc against netanyahu his party and this bloc according to the latest polls will get around thirty four seats most in the hundred twenty seat knesset netanyahu as party will get most thirty seats so in response to this too far right wing parties have merged and i said they will serve in a netanyahu government after the elections and they will be given as a reward the education and housing ministries and two seats in the cabinet and this matters because what is already widely seen as a one of the most right wing governments israel has ever had could become even more right wing one of these parties that has merged of the inheritors of a mere kahana he was bound thirty years ago from standing for election because of his anti arab racism and these two parties are also a strong settler block army commanders in afghanistan say they are confident
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a spring offensive will help tape bag large areas of territory from the taliban twenty one districts of fall into the group in recent months fighting has resulted in the army's highest ever loss as while it strengthens fallen to its lowest level in years tony betty reports from kabul. this remote afghan army outpost is one of thousands nationwide often isolated and in inhospitable areas they are the first line of defense against taliban and i saw fighters as well as the most wonderful flags the grays of fallen soldiers since the u.s. pulled out its ground forces three years ago the afghan army has borne the brunt of the fighting with the taliban and the casualties inflicting ever greater casualties and forces the number of casualties or dozens of people have lost the meaning of body counting they have become indifferent officially the government
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says forty five thousand members of the security services have been killed since two thousand and fifteen and officially afghan analysts say that number could easily be doubled the overall army strength has dropped to its lowest level in years as the military confronts its biggest ever crisis but army chiefs maintain that morale remains good. we have a volunteer army it's their own choice to serve is no doubt that we suffer a lot. of disabled but our morale is high because the goal is freedom and to serve the people of afghanistan and. in the past few months the military has lost control of more than twenty areas to taliban fighters who seem able to strike anywhere. in total we have lost twenty one districts in all over afghanistan it is because of the change in tactics on the ground so we are planning a spring offensive it will take two to three months to retake all these districts from the taliban but real reimposed the rule of law. eight thousand recruits every
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year pass out of this training center in the capital kabul most of them are trained by afghan instructors taught by western military experts who despite the high casualty rate young men are still volunteering to fight partly. out of a sense of packed duty but it's also because of the dire economic situation here they face the stark choice either stay at home and enjoy your poverty or face the taliban and risk death or injury a definite yes and it's my duty to fight for my country when our freedom i'm not afraid of the taliban for the magazine other stuff if i hadn't gone to the army i had nothing else planned professional soldiers say ideally training should last a minimum of a year in afghanistan it's three months. we would like more time but we make the most of what time we do have and when they leave here they are able to fight the taliban. but the question is how able are they to fight effectively army pay is low
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the conditions poor and since the american ground forces left backup is limited recruits are taught to shoot but equally importantly they are taught emergency battlefront first aid increasingly important because of the shortage of medivac helicopters there. was a bomb disposal experts for seven years until an explosion blew off both his legs he's one of a growing number of disabled war veterans discharged from the military and one is the most. i have no regret i am proud that i have contributed to the fans of my country and my second fires was in pursuit of peace my people and my country but there is little help for heroes in afghanistan the father of four receives a meager disability pension of two hundred seventy dollars a year but he hasn't received any money for eight months and he can't afford further medical treatment. the afghan military has come
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a long way in the last eighteen years but is it far enough and if and when the u.s. forces finally withdraw completely will the afghans be able to stand alone tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. in other news police and pro-capital on independence protests as of clashed outside a metro station in the spanish city of basra lonna violence flared during a day of protest against the trial of twelve pro catalan separatist leaders are accused of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds relating to the failed twenty seventeen independence bit charges they'll deny earlier protesters in the city of jarana blocked a motorway with burning tires. the european commission president john paul young because says he's not optimistic that britain would leave the e.u. with a deal admitting he's suffering from bricks that fatigue is comments follow a meeting with the british prime minister to resign may on wednesday yoga says he finds it hard to see any compromise deal commanding a majority in the u.k.
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parliament the u.k. is due to leave on march the twenty ninth if no deal even though the would. come its truth is this we have terry you cannot be going to the consequence building. the. most powerful. for unity in the region. the worst can be avoided but that looks very least. the sixteen year old swedish environmentalist who inspired a global movement of walkouts by school students is met the e.u. commission president to talk about climate change sumburgh has protested against in action on global warming and hit out at politicians who've criticized the students for skipping class. many people are trying to make the school strikes a question of whether we are promoting truancy whether we should go back to school or not. they make up all sorts of conspiracies and call us puppets who cannot think
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for ourselves. they are desperately trying to shift to remove the focus from the climate crisis and change the subject but they don't want to talk about it because they know they cannot win this fight the tech giant google says it's made an error of the failing to inform uses of a hit microphone inside its home security device consumers only found out about a nest built in microphone when google announced it was updating the product with a voice command assistant company says it was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed as a feature of the device google also said the microphones must be activated to work to senegal now vote is a turning to satire to find out more about the candidates running in the presidential elections on sunday in other african nations comedians can sometimes be imprisoned for making fun of politicians but that's not the case in senegal as
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nicholas hock reports from the capital the ca. there may be no televised presidential debate but there is a special election coverage. this is a comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president mikey sol on the campaign trail. follows cells every move poking fun at the president who for now it seems to be the favorite in the race. the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race. laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have
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complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. the daily news in iraq a political satire show on the election the aim is to hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls you can live people just achieve your goals in a stand what you run or what are we not. we're not running for governor we're not running for mayor we'll run for the week for the people. as each candidate tries to stand out comedians bring them down to an even footing where they're powerful president or a candidate running for office in the seems to say out loud what many politicians perhaps think but wouldn't say in public nicholas hawk al jazeera the car well there is more on everything like covering right here you'll find the latest on
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our top stories including of course that devastating fire in bangladesh capital dhaka. just a quick look at the top stories this hour there are reports that civilians will no longer leave syria's east a village of but goo's on thursday u.s. bank rebels have been attempting to evacuate civilians before launching a final assault on the area which is ice a last stronghold the syrian democratic forces of also handed over hundreds of i still fighters to iraq just across the border and non-con has more now from on top . whose is quite small village but the entire village is almost been destroyed by the shelling and coalition strikes now the arsal forces have known about this fight they have been prepared for this fight for a very long time they've dug tunnels underneath and that's likely where the
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hardcore of those fighters or waiting for the s.d.f. to come in on the outskirts of the village there is this tend to area where the remaining civilians are the civilians there are real concerns of the s.d.f. and to the united nations and that's why the s.d.f. haven't gone into the village itself. in or all the headlines at least seventy people have died in bangladesh's capital dhaka after a fire ripped through several buildings around fifty people have been injured firefighters took almost twelve hours to bring the blaze under control fire broke out in a residential complex which also housed a chemical and plastics warehouse francis has opened a landmark meeting on child sex abuse in the catholic church by demanding concrete action against predator priests one hundred ninety cardinals bishops priests monks and nuns are attending the event decades of scandals of rock the church but many catholic officials still either deny or downplay the problem francis called on the
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pledge to hear the cry of the little ones who plead for justice. and india is saying it will cost off water supplies to pakistan from rivers that come under a treaty between the two nations the move is in retaliation to last week's attack in indian administered kashmir in which at least forty one indian troops were killed is so it was claimed by jason mohammed an armed group based in pakistan the indian government accuses pakistani authorities of supporting the group they're upset with all of our top stories coming up the teenage box in belgium punching out racist stereotypes that story in this is year and.
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