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then our first quote the. minute they should all with their step that they appreciate is that part of the force we need to get out of this vitale who taught him all what i said. in two thousand and two the national anti-corruption directorate or d n a was created as an independent judicial body to enact reforms required for romanians entry into the european union in a few short years the growing number of corruption revelations in romania have implicated politicians from every party. thousands of scandals and shameless dealings have been brought to light. the d.m.'s chief prosecutor is low with. her unrelenting determination has made her the central figure in the fight to eradicate corruption. telling me on off or start. up and then.
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don't condition up and then. there's no minister mr porter's on premier. and. also investing is. something. only if. she got a credit for the morton church of. not just her fourth almost. daughter shall call all existing general to put a lot of credit are sustainable travel document up a timeline you don't need changed just a. little rough water shop there on the other. side of the lot or. a few floors up at the d.n.a. a special investigations team is helping to solve some of the d.n.a.'s biggest cases. and that's the reason this is.
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actually i have. you. didn't refute my dish. you might feel lucky or not that i actually have but that. prosecutor. and police investigator nicole asia turned their stripes in the fight against organized crime both highly skilled investigators they've unearthed evidence leading to the prosecution of romanian political elites. wife etc. there were intelligent we just shot we too far to get. them. to go to it. was an. earnest one out they can make up. their version if he's got. a preamble they speak out for the little comment of.
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who's the most read. dark and what live action therefore who. has put up with i she she and the other tell in the very. question harsh. up with the charm of i check in with him with these three in a court for the cheapest. there is too demurely i walk around to look but question fresh but this divine ship by me so full sits. c.l.r. said better listen put us in that area let the rest. of the call it show the put it on that's such a. good in by new age downside is lost got the good old war party negotiators the salt of scots if you vomit all put that simple test of stuckey up all you like dr just lost a lot bundy a. couplet it. was the last use of that show it have
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already delayed going up the arse about their corrupt image of bear market of progress a pen to paper. it out but i'll divide their money. or their corvette or their. something and i cringe but in the scheme of the post only bottoms of course have been quite n.j. just to trust my own will be. done across and under some i must i must invest in u.s.b. excel pay get cut it's new to different here. and you multi-boot. d v e r to remove the. united opposition noise in the bogs issue nor can the fuck to. be in the party doing so would be. had the poor would see it. but also on the wall as. my muse thought you would be. she
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also fuck. as an independent journalist autobytel has investigated corrupt officials and closely followed some of romania's most notorious corruption cases. but you would believe that. to be done until. you pleaded with them you don't look at. anybody she thought was. really what you were predicting. we're going to beat you to because you know but if you want to say to me you simply got up at the start. of the month you know. my good day to. you. i was on a lot of. means chance. for a check of the old guard and president of the now defunct conservative party was convicted
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in twenty fourteen for buying property at sixty times less than its actual value. but the one thing that. monaco meant to. me and i. think. you know money. with enough full stops. at the state. office. for. my. chief changing then. the model. shift for me. as with other eastern bloc regimes the fall of the dictatorship provided an opportunity for party stalwarts to prosper.
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government funds where mr propre. did and many from the old guard to fill their pockets the dictatorship had given way to new levels of corruption. but of all let's hear what my thought that you had extended would probably get up only class taught level science that unlink levite that she. done for the other new normals it up archie thought that out task not only got a society on as that are partially outclassing existent with them spun out a fuckin way to start the winter political at alloa well not exist acquired of what i thought was the simple technique of also citic that i said here couple below such as what is. locally the sole scheme of the momentum carried out on money and to put . on your novel bana then tried it out or shot on film you know bene pinkel me so often awful some muscular supporter could have i did see it on one year my less untouchable investors on additional satish.
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when you come up of a was appointed to minister of justice from two thousand and four to two thousand and seven with the support of the european commission she prepared the way for romanians anti-corruption prosecutors many portland calendar that have to do it in short time i mean haven't they got a closing and got two thousand and four so i have very few time to date. and that was important for me it was a support to me for me to change. into short years minister michael this doggedness in the face of intense opposition allowed her to launch a process of judicial reform. then a relatively unknown entity that d.n.a. came to prominence as michael vick pushed for its right to prosecute white collar crime. but d.n.a. is first cases went relatively unnoticed by the press. but i think if we
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wait for your daughter will have. their father on one of the one main. yes the up until about a new study out on when you get those in parliament that governmental pre-modern he set out on when he's. being formed here at this question is that was he should. or even a prime minister indicted in two thousand and five i began this process a descendant from the communist dictatorship have become one of the most powerful men in romania just because you did it is. charged with embezzling one and a half million euros for his electoral campaign and taking a six hundred thirty thousand year old right wing company telling the press about a woman who does that analysis and all of outside analysis of it sort of follow but she seems almost half step. i think all normal.
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so to me when i last i recall norm. say explained to the chair offical don't look. it. if you're just going to. get it. just to talk to. you. it is a few years after these comments in twenty twelve the prime minister was sentenced to four years in prison for passive corruption and blackmail again the stuff his conviction was a lightning bolt for society since then the corruption investigations have accelerated and the d.n.a. has achieved celebrity status in romania. it didn't take long for the media to catch on and to begin reporting on an unrelenting stream of revelations each day
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this is the scene outside the offices of the d.n.a. certain not to leave empty handed the media gathered to catch the drama in real time it's the most closely watched media event in the country. very. much. for talking to for now is creating a unique series of documentary portraits that captured the expressions of in battle delete what about. privacy but it should be more that i. look like. i'm usually about working why don't i check check check you. know i don't know i'm. in april twenty sixth seen a journalist exposed to hicks a former scandal the case cause public outrage forcing the minister of health to resign i think you. see far more you know what kind of seconds out there to be
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water guns if you actually defend that little nutriment. you put us at the legal gun show explode. about the more every dental moment recorded so this could be that it was a boy response in the wind if. they wanted to write it was as if you're in for a life but then after that. if. she can interrupt you i don't know what's up for the world but actually looking into they said you're going to kind of get busy to become a monk and real quick so that i will show you the stipulated fact judge just about the proposition is that the club as usual must be just enough honestly that your interest of being the one with that but just that one doctor says the she needs the person the worst will be you know what you think you've been around. longer. than life itself he might not have been out without the part of the machine the larger bodies but being sweet on the door she don't know you you mind you know coupled
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with my will to get out of the part of the logic of loss or the very last. moment i. think. a little. chuckle but then chanelle me to feel many chilled out the broken already most and to beat all on the corporal cory thing mr young. pulled and pulled. that's only to thought a start up in the wrong place could go on the ball. on credit an institute to merge with the chattel until the concertina brought the girl sits us a lizard she college in laurel well only been through a little sorry for the important delusion was a change of a god sort of thought of the thought all along with a cheap thirst and on top of it will you go your own lunch aboard who's just been
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over. on vapor. count of in a lot. of different you. say more. important than triple the best allowed yes for pound. of him but i got his law to support and. yes yes. it will be important and interesting that will be the. all of jay just. see this week at a lot of the times most of that. but.
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the. there weren't. any. dippolito year it would seem to border outdoor that you know chill my book got only a little money of all those lanes betrothal dippolito my love for you. but not because of. the fact almost half hearted out tripped out. supporting friend saudi geology diminished or economy shares if you know rome does she transgress kalyani could i. have a son. my. view. is about that actually extend the moment then into many more into a. moment that. improved with good
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don't just. the way over the limit on the visit to me. you want one of the richest men in romania sentenced to two and a half years in prison for being a one million year old right released halfway through his sentence the arctic would notice them all down there. they could do with or without the. lavender right she was my market and was cool my image she. came up you got me the graphic. just buy in the nick of this is there. stuff a little bit more going is official on the at the moment they killed as were four.
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electricity for the third day running the dura says his rival one why don't is a us puppet who failed in a coup attempt to overthrow him. look at philip we have defeated their coup they tried illegitimately to turn a person into a president and now today it is obvious to the world is not a president not anything he's a clown and a puppet a delete point citizens. why don't he is calling for more protests. you said it before the regime wants to wear us out wants to wear us out brothers and sisters and yes the road has been very long the road has worn us out but we will never tire in the search for freedom and we will stay in the streets. student leaders in algeria say the government's move to all of the early closure of universities won't deter them young protesters have been leading some of the biggest demonstrations seen in decades colleges will shut on sunday two weeks ahead
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of shed you for the spring break lawyers in sudan say nine female protesters have been sentenced to twenty lashes and a months in jail for rioting the students in the capital have defied the nationwide state of emergency to condemn the did tension of demonstrators a day earlier sudan's president ordered the release of all women arrested during the past three months human rights watch says fifty one sudanese have been killed the government says the total is thirty one. for the third time in a month and ebola treatment center has been attacked in eastern democratic republic of congo the center in tembo was targeted hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization the latest outbreak has killed five hundred seventy eight people since august. north korea could be preparing for a new ballistic missile launch u.s. satellite images suggest increased activity is at a missile test site this follows the failure of
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a second round of denuclearization talks last month between kim jong un and us president donald trump those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's back to romania people out. since joining the european union and romania has been engaged in an unprecedented judicial overhaul special prosecutors have joined with journalists activists and romanians growing civil society to uncover and prosecute corruption at the highest
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levels. independent media groups like the rise project are playing an important role in exposing corrupt practices. rise is an information site that provides a platform for journalists activists and investigative hackers and. here activist journalists can sometimes uncover in a day what prosecutors would require years to obtain. is co-founder of the rights project and. he's taken part in many international investigations and was a key player in helping analyze the panama papers leak. or tipping listing artists from actually investing got to go see him i think that's what i need to look i know for what it was a post on this was not. their money value. with them. wanting
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more. chips or something to paint it all for me when i walk out of it i don't have a gun so that said southern you know what i mean i think that it was from going. on for months. so it. is but i just asked this bubble in prison though buzzer that they were going to put it up a lot in the lives of us going with this will combine the early start that i was alluding to that the only that was for this was that the four months you know what i mean that is are going to go then that that is because bonnie could if i can fudge a little money thing which. changed concord. follow the money for that technology for us in like us investing in. commodities at the. last could be found in recent years romanian society has begun to
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feel the impact of a growing wave of corruption convictions. emboldened by judicial reform people are increasingly demanding that the law apply equally to all i was the ongoing judicial battle has energized protesters in november twenty fifteen tens of thousands flooded the streets of bucharest to protest the deadly fire at the collective nightclub despite unsafe conditions the club obtained its operating license in exchange for a bright. eye. sixty four people mostly teenagers died in the blaze. protest persis prime minister viktor was forced to resign. mass protests are a growing trend in romania where forty years of state rule all but destroyed citizen action thirty years earlier and big gatherings in romania looked like this
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shows of mass solidarity orchestrated by the state called for justice gave way to resignation poverty and despair in recent years the pioneers of progressive change have claimed that their place in society. is a historian and specialist in communist crimes he's also a famous activist in bucharest fellow. difficulty if you have one million media. we should ask you what we got because we will see more of our petition you know what is he puts this is a good movie for you there are more than is affordable. although there were no moment in which an office in fact was formed called comical propositions for sure. no matter which judge i'm sure the for the exam is a cool thing that it's going to cynic and watch them here or the nuclear weapons capability of the muslim take what they say one hundred ten times
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a day speak to defeat dogma talk about going to look it up i mean you're not just most likely so locked up. as with spain's in the those or the ok by wall street movement in the us romania's protest movement is led by activists like me hyped all it takes is a few activists like him to ignite social action or what will they put the state. will conduct a more gentle darker black on more of a problem for the good of the earth she was just in prison such as might is go for the. extra muscle externals down dizziness she can deliver sources of. surprises. me to know yet not really that she was going to get me and i was ok. and.
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social activism on this level would have been unimaginable a few years ago. today targeted actions can take only a few hours to germinate and spread. out for the rest of our choices have a history of some time and then it's a story about a more money back into the earth's year but then what we did there was a daughter to pull me and also to sharon to settle most of us the unit for students like that of all but it would just have to just say that though because she's an issue sure to show that the. that's. building the activist capacity of an entire generation is a bold project. the funky citizens aim to defy boundaries and to forge a path for civil society in romania. this is
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a gross it's always a complete because they can. get close to the ship and if you cheat and steal and it was just the most. active. part. in twenty twelve created the funky citizens to confront government corruption. she hired hyperactive young graduates out of law political science and communications courses a correlation of creative activists the funky citizens are advocating for the growth of civil society in romania. who want this is that you know he's not going to get that that you're going to want to me was a part of the indoor me days to come up more often. with to push off the topic this morning the day i wasn't born or you know to some block well i think i might need to go to. that of an age. in the simplest legal that this sounds an awful lot
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more income we. saw when you off the. ngos and civil society activists have steadily been gaining momentum the funky citizens have been working in a vibrant offbeat style one of the of their name. on the citizens who is punishing . them to the negotiation for the up to the issue but i'm certain then becomes a thing that's all stop will be gone she funkier for last month at a fortune my surely my old film because. that is to awaken citizen awareness the funky citizens are addressing corruption with a sense of irony. is the creator of an unusual sight the bribe market which allows users to know the average bribe in a specific hospital town hall or police station exist. and.
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yes they should chip this site yes take. the course the chines age because someone because. their. perspective of. what they get. meant they. were many features at the town when. vici a lot of. many young graduates with specialized skills have chosen to work in these novel structures. here they can discuss the performance of the courts fact check political statements or analyze the latest reforms. by each. part.
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of the example. for us a few thought they were. all caught the solid day or yet are here. i but corruption lives on even when high and mid-level officials are jailed public service budgets are also first though grown for corruption to address this also as a country wide program to train advocates how to decipher public financing i. thought i thought it was odd but i was i would. jump on a fit if it was just a few. that. is ok so that's just as cool but the fact of the to support you to count second to spot one digit that's
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a call to forty hours is the fucking force i can. get at these cells this is one of the most aquatic at the time and last half of them this past the third and much much you cut much ice into the debate then shooting the chief i want to respond after we so i called my chair and cut into the lodge but yes i was going to move to. this by this flurry of activism the fight against corruption is far from won. the government visits pains to recover stolen funds. the accused to decry stalinist trials and anger against the judicial system has reached a boiling point. the political climate has become so tense that's the chief prosecutor broached the issue on primetime radio. you are the team fool not included the last of the now there's one of the got a knowledge of this but i forgot darkly in fear god is the.
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the best one of the garden i legit at the dog. in june jim i did take out the set of all mine also and feed him a shot and then to go to cedar entering to need another mark of a dirty denies that indoor meat raised british of it it's you know it's you know you're going to need one moment law possibility that they're pretty muddy don't i was that is each year long and. yoda. but what are the limits of the rich and powerful when cornered by justice. politicians have been looking to pass laws that would diminish the d.n.a.'s powers . we don't anybody did it but it.
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is there might be a next. parliament and it's funny thing all the audience just came by little dog on his auto someone if you took all that and celebrated so not so long on the meters a couple of the davis thing got a shot for such a thought that you feel that sailed out journalists well for the first vision extend the important for the bill are just things to forty but it also better than with records don't seem to question your thoughts any part of the. law just the thought of a fortune. on the thirty first of january twenty seventh teen romania's newly sworn in government issued a late night executive order that would pardon politicians of some corruption offenses. the media quickly informed to the public by midnight twenty five thousand protesters flooded the streets of the capital that number swelled to three
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hundred thousand in the next days with hundreds of thousands more gathered in cities across romania. the government was forced to rescind its decree a few days later. as a check to the powers of governance the funky citizens count on an important ally the european commission. on your offer to meet them on the budget. for all your take. since joining the e.u. romania has been closely monitored by the european commission twice a year the commission issues reports that. measure its progress in the fight against corruption. no win no audience applauding when you look a lot. called on me because if you didn't get one emmy keeping them on it or use out of the law books that i see all around smith and all our lawnmower not what
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you could. talk at the bottle shop under out they could just send. me she was broken free and guarded. the government trying to push the limits n.g.o.s and citizens mobilizing in the vigilant european commission this framework stands as the most efficient safeguard in attempts to weaken the fight against corruption. monitoring by the commission should end by twenty twenty but that's romania have the institutional and political maturity to progress on its own. so seen on a foot artist mike on the circle but other issue that he carries it with him a lot of in the future this will see not only to saga but it was just a shrug to be that she could read the. comic on his website on one of the but out
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apart there could at goshen i took that same haven't are difficult she crept into such as anthem play not just on quality let you know. it's early summer twenty sixteen and romania is about to elect new mayors. romanian seem happy about the push for transparency but will they vote for change. many hope the election will reveal the impact that prosecutors and civil society groups are having on the romanian public. good is that the way you. should have done has created the save book arrest union or the u s b. it's a campaign born of civil society founded on hope in the democratic rejuvenation of romania is that for this former mathematician the fight against corruption is a clear path towards the renewal of romania's political class. you almost.
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thought that quote law. was a few. you said. there were. ten years that you. should have done to present his party as the only recourse to a decadent political class a class that continues running candidates embattled by corruption scandals. on election day locked up has decided to follow a candidate he knows well one of the headliners of book arrests corruption to work . the mayor of bucharest sector five charged with taking a bribe of ninety million euros. apart and also with
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a little bit isn't good to put you know money so that if you don't shut up when you put out this month they go yes i mean it's not going to stop down the shock because . it will be made what is a kind of funny guys i'll have to take back. but i'm going with the voting to go against what i've been happening and i'll cynical putting could see. that the for the market that. i think. well but a lot of us are going to begin to. say. look look look look look look look. i can only work on the. physical fitness test
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that you wish but. what do you. think you know. that you really kind of think if you're going to be taken this is not a test of your time and i need. people in the room you know to do that pretty much you want to see. what you can be. good working with was pretty good. because you don't think. that anybody. would think. that was. really. the funky citizens have banded with other n.g.o.s to spots plus. bulstrode they've set up a call center and sent observers to polling stations i don't see how much. your class would have said they could store somehow so i thought. of him but when
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i think of it you know less frequently than before electoral fraud can be just as flagrant i think that's what. it. was the. vehicle has to. really live up to the temptation to not rest of it should i be as much of the she did the six yet she wanted to be out of the way our friends that say you take one copy didn't get what the one you got what that little nasties discarded i was single but now last. night you. both mastered that to feel that i thought it was fun to be not going to give it to someone here just kind of a one out of the six year got a new man who fucked up in just a moment how much i wanted out of it i think. the day is coming to an end and to me push out of dunns us meeting mates are awaiting the results.
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in a surprise done cus the party has won thirty percent of the vote. it is the first time that the new political party has done so well in local elections. to profit. off. but you. do you know i. really think that it was. the funky citizens are taking stock of a day of mixed results even if mayor mike young value for to breath for new year hasn't been reelected candidates with corruption cases have done well. was that was even. thought about it
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over the phone thing did you think that you. know off. limits analysis is fair the candidate's judicial troubles haven't stopped many from voting for them the romanians have real acted nearly fifty mayors convicted of or charged with corruption in. wasilla mayor of cry over charged with taking a bribe and money laundering reelected with fifty eight percent of the votes. the court rejected the d.n.a. charges and then generally twenty seventeen. became minister of labor and social justice. judges get. charged with taking
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a bribe reelected with fifty two percent of the vote. but the linkage mayor of miami charged with taking a bribe reelected with seventy percent of the vote while behind bars. as romania confronts the ghosts of its past the descendants of a bygone era are clinging to money and power. in the legislative elections of late twenty sixteen the majority of seats went to the social democratic party who are fiercely despite them earlier conviction of its president for electoral fraud. but people are beginning to support the new parties on the promise of change. following electoral success a few my. earlier. u.s.b. party changed its name to the save room a new union for us winning one percent of seats in parliament. romania continues
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its push to become an example amongst its eastern european neighbors at least for now. is the country's transformation to democracy a revolution or a long distance race in which the baton is handed over to the next generation teenagers born well after the fall of communism. the citizens are supporting the civic education of this youth. in romania today civil society engages all age groups but in a culture of corruption the country's greatest hope may well. be. what a lot of influence in the bank. thanks.
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falling gotta stop particular dusty the moment it could become so i think during sunday nikita cham she's run out low to middle twenty's the converse breeze means it's too hot or getting hotter i suppose on the western side of society so middle thirty's for mecca a lighter breeze come monday so slightly temperatures. now we've been talking about the significant rain that has caused a lot of flooding in malawi well the thing that caused it is now here over the water is developing tropical side going to be there for a couple of days producing strong winds and huge amounts of rain largely from madagascar.
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arts. al jazeera. every year. vowing never to give up the fight for freedom venezuela's opposition leader calls for a nationwide march as the country reels from a major power blackout. hello
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again i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. far from home but closely watching the growing crisis we hear from algerians living abroad about their hopes and dreams for their homeland. remembering the tibetan uprising against chinese rule sixty years on we take a look at what's changed. the government is the terrorist and so are the people the government up in arms about an ambitious project in kenya to transform a coastal town opponents say the prices for progress is too high. parts of venezuela continue to remain without havoc tricity as another battle for power intensifies mass rallies have been held both for and against president nicolas maduro he's blaming the power and telecoms blackouts of what he called an international cyber attack on the do it says
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a coup attempts led by rival glide though has been defeated the opposition leader is vowing to lead a nationwide march on caracas al-jazeera stories above is that. it was a protest to win two. every tory in the capital caracas thousands responded to opposition leader why the last call to take over victoria avenue. and the area that's been off limits for the opposition because it has been traditionally controlled by supporters of the i three though to me it was along those trying to convince the police to join in the protest was we want them to join us because we are the people not the government we're the majority right now that needs change and it's not represented by nicolas maduro. this rally is the opposition's latest move to a government after a failed attempt to get aid into the country with the help of the united states it was gathered in three different parts of that i guess and then made it to this
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haven't you and now they're trying to make it till the end of this road where they're supposed to meet opposition leader i want to write about they're saying as you can see here that if i have any nationality gods i doubt that i see a few minutes later people started to push to get the ball of aryan national guard off the street they left the area to avoid a major confrontation i. arrived hours later begging venezuelans not to lose hope was we've said it before but once to wear us out brothers and sisters and yes the road has been very long the road has worn us out but we will never tire in the search for freedom. the protest happened after a major power outage left much of venezuela in complete darkness the first blackout was caused by a failure at the hydroelectric plant in the state of. electricity supply began to
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return on saturday but then power and communications collapsed once again. the government also organized an anti imperialist protests close to the presidential palace. blamed the opposition and the united states for the power cuts . for kind of the. dynasty particularly as it were conducting highly scientific energy attacks with advanced technology what are experts called electromagnetic attacks against the transmission lines to generate interruptions in the process of logical reconnection. venezuelans are already struggling with an unprecedented economic crisis and the past few days has allowed the opposition to gain ground in areas they were not able to reach before and.
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have a defeat at the back us. medina is a form of venezuelan diplomats who resigned two years ago in protest against muros policies he says the power cuts stem from government corruption. these regimes thrives ok this they actually created that's why it is a self-inflicted economic meltdown due to grand corruption interest as you can see in the electrical industry there wait for example in company it was a suit briefcase company that took on one year the same year when they were created more than eleven in a contract that were hundreds of millions of dollars and they have no assets or knowledge or previous knowledge and this is what has created certain deficiencies of course a lack of maintenance and. a management treasury funds we have seen a lot of indictments right billion dollars there have already they even come in
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venezuela. the last fourteen years has been more than fifteen martial plants and it's impossible now to understand how we have more than ten percent of this year billion population. eating from the garbage cans when we have at least projector feeders from the better business to be more than five million forcibly displaced people by the end of these year already three point five million people challenging their boundaries and their sovereignty of colombia brazil in our neighborhood in my opinion i think the constitutional interim president should out upon the need of their people and to requests not immediate terry intervention but i mean term national humanitarian intervention with military support and that's why our vehicle one eighty seven eleven or national constitution allows the ellsbury station to request for a military cooperation to come into our country when we have hundreds of people
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dying every day at least in the last forty eight hours only because of the lack of electricity more than a hundred people have died well it usually is nine hundred people daily i would invite us to come into his well out or a hand all these criminal officials from motas regime and their truck and pay their prison time in the us there's a lot that the us can do is more a whole eastern international cooperation from latin america now to algeria west students say the government's order to close universities won't deter them from demanding the resignation of president of the us he's beautifully no official reasons being given to campuses being shot from sunday two weeks ahead of the spring break young people playing a leading role in the biggest protests in the ne thirty years the urging the eighty two year old beautifully to abandon his decision to run for a fifth term in office william lawrence is a professor at george washington university and believes the algerian government's closure of colleges and universities is counterproductive. it's
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a poor decision and it will likely backfire there is about one point seven million university students and a little over six hundred thousand of those live in university housing to the idea was if you close the housing and sent them home maybe their parents prevent them from joining protests but if you know anything about students when there is a mass mobilization of students going on in the campuses literally letting out into the streets students cutting classes and joining protests the likelihood that the parents will be able to prevent the students from joining these the ever growing protests is very unlikely so in fact one point seven university students were just told you're on vacation we've had more than two million protesters according to crisis group in the streets and that is likely to grow basically what we have in algeria for some years now is a direct action by by protesters towards the state which leads to most political outcomes and so you have thousands of protests every year in algeria at the micro
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level and then direct response from the state and so this is just that on a much larger scale and it's being driven by social media it's very youth driven but one of the interesting thing about these protests is that we have slogans from the sixty's from the eighty's from the two thousands two thousand tens it's a real borg of the greatest hits of algerian protest over the last sixty years which are bringing together the quasi totality of the algerian population against the fifth mandate for the president and for systemic change the problem is that the crowd is not articulating what its vision is for systemic change well jury and living abroad are watching events closely more than four million people of algerian origin live in france or to assume paris was supporting that compact routes i've been speaking to our correspondent. singer abdellatif lau fee was born in algeria but he's lived in france for fifty years his music draws on the sounds of
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the sahara region where he grew up. despite decades in france abdellatif passionate about how geria is closely following and supporting the protests there that call for abdelaziz bouteflika to give up his bid for a fifth presidential term so it's amazing because a jury and have seen what happened in the arab world the yellow best seen france what's happening in venice where i'm personally i've been emotional transported i want to go here we were all asking why don't we go in the streets and now finally we are in the streets all together france is home to the biggest algerian origin population abroad estimated at more than four million people thousands of algerians in france have demonstrated in cities like paris and must say in a show of solidarity with a compadre it's many of the protesters are you know there's no phones on the algerians living in.

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