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hi i think during. this period of time that i've been acquired oh my god i'm sure i've. answered the call of my marker chill i gave myself twenty five years of life for us it's always my job nothing that is a must do because i i. i the focus. to this but. forward to freedom. rene went to trial she testified but very incoherently she was hiding the trial. you know it was she was not a good witness for herself she recanted right away afterwards and her confession is that as it was coerced when i talked to him about this they're like well i would
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never prosecute that's what people say i've been talking about this for thirty years and that's the first thing everybody says i get it but it wouldn't happen to me. it's not one time the person that gives a false confession we are all vulnerable under the circumstance of interrogation we are all there been some trained detectives i've spoken to who say i can get anybody to confess to him many of them will boast that they have a ninety five percent confession right but it's conceivable that a lesser or a less you near perfect at identifying the perpetrator that is every suspect you identify is the perpetrator right if you've got a confession rate at that level you're producing a whole lot of false confessions we were in a lynch when i talked to her about it she explained to me i was so shocked that they convicted me she said because there was no evidence of a confession so powerful it can stand alone so here's the jury on the one hand they've got the confessions of a woman and they're going to delay the confessions trumped the d.n.a.
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changes everything it sometimes i've likened the final product of a confession to a hollywood production it is scripted by the police theory of the case it is rehearsed and then lights action camera ready to go. and that's what the jury sees they don't see the whole production they just see the final i don't see how a judge or a jury can look past a false confession if they don't see the process. internees case we're trying to get permission to test all the old evidence from d.n.a. but to do that we have to collect as much information about her innocence as we possibly can. go back and interview old witnesses collect documents go back to the crime scene. i keep coming back to this thing that the cops knew he was in florida and kept
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going with the story that they did together how can they be permitted to go forward with a series of a case that they know is not true they made the trial basically matcher. it just makes me so jaded and really disgusted with the district attorney's offices that i feel like you know the you know they're supposed to be at the top of the chain right there it's supposed to be the ones making sure the cops made mistakes or people below the cops made mistakes then they're the ones who are responsible for fixing it why not do d.n.a. testing we're not infallible we can all make mistakes i mean renee's going to be in prison for the rest of her life why not just check in rene's case it's especially frustrating because i mean they certainly believe that this was done not the stabbing was not done by her right so there is a set i mean they're basically admitting that they have a cold case and there's
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a murder out there and they still don't want to do it. we have a number of documented cases in which the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. which is. a whole nother level of insanity and some of them believe it for a long time afterwards right. here. we enjoy. in the melted thompson case we had he was a danish inturn who came. to danish he was a college student studying to become a teacher and he came interned at i.p.s. which is really you know like a twenty thousand dollar a year preschool up by the u.n. and it was a co teacher who accuses me of molesting all the kids in the class and he's on the
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cover of the daily news they take his focus his facebook profile pictures him with his niece on his shoulders so they put that on the cover of the daily news and write sex monster and they go arrest him in the morning and bring him into the station and they have a female cop interrogate him she tells him while you know we have video of you molesting these kids which they had videos but he's not molesting anybody so they had this woman who accused him had taken videos of him in the classroom interacting normally with children and so either the cops hadn't watched it or they had watched it and were blatantly lying to him but there was no video of him molesting kids but he hears that right and he thinks holy crap well if i'm on video i must have done it right they let him continue to believe this lie that he's caught red handed on tape molesting these kids and i think that that you know he started you could tell
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through the hole when they finally are recording him he's doubting himself you know he's he's wondering did i do this. i mean you can see. his racial ferrari you know and i mean assistant district attorney new york county mr johnson. and you tell me why you're here today yes. i'm here because i'm in the port of. my colleagues and. for inappropriate. behavior with kids ok so why don't you tell me probably anything how this started what happened you know what happened.
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you know well that's a feel and remember designed to go around six of them was about. and then. presented me of a hat and it's as i was at present and. so. i had taken. its hands during play time and in playing around my own. insular immersion. and. you know for sure if for them that or question or if you call them. and so when you say give you pleasure at one time that was central. yeah it would have to be. i don't know you know.
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my memory of you dislike it's not a bit of it if you read out and demand i do it that's your handwriting and it just putting it over briefly doesn't look like it's been changed in any way. ok that's your signature at the bottom and you read this out here today you're going to show it to the camera. i don't even think people in the u.s. really get that the police are allowed to lie to you i think most people would think that if i am speaking to a police officer he's time with the truth but now to tom's i mean in denmark it's illegal for the police to lie to you so he really i think was was you know really says extra susceptible to something like that it took us filing the civil rights suit to even get access to these tapes the district attorney wouldn't give it to us when the criminal case was pending we asked that quote we move for a court order to get at the judge just wouldn't give it to us but they sat on these
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tapes for eight months he had this case hanging over his head and they knew that there was nothing in the tapes right and because was that was the only evidence there was yes luckily mel to never got convicted right we were able to stop it before that happened but it took i mean it almost killed him. my. parents. sexual abuse involving very young children were brought to the attention of my office all right this time. if you ever think to just miss this face after. stand there and accept that. we have. missed. this but i missed it didn't oh man it's historical fact is awful for dansko us that
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appointed him and its function to want to install a c.p.a. so we put in a treaty between the elite sport from the no one say it's going to help put the two end of the good in system and city for it to pass says the student forward to put in a new e.f. which is here in new york i can't for. the forefront see treating it seems to stop . the most false confession cases there falsely from passing to an actual crime that they didn't commit in this case he was confessing to something that never even happened right as you said so poignantly i mean his life was ruined and he didn't even get convicted. you know the central park jogger case was my first interaction with false
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confessions our firm represented corey wise on his civil rights case i'm not that's a hell of a way to start i mean you're diving right in at the deep end there yeah you know the circumstances at play in that case were huge amount of pressure on the police and the authorities to make arrests and make them stick to majors but they couldn't be infamous central park jogger case in nine hundred eighty nine the rape and beating of a female jogger made headlines nationwide the teenagers are confessed but later claimed that their confessions have been covered. when the actual perpetrator stepped forward the five men were finally exonerated but at that time for nearly seven years in prison and one of them corey was thirty. one the most notorious crimes in the history of new york city it was a crime in which a woman who was a wealthy upper east side investment banker was out jogging at dusk and was
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dragged into the woods in central park and almost beaten to death and it was front page news every day everywhere and they were out to get arrests and they got him. when you get to the false confessions in that case it was a classic you know. mismatch they were totally overmatched underrepresented if represented at all i don't know what they could pick or even have anyone in the room with now he's going to be sixteen so he was considered an adult sadly and so his mom was not allowed in there and they you know had given them lawyers they all waived their their miranda rights. that it. is very very serious this may be very we don't know if this woman is there.
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i want to know exactly where it is and exactly this is a right and exactly what you said. after seeing those stages i'm sure that you can see that schools one needs to know when. it is hard for people to understand how this can happen how they could produce a confession to something they didn't do and it really is a complicated set of stories there is no one reason. you know corey wise confessed to get out of this bad situation he was under intense pressure for many many hours right he was likely be told that others were giving stories and that he needed to cooperate in order to go home and it is very telling in the central park
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five case that every one of them every one of the boys and every one of the parents who were present were surprised that the boys were arrested after their statements every one of them for was going home right right well you know want it sounds crazy right here thought you were gone or confess to a rape and go home right but you know that one false confessors were interviewed afterward and they've been exonerated and the first question everybody wants those i don't understand why don't you confront the most typical response because i want to go home. innocent people often say afterwards you know i was so tired i was so stressed i figured let me sign this confession it'll all work itself out in the end . the detectives often say you know we have d.n.a. we're going to send it to the lab. they think that claiming they have t.n.a. that bluff is a way to scare the criminal into submission it may be right but if the person you're talking to is not the criminal but an innocent person that the law becomes
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a promise of future exoneration paradoxically makes it easier to confess right. corey we're going to do some tests and take blood samples from a lot of different people. i just want you know that if we do that we will probably get an order to take a sample from you. and then we'll compare it to tests. because you're in a position now where you know that there's going to be a match. that you'd be better off if you tell us about it now stairs instead of saying something that's not true or it's. one of the things i think they made you say was that you cut her on the legs where did you how did you come up with that i don't know came from no i don't know who just made it up i don't know i came from no i don't know. like why does someone do that right
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that's what everybody wants to know and they're liable to happen to you that well had to do was play well as it was played with because i think most people would like to think i would like to think to myself like i would never do that but did you ever say to yourself damn why did i tell these lives why do i tell these lies and put my son been in every region that exists in my really did not exist as i would just heard i just felt going to there probably exists in my world which is just for the hurt that i've said something i've formed with the mother who would put the most of them by it was a it was a room but just to go home or yes my way nor me. that was were it was will be true or it was world hardware at all. so was his shop or were.
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and turkey have pointed the finger at high ranking saudi officials. i think what we've heard from the international community is a clear call for an independent international inquiry into the murder murder of america show we understand that there has been a process playing out within saudi arabia but it's equally clear that there are many unanswered questions including who ultimately was responsible for the death who who ordered it how high up it went the political chief of the taliban has hailed the talks between the group in the united states. the baradar has spoken for the first time since the talks ended on tuesday al-jazeera is a pain these it's crucifixions of the talks that took place in the cattery capital . since the taliban will uphold the draft agreement that was reached during those negotiations. prosecutors in northern ireland have charged a former british soldier over the nine hundred seventy two bloody sunday killings
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fourteen people died when soldiers fired into a crowd of demonstrators eighteen other suspects including sixteen former soldiers and two alleged official ira members were not charged as the evidence available was deemed insufficient. algeria's new prime minister has been addressing the public for the first time since he was appointed the recently promoted new redeem bed to essent he is forming a government of technocrats that is open to all he added that the government's mandate will not exceed a year. more than one hundred schools have been closed in malaysia because of toxic fumes around forty tons of chemical waste was dumped in a river in the southern region of paso good done last week since then more than five hundred people have reported dizziness nausea and shortness of breath. all right up today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera i'll
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be back in about thirty minutes or so with more news but coming up next it's witness. right you know. i bet what happens here is she says he knocks her out on the kitchen floor and they're like man doesn't work doesn't work renee not good enough didn't didn't he do in the living room look at this photo look at what happens here oh yeah. it certainly doesn't fit with renee's no confession no i want to see a real place where. i think you are that's
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a wishful thinking michael i don't think there is a real police report i mean. i just don't. maybe they sort of knew they were names confession was not so good or not true and so they didn't really want kareem because they didn't really believe that he was there. that or that it happened like that and so if they get him in there and then they could end up with nobody. back in the day i believe that amherst was you know in their ranking safest place in america lived oh really so their image was getting tarnished you know so became very little right. when taking on a case like renee is the danger is always the case evidence or other crime scene evidence has not been preserved. if there's no crime scene evidence or case
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evidence. then there's nothing to d.n.a. test and if there's no d.n.a. to test it's extremely hard to prove that your client is innocent. that's really. the rain. in rene's case it was a very bloody crime scene the murder weapon was never found but there was a purse that had a bloody fingerprint in it and there was a drawer in the bedroom with a bloody fingerprint on it they d.n.a. tested some things but not those and the only d.n.a. found at the crime scene was the victims. from the neighbors and you know. i think out of forty one pieces. evidence they tested seven. for d.n.a. and so you know they're in trouble right at trial because you can't get convicted
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on your own confession alone so they go and they try to round up jailhouse snitches but only one worked. so it was her confession and a jailhouse snitch which is so common in false confession cases and you have the confession and then the extra evidence because there's no physical evidence the corroboration to the confession is a snitch. i . remember the woman her name a. long time ago. so i'm trying to get her out of prison because i don't believe that she did what she was accused of i need to talk with her how they were in bed for together makes. that. call are all playing kongsi aren't i hope so please
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please picketers are names due in twenty five to life for something she didn't do and we really are are hitting a lot of of dead ends and raquel's a huge going to be a huge helped us and i'm very much thank you charlie. i know by if they can i don't have nobody to go ok to. you. ok. ok. do you mind if i said there. is only a little bit of good that's ok you know where. i don't have a street for you because your body will feel fine no one. we're trying we're trying . do you remember interacting with any of the police officers back then this is.
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as julie was named was very if some of. my impression looking back that thank you all here she's guilty while she was guilty and he go make sure remarried who sometimes it was a bloody crime so now we know i was my spirit even d.n.a. so these are all somebody else maybe being right how. it was one of the things that's one of the things that we hope to be able to do is retest the d.n.a. there's knowledge she has no chance some cases we get and we look at them and we even if we believe the person is innocent we can say well i mean there's just for a variety of reasons nothing we can do there's something we can do here but not a lot of people get exonerated. hello. and yeah it's just work out.
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i just want to talk to you because i'm helping renee trying to get her out can we come by what do i have to just talk to me right ok thank you so much. we need to ask the most and the most important thing to so how she was to her what her interactions with the police were. i would think that with young right with andrea you know an ally for me every day and he didn't have a car with a ok good for her promise you anything like where you going to get out to let me out so that we're with you right right i want to get out and so you actually did get out and thank you we really appreciate it. ok so that's good that's helpful.
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at least three years on one. will render one toy i was arrested in the year two thousand and accused a murderer of
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a young schoolteacher in denver he's fourteen years old friends when this happened and he is tiny like maybe one hundred ten pounds. he killed in. the overlap between meltzer and lorenzo is a mountain they tell him there's these videotapes that show him abusing children which there aren't in lorenzo's they actually go as far as to have him take his shoes off and they do this whole charade where this very angry cop comes back in with the shoe and says well i'm a shoe print expert and your shoe matches the print at the crime scene was untrue.
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i'm. sure. in the united states police are permitted to lie about it. and tell you right out. think long and fast. that is a shocking discovery to most people most western countries don't permit it the u.s. supreme court permits it so consequently you have two detectives making it seem as if we have independent evidence they sometimes will get very specific about what that evidence is telling us that you are involved in something they've already started that is shaping process and the mother already is believing it still others say go for it if you they're not ready
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to say vote for it isn't it is it. rather that it brings you back here to show me that i mean that or the same breath that you get out you may mistake so he just introduced the word mistake he's about to develop this theme that enables lorenzo to admit some degree of involvement while minimizing his own role it's part of a package of techniques that in which you communicate to his suspect that i think you're a good person i understand what you've been through i sympathize with what you've been through often you hear normalising statements like you know water if i were in your situation i would have done the same thing and all by the way i don't think you intended to do this i think it was an accident or maybe your friends put you up to it or maybe you were provoked there you need to kill that one resident. i don't think you're going to have a gun i didn't want to jack the car into one that did the
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communication moves in one direction it is designed to leave the person the suspect would think that the police don't think this is such a big deal right now and therefore i'll be treated with leniency ok so one of my choices either i can be the accomplice who refuses to speak or i can admit to what they want me to admit to given all of the minimisation that they've given me and enjoy the benefit of that with their i'm going to go. you. know how do you presume they're going to do that they look at how much they have communicated already he now knows so much about this crime that whether he was there or had anything to do with it or not he now knows enough about it to give you a description. and renzo why were you there. while you're at sleaze house so there's no. reason to use is no luck to keep
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your name here first nick jr who kicked you in the head of course the building a story for him to tell. or is it you don't read ridge those shoes wrote part of the dre shoes. around so was it your in. your job is just right around he's now being set up so that when he's ready to give a statement he knows exactly what that statement should convey that he knows the gate he was kicked in the head shoe dragging her through the blood you know he's got it all so later a judge on the jury is going to watch the final confession and they're going to be so impressed and unable to look past that because they keep on asking themselves what happened you know those things if he was in there right. stare me down. you need that up i just stand there watch your prior five minutes you wait
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that tough you know. you all know you're not going home tonight i can guarantee that you are from and they do not put you in juvenile hall or murder which will be boys you know you read tomorrow you talk now or say goodbye to your mom it's a pretty clear and your cousin and your sister and your girlfriend and your life you read it so you won't get by. is you ready. room. what can an innocent person do next solve the situation anything i guess you could hold out right for ever just hold out. doesn't everybody have
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a breaking point so why must. he was in prison for fourteen years so he got out a twenty eight he was in solitary confinement for four years because when he goes into grown up prison he's fourteen and he can't be in with the general population so he goes to solitary confinement for four years for fourteen to eighteen lorenzo was exonerated and we have a civil rights too pending for him and the. opposition are you know they're they're moving to have the case dismissed based on qualified immunity for the police. so we talked about how out of these four cases you know corey and melt and lorenzo have all been exonerated by rene you know her case remains active and she's been in
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prison now for twenty years her son grew up without a mom she you know he has she's grandkids now that she's never met other than on a phone through glass. she said to heart attacks while she's been in prison and is probably not getting the right medical treatment for that you know we're just hoping that you know time could be on our side and we can get her out sooner rather than later but i mean she is a a life that's. wasted. the twenty years since monks i mean i'm not doing the time it's my mom she wants to toss a ball. or fortunate live coals on their. side of ours just have to patiently wait you know. and i don't resign or stand how you could live with that
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for so on a car that feels. just know she's in there. this is some fair book as they all know you just go with the cars of the law of the sun for you know right. now just try to make a better word from mark for much over the ledge short of it all have to suffer and endure with our own drop of notice come alive almost from the door for us which with the former right with it's hard to get out of those trends. you should be proud of yourself i'm sure she's proud of you. and all of them of the stud so many of the states to everybody does. i hope you reunite in person.
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i hope that we can make that happen for you. he is. thank you. harry. parker hi this is jane fisher mary-alice an attorney for renee lynch we will call. run a lynch. then on on. morning good morning how are you. going. how is your heart. medication here are there are tracking. you all or
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part. of the ask. dr gregory. or. i know all of us have time to play some together ok i understand it's so difficult and i know that it's taking a lot of time but we don't want to mess it up rene we're going to get one shot at this. so just hang in there. i promise you there will be an hour and i hope it's a good one but there won't be any and.
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a ta devil who met. the dude you're going to give me some of them. does he in any way blame himself for i think so control ending and confessed i think they all do that but my own observations from talking to wrongfully convicted people is. those who are wrongfully convicted by confession are not doing as well the stigma they attach to themselves they feel weak and idle stupid they don't understand what happened how to done that to themselves and even when the convictions overturned if the reason they were convicted was a confession as opposed to something else the stigma of that tach to the state even after they were exonerated right people are not quite one hundred percent sure
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right yet the confession is so powerful than even ever it's supposed to evaporate. so corey today is he's living well right he got a huge settlement but it doesn't take away those demons in his head you know he's he was in from sixteen to almost thirty so what are you now when you come out i he is never going to have the mental peace and rest that you know you and i can probably accomplish sometimes but he has lost his whole family there's no relationship with them really. and that's something that they then why p.b. in the city in the prosecution took away from him right that money can't replace.
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when we come back to society you don't you don't know when to do it in charity. you don't know what to do or with a bit of a morning. star over here. starchy journo lingo whatever journey may be. if you're going i was told to stand in the hose you know from under. bear fruit. we're. restorable false confessions not just a story that gets at the question of why in god's name did an innocent person confess to a crime he or she didn't commit it's a second story in the second story line is how come the prosecutor the judge the jury the appeals court all missed it. and there is now ample research actual cases laboratory studies field studies and in one hundred plus years of basic psychology
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tells us when you lie the people about evidence when you lie to people about reality you can change their perceptions can change their memories you can change just about every aspect of their cognitive function everybody is human but it's mortal everybody is for it and. when the. human is case we've now gather all the information we could possibly find and we're ready to file motions in court but this is only the first step in a long long journey. as last decades of her life for something she didn't do that she deserves to spend every minute of the rest of it with her family. who is in rome always hear every day the lord. is my only. son. in the love life.
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the heaviest showers are moving north through the continent south america now they're still in brazil they're more or less off the northeast and shoulder as the heaviest but the more persistent line is still this one that comes up from rio go through northern paragraphs up towards eventually peru and ecuador that's going to carry on dropping occasionally heavy rain but more persistent running these heavy showers a keep moving north with the song that they haven't yet left a constant i have to say and most i think of the caribbean the gulf of mexico as quiet weather at the moment so i'm going to leave straight to north america where we saw a very deep rapid developed a bomb develop into this site coming system which causes a whole with the states more or less it has produced a huge amount of snow from wyoming across the dakotas is now going into woods canada and this line of green here produce some pretty nasty well wind damage all
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the way from texas was this is how we find ourselves on thirty's still snowing in the plains states up through minnesota across in into canada west of all that so quiet and down that san francisco is enjoying the sunshine at sixteen so even warmed up in nebraska but this is definitely a cold talk of windsor winter is still not over whilst the snow by temporarily have gone the temperature drops across the great lakes once again. the weather sponsored kantaras. some journeys are tougher than others. but this route is even tougher than the current the truck there it's dangerous. algeria the world follows a moroccan truck driver in danger of their life. just to be committing if you drive they might break your liver or even kill you because of the world is known for. the magazine.
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outside that restaurants and chicks fare and then we're able to bring a different perspective to global events. when you peel away the list to covert military in the financial darkening you see the people in those words and those policies are affecting see the emotion on their faces the situation they're living in that's when all viewers can identify with the story. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this hour. live from doha i'm nancy dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia says those responsible for the murder of
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journalists are mounting shoji have been brought to justice but gives no details. a day before planned protests and algerian new prime minister promise is a government of technocrats open to all. al-jazeera obtains exclusive pictures from the high level meeting between the taliban and the u.s. taliban's co-founder says he's hopeful the tolls would help resolve the conflict. and arpita summit with all your schools just days before the first grand prix of the season formula one's race director charlie whiting dies suddenly in melbourne. jarius new prime minister has been addressing the public for the first time since taking office the recently promoted noted in bed we said he's forming a government of technocrats which is open to all he added that the government's
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mandate will not exceed one year the former interior minister was appointed prime minister this week after mass protests forced the ailing president abdelaziz bouteflika to abandon his bid for a fifth term. mr miller. the doors will be open to everyone we are listening to everybody we are talking to everyone and we will work with everyone without any preconditions but i've been speaking to a mina. is a protest the it took us citizen movement she is not impressed she says what's going on in algeria is a fake transition of power. well do we me someone who is a con of the regime who is there just to give the illusion of change with the departure of the former prime minister would we make of a regime that has maintained itself through ruse repression and violence for fifty
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years and who just violated the constitution by the way for the past twenty years the beautifully clan has made so many promises of reform of change and it is completely non credible not credible to give this huge important task of change and democratic transition to the same people who have put us in a situation in the situation that we find ourselves in today the well in the street and something is the departure and it changed it clean cut we need a second algerian republic we need a different constitution with a constitutional committee that is legitimate that we trust we the people trust we are reminded every time they take a microphone and speak to us citizen we are reminded that we cannot trust them with change because they are in mabel of change they have been negotiating time one year
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before even the announcement of the delay they wanted one year one year to readapt readjust in maintain and retain the reins of power they are trying to reinvent themselves they went from this tragedy of imposing themselves to wanted to lead if a transition. but the political chief of the taliban has hailed the outcome of talks between them and the united states dog on about adults frank about the first time since the talks. ended on tuesday he says the taliban will up whole of the draft agreement. during the talks the two sides made progress on foreign troop withdrawal and not allowing taliban fighters to operate inside afghanistan their next round of talks is due to resume later this month well jazeera is diplomatic editor james bays has more. the pictures obtained by al-jazeera show the face to
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face meetings taking place between the u.s. side and the taliban during talks that took place here over sixteen days a u.s. delegation including military officers led by. a veteran u.s. diplomat formerly the u.s. ambassador in kabul an american of afghan descent meeting with senior figures from the taliban the taliban themselves say the talks went well they and the u.s. both say they've reached draft agreement on two areas one the withdrawal of the majority of u.s. forces and secondly a deal where the taliban would no longer assist other groups including al qaeda and use afghan soil for any attacks on other nations. brother who is the senior taliban commander who's attended these talks as put out
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a statement an audiotape went on twitter saying there has been good progress it's interesting that my brother was at one point under the house arrest of pakistan pakistan is investing in these talks because it's had bad relations with the trumpet ministration and it wants to rehabilitate itself that leaves one other key an important player and that's the government in kabul officially they welcome this process i can tell you privately some key officials in the government in kabul a very wary. the authorities in nigeria have cooled off the recovery efforts of people trapped in a collapsed building in lagos a three story block came down on wednesday killing at least sixteen people the building had apartments as well as a primary school on the top floor armitage us has more from us. the heavy duty machinery are quiet now because as rescue workers sorry we have reached the limits
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of this operation on reaching the ground floor they said the rescue operation has ended now questions are being asked as to how many people are still unaccounted for emergency workers and material out of the location because they believe the operations are over but the locals insist that operations must continue because there are many people still they believe still trapped under the rubble so they want to continue our bomb from the looks of things it's over in terms of rescue operations however the residents and the crowd here have refuse to walk away. saudi arabia says those responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi have been brought to justice the head of saudi's human rights commission made the statement at a un human rights conference in geneva without giving any details turkey though is insisting that saudi arabia names those who have been prosecuted jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october last year
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and his body dismembered investigations by the u.n. and turkey have pointed the finger at high ranking saudi officials saudi arabia has rejected what it calls attempts to internationalize the investigation into the murder of. well i think what we've heard from the international community is a clear call for an independent international inquiry into the murder murder of jamal khashoggi we understand that there has been a process playing out within saudi arabia but it's equally clear that there are many unanswered questions including who ultimately was responsible for clarity's death who ordered it how high up it went we know that the special. execution. has launched an independent inquiry of her own into the into the murder of shoji and we call upon saudi arabia as a member of the human rights council to cooperate with the council's own mechanisms including the special operator and ensure that they are willing to allow her access
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and to give her whatever information she needs in order to conduct that independent inquiry what we've seen from the outset since this whole whole saga became became public has a series of obfuscations and denials by saudi arabia some cases where there are accounts simply do not fit the facts and so it's very difficult to have confidence in there and the narrative and that's why we're calling for an international independent inquiry so that the international community can and can rightfully esten the facts for itself. we're going to come in this news hour including. the hour is to the right three hundred twenty was. the last two hundred seventy eight. the u.k. parliament the rules out a new deal breck said that doesn't mean it won't happen anyway. why many in colombia think the president is trying to undermine the peace process with the far
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rebels. coming up in sports peter will be here with the best of the tennis action as roger federer wraps up another win in caliph. after days of pressure from airlines and governments around the world boeing has grounded its seven three seven max jets the plane is the company's best seller u.s. aviation regulators now believe that crashes in ethiopia on sunday and in india these last october displayed worrying similarities rob reynolds reports from boeing's factory in seattle. globally grounded the entire fleet of all three hundred seventy one boeing seven three seven max airplanes are being taken out of service following two unexplained crashes less than six months
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apart the u.s. was the last country to ground the planes president donald trump made the announcement and we. had a very detailed. group of people working on the seven thirty seven eight and the seven thirty seven nine newer clients. were going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the seven thirty seven max eight and the seven thirty seven max nine any plane currently in the air will go to extend the nation and thereafter be grounded until further notice the u.s. carriers american airlines and southwest have dozens of seven three seven maxes in their fleets trucks announcement came hours after canada's transport minister said his country's airlines would no longer be flying the aircraft after an analysis of satellite data found similarities between the lion air crash in indonesia in
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october and the ethiopian airlines disaster a total of three hundred forty six people were killed in the two crashes as a result of new data that we received this morning and i had the chance to analyze in on the advice of my experts and as a precautionary measure i'm issuing a safety notice boeing issued a statement saying that out of an abundance of caution it had recommended to the us federal aviation administration the temporary suspension of operations of the entire global fleet of seven three seven max aircraft the flight data recorders retrieved from the ethiopian airlines crash will be processed in france that's an unusual departure from the normal protocol in an accident involving a plane that was built in the united states ethiopian a vigil reportedly declined to him.

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