tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera March 17, 2019 12:00am-1:01am +03
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this is zero. and you honored taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up as new zealand mourns the death toll from friday's mosque shootings rises to fifty as another body is found. a tropical cyclone leaves dozens dead and missing and hundreds of thousands cut off in mozambique and zimbabwe. thousands marched through the streets of paris demanding action on climate change elsewhere yellow best protesters clashed with police. it was
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a more peaceful scene in madrid where catalans rallied against the trial of twelve pro independence leaders. on porus for the sports hours monk just a city suffer a scale against second division swanzy let's avoid a knockout blow that's coming up later this news. usually and is a country united in grief as it struggles to come to terms with friday's mass shooting at two mosques in the last half hour the new zealand police commissioner has announced the death toll in the cross shootings is now risen to fifty after a body was found during a wider search of the targeted mosques earlier on saturday the main suspect appeared in court as wayne hay reports from christchurch. dressed in white prison
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clothes australian born brinton terence stood before a judge charged with murder. terence is the main suspect of an attack at this mosque in christchurch a survivor filmed the scene inside moments after the gunman had opened fire the gunman live streamed his attack on facebook as he indiscriminately opened fire on more than two hundred muslim worshipers shortly after the shooting there was a similar attack at lynnwood mosque about ten minutes away new zealand's prime minister said the suspects arrested weren't on security watch lists arriving with a bomb disposal robot the police have started their investigation indeed need in a small city to the south of christchurch where terence lived the area was evacuated as a precaution earlier they had discovered two bombs in the main suspects. the unprecedented violence has prompted the government to commit to changing gun control laws my understanding is he holds how the category i gun license and again
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i prefaced my advice currently is that he under the gun license was able to legally acquired the gun said he held they will give you an indication of why we need to change our gun laws the national threat level has been raised from low to high as police politicians and the public come to terms with the worst and most shocking attack they've ever experienced. as the forensic work is completed the size of the police cordon around el nor mosque is reduced those who came here to pay their respects to the dead made sure that hundreds of floral tributes would not be left behind ultimately people want to be able to mourn right at the gates of the elmore mosque which is still around two hundred meters beyond the cordon the police are still working they're still trying to piece together exactly what happened and more broadly how this was possible here in new zealand when hey al jazeera christchurch
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. is ian's police commissioner mike bush gave a news conference a short time ago. the new zealand police and other emergency services remain at salute leaver joint to keep all of new zealanders and everyone who lives here all visits here safe from harm. in terms of the security we have around mosques around new zealand that will continue until we believe there is no through it. and you tell us is live for us in christ church so that the main headline there that the death toll has gone up to fifty from commissioner. that's right well the fiftieth body because the death toll was already at forty nine was somebody found inside one of the mosques as they were clearing all the bodies out and all the bodies are now out of both the mosques that were types they found on expects the extra bodies so that is why the death toll is now fifteen he
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also said fifty people remain in hospital thirty six of those people in hospital here in christ church and a number still have very serious injuries and still in critical condition we talked to about the places belief now that this man the alleged gunman brinton tyrants was acting alone to be lots of rumors swirling around this city over the last forty eight hours that there were two or maybe even more gunman but one person attacked one mosque and one another what we now know from the places that definitely is not the case friends and tyrant if he is proven to be guilty of them out of the place say he carried out these attacks he carried out all of them alone there were other people arrested at the same time or the immediate aftermath of the attacks three people one was arrested on saturday the other two sorry one was released on saturday the other two a man that a woman the woman has been released without charge she the police say it does didn't have anything to do with prince in town as far as they're aware after all
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the other man was found to be carrying a firearm at one of the police cordons and he's been charge of the firearm offense but the police do not believe that he was associated or knew anything about these attacks either so they believe at this stage the prince in turn was acting alone and the place said that mosques had been reopened they were closed for a period after the attacks nationwide that is they are now under heavy protection will be armed officers outside every mosque in the country but he said that the most now open. and he said that the place has now compiled a definitive list of all those who died in these attacks and that family members are therefore being told definitively whether their loved one is among the dead. and to andrew he had apparently modified one of the at least one of the firearms that he was using so big questions about that the prime minister's also raised about whether gun control laws are sufficient.
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well you see the prime minister just in iraq has been absolutely unequivocal that the laws are not sufficient that they need to be changed and changed urgently and she said definitively she repeats that many times on saturday those laws will change they are lax a gun laws here than for example in neighboring australia people to get hold of guns more easily here and given that the gunman was an australian he was australian born from a town in new south wales he carried out his attack here could he have carried out something similar in australia that's the sort of question that people will be asking or was it that much easier for him to get the guns here in new zealand and that is why he came here to carry out this atrocious time it's sunday morning now in new zealand because the jewel behind me is just beginning its end all be asleep the service in there even though that is a christian church it will be dominated by thoughts of what happened to others here in christ church at their worship service on friday this is
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a community are being told again and again by people coming to the police cordons and indeed of people raja church here that wants to show they are as one against this kind of horror and that they are all rallying around whatever their faith now there's also many many graves being dug they were being dug all day saturday they're being dug on sunday as well and we are expecting the first victims of these attacks to be buried probably on sunday and most imply the dead are buried quickly as possible really and it is likely that a number immediately buried among the sunday if not the majority of the people buried on something and the times thank you very much indeed. has more now from the australian city of grafton where the suspect brendan tarrant grew up. and this is a community in shock tarrant spent the first twenty years of his life in grafton it's a sleepy regional town in country new south wales and we spoke with the arch dane
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of the anglican church here and he said that. the community can't believe that one of their own could be involved in an attack like this distressed parishioners have been calling in all day on saturday asking what it is they can do about the attack the we also spoke with the deputy mayor and he says that this community is one that has fallen on hard times recently economically with the loss of industry and now has to contend with the fact that is going to be associated with the attack in christ church on sunday there will be a number of church services where the community will come together will be a lot of soul searching but also a show of support for the victims in christ church from is just and has received messages of condolence from many world leaders including u.s. president all trump i spoke with donald trump this morning he sought to
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costa rica he very much wish for his condolences to be passed on to new zealand he asked for support the united states could spread wide my message was sympathy and love for all muslim communities donald trump meanwhile has played down the threat posed by white nationalists i think it's a small group of people that have very very serious problems i guess if you look at what happened in new zealand perhaps that's a case i don't know enough about it yet they're just learning about the person and the people involved but it's certainly a terrible thing terrible thing. speak to dr mahmoud mohamedou is a professor of international history at the graduate institute in geneva thanks very much indeed for being with us just to go back to the suspected attacker is it surprising that he wasn't on the radar of the security services all police given that he apparently had a history of of posting. right wing material online while
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that is in the sense that this is the rising tide in recent years in fact over the past ten years the most dominant form of terrorism has been in the country like the united states but also in europe and other places has been right wing terrorism and so the fact that we have now downplaying as we just heard from president trump of this particular type of networks i think is highly problematic there is a rate of about seventy three percent in a country like the united states since two thousand and nine in terms of the attacks themselves so it is certainly not something that is isolated we also have seen patterns of attacks against places of worship. the most recent one being the synagogue in pittsburgh in the united states but we've also seen two cases of other mosques in including in canada as you might recall so this whole pattern of places of worship as well as the church of african-americans twenty fifteen twenty sixteen
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so we have a sense that this type of terrorism is should be on the radar and has been neglected and i think this is one of the main lessons of this recent attack where he was going to add it to using social media because he was able to live stream his attack and i just wonder if you could explain how. this this kind of. grouping there's a reason for the far right groupings are using social media and in particular the dark web tell us more about. sure this is one of the things that we have seen in recent years with the technology technological upgrade of these types of terrorists has been one of the dominant features we've seen it with a good ten fifteen years ago isis took it to another level so there's a sense of professionalization this particular type of attacks has been following that say more in fact there was one president of a terrorist that had live streamed on facebook a stabbing attack in france in june twenty sixth teen. and so there's one precedent
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there when it comes to white supremacists white power movement they have also a tradition of using message boards connecting through all manners of subterranean networks and the technology comes quite logically for them in the sense that they would like to disseminate their message of hate the message of racism and in that sense this the fact that this was streamed in this way was very much a part of the presentation of the operation so that the message could be disseminated and unfortunately some media in the u.k. did for too long for a few minutes of for a while certainly that was posted as well as the manifesto and i think that was something that was aimed for by the terrorists and i think this is also something that should be looked into and on the phone not to shim insurgent jetted the home secretary here in the u.k. tweeted to google facebook and twitter you really to do more to stop violent extremism being promoted on your platforms takes many ship enough is enough but
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beyond telling the certainly companies to to do more what do you think there are and it's be something else that happens because quite often we see that these things stay online for quite a number of hours. of course they do and i think we have to really sort of have wake up call with what just happened yesterday in new zealand there's two large lessons we have to learn the first one is that white supremacist right wing terrorism can no longer be neglected it has to be to be dealt with we have focused excessively on the radical islamist type of terrorism over the past couple of years and as i said the numbers show otherwise so this should be front and center on the agenda of policymakers should be tackled it shouldn't be set aside as mr trump is doing and it certainly should not be mr trump who is mentioned in the manifesto by the terrorist which is highly problematic in that sense the second one is also there's a lesson there for the media and for intellectuals that generally to address the
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language that we used to see that there are ways that there's less and less of this racialization of this focusing excessively on the type of terrorism and looking at this type of terrorism which has been manifesting itself far more lethally than we have been paying attention to talk to the what i do thank you very much and if your thoughts thank you. i mean marches vigils and rallies across the world to show solidarity and the shootings in christ church and to denounce hatred and racism and the. gathering to say no to racism and show solidarity with muslims everywhere. this march in london brought together disparate groups all expressing outrage at a gunman's attack on two mosques in new zealand everybody. many speakers drew a direct link between the statements of some politicians in europe and elsewhere
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and such attacks. you know. i don't think. that's the kind of thing i think people. some protesters say the current climate the rise of the far right in the one nine hundred thirty s. . that was a long time ago still. it is. oh. in istanbul a crowd also gathered for a funeral cries for the new zealand victims. and in northern india students have taken part in a candlelight vigil nine men of indian origin were reported to be missing after the christchurch attack. around the world they have been calls for governments to take
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the issue of islamophobia more seriously as well as other forms of hatred there are lots of different groups represented on this demonstration but there's a general feeling that hate crimes are on the rise and that more needs to be done to stop attacks like those in new zealand from happening elsewhere. al-jazeera london. come upon our news hour from london forensic teams start examining bodies from mass graves around the iraqi town of where our soul killed more than three thousand years edis. rival demonstrations been taking place in the venezuelan capital caracas as business has slowly reopened after a nationwide electricity blackout. and sport lewis hamilton equals michael schumacher has record of his eight gold position at the australian property.
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dozens of people are dead and missing in mozambique and zimbabwe after they were hit by a tropical cyclone zimbabwe's government says at least twenty four people have died in the east of the country rescue efforts are being hampered by the damage to roads and bridges psycho made landfall in mozambique on thursday killing at least twenty one people and cutting off more than half a million people in the port city of bear a heavy rains earlier in the week had already claimed many lives in mozambique and neighboring malawi. not affair but people i saw a woman being hit by debris it's not safe for people walking here the situation is very chaotic. and they see a movie they said was that a majority of houses a ninety five percent but collapsed was precariously built her poor materials. welcome webb has more from mozambique. since the cyclamen mozambique's coast where we are green torrential rains and strong winds rivers of swollen power lines have blown down cyclons of coleman in the indian ocean at this time of year but few of
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them hit land and this one has been particularly destructive because it came ashore at mozambique fourth largest city and we're still three hundred kilometers from there we're trying to reach that i don't know you can see the kind of damage cyclons done even here a whole bridge completely washed away because of this wall of the river because the enormous amount of rainfall just within the last day or two so many trucks tried to possy it to try and reach people in bay where they've had to turn around and take another route that in the city of communications are off the airport is closed the power is down so it's very hard to find out what the extent of the damage there actually is with no communications of coolest and transport routes a lot it's very difficult to find out what's going on for the people who are there to get the help that they need right cross africa head of emergency operation james joins us now from. thanks very much for being with us so give us an indication of
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what you've managed to establish in times of the scale of this. or what we know is when it hit hit hard maximum sustained winds of one hundred seventy one hundred ninety kilometers an hour a major storm surge that fortunately didn't impact at the height of the high time but was close to it so we know this is about a worst case scenario and we have a major impact on the affected area as your correspondents say so we do not know the exact scale we don't know what the casualties are whether or not there are any casualties injured or displaced people but we do know that this is quite significant and we need to be ready as the humanitarian community to tackle it quickly and effectively so what kind of measures if you go in place what kind of. place. well we've mobilized two hundred seventeen volunteers from the national red cross that's the mozambique red cross here before the cyclon hit they were doing early warning with the affected communities or the potentially affected communities and they were making sure to pre-position stocks we have topol and blankets first
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aid kits the rest were now pre-positioned and ready to go and we've got our teams working in para the problem is we're having a real hard time connecting with them satellite phone uplinks river limited were hard to get any sort of what's up connections it's really hard to get an idea of what's going on but we're trusting that the red cross the mozambique red cross is doing what they do all the time when there's a disaster in this community and that is respond first and fast give us an idea of how difficult it is for mozambique in general to respond to a disaster like this i mean what kind of. level of. kind of readiness to have these situations. well i've been really really impressed with the level of readiness both the government and the the national red cross have there are contingency plans in place and early action protocols for cyclons and this is help to design the emergency response that we have done so far the international federation of the red
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cross has released three hundred forty thousand swiss francs for the mozambique red cross to realize some of these contingency plans and that's where rapid response is coming from as your correspondent said this is a regular occurrence but it doesn't hit this hard usually so this is a good exercise to make sure that those contingency plans that we've got in place are effective and active and put in place immediately tell me what the impact will be if it continues to rain have any particular. been affected as well. well this is one of the concerns is of course if it continues to rain in which it has been raining for a few days now what will happen when the zombies in river basin continues to flood what we know is that this is been the second time in one week where this country has been impacted by a major storm system one million people have been affected in malawi in mozambique because of the storm system that created cyclonic die and that resulted in seventeen thousand people displaced alone in mozambique and two hundred some deaths
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across both countries so when we put that in context of what might happen and what we expect to happen it would cycle on the diet this will be a considerable considerable disaster jamie thank you very much indeed for joining us there from the red cross thank you thank you. initiations forensic teams have begun examining body bodies from mass graves around the northern iraqi town of sin job home to the minority group it's estimated that more than three thousand years indy's were killed by isis fighters when they took control of the area five years ago and the u.n. says their treatment at the hands of arsal amounts to genocide it or a gateway reports. forensic scientist search for evidence of human remains in code village on the outskirts of sin john as the relatives of the missing presumed dead watched them were it's thought i saw fighters killed thousands of easy men women
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and children in sin jar over just a few days in august twenty forty targeting them for their religious beliefs many may have been shot beheaded or burned alive. today the iraqi government and the un are opening the first mass grave it contains the remains of almost fifty bodies all men from the village this is the first of seventy three mass graves to be examined in this area the u.n. says i thought campaign of murder and sexual assault against these e.d.'s amounts to genocide. this mass grave that we've seen today contains the remains of people a community that face the most heinous kind of criminality by i saw. nobel peace laureate nadia murat is from she was among thousands of women and girls subjected to a systematic campaign of rape and sexual violence by isis fighters she says those who were kidnapped and taken to syria need help to return home. so we
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demand the international community and the iraqi government form a committee that will search for years the women and children in syria with the end of eisel there the fate of thousands of years e.d.'s is still uncertain. many's the remaining camps for internally displaced people in northern iraq for those who have returned home reminders of the atrocities committed against their community all around the turia gates and be al jazeera. afghan special forces have been deployed to support hundreds of soldiers under siege by taliban fighters in the northwest of the country around seven hundred troops are surrounded in bugis province on the border with turkey minister on it took refuge after the taliban overran a dozen checkpoints on friday afghan forces been battling the taliban in the region for nearly two weeks thirty soldiers have been killed and as many as forty have been taken hostage french air investigators have downloaded information from the
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cockpit voice recorder on board the jet that crashed last week and the data has now been transferred to ethiopian investigators meanwhile ethiopian airlines said d.n.a. testing of the remains of passengers in last sunday's crash may take up to six months earlier this week aviation authorities worldwide grounded boeing's seven three seven max aircraft fifty nicaraguan prisoners have been released from jail after taking part in antigovernment protests relatives gathered outside of the lexington security prison to welcome the detainees home where they will remain under house arrest more than seven hundred people have been detained a three hundred twenty five killed since april last year and a government crackdown on opposition to president daniel ortega has rule their position alliance has demanded early elections rival demonstrations have taken place in the venezuelan capital caracas on one side supporters of nicolas maduro
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who say they've overcome repeated attempts by the united states to overthrow the embattled president on the other those who support opposition leader one turbo was that the government rally in caracas. to thousands and thousands of people i'm gathered here in that sense we're off that i've got some bonding the government told to take to the streets this saturday and sign to the united states and many countries around the world's most challenging environment that's not a lot of people here are saying hands off venice wait out it's been a difficult past week for the government of me but i suppose i have to come back to our household to have to both the country and the dark hospital where hold of an interest city for people who are struggling starving for basic items but also water and it's very very common to see people trying to get water here on the streets of that outgun and support around the country the government of cuba how little is saying that the opposition in the united states right behind our boat caught on the letter grade box it has shown no real proof that something like this has happened
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let's see what some of the people here have to say. that we already had. we are celebrating that we got power back they want to take electricity away from us and our president reestablished it we are taking firm steps in this revolutionary process in defense of our country and the legacy of our commander hugo chavez that meant that i will still have to file i am happy the revolution is winning despite the imperial attacks the electric boycott the blackout these days show our victory venezuela is right now in the middle of an enormous economic crisis people are struggling with hyperinflation struggling to make ends meet with shortages of food shortages of babies in time on other things most analysts say that anybody will be very headstrong to talk about twenty per cent but most of the people we have this poll going to demonstrations are saying that because i'm a little bit the only president they want still to come the albanian police used
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tear gas and water cannon to stop protesters trying to break into parliament ahead of a third vote on trees amazing. which rule do you approach breaks it much sets off from northeast england to london. and find out what happened on a thrilling final day six nations rugby championship pole will be here in the towns in sport. how i was there were plenty of blustery showers a rolling in from the north atlantic pushing their way in the cross parts of the british isles down across the low countries into germany wet sam with the weather at times coming through here sunday was a somewhat dry a day with the showers never really safe ten celsius for london eleven degrees there in paris some cloud and rain streaming in what's the weather coming down into
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southern parts of france as well that of that whilst jury gets up to sixteen degrees celsius for getting up into the twenty's in bucharest as there is some warmth around down towards the southeast and cold athens also at around twenty degrees and warmest over bucharest as we go on three mondays fought and dry across many east and some lovely weather but remember that sixteen in zero eight we near eight degrees as we go on into monday a cool cool feeling lol the wind makes its way in across london in paris the monday so eleven degrees celsius cooling off in madrid as well to just sixteen degrees by monday fun and dry across a good part of north africa idea of sunshine in the focus twenty three celsius there for current and rising that dry but the continuing for many days to come meanwhile we got the showers now starting to show that had across central parts of africa with a fair bit of rain pushing up towards the gulf of guinea. rewind
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continues to care bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best of al-jazeera as documentaries the struggle continues book from baghdad to no use distance revisiting alfred's free press. and money they didn't talk with the public of what's happening in the aggressor side that they have been some changes over the years in a rewind on al-jazeera for. the. fool says for twenty five years off to independent. they must become. defenders of. preparing for the possibility of. documentary on.
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the top stories. just confirmed the death toll from friday's. church has risen to fifty fifty people injured. dozens of people are dead and missing in zimbabwe after being hit by a tropical. complicated to roads and bridges. and un forensic teams are starting to bodies from mass graves around the northern iraqi town of. it's estimated more than three thousand were killed. in the area five
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years ago. and most of the victims in new zealand were refugees or migrants from countries like somalia and afghanistan. nabil moved to new zealand in one nine hundred seventy nine to escape the soviet afghan war some of the survivors have told andrew thomas how they managed to escape the gunman at the two mosques. the flowers all the people came to lay them in tribute to the day it. was. among those gathered were survivors and their stories on one feed. her head started his and out here just. three or four minutes into. when he heard the shots. noises coming near so then i decided to. trade in jump of my wife tried to support here this
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different sister linda and when she tried to talk took it like that. so i want to come in you know on that and my wife it's enjoyed here and so i wanted to go to linda and linda is right one of my friend is from india no it was him run it was short one blood on his shoulder so i was holding him and then the gun gunmen were going through the window and shot him while he was on my lebanese shooting couple of drugs in the head he was. when he finished the book that he left of the done over the way. fridays attacks were targeted at migrants and muslims but their impact has been t.n.i. to all new zealanders in horror and sadness some echoed the prime minister's call for urgent action on guns i think we should ban all guns in new zone danny people
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today have guns is a place in the armed forces to receive be obeyed it does made of a thing in ghana or whether one thing. got the hanes on all guns or they should be obeying those who came to pay tribute saw the police working nearby they saw the hearses to arriving and leaving regularly collecting bodies from the al nor mosque this tribute has grown steadily over the course of saturday hundreds of people have been down here to stand in quiet contemplation there are of course very serious questions still to be answered but there's also grief and solidarity to express after thomas al-jazeera postures. tens of thousands of demonstrators of marched through the french capital paris calling for government action on climate change at least thirty six thousand people are estimated to have taken part in
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what's been called the march of the century the organizers say more than three hundred fifty thousand others marched in towns and cities across france. elsewhere in paris shops were looted and businesses torched as protesters clashed with riot police on the eighteenth weekend of yellow vest demonstrations police fired tear gas and used water cannon against hardline protesters gathered around the shores and use it some of them throwing stones at the police several fires were started in surrounding streets and a newsstand was burned to the ground it was the largest yellow vest protest for several weeks what started as a movement against fuel tax rises has developed into general anger at high living costs and the government of emanuel might call themselves. out of it my wife and i and all of this is here to show mccrum that we don't really believe in the national debates that your guys we don't believe it at all if you walked out on our part because you've done good as long as we don't get any results we will continue to
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protest for all that we ask for pay rises pensions purchasing power food waste everything and they must stop saying we have violent we are pacifists and nazi. it would be to give evidence in the liberal policies have brought us nothing at all france is a rich country and the wealth will be distributed to those who have less and less. i am part of the lower middle class and it's hard it's difficult for our children to they also suffer. the many similar scenes in albania where position supporters clashed with police who fired tear gas as they attempted to storm the parliament building thousands gathered outside the offices of prime minister eddie rama before marching on parliament. was at the demonstration in the capital tehran. when twenty thousand protesters tried to enter college and the government responded this is the democratic party's biggest and most violent protest since it forked out of parliament last month calling it
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a for so organized crime mushroom to albania after in one thousand nine hundred seventy uprising when people broke into army stores and took thousands of kalashnikov assault rifles these quickly ended up in the hands of criminals who took over the main drug smuggling routes into europe and it's that drug money that the country's ruling socialist party is accused of using to buy the last election the political process is now moving deeper into uncharted waters mr obama must step down and we believe that a transitory government with people that are not going to get organized crime and with backing from all political forces should fulfill a core mission to what. and the practice of old buying too on tied the hands of the judiciary sort of prosecution of politicians who have been caught in collusion with organized crime in the past elections starting with it and it is not only parliament that is paralyzed the country's constitutional court and
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supreme court opposed as a judicial shakedown out corrupt judges the big question for albania is whether it'll be allowed to open membership talks with the european union in june it cannot do so without a fully functioning judiciary the ruling socialists also face a test of their popularity that month in local elections they say the country's top courts will be fully functional by the democratic opposition says that is merely another ploy to buy time the government says it is the protesters who are acting illegally and that it has the law on its side these protests of your position is not against us they don't have anything against us they have everything against justice reform and the new justice institutions a new prosecutor against corruption is going to be created this is how cvs end up reach this protest but i know most albanians want to see the justice
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system working but it's the creation of a truly independent judiciary to go after all corrupt politicians that will be the biggest test of political courage here. things have been more peaceful in the spanish capital madrid despite a heavy police presence being deployed the tens of thousands of demonstrators from the catalonia region to travel to the protest at a protest against the trial of twelve pro independence leaders they say are political prisoners they were arrested and charged with rebellion for their part in organizing the illegal catalan independence referendum in october twenty seventeen they have a traitor was at the demonstration which went on into the evening. it's meaning an extraordinary show of strength by those supporting capital and the pope. any more of the feet here on the streets of madrid the city is not it's calm we've seen this before possibly not here it is an extraordinary event.
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twelve leaders who are on trial. charged. with the fund some of those charges carry twenty five years in prison now the demonstrators here say. mainly that self-determination might say right i don't know i think democracy is about taking decisions because happy now with so many people wanted a couple of votes in the streets madrid is of course a huge headache for the police are still grounded not because of the demonstration by the very careful to make sure no street nationalists or i do not see lightning roups try to disrupt the cd but essentially they wanted a. new independent. is the person that said
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everyone is hearing. when the european union ready to discuss an extension to the deadline for the united kingdom leaving a group of bricks its supporters are taking part in an ambitious demonstration and marching the four hundred kilometers south from the northern city of sunderland to the capital london arriving on the show even date of march twenty ninth paul brennan braved the wind and cold to catch them all the first like. the march for bricks it assembled in driving rain on the coastal path near some the land industrial city in england's north east which voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. . infusion tipped briefly into chaos as progress if it had nigel ferrars arrived surrounded by security and followed by pro e.u. demonstrators the elephant the marches believe the principle of grex it is in jeopardy and even prime minister teresa mayes breck's a deal falls short if you see what happened in parliament this week you may well
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not really believe i this is a part of it you know if they if politicians think they can look all over us we have a much bigger head of makeup simple as that. of the old guard corps girl. with a clean breaks and you know if that means going to that's what we very much like today i think the government just let everybody down whether it's a reminder or over breakfast here the government just haven't fulfilled their. their mondays when i'm here for my grandchildren helping to save secure and at breaks a leaving here at the dam because i think that the future will be found right. nigel farage typically is surrounded by cameras in that melee that the rest of the marches are strong right along this coastal car is a long way to go before they reach london but how many of them actually get that far remains to be seen. the march is being tailed by two billboards paid for
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by an anti bricks it campaign at the way station at c m a there was an angry confrontation with two peaceful pro e.u. campaigners because what you. really want to sit out of the know you have. the rich took the marches past john armstrong's herself in the village of horton in the chair a customer named lever who actually voted to remain as the world's most just things that we we are pretty incompetent we our representative stuart nor. what they do we. need to me is trying to help us to feel she's just searching but jan voted leave i'm bored again everybody's just tie into and it's a bit embarrassing really i think just to be fair think a lot of people just don't know what's going on. it's not clear whether the marches will arrive in london to see bricks it being delivered or being delayed but for now
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at least in this brics it heartland they are on shore ground brennan al jazeera sunderland. prosecutors in italy are investigating the death of a moroccan model who was a regular guest at former prime minister silvio berlusconi's in a tourist parties him on a friday you testified in various countries twenty twelve trial in which he was eventually acquitted of having sex with an underage prostitute during the trial but you said she feared for her safety or any investigations into possible witness tampering the thirty three year old died in hospital two weeks ago a month off to be admitted reportedly exhibiting symptoms of poison me. still ahead on this news hour more on the art revival seen in iraq in the post office or era. and in sports and a place in the semifinals is at stake in the football's oldest cup competitions all over him.
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democratically elected president ousted and held incommunicado since two thousand and thirteen events shrouded in secrecy so power change hands as the military seize control from its commander in chief for the first time al-jazeera reveals exclusively what happened behind closed doors directly from those who witnessed it first hand morsy the final hours. on al-jazeera. in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being. freedom of the culture going to be. men and women to the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story was you know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want
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to apologize for what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. and we're going to be more than a year since i saw was declared defeated in iraq but many people are still trying to get back to normal life in baghdad a revival of a prestigious oxford civil is inspiring a new generation whilst in the ruins of mosul classical musicians are hoping to turn the page on a dog chapter in their city's history that's our show tonight. in this square in western mosul there were once the sounds of gunfire and airstrikes
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screams and sobbing but on this day iraqi classical music echoes through the rubble. the building behind me was an execution site by eisel the side has its dark history that tells of the mosul catastrophe but it is now a platform to express peace through art and cultural events. in baghdad fashion designers photographers painters and sculptors are creating runways and gallery space to exhibit to an eager public. the l.-wop city art festival was long considered one of iraq's premier art showcases during the years of conflict from the iran iraq war to the u.s. invasion and the battle with eisel it became a casualty and closed now for the first time in nine years the government found enough funding to host it there's
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a kind of arts revival happening in baghdad but the ministry of culture says it doesn't have the money it needs to promote the arts community in iraq less than one percent of this year's budget was devoted to the ministry so artists and international organizations are collaborating to try to fill the gap the spanish embassy held this event to promote a new generation of iraqi artists iraq has always had a lot of great artist but these are also one of the youngest countries in the middle east to do so usually in the side of the older or dished the headlines gallery in the capital is allowing artists to stage exhibits for free it's another way to allow emerging talent to bring creations out of workshops to the eyes of potential. gold buyers the work of some artists takes an unsparing look at the horrors of iraq's recent history while others paid
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a more whimsical world than at my bad guys i believe that in the post i saw era will show people that they always a bright decide to rocky's beyond the violinist's we need to move forward. through the arts some iraqis say they're experiencing a revival of life and enjoying aspects of it the war forced them to abandon natasha going to name al-jazeera baghdad. i was poor with the sport. thanks loren well we start with football and manchester city's air of invincibility was almost blown away by second division opposition in the english f.a. cup quarter finals city had won seven mil in europe in midweek but when one nil down as they travel to swanzy on saturday and the chances of reaching the semifinals were looking very shaky is a beautiful move put the well side to go ahead by half time but it had already
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always men fought back a lovely finish from bernardo so over piling the pressure on to the hosts sergio where had the chance to level it from the penalty spot which he did just about and the audience sign proved to be the hero as he headed home a late when it's put city back on course for a potential quadruple of trophies they seized. well earlier there was an all premier league affair what for becoming the first into the last four as they'd be history how is it in cup to open the scoring for watford powers than equalized in the second half free belgian striker michy but straight but their hopes of a comeback didn't last long enjoyed right giving her side a two one win. or in the late game manchester united were unable to successfully negotiate a tricky trip to wolves the hosts winning that's one two one in the last few seconds millwall play brighton on sunday. zinda danes adama's made
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a winning return to his second stint as roma droid boss they beat south of the go to no on saturday the frenchman won three champions league titles in a row with the club before leaving at the end of last season but a poor run of results has seen him return and he's off to a perfect start thanks to goals from isco and gareth bale. i think we've got a good result and that's what we were looking for it's an important result even if the first part of the match didn't go well but it's normal we have to be patient and i think that the second part of the first half and then in the second half itself we did much better i am happy that it was women's football in argentina is set to turn professional from next season it was announced on saturday that from now on each of the sixteen teams in the women's top division must have eight professionally contracted players the argentina football association said contracts would initially be the equivalent of those in the men's third division. they are going to matter last it will mainly mean change to the girls who are coming up now
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the younger ones because they can take this into pretty seriously with a future a job and recognition then those of us who are finishing our careers we are still here defending this so that the next generation can develop as they deserve which is playing football learning since childhood we learned as grown ups and that costs us more tennis and one of the biggest rivalries in sport was a juice regime later on saturday but raw fallen doll has pulled out of his match with roger federer at the spaniard as a knee problem that keeps him out of the indian wells semifinals federer will play sunday's final against dominic team. still dos because i felt more or less ok during. his beginning go this is in terms of my knee. yesterday the i feel this on court. so now we're starting. a process that i have to. to decide who worked what did action we have
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today to to recall well and to recall as soon as possible meanwhile there's a big story developing in the women's tournament canadian teenager bianca and rescue is into the final after beating alina's for italien in three sets the eighteen year old is the youngest player to reach the final at indian wells in twenty years since rena williams won it at seventeen and rescue will be up against three time grand slam champion angelica herbert. wales sealed the six nations rugby championship in style with a commanding twenty five seven victory over ireland in cardiff on saturday hadley park scored the home team's only trial of the much world gareth anscombe kick the remaining points it means the welsh won all their much is in this year's tournament a feat also known as the grand slam it's the third time in eleven seasons they've done that and it's also a fourteenth straight test wins wiles'. look at the great performance today and.
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the boys thoroughly deserve it and three before when we said it it's about them today it's been the a million families. creating has three billion grand slams the things that no one can ever take away from you. and london there was a thrilling thirty eight all draw between england and scotland the english were thirty one nil ahead before the scots run in six tries to take a thirty eight thirty one lead england scored a converted try right at the end to save some face they finish second in the championship bangladesh's cricketers have arrived home in dhaka after escaping the christ church mosque shootings they flew home after the cancellation of their third test against new zealand which was due to start in the city on saturday members of the team were on a bus approaching the mosque for friday prayers when the attack happened the team took shelter in the bus as the shooting went on. formula one world champion lewis hamilton will be on pole for the opening race of the new season in australia the
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mercedes drive the pit teammate valtteri bottas to the front of the grid and secured an eighth pole position in melbourne at equals a record held by michael schumacher and at and center for the most polls at one venue he also broke the track record for are off the pace with sebastian vettel qualifying third. shaking it was so it was so close out there we got it incredible crowd here today thank you everyone for coming out and creating this atmosphere. but what a beautiful day and i again coming from testing from winter we had no idea where we would be. you know we're hoping of course to be where we are we've been working towards that the guys back in the factory been working so hard and on the weekend this weekend also they've just been you know just working back you know. i think we have a good car we have a good race car we you know we are in good form obviously a mercedes the clear favorite south of the result today and the pace they shown so far but you know we're here to race otherwise we'll be quite dollar being all that
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people would agree so we'll see what happens tomorrow mckayla schifrin is ending the alpine ski season with yet another entry in the history books she equalled the all time record for world cup slalom wins on saturday the american beat wendy holder to the slalom title in on dora and when she goes eleven was in the last ten months decade's old record of forty wins in the display and she wrapped up the overall world cup title two weeks ago and now has the second highest points total ever the season ends with the giant slalom on sunday i owe you that soyuz sport and i'll hand you back to lauren in london. thank you that's it for me in our telephone this news hour i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news but before that will leave you with images of the sydney opera house in australia its iconic sails lit with new zealand's silver fern as a symbol of solidarity of the mosque she ting's in christ church now known to have claimed the lives of fifty people.
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it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tigers nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brits anees happiness is what we ensure it's here that it is quantifiable
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of the by simply turning its pursuit into policy through time has done what no other country has. in the next episode of troy. greenpeace crew. through the woods will seek to highlight the importance of protecting this fragile ecosystem against an expanding list of manmade threats the surface of this magnificent desolation is just t.v. with. the bees it sold the remote. isn't the problem for your town that they don't have a health question but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the image business to. get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the us across the globe. it's called fall of the
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bridge doesn't build confidence or great skill to join me in front of my guests from around the world and we debate the week's top stories are big issues. as new zealand mourns the death toll from friday's mosque shootings rises to fifty after another body is found. and. live from london coming up a tropical dozens dead and missing and hundreds of thousands cut off from zimbabwe . forensic teams bodies for mass graves around the iraqi town of. killed three thousand.
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