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to. mourn the loss of their loved ones. arriving at this field where remnants of the ally and allies true not around brings it all home for them. airline officials say they haven't found even a single body intact just body parts which would make that it process took a while when they said to know that you need to pay an ethiopian airlines didn't give us anything they told us to wait until thursday we waited and thursday came they are now saying they couldn't find anything i wish they told us that they found nothing in the first place this is major grief heavy we came empty handed and we're going back empty handed. that buoying seven three seven marks eight a line i went down at eight forty four am on sunday shortly after takeoff from the capital addis ababa and drew tonight will be in neighboring kenya pozen just from more than thought to countries were on board this is the time of crisis in ethiopia the airline is a symbol of national pride and they feel peons have thrown their full support
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behind it to paralyze smalltalk from since i was a small boy it was brilliant africa together and. that's why they have been doing for seventy five years. and evidence that the cross has done little to scare people away from the airline can be seen at the capital's mushrooming hotels they're teaming with passengers in transit they have to do it happy if it's like in yeah that's it that happens without one i would say you know s.p.c. it's not just enough to cut a globally we have those records of us interacting so as a loyal travel and i use that if you've been in l.a. that has not affected my view or perspective. if european airlines has expanded its fleet to one hundred and eleven planes it now flies to one hundred on six international and twenty three domestic distillations beyond its almost professionals the airline also owns all forty nine percent stake in malawi lines
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and forty five percent stake in zambia airways what ethiopian is doing is arbitrary corporate governance that basically coming in to a failed business which is not failed because there was not demand there's demand that passengers want to fly out of these countries so you've got the demand the willing to pay but the issue has been the mismanagement of those airlines in countries actually it's buying up cheap assets with strong demand and making it work i think it's a great strategy. back at the crash site walk us continue the search for debris and remain so for those who perished in the crush these windswept filled one continued to be an international crime scene for a long time to come. out of well jazeera. tropical cyclone is calling more than causing more death and destruction in southern africa zimbabwe is the latest country to feel the storm's force at least thirty one people have
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been killed as flash floods have swept away homes bridges and roads dozens of people are still missing and bad weather is slowing the rescue efforts the storm has already killed around one hundred people in malawi and those on the tens of thousands there have been forced from their homes of power blackouts have been widespread. going to feel but. i saw a woman being hit by debris it's not safe for people walking here the situation is very chaotic as in the event they see a movie they said it was a majority of houses a ninety five percent that collapsed was precariously built of poor materials a lot of modern web is in central mozambique. since the cyclamen mozambique's coast where we are going to wrench the reigns in strong winds rivers of swollen power lines are blown down cyclons are common in the indian ocean at this time of year but few of them hit land and this one has been particularly destructive because it came ashore at mozambique fourth largest city they are and we're still three
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hundred kilometers from there we're trying to reach there and it's not easy 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 some aid trucks trying to pass here to try and reach people in bay where they've had to turn around and take another route and in the city of all communications are off the airports 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 course and transport routes blocked it's very difficult to find out what's going on also for the people who are there to get the help that they need. people in paris subpoena waking up to shattered windows and boarded up store fronts since sunday that follows the eighteenth week of yellow vest protests more than two hundred people have been arrested. police or fire tear gas and water cannon to stop demonstrators who set
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fire to buildings and cars the protests began in response to a fuel price hike before turning into rallies against president emanuel now call it the end of way as this report i was a police van becomes a target i'm going to test it. after weeks of relatively peaceful marches against president emanuel macro economic reforms the protests once again have descended into violence. right has ransacked shops and such buildings and cars and light the despite long running complaints of police brutality the government says it will continue to take a tough stance not just missouri to saluting you are all the people like our responsibility is to maintain public order by preventing trouble and putting up with the attack because we need a proportionate but very firm response. was a cannon's did listen to quell the fury of defiant protest is despite the weekly
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demonstrations gradually getting smaller ten thousand people are estimated to have been on the streets on saturday more than three times number a week ago. the spike in turnout follows the end of the series of national debates launched by president bush from. them we've issued our grievances made all our demands and actually we saw that they were not hurt we got only violence in return they have been thirteen dead and thousands injured it's the only dialogue we had in response that's it was give us if we're still here on the streets and if he does not satisfy our demands well we'll take back the roundabouts we will head everywhere and we will block roads more than two hundred people were arrested as tensions rise in the policies of what a protest to say is an out of touch government. president mccaughan has cut short a week in trade to return to the capital but it's unclear how far he's prepared to go to
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a peace protesters and stem the rising tide of social unrest. elsewhere in the french capital demonstrations calling for government action on climate change were peaceful tens of thousands took part in what's been called the march of the century protests have been held in cities around the world mostly by students and children. in madrid that have also been peaceful protests against the trial of twelve pro independence leaders from the catalonia region supporters say the defendants are political prisoners they were chained to reports from the spanish capital. the voice of support for catalonian independence has never been heard this clearly before on the streets of madrid tens of thousands came to join the rally including the catalan president kim torah showing solidarity with his twelve imprisoned colleagues the charges rebellions sedition and embezzlement some of them faced twenty five years in prison for
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organizing the independence referendum in the autumn of twenty seventeen hundreds of police were deployed in the spanish capital to make sure extreme right wing groups were kept well away from the march i think there are political prisoners because they. made what their political program set. us once again we are here to give voice to the people who were unjustly imprisoned for letting us vote on the first of october the least we could do is be here for them to show our face . among the many banners being displayed to swan said when injustice becomes the law that rebellion becomes necessary but under the spanish constitution the referendum was illegal. word freeware. to the nation. it's a right. it's
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a huge. sense of madrid. spain is holding a snap election next month the castle and question is set to overshadow the political debate polarizing opinion here. that will go to you david j. al jazeera madrid. police fired tear gas at anti-government protesters as they tried to march on parliament demonstrators accuse the government of being corrupt and having ties to organized crime. and a few moments we're going to have the brother with everton but still ahead on al-jazeera we're going to take a closer look at new zealand's gun laws which the prime minister says must change fight his mosque attacks and defying the president's ban on protesting students in nicaragua say he's got to go and in sports words blow manchester united away in the
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english f.a. cup final is going to be here with that story. while still no sign of the rains clearing for central parts of mozambique east side of zimbabwe you can see the main focus for where i. am. more but the rains they're going to be around for the best part of a way could be the weekend before we see dry weather gradually pushing for four hundred millimeters of prime we've had just run on the eastern side of zimbabwe western areas of mozambique have already seen similar values of rainfall so much totals coming through this is the result mudslides we have got widespread devastation just around that eastern side of the country central parts of the and
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they say heavy downpours as i said they are set to continue for quite some time yet so that's what we are faced with the rains well that's the main focus for the rains over the next few days the next three days alone we could see as much as what you believe noyon hundred millimeters of rain maybe a meter of rainfall coming through there and so that will exacerbate the already terrible situation that we do have here and this is why this system has been slow moving it stays slow moving more heavy downpours coming in across central parts of mozambique pushing up into that eastern side of zimbabwe which tries to nudge further north which as we go through the next couple of days but the showers never too far away. sponsored by qatar. i mean every week a new cycle brings a seemingly simple breaking story and then of course there's donald trump town through the eyes of the outstanding ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the in aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the
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blodgett al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour extra police at a guard schools businesses and places of worship in new zealand calling the mosque shootings there but his commanders say there will be a highly visible presence nationwide on monday morning after the weekend break fifty muslims were killed at friday prayers in christ church. prime minister just sent out down hopes all bodies can be handed over for burial by wednesday extra police staff are helping with identification. the philippines has officially withdrawn from the international criminal court the exit is the result of prosecutors launching an examination into president go to tout his drug crackdown. ok more now on those mosque attacks in new zealand which have sparked a new debate about gun laws rather gupta looks at that side of the story these are
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the guns brenton tyrant the man charged with the crisis killings showed the world before friday's indiscriminate killings inside two mosques tatane to obtain a gun license and twenty seventeen and belong to a gun club where he practiced on the shooting range there an estimated one point five million firearms in a country of less than five million people gun owners need a license and moscow to background checks and safety training but once they have a license there is no restriction on the number of weapons making it difficult for authorities to track them. there is a restriction on the type of weapons though military style guns automatics and handguns require a special license and must be registered new zealand is a country where gun crimes are so rare the police don't routinely carry firearms but some analysts think friday's killings may lead to more public scrutiny of the
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existing laws what happened was completely unexpected but this is going to be a catalyst for change because often for countries to change the firearms voice you need a magnitude of being like this and this may be that event we know with some of the far around but about ninety five percent of the firearms are untraceable and this instant it's a particular problem because the man seems to have got the firearms lawfully new zealand's gun laws will last amended nine hundred ninety two in response to the killing of thirteen people in our romana by a man armed with military style weapons neighboring australia now has some of the world's strictest rules they too were in response to a mosque shooting where a gunman killed thirty five people and tasmania in one thousand nine hundred six a month earlier a man in the u.k. killed sixty schoolchildren with handguns that prompted the government there to impose strict gun laws now friday's attacks are forcing the new zealand government
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to rethink its gun laws undoubtedly new zealanders will question how someone could have come to have been in position of weapons of this nature. one of the issues we fry seeing is that. the guns that were used in this case appears to have being modified a challenge the government says it would respond to priyanka gupta al jazeera. a new zealand is no stranger to tragedy even though it's seen as a peaceful country in twenty eleven a tragic quake struck christchurch killing one hundred eighty five people earlier we spoke to bob parker he was mayor of christchurch when that happened it told us about the resilience of the community then and. i do think in a way although the earthquakes of course when numerous it wasn't just one we had a series of earthquakes that ran for really for eighteen months almost two years that continued to remind people of what they had been through and they didn't know
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if the next one would be bigger than the one they had just had this is a single terrible incident it's a different sort of event in a way when you think about it if you go back to the earthquake it was physically destructive for every single person this is just targeted a small group so in a sense it's more sort of intellectually socially destructive but the thing that you've heard from others is that we've learned as a community how to fold around each other in these situations and i was out walking through the city last night different sight seeing people bringing flowers a genuine emotion a genuine support and the desire to wrap their arms around a muslim community and ensure that they feel continue to feel as they have been part of the city and part of our future one person's been killed in attacks in the occupied west bank the shootings happened to one after the other road junctions or
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how the force is live for us now in the west jerusalem what more do we know about these. well we know what the israeli military is now saying about this saying that the first person attacked was a soldier or that the attackers stabbed the soldier took a weapon and then started shooting at israeli civilians according to the israeli military before then getting into a car traveling to a second junction southwest of southwest of nablus in the occupied west bank and shooting again at a bus station there in total we've got a report that one israeli has been killed two others seriously wounded and there is now a major military operation underway in the occupied west bank as the perpetrator is hunted for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his cabinet on sunday that the person would be found or people and that justice would be brought to them there are closures under way at one industrial zone in the legal settlement
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industrial zone called bachao near by other it in settlements also under closure as well as for palestinian villages the background to all this there have been several attacks in recent months in the occupied west bank the last major one was earlier this month a vehicle striking israeli soldiers two palestinians killed shot and killed in that attack and as well as that there is a great deal of israeli pressure being exerted on the palestinian or thorazine with taxes being withheld as a way of punishing the palestinians for it for their policy of paying prisoners and attackers and.
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