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and they're both on the same page in venezuela both supporting self declared interim president one quite o. the u.s. president again called on the country's military to abandon president but do we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for material. who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet both men insist all options are on the table when it comes to events across brazil's border and president both tonight who wouldn't rule out using his country as a piece for a u.s. led military intervention. there are a few issues that if you speak they are no longer strategic so these issues are not going to be made public during the brief news conference in a chilly white house rose garden donald trump revealed brazil would no have the opportunity to buy u.s. weapons after being designated a major nor need to ally and he even suggested brazil might be considered for
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membership of the north atlantic alliance i also intend to jazz ignite brazil as a major non nato ally or even possibly if you're so i thinking about it maybe a nato ally both countries assigned by lateral deals and agreements aimed at expanding and improving treat present both or not or believes that he is the most pro u.s. president brazil is had in years and is a reflection of the man at the top in washington president trump believes that. alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house but of course when as well as political crisis continues as opposition leader continues his efforts to oust president nicolas maduro a collapsed economy means many people are struggling just to survive in this series of reports now from port to let cruise desperation is leading people to part of fish for food and money. this is a daily scene at local sport in the state of. fishermen arrive without catch
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sardines which is the only fish most people can afford the stays the people like in so having spent all night at sea battling. tell the government to come and see what's happening here this is hunger it's desperation i don't even make money i owe . try to get food for my family. for inflation is having a devastating effect among the country's poorest the fish that you can see here are starving says the chief with the force of. their time that's when hundreds of people are coming here to. ride for flour when they tell us is that one kilo. is worth one of. these days venezuelan struggle to find the most basic items medicines are difficult to find but also sued. there's no food there's no money my husband works and money's
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worth less look at us i came here to find something to take back home. to me alone yes has been a fisherman all his life it's what he's family has been doing for generations now for the first time in his life he's thinking of leaving the country. i already got myself and my family a passport three of my children already left if i go somewhere there has to be somewhere i can fish because it's the only thing i know how to do. it has only one engine left and the government has stopped giving credits to people like amy years ago. engines are crucial because fishermen like him mostly work in the islands close by where they set up their base camp and money to the tides of the caribbean sea a place where the situation has deteriorated in the past two years just like almost everybody else fisherman are also struggling with the current economic crisis in venezuela because of that crisis insecurity has become
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a major issue most of the fishermen we have spoken to say that they have been robbed by thieves that are operating all around the area in the local was because most of them are former fisherman turned into smugglers. was robbed a few days ago it's a funny. it's something. the government did. and if there are five five in. the boat. without a boat. one of the. key also. the government expropriated companies and gave them no experience there's no knowledge in how to handle these companies when the equipment starts failing the nobody knows how to solve it initially the idea was good. many of them are not even
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working. people depend on. it. that people. accusing the united states military of killing civilians and contradicting claims by the u.s. it's. more than one hundred. fourteen civilians were killed the u.s. military strikes under the trunk ministration have tripled and that hundreds of fighters have been killed but it maintains that there have been civilian casualties . so one thing that is critical regarding the counter-terrorism campaign in somalia
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is that it's become in many ways air campaign in support of somali forces and in defense of a number of u.s. advisors on the ground level it's a lot different from what the counterterrorism strikes in pakistan that became many people's vision of german strikes was there wasn't in the ongoing conflict in the same way it was more of a targeted killing campaign of high profile al-qaeda and taliban leaders although also in that campaign there was sort of a move towards broader getting wrapped up in an existing conflict the united states should absolutely do more oversight particularly congress on what the u.s. is doing and the costs of its strikes it is worth noting that in comparison to other combatant commands or other campaigns such as a covert one in pakistan africa has been extremely forthcoming with casualty as suspects after every strike to conduct but it's simply not enough to us us gun
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ducted many strikes killed many hundreds if not thousands of people over this campaign. there really needs to be more and amnesty international laws push forward the discussion it will certainly be reviewed many of these reported incidents whether they are strong claims of civilian casualties and the next weeks or months. kazakhstan's president abruptly announced his resignation after twenty nine years in the job an assault on has led the central asian countries since the end of the soviet union in a televised address to the seventy eight year old explained that he had made a difficult decision didn't say why first year walker has more or you're going to. have led kazakstan for three decades and his decision to stand down is nothing short of historic in a region where leaders tend to be pushed out down in office that are here because
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of. you today always wrong in the most important moments in the history of our state which we are building together my address today is special i made an easy decision to step down as president of the republic of. london as a buyer of stewed chip starnes capital a stunner became a modern metropolis a country the size of western europe with a population of just eighty million it is benefited from billions of dollars in oil revenues but that prosperity has come at a price while the political elites reached itself as abides government was accused of stifling political dissent elections have never been free or fair and kazakstan has no independent media. yes knows abideth has a legacy he would be proud of it's been my honor to welcome the respect by dismantling the country's nuclear weapons after the soviet union he also kept
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a lid on kazakh nationalism the country has a large number of ethnic minorities including russians. the only president many kazakhs of ever known by enjoy the nickname of papa. officially he will remain the leader of the nation with immunity from prosecution and powers as head of kazakstan security council the government has not given a reason for the seventy eight year old's resignation but the movie should ensure an orderly transition of power to prove to kazakstan and the world that there can be business as usual without loss of time as of by robin first year water which is here. let's have a reminder the top stories this the un is describing cycling as one of the worst
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weather disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere hundreds are confirmed dead many more missing millions of people have been affected across most zimbabwe i'm allowing in new zealand the first funeral sort of taken place in christ church for victims of friday's shooting at two mosques that killed fifty people thirty bodies have been released to the families for burials and prime minister just an announced a two minute silence will be observed this coming friday for the victims of the attacks islamic call to prayer will also be televised nationwide and an exclusive interview with al jazeera just into a durned said that nations must take a stand against the ideology of hate. what i am absolutely knowledge is even though this terrorist act was committed by someone who was not a new zealand we cannot ignore that as many nations do that there are those in new zealand albeit small who will share the ideology of this attack and we
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must root that out i've been very clear on this israeli forces have killed two palestinians near nablus in the occupied west bank medics were prevented from approaching the scene by israeli forces the palestinian red crescent society says one of its iman says was fired on by the israeli army as it tried to reach the wounded. earlier israeli forces shot dead a palestinian suspect thought to be behind an attack in the occupied west bank on sunday the nineteen year old suspect was found in the village of wayne north of ramallah when troops raided the building where he was hiding the u.s. transportation department says it will examine how the country's aviation regulator the f.a.a. certified the boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft follows two fatal crashes in less than six months there's a lot more news coming up right after the string. of
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. i am for me ok and i'm really good we are in the stream today people power in algeria we will ask how popular movement for political reform is changing the country are you in algeria what changes do you want to see us now live via twitter or in our you tube shop. option either i'm a reporter i'm a little civil and you are in the stream. protesters in algeria are
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saying enough is enough for weeks young algerians have been leading a movement against president abdulaziz beautifully who has ruled the country for twenty years bowing to the pressure of protesters last week reversed his decision to run for a fifth term in office despite his promise to stand down protests have continued on tuesday thousands of students professors and health workers demonstrated in algiers to demand immediate change many criticize the government for being out of touch with every day algerians. this system is due. to do the people the united states around a single free studies change the regime and we tell them go away go away you are lost algeria has man skills is it is just what you just. made i am here to tell the system enough it's over twenty years you ruined us you suck just dry we aren't afraid to leave us the sons of traders are governing us they took the cow
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with its grass and its milk and everything enough let our children live let our children live and let our children. was due to hold elections in april but on monday president would simply once again insisted that the vote should only be held after a new constitution is approved through a national dialogue we're here to tell us more about the movement for reform in algeria and istanbul and yes i mean i lose a researcher and writer who focuses on north africa in beirut that i am a resident scholar at the carnegie middle east center and in algiers i'm a sociologist welcome everyone to this stream i want to start with some pictures to give our audience a sense of the scale of these protests take a look at my screen here this posted by red and has been shared several times on twitter he writes impressive drone footage showing the extent of the largest
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popular protests in algeria's history against the president's plan to cling to power and you can just see the scale of it there people looking tiny like this this is how it looks from a bird's eye view move over to this tweet here and this is been shown this and have a listen to what those protests actually sound like. and then today we got this one for. a member of our community malia here says i'm marching with students in algiers today incredibly emotional and powerful students united will never be defeated and she posts a picture of herself from the tuesday march nineteenth protest you can see her there she sent that to us right before airtime got to get you have been among these protesters what is it like being out there in the streets. yes in the the in march with the student on february twenty sixth him back no one and then i marched with
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what was came to be called the one million march. that took place in march first and i have to say that was very powerful very emotional as you know a political scientists it was amazing to observe the protests but as a national citizen of algeria it was very emotional for me i think we are leaving a very unique sequence of events that we haven't seen in the ninety's you know when my mother used to drug me at protests saying no to terrorism so it was you know the scale of the protests were amazing the behavior and the peaceful nature of these protests also is something that really was impressed at the organization as well you know how each time for instance we would reach a police beric protester would you know ways their arms and stage and start
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chanting still me yes in me which means peaceful peaceful they also chanted. sharp . which means military and police are brothers and it was very you know emotional people were giving us what they were giving us bottles of water i think this is the first time in a while that we haven't seen algerian that you need ok. you tweeted out nineteenth of march and you made a connecting a connection between the sixty's and what's happening today have a look here yes minister sixty two she talks about ninety five twenty nine team of protesters students are doctors and other sectors in cities in algeria going out how would you describe what is happening in algeria right now. so
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based on the comparison of particular significant dates that we're seeing to do the nineteenth of march where you're seeing there's a reclamation of the national history of algeria that many yes has been manipulated by the ruling elites of generals who have used the state is to legitimize their power to homes and you're having to some generation who refused to see they got them and so these were generals of based on historic. gains in the history of the country and most of what the damage they've done the waltz in governance and you'll see seen a seventy percent of the population under the age of thirty five top frustrated. the president is clearly on the people who has been unable to rule the size of the country since suffering a stricken two thousand and thirteen who has not addressed the country in the last six years and there are those just
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a general consensus amongst the unions amongst various sectors in society in the public is enough enough is enough that's represented here i want to show a series of tweets. put online by the that this can go on line this is and also to read that the that he shares some of the pictures that people are sharing online this algeria deep cleaning referring to rampant corruption and graft some allies by algeria's ruling clan scroll down a little bit more of these are sold visual south africa got the about we got mostly a bob or a disaster and that is referring to the president they are sharing a cartoon and this last one i want to show. here.
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