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to sit and wait and sleep on a platter grandstand a short but uncertain reprieve from floodwaters. then a call comes through to save a critically ill patient this woman is pregnant and needs medical help as quickly as possible a ten minute flight between flood ravaged boozy and the relative safety of barrow city may be her only chance initial concern about how cycle of die would impact central mozambique has been replaced by worry over widespread flooding a growing number of deaths and the displacement of thousands of people this is just one rescue of what aid agencies say could be thousands more from al-jazeera mozambique. i think fifty seven people have died in neighboring earlier we spoke to nelly and young was she is the southern african regional director for the international charity oxfam in malawi is kept a long way and she says the main fear now is disease i have the moment of the
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floodwaters have gone but it has left so much of destruction in different places so at the moment we are having to deal with people who have lost their houses they have nowhere to go back to we are left with the fields that have been washed away people should have been the heaviest in their maize this coming may but if they have lost all that and some army moved into temporary shelter where they have no food water points in most of the villages have been the contaminated and so at the moment people are having to use contaminated water our medical center at the moment is that we might have another wave of a crisis that will come out of water borne diseases so there is a need for immediate to support immediate assistance for the communities that are affected. now british prime minister tourism a is defending her request for an extension to the bricks and deadline and has criticized the british parliament for failing to back her agreement with the european union may want to extend the
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departure date from the end of next week to june thirtieth european council president says that may be possible but only if the u.k. parliament approves may's existing deal but that deal has already been rejected twice by british m.p.'s about three hours ago may made an emotional appeal to the nation i passionately hope m.p.'s will find a way to back the deal i've negotiated with the e.u. a deal that delivers on the result of the referendum and is the very best deal negotiable and i will continue to work night and day to secure the support of my colleagues the d u p and others for this deal. but i am not prepared to delay breck's it any further than the thirtieth of june. john has the latest from westminster. hall to resume a prepares now to face the e.u. and its leaders in brussels and be issued formally with these old to make to you
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have your short extension if you want but only if you pass your deal first will in one sense that gives to reason may what she wanted another vote on breaks a deal and in circumstances potentially that make that vote more winnable pitting it directly against the much feared no deal breaks it option but the numbers may yet be against it would be potentially a large number of m.p.'s on the right of her party who don't mind the idea of a no deal breaker and potentially not enough in these in the labor benches and elsewhere to make up that gap as much as to reserve a says in her statement in her address to the nation this evening that she is on the side of the public they just wanted over with i agree she said it may yet be far from over because if she loses that folk next week and she doesn't get her short extension the e.u. may indeed force a long extension of britain to avoid no deal and she said again this evening that
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she as prime minister would not countenance an extension beyond june thirtieth put all that together and you get to the point where if a deal is voted down next week that could in turn be the end of to resume may. now a year date as one discussed what next. time posed a long sleigh has more from brussels. when sarees m a has to address the e.u. twenty seven the other members of the european union at the stuff of that silks on thursday afternoon the woman question the guns of yachting carries what happens if you'll deal fails again for the third time of the start of next week because they're only prepared at the moment to countenance an extension to back seats if a deal policies and there's every likelihood that it won't that will say to her i'm sure what happens if it fails are you actually prepared at the end of next week for the u.k. to leave the european union with no deal its all despite the fact the u.k. pollens voted against it now twice despite all the economic damage that would pose
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to the u.k. the republic of ireland the netherlands and other bordering countries to the u.k. despite the fact that it would be mean the reimposition of the hall border. on the island of islands and all the violence so that could lead to their going to say the reason why is that actually what your intention is and they going to have to try to get some sort of straits also from a because it's based on that's on so that they don't have to consider whether or not to have another emergency summit literally in the two days will direct it supposed to happen and potentially protect olen from a new deal by proposing an even longer extension and for some reason made for pets to go for that so many unanswered questions for the european point of view at the moment they're trying to get some clarity from some reason why but at the moment this seems still to be no plan b. for what she proposed proposing to do if she loses the deal for a third time still ahead on the morrison un report says and smiles culling of palestinian protesters in gaza could be considered
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a crime. the main story for the us down in the county but most of the us is not active whether so much is passive whether the wall has been spreading it to the plains states particularly in brassica and iowa which is still there with temperatures not very high but certainly above freezing this caused a massive thaw and this flooding threat here as for active weather well is still rain in the east coast you can see the make it rather disappointing in new york and washington for thursday and as more rain with snow a tight return into california and the adjacent states further inland san francisco looks fine but only thirty it could be warm across the picture for friday and this
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will tucker i means a little bit of late season even touch the finger states and certainly clean close to toronto or south of all this also is a bit more activity now we've still got the problem of impending or actual drought from dominique science words this is from the caribbean small island further west than the increase in the likelihood of seeing big sharon's in colombia venezuela panama and costa rica increasingly guatemala honduras and mexico i'm not just naming countries or all places we've seen showers recently and they are still in the forecast but basically you're not doing badly. whether sponsored by a cat our employees. in the next episode of earth rise nick talk to into greenpeace current on a voyage through the wiggle sea to highlight the importance of protecting this fragile antarctic ecosystem against an expanding list of manmade threats beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just teeming with life of bees and
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saw the remotest mosses all of the nz arctic century on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories. and has announced in a minute and immediate. weapons last week's attack on two mosques it's being done under an interim directive on top of long term legislation has passed. rescue teams and time is running out to save thousands of people five days after. millions have
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been affected across southern africa and u.k. prime minister tourism is defending her request for a three month extension to the brics a deadline that european council president says extra time is dependent on parliament passing the existing withdrawal meant. the former bosnian serb leader radovan carriage which would now face spend the rest of his life in jail after being recent by a un court was appealing a twenty sixteen conviction for genocide and a forty year prison term of the judges said his sentence for the nine hundred ninety five minutes a massacre was to light song a guy from the hague. the faces of the dead of the massacre remembered by their loved ones victims of the genocide perpetrated by bosnian serb leader radovan. it has taken nearly twenty five years for justice to be realized a painful journey often bereft of hope. but the wait has finally come
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to an end. candidates listened intently as the court listed his grounds for appeal and rejected them almost entirely the prosecution's appeal in a lot of respects sets aside charges to prod and order gross i descending the sentence of forty years of imprisonment and imposes as the president goes into sending a sentence of life imprisonment. outside the tribunal it was a decision welcomed by all who had gathered there but the suffering is never far away for this is all someone i guess or they go about who i am satisfied but i want to ask which school did they go to to learn how to kill our children our sons our husbands i am satisfied but then again i am not because i no longer have my children. instead itself tears of relief fell
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for the tribunals and ousted would increase cut educate his sentence. this is one of the last remaining rulings dealing with the brutal breakup of yugoslavia and the sentencing of the other one is also being seen as a crucial test holding to factor leaders to account for crimes committed during conflicts. the case has been one of the most high profile legal battles of the yugoslav wars more than eight thousand muslim men and boys were slaughtered in the strip and it's a massacre it was the worst genocide to have taken place in europe since world war two well the town has become symbolic of the very worst atrocities that took place in the balkans during the war it has also been a milestone for the legal consequences that followed it took twenty years and let's hope it's not going to take twenty years for syria or for all of these other places where similar atrocities are being committed we are some international community
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have to be more committed to bring justice to defectives way sooner than twenty years god will now spend the rest of his days behind bars his genocidal actions scarred an entire region and they leave behind a legacy of anguish from which many will never recover so yeah al-jazeera the hague . the u.s. and israel have reaffirmed their partnership to counter what they call iranian aggression in the middle east secretary of state has been meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel on the second leg of his middle east tour speaking in west jerusalem to keep up the pressure on iran and underlined long term u.s. support for israel. the latest un report hundred dollars us suggest that the death of one hundred eighty nine palestinian protesters killed by israeli forces could be considered war crimes and diplomatic editor james pace sat down while the un
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commission is off that report there are reasonable grounds to believe that. all crimes may have been committed and we think based on what we have found further investigations are required and do need to be taken up by the relevant bodies in the international justice system you don't know all of this work you come up with some very hard hitting findings or you can see that no one's going to take any notice of this and this report is just going to fall away obviously there is a concern and we really hope that would be the case because what we've tried to do is we've not only brought. on to the record findings about what we think has happened over the last nine months over six thousand people injured. you know one hundred need to be booked by life including children. the reeve also made a call for urgent preventive action the events that you detail in your report now almost
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a year ago coming up to the anniversary of the start of these demonstrations how worried are you about one hundred three and four big demonstrations because of that anniversary and the possible response from the israeli military well we were very worried i think about what may happen next week on the anniversary of the protests on the thirtieth of march there's every indication that there will be a large turnout a massive turnout of protest and there's every reason to fear that there may be terrible violence on them again so we think it's essential that this point that restraint is exercised by everyone concerned in terms of the international community in the security council the quartet they seem to have allowed the u.s. to take the lead politically for now on this file that makes the u.s. response important are you happy with the u.s. response to your report. oh we haven't received a concrete response they're not spoken out on this and we just have to hope that
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they will that's why we're trying to communicate this is the message of of our reporters widely. cast as a nuclear power plant under construction in the united arab emirates poses a serious threat to regional stability and the environment catherine has called on the international atomic energy agency to create a framework for nuclear security in the region the u.a.e. to life safety issues with the vatican plant in abu dhabi which is being built by a korean firm the plan to set to come online and twenty twenty. international criminal court is examining whether to formally investigate the persecution of the hangar by myanmar's government a group of younger refugees who have been fighting for justice ever since they fled along with hundreds of thousands in august twenty seventh seen in cox's bazaar stephanie decker met volunteers piecing together the stories of survivors are meeting place may not look like much but what this young man has achieved is
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extraordinary every day a list three man. walk through that doctor can mount fled me and more nineteen months ago along with hundreds of thousands of other rangar he and other volunteers immediately took the initiative to document what happened speaking to survivors one by one they wrote down their stories are dead that we are being lost everything. we are being we need to call out and a lot a lot but we need to prove what i had done my community for example in my belly or many. horse was bond on on many people way up. on michigan way up through in the fire we need reasonable information we're told in the international community and so they documented it all now the testimonies of
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been divided by dillard's and they have the villages here and it's also been sub categorized by things like burnt houses looted houses raped and gang raped for example this village here three hundred homes burned two hundred sixty looted hundred and twenty seven women or young girls raped and then they were also documented who they believe was behind it. one of the testimonies is from a woman a mother but she could not explain what happened to her he says her ten year old daughter could saying she was raped by let out to women it. ought with me i see everything i want have done my ma got an odd. heart danny i was dr. in the space of just a few weeks almost seven hundred thousand people fled me and marjorie a military crackdown the international criminal court is now looking into whether
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these warrants best occasion can says they have in the past given this document to the i.c.c. and other international organizations everyone thinking for shooter who shoot and backed out alive what do you think to do live in the roof because we lost everything today. his hope just like everyone else here is for justice to be done and to be able to go back home until then he says he will continue to speak up and fight on behalf of his community stephanie decker zero in the refugee camps of cox's bazaar. hello again i'm elizabeth the headlines are hours as they are a new zealand prime minister to send has announced an immediate ban on semiautomatic weapons following last week's attack on two mosques in which fifty
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people were killed the measure is being brought in under an interim directive until long term legislation has passed in short every seamy automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will be banned in this country these changes will require legislation their legislation is now being drafted and will be introduced under emergency. a prime minister to resign ray is defending have a quest for a three month extension to next week's deadline european council president seven extension is dependent on parliament passing the existing withdrawal agreement but that's already been for jack to twice made an emotional appeal to get the deal through i passionately hope m.p.'s will find a way to back the deal i've negotiated with the e.u. a deal that delivers on the result of the referendum and is the very best deal
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negotiable and i will continue to work night and day to secure the support of my colleagues the d u p and others for this deal but i am not prepared to delay brix it any further than the thirtieth of june. former bosnian serb leader radovan carriage which will spend the rest of his life in jail a u.n. court re sentenced and an appeal trial overturning the previous term forty years behind bars carriages convicted for his role in the one nine hundred ninety five minutes a massacre more than a thousand muslim men and boys were killed in the genocide. rescue teams and one of them big time is running out to save thousands of people five days after die more bodies are being found in the flood waters amid fears the number of dead will continue to rise millions have been affected by the storm's trail of destruction across southern africa and the zimbabwe and malawi earthrise this coming up
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next. rewind continues i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries. from. his distance revisiting return of the lizard king we went undercover on a wildlife smuggling trail stretching from madagascar to malaysia on the trail of a man known as the pablo escobar of reptile smuggling rewind on al-jazeera.
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i the way they'll see in antarctica the size of an extraordinary bid to create the largest protected area on earth. for this special episode of earth rise we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker arctic sunrise following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement is ations history witnessing the spectacular biodiversity and the many threats to life from climate change to a to fishing as a team of scientists photographers and ocean experts set out to prove these vos remote waters must become an antarctic ocean sanctuary. before i set off down south i'm going to find out
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a little about the journey and. about to embark on tucked away in this maze of old london streets something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy i've been mesmerized by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early twentieth century names of polar explorers like roald amundsen and captain scott. well this is where some of those expeditions came to get their maps it was really because of the low good to see this is a kind of treasure trove of past exploration to come out of that. turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent at the end of the world this met from the fifteen eighties is the last of the classical worldview this is the world as it would have been understood by the ancient greeks and romans still got this great terrell called me
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to the unknown subtle and spin forward three centuries to the time of men like captain scott who died on his return from the south pole philip shows me a sledging match from that expedition is true. this is what actually used to place the food death has for the attempt on the pole. incredible here we have been reaching the south pole and then of course the terrible trek back tattoo scott died here just demonstrates how hot it was then just how challenging it was that a far cry from today it was this period is known as the heroic age they were truly great heroes up until the one nine hundred twenty is there were probably less than i should think fifty or sixty people had actually ever stepped on to the cold lip. of course no thousands are going every year.
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like many of the old explorers i first had footprint to our anus in southern chile but unlike i'll be flying into antarctica to king george island at the northern tip here all join the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea with luck will reach out target the sixty fourth parallel which marks the northern age of the proposed asian century an internationally supported marine reserve covering one point eight million square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impacts like fishing oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and if you. want to. be an uphill
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fight there before. it's a cold murky arrival surprised at how many people there are around dozens are coming in going here with no king george island and downscaling laden scientists now saying that they don't. look so remote as warm and transport you can see lots of tears gathered down there taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to meet cruise ships for the holidays and also ahead a lot of research stations. with the weather closing in we need to get a move on. in. the next two weeks. thank you.
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right take. her. well we're on the way immediately heading for the proposed ocean sanctuary is not a time to lose not just for the arctic sunrise winter is not far away and the ice will soon close in about its business or a race against time to protect areas like the weddell sea before it's too late will maccallum it's a greenpeace campaign leader we're campaigning for and will be the liberals largest protected area. to question sanction an area of the battle say to be about five times the size of germany the proposal is already on the table it's already got the backing of the. scientists are saying we need to protect a third of the world's oceans at least every one to let fish stocks recover they want to mitigate against the west and i see change and man talk is a great place to start in just nine months time in hobart australia the decision will be made by the antarctic ocean commission the international body responsible
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for the conservation of these waters on whether to accept the sentry proposal the aim of the expedition is to build the case that it needs to happen. is go by and the temperature drops significantly. on the bridge they're on high alert we're heading into dangerous waters tense times with skipper who'll ruzicka you have what they call bertie bits growlers and icebergs depending on the size but they can all damage a ship when you're steaming at night key thing about ice is avoiding it but now we're going to look for the ice and we will intentionally go into some of the ice and there is room down here now i think to push our way through a bit of our. right . to pull climbs into the crow's nest to try and spot leads through the ice. come through the ontologies sound with
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a beis. talk to put into the we're not on the web will see but not yet at the point at which they want to protect it but we get there we go to get through all this ice there's a lot of it around there we're finding these clear passages trying to we've always through the ice. everyone on board is just willing the ship to make it into the proposed sanctuary the big problem is getting people to realize why they should care about the i'm talking to you know this is lot of light that most people have never come across will never come across and so being able to tell that story relies on us getting there are lots of us getting the footage back and tell talking about the importance of marine sanctuaries so the fact that fish stocks would only recover if we put these areas of limits the fact that climate change will be not as bad if we manage suppose large areas of the ocean off limits. dogma's falls but there is no rest on the bridge for the captain and the night crew
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there is an illusion there are. no. floodlights on the boughs showed the ship now milledge dumped quietly against the ice and intentional maneuver for the remainder of the night but everyone is keyed up flying off. the next day at last the arctic sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest most diverse waters there are the most all on board who may yet be the largest protected area on the planet we will want a good days good news very good news made it made it to this is for sitting there now. as someone of the ship and this entire space and you just go over this side and we suddenly saw getting so tens of of ships both cruise line is cargo ships fishing vessels the moment you get through this sound as us and another ship about
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that and that's it and i'll. whole area that's slightly scary yet terrifying. but very exciting as well but exciting kind of just makes the case that this is pristine this area is not developed is not called industry has never had industry as an area that's kind of the most on touch even within and thought. oh no are you. going to. do next month i think it's right around our agreement with. what we're looking at here is faulty yes see i said great icebergs to be topped off the classiest sweeping off james russell island at the weddell sea spent way to a distant proposed area already about just touched by human activity always scientific research is taking place it is an incredible sight but deeply troubling
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two classes have always collapsed and carved into the antarctic ocean however with global warming they're doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat sea levels rise. this right here is humanity's problem for decades perhaps sentries ahead. it is laundry day or not sunrise and here's the thing we all think of being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that sort of thing but when you watch the. hundreds of thousands of micro fibers end up in the world's oceans so here import. wouldn't not forego that's.
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enough. coolest plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. uses some of the largest woods on the planet there could be a ploy to do they could be blasting seriously greenpeace to conduct this is where i was taking samples from the water to see if any marker plastics have infiltrated this environment. just stepped into the sea surface like west point was that maybe risk so they're both taking such a feeling it's just more to. the. extent. they. find the this is very autistic.
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