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can an international team of pilots get paceman stream off the ground. on al-jazeera. after weeks of demonstrations against the government it looks like protesters in algeria will finally see one of their major demands met. santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera another vote another rejection the u.k. parliament once again fails to agree on turning to the prime minister's briggs's deal going off to venezuela's opposition leader the top court takes a key step to prosecute one as he tries to oust president nicolas maduro and a new report reveals the arab media were targets of an american hacking team used
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by the u.s. . so let's start with algeria where the president has agreed to step down by the end of the month giving in two weeks of pressure from protesters what's unclear though is if the move will satisfy his opponents who started their demonstrations six weeks ago victoria gate has our report. after being abandoned by algerian military leaders it was perhaps only a matter of time before president abdelaziz bouteflika was forced to name a date for his departure it came in the form of a statement read on state television confirming beautifully will resign before his twenty year rule runs out on april the twenty eight the eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke six years ago critics say he's become little more than a front man for the military and business leaders who really run the country. weeks
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of growing protests force beautifully and his back is to reverse his decision to stand for a fifth term but neither that nor a cabinet reshuffle the satisfy protesters who are demanding the entire political elite be replaced. taken a long time already he should have resigned a long time ago in two thousand and fourteen he shouldn't even have thought of running again everyone must go nobody should. help the people are asking for everyone to leave the government meaning put a freak out on his clan to stop announcing every time the departure of somebody and the return of somebody else no they must all go and let the people decide this. deputy defense minister and army chief of staff guide salah has repeatedly called for the president to step down or we declared unfit for office but he's been locked in a power struggle with beautifully because influential brother saeed analysts say there's
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been confusion among algeria's ruling elite about how to respond to the protests. people are against a transitional period that is run by the regime because due will be a transitional period after april twenty eighth when the official time the president will be older but the question is who will want to transition period in the current regime runs the people to transition period then the revolution or the demands are definitely not met the protests just. the government if they lifted that nothing will change in algeria victoria gayton be algy's there are so here is hashem a whole bar in tunisia following events for us hashem what's your read on this is it just another step baby steps along the way that will eventually lead to what the protesters want or is it still too little too late. is still an ongoing political impasse it doesn't seem to be. solving anytime soon
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for different reasons people now are saying as a reaction to the announcement from the presidency about the caretaker government that president assad is nor longer illegitimate the president of and therefore has to step aside and he has no right to issue any decrees or any statements what is quite obvious as we speak is that there is a power struggle between the military establishment led by general ahmed gates and president guys what's in his interest particularly his brother who is widely seen as the most powerful man in algeria what is interesting is over the last twenty four hours we've seen how many key players particularly in the opposition saying that the back of the move of the army and that they believe that the triggering of the article one could be the best way for. and the protest movement hashim still strong as ever. it is likely to continue particularly
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next friday because for them they don't see any indication that this is the end of an era of course they have seen those statements about the prosecutor's opening investigations targeting oligarchy in algeria most of them were affiliated with president. and with his entourage but for them these are more of cosmetic. solutions what they need to do they saying is they want the whole establishment to go the constitutional council the parliament and the government and they say that we can't trust this government to take over oversee any elections in the near future i think with what we've got to that particular point where the power struggle which has been going on for quite some time you know syria between the army and with the political elite will continue until there is a consensus about an alternative particular someone who would lead the country for a transitional period hashim a whole bar in tunis thank you. so the news in the british prime minister theresa may has summoned senior ministers for
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a five hour meeting on brags that of course they are believed to be divided over whether to accept so-called soft bragg's it or to push for a no deal or to even call a general election parliament remains deadlocks and the u.k. should leave the european union as well after members failed to agree on for alternatives to the prime minister's deal poll brought in with all the details now from london. on any given day the majority view outside parliament fluctuates with the changing numbers of pro and anti bracks it protest this and as m.p.'s inside debated the for alternatives to teresa mayes brix a deal on monday it was an exit choir from yorkshire in the north of england who held sway. of the referendum based on the facts after cooling off period subject to a lot more scrutiny than the previous one is is perhaps the best way is having a dramatic overshadowing effect the prime minister has to the knife crime summit on monday to discuss
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a serious recent uptick in fatal stabbing theresa may insists it's a priority but there is a sense that her main focus lies elsewhere and during the debate itself climate change protesters stripped off in the public gallery of the parliamentary chamber to draw attention away from it and on to what they said was the most important issue facing the world right now. but all eyes were on the speaker john bercow as he announced the result none of the four alternatives had secured a majority the government how much home parliament's latest failure to agree on a way forward on this is now the second time the house is considered a wide variety of options for a way forward he says once again failed to find a clear majority for any of the options three the opposition isn't giving up if it's good enough for the prime minister to have three chances at her deal i then i suggest possibly the house should have a chance to consider again the are the options that we had before us today in
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a debate on wednesday the prime minister is in a very tight corner here being presented with options by m.p.'s which either go against her negotiating redlines or contravene her own party's manifesto pledges she can ignore the indicative votes of course because they're non-binding but m.p.'s are already gearing up to pass new legislation which would force the government to comply for their teresa mayes options really do start to dwindle but many believe the prime minister will now try to win over pro leave bricks or tears with a final ultimatum. this is now the stark reality of what we are facing what you are facing and the project that you want is very easy so you either the will of the house is this a much softer slower breaks or there is still mine deal i know you've rejected it several times but in this situation which is now the least worst option although the prime minister and cabinet meet on tuesday morning to decide their next move
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paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. in venezuela the supreme court is making moves to have the opposition leader arrested and is calling for. parliamentary immunity saying he disobeyed an order barring him from leaving the country and america at its embassy in yemen as. its opposition leader prepared to walk onto the stage at a small rally and got act as a pro-government armed group to tear gas at his caravan and fired shots into the air. the incident occurred shortly after the supreme court ordered the all powerful constituent assembly district wide all of his parliamentary immunity for disobeying a travel ban last month. the move brings bible one step closer to being arrested but even means defiant. he can take their offer and strip i am unity to where they see fit but we will continue working continue mobilizing on the streets and
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organizing this is persecution this is a dictatorship no. way though is the president of the opposition controlled legislature which is not recognized by the little government but sixty countries including most of latin america europe the u.s. and canada recognized by the law as venezuela's interim president. as the power struggle escalates venezuela remains nearly paralyzed by more than three weeks of power blackouts and acute water shortages. that desperate residents of this working class caucus neighborhood waited to fill containers from a spring that leaks water into a parking lot these people have been here since five o'clock in the morning and it's now almost midday it's very very hot they haven't had water for five days and tempers are really beginning to flare as they try to break their way in past that gate to try to get a little bit of water. the police arrived just in time to restore order but
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people say as. last month decision to ration power for the next thirty days in an attempt to stabilize power and water supplies is not in us feel like our family there's no water no power nothing works no metro no transportation we have to beg for a drop of water no one can work like this well not only on a good argument it's easy to blame the united states but nicolas maduro is the one who's responsible for what happens in venezuela. but some believe there's another culprit. but it is to blame he says he wants our president to go but even without water and power we will remain firm by his side. for how long is the question as well and his supporters attempt to elevate the pressure for regime change despite the growing risks you see in human i'll just see that crack us. in
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the news ahead as the united nation warns of ongoing food insecurity in africa we will look at how ten years dealing with a regional hunger crisis and we'll check out the extraordinary range of finalists competing for top photography prize in the united states. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast what we do have some big changes here across parts of western europe over the next few days the nice conditions that you had last week are all changing and we are going to be seeing temperatures coming back to more like a winter feel in some locations for london you're going to be going down to about nine degrees as your high here on tuesday with rain as well as wins and if you look at zurich well not too bad here on tuesday but a big change by the time we get towards wednesday and we even had snow in the
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overnight hours across much of this area can be dropping about nine degrees there down towards madrid you just on the edge of the rain we do expect to see attempts there about eighteen degrees but still looking quite nice out here towards much of the east warsaw is going to see a partly cloudy day with a temperature of fourteen degrees there where we are seeing some well conditions here across much of morocco still cloudy over the next few days we have seen rain off and on across much of that area as well as across parts of algeria as well as we go from tuesday to wednesday we're going to be seeing a lot of that clouds making its way up here across much of the northern coast so algiers is going to be a cloudy day tunis a cloudy day as well but out here towards the east we're looking quite nice for cairo with a temperature of twenty five in benghazi a cool one thousand degrees. egypt strongman is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is
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deafening the us was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo a on al-jazeera. or with al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour algeria's president about the has agreed to step down by the end of the month giving into weeks of pressure from protesters it's unclear though if the move would satisfy his opponents who've also
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been calling for the whole regime to go. but his prime minister to resign and senior ministers for marathon talks on bragg's it's still divided over whether to push for a no deal to accept the soft departure from the e.u. or to call a general election of venezuela's highest court is calling for the opposition leader to be stripped of his parliamentary immunity chief justices want to dissipate an order barring him from leaving the country. a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helped the united arab emirates spy on prominent arab media figures according to a special report from reuters targets for the hackers included the chairman of al-jazeera the host of a b.b.c. arabic television show the hack part of a u.s. intelligence program exposed by reuters earlier this year this is their report. i am hoping that cooler heads will prevail when the united arab emirates and its allies broke with neighboring could tor over a host of grievances in june twenty seventh
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a group of american hackers working for a secret u.a.e. spy program sprang into action as first revealed by reuters those american operatives had once worked for the n.s.a. and other u.s. spy agencies but they now worked as part of a u.a.e. cyber squad called project raven using skills they learned in the u.s. to spy on opponents of the u.a.e. monarchy the team of americans now turn those skills an american ally qatar as the u.a.e. joined by saudi arabia egypt and baccarin imposed a blockade accusing could torah financing extremist groups in the region welder's correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or a van ramped up its monitoring of. you know of qatar in general of its surveillance of qatar and specifically ramped up its you know its surveillance of media figures according to documents the u.s.
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mercenary hackers begin targeting a number of journalists especially those at the could tor funded al-jazeera network both countries viewed the network's expansive coverage of the arab spring uprisings as a deliberate attempt by qatar to fuel opposition to their monarchs al-jazeera says it's an independent news service giving a voice to everyone in the region former operative say their goal as they hack their targets was to find material showing that could torre's royal family was pulling strings in the local media since the emirate is believe that these journalists have such a close ties to the qatari government they believe that by hacking the i phones of these reporters. you know that it would give them access to like emails or messages or intelligence about the qatari government it so. off the u.s.a.'s ministry of foreign affairs did not respond to requests for comment in the n.s.a. declined to comment according to program documents by its all customers one target
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he is the host of a popular debate show on al-jazeera cult opposite directions the network's chairman was also hacked the u.s. ambassador to qatar during the gulf crisis day michelle smith said she found it alarming that american intelligence veterans were able to work for another government in targeting in america now ari the children of the murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi have reportedly received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the kingdom us newspaper the washington post which she wrote for says his four children have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia and that on top of that they are getting large monthly payments the article also says question of just two sons and daughters may soon get payouts with tens of millions of dollars each as so-called blood money of course killed six months ago after enduring the saudi consulate in istanbul mozambique is set to start a major vaccination campaign to contain a cholera outbreak nine hundred thousand vaccine doses are due to arrive in the
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city of barrow which was devastated by psycho nido last month the number of confirmed cases in the area has jumped to more than a thousand with an estimated two hundred people being infected every day more than eight hundred people were killed in the storm which swept through southern africa let's talk to me to miller about the she's in johannesburg i mean this is sort of chasing their own tail here obviously the outbreak is already there but i guess vaccinating and just trying to stop the spread even further. and that's what's especially important for the aid organizations they're considering as you've said the number of cases have doubled each day since that outbreak began last week now hitting one thousand and fifty two people and of course mozambique isn't demick to color the last outbreak affected about two thousand people now these vaccinations are due to arrive at some point during the day today they hope to target enough people to try and contain that outbreak but of
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course in the situation awareness a head of that is very important and also managing to access affected areas so far the united nations says it's set up about eleven treatment centers which is significant given the scale of the outbreak but trying to work as quickly as possible and trying to get to those areas to vaccinate people who could be affected given that embarrass the sanitation as well as the the water infrastructure was severely damaged following that cycle that's what you want to ask you about anything more about bare itself because that was the place which we saw the most of we saw how cut off it was we saw how bad it was recovery must be taking a really long time. and one of the main issues kemal of course is just how they would deal with treatment given that infrastructure was so badly damaged a central hospital in barrow at that point the roof had been blown off they had run
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out of medicines or walk quickly approaching a critical state so the work that these aid organizations do and what's coming in from the international community is really important to the the muslim beacon the government has said that it's working as quickly as possible to deal with this outbreak but infrastructure continues to be a problem the response really at this point is trying to coordinate the agencies involved as quickly as possible to make sure that the affected area is dealt with they have opened some of the roads that were closed jus to that cycle which prevented aid from coming in and perhaps accessing some of these devastated areas so there has been some improvement in the two weeks following that cycle but still a very challenging situation there massive isn't it thank you for the update there from johannesburg the united nations is war and climate related disasters in our
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leaving millions of people around the world fighting against hunger every day a report by the u.s. food agency says more than one hundred thirteen million people across fifty three countries experience acute hunger and needed food aid in twenty eight the worst food crisis was in yemen followed by c. afghanistan ethiopia and syria countries in africa remain disproportionately affected by food insecurity one of those countries kenya with a northern region often suffers from food shortages like its ethiopian and sudanese neighbors drought regularly leads to loss of harvest so catherine soy has been looking at the issue from to qana in the north with. mozes epee on did not hesitate when his calls to help unload aid trucks are arriving into canada their car emergency food supplies to help thousands of kenyans on the brink of starvation. the construction worker lives in the administrative capital more but
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he's not faring much better than villagers in remote areas back home as he walks out his family's weekly budget moses reckons he'll need to make at least ten dollars to buy basic food supplies on a good day and that on building sites but those days are increasingly feel and far between. has become so difficult the drought has made beings even under this time last year we could get jobs more frequently than now it's tough for everyone no matter where they leave commodity prices across the country have gone up in the last few years but it's was in areas like this because traders buy their goods from other far off regions and then mock up their costs to make their margin one in three kenyans don't have enough to eat reported a global hunger index last year. some of the cultural experts estimate african farmers suffer forty eight billion dollars of losses to their harvests every year
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kenyan firmest lose half a billion what needs to be done policies that actually help to drive the entire global economy to also the engine of development because dollars that can be able to reduce poverty two to four times more effective than what i said one of the top priorities for government leaders is ensuring all kenyans have enough to eat but critics say corruption and mismanagement of funds meant for development projects has made this difficult to achieve this government tells us he's trying the best he can with limited resources one thing that we are focusing on now. it is to set aside and to commercialize and this is the discussions we'll be having with the farmers and the people living in those areas so there's a land to commercialize where we invite the private sector to come and do. education using new technology with the hope of increasing food availability
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government workers maintain these enough food for bruce in drought affected areas but many kenyans want more to be done to make sure that no one goes to bed hungry catherine soy al-jazeera to kana north western kenya the truck administration has directed customs and border protection to speed up the deployment of seven hundred fifty officers to the southern us border they're being moved to handle the number of undocumented central american migrants at the border with mexico and to stop them from trying to enter the u.s. washington says it will ramp up its efforts to return asylum seekers to mexico or. castro with more on this one from washington. this memo from u.s. homeland security secretary here's to nielsen says as many as seven hundred fifty u.s. border patrol agents may be reallocated from where they're currently position which maybe interior checkpoints are processing commercial trade to these hot spots right
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on the border where they're seeing an influx of central american families and unaccompanied minors crossing without authorization into the u.s. that number is that it is at an eleven year high in march and expected one hundred thousand people who are entering the u.s. in that manner to seek asylum from poverty and gangs in their home countries now because of this the border patrol has been complaining that they are overwhelmed that they're putting people under bridges processing them at a breakneck speed and having to free them at bus stops and other places just on the border streets of the u.s. in texas and in arizona and in california and nielsen is saying that this is going to redeploy those assets so that more border patrol agents are available to process this mass influx of people seeking asylum in the u.s. the second part of this announcement would be to expand the remain in mexico
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program which is very controversial because rather than allowing asylum seekers to wait the months or years that it takes for these. cases to be decided by a u.s. immigration judge they've been staying in the united states during this wait but now the trouble ministration is sending them to mexico a place that could be dangerous according to advocates for immigrants as well as possibly illegal international asylum laws says that these asylum seekers must be protected as their process continues. the greek prime minister alexis tsipras due to begin his visit to its newly named north macedonia this would be the first visit by a greek leaders of the former yugoslav republic ten months after both countries sunday historic agreement to end a decades long dispute over the name messager. now prizes for a prestigious photo competition are due to be awarded in washington more than forty
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eight thousand pictures submitted for this year's contest at the smithsonian institution to members now who helped organize the qantas to get to explain how it works hi i'm jeff companion i'm a photo editor at smithsonian magazine and i'm melissa wiley i manager of special projects for smithsonian dot com smithsonian's annual photo contest is a competition for photographers worldwide and the purpose of it is to find photography that inspires and captivates our readers every year we have six categories american experience natural world travel people altered images in mobile when you get down to sixty final last all of them have technical elements technical excellence and one thing that i think it really boils down to is impact i oftentimes look for something that an image that has many layers of
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meaning something that you want to go back to it and look at it again and again and again and get different different different points information each time you look at it. almost like listening to an album over and over again and learning hearing new bits there's an image where there's a group of folks reenacting the passion of the christ and it's i love it because it's almost like it's almost a painting esque and it's in its creation the. the most grotesque emotions that are effect on people's faces to the extreme emotions that are affecting their faces and the layering of the composition is. really draws the reader in or there are many people who have not seen the world of these crossing over them are river what i love about that image in particular in comparison to other images of the world of these crossing is the fact that you have those two will the beast almost emerging from darkness you see the world at least on the shore that i've made it over and
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then the two just appearing for a very dramatic cloud of dark and that's what i find powerful about that and much photography transcends language right we have people who don't speak english very well who are submitting to our contest and it's beautiful that those stories can be shared universally and i think that's a powerful talking. headlines for you here on al-jazeera algeria's the president of the disease but the fact that has agreed to step down by the end of the month giving into weeks of pressure from protests what's unclear though is if the move would satisfy his opponents who have also been calling for the removal of the whole political establishment all from neighboring tunisia. is still an ongoing political impasse it doesn't seem to be.
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solving anytime soon for different reasons people now are saying as a reaction to the announcement from the presidency about the caretaker government that president. is no longer a legitimate president of therefore he has to step aside and he has no right to issue any decrees or any statements what is quite obvious as we speak is that there is a power struggle between the military establishment led by general. and president guys with his entourage other headlines british prime minister to resign may has summoned senior ministers from marathon talks on bragg's that they believe to be divided over whether to push for a no deal except a soft departure from the e.u. or to call a general election venezuela's highest court is calling for the opposition leader to be stripped of his parliamentary immunity the chief justice says one why don't dissipate in order which is barring him from leaving the country reuters is reporting a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helps the united arab emirates to spy on prominent arab media
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figures as hack part of a u.a.e. intelligence program exposed by the news agency earlier this year targets for the hackers included the chairman of al-jazeera the host of a b.b.c. arabic television show and mozambique is to start a major vaccination campaign to contain a cholera outbreak nine hundred thousand vaccine doses are due to arrive in the city of barrow which was devastated by cycling each day last month the number of confirmed cases in the area has now jumped to more than a thousand with an estimated two hundred people being infected every day all up more than eight hundred people were killed in the storm which swept through southern africa you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera we are back with more right after inside story. armed vehicles transporting the wrong it's. gone one to one east explain more you did. it and
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don't want to speak. to. the united nations peacekeeping mission in mali has been called the most deadly on earth many soldiers have died trying to calm this west african nation that's in the grip of armed groups and now some countries are pulling their troops out just when the violence is spreading so what's next for mali this inside story. hello and welcome to the program i am paul and molly is facing war that's the warning from president abraham. of the country struggles to contain what the u.n. calls a significant surge in violence just ten days ago more than one hundred.
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