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around the. house. president says he will resign by the end of the month but that doesn't meet all the demands of the protesters. this is the world news from the british prime minister. again fails to vote on a tentative plan. calls for. political immunity as the u.n. warns of ongoing food insecurity in africa we're looking at how can years dealing with the regional hundred.
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president says he will leave office by the end of the month after twenty years in power but it is unclear whether that announcement from the office all of these beautifully will be enough for the millions of protesters have been on the streets calling for the whole political establishment to change this report from victoria gotti. after being abandoned by algeria's 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 eighth 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 the military and business leaders who really run the country. weeks of
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growing protests forced beautifully and his backers 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 stay for help the people are asking for everyone to leave the government meaning put a freak out and 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 be declared unfit for office but he's been locked in a power struggle with beautifully because influential brother saeed analysts say there's been confusion among algeria's ruling elite about how to respond to the protests. i
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think people are against a transitional period that is run by the regime because due would be a transitional period after april twenty eighth when the official time the president with a little 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 protesters. the government is saying it will listen but nothing will change in algeria victoria gayton be there. whether or not a failure in the u.k. parliament has prompted the prime minister to summon her cabinet for marathon talks on bragg's that parliament is divided over whether to push for a no deal breaker or to accept it with close trading ties with the e.u. alternatives put forward by members were voted down on monday. of course already rejected three times the e.u.
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chief negotiator michel says the block is not ready for a no deal scenario no deal. or. my desire. but you. are prepared. to do more. outside the houses of parliament in london only slightly ironic shall we say that these four propositions were voted down again last night by the parliament after it was supposedly all about parliament taking back control. yes well the hope was that parliament was going to be able to coalesce around an alternative to teresa mayes plan that wasn't to be. talks it means that the country remains stuck politically though it means that the ball is back in the government's court as you know. the cabinet meeting has now been.
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five hours his cabinet minister. is trying to work out what to do next although m.p.'s didn't back any one particular. reason may steal two did figure quite highly including remaining in the customs union or putting a public vote back in play again a public vote on the final deal of cools if of course a final deal can be possibly agreed on but neither of these options call the kind of backing that teresa mayes would draw agreement when he went before parliament on friday that may well be a bit of a confidence boost for the government which may well play into a possible move to resume. the game for a fourth time but it is risky she had promised to resign if. her entire political career hangs on what's going to happen to that deal if she needs to
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carefully calculate what kind of level of support may well be out there for putting that deal before parliament again meanwhile the leader of the opposition labor party. to resume a. deal m.p. should have another chance now to have another round of indicative votes possibly before the end of the week perhaps no surprise then that michele. getting itself together in time. and i think that was a bit of a confidence game really for me. is of course trying to demonstrate the twenty seven states that. are ready for whatever the. direction. coming from.
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expected things to be tricky. entering into a situation where to resume. the tenth. position of course. on april the twelfth if no deal is reached a tentative has come up with. the possibility of a leaving the e.u. without a deal today. or agreeing to a possible extension. that could drag the u.k. into european parliamentary elections which could be a reason may be having to go through the process of electing officials to an institution the country is meant to be leaving. for the prime minister. for the government. clears the m.p.'s off the back of.
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any kind of concerted support for anyone to be pushing for another. venezuela's opposition leader has denounced a supreme court move to try to have him stripped of his parliamentary immunity the chief justice says one disobeyed an order which barred him from leaving the country are still trying to remove president nicolas maduro is pushing for him to be arrested in america has more from. its opposition leader prepared to walk onto the stage at a small rally and that 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 that brings bible one step closer to being
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arrested but even means defiant obvious that. he couldn't take their offer and strip i am unity to where they see fit but we will continue working continue mobilizing on the streets and organizing this is persecution this is a dictatorship. is the president of the opposition controlled legislature which is not recognized by the my little government but sixty countries including most of latin america europe the us and canada recognized by the law as venezuela's interim president. as the power struggle escalates and israel remains nearly paralyzed by more than three weeks of power blackouts and acute what are shortages . of the 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
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it's now almost mid day 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 people say president nicolas maduro decision to ration power for the next thirty days in an attempt to stabilize power and water supplies is not enough 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 noise balogna 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
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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 crack us. zero when we come back a new report reveals the arab media who were targets of an american hacking team used by the u.a.e. i will check out an extraordinary range of finalists competing for top for top three prize in the united states. hello again and welcome back we're here across a parts of south asia we are seeing that tropical moisture make its way towards the north evident here on our satellite image anywhere from vietnam over towards cambodia and laos as well over the next few days though where it's going to be
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seeing temperatures in parts of thailand start to increase here in bangkok we must start on wednesday at about thirty three degrees possibly going up to about thirty four degrees as we go towards thursday i do want to show you down here just to the southeast of indonesia we do have the circulation right there we're going to be watching this very carefully for the potential of a tropical developing system not looking too bad right now but it could bring some rain showers across indonesia as well as into the northern territory of australia we'll be watching that over the next few days across australia though we do have high pressure dominating much of the southeast that's going to allow a lot of that interior areas to make its way across the by that means for adelaide your temperatures will be coming up over the next few days already starting out quite warm here on wednesday at about twenty nine hundred eighty s. as we go towards thursday that flow continues out of the north we do expect to see maybe thirty to thirty one degrees across that region but for melbourne it is going to be a little bit cool a few at twenty three degrees appear to us brits been a lot of sun in your forecast we do expect the temperature there about twenty eight
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degrees. the brazilian economy is booming but deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life technology help reached again. this series that challenges developers to design apps for a better world travels to rio de janeiro and meets the young people tasked with making a different life than valid far from al-jazeera. back
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to the headlines for you here on al-jazeera and algeria's president up to lizzie's but to flicker is to step down by the end of the month after twenty years in power what's unclear those if this will calm the weeks of protests calling for the removal of the whole political establishment the british prime minister someone senior members form our ministers i should say for marathon talks on bragg's that earlier the parliament failed again to agree on alternatives to to resume a steel event as well as opposition leaders denounced the supreme court move to try to have him stripped of his parliamentary immunity the chief justice to disobey an order barring him from leaving the country. a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helps the united arab emirates to spy on prominent arab media figures that is according to a special report by reuters targets for the hackers included the chairman of the al-jazeera network and a host of a b.b.c. arabic television show the hack was part of a u.a.e.
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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 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 turned 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 reuters correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or
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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 us 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 is they hacked their targets was to find material showing that could tours royal family was pulling strings in the local media since the emirate is believe that these turtles 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
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or intelligence about the qatari government at 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 he is the host of a popular debate show on al-jazeera cold opposite directions the network's chairman was also hacked the u.s. ambassador to qatar during the gulf crisis danish l. smith said she found it alarming that american intelligence veterans were able to work for another government in targeting in america now ari the family of the murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has reportedly received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the kingdom he was newspaper the washington post says the relatives have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia as well as large monthly payments it also says kushal these two sons and two daughters may soon get payouts with tens of millions of dollars in so-called blood money shoji killed six
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months ago after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. almost two days after severe storms swept a path of destruction across southern nepal rescue and recovery crews have yet to reach some remote areas these thirty one people are confirmed dead hundreds more range would be mistress there has a report now from posset district in the polls. telephone polls snapped like toothpicks collapsed homes vehicles overturned sunday night's storm left a trail of destruction in the parser districts of southern. as well as the dead and injured government ministers say at least one hundred thousand the pallies are affected. the doctor in charge of this hospital and garces says he's lucky to have survived my be here for most i was on the ruler and the bus in front of me flipped i had to do c.p.r. on people on the road as many people here have paid in juice and many have broken
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their arms and legs doctors here have been working around the clock and patients who sustained more serious injuries were taken to other hospitals some to the capital katmandu. the storm hit around seven thirty in the evening just around dinner time the fierce winds brought down many of the wood and mud houses some almost like nab sticks crushing people and trapping them in detail about prime minister has visited some patients was sick set up an interview process if you will second string theory because the doctor said there was a gun and i'm going to tell you everything that they say that i am i live in the lincoln bedroom and i never think that being a party fighting back at your guy looks like that security forces have been mobilized to help rescue operations and local groups have started to distribute aid including food and medicine many here are still recovering from the shock and the
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force of a storm never seen in their lifetimes swedish pressure as a destructive power. mozambique's about to start a major vaccination campaign to contain a cholera outbreak nine hundred thousand vaccine doses arrived in the city of barrow which was devastated by. the number of confirmed cases in the area's jump 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 he was from me to miller with more aid organizations are trying to work as quickly as possible to administer the color of vaccinations across the area which is an area which was devastated by cycle only two weeks ago now they will have about nine hundred thousand doses of the vaccine delivered to mozambique today but ahead of that awareness is very important trying to get people into treatment centers and
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trying to access areas that were devastated by the cycle and that at some point remain in excess of will the united nations will be holding an emergency meeting to coordinate its response and has also said that it's set up about eleven treatment centers across the cycle and ravaged areas now that number is significant given the extent of the outbreak now cholera is and to make to mozambique the last outbreak saw at least two thousand people affected so this is concerning for aid agencies and then a new organization responding to this outbreak that number of people affected by cholera has doubled each day since the outbreak began last week and this is especially challenging in an area where the water and sanitation infrastructure has been severely damaged. the same time the united nations is saying war and climate related disasters are leaving millions of people around the world battling hunger
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every day a report from the un's food agency says and twenty eighteen more than one hundred thirteen million people across fifty three countries experienced acute hunger and much needed and needed food aid i should say the worst food crisis was in yemen that was followed by democratic republic of congo afghanistan ethiopia and syria countries in africa remained disproportionately affected by food insecurity one of those countries kenya where the northern region often doesn't have enough food like its ethiopian and sudanese neighbors drops regularly leads to a loss of jobs catherine sawyer went to investigate in turkana in the northwest noses and pay on did not hesitate when he was called 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 administrators capital more but he's not fairing much better than villagers in remote areas back
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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 things even and. 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 mark 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 kenyan firmest lose half a billion while mr b.
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don't policies that actually hope to drive. the engine of development because dollars that border 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 more now. 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 to commercialize where we invite the private sector to come and do. it if you should using new technology. with the hope of increasing. government workers maintain these enough food for bruce in drought
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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 united states is canceling deliveries of the world's most advanced warplanes to turkey because i'm refusing to cancel an order for a russian missile defense system the americans fear the stealth capabilities of their effigy five jets will be compromised if turkey deploys the russian system due to be delivered in july it's the latest in a series of diplomatic disputes between two nato partners. mexico's president has pledged to help control the flow of central american migrants through its territory as the us government pushes to speed up the deployment of hundreds of officers to the southern border being moved to handle an influx of undocumented migrants to stop them from trying to enter the united states washington says it will ramp up its efforts to return asylum seekers to mexico more with.
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this memo from u.s. homeland security secretary here is 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 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
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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 program which is very controversial because rather than allowing asylum seekers to wait that 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 travel 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 on the the prizes for a prestigious photo competition due to be awarded to washington more than forty eight thousand pictures of
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a submissive for this year's called to step the smithsonian institution and to chain members who helped organize the call just explain to us how it all 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 oftentimes look for something that an image that has many layers of
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meaning is that if 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 are reenacting the passion of the christ and it's i love it because it's almost like it's almost a painting ask you and it's in its creation the. the most grotesque emotions that are effect on people's faces to the extreme emotions that are affected on the faces and the layering of the composition is. really draws the reader in are there 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 at 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 image photography and it transcends language right we have people who don't speak english very well who are submitting to our contests and it's beautiful that those stories can be shared universally and i think that's a powerful talking. that's running through the headlines now when al-jazeera algeria's president to deliver these beautifully curies to step down by the end of the month after twenty years in power is unclear though if that would come the weeks of protests calling for the removal of the whole political establishment has more now from neighboring tunisia . it is still an ongoing political impasse it doesn't seem to be. solving anytime soon for different reasons people now are saying as
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a reaction to the. 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 and his interest in other news the british prime minister has summoned senior ministers for marathon talks on brags that parliament still deadlocked over how the u.k. should leave the european union after failing again to agree on alternatives to terry's amaze as such the e.u. is chief breaks that negotiator michel barnier says the block is now ready for a no deal scenario. new deal. or. no new or my desire. but you is now
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prepared. to do more. and as well as opposition leader have denounced the supreme court move to try to have him stripped of his parliamentary immunity the chief justice says one disobey an order barring him from leaving the country wide always trying to remove president nicolas maduro is pushing for him to be arrested and reuters is reporting a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helped the united arab emirates to spy on well known faces in arab media the chairman of the al-jazeera network and the host of a b.b.c. arabic t.v. show are among the reported targets the espionage was part of a u.a.e. intelligence program exposed by reuters earlier this year has a long with the news hour in about twenty five minutes next life. armed vehicles transporting players riots police with a gun one on one east explains why indonesian soccer fight and die for the sports
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analogy here. it's a mobile world. cup with cold texts and apps to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefiting. chan mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world. this serious challenges app developers from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help . a life at. this week's life apps is in brazil. a country that's in love with this.
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