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india through bangladesh and heading over towards me and ma wanted to show as a possibility here but the hope whether that early pre monsoon heat continues not cool could top forty degrees celsius or more of the forty one here as we go on through sunday a little more clavell more rain up towards the follow the bangladesh into nepal a bit of cloud two into the far north of pakistan just pushing across northwestern corner of india fair bit of cloud to come across iran into the reagan peninsula still a few showers that western side of iraq but it's fine and dry. where the wrong line. is to be able to incite expressing exactly what is happening in the moment and what it needs. or if you join. israel is an apartheid state and the cleansing of the people is
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a dialogue everyone has a voice and we want to hear from you. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera one hundred forty five fighters loyal to libyan warlord have to surrender to forces allied to the u.n. but government troops are pushing towards the capital raising fears of renewed fighting algerian media reporting the intelligence chief has been fired. as a retired army general who is a close ally of the former president of. the british prime minister. the
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european union for another delay to bret's a. three month extension until the end of june. let's get more on our top story that's the conflict in libya. a retired military general who's joining us from beirut thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera there are reports that some of the armed groups from the western libyan city of misurata have started arriving in tripoli to defend the capital from from the front half the forces who has the upper hand here militarily. first of all it seems that the general have thought of us having this upper hand and the first of the offensive which he launched against tripoli but what happened in. the western forces stormed the one twenty something camp where the how far his forces the taken over.
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they captured one of them one hundred forty of his forces and looted that it with banks which constituted a major setback for general haftar and i think that this will. make him give in to the negotiations of the united nations secretary-general mr gutted as this afternoon. and. given that the united nations security council as well is going to meet soon and listen for this special envoy mr censor lammy. briefing. on what is going on in libya right now and i think this is. one bad government or the forces of the u.n. back government or the local armed groups that perhaps they are allied with do
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they have the air and manpower to defend the capital. there is a difference between the forces of khalifa haftar which they have command and control. over all the units that are going to do this army. whereas the national government has its own forces in tripoli and allied forces in several parts in western libya they don't have the same. command and control both sides so far did not use the. force and i don't think that the able to use it in this conflict now. the split between east and west libya is very deep. and the tribes on every side. each side of libya they are loyal to the. center ten commandment the national unity government
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in the west of benghazi and the east ok last parliament. after so it is difficult to impossible for khalifa haftar out of to achieve a dramatic decisive victory as was shown by his movement yesterday all right thank you for speaking to us from beirut. the united states has revoked the entry visa for the chief prosecutor of the international criminal courts a. pending request to investigate allegations of work crimes by u.s. forces in afghanistan since the twenty seventeen secretary of state. said the us which is not a member of the i.c.c. would withdraw or deny visas to i.c.c. staff investigating such allegations as office insists this will not affect her work with the u.n. which is based in new york un human rights experts and the european union have all
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condemned the move for war on this alan fisher is joining us from washington d.c. so i suppose alan it's not really a surprise because this is something that the u.s. had threatened to do. exactly this is been rumbling on since late twenty seventeen when the i.c.c. said it was considering investigating potential war crimes committed in afghanistan not just by u.s. forces but by the taliban and the haqqani network as well they were particularly interested in the period between two thousand and three and two thousand and four that would be the time just after the war there when a number of high profile targets as they were called were taken to so-called black sites outside of afghanistan by the u.s. and the detainees there suggested that they had experienced torture that it's experience rape that experience sexual violence so the i.c.c. were very keen to investigate all of that now remember the united states is not
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a member of the i.c.c. neither is china neither is russia and they were opposed to this investigation and might prompt the u.s. secretary of state said that they would do all they could to protect americans who were simply taking action to protect the united states and the criticize the i.c.c. for even considering opening an investigation because they believe that that impinged on u.s. sovereignty but as you've heard some human rights experts say that this is improper conduct by the united states of the nothing to fear they should let the i.c.c. do its work but they have revoked the visa and that means once you comes to investigate she can come into the u.s. although she can apply for a diplomatic passport to visit the united nations as per normal ok alan fischer thank you. saudi arabia is reported to have detained eight people including two dual us saudi citizens in a new round of arrests of activists the associated press and reuters say the dual
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citizens are related to the use of a woman standing trial over her campaigning for women's rights a source says that all those arrested were targeted for having ties to jailed activists or supporting women's activism in the kingdom mean mars army says at least six muslims were killed and several others injured in a helicopter attack by its army earlier this week it happened in the western rakhine state the military now says the room were affiliated with an armed rebel group has more from dhaka. myanmar army has admitted that at least six muslim growing as were killed in an aerial attack and nine others were injured now they're saying these were armed groups and term them as terrorist however other sources are saying including their owing as an army rebel groups are saying most of this drawing guys were innocent cutters and were randomly killed in an aerial attack by helicopter gunships international red cross society as well as me and my red cross
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are saying thirteen people are now being treated in a hospital but they don't in western iraq and state our sources are saying that the recent engagement between me and my army in iraq on army rebel groups has increased significantly raising tension between bangladesh and myanmar border in january at least thirteen myanmar security forces were killed in an ambush by the our economy rebel group in february two hundred but this from chines state crossed into bangladesh because of this conflict all this have given a new dimension the conflict in the border area between bangladesh and me on my raising concern on thursday the prime minister has in a press statement say that she wants a peaceful resolution of repatriation between bangladesh and myanmar and do not want any conflict in a press statement the un's agency for children warns environmental disaster is
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linked to climate change are threatening the lives of nineteen million children in bangladesh unicef says nearly twelve million of them live in and around river systems where there's a high risk of life threatening floods another four and a half million children live in coastal areas regularly struck by powerful cyclists almost half a million are run into refugees living in flimsy tents that barely protect them and a further three million children live inland where farming communities suffer increasing periods of droughts. each family has a story to tell of loss and devastation and all because of climate change. mohamed left lower islands in the bay of bengal where rising water levels and floods are fast becoming the norm and all of the guys in morning we came to dhaka because the river washed away our home there's no work there so i'm here to try and find one i have a lot of loans to repay the money he's finding it hard to adjust to his new city
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life its along with his wife worries most about the future of their daughter. does a middle manager and my hope is to raise my daughter as a good human being and i would like her to live in a decent environment and. unicef reports that climate change is displacing millions of bangladeshis and many children are missing out on an education with some forced into child labor and even prostitution it says girls are the most vulnerable. it takes a lot of money to send your children to school in dhaka i can't afford to educate my children my son does not go to school. two thirds of bangladesh lines five metres above sea level and the bay of bengal has one of the fastest rising sea levels in the world. experts are warning that if nothing is done to reverse these changes the consequences for the country's one hundred sixty million people will be
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dire the global leaders have to come in that they have to go something serious in respect of emissions better have to develop they have been has that ambition that by the year two thousand and fifty or two thousand one hundred we have to go for digital carbon emission so that this is not only the bottom line there should be say whole while have to be see. the world bank says by twenty fifty more than thirteen million people in what it calls its highly climate vulnerable country will be displaced. that may be decades away but for those living in doc was overcrowded slums it's a reality right now. so to hide out. the african development bank has promised around one hundred million u.s. dollars to reconstruct parts of big zimbabwe and malawi all devastated by cycle
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from the miller has the latest from. we're at one of several temporary shelters that have been set up here in various cities one of the areas hardest hit by the flood and the psych loan that hit just over two weeks ago and aid organizations saying people coming into the city and finding shout in financial places like that has made their work likely easier they are places across apollo province that still remain inaccessible difficult to get to because they still live waters those haven't receded and it's only once that happens and once roads are opened and there is access will aid organizations be able to spread their services and these facilities across this province for now bringing people into beirut is important the provision of shelter but also a create key priority is that of food and who'd water as well as healthy the major concern is health considering that there is an outbreak of cholera that so
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far it did two thousand people the government has said two people have died so far but that's based on the records they have people who have actually entered camps and medical facilities looking for help given that there are areas they haven't reach that number could rise significantly demonstrators in the south african township of alexandra have decided to expand their protests to other cities their frustration stems from what they say is the government's failure to deliver public services. the latest protest organizers say it doesn't really make much sense demonstrating over the weekend to the plan is on monday they're going to have what they're calling a total shutdown they say that means here in exile the township nothing is going to move to because no transom be on the roads but they say to have a bigger impact for the rich people to see that they're also planning to march to sense in which the very rich area in which the head is but that's where the johannesburg stock exchange is that's where the big shopping malls are that's where
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the mayor. office home in my shop is well they say the message to those people and politicians who live and stay in staten is that this is what's going to happen if they keep ignoring the plight of the poor the communities that we can continuously give them a go to the social. issues that are happening now happening on the ground affecting the people on the ground people who want to speak to the mayor who must come and encourage the community as visitor present a tip of the community of johannesburg the service delivery protests are just happening in johannesburg in other parts of the country people employed areas are taking to the streets demanding better services such as access to running water heater health care better education for land housing for themselves and their children a sign that a lot of the poor black majority in south africa growing increasingly impatient this is an election year if so happening next month politicians especially really african national congress under pressure to deliver all eyes of course will be on those elections and people suspect they'll be
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a lot more of these protests as people rise up onto the streets complain to the politicians to mine to change their mind and actions as those elections will pass. south koreans are using their smartphones to tap into the world's first nationwide five g. internet service on wednesday the country became the first complete superfast mobile coverage has more. events like this one have ensured there is maximum hype for the launch of five g. and south korea becomes the first country to offer nationwide coverage as one of the most digitally connected places on the planet it would be strange if south korea was not first with five g. this event by one of the service providers is in conjunction with samsung that at the mo which is the only ham phone maker in south korea that offers a device fast enough to handle the incredible speeds of five g. a but they won't be the only ones for long all the other tablets and handphone makers playing catch up given the anticipated demand for five g.
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units. not hard to see why the super fast internet speeds many times faster than current four g. speeds will offer all kinds of possibilities in terms of streaming content a virtual reality or mentored reality the gaming applications and so on for consumers here in south korea for consumers anywhere in the world what is there not to like watching young at and i'm expecting to use a high quality video on video phone calls and virtual reality and so much faster speed. with south korea providing the quickest telecom service in the world i have high expectations. i watch a lot of videos so i think it's going to be good for netflix and you tube there are of course the wider implications of five g. force a society and the way we live our lives the ability to move vast amounts of data with almost no delay is reckoned will have a transformative impact on things like robotics driverless vehicles even drones to
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deliver things for korea companies there are of course security concerns about having so much more data and access points to it you just have to look at the controversy over chinese manufacturing while away and concerns about it controlling infrastructure for five g. in places like the u.s. and elsewhere but certainly here in south korea the government believes that five g. is essential for the country to keep its economic competitiveness and as far as the consumers are concerned they believe they need five g. and they need it now. that blinds on al-jazeera i think the hundred forty five fighters loyal to libya war of twenty five have to have surrendered to forces allied to the u.n. back government have to us troops are pressing towards the capital raising fears of for fighting more than one has has more from tripoli. in the west of
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tripoli forces from misrata alongside forces from tripoli allied with you and back the government of national accord are now advancing to the south of tripoli to join other forces allied with the government of national accord in the area of. that's north of the un with clashing against forces loyal to the world. we understand that. the prime and back to prime minister has given orders to the. force to engage and launch strikes against any military activities that would target the capital tripoli algerian media reporting the intelligence chief has been fired or the man tiger is a retired army general is a close ally of the former president of the laws he's going to flicker and these are life scenes from the capital jurors where protesters have gathered once again
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and they're demanding the prime minister and the speaker of the upper house step down immediately the british prime minister to resign me has asked the european union for another delay to practice it in a letter to the e.u. may has asked for a three month extension until the end of june the u.k. is due to leave the bloc in a week parliament has not agreed on a withdrawal deal. the united states has revoked the entry visa for the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court. has a pending request to investigate allegations of war crimes by u.s. forces in afghanistan since november twenty seventh seen the secretary of state michael paya has said the us which is not a member of the i.c.c. would withdraw or deny visas to i.c.c. staff investigating such allegations so they were reported to have detained eight people including two u.s. citizens in a new round of arrests of activists the associated press and reuters say the dual citizens are related to the use of a woman standing trial over her campaigning for women's rights those are the
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headlines they stream is coming up next right here on al-jazeera. benjamin netanyahu is fighting for a fifth term as prime minister of israel using his friendship with tears over security and race but he faces corruption charges and a trio of chiefs trying together to unseat him so it's a chance in the upcoming israeli elections get to late. life imitates art at least in ukraine where a comedian famous for a t.v. role as the country's president could soon wind power for real. and i might have a dean as well that mirrors alinsky aims to unseat the current president in the final round of elections well look at ukraine's next day send your thoughts through twitter and you tube.
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ukraine's next president a celebrity with no political experience or a much criticised billionaire businessman with a presidential term already under his belt ukrainians will choose in a decisive poll in less than three weeks time volodymyr is a landscape is famous for his role in servant of the people hit show in which he plays a schoolteacher who improbably becomes ukraine's president now he wants to lead in real life in the first round of the country's presidential election on sunday he finished way ahead of incumbent petro poroshenko and in a display of made for t.v. shelmon ship selenski is urging his rival to debate and he have a lympics stadium. i'm waiting for you here at the olympic stadium out of respect to at least one third if ukraine citizens you must publicly say it debates will be held not with the puppets of the kremlin or an oligarchy not with a supporter of progress and rebels not with
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a piece of trash and not with a clown but with ukrainian presidential candidates selenski like i give you twenty four hours i think if they. want to put the being the president and commander in chief is not a game it is not a desire to be likeable debates are held not for the sake of a show at the stadium but if you want to be at the stadium let it be at the stadium i am waiting for you vladimir zelinsky. but don't let has been thrown now for more on the election and the issues around it we are joined from kiev by peter dickinson he's a research fellow at the atlantic council and the publisher of business ukraine also in the ukrainian capital. she is a lawyer at the anti corruption action center and similar say is an al-jazeera reporter who has covered the ukrainian elections she joins us from doha welcome everyone to the stream peter i want to start with you we saw that video there what
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can you tell us about the law to me as a linsky and why he was so successful in the first round of this presidential election. well essentially he is. the establishment. he is fighting against the status quo his greatest strength he has no experience. his greatest weakness is that at this stage in the campaign he represents the ultimate protest. and i think it feels a little strange that he's not simply popular because he played the president he being a major celebrity in ukraine for around twenty years now and in that household name known to everyone very well like we've seen is a very charming charismatic son because i'm not an unknown sprung from the you know the the fringes of buffy great strength not involved in the political environment and the t.v. show about being a huge part of the campaign facially the show in the show and then every man
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credited who has the system which is betrayed to the sheriff in a grotesque man even by a crazy. and you crazy but it is pretty scary but in the show it is out of extreme scene with all the things that. most ukrainians are effectively with and. i think well he dealt with the protests will be there you say he developed in that protest he represents the protest vote what does that protest about look like what did those people care about we have a tweet from eugene petrusha saying foreign policy keeping rush said bait the rule of law widespread corruption are key the economy's not growing much but key issues are lack of confidence high interest rate society is less enthusiastic and more tired compared to the euro maidan period. when you see that tweet obviously there are many other issues that stake does that ring true as to what these people are upset about in ukraine. it to say true that people in
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ukraine have long waited long after the euro my don't protest for changes to start happening but five years have passed and they have not seen a single achievement they are saying that the end to corruption bureau was set up but teeth were not given to that body so take her option court has not been set up and but i should go keeps promising that he's going to get serious on tackling corruption but his time is up and he still has nothing to show for it and the only . woman today he can speak it off is that he is. like strong speeches against russia and the people who support him are actually. finding it hard to find anything else to praise here they're saying that he's our guarantor
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for peace but they acknowledge that he has not done anything to improve ordinary ukrainians lives so i wanted to pick up on that elaborating a little bit more with some voices of some of those people and i want to share with our audience what if you residents of kiev had to say the day after the first round of voting to listen. and we still think of her from my point of view this election as a form of mass protest because we will choose where we will be in ten to fifteen years and what country our children and grandchildren will live that is why i appreciate the selection for the thing you're. using and of course i'm satisfied we voted for selenski everything is cool in fact it was expected that there would not be push and go in the second round and it was expected that it would be yulia timoshenko everything went not bad we expect that everything will be fun so. don't make you
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well as usual we are hopeful but we do not know what the result will be but there is hope of course selenski is leading we hoped it would be another candidate hopefully everything will be. so she mentioned we do not know what the result would be and that last comment there one thing that might help us figure out what will happen in the next round of this election is the debate so we saw the very top of the show the challenge there from zelinsky to have a debate with the incumbent president and the incoming president has picked it up and said all right let's go we're doing in the olympic stadium we're going to debate this what do you make of this whole scene there and what this debate might bring. we hope to be the real brain and a.d.'s it at last to the conversation because currently we have station when current president he's talking about he's some.
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pasta achievements. but people know that a lot of the situations are good in paper but they took too long time to be made and they are mad about broken promises about see if the reforms that have been postponed and the demand of just taste was not brought to the people so they were up and they project every seen to save and as their. challenger to that so now that this was the first during the first earth now they hope to hear it ideas from the both candidates what are they planning to do because during the last month his boss poroshenko and selenski employed him to reduce obesity bend and jordan are urgently stability in their debates. so now people who want to speak. they will speak i would imagine and that's why the new round of elections is
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happening but we also have people speaking directly to us and some people at length on twitter we have a thread here i'm going to just kind of give you the highlights anastasio deluca saying you know they're aware the youth there in ukraine that poroshenko is corrupt and has faults but most people she knows ended up voting for him anyways because he's the least of all evils then she goes on to say his voters don't trust too much sankoh usually they consider her a betrayer of the country a phony a friend of the russian someone who is corrupt and who would sell her country in a heartbeat but then the stuff here goes on to say the lenski is also not trusted her friends consider him to be a clown who just like trump started a joke they got way out of and they consider him to be a pro russian and they also make a big deal out of the fact that apparently he doesn't speak ukrainian very well now tamil i see that you're smiling and peter you're nodding to me why don't we get your reaction to honest. it's interesting that people say that asking is
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going to tackle corruption and. he's our whole but actually nobody has any indication off how he's going to be able to achieve that he has no or nothing to show to prove that he's like capable off dealing with such an important issue and he was tackled corruption only in a sitcom and as an actor like he has. people that he cares about corruption and he's a able to tackle it but actually if it was just on t.v. it was like a part all show as a sitcom so people like seem to have believed him just because he was playing a role often and the corruption buster. and and people who actually i have an anecdote about people who. even though they don't believe in him like i was talking to a mind on protester in hot give and she said she was going to like close her eyes
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and vote we have like a heart full of shame because. she was saying that i really don't believe in him he. disappointed everybody who was standing on my down like a five years ago but they're like i you look at the ballot and i see nobody else and she was saying that she was actually each telling off her father for saying that he would support for her saying go and then weeks later she and she realize that she also doesn't have any other alternatives so i want to illustrate what you're saying there peter i'll get to see what i just wanted to break in briefly to illustrate what tim of that was saying there with this gallup poll from not too long ago this is march twenty first it was it was published world low nine percent of ukrainians confidence in government you can just see the stats rate here ukrainian confidence in government is among the lowest in the world and there you see it there peter. yeah i'll only the issue of that and the.
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manifesto all lack all credentials a lot and i think this is a key part of it's accepted that he everything to everyone and he can be whatever you want him to be to the degree because he doesn't say exactly what he represents and he's not clear about his policies so at this stage. a lot of voters are able to say well i like him and he often why mitt will because he doesn't like me it's all about me didn't say what he represents and people are hoping that in the next few weeks he'll be a little clearer up you'll get actually say what he represents but. this is why the bank is seen as such an important event within the campaign how small certainly would normally be in a presidential campaign my stuff in the dean is that the debate won't happen because i don't think that people risk being exposed really all the nasty but i don't want to leave how we say face he's the wind that hands and this is a tip that he brought the challenge well no one looks like he can actually actually
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not not true the divine is is part of ukraine political tradition it always happen but it's expected to happen there was a lot of noise immediately after the first round saying ok now in the kind of debate the lead event came out with a video proposal saying that to be in the full tank and he gave a little least of all do we parsing curry's to ex-wives say a lot of that frankly was quite. forward of him quite the doctors among them i dr natalie among them with the suggestion that he is a drug addict too and i know it was quite a provocative stuff and well the assumption presumably with the person who would say no question here is yes so today the libby came out with that second that you know in which he said ok let's make him a shake out of place candidate the moderator of the big bash now because he was. genuine do it out of here but it's not as though it looks like he's trying to change and move the goalposts. to use
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a stadium bathroom because he doesn't want to go on stage and speak he doesn't want to be exposed and. shot to this illusion that he is this virtual kind well speaking of shattering illusions peter as you were outlining some of those facts right there it was impossible for me not to think of a parallel that exists here in the u.s. not to let link president trump to the lansky but it does seem that with the provocative social media youth angle that there are similarities the reason i bring this up is we have a live comment coming in on you tube from kiev stuff saying i'm astonished that in times of hybrid war with russia my people is voting for an inexperienced pro russian comedian with that in mind i'm curious i mean do you believe that he is pro russian is there evidence to suggest that beyond the poor ukrainian accent supposedly. spring training action is base it's that he's at nicole
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russian from russian speaking region. that's not their biggest claim of he went. there because they used to he worked for russian like entertainment market a lot he had worked in business in russia and until recently actually and she was quite successful in russia. he's never said any seen against. russian government. so he also has that in common with president trump. no probably i didn't i then know how much i don't from work in russia and i was it was a joke i said of in here i have to you know i'll give us as it is it was never complimentary. and i've never heard that recently in the recent months in compliment very complimentary russia and what he would do like heart points. about
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his next apps what would be his policy and to decide in the morning he said buy a ticket how to return creamy antiquity is there he would say he speaks and it is he's going to openly about the about. you know he doesn't pull his punches as you know there is a clear there is a pro russian camp in ukraine still and they are very they are employed in the kind of ambiguous language that the russians themselves use about conflict resolution speaks very openly about russian more about russian attack about roger is an aggressor. but he does come around working very closely roger who is a russian speaker i think also for a lot of ukrainians he's made a lot of jokes about ukraine in ukraine i dance in the language in his career as a comedian which is not what i was he doesn't sit very well someone who now wishes to become the united states there was one job he told couple of years ago
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which actually might be relevant to the discussion. in which he compared ukraine to a porn actress or cross that she's. in front of a lot of russians and today he's his campaign team came out and they tried to down this you know to downplay this and all of you concluded a profit you said ukraine is a one stop this this does sound better but of course at times the comedian that was fine as the presidential candidate must start to look quite questionable of course and so of course we cannot talk about russia or bring up pressure without than mentoring also the ongoing conflict in the. more because among the things that voters say are important to them is this conflict of this war the fighting corruption and also the economy but i want to talk about the war a little bit because election observers have said that that is one of the things that people are worried about and they say that many ukrainians have been left out of this political process so they can't even vote on that topic not least because
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of the conflicts i have a look at this clip from monday a nato official we cannot ignore the election took place in a very difficult security context thousands of ukrainians ukrainians have lost their lives in armed conflict initiated by russia russia illegally and next to crimea by force it continues its military aggression in eastern ukraine this means voters in certain parts of eastern ukraine couldn't participate in the elections so it's about i know you were on the border you spoke to voters you spoke to nonvoters what were people telling you. it seems that dyleski has a strong base there because one and one of the reasons is that he is not associated with them i don't protest so russia doesn't have to hold a grudge against him. like i like put
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a strangle because he has spoken so strongly against russia that he has no chance of reopening dialogue with mosco where i says that it is a new face so he actually has a chance of. breaking the deadlock that. have happened with moscow and i feel that production citizens so ukraine have a hope that he's going to be able to change the status quo and like her example i was on. the town of mellowest which is divided by a border fence that's where we topped off by russia in two thousand and eighteen and people's lives changed overnight they were able to leave. harmony with russia and they have families divided now with this fence so they cannot visit each other because this fence was there and they blame the border shango and my town
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protests for it and now they believe that selenski. a person who could actually talk to moscow and change this situation that the border fence situation they want this the border fence to be taken away so that they can resume their intertwined life between ukraine and russia in this town and it seems that that you've put a single face there's going to be no change for ordinary people living along the border with russia to miller that's certainly one perspective that we keep hearing online but we also received a video comment that kind of focuses on the youth perspective there are some reports in the country the. there's a record number of people leaving the country as many as thirty nine percent in polling say they would leave and never come back so where does that leave the youth well alexander about gives us a tease listen to what he had to say the biggest challenges for you within your
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queen is in the gloom and the young people are on defense to move from the country or to see those who would choose to stay. there trying to go right know for mysteries and ski because he can be who was targeting the use inside their hearts are within the vitrification within the better money wouldn't it better if i and the youth also feel this in their. system they didn't build it they do growing up inside but they didn't rule this system and know a lot of people who are poor to put it through this time they don't want this system with more peter i should mention that that statistic about thirty nine percent who would leave and never come back was a gallup poll but what do you make of that perspective on the youth there in the country yeah there's been a significant. brain drain. around around the no it was on
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example perhaps as many as two million ukrainians have gone to poland for employment some of it's even though some a bit more long term that's created a lot of issues for the economy in simple terms of business is that we are all struggling to fill vacancies now that is creating enormous to your huge sense of. this illusion that he's more is more smooth. the point here. but it's a major issue and it's something that has come up as well as something. that's so. true shows the. numbers. young people are charmed by the fact that he is reaching out to them through social media and he seems more approachable and he's not using for example this tent
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that are used by conventional politicians for distributing their elect electoral campaigns they feel that he can relate to them more than other people who have been in politics for much longer well in the in the closing minutes of the show we've brought up a name here several times and so i want to share our audience who we were talking about this is in the show must go former prime minister who was also in this race came in third though and so now she's shifting her focus to parliamentary elections so on a very briefly parliamentary elections are coming up and some say they're even more important than this presidential election what are you looking out for when it comes to those. our real before actually like democratic so-called you know kind of a position to unite. to shoulder real authority and they couldn't to show they been candidates for a presidential election so we ended our freezer lansky versus bush and so we want
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more systematic local. more. professional. to come in and. take the take that was they there was a get to the parliament. the bottom interactions would be difficult because. actually the real power is the part of man and if it's up ones and ask you how many people he can bring to the parliament and he's deputy east to support him i there as a deputy president we shall see april twenty first we will be watching that's all the time we have for today but keep sending your comments and your ideas for future shows through twitter you tube and al-jazeera dot com port slash the stream just enough time for a closing comment from community one i will give it to balance a big he says poroshenko is desperate to show the landscape is real or perceived policy incompetence and willing to go very far for selenski his show must go on but he needs to avoid mistakes such a debate would be a huge event and could have
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after an. initial. the big breaking news story can be chaotic and frantic behind the scenes. people shouting instructions in your ear you're trying to provide the best most accurate up to date information as quickly as you can. it's when you come off air on things things peer that you realize this is history in the making. i made the decision every weekly news cycle brings
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a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a setback for the libyan war twenty four have to response to advance on tripoli
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more than one hundred of his fighters have surrendered to the u.n. backed government. we're live in algiers where hundreds of thousands in the algerian capital demand more change after the president abdelaziz bouteflika resigned earlier this week. the british prime minister asks the e.u. for yet another delay she wants three more months and sport the watching box have secured the best right. forgive me and be a greatest when ensuring home court advantage throughout the upcoming playoffs. ok let's get going and beginning with the military standoff in libya where one hundred forty five fighters loyal to the warlord have to surrender to forces allied to the u.n. backed government in tripoli now they're being held in zawiya and that's fifty kilometers west of the capital dozens of vehicles and weapons were also seized
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fears of renewed fighting are growing since have to move his forces from the east towards tripoli this week the u.n. secretary general antonio terror's is in libya and has met tough stuff after talks with the government in tripoli ok let's get a live update with my colleague. who's life first in tripoli mark what if he's lost so many fighters does this mean that the warlord is less powerful today than he was this time yesterday. it seems so peter because apparently this shows that have to is not really as a strong as he has been claiming the fact that one hundred forty five of his troops surrendering and the military vehicles seized by forces loyal to the u.k. and by government of national accord is somehow uncovering the real power of have
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his forces but also a force. belonging to the e.u. and back the government of national accord is put now on high alert and they are threatening to target any military activities approaching the capital tripoli as you know peter that the united nations secretary general has just met with the world for have to. and is also is also trying to. meet the speaker of the top of base to parliament agadir son which is backed by the world after an older in an attempt from british to convince them to stop the military escalation around tripoli bitterness is planning to convince them that the only the political solution is the way out of a deliberate crisis also concerning them the military advancements on the ground now forces from the city of misrata have just joined and bad the government forces
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south of tripoli alongside forces from tripoli too and they are now advancing towards the west of tripoli namely to the area of and here are. near the city of what he and which have that his forces took control of. now we we have we have been getting reports from there yan from the outskirts of the city saying that. have their forces are now in military confrontations with forces loyal to their bad government of national accord but in tripoli here in tripoli there is there is no military presence whatsoever but yet people here are what they have prayed that have there's forces enter of tripoli they will suffer another war like it happened before why is there no military presence inside the boundaries of
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the city i mean that's either very clever or very stupid it seems that the government the government of national accord is trying to mobilize its forces in the outskirts of tripoli just to defend the city or face have to his forces the are trying to evade the city there the consequences of war you know peter that tripoli suffered the constant consequences of war several times before now some large himself and bag there in baghdad prime ministers says that he is trying to push his forces away from turkey so in case any military confrontations happen again is to have to the forces of millions in tripoli want to be at the consequences peter are going to talk to later i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much well as we were reporting on to go to us is in the eastern city to
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brooke hoping to ease tensions separately the u.n. security council in new york is expected to hold an emergency meeting in a few hours from now to discuss the situation in libya other diplomats are also calling for restraint. in the situation in libya very very carefully with a great deal of concern and security to. maximize influence european influence in the situation and to try and resolve the situation as best we can. u.n. correspondent mike hanna joins us live from new york mike what can they come up with there well the security council will be coming together in emergency session the meeting it is understood called by the united kingdom certainly great concern among u.n. members about this upsurge in conflict now the secretary general antonio caetera says he we're hearing there is in libya he's been engaged in
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a form of shuttle diplomacy traveling from tripoli to benghazi which is the seat of khalifa haftar as well as driving it is understood to to brooke where he's had a meeting with a quill or son or one of. backers so certainly he's deeply involved on the ground in libya with what is happening there and i must point out peter too that he was there in effect by chance the secretary general had gone to tripoli to help organize a national reconciliation conference which was due to take place later this month so great concern at the united nations members of the security council coming together in the next few hours in closed session to discuss exactly what they can do to help alleviate that crisis is the u.n. aware of the criticism being leveled by some quarters basically saying you've not done enough or what you have done has been so weak as to be almost useless.
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yes well that criticism has been made repeatedly in recent years members are well aware of this particular criticism the degree or most of inaction since the overthrow of gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven that's exactly why the secretary general entered the fray personally so to speak going to tripoli to help set up that conference of national reconciliation which the u.n. sees essential e as the way forward what that conference was supposed to do is draw up a road map for unity within the whole of libya to bring together the divided east and west and to work together towards an electoral process to take place later in the year now that once the u.n. blueprint the fact that the u.n. secretary general went to tripoli to help organize this particular conference a clear sign perhaps that the u.n. has taken note of the criticism against it for it's a lack of effort some contend in terms of dealing with the crisis in libya since
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the fall of gadhafi mike thanks very much let's talk now to have it all go well he's a senior fellow at the foreign policy institute at john hopkins university he joins us from washington if it all go well the u.n. secretary general antonio ters beyond his message of let's have a little bit of deescalation here what can he bring to the table. i don't think much he declared yesterday a very clearly and categorically that his. number one priority is to prevent conflict and that's why he is shuttling between tripoli and benghazi but that also gives a certain kind of weight to general huffed who is using very clearly military means to try to manipulate himself into the political settlement in libya and to impose his will i think giving him a larger role in this is not a very wise move and this is really what led us to today because the international
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community and many european countries and arab countries have treated him as. a major player in libya which he is to some extent but not to the extent that heads of states are meeting with him and monarchies i think that is what in boulder to him that's what made him think that he can control the country militarily i think there should be a very clear line by the u.n. and the international community that anyone does a matter from where who use military means to try to impose his will. on on libya should not be included in any political settlement why do you think sort is doing horses doing right now is the timing significance i mean two points i guess one there is a conference churchill's for not very far away and two to see want to take some chunk of tripoli or the outskirts of tripoli so this is clear symbolism there.
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i think it's both i mean the timing is absolutely important as you mentioned there is the algerian element i think there are certain backers of have to especially the u.a.e. that has been backing him exclusively and very very strongly militarily politically financially over the years and it is basically the number one country that got him where he is today is quite nervous as we all know and this is not a secret the u.a.e. has championed a sort of all democratic efforts in the region they have always seen any popular movements in any arab country as a threat to them and they have preferred the military option in multiple countries . and i think that represented that for them in libya and i think they thought that now might be a good time to try to control libya before the issue may get out of hand i
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think there is also an international worry about. that if you end up with libya the two largest and wealthiest countries in the region libya energy area in any form of chaos you've got a very major international problem there i think also have to wants to advance his own role in any future plans that the u.n. is planning to do i mean we all know that the u.n. wanted to do this conference on april fourteenth and i think he wanted to grab as much power as he can but what do we have to remember that half that has been trying to do this for quite a long time in two thousand and sixteen he oficial lee and i know this personally from the highest of officials are they as government that the time during the obama administration he oficial a proposed to the u.s. government that he would like to enter tripoli militarily and that.

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