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it should have done the round up some of the other figures though it's still one thousand fugitives at least according to the rwandans who are out there who need to be caught need to be put before courts according to the justice system have little wonder. and are many thanks indeed to anderson is reporting live from golly coming up we'll continue our could coverage of the solemn anniversary in rwanda and hear the story of survival and resilience from a man who escaped the genocide but he was just a child. also coming up rival protests in venezuela president nicolas maduro and opposition leader plan why don't rally their supporters. out of the big shadows of just about gulnaz rights indonesia's a good scattering that struck this whole area from the philippines back toward
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sumatra sumatra is probably the focus the next day or so of the least potentially fairly heavy showers but if you're going to that say for example java or bali is it could be clouded an occasional shower but we're actually wet season there already so it's a much dry picture and you might expect that's true borneo even so the way to see that you can't see is guaranteed dry if anything if anything it's the philippines where the showers or even the rain seems rather more likely that south of that we still got an active tropical cyclone off the west coast of australia but it will stay out in the waters even see on the top and we'll see a few more showers but still dry for the size the familia current a frontal systems is bringing cloud and rain through the far southeast and through particular tasmania but there's nothing significant on it so temperature wise are in the teens weather wise with the in the sunshine not showing up for the middle of australia person to twenty nine still pretty warm and west australian seeing as
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a new zealand went on usual weather the winds coming in from the north has quite warm and south island and increasingly cracked. fly cattle airways and experience economy class like never before qatar airways going places together.
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hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour the head of libya's u.n. backed government to confront the warlords hoft us forces have started a military offensive to capture the capital tripoli such as they have been a free pushback from tripoli's old international airport after briefly seizing control. thousands of anti-government protesters are defying a curfew called by sudan's army in the capital khartoum to continue demonstrations against president omar al bashir at least six people have been killed since saturday in what appears to be the biggest anti-government demonstration in months . and commemorations have begun in rwanda as it box twenty five years since the start of a genocide that killed eight hundred thousand people the ceremony will begin one hundred
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days of national mourning. so while today is mostly about altering the many who were killed it's also a time to reflect on stories of survival including this man it was just a child when the killings began in one thousand nine hundred four. a marine named dinners or. two for yes or. genocide one genocide survivor. i was in to get you know him when the genocide says that. the law is a member of my family between one hundred people and one fifteen people genocide was like ten years because one day you and you count like one month because every time they had a highway cam to kill twenty s. and you say today is my last day. i got. a
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chance because one of my neighbor. was also the tool. muslim hides us. and. the other one had a pillow to survive the genocide i remember one of my uncle. was good. oh uncle i think like my father would give. sometimes. a gift and a great smile in the new year and there we used to dance with you and to see we don't know really where yeah he's but his skill making hit home with yeah by the young generation you don't think about the what or to attend to his wonder on with that because we don't have that it's in the can now just speak the same language we have the same character. we have to some for everything he's
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a wonder you don't think about what to and to see sometimes i have my dreams by the genocide. they put it if because. i have to tell the people is to have a hope for their life because. even your program your family. members are day is not the end. you have to walk think positively. and to give the love for everybody. it's. fun as well as president some of them trying to force him from power have held more rallies in caracas. blamed for electricity outages plaguing the country in a moment we'll hear from jamal sheil who was with the president's supporters but first is a latin america and it's newman who was among the opposition crowds. this is what opponents
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of nicolas maduro call the first stage of what they've labeled operation liberty in actual fact it's an attempt to gauge just how successfully they can continue to bring supporters out onto the streets not just here but throughout the news raila. and want to show that they have not grown tired or afraid despite increased threats from armed paramilitary groups loyal to the government to fire tear gas and he didn't bullets at protesters but but this if it is says she's not afraid. but you know is incompetent he talks about socialism but he lives like a millionaire like an imperialist but we haven't had any water in my neighborhood for more than a year. and. opposition leader apologized for the improvised stage and the poor sound quality he said intelligence police operatives have confiscated for generators and two trucks for the rally and
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arrested the drivers are going to run in like they have. it's just not water and electricity that we are demanding no we are here to demand freedom and democracy food education and a future and nothing will stop us until we achieve it. but nearly three months into the standoff now google is on the offensive tuesday the supreme court which is no oil to the government stripped of his legislative immunity which means he can be arrested at any moment despite warnings of retaliation from the united states the sign reads the next exit is meta flotus me to florida says the presidential palace but it is wishful thinking if these people believe that president nicolas maduro is going anywhere anytime soon and so the real task of the opposition leaders now is to try to keep these people out on the streets for the long haul. the large demonstration in caracas was peaceful but in the northern city
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of daraa riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters why the admitted that more sacrifices are needed. but his most sobering message was directed at those who are calling for u.s. military intervention. why though says it's up to the news wayland's to lead the charge for regime change a clear reference to the trumpet ministrations recent admission that military action is not in the cards for now. seeing human i've just got back us. president nicolas maduro put out the call to supporters and they heeded that cool thousands of them taking to the streets of central correctness to show that them back to president still enjoys a lot of support amongst the people men and women young and old have gathered here to show that not only they supports president nicolas maduro but they are them and three opposed to the u.s. sanctions imposed against venezuela let's speak to
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a couple of them house the first why why are you here today but. i must say we are heavy and will need to stand with president nicholas motherhood and the socialist i want to show until the very end we want to mate they will grow their duplass and move. well that's one of the fears obviously one of the things that the u.s. has been banking on is not the continuous power shortages and water cuts would make people turn against the president's charm or to ask this gentleman here with these we're told shortages i'm electricity cuts doesn't know made you lose faith in the government not through the mandate but again it's absolutely not we know destructive acts are meant to break us but we will resist we need achieve southam powermat we know that imperil ism is a reality so we must resist it. thank you now aside from showing their support to nicolas maduro the essential message that is also expressed by the people gathered
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these large crowds in caracas is that they want to support their revolution they believe that the foreign intervention as they've described the particular from the united states is an attempt to defeat the socialist revolution here and they say that they are against any foreign intervention that they are in support of the president and that they are here to defend the revolution. the u.s. president has ridiculed the system which gives asylum seekers a safe passage donald trump says the people seeking refuge of the border with mexico look like a mixed martial arts fighter he was addressing a republican jewish coalition in las vegas the asylum program. is a scam some of the roughest people you've ever seen people that looked like they should be fighting for the u.f.c. . they read a little page given by lawyers that are all over the place you know molars they tell him what to say you look at this guy his or wow that's
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a tough cookie. greece is trying to offer education to getting refugees on the edge and islands but getting children into class is proving difficult locals say that already thin resources are being stretched too far and refugee parents are concerned about greek schools johnson replies reports from some us. naveed ahmadi is a fifteen year old afghan who dreams of becoming a civil engineer he missed a year of school while his family made its way from iran to greece something he can ill afford if he has to and to university now he has enrolled in a high school on summers but some local parents don't want refugees like interviewed mingling with their children one reason appears to be that refugees live in squalor four thousand of them a packed in and around a camp meant for six hundred fifty naveed as lucky to live in a mobile home for most there is no proper sewage no electricity and no washing
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facilities we try to have the same life as. best but it's. this is our situations don't we can't do anything is the caravan. and the game is very lives we don't. do anything many refugees opt for informal education offered by private charities that also gives them a break from the difficulties of camp life formal education for refugees and asylum seekers is a recent development here. when a representative from the great center for disease control came to talk to parents he said we're looking at a public health time to shop basically vaccinated they get a single shot for measles mumps and rubella that doesn't mean it's going moment requirements refugees who arrive on the aegean islands are kept here for much of their asylum process in case they have to be deported back to neighboring turkey so they've been seen by many as
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a temporary population when the government offered education to assign. because in twenty sixteen refugees living on the islands were left out but the asylum process is so slow they are now stuck here for years last september the government extended education to island refugees about thirty have been rolled so far here on most but as many as a thousand are eligible that's equal to two thirds of the local greek school population many of the people have some most and other reason to gin islands consider that an unfair burden on the school system some of. us have shouldered old refugee burden for europe's sake we've been left to our fate and people are worn out we don't have a problem with refugees we've got a problem with those who are responsible for the situation. greece and especially the islands of the east to jian act as europe's buffer against irregular migration from turkey most c. resigned to that feat but here the border they want to europe to do a better job of demonstrating its humanitarian values jumpstart ople us algis or
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some us to his ears first democratically elected president has decided not to stand in of them as election ninety two year old had a subsea says that he's stepping aside after nearly five years to make way for someone younger to the hope of its successful revolution tunisia has struggled in recent years with a faltering economy at attacks by armed groups india's government cuts access to internet during the times of unrest in indian administered kashmir the last time was on saturday after its soldiers killed two fighters in the district of some shopping done but researchers say the blocking the internet hurts development is but it smith reports. is reliant on the internet as most entrepreneurs anyway she sells kashmiri dresses to customers worldwide but in india not administered kashmir this is sensual tool of modern business is cut sometimes
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several times a month without warning by the government apple up north because i have to type and make us to move those and i have created because i now have to do everything online only so for that i need internet. and right now we have ingrained the first century and we have every day to use it in but we had anybody tell you that by. almost half the internet blackout in india in the last five years we're in the disputed territory of jammu and kashmir that's according to a study from stanford university in the u.s. online access issue usually caught after unrest to prevent what the government calls inflammatory content spreading online the shutdown often did not do order and last was ordered not to have been. run over that and some are not the visuals are for developers or to the blog where billions is riddled acquired. in twenty sixteen
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when there was sustained unrest across india not administered kashmir the government shut down the internet for two hundred three days. for students here denying them internet access stops their research cuts them off from friends and fuels resentment it just key its you know and it must fear of fear and it must fear of just being in bloom it more so because having the internet's nastily it also affects us a heap because you feel like you're in a place where like this is a big issue you don't have the internet like this issue is affecting your life. the stanford university study says internet shutdowns over the last five years of cost indian businesses more than three billion dollars and the study found no evidence that taking people off line reduced protests or eased unrest bernard smith al-jazeera. a french ocean explorer has arrived in russia where he hopes to free nearly one hundred illegally captured whales they were found in the facility dubbed
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the whale prison near the eastern portion of. last year after international criticism president vladimir putin as ordered that everything be done to release the whales explorer michel cousteau some of the famous oceanographer. says it could take years. to. literally looking at all those creatures in captivity here and learn from it to know what to do in the future. to not. give any description but to make a plan. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for the good here in doha the headlines and i was here at the head of libya's u.n. backed government was found to confront. us forces have started
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a military offensive to capture the capital tripoli on saturday have to as military pushed back from tripoli's old international airport after briefly seizing control . we reiterate our libyans throughout the country east to west north to south to the necessity of giving priority to the interests of the country unifying the ranks and working together to lift libya out of this crisis i say to the international community that it should not equate between the aggressor and those who defend themselves or between those who seek the militarization of the state and those committed to a democratic civilian country thousands of anti-government protesters are firing a curfew called by sudan's army in the capital khartoum to continue demonstrations against president omar al bashir at least six people have been killed since saturday it would appears to be the biggest antigovernment demonstration in months . oh.
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commemorations are underway in rwanda as it marks twenty five years since the start of the genocide that killed eight hundred thousand people president paul kagame me lit a flame at the can gali genocide morrill where more than two hundred fifty thousand of the victims are believed to be buried under since reports now from could golly unimaginable to try and absorb that level of loss total figo the u.n. says more than eight hundred thousand the random government says it's more than a million from here there were arrived at the convention center and start making speeches i will be hearing from portugal me will be hearing a lot of questions about the past a lot of angst as for the future of however the questions of the past are directed mainly at the united nations for its failure to do anything about the whole genocide those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after
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risking it all which is next. after. birth.
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this. was.
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until recently there was an infernal racket all around this lake the clank of pickaxes punctuated by explosions. but the noise stopped. it's an unwelcome silence followed. he and thousands of other golden jade hunters had to lay down their tools when the author is to close down the mines. lawgiver gets by on odd jobs until he can find a buyer for the germs he hopes will change his destiny. sometimes in heists among the nickel dishes a teenager he got her tossed so i took after being sorted there are many good idea bad. idea you could. only.
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as he waits for a buyer for his precious jade he makes extra money renting his small truck to nomadic herdsman whose seasonal migration takes place several times a year. who to meet the nomads lug for usually drives across the lake but this year the thought has come several months early. who you interviewed are these are the must know myself a lot about butte all myself and all but. all we are going to be deaf in the future. the early mild spell has affected the thick eighty centimeter layer of ice which could give way at any moment it. seems determined to try his luck. with one of the total get out because it's just that.
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the descendants of the great mongol conqueror ganga's khan are a proud people. their courage never fails them. many mongolians and nomads and often live in inhospitable regions as winter ends the families drive their livestock to fresh pastures a four day journey at an altitude of two thousand meters in the icy mountains the temperature can reach minus forty degrees celsius.
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here are the. legs doesn't like the look of the gray eyes a sure sign that it's full of water. slowly the van sinks deeper. if the ice reaches halfway up the doors he'll be trapped his truck will become a metal coffin he needs to find a way out of. an issue and then all of the puzzle side of the who can do in. this.
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dialogue all to do more there's a job there that i didn't get to go into. at all hold or to do. or do it as. his worst fears confirmed loud but heads back to shore. after a considerable detour the van arrives at the tribe's camp. in mongolian means craftsman.
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that have all. so how did not it would you know how i didn't know. that. they planned to leave the following morning. the ritual is always the same before each migration everyone gathers in the family. of. elders recount tales as a warning to the young kids and i thought. that's where sixty year old men still has a good memory that's where. they want. to do the month old originals of my own for a while they told us you know you're going to. go out and about a one hundred but i do not only do a quarter we draw from another thing that i want to. know what to do with all of
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that you know shoulder. and we've. got more. of i think you are doing. early in the morning all menace cracking sounds coming from the lake. there i don't. mind i ask just for you she said you should. not think she did such a good just to show. us. his interest if he too. thought he'd be one of the toss up at the haitian endeavor but i still think us has
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lost something. these members of the tribe will migrate with almost. two hundred fifty animals sheep goats horses yaks and old their belongings. apart from the year that all their possessions fit into two trunks. where you. are never going out though not that often although. it could get out of courtesy he fell into talk of damocles. order to i'm sure if you're one of the ones that have a fridge or turn. your home in the degree of time and then going through the fire i don't think it's about. time is not
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a factor for the nomads they advance at their own pace. and. the van leads the way. the yaks are the fastest. the sheep and goats followed close behind. find a hole for home for. both old uncle and both of them was the one. told. us
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of the home of. the built on the holden if you do. it's a long four day ride to the new pasture. twenty year old brings up the rear. lug a small russian van is almost thirty five years old but he wouldn't swap it for the world he has absolute trust in his vehicle. kind of cool. to do it all the more. cogito up
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to the part that the that the most good at that part of the combat is the. cobbled up of a lot of you know told by you that. a few kilometers back by out the clan chief is smiling he's just had some good news. i'd know before we talk about a plan. to cut. the path narrows on some of the animals panic. and. the long climb up to the two thousand meter high gauge lake pass will be no easy task. but the vans are down below and taking an ice bound
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route knew all do it do when they go to also do. i who have time for one. of the muslims who are judging the conditions did. i at the end of all this. i didn't want all and said it was a little show it is a go to the whole document with some of them it's not just. california. possible it's doesn't resolve. the problem turns out to be serious as it's the gearbox that's leaking. the van will start again but more problems lie
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ahead. for the animals eventually catch up to the van it's. good. to be rid not screw job in the not exactly how about we were through with yours your job as you did you guys. far. better but there. is no the moving out of the litter the hole is that a lot of the and. if
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an animal breaks a leg it will slow down the entire migration and it will have to be put down. oh i know it's just something i want to cook too and. it turned out that those have something good donald trump thought of. crossing frozen rivers is one of the trickiest parts of the journey for both man and beast.
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if you don't know how to preserve the low cost about one hundred dollars or whatever because all the stuff we just bought. from thought oh well that's it on the phone but. the day is spent chasing after the hood the elders are all exhausted through the woods right. back with. god what hurt. his back will be severely tested. when the yanks carrying the year start running wild they become unmanageable.
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little. oh the evil good good good good. good good luck over the whole. thank. our show but. the chase has tired this yak and it sinks under the weight of its load its head is stuck under its body it risks suffocating. the animal is dazed but will be fine but for. now you'll not have much. fun.
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to drive a whole slew says it's temper and starts bucking. decides it's enough for one day. then drive. into office there were four.
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they're on those spare parts but the men get creative you know the gearbox is eventually forced back into play it's good it's new which was better. but it was one of those who. started it with the. funny. and. the one as i said. in the very heart of the matter. is preparing the family's dinner. from time to time she dreams of another life
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of a world she doesn't know life in the city. there are to the left out there. and they're. different you know that there. were there were two. marched into. the capital colombo lies a thousand kilometers away. one third of mongolians live here about one million people. in just a few years the capital has transformed into a modern city largely due to huge deposits of kulpa gold and oil.
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traditional dress and footwear have been replaced by trendy or fashion. but life isn't nearly this glamorous for the nomads who moved here five years earlier when freezing temperatures wiped out hard their herds. the consequences for thousands of nomads were dramatic. ruined many were forced into unhealthy accommodation in the suburbs of the capital up to three hundred fifty thousand nomadic herdsman now live in extreme poverty here. on day four of the migration the skies suddenly darkens and the temperature drops from ten to minus ten degrees in the space of just a few minutes. the change in weather takes everyone by surprise.
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through the. news and are not in the cut off possible home work at a market with a chance never to darkish adjustable loan talk to the much well i want to watch but i doubt i'd have tried about culture and i totally course would refer. to. it. on the other side of the river as a risk finding it hard to move for animals all. the men come to the rescue. was to court. with one arm of the law not just. one of our guards but
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our court. but the wind has increased in intensity. push. the old bill clinton of us are still in the get over to the woodward. israel.
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finally the wind relents. the yellow grass here is thick it's a sign the journey is over the migration has come to an end. the dog tribe is home. the animals can now recover. the team that didn't get. the lion the cat. will soon be on his way. out we do know this will be his last meal with the trial oh ok. to celebrate their journey they prepared one of their favorite dishes. oh my.
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god. has only made a little money working with the nomads. his dream is to find a buyer for his jade stuff. and to be able to retire to an easier life. for the congolese the journey to work all aboard means unimaginable hardship i prefer to lie down because they might get caught can truth chancing life and live in a dangerous journey through the jungle hell i fell onto the rails when i merely died . own children go to school and live because of the train risking it all the
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democratic republic of congo on al-jazeera. the egypt strongman is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. 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 in cairo on al-jazeera by means of his every weekly news cycle going to see only simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's jannah least that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all. as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing a free palestine
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a listening post on al-jazeera. benjamin netanyahu is fighting for a fifth term as prime minister of israel using his friendship with donald trump fears over security and race but he faces corruption charges and a trio of former army chiefs trying to gather to unseat an opponent's sense a chance in the upcoming israeli elections get the latest on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us here on al-jazeera on how well he did it doha and this is the news are coming up in the next sixty minutes warnings of a war without winners libyan prime minister says warlord after his troops will face
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strong resistance if they try to take tripoli. thousands of protesters continue assists in outside sudan's military had courses putting pressure on the army to back their call to remove the president's. a quarter century after the genocide rwanda remembers the eight hundred five is and people murdered during one hundred days of slaughter. i'm joanna guys rosco with the sports event as could be crowned italian champions later and as a player who for racist abuse has put them on the furch of winning the title. now the heads of libya's u.n. backs governments has vowed to confronts warlords holly for have to its forces who are advancing on the capital tripoli the prime minister fire has accused the
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fighters of stabbing the country in the back on saturday have to his fighters had seized control of tripoli his former international airports but were later pushed back by pro-government forces of the what had reports now from tripoli. gunfire on the outskirts of libya's capital. forces loyal to warlord holly for have to trying to push their way toward is this city. they say they have seized some areas south of tripoli these claims have been denied by the tripoli based and the recognized government on saturday the you and bag the prime minister. to remain firm against have to forces. we reiterate our call to all libyans throughout the country east to west north to south and to the necessity of giving priority to the interests of the country and unifying the ranks and working
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together to lift libya out of this crisis i say to the international community that it should not equate between the aggressor and those. to defend themselves or between those who seek the militarization of the state and those committed to a democratic civilian country or for an economy like the view and recognized government troops are said to have been deployed from the city of misrata to the west and south to fight have to his forces. therefore asked likes but we suffered no loss at all it's reported that one family of the area was hit believed that we held back on the use of force in order to protect civilians and public and private property any dead fighter flying or to police will not be allowed and will be targeted the airbase it came from in order to be targeted. you and secretary general and to new good has been in tripoli area of talks on rebuilding libya's fractured political system has been forced to leave the un says the talks will still go ahead. we will not give up this work quickly i know very well that holding
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the national conference in the conditions of escalation biting is difficult but we will insist on holding it on time unless other circumstances interfere so. libya has been divided between two competing governments since twenty fourteen the talks are seen as one of a few options for peace in libya the only explanation available to us that he probably wanted to shift the. balance or you know to his favor just days before the reconsideration conference so he can get advances demands during this conference because negotiations at the end of the day are reflections of. you know on the ground in france foreign ministers of the g. seven group of countries have been voicing their concerns several foreign governments have been wanting to leave there have to his forces not to attack tripoli they say that has does not support the talks which are still expected to
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start on the fourteenth of april with the hope of using elections as a way. of libya's eight year conflict g. seven foreign ministers attending a meeting in france also issued a statement saying that libya's oil facilities must not be used by any faction for political gain if libya's opposing forces continue this latest battle for control through to a political solution will become more difficult. while ago had joins us now live from tripoli mahmoud's where do things stand at the moment. well the situation remains a very tense in this southern hour to skirts of the libyan capital specifically around the tripoli international airport following the attack by the government forces which pushed have to his forces out of the airport to that's according to
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government sources including the interior minister the government of national accord meanwhile have to his forces it still get support from the city of lahore now that's around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south was the southern east of tripoli the south of this city of horner one of the major cities supporting the warlords there have to kalash is up to this morning between the two rival factions and the government military sources say that have turned its forces are using advanced weapons that they say that it seems that they are getting weapons from outside of of libya despite the fact that libya is under the. under the north importing of weapons a lot of as you know forces from the city of misrata on the other hand continue
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or deploy in the capital tripoli and in the areas in the fighting areas in the southern outskirts civilians there very fired and one random. landed in s. million house but no casualties reported so far but the ministry of health the ministry of health. and baghdad government of national court says that six people were killed since the clashes erupted on thursday including one civilian. and fifty five one did including one civilian the situation remains very tense in the southern outskirts of tripoli amid warnings from the baghdad prime minister that. accusing have to of betraying
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him we know that during the last two years the two rave. factions have been meeting but meeting by a sponsor sponsored by the united nations namely so large and have to be met several times in terms of the peace talks conducted by the united nations about yet. says that have to betrayed him by collating their military activities in the worst of the country and specifically in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli who will have to leave it there but thanks very much for bringing us up to it's hours of syria's mahmoud of the wellhead reporting there from tripoli. thousands of anti-government protesters in sudan are defying a curfew by calling coffee called by the army rather in the capital khartoum they're continuing their demonstrations i'd say the army headquarters that began on
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saturday at least six protests have been killed during one of the biggest protests against president omar al bashir in recent months if your mind has the latest. the they are calling for revolution these protesters headed for the army headquarters in khartoum the latest in a way for protests that began in december over the price of bread and escalated into calls for an end to president omar bashir is three decades. the longer it takes for a bishop to step down because the protests will get and if you walk down the streets you will see ages from five years old up to fifty or sixty years old they're all coming out of the same thing and want to step down security forces have responded to the protest movement with a fierce crackdown killing at least sixty people since the protests began according to an international human rights group. despite the tough response to
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dissent the protests continue. an activist posted this video of herself on you tube. plenty of it will take back our dignity and will take back our country as well the people's will is above everything you need to understand that the people have spoken that is it. as one points there were sounds of gunshots. president bush has stepped down as head of his really party in the hope of calming the protests but the demonstrators insist they won't give up until he resigns as president he germander quale al-jazeera. of the will had and there was a diplomats at sydney's foreign ministry and snyder is a professor of politics at the door ha institute thanks so much for coming into speeches today the protesters as we've heard some been staging
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a sit in at the army headquarters this is unprecedented as it is unprecedented is also in presenting the size of the protest this is the largest protest and has been time for the anniversary of the one nine hundred eighty five evolution which toppled mary on that day yes it's a very symbolic day and also they the protesters. up to now has been preventing the protesters from camp begin any site now the protesters in front of the army headquarters have been the number since last yesterday afternoon ok it was the longest time they have occupied a certain place for the loan for for for the style so this is definitely a skirmish i am. do you think the protesters are trying to get the army on their sides thus that's where the objective and i think this partly happened
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because when the security forces and police came to disperse the demonstrations and this often bombing them with tear gas the army opened the headquarters and let them in and gave their more to us or to them so the security forces then withdrew which already i think seems to have also brought in a very other important development and now the army has almost come openly on the side of the protests so that's why we are spitting something to happen a statement from somewhere but up to now i think. we have been called. for having good government saying anything say anything so we. anticipate that there is something going behind the scenes about how to do this and they are the appears to be some differences but it's very serious now for the government.

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