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mr business before speaking to us and that is the crux of what is happening behind closed doors here that people are huddling in workshops and trying to work out solutions so that impunity with which international laws are being clouded can be stopped and some a binge of aid live at that conference in another part of. venezuela's opposition leader one guy joe is in the all rich state of zulia that's where they've been demonstrations against the power cuts on saturday president my daughter called for more than two million militia members to defend his government is he a new man reports from caracas. a show of bravado on the tenth anniversary of venezuelans bolivarian militia but if we are ready for the americans if they come let there be no mistake if they answer they want to make it out. this is an emblematic anniversary for the bolivarian revolution abel thirteenth two thousand and two was
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the data that its leader although chavez was able to overturn a coup against him briefly ousted him and installed an opposition leader whether or not as then israel is transitional president now his successor glass my botto is here surrounded by the militia and the military to send the message that any attempts to oust him will meet the same fate. model is under unprecedented domestic and international pressure to step down and allow a transition government to hold new elections. they are dissing right wingers who for the last seventeen years and now more recently continue to tear the country apart they want to install government over our role of the imperialists. as he spoke opposition leader fund why dog was rallying support in the oil rich tourist western state of. it's been the worst hit by power and water shortages with
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more than a month of almost round the clock blackouts and the temperatures that surpass forty degrees. after visiting soulis patron saint why don't predicted that the people of monaco able and israel a second largest city would be the ones to lead what he called the final insurrection against my little. we're here not to rise up because it's really. that's going to rise up that will show its pride and of course you have the national assembly and me to accompany this process of reconstruction of venezuela. while power has been restored to most of the capital it's been at the expense of other states like. the government is saying very little about plans to restructure the electrical system which it claims is being sabotaged. instead cleared all of next week a public holiday to commemorate easter reminding the militia that after their break they will be expected to return to their posts to defend the revolution. you see in
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human. us. now it's been five years now since the more than a hundred schoolgirls were abducted in northeastern nigeria by boko haram some have been rescued or free that many of them a still missing after a lopez holiday on as mall. zainab doesn't know if her daughter is alive ever so often she sorts through the books and homework what's up to school on the day she was abducted five years ago over the years her daughter's absence has weighed on the entire family. today our you know she's the only female of our family my other five children are all boys i hope the government has pity on us. her daughter is among the two hundred seventy six schoolgirls who were kidnapped by boko haram fighters on april twenty fourth team.
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the military has rescued or found one hundred seven other kidnapped girls some were freed in exchange for fighters are negotiations between book are wrong and the government others escaped it's estimated that about one hundred girls are still unaccounted for. in nigeria's capital there are renewed calls for the search to continue security and welfare of the primary responsibility of the government has promised to destroy her arm but its attacks have continued more than twenty thousand people most of them civilians have been killed since two thousand and nine this family like others in the neighborhood hopes their missing daughter is not one of those victims. we've heard that some parents have been reunited with their daughter's house hasn't come back home yet we are losing hope but we're calling on the government to invest more resources to bring back our girls. despite
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the pain this mother still hopes she will once again see her daughter alive. so the young al-jazeera. prescription drug prices in the u.s. are the highest in the world to members of the u.s. congress are under increasing pressure to lower the costs or is kristen salumi has been speaking to one family who was struggling to pay for a life saving medication. hunter sego went off to college to study biochemistry and play football but he put all that risk due to worries about his family's finances a family sacrifice to keep me alive it was costing them fourteen hundred dollars on monster to pay for the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes even with health insurance. reform. so he cut back as treatments and ended up in the hospital. al-jazeera caught up with his mother a schoolteacher in rural indiana via skype and she talked about the choices her
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family had to make. sure. i just. rationing medication is increasingly common according to the american diabetes association the price of insulin has nearly tripled uninsured families are facing this families that may have insurance are also facing the high cost of insulin recent congressional hearings have pointed fingers at so-called pharmacy benefit managers middlemen who negotiate discounts on drugs for insurance companies and my experience that kind of negotiation rarely results in an act of charity for consumers but ultimately it's pharmaceutical companies that set their own prices a cost that isn't fully covered by many americans health insurance policy if
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a company raises the price of a product by twenty percent and then another company comes in and says that we're giving you a twenty percent discount. you know have they really saved you money lawmakers have indicated that they're working towards legislation that will limit how these middlemen make money and provide more transparency to the process kathy sego tells us something has to be done and quickly. so i know. i won't get everything she's become an advocate for reform knowing other families have even the last with which to make ends meet and it won't be long before hunter graduates will need to find a way to pay for his own health care christian salumi al-jazeera still to come here on the al-jazeera news. action from race number one thousand in formula one peter will have the details on the chinese going crazy.
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fake news is a global virus but in india and politics it's becoming a cancer on the up and stopped and abuse and manipulate them into what a pity party is just the sort of you can skew the footsteps tional three hundred even specifically if you're bombarded with freak news it does start to prove to you as the world's largest democracy goes to the polls how vulnerable are expenses to militias disinformation. people and power investigates india fake news and agitprop on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every your. ear.
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he is now with peter i think thank you very much. on the masters as tiger woods looks to easy living without a major title the final round will start five hours early because of forecast bad weather with woods just two shots behind leader francesco molinari david stokes reports. no one tours a crowd quite like tiger woods it's more than a decade since his last major win but when he plays people watch was saturday at the masters is known as moving day and thanks to shots like this woods was able to
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move in the right direction slowly creeping his way up the leaderboard. he racked up six birdies to force his way into the final group on sunday just two shots off the lead. woods has fourteen majors to his name for sure to jack nicklaus his record but it his age he knows he might not get many built chances it's a lot different than being twenty three. i had a lot more years ahead of me and. you know at forty three i don't just reality targo will hope his experience unnerved his younger playing partners tony feet now is one of them he's also eleven under par after a record breaking third round which show him complete the outing now in holes in just thirty shots but this is just his second masters and he knows that sunday alongside woods will be a different ballgame altogether there's always a tiger no matter who you are. i'm not going to act like it's not there so i know i
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know that it is but. i'm going to relish. in the moment and enjoy. being in contention on a masters completing the final group is the man everyone is chasing francesco molinari produced another impeccable round. six birdies to keep the thirteen under par tee shots clear of the field last year more than ari became italy's person major champion at the british open and he's been almost flawless in all dusted this week dropping just one shot in three days so far sorry i'm not going to say anything exciting but i just did my best and shot by shot see see what i can do and you know we will do disarm sunday in the day and see who's shot but the score while most of the attention will be on the final three don't rule out the chasing pack. three time major winner brooks kept is only three shots back in fact he's one of five major champions within five shots of the lead. it's still all to play for and
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. david stokes al-jazeera. lewis hamilton is back on top of the formula one chairmanship after winning the chinese grand prix it was race number one thousand in f one and started from second in shanghai but he pasties mercedes team ed felten he brought us right at the start and never looked back leading all the way to the checkered flag to win the race for a sixth time. finished second with sebastian vettel and able to keep up in. about being with what we can he did a great job today and to have a one two together think is a very special on the on the one thousand grand prix it's time to get serious in the n.b.a. the playoffs are now with us and it was a good start for the brooklyn nets on saturday and it's face the philadelphia seventy six ers in game one of the eastern conference first round playoff series philadelphia came into this one as the favorites but the angelo russell turned on
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the style scoring twenty six points to help brooklyn to a one hundred eleven one hundred two win to draw first blood in the seven match series. one of the standout stories early in the major league baseball season has been the poor form of the baltimore orioles christo ease he'd gone hitless for a record fifty four straight at bats going back to last season that's the longest hitless run for a position player he was known for thirty three and twenty nineteen but that changed in the first inning against the boston red sox with a two run single his teammates were happy and so were the fence sarcastic and otherwise it also helped baltimore to beat the current world series champions nonviolence.
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when he with a phenomenal school coming up again later multi pace i thank you very much indeed and thank you for joining us for this out is there news out don't go away that foley will be in this chair in just a moment or two with much more of the things. twenty one an age to assert your individuality it's ok to argue with people and it's ok to disagree with people but also a period when childhood dreams can clash with reality it's compromising i don't
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think i'm pretty good at compromise in two thousand and six south africa up revisits the children of apartheid for the third time and like their country much has changed over the past fourteen years to have twenty one up south africa on out is in. the latest news as it breaks while this is a training exercise the danger is there are real because for through a hint it's slowly deteriorating with detailed coverage in her letter to donald toth through reason may makes it clear that the current political impasse simply can't go on from around the world while aid agencies are warning people of the dangers of cholera and distributing vaccines many are still using revers for thing and cleaning. to meet was clear to intelligence gathering exercise my uncle shall call god back i don't get over the and off into this interrogation talked by one and he said if you speak you're not cut your throat muslim bag tells his life story
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and his life changing experience at guantanamo bay. it was. those are quick. but confession a witness documentary on al-jazeera. we will continue protesting and struggling until we can fully get a hold of power. sudan's opposition insist civilly and must run the transitional government despite concessions made by the new military leader.
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plan fully back to watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha also heads. for. libya's u.n. backed government accuses the warlord highly for half top of war crimes as fighting intensifies for control of tripoli plus we are in tunisia to look at the high price refugees and migrants that pay as they seek a better life and one mother's plea to the nigerian government to bring back over one hundred girls still remain in the custody of book around five years after they were kidnapped. protesters in sudan say they're not giving up their demands for freedom and democracy after the end of the thirty year rule of president omar al bashir they want military leaders to give up power to a civilian transitional government leaders of the protests have met the military
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for the first time since bashir was removed in a coup last week where they presented what they called people's demands on your children if the army were to refuse we have no tritone gain trust and we were able to remove all of these people we will continue protesting and struggling until we can fully get a hold of power while the head of the military council general abdul fatah has promised to hand over power to a civilian government within. two years. a lot of you on human rights will be reinforced in line with international laws the provincial rulers will be relieved of duty and an invitation will be given to all the people political parties and organizations to engage in dialogue a ceasefire will be enforced across the country and we invite those carrying arms to lay them down sit at the negotiation table and agree to peaceful coexistence but protesters are concerned bashir is allies still occupy top positions and volleying to remain on the streets until there is
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a civilian government let's speak to our correspondent in khartoum haber morgan hippa the new military leader is on his second day on the job now abdul fatah hon ah people on the streets willing to give him a chance after his first address yesterday to the nation. well fully they said that they would give him a few days to figure out if the transitional government that would be leading the country for the coming two years will have civilian representatives or not not just the really representatives where they want a majority of all new representatives over the past two hours we've seen dozens of people making their way to the army headquarters carrying the sudanese flag there saying that they are going to continue with this and that's because when he addressed the nation yesterday he said that the military will be taking charge and keeping the order and security of the country but he did and he said that he's going to talk to the political parties but right now they are concerned that the military council is made up of eight members all of them once upon a time they were all out there all the military and once upon
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a time part of the regime of president bashir so they do have their concerns there waiting for the sudanese professional associations and other political parties to talk to to the military council and see what is the outcome at the moment they're saying that they're going to stay outside the army headquarters to continue with theirs to him until they hear the joint statement but they don't seem satisfied at the moment fully and there are concerns that there are already three presidents there were already three presidents are in the for the past few days and there are concerns that people will continue to protest demanding a new leader yet again what about the political parties how are they gauging without delay. well they've said that they're also open to dialogue and that they were very happy to sit down and negotiate some kind of deal with the military council but they also are saying that there should be a hybrid transitional council dominated by civilians not the military they said that they're ok with a military with military representatives in the council but that they should not be
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having the majority and having a say in how the country should be led currently in meetings and talks a joint statement is expected from them later and there are concerns that the meeting will not go as planned because of the sudanese professional association which has been spearheading the calls seems to have a different set of demands than what the people with the other political parties have and their concerns that there are the political parties the opposition parties themselves are not united and this provides some kind of weak link and easy for the military to take control so people are concerned that the political parties are not ready and they're saying that they will continue until one body the sudanese professional association comes out with a statement saying that they are happy with the military council and the decisions and that a civilian majority a transitional government will be taking the lead for the coming of a couple of years thank you for the morgan is our correspondent in khartoum meanwhile saudi arabia and the u.a.e. say they are backing sudan's transitional military council riad has promised aid
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and is calling on protesters to quote give priority to national interests so that is part of the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting in yemen the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have loaned billions of dollars to khartoum namely said yes. in other world news at least one hundred twenty one people have been killed in libya during the recent offensive by warlords ready for half time to take control of the capital tripoli that's according to the world health organization. strikes launched by forces loyal to have talked targeted the times of i know us southeast of tripoli as. pool and refugee center were hit but no casualties were officially reported the un backed government in tripoli is accusing have taught of war crimes i'm not quoting what that you don't like that because every war crimes have been committed such as targeting civilians and medical teams they've targeted schools and airports and an illegal immigrant center all of this is documented
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including using minors to fight we will be taking legal procedures nationally and internationally they're still trying to bomb on the civilian targets and our forces are still resisting the fourth and forces of the u.n. backed government have targeted positions south of tripoli in the town of brianne is believed to be a base for have tossed military operations fighting has been going on for more than a week now despite calls by the united nations and the european union to stop the bloodshed and in the past hour egypt's president abdel fatah has met libyan warlords truly for half a in cairo. is our correspondent in chipley mahmoud a what are we to make of this meeting between half and the egyptian president in cairo how is it likely to impacts the situation in libya. will the warlord who for have to has been always getting support from c c c c
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has been supporting the military operations led by you have to in the east of libya and in the south of libya remember sisi alongside. and the united arab emirates have been backing have to even politically. have to his meetings with in several cities in abu dhabi and france india in italy last year now many observers here say that general sisi the egyptian president is backing the current a military offensive to take over their capital tripoli and eyewitnesses in been. airport say that they have seen egyptian military officers running. operation center of command of have that is a military operations from we have seen months ago egyptian soldiers in the
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city of done infantry infantry individuals and egyptian infantry individuals in the city of that and so with the fact that have to that has been have to as a move towards the capital has been derailed by. a big resistance from the government forces on the outskirts on the southern arts because tripoli so could be another look from have to his backers to the military operations in the worst of the country thank you very much for that mahmoud abs and wide reporting there live from tripoli well thousands of refugees and migrants are caught up in the violence in libya which is a four point for people trying to get to europe many are going back now to some of the countries along the transit route to explain some are going to areas in the share. poppy she is a local senior telling us dozens of people are crossing the border from the day into i get is every week that is the position right now in
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a duchess in addition to the thousands of migrants who are still trapped here the people who fled recently from libya into are going to trying to find refuge from the ongoing crisis in the country and there are more people by the way who are coming into i get is try to wait out this equation in libya waiting for the right moment to cross the border into libya as a transit point and then into europe now the whole g.c. and i get it including humanitarian workers like the united nations high commissioner for refugees and other non-governmental organizations are bracing up for a must in flow of refugees from the traffic of human humanity people by ground is now on but it was five people instead of going to media i know coming back to do you mean i get is why facilities i don't overstretch or for just yet i really concerned about health impact infrastructure a snow trying to create enough to cope with a large influx as well as security so the united nations is telling al-jazeera that
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they are also making the necessary preparations they don't see it right now but they're making preparations in case there is a massive flow of refugees from across the border in tunisia here. in algeria judges say they will boycott the supervision of the upcoming presidential elections they fear the vote which is expected in july will be rigged demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the interim administration president of devices but if we have resigned earlier this month after weeks of protests. we the judges of algeria have on a quickly to far to boycott supervising the presidential elections that assured told put the portal to law. a male abubaker is a researcher at the school for advanced studies in social sciences she says the boycott is an important move in ensuring the protesters demands of a meaningful transition is heated so i moved out of its products are larger moment
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actually that want to disconnect from their regions plans and imports to control the transition you know for a few cars are doing good for you as fast stream and dates algerians have been shifted from indifference due are the very last week on tech we don't care about your politics let's just leave our lives to go cut towards actually you know already this is the situation of my country already experienced it for the past two months to my refusal to let the regime on on its own and a lot of control points and so this is part of a movement that is trying to get back. to the sense of political life the real political life and to and to come and to make the faults of the regime to contradict transition and actually you know for it and.

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