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tv   NEWSHOUR  Al Jazeera  April 16, 2019 1:00pm-2:01pm +03

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changed over the past fourteen years to you at twenty one up south africa i'm noticing. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha in martinez coming up in the next sixty minutes. the fire is finally out and not shut down in paris attention shifts to how the eight hundred fifty year old landmark can be rebuilt. sudanese crowns keep up the pressure on the military commanders who taken power demanding civilians is put in charge of.
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libya's u.n. backed government up to the state of emergency to the highest level of its forces trying to find a warlord's offensive. i'm happy to stand with the sports and come back for the ages in the n.b.a. as the defending champions lose a fifty one point lead in the play. to a huge rather tall three one of the best known landmarks in france a not cathedral has now been pushed out the world heritage site in paris is stood tall there eight hundred fifty years through walls and revolution but early on monday evening a fire broke out the rays for more than eight hours with devastating effect now france is calling on international experts to help restore the cathedral to its former glory. this is the scene live in paris today firefighters were able to save some of its treasures and at least two of france's richest people
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have already pledged more than three hundred million dollars to help rebuild it natasha butler begins our coverage. an unimaginable sight not for time cathedrals ravaged by flames a symbol of paris and french history collapsing in smoke it was seven o'clock in the evening local time when the fire broke out hundreds of firefighters and emergency service workers with their within minutes as thick smoke rose above the city people watched in shock and disbelief. we saw this by a collapsed was shocked it's eight hundred fifty years of history it's heartbreaking one with cell phone use. in the chaotic scenes as police try to evacuate the area. out of not too darn good legal. ground don't carry mountain. burnings into started raining to the ground and that is why police here
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are trying to put everybody back very very quite chaotic for what they're worried about is more of that roof collapsing they're worried about the smoking toxic a little worried for people's safety as night fell firefighters fear that the twelfth century gothic cathedral would collapse completely but after working tirelessly for hours they managed to control the fire. the french president visited the site and promised to rebuild not to damage the cathedral he said that was cherished by so many syllables who are not is our history our literature our imagination the place where we have lived all our great moments our epidemics our wars our liberation it is the epicenter of our lives it is the standard from which distances start and from which we can measure ourselves from paris it is full of books of paintings it is a cathedral that belongs to all frenchmen and women even to those who have never come here firefighters say the fire could be linked to renovation work in paris
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this prosecutor has opened an inquiry whatever the cause the sight of a cathedral the distant majestically in paris for centuries crumbling in hours as deeply saddened people across the city and the world to touch a button or al-jazeera paris. farming go live now to david chaytor another of our correspondents in paris and david i guess that many people where you are will be rather relieved to discover that some of the cathedral has been saved. yes it's a huge relieved that the fire has now been completely extinguished the danger was of course that the wind could have got up like it is now and some of those bernie embers could have reignited the fire but it is completely out and if i just step out of shots to show you the bell towers what's happening now is that there's a a team of architects and and engineers who are looking at the the structural
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damage they looking very carefully to see if there's any danger of further collapse at all the sea is a priority now but. they'll be reporting during the course of the day whether it's safe for other teams to come in and of course of inquiry has now opened it looks like from what we've been talking we've been talking to a french architect who says he's very experienced in the renovation of such gothic structures and he said his most likely problem started two weeks ago when they were trying to renovate this fire and what they were doing was using hot glue to actually keep it keep it waterproof to keep the rain out and it's a possibility and one they're looking at very closely that the molten lead a small drop might have got onto the beams and they've been described as essentially an oak forest of ancient beams some of them eight hundred fifty years
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old which are tinder dry and the smallest spark could have set off the fire and the problem is also because of the the ninety five meters below this a huge sort of draw off the air to feed that fire and that's why you saw such high temperatures and such fast movement of the fire but it does appear that the two bell towers as you can see behind me have been saved they're looking for any damage any structural damage but at. the moment at least only the spire and the roof were lost but the debate a story martin was the huge effort made by the far fight is a human chain to save all the artworks and the spiritual relics of the cat and not true don and that appears to have been largely successful the magnificent organ this in there is only slightly damaged the stained glass windows a covered in sort but remarkably they've stood up but there are something like
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sixteen masterpieces oil paintings from the seventeenth century there were in the fire and we're having trouble getting them out there was so much smoke so poor such poor visibility so many ashes fording around we've yet to hear what has happened to them but it could be that some of those have been irreparably damaged or lost complete the to the flames but that is being assessed at the moment along with the structural team on the site and david listening to president macro when he visited the scene one got a sense of how in ted girl. is to the very identity of not only parisians but francophonie thing people in france and abroad. everybody i mean thirty thousand martín thirty thousand tourists visit decides every day that's thirteen million in the course of a year serve course president of the new macro was very keen to say that his effort
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to rebuild a state of emergency is declared he wants worldwide effort to raise the funds that will be necessary to restore this gothic masterpiece to its former glory that's going to be a huge task the renovation itself that was started was going to take twenty years so that could be the sort of length of time it's going to take to replace the the the not to don cathedral to its former former glory but at the moment as i say they're open to the inquiry into what could have started it they're going to have to look very closely in future any renovation work and look at the far east because we've seen this sort of thing before the most dangerous point is during the renovation of these very old buildings but at the moment we have actually also heard that the political repercussions martine because present emanuel's backgrounds party has suspended its campaign for the european parliamentary
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elections while the state of emergency continues and marine le pen's national rally has also done the same so we wait for further announcements about the works of art and about what could have caused it and whether it's safe for anybody to be anywhere near those two bell towers at the moment but it is as you said. structure at the very heart of france and in the the only time the bells were damaged was actually when they were taken down during the french revolution and turned into cannon and that is essentially how important it is important to every part of french history all right david chaytor there live. by not trying to empower so we can take the going to. there you can see a little bit more closely the remnants of the what remains all following that fifteen hours of. fire which as you can see is taken off pretty much the
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roof and the spire which went went down rather dramatically with hundreds if not thousands of people watching it and you heard it there was an altar boy gasp of horror when that came down but that's the scene now firefighters have managed to put out the blaze and now the job of reconstructing not begins. let's go to sudan now because protesters are back on the streets of the capital for the eleventh day and they are continuing to demand civilian rule the country's military leaders are facing pressure from around the world including from the african union to hand power over to a civilian authority here but morgan reports from khartoum despite a military coup ousting bashir last thursday and his successor twenty four hours later the sit in and protests continue to argue there are more we insist on continuing with this revolution until our demands are met our demands are new and clear bringing down the regime completely they're angry because they feel their
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revolution is being stolen by the military council that overthrew bashir the council has appointed members from the military to run the country it's promised an all party inclusive government for the transitional period but under the military supervision that's something those on the streets refuse to accept protests that have been here in front of the army headquarters in the hot zone for more than ten days and they say they're ready to stay for even longer if their demands are not met they want the dismantling of the security intelligence agency as well as accountability for the roof of members of the former regime but most of all they want to civilian government in a country that has been ruled by a military leader for more than thirty years. the military council says it won't use force to disperse the protesters something activists say they attempted to do on monday morning it has issued orders to reform the security agency and the judiciary and says it's arrested officials from the previous government who will be held to account but it insists protest groups and political parties must agree on
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the structure of a transitional government the second version of the guy that was we need to agree on the basis of forming the government the ball is now in their court there was a question on the timeline for the ball is in the cultural political forces and the other bodies that i mentioned from organizations youth and women if they are ready today and agree on anything we are ready to execute i am a she gives a lot we know that we have met with the military council and told them that we want a transition period of no more than one year while others wanted to be as long as four years sudanese professional association the group spearheading the protest say their way to end the sit in is clear we want the government to be handed to a civilian. body we want to meet the council to be council and a new council to be formed which is really in the major media the media by civilians with some military visitation and this is no i mean the moment then we want also the transitional government we all its executives rights and
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to extend the transitional period to four years but as political parties and other groups negotiate the terms of a new government sudan continues under the rule of the military and the sitting continuance. or let's go live now to have and get the very latest in the so it seems a very much what's coming over from the tone of the protests now is that there is no trust whatsoever in the transitional military council and that there is a great and there's a sense of needing to protect the revolution and what they've achieved so far. yes indeed martin and it's not coming just from the protesters on the ground political parties are saying that these people those people who are in front of the army headquarters are basically the only card they have to put pressure on the military council to hand over power to a civilian government and that's why they've been making calls to people saying that they should continue with their states and we've seen more people arriving at
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the army headquarters this morning here including some the sudanese professional association has also made calls to protesters around the country saying that they should also head to the army headquarters in their states and make the same call but they want to hand it over to a civilian government we've spoken to dissidents professional association yesterday and of the political parties and they saying that they are in talks with their military council they're waiting for the council to let them know if they're going to agree on the mandate of a transitional government that is not under the supervision of the military council that was one of the issues that that was a point of contention between the two sides that the military council does not mind a transitional government that is made up of civilians but it wants to be the one supervising it and that's where the issue lies so they're waiting for the military council to agree on an independent transitional government and they're saying that until that happens they're going to continue to urge protests as to sit in front of army headquarters in hotel room and other states because they say if those protests as leave and go back home then they have no other way to pressure them the military
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council into handing over power. not that long ago maybe twelve hours ago also there was a statement coming from the african union the african union has made it clear it will not stand for military coups happening on the continent always threatening to suspend a country if that indeed has been the case how much how much weight to a warning from the african union have on the military with or it is in khartoum. well whatever way it would have on the minute on the military council it's not going to be more than what the protesters under streets have and at the moment it doesn't look like the military council is listening to the protesters on the streets they're saying that we're leaving power to the political parties they have not shown any signs of being willing to to make sure that the civilian government is independent they saying that they're going to give some confession concessions they are they've already said that they will reform the judiciary do will reform the national intelligence and security services and that some laws that were
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introduced during the era of president bashir will also be reviewed but they are saying that it's going to be very hard for them to maintain law and order in the country if they're not the ones in charge of the transitional government so it's not clear how far or how much weight the words of the african union and other countries will have the troika the block for form by the u.s. the u.k. and norway also said that the transitional or real change is not yet complete in sudan and it's urging the military council to hand over power to civilian government martín but they're saying that they're saying that the change is not complete but the military council is still insisting on being the one supervising so we're going to have to wait and see what political parties turn up with in their next meeting with the military council but until then martine it looks like the only card they have on the streets right is on the streets right now which are the protesters are here but morgan thank you very much indeed to reporting live there from come to. lots more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including turmoil in libya how is it affecting african refugees who are hoping to get into libya in
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order to go. from the mosque to the streets why many muslims in indonesia threatening to protest if wednesday's elections every. and fresh from winning the masses tiger woods is set to be honored by another rather famous golfer peter we'll explain all in sport. libya's u.n. backed government has raised a state of emergency in the capital tripoli to its highest level to a loyal to that government of trying to defend the city from fighters who back the warlord after he is allied to a rival administration in the eastern part of the country and has launched an offensive to in his words rich tripoli of terrorists the interior minister says
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have to has committed crimes against humanity by bombing residential areas. after the military operations commanded by the word or thirty four have to and his militias threaten the civilian put them in danger and lead to a lot of casualties amongst them last night they have boarded the district of tripoli. and the and zara and acts that are not penalized internationally. and the deputy prime minister of libya are made my teeth says half is not a reliable partner in helping to shape the country's future. i have to study for a business interest and that's why he's not. is the get to the libya or take control of the country by forces that's why he's not. we have we have people in the parliament who can be tyrannical we have people on political arena libya from the east and what's important for us in government is to keep the country united for
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peace. are those who live to our correspondent mood of the one who's in the libyan capital tripoli as everyone's agreed that. is not a credible partner for any future peace negotiations in libya but what are they planning to do about stopping his military campaign to seize the capital. we'll monitor recently it seems to the world really for have to is losing momentum even on the ground alongside international situation as you know that this military offensive has been denounced by civil in international institutions including the united nations and the european union and on the ground it seems that the forces loyal to the government of national accord are gaining momentum currently they're gaining ground taking more locations that were taken control of but have to forces
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now at this moment the government forces are advancing in the neighborhood in the southern western outskirts of the capital tripoli but overnight have to his forces launch a day or grad missiles that landed and residential areas again that's according to a government sources now in another front light and aides are on the southern in the southern eastern outskirts of tripoli the government forces have managed to take control of new locations that were taken control of but have to his forces on the ground as you know that have to his forces have been recruiting civilians to fight for them in have to himself has been trying to raise his soldiers. and warning against any defection by this civilly ens crew did among his forces
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also today. planes with a government of national accord targeted the headquarters of the brigade one hundred twenty eight which belongs to have to in the area of a job for namely in who are in town in a job for the area in central libya that have to his forces out of a losing moratoria that are losing momentum on the ground especially after so many civilians have been. killed by random rockets launched by have to the forces as you know as the. health minister in tripoli stated that seventy five people were killed and forty five for four hundred seventy five were one did in tripoli many civilians are among them so many reasons why have to his forces are losing momentum so you know with the fact that many people are disillusioned as his. real aims and political interests are at least mark would thank you very much indeed giving us
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the very latest from the front lines around the libyan capital tripoli now while the fighting taking place in libya may have slowed the flow of refugees from other parts of africa who are making their way to libya it hasn't completely stopped it many of them just over the border in northern israel waiting for their chance to reach europe from agadez interest reports. noda cooks that you can e-mail your vegetables in rice but he's focused on only one objective. get into europe despite the dangers. the twenty seven year old gambian arrived here in the city of i got this two weeks ago. the good job is not the right now. you cannot go my family. i'm the eldest son of my mother my father passed away twenty forty miles school was out of any help any sponsors and not many dos class
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ones they don't want to help you so my brothers and my sisters are going to school is my motto used to go market sell and if only i was. just a few meters away you score travelers while away time playing a board game they arrived more than a year ago with no money but still determined to reach their destination. compare europe to live in health over to new hope you can compare with africa. i know it's very dangerous to get to libya because of the fighting and the abuses but it's a better option to proceed and to get back to a life of poverty and misery a few years ago at least one hundred thousand africans passed through this year to get to libya and into europe the e.u. and have since reached an agreement to stem the tide of people trying to cross the mediterranean in return just government gets funding. and thousands of people
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smugglers who are promised support an income to stop the trade your dumbass they don't know if you move. they made promises they didn't fulfill less than ten percent of the people smugglers receive support the reste have not seen anything that's the reason why it's so difficult to stop this trade. this is a main road linking the city of our greatest to libya but human traffickers are found new routes to smuggle desperate migrants are boarding police and military checkpoints along the way but the troubles have become more dangerous and many africans have died on their way to libya the incidents of murder torture and slavery have not stopped those trying to make the journey most of them still believe getting to europe for a better life is worth the risk of a decrease al-jazeera i guess you know them if you're. taiwan's leaders and criticize china for flying military planes south of the island they say china flew
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bombers unused warships in waters around the island president sighing when says beijing's actions only strengthens taiwan's resolve to defend itself china's armed forces yesterday sent a large number of military aircraft and naval vessels into our the synergy their actions certain taiwan and other like minded countries in the region especially then i want to tell you that tehran is not intimidated these actions or actions only serve to strengthen our resolve our military forces have the capacity determination and commitment to defend taiwan and not allow court to dictate our own future. are listening to graham on web now as a defense analyst joining us fire skype from singapore thanks for joining us how
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unusual is it then that china. military exercises in this particular strait the baris strait i think it's called a very close to the philippines and how alarmed should should taiwan be. well to be clear i think these military drills are not unusual for the chinese side in a time when the site have been at it for years are conducting their annual military exercises to put their florindo or our military invasion scenarios so nothing unusual about that i would say that the reason what is shoot really are the sticks and i think with the last twelve months or so we have seen. on all sides the chinese side is timely side and us site. taking a different posture altogether sort of the chinese cutes i think of what's unsettling is the speech the presidency to being made in general this year making it very explicit. the unification of taiwan are peaceful
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means or by force is something not to be put off and you more it can it cannot be put off for another generation and he decreed that his military would have to take on battles if need be in order to unify all sides of the streets for a time when he cycles will come rather belligerent i would say because of the in public sentiments about the one country two systems policy which many townies disagree with and domestically pacifically president society's got to sound tough as an against the possibility of china taking over taiwan because she recently suffered. quite quite a few significant losses in an elections didn't she on the basis of how strongly she felt about the possibility of unification of china. exactly exactly so she says shoring up. on the current public sentiment in the.
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last year there was a national survey that indicate that if you want one two percent or part time we knees feel very strongly about the issue and that are really against this idea of unification so in the least just going with a is the preference of our knees and. president telling one is playing up to that and she has to because the elections are around the corner in twenty twenty and she would like to see her party winning another another term graham and led her to tell t. thank you very much. coming up in just a few moments ever tim will have the weather also coming up on the sound is there a news. we have the latest on the investigation into donald trump's finances in the big bank at the center of it. and in greece how violence is affecting staff and students in universities. in sports the defending champion washington capitals suffer a big defeat in the stanley cup playoffs we'll have that story in school. however
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one place i've got some quasi weather coming into afghanistan over the next couple of days for room for most recent flooding rains you can see the storm responsible for that now in the process of generally pushing away towards the legacy of one of two showers around this one states but you go on wednesday into thursday you can see the showers still never see far away from that eastern side of the country but a definite push towards broad skies coming back in afghanistan well temperatures around ninety degrees celsius the showers there tom winter as they move over the higher ground of the himalayas of course as per usual and that disturbed weather has been fighting its way across the fall of the pakistan into northwestern parts
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of the new just noticed a few showers up towards the far north east of india as well in a sense and violent storms here hundreds of people have been displaced from their homes as a result of some damaging winds big hile and also some sundry downpours they are now again in the process of easing away says we go through the next couple of days we will see slightly prices cars coming in behind but he could still see one of two showers there up to the north west of in the sea has cooled off remember we were getting up into the forty's in new delhi into my poor recently twenty five celsius there on wednesday but temperatures picking up once again. sponsored by town. egypt's strongman is ruling with an eye and faced on the silence from his allies is deafening he was perfectly happy to trade off for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions
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torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london. on al-jazeera. their dreams have turned out to be disappointment. that. if anyone called me to say he'd leave egypt. to come three young north africans tell the story of how europe is all they hoped it would be. al-jazeera world welcome to italy.
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time for sake of the top stories here on the outside their news out crews say the five. says it. is now fully its thing wish they managed to save the main structure but it's on the roof collapsed. libya's u.n. backed government has pushed its state of emergency in the capital tripoli to the highest level forces loyal to the government are trying to defend the city from a fight as. the warlord. demonstrators in sudan's capital are continuing their push for an immediate transition to civilian rule the . military leaders and now facing growing international pressure including from the african union to cede power to a civilian authority. but we can now speak to him hussain a professor at the community college of catarrh i thank you very much indeed for
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joining us on this let's start with the nature of the revolution it seems very much as the uprising does not have any faith any any trust whatsoever in the military transitional council actually. that is mistrust between evolution. and. the military council this is because of many reasons actually. since the years actually. the people there is none. to trust their government but the human rights case that he has a omar al bashir and i understand that how much pressure do you think is building upon the military transitional council then coming from abroad with her from the african union late yesterday there was a statement put out and we know that they've been consultations with various
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bilateral ambassadors and also statements coming from the troika the third is the strongest but i did actually come in for all the ministers themselves that is then after this. you supported by the international bodies ryan ok so if the greatest amount of pressure is coming from the protesters themselves who's leading this process at the moment is it is it the demands from the protests is leading in the military is responding or is it the other way around . you mean who leads who's who's got the upper hand in this in this process at the moment. this is actually in headed resumes regarding the. thirty years that is so many mistake for the executives government so this mr bill actually. a wall between people.
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and this is a lead to actually. there is so many. steps that. has been taken by that evasion is that. sometimes this division has. actually it is a good thing we can is due to the almost mistakes. it has been. lead to building some bodies like this professional body and some previous traditional parties. if something. individual people can come and participate in this this movement thank you very much indeed ibrahim hussein. right now people in jordan have been rallying in support of their king's position on the israeli palestine conflict king abdullah has wold that donald trump still to be veiled peace plan has ignored the question of how to divide territory between
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israelis and palestinians. kept out of the u.s. plan. plays a key role in israel and palestine as custody energy jerusalem mosque compound which is home to both muslim and jewish holy sites. now a large hardline muslim group is threatening to protest during indonesia's elections on wednesday if it suspects that cheating is going on president joker widowed is expected to win a second term in office but his main opponent is already making allegations of a regularities now it's a claim that's been seized upon by some who want to take indonesia in a more conservative direction when he reports from the capital jakarta the mosque known for its conservative preaching there was a final message for worshippers before the election campaigning in places of
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worship is illegal and while the a mom was careful with his words it was clear he wants his followers to vote for. or to become president spoke the. indonesia is the largest muslim majority country in the world it is becoming increasingly divided along conservative and moderate lines. has partnered with hardline muslim groups who want indonesia to embrace islamic law or even become a caliphate they end the presidential candidates a religion there are signs of cheating in the electoral process and say they're prepared to act limited at the if we can prove they are cheating we will resort to people power we've been patient but enough is enough we have huge power we can gather millions of people and we can easily take over the palace and parliament there provided no evidence of the alleged cheating but the groups have shown they can get big numbers onto the streets in two thousand and sixteen they protested against that then governor of jakarta
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a christian who was eventually jailed for blasphemy. also said there was cheating in the last presidential election that he lost to joko widodo but the case was thrown out by the courts. throughout the campaign joko widodo has enjoyed a double digit lead in most polls if the accusation by his opponent of irregularities goes unproven. then the threat of street protests may just be viewed as a desperate move in the dying stages of the bid to become president. as he's known here has been criticized by some for not being religious enough so in a move seen as trying to attract the conservative vote he's chosen muslim cleric in as his running mates some of his more liberal supporters view it as selling out for the sake of votes but others believe he had no choice and cannot avoid that. he is a very wealthy family president he has no political party he has no family background
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. he has no money he is just a small furniture trader who nonetheless became president of indonesia as both he and his challenger chased the conservative muslim vote moderate indonesians may be concerned about any deals that might have been done that could see this country head in a more religiously conservative direction wayne hay al jazeera jakarta. now in the u.s. two congressional committees have subpoenaed a bank and several other financial institutions it's part of their investigation into president trump's finances democrats who control the lower house of congress now looking into allegations that foreign states like russia have tried to hold leverage over trump and his family and associates eric the president's son describes the investigations as an unprecedented abuse of power john hendren has
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more from washington. to u.s. congressional committees are looking in to deutsche bank they are subpoenaing information between the bank donald trump and his trump organization and they are specifically looking for any information having to do with transactions involving suspected money launderers from russia and eastern europe this is not like the robert miller probe which was looking into possible collusion between the donald trump campaign and russia this is looking into financial ties between president trump and his organization and other countries now donald trump was a bit of a pariah in the banking industry he had defaulted on long as his company had declared bankruptcy as nevertheless he managed to get your bank to lend him two billion dollars for various projects and at the time he was he took office as president there were three hundred million dollars in active projects funded by
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georgia and just to give you an idea of what a bad risk he was at least perceived to be in order to build trump tower in chicago he needed five hundred million dollars and he was willing to secure that with forty million dollars of his own money when he was unable to pay that his company ended up suing deutsche bank declaring that that was an act of god. because of the financial collapse of two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine trump actually asked the bank for three billion dollars in damages for that in the end they settled their deal and then trump turned around and asked the bank for the money to pay back that forty million dollar loan so it is a storied history with georgia banks and now that the democrats are taking over these house committees in the house of representatives in congress trump is going to have to sit back and watch as a lot of his financial information that he has sought to keep secret comes out. now
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cases of measles have tripled so far this year compared with the first three months of last year according to the world health organization which is warning that the outbreak could be even worse as only one in ten cases is that she being reported that africa is particularly affected with a spike in measles cases there of seven hundred percent more than twelve hundred people have died from measles in madagascar alone and that since september most of them are children measles is highly contagious but the w.h.o. says it's entirely preventable with vaccinations in power countries where fewer people have access to vaccines community is a vulnerable to the virus but in cultures with high that's in the same rates the spiking cases is being put down to bogus anti vaccination messages on social media right this week now to katrina kritzinger who's a medical officer at the w.h.o. expanded program on immunization and she's joining us from geneva thanks for
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talking to us so you've got a double edge problem haven't you really on the one hand poorer countries and not having access to the vitally needed vaccination on the other hand wealthier countries. following along the lines of fake news. yes thank you for having me i really appreciate it and you describe the problem very well i think that many are. breaks going on now it's one precedented to see so many outbreaks in so many different countries they're quite different in scope but they are stem fundamentally from the same problem which is unvaccinated children a failure to reach everybody who needs and deserves his lifesaving vaccine the key problem both in the wealthy countries would be good for systems such as in western europe and united states who are also experienced outbreaks as well as some of the less developed countries is really access to the vaccine and really understanding why parents don't get their children vaccinated is really imperative to the public
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health community and for medical doctors to really work with parents understand the barriers are to the exhibition right but looking at the poor or the poor countries particularly madagascar which has had twelve hundred people having died for amazingly it seems very much as though access to vaccines in madagascar has gone down what's reducing the availability of vaccine in a country like madagascar so a number of countries have quite a. weak health systems that are gassed are being one of them and it's estimated that the rate of coverage for the single dose the muses continue vaccines about fifty eight percent that means every year more than forty percent of children who are eligible for this vaccine do not receive it and this is largely an access issue over the years especially with an island country like madagascar the number of children who are susceptible to measles accumulates and when we do have an introduction of the muses case then in an outbreak setting it's really just quite
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explosive that's exactly what we've seen in madagascar which explains the huge number of cases that have been reported in the country as well as a variant fortune telling preventable deaths and then going to the other extreme and to the to the wealthy countries like the united states where in certain parts of the country emergencies have been declared because of the number of people who are now contracting measles. you know it's really important to remember that we were very interconnected world so even in countries where the overall vaccination rate is quite high like the united states any pockets under vaccinated communities are susceptible to measles because any introduction can really result in an outbreak in communities where there's a concentration under vaccinated individuals it's really important to remember that needles does not discriminate on basis of religion of ethnic status it will find susceptible individuals because it is so infectious. right katrina curtseying i thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us live from geneva. it's
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my pleasure right to greece now where violence on university campuses has become common and a kiss and criminals are often seen attacking starvin students and some believe this is because of a law that prevents police from entering campuses and protecting people but others say it's important to keep the police out johnson report. once a year the student body in every creek university elects a representative to the rector's council to vote on academic and administrative matters it's taken so seriously that national parties have created proxies to campaign for the student vote but today democracy is disrupted a group of people dressed in black shows up with equipment poles some of these people have been spotted on campus before and may be responsible for attacking a faculty member eighteen months ago. this was hospitalized after he asked his attackers to stop spraying graffiti on campus walls in practice. there are many
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teachers professors at the university cannot express free. their thoughts because they're afraid that they're going to be attacked by these people in my case after this incident i have another five times that. youth groups from various other universities or people were not in the university where entering in the classroom and creating problems or sometimes twice in my life this is exactly the opposite effect to what legislators intended nearly half a century ago when they passed a law forbidding police from entering campuses the asylum law was meant to guarantee unmolested elections university asylum was born after police force their way onto the campus of the athens polytechnic under the military regime that ruled greece in one nine hundred seventy three since then students and faculty have
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suffered bodily harm hundreds of times on campuses across greece but police have only been invited a handful of times police can enter campuses if invited by the rector's council all refer serious crime is reported but in practice the council is slow to act and the police are reluctant to enter we know that whenever there is more and more policing then we have one or more incidents like this happening at the schools at the united states these are very well guarded institutions again we do it we have equal problems in europe this is why i say that violence is something that we have to deal with and his social eleven politicians from all sides agree that universities have a problem they just disagree on how to solve it jump. since. will be here in just
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a little while this will choose including the golden state warriors for a record comeback in the n.b.a. playoffs. when explaining oh. thank. you.
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thank you. thank you. the world's most cutting edge technology is on display at shanghai is also a show in china in vehicles and drive in this cars are expected to dominate the train a year. over one million electric vehicles were sold in china last year that may sound like a lot but it's only four percent of all car sales in china now the chinese
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government is hoping by twenty twenty five that electric vehicles will make up twenty percent now because of this expected growth in broome electric vehicles are the focus of this year's order show here in shanghai now if you came to one of these events about five to six years ago the electric cars would have looked very different but see a little cheap and certainly not too appealing compared to european competitors but this show this year it's not the case missing a focus on luxury electric vehicles electric vehicles which resemble sporty s.u.v.s maybe two or three times the price and also these vehicles such as from neo which is one of the leading electric vehicles here in china are making vehicles which are equipped with artificial intelligence friends which talks you when you drive an internet connectivity now this market is not big loss on foreign brand make as we've seen tesla for example announce that they're going to build the first overseas factory here in shanghai and ford and volkswagen have also announced they're going to expand their investment in china with a focus on electric cars now the question with electric vehicles of course is how
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to charge them most of the cars here can go from three hundred to five hundred kilometers maximum before having to be plugged in and because of that we're seeing new innovative solutions full battery charging including a charging station where you can drive in and have the battery of your electric cars were placed underneath now today there are over four hundred chinese electric car companies and as the industry becomes more cut there are many of these are expected to next survive the next few years and it will certainly be the companies who invest more into battery technology that are going to be able to dominate the market in future years. right it's time for the school shoes now with peter martin thank you very much the n.b.a. champion golden state warriors have been shocked in the second game playoff series against the only clippers a thirty one point. he'd seen to have them cruising in california before the clippers made a historic comeback to tie the series at one one pool restricts heavily steph curry
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is much more used to breaking records than having the made against him and at first he was off and running against the l.a. clippers away up in the second quarter perfecting the two time m.v.p. and three time championship when it was another three points at just before half time came as the warriors built a seemingly unassailable thirty one point lead i thank you but it's no one's perfect in the clip has got some help from curry himself i think it's. l.a. getting within twelve points of the defending n.b.a. champions in the fourth quarter the clippers have the own stalls lee williams tying the game at one hundred twenty eight each on his way to thirty four points and then something no one at the oracle arena could have foreseen i the visitors going ahead for the first time actually thought it was such
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a list wasn't even curry couldn't get the warriors out of this one missing a chance to add to his twenty nine points and save the game one. because when one hundred thirty five to one hundred thirty one over golden state the biggest comeback in playoff history pull reese al-jazeera. the man who led the clippers charge lou williams said the record was nice to have but not having to come back at all would have been even nicer there's a record we don't necessarily want to have but. we'll take it. but you know you get lost in a game you're competitive and you get lost in the game and. you know what you could lead twelve you could lead to an end in you realize you got a game going in. you know. and i just got lost in a moment last year the fallout from homophobic comments made by australian rugby union star israel folau has led to one of these international rivals getting off
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with a warning england player billy billy polo was formally warned by the country's rugby chiefs for showing support for the comments by fellow with the polar has also apologized both players are of tongan heritage with conservative christian views flower has been sacked from the australian team for saying homosexuals must repent or go to hell italian police have detained fifty four dutch football fans ahead of the second leg of the champions league quarter finals police on high alert of the fans from eventis and i.x. clashed before the first leg leading to over one hundred arrests police say the i.x. fans who were stopped on buses outside of turin were in possession of armored globs of fireworks and smoke bombs events this will take a crucial away goal advantage into the match after their one all draw in amsterdam i.x. are looking to make it through to the semi finals for the first time in more than twenty years. and barcelona going to tuesday's other match against manchester
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united were one of advantage they're looking to hope they run of being knocked out at this stage of the competition for the last three to last three seasons in a row. a look at my system or your socialist because again in the thing i fear the most is the spirit they have the players they have and the power and speed they have if you give space to their players they run very well it precise and strong and of course this strategy we respect them as a team for what they've done what they are the story they have behind them and because you can see this spirit tiger woods is said to be awarded the presidential medal of freedom by u.s. president donald trump the golfer ended any living year period without a major on sunday by winning the masters tweeted that he intends to present woods with the highest civilian honor awarded by the u.s. government. in major league baseball the boston red sox were thrashed eight one by the baltimore orioles baltimore's chris davis got a first homerun of the season
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a day after ending the longest streak in major league history without a hit or the players will the number forty two in honor of jackie robinson day which commemorates the first black player to break into the major leagues back in one nine hundred forty seven. and robinson's children through out the first pitch in the game between the los angeles dodgers and cincinnati reds dodgers one for three. the current stanley cup champions the washington capitals were very much in the eye of the storm on monday said to say they faced with carolina hurricanes in game three of their first round playoff series washington with leading the series to nothing but the hurricanes simply blew them away in a five nothing route. win even if most ford later martin peter thank you very much indeed and thank you for joining me to this out is there a news out don't go away ali will be here in the chair in just a minute. for
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the congolese the journey to work all of our beings unimaginable hardship i prefer to live no just might get the captain to chance a good life and live on a dangerous journey through the jungle. down on to the rails i merely done. our children east go to school and live because of the trade. risking it all the democratic republic of congo on al-jazeera. and then reported on the.
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u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to from a dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the your. fake news is a global virus but an indian politics is becoming a cancer all of these up unstructured and abuse and manipulate them into what a pity party is just the sort of malicious you can skew the perception of three hundred people specifically if you go marvet britto freak news it does start to flow to you as the world's largest democracy goes to the polls how vulnerable are exposed his to malicious disinformation. people and power investigates india fake news and agitprop on al-jazeera. played
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. the fire is finally out at notre dame cathedral in paris attention now shifts to how the eight hundred fifty zero landmark can be rebuilt it's. fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also on the program sudanese protesters keep up the pressure on the military commanders who have taken power demanding civilians be put in charge. of. libya's un backed government ops a state of emergency to the highest level as its forces try to fight off a wall itself and.

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