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you will see it on amazon instant video and also on i tunes and also a pivot share around the world and coming soon to google play thank you very much gentlemen it's such a pleasure to have you on the stream today now this show is not just thrown together we've put it together with an incredible crew one of our incredible crew one of our family is madeline finkel finkel who is leaving today so how do we see her let's cut to the control room. so let's cut to the control room so we can give maddie a big thank you for yours even i guess your priority and to think we will miss you we love you very much thank you for helping us make the scream see you next time without mattie. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel weak or this region better than anyone else working for it as you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to
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tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. joy bringing my maybe my neighbor's children so they can see and get more comfortable five children are at the heart of america's love affair with weapons fact that makes the report expand there for a new machine and it's fun but the new generation is fighting fire with reason we are fighting for voices to be heard because you don't want to see it and you do speak it fluently. never again part of the radicalized youth series on a jazeera examining the headlines a collapsed economy believes that many people are struggling to survive setting the discussions people having to wait i don't think you can look away any longer sharing personal stories with a global audience explore an abundance of world class programming designed to
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inform the media's motivate and inspire and. the world is watching on al-jazeera. in syria citizens are collecting evidence of your particular shock of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria and told six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face by the secular trix syria witnesses for the prosecution on al jazeera. president trying vetoes congress's move to end the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen.
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has i'm seeking this is live from doha also coming up a rematch in indonesia as joke a widow hopes to be challenger pro bowl or sylviana toe in the race for the president's. war fighting in the libyan capital at least five people have been killed and thousands of others wounded. france's president vows to rebuild and not to dom laying out an ambitious timetable. fellow u.s. president donald trump has vetoed a resolution by congress calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen congress expressed concern about the thousands of civilians killed in coalition airstrikes since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen yemen's been pushed to the brink of famine with millions
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suffering from food and medical shortages trump says the action by congress now threatened to weaken his constitutional power rosalyn jordan has more from washington. at least two democratic u.s. senators are calling for congress to override the veto issued by donald trump on tuesday night the u.s. president is vitaly a joint resolution passed by members of the senate and of the house earlier this month. that would call of the u.s. military to stop all support for the saudi air coalition if the yemeni civil war the supporters of this measure say that the u.s. is on the wrong side of history that the saudi air war against who the fighters has its day created a bass of humanitarian catastrophe in that country which has been under civil war for more than four years of congress are also angry that the tropic ministration is
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continuing the pattern of never it big war of going into conflicts around the world without getting the express permission of congress first and they're also trying to express their disapproval and the light of the fact that in their view no what has been held fully accountable for the burger of saudi writer jamal khashoggi back in october it is widely assumed that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sol bond may have been behind the plot to. murder and so for those three reasons congress said that it should have some sort of limit placed a u.s. military action to yabut however the us president says that he has the constitutional right to deploy the military wherever he sees fit both for us national security purposes every us foreign policy purposes he said that if he approved this joint resolution number seven it would set a very bad precedent for u.s.
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policy going forward the question now can congress figure out how to reverse the veto and have this resolution take effect in a couple of weeks top. senate is the co-director of just foreign policy and national advocacy group to supported the yemen resolution he says despite china's veto congressional pressure is starting to give the conflict in yemen the attention it deserves. this is about article one section eight of the constitution congress has the power to declare war not the president of the united states so our our war in yemen is an authorized by congress therefore it's a legal and you know and as far as yemen goes you know yes you know this we have to look at some of the more positive things that have actually happened i wanted to mention is we just recently had a major breakthrough with the u.s. led peace talks and the two sides are basically able to redeploy the forces
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out of they agreed to phase one of the process to redeploy forces outside of the data which you know again we're trying to give leverage for the diplomatic efforts on the ground in yemen so this is you know really a positive step for us to even get this. legislation passed there could be enough outrage about this but i do think as we force congress to make more and more votes i mean i think the house has voted about five or six times at this point we've gotten more press coverage and you know the forgotten war is no longer forgotten folks are engaged so a night ago i think last night bernie sanders asked the president on national t.v. to sign the headman war powers resolution something that donald trump said he would do he said he would he campaigned on ending endless wars and bernie raucous applause for that statement and so i do think that the tides are turning america
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is fed up with the endless wars and i think that this veto is going to really hurt trump and i think it's going to cost him the two thousand and twenty alexion. more than one hundred ninety million eligible voters in costing that balance in the world. largest single day elections in the first the presidential and legislative votes are being held at the same time the government says to cut costs election is a repeat of the twenty fourteen poll with president djoko we don't know facing a challenge from former general. our correspondents away in haiti and angie thomas with these reports now from two different polling stations. other democracies have bigger populations but nowhere on earth the more people vote for more candidates in a single day than here in indonesia almost two hundred million voters by see the
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candidates at five different levels of government from the president down well that huge voting population that is spread out over eight hundred thousand different polling stations many the number of three hundred people who voted in any one place i come somewhere like this first register and then go to those boxes at the back where they punch holes using a nail next to their candidate's choice before putting their voting in the boxes in the middle of the main presidential battle between the incumbent. and his more conservative opponent proposed to be on site now. as he's known as emphasized his record on the economy and certainly his investment in infrastructure over the last few years and he's seen as the more liberal of the to his opponent proposal well he is appealing to more religious conservative voters and those scared at the place of deindustrialization in this country he's promising to bring out of. there are some reports of problems coming in particularly from the more remote parts of indonesia
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some polling stations reporting delays in getting the boxes the voting papers to those particular stations if they continue those problems you get the feeling that the challenger to the presidency beyond to make capitalize on that before the election he said that there were some seventeen and a half million problems in terms of the names on the electoral roll and he says if there is evidence of cheating and if he loses the election he will get people out onto the streets to protest the election commission says look there's no sign of cheating going on these are just technical difficulties and when you're talking about a country of some seventeen val's and islands you can understand to an extent that there could be problems with this process of fighting in libya's capital has killed at least five civilians and left many more injured shells and rockets were fired in various parts of tripoli it follows an airstrike by the un recognized government on a camp of fighters loyal towards after just outside the city the government has
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pushed the state of emergency to the highest level as it defends the city from half stars fighters would have been way ahead has more from tripoli. huge explosions and. the rockets landed and had said what a residential area is getting and long the civilians including women and children that's according to minutes dollar counts and that to police it is simple and soldiers with a government of national accord say that have convinced forces has been called the king is and is eventually said he has lived with heavy weapons a state of panic and pro-government media sources have been posting flying pictures all the muddy parts of committee and casualties and victims. the affected neighborhoods are not far from the city simply beyond somehow the
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fence line of the government forces many people here along doing light of the international community is not putting to show them help that is to stop the escalation in and around the capital should probably by the way did not the first time have been foreseen civilian areas as a place for its. launch of his military is offensive to take control of the capital tripoli many people lied more than seventy people died in including civilians. when we held that have to those forces are trying through each of the sidhe into from different directions but unfortunately and it could be the end. of the victims of this for. french president emanuel has vowed to restore order. within five years he has
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fire destroyed his roof and spire but authorities say the eight hundred fifty year old cathedral is structurally sound donations to rebuild and have reached nearly one billion dollars bernard smith reports. it was a hellish scene inside one of christianity's most important cathedrals. burning cinders rained down on the center of the cathedral such was the danger from falling debris that a robot firefighter was used. legendary gargoyles overflowed the spiles of liters of water was pumped on to the flames more than eight hundred years of history but taken just eight hours to go up in flames the altar what's left of it is now exposed to the heavens. such as the importance of not to the french that the president addressed the nation. what we saw last
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night in paris is this ability to mobilize unite and when during our history we've built cities ports churches many have been burned or have been destroyed by wars revolutions by our own fault each time we rebuilt them the fire of our lady reminds us that our history never stops and that we will always have tests to overcome. had been undergoing renovation when it became engulfed in flames more than two hundred thousand kilos of lead and thousands of mediæval open beams in the roof court fight easily and fast. four hundred year old paintings hanging high in the cathedral have been damaged but firefighters and staff formed a human chain to save other artifacts. thrones golden candelabras gem incrusted crucifixes and other relics will be transferred to the louvre museum for storage but this united nations world heritage site will need to go through
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a careful lengthy and expensive restoration process it's really a site which is here to let all the regions but it's the whole of france but also the whole of humanity because it's a symbol or not only for the christian god it's a symbol for the unit. of it is accurate tactile language is so unique in the world there's only one. before the fire broke out the catholic church was asking for around one hundred seventy million dollars to fund restoration work the state offered about forty five million dollars now money is being pledge from across the world but it will cost many hundreds of millions of dollars more to restore not a down to its former glory twenty four hours after the fire and there is still a sense of shock it's a bit of what you did when you were i felt it out of emotions last night with my children as we were watching t.v. so here i am now. i'm sad but at the same time very happy to see the french people
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united we needed that you get to see me i'm a catholic but even if you're not it's part of your life it's unimaginable it to speak it's paris he knew these people prayed and marched through the streets no not messages of support came from other states france's chief rabbi offered friendship and support the french counsel of the muslim faith called for donations to help restore what it called the heart of the history of fronts. its mission i'll just zero pounds. by still ahead when we come back the first shipment turf humanitarian aid arrives in venezuela. and why some mexicans aren't too concerned about living in the shadow of an active volcano.
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hello there we've been hearing reports of flooding out of afghanistan and it's all thanks to this weather system here you can see it very clearly on the satellite picture all trying to pull away towards the north but it has brought us very heavy rain as a very strong winds as well and there has also picked up a fair amount of dust that will gradually edgy way towards the east as we head through the next couple of days and behind it it does look a good deal dry air and come up for the western parts there if this region we are seeing more in the way of clouds and still a few outbreaks of snow as well over some of the mountains that's still going to be with us as we head through the day on thursday and some of the showers here are likely to be very heavy towards the south or as in baghdad is getting halts the twenty nine will be our maximum on thursday marks in the temperatures that we're expecting in kuwait city but here there will also be some cloud developing as well as this next system begins to snake its way across parts of iran don't want to sound. and here in doha the temperatures are rising we're back with the sunshine so
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it's not really a surprise thirty five mm we are maximum on wednesday on matching the temperatures we're expecting on thursday to the south of us where muscat thirty degrees will be our maximum here it is a good deal more humid for the southern parts of africa we are seeing some showers in the northern parts of a good deal of cloud and maybe the odd outbreak of rain in the south. my main interest every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the welts generally that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means or the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were brought on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. and
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again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour president donald trump as we tell you a resolution passed by congress to end u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen he called the move an attempt to weaken his constitutional power. indonesians are voting in the world's largest single day election but when joe called to go to face is former general problem or so we are toddles indonesians will also choose from more than two hundred forty five thousand candidates vying for seats in government. fighting in libya's capital has killed at least five people shells and rockets were fired in various parts of tripoli that
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follows an airstrike by the u.n. recognize government on the camper fighters loyal toward highly faffed are just outside the city. where the chairman of algeria is constitutional council tired belise has quit his post protesters had been calling for his resignation so. he's part of a ruling elite that should be completely replaced the tour of the ripples. celebrations on the streets of calling the resignation of time. he quit is chairman of algeria's powerful constitutional council the country's highest judicial body which oversees presidential and parliamentary elections to millions of protesters he represented an establishment that is corrupt and ineffective he was an ally of former president up to lizzie's beautifully he himself stepped down earlier this month after all jiri and demanded his twenty year rule and. was that belize's
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decision to quit is unlikely to quell the two month long protests algerians want to revamp of the entire political establishment there's a significant resignation but the same time i don't think it a nuff to satisfy the demands of the protesters who really want a genuine transition and that's led by an independent figures following belize's resignation algeria's army chief guide salah said the military is looking at all options to find a solution to end the crisis. i'd like to reconfirm that all perspectives are available in order to overcome all the difficulties as soon as possible for the sake of the nation supreme interests regardless of personal interests. on the streets to discontent continues the same protest as he wanted beautifully out are unhappy with the appointment by parliament last week of up till could have been
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salah as interim president the protesters would want obviously dissident president of the constitution a council. in place. would reside in the distance and would take all the the total to be with you which is a good but we do the prime minister and his government to go. we need the new ministry and this new blood we need to reform the technocratic government i carried the concern the old guard maybe bring to maintain its influence they say they're determined to continue pushing for real change the tory gate to be al jazeera. and sudan's ruling military council has signed the prosecutor general into movies aids a key demand of protest leaders a german stray shoes though of continued in the camp for what they're calling for really and will and want the military council to step aside with morgan has been following developments for us from khartoum. the military council has announced
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that it has dismissed the state attorney as well as his aides they're saying it's part of reforms to judicial system and part of a response to demands made by political parties and protesters on the streets political parties that protesters have been saying that the judicial system is politicized and favored the former ruling party and they say that they will not stop protesting and till they are reforms made not just to the judicial system but today the national intelligence and security services as well as handing over to power to a civilian interim government now political parties and military council are deferring on the mandate and the role of that transitional government the council wants to be the one supervising that government and they want the political parties to become prime minister and members of the cabinet but political parties are saying that they cannot take a cabinet they cannot speak of prime minister if they're not sure that the that the council will not interfere in the day to day affairs of the government meanwhile
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hundreds of people continue to make their way to the pro to the protests in front of the army headquarters in khartoum and they have been calls for sit ins in front of headquarters around the state by the sudanese professional association the body that is spearheading the protest since last december they're saying that if power is not handed over to civilian government that is independent from the from the interaction. and has nothing to do with the military counts and then the protests will not end so far the african union has given sudan fifteen days to form a government that was yesterday so they're now left with two weeks to form a government and they're nowhere near forming that government and it's not clear yet with the difference between them and between political parties and the council and the amount mandate if they would meet that deadline. egypt's parliament has rubberstamp constitutional amendments that could keep president under fire to his sisi in power for another decade the parliament voted five hundred thirty one to twenty two in favor of the amendments they'll give the military are more formal
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role in the country's politics a referendum will also be held to approve the changes palestinians are marking prisoners data on of the six thousand men women and children held as political prisoners in israel the palestinian authority is continuing to pay salaries to their families which some say is adding to its financial crisis new reports from the occupied west bank. to build this house so madam saved money for almost twenty years and to do it she used the monthly salary paid to her by the palestinian authority since israeli forces at us did her husband in two thousand and nobody is serving a twenty three year sentence for killing an israeli soldier leaving his wife to raise their three children one is the nineteen year old daughter beta to. my mother does everything from dealing with construction workers preparing the budget and payments to buying the necessary supplies from the market no one helps us she is doing all of this on her own. the family tries to stay in touch as much as possible
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so matter says she gets gifts from the most precious being had a younger son. she became pregnant with him through artificial insemination but kadeem especially misses his father. karim often asks his dad why he doesn't visit us i'm tired of visiting my legs hurt he says why don't you come over we have enough room for you to sleep do you keep warm at the present do you have a blanket and heater like us or do you get cold. like your team more than four thousand other children have fathers in prisons israel collects taxes on behalf of the palestinian authority and since the beginning of the year israel has been withholding their payments from the traffic. and this is at the heart of the current financial crisis faced great palestinians israel says the cash encourages violence but palestinian officials say the money is needed to support prisoners' families and would keep paying them. no one will go to prison for any amount of
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money freedom is priceless prison is not an easy experience people don't go to prison for the sake of a salary they suffer these crackdowns and sometimes go on hunger strike the united states has got hundreds of millions of dollars of its aid budget to the palestinians and with a dispute over the prisoners payments the palestinian authority faces a financial crisis and has cut. by half but it says it won't stop paying the prisoner's families their money. in. the occupied west bank. but turkey's ruling ak party is demanding a rerun of the merrill election held in istanbul last month after an opposition candidate won by a slim margin it's claiming it was electoral irregularities by the rival c.h.p. supreme council will now decide if their request for a rerun has merit president added one is a former mayor of istanbul or launched his political career there so the loss is
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considered a symbolic defeat. the first shipment of humanitarian aid from the red cross has arrived in venezuela as nicolas maduro and the opposition have been accused of politicizing a delivery during their long palace juggle the red cross has vowed it will not accept interference asunder m.p.'s he has more from in colombia near the border with venezuela. the first shipment to landed in caracas mean airport on tuesday after much armed wrestling between the venezuelan government and the opposition your rival the aid was complicated by the fact that president nicolas maduro four years the night the existence of an economic crisis in the country let alone trying to address it and this had been further complicated by the fact that the opposition force a believe tried to enter aid that there were sent here on the border between colombe
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a ends in this way led by the united states in which the government of venezuela thought it was a political tool to try and push nicolas maduro out of office but now this first shipment it did indeed arrive since the worsening of the situation inside the country convince my daughter to reach a deal with the international red cross and the off position the red cross will be responsible for the distribution of this aid and to make sure to avoid any possibility that this aid to will be politicized by any of the factions in the country. president maduro took credit for the arrival of the first batch of international aid you in a televised speech he said previous attempts to deliver aid from the u.s. were a smokescreen to cover an american intervention. or that cynical hypocritical false narrative of humanitarian aid it was neither aid
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nor humanitarian it was a politicized show of the u.s. and colombian governments to intervene and even as well or you already know that right and the venezuelan people stood up and defeated the shoah folks humanitarian aid on thievery twenty third on mexico's petal volcano has been busy spewing lava and ash in recent weeks but the increase in activity isn't scaring the thousands of people who live in the shadow of the giant. reports from. why would anyone want to live near an active volcano. for many of the residents of some peril we need to what is a small town nestled at the foot of mexico's book look at the volcano it's the only way of life they know. over the past few weeks however the mountain has been acting a little strange large explosions have forced massive plumes of volcanic ash seven
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thousand meters into the air at night bursts of fragmented lava have lit up the sky and covered the steep slopes of the mountain in a glowing blanket of molten rock over satellite all over the whole mountain was glowing then the forest caught fire. the recent increase in moderately explosive eruptions however hasn't changed day to day life farmers still tend to their fields and children still go to school at a monitoring station that tracks seismic activity around the volcano disaster relief workers say their biggest challenge would be convincing people to evacuate and we're going to this is a volcano that people are used to living with it's a volcano there was here before people arrived and began to settle for mexico's poke at their ranks among the most dangerous volcanoes in the world not because of its potential for explosive eruptions but because of how many people choose to live
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so close to the mountain. has a population of about five thousand people most of them ethnic now wanted who have made their home in the shadow of the volcano for generations book look at that but there is a now what's the word meaning smoking mountain and in recent weeks the volcano really has been living up to its namesake but even though locals here tell us that volcanic activity has been calling down authorities have yet to reduce the threat level saying everyone should be aware of the evacuation routes in the event of a truly explosive. despite the warnings from authorities nobody in this town seems fazed by the threat of this very active volcano at their backs. although we're not worried i see nothing is going to happen then again who knows the people of san pedro we need to what is do understand the risks but they tell us their livelihoods depend on the rich farmlands the volcano provides and say they would actually be more afraid if they no longer had their smoking mountain man made up
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a little. our rights get a round up of our top stories now president donald trump has vetoed a resolution passed by congress to end u.s. involvement in the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen he called the move an attempt to weaken his constitutional power. polls are open in indonesia's election for the next half hour it is a rematch between the current president joe cole we don't know and. nearly two hundred million reasons are eligible to vote in the elections. whoever wins we have to remind united we don't have to back as long it's fair and honest after co we wednesday will support them and if proposed by when's we'll support him to what's important is that we don't fight for the. i hope after the selection
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indonesia could be more developed and peaceful so of course all of us are thinking of how to make this country better. fighting in libya's capital has killed at least five people after shells and rockets were fired in various parts of tripoli that follows an airstrike by the un recognized government on a camp or fighters loyal toward holly for half thought just outside the city and the united nations as the fighting has displaced almost twenty thousand people. the u.n. support mission in libya condemns the increased use of heavy weapons and indiscriminate shelling that has damaged civilian houses schools and infrastructure the secretary general's special representative goes on salami continues his outreach to call for humanitarian truce to allow for emergency services to access civilians trapped in conflict impacted areas the french president has promised to rebuild or not saddam cathedral within five years because of the fire that engulfed and destroyed part of
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