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in latin america's largest corruption scandal he turned the gun on himself as police arrived at his home in lima to arrest him go see it was rushed to hospital and had emergency surgery but died from his wounds on latin america editor lucien human has more. than that c. a was one cruise most influential politicians he became president the youngest president of peru in one thousand eight hundred five as a member of the center left party he was known as the charmer of the masses because of his extraordinary oratory skills he was also extremely tall very very charismatic but he left in tatters suffering the worst hyperinflation in its history and also overrun by left with the rule of violence but when you returned to become president again in two thousand and six he was now if free market conservative he did very very well for the economy but also according to prosecutors for himself he was accused of having accepted millions of dollars in bribes from. the brazilian engineering company and also from other sources he
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always denied the allegations he tried in fact to seek political asylum earlier this year at the earl gwion embassy in lima after a judge banned him from leaving proof but i refused to grant this and so when finally police arrived at his house today ready to arrest him i learned that he had clearly preferred to die dramatically rather than face the courts and he's twenty eight people are dead after a tourist bus overturned in portugal according to put to use media the accident took place on the island of madeira most of the victims are reported to be german several ambulances. still ahead on the news hour one of india's largest airlines suspends all operations after it runs out of money to stay in the skies plus. i'm groping for the walk in ukraine's black sea port of odessa where voters are preparing to make a critical choice over who they want as their next president. and sport rafael
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nadal is back with a bang as he returns to his favorite surface and hunts for title number twelve paul be here with more letter. that the u.n. says an attack on a residential area in libya's capital tripoli could amount to a war crime at least seven civilians were killed in the shelling on tuesday evening eastern warlord holy for have turned on an offensive to take control of the capital two weeks ago his soldiers are battling the forces of the internationally recognized government went up there were had reports from tripoli. the victims of shelling more and in the libyan capital in the main square there are funeral prayers. and calls for the international
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community to help stop the conflict. folk. were speechless and in great shock we stand here by the victims' families demanding an immediate cessation of that barbaric attack by the war criminals have to and his forces on tuesday night rocket fire hits residential areas several people were killed dozens wounded and a state of panic lost it all might. the outskirts of tripoli are now a battlefield around three million people are now living in the city's suburbs the un has condemned the shelling of civilian areas the secretary general's special representative in libya salaam a condemned in the strongest terms the overnight showing recalling their responsibility for actions that may constitute war crimes no lies not only with the individuals who ordered who committed the indiscriminate attacks but also
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potentially with those who ordered them since warlord leave there have to his forces began an offensive to take control of tripoli two weeks ago the violence has escalated. forces of the internationally recognized government have been defending the capital have to say as he's trying to crush post arab spring an anarchy in libya the prime minister in tripoli phase as half that is a dictator in waiting aid workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of the city where that has been fighting electricity on the water supplies have been disrupted along with telecommunications and there are concerns the violence could spread beyond libya's borders affecting its oil production and bringing a rise in those trying to escape the conflict heading for europe.
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tripoli a group of people carrying weapons and french diplomatic passports has been stopped by china's you know thirty's when attempting to cross from libya one student at the country western border is raising questions about the involvement of foreign countries in the conflict this homage of aid has more. a rally in the libyan capital tripoli calling on france to end its intervention in the conflict there have been sporadic protests before but this one came after french nationals carrying weapons and diplomatic passports were stopped at the border between tunisia and libya tunisia says it's the second time for a nationals have been stopped recently the first coming in by the sea where they have that they entered through two rubber boats and they were spotted we followed them till they reached them the two boats carry eleven european foreigners from different nationalities and we handed them over to the authorities concerned the second group entered on sunday consisting of thirteen individuals all of them frenchmen under diplomatic cover with arms and ammunitions and initially they tried
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not to hand them over the french embassy internees he says its nationals were members of a team that provide security protection to the french ambassador to libya and explanation many are questioning there is no meaning for infiltration from. libya unless there is. a military operation or support of command and control systems or something like this to. have their forces front supports the un recognized government in tripoli but it also maintain ties with the other government led by warlord khalifa haftar analysts say its interest in libya centered around oil and regional influence with powers such as saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt the french government is involved in this this the police city in their position on one hand there is condemn nation of
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what's happening but this is not the translated action is not reflected the action they've been taken by western governments in order to push for a diplomatic solution france isn't the only foreign power involved in libya have started a u.s. citizen allegedly trained by the cia during the rule of moammar gadhafi. he now has the support of saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt and is also reported to have more than french weaponry despite a u.n. arms embargo. but the fighting intensifying many libyans say a political solution is needed but that can only come if foreign powers stop their covert military support some of the job aid out there. and if prison which was used to systematically to abuse and kill political dissidents will soon be turned into a museum and jail in the somali regional capital has only recently shut down i'm going to do met some of its former inmates.
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hubble spent four years in this prison in appalling conditions and all for could sizing that original administration. it's a place he comes back to with great reluctance. in the four years i spent here what the doctors see in my life most of them was spent in this room which was of a crowded with inmates we were beaten and tortured several times every day. the former regional president mohamed is accused of using digger central prison also known as daily or garden to dump his opponents. he used the hated lou police force he set up to our arrest and then porch other inmates human rights watch says rape and murder was routine. for my inmates showed us that tiny rooms where they were held and where most of the torture took place they were forced to sit they say in
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roll see which sometimes for days in these underground bunkers. twenty five year old junaid muhammed was held at the prison for eighty years. doctors have told him he will never walk again because of a severe spinal injury. and he later. and the line were blocked and i was arrested while holding camels and within days was sentenced to life imprisonment then the torture began they would hang me from the ceiling and beat the soles of my feet and bang with sticks and plastic pipes they broke my spine but that didn't stop them from continuing to torture me. the jail also had a woman swing where former inmates say for a pause an intrinsic tool of torture saddam had given them a dime for money a moslem was held here for ten years later that they will call for some of the girls in the middle of the not only for them to come back to the cell shaking shivering and crying we knew what was going on it was right for much of this crowd see people dying in their cells some times in their thousands due to the monster
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torture and abuse that went on of the day and they say there was little oversight or scrutiny due to the decade the former president was in. the former president is now in jail in the capital addis ababa facing charges for crimes committed while in office the region's new president a former employee of the united nations close the prison a few months ago as part of a package of changes this was a systemic problem and most of the people who committed these crimes in some ways we're in some ways victims themselves. live in the. police officers were told to do this that's not excuse what they have done but the point is we don't want to. spend our time chasing. the level he says but at the highest level people who are responsible green the president of the really no need to. the problem now is to
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time the prison into museum but even before that happens people have been flocking here to see for themselves the facility that's become a symbol for one of the darkest periods of the region's history. without the world is either to go with european the troika of tyranny as well u.s. national security adviser has called cuba nicaragua and venezuela after announcing new sanctions are all three countries john bolton says five names linked to cuba's military will be blacklisted and all non-family travel to the country will be restricted and fisher has more. in his last few months in office barack obama wants to improve relations with cuba lifted travel restrictions to the island give the go ahead for increased trade and symbolically restored full diplomatic relations cuba once more had a u.s. embassy in egypt after sixty years of sanctions and isolation he said it was time
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to try something different. different president different approach donald trump's national security adviser was in miami to address a group of exiled cubans john bolton announced new economic sanctions on the cuban military and intelligence services under strictures on the amount of money that can be sent to relatives in cuba and he brought the crowd to its feet with this the department of the treasury will implement further regulatory changes to restrict nonfamily travel to cuba or another would be with each new measures will help steer american dollars away from the cuban regime or its military and security services who control the tourism industry in cuba. came just hours after u.s. secretary of state mike pump cleared the way for u.s. citizens to sue foreign businesses if they're using property in cuba that was seized during the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution he was most probably
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export these days is not cigars it's oppression. detente with the regime has failed. bin is among the countries that has invested billions in cuba and the e.u. is warning this could create a huge international dispute. as well in the end i think this is bad for everyone it's a lose lose that is why the european union has sent a letter this week to secretary of state pompei or to ask that the best thing is to collaborate that's respect the agreement. also notes fresh economic sanctions on both venezuela and they can argue all aimed at increasing pressure on three countries he has dubbed the troika of tyranny alan fischer. the red cross says it will continue to send aid to venezuela with a second shipment expected to arrive in about three weeks the first round of water power and medical supplies arrived there on tuesday and israel's president nicolas maduro had previously blocked any international help to mother sharon met somebody
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as writers trying to survive a crisis hit economy. this pharmacy in caracas isn't closed the metal bars are there because medicine has become one of the most valuable commodities for the working class and the poor places like this are prime targets for robberies hyperinflation and sanctions have led to a shortage of medicine and the ones that are available have increased up to three hundred percent in price there like any c.s.i. since the crisis began it's become more difficult to bring in medicine is very costly now because domestic production has stopped completely before then as well used to produce some medicines but now we have no choice but to import and it's very expensive me it's very difficult for all fantasies now doctors to find you know post tells me she's run out of medicine for anemia and that soon she will run out of diabetes hypertension and diarrhea medication to again mania we've had instances where people came after days of not taking their medication and they've
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collapsed they paint him in front of me a man who had not taken his hypertension medication for seven days fainted head we had to rush into hospital. it's not just the price of medicines that's the skyrocketed everything in venezuela has become so much more expensive on the one hand traders have had to raise their prices so as not to make a loss but doing so means risking having fewer customers. if for some like mine or gonzales to take up a second job in order to make ends meet you know with the us block it has cost many problems for families they don't realise how much they are harming us my kids are suffering because i am unable to cope with their needs i can't even pay the rent they are about to kick me out of my home u.s. sanctions have forced me to look for other work to get extra income more than fifty percent of venezuela's cash flow is now unavailable to the government because of american sanctions so the central bank here has imposed a limit on how much money people can withdraw from their accounts long lines like
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these have become a common sight around but as. we're only allowed to withdraw to the. the day it doesn't make sense we should be able to take her money whenever we want to the second time in my favor if i go to the cashier i can withdraw two dollars if i use the a.t.m. i can only take out one i'm never allowed to withdraw more than that. no one knows how long this crisis will continue or when or if things will get better but what's certain is that the longer it continues the more people who have nothing to do with the politics of power in the interests of foreign countries will suffer from. caracas pushing out as there are live from london still ahead egypt should use a referendum on sweeping the constitutional changes that could keep president sisi in power until twenty thirty. djoko do surges ahead in early results for indonesia's presidential election possibly winning a second term the leading one of the world's largest democracies. and off
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dominating the regular season the tampa bay lightning like unwanted playoff history in the n.h.l. . had i been so looking rather wet for some of us in spain and portugal over the next few days for the satellite picture we can see the clouds it's streaming its way across us and then it'll stay very grey there as we head through the next few days at least so lots of clouds loss of what weather around it really does it pretty miserable and under all that cloud and rain it's not going to be feeling warm with madrid only getting to fourteen degrees at best to the east of that though that's where the temperatures are rising paris should be up at around twenty three and from berlin which should be up at nineteen the southeast of europe though here we're still plagued by the showers some of them really have been very have lots of thunder and lightning knots of hail recently those gradually of pulling away
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eastwards but still the risk of seeing one two more as we head through the day on for. today for the other side of the mediterranean where we can see some of that cloud from spain and portugal does not get its way into the northwest impulse of africa say from morocco and algeria it will be a bit gray at times and you'll see the temperatures dropping as well as a for algae is a good deal of cloud around on friday and a maximum temperature just of eighteen degrees towards the east is fine here it looks like colorado will be up at around twenty five for the central belt of africa though quite a few showers at the moment particularly over positive gabon and then further west over west africa now we quite a few showers to. fake news is a global virus but in indian politics it's becoming a cancer on the up and stopping and abuse and manipulate them into whatever the party is just the sort of you can skew the perception of the under be the specific
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among the top stories here nonzero don's former president bashir has reportedly been taken to the country's most notorious jail a maximum security prison military leaders have also arrested dozens of former officials who were part of the shias government including two of his brothers. peru's former president alan garcia has died hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest his home in lima see it was being investigated for bribery what's become latin america's largest corruption scandal. and in libya funerals have been held for the victims of shelling and rocket fire that hit a densely populated district of the capital on tuesday night the u.n. says the violence may amount to a war crime. government says it has released more than six hundred prisoners and of the first anniversary of massive opposition protests
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demonstrations erupted last april when president don't you know take a tried to cut welfare welfare benefits it prompted a large scale crackdown which left three hundred people dead john holmes reports from the argo. elizabeth paris is back at home now after two months in nicaragua as most feared prison. she's one of hundreds of people imprisoned in a year of protests against president daniel ortega of those more than two hundred remain in jail where lizbeth says the conditions a frightening thought i.e. follow my king my a guy while no one who's been in el cheapo to hasn't been humiliated mistreated beaten d. created look those are to dangerous one stick a real yes to say girls of fourteen a mother imprisoned with her child elderly people of eighteen years old all completely illegal. she still wears her jail uniform like many of the ex
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prisoners is to protest that they are still being watched many are only out provisionally awaiting resolution to their case. every time i go out into to street dares to say motorbike with this same and or woman looking at us to prisoners in the neighborhood sandinista cast a spy on me and they take photos of me and. other prisoners told a similar stories student you have it several strength jail for seven months and now under house arrest accuses the government of using them as pawns in the gauche ation with the opposition and i think they are meant as someone abacha definitely were a bargaining chip the regime kidnapped us precisely so they could have hostages to negotiate and those that have been released are a brake on international pressure the regime uses that to deter any sanctions and there are still a couple of hundred people in prison the government's agreed to release them by mid june but the. fear is that agreement will count for little his wife to land was
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jailed after leading protests in the market she worked she's still in prison and has lost twenty kilos the price on the libyan people could be free at any moment but we don't feel that there is the willingness to release them. meanwhile local human rights groups report the people continue to be detained. all of these arrests of a never leave led to a climate of fear in the car were fifty year ago this seventy was full of people protesting he just wouldn't see that now mainly because the government passed a law basically banning demonstrations just by heading out into the streets you risk getting locked up. for those still in jail and even those let out but still under the government's watchful eye it means a life in limbo an extra complete tied to the country's political future john holmes how does it or. egypt will hold a referendum this weekend on sweeping constitutional changes which if approved
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would allow president abdel fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty eight the changes were overwhelmingly approved by the egyptian parliament on tuesday thank you to extending presidential term limits from four to six years giving the president more power over the judiciary and enshrining the role of the military in politics the vote will take place over three days earlier i spoke to timothy countess who's a nonresident fellow at the to hear institute for middle east policy he explained how the changes will increase the power of the egyptian president. the reality is that this is not only about extending cc's power but it also these amendments assuming that this document continues to govern the country beyond presidency will make the next president also have disproportionate power visa b. the other institutions of government the groups have made any effort to oppose the constitutional amendments have found themselves having members arrested web sites
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blocked. there's been a lot of suppression of any effort to actually oppose the amendments the media is entirely supportive of the of the proposed amendments there isn't really any space for a public discussion on the negative aspects of the support was emmett's at bly one might oppose them one of india's not just airlines is suspending all operations to its credit has rejected a plea for emergency funds jet airways is facing a one point two billion dollars of debt prompting a frantic search for a rescue mission from private and state land is at its peak the airline operated more than one hundred twenty planes and six hundred eighty flight controllers roughly sixteen thousand people i mean has more from you jenny. jet airways had about a twenty two and a half percent market share in india now at down to roughly twelve percent it's had
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financial difficulty for years in twenty thirteen the airline came close to collapsing but thanks to a government rule change allowing some foreign investment into indian airlines it was saved when the hot air waves bought a twenty four percent stake in the airline but new domestic players especially low cost carriers kept eating into jet airways market share and profits since late last year they have problems paying back loans and paying employees now what this will mean for consumers and aviation expert has told al jazeera that in the short term for domestic indian passengers prices will go up but indian flyers are very price conscious so they can only go up to a certain amount before people start flying and india with the having such a growth in the aviation industry it's believed that other competitors will fill the market share now internationally a bit different jet airways had many agreements and co-chairs with other international players particularly k.l. and their friends and getting competitors to take over those routes will take time
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as they have to negotiate with the airlines and airports and countries to fly those routes now it's not over for jet airways just yet particularly hundreds of employees are still striking to get the airline back into the skies and the investors the ones who own the debts the banks particularly are trying to get a new buyer interested in resurrecting the airline. today his opposition party has taken control of the country's largest city istanbul and criminal you of the republican people's party had his victory in the maryland sion concerned after a recount of the vote is taken up his role despite calls from the ruling ak party for every run of the election the fucker has more from a sample. i can remember lou supporters have gathered outside the mayor's office in celebration the win for the c.h.p. party candidate is a major upset at the ruling ak party who have controlled turkey's cultural capital for many many years it has been more than two weeks now since municipal elections
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nationwide but the result has been pending here in istanbul because of a dispute over the final result a lesser result. of a low point two five percent ahead of brutally killed or in the act party candidate but this period led to a major route between the two parties the act party going through the sea priem electoral council and asking for the entire vote to be overturned but it isn't quite as simple as all of say a memory may be mare but that when has already been contested by the act party they have asked for this entire election to be a mold and for there to be a rerun the supreme electrochemical now has a week to decide whether or not to uphold this result or three indeed allow about reruns to happen this result is particularly bruising for the ruling ak party and for president earlier this is the city where he began his political career as mayor
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of the city in the nineteen ninety s. it's also particularly bruising because not only has the c.h.p. policy won here in istanbul but it's also won in the capital ankara. early results from indonesia's presidential elections just took a we don't know is on course for a second term but his challenger probably were should be untrue claims he's won the popular vote official results won't be known until may andrew thomas reports from jakarta. jeff cohen they shout their president's victory may not be official yet but it's no less real for that in the center of jakarta his supporters are celebrating quick counts were carried out of voting stations as soon as the voting process finished each ballot paper held up to show where holes have been punched once tallied they pointed to
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a clear victory for the incumbent. we have all seen the. result but let's be patient we need to wait for the old. let's all unite as a nation. almost two hundred million people were eligible to vote and with a turnout of eighty one percent wednesday's vote was one of the biggest ever one day exercise in democracy anyway. i'm very happy to be here i urge everyone to come because. in indonesia i have my doubts and i'm very proud of this because it proves i have fought for a good leader but it wasn't a smooth process everywhere the biggest problems were in west papua where ballot papers and boxes failed to arrive and voting has been delayed until thursday so provider. is not conceding yet and claims the problem showed the election may have been stolen. but take down before folk buy support safeguards
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the ballot boxes so we can fight the lights but the irregularities don't seem great enough to put the overall result in doubt if when it reports in may the electoral commission confirms the informal results jocko would have beaten proposal this year by great similar. when i last competed in twenty fourteen was a picture taken this election result will represent the big picture of the guy without a doubt and i'm anxious to be. here because. ukraine's president petro poroshenko continues to trail behind television comedian about a mere zelinsky in opinion polls ahead of sunday's runoff for the presidential election ever been first you walk as opposed to the ukrainian seaport of adesa to find out why bush and co is fighting for his political survival.
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you know desa ukrainian multiculturalism finds its truest expression. in music with many different roads. that is of a new york of an order that is like new york city of immigrants subtle by people of various ethnicities him the greeks germans jews moldovans russians ukrainians and there's creates this music of the work with that the move to the same diversity may explain why voters in odessa rejected the incumbent president in the first round of ukraine's presidential election petro poroshenko came third here five years on from ukraine's revolution russia's annexation of crimea and the conflict in eastern ukraine on result. poroshenko has campaigned for reelection on a platform of ukrainian nationalism he has promoted ukrainian language culture and
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religion backing the ukrainian also docs church splitting from the moscow patriarchate. critics here say that policy has alienated since you know it's not the previous presidents have a try to mess with souls or decent you never told them what church to go is and never closed them to speak a certain language. odessa exemplifies the complexity of the ukrainian nation the cosmopolitan sea town that is mainly russian speaking this old seaports ethnic diversity is emblematic of ukraine's multicultural society but it's also emblematic of ukraine's greatest domestic challenge corruption petro poroshenko promised to rid of organized crime but organized crime continues to cost a shadow over the city. and he corruption campaigners here have frequently been.

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