tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera April 19, 2019 1:00pm-2:01pm +03
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targeted by their own neighbors pros are a semi nomadic group some of their neighbors accuse them of supporting some of these insurgent group of the north but the main reason why the prime minister is resigning is because many millions are unhappy about the fact that the cost of living has risen by twenty percent promises made by president are created was reelected august have not been kept the schools have not opened since september the justice system is paralyzed it seems all of the government institutions have not been functioning adding to that is the deterioration of the security situation in mali so the president has announced that he will choose a new prime minister and you government in the days to come. crowds continue to gather in saddam outside the military headquarters the site of a mass over the last two weeks protesters want the immediate return of civilian rule following the overthrow of president omar al bashir last thursday. the
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demonstration. i am at the fringe of this modeste of this it in you can see behind me the headquarters of the military and the crowds decided today to show how many people they can still bring to the streets because yesterday they have something new to the list of demands to the military council including the creation of a civilian government and i civilian applications council instead of the military council wants to. put them in the prison of the. last government but. we are here. and we want unity we are here to see the crater trying. to show the word we are being here. we need to pull. back into the prison we need to be.
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right now some of them they are not in the prison or not. you know. they have called the march of the millions. every single component of the city's professional professional society cannot afford to go to this march and. the message is united and the gist of it is that the sudanese but this does not mean that from the history of sudan they have ceded to evolution is stolen in the past by the military and today they want to make sure that they don't leave the streets until they see the fruits of this revolution until they see a complete change happening in this country. time for a short break here not just here when we come back thousands of jobs on the line in india as one of the country's biggest airlines grounds its fleet. and syrian refugees suffer from the impacts of chronic fuel shortages with western sanctions being black.
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thing normal service just about being regime across the middle east now some dry weather coming into the forecast as we go on through the next couple days he still sees a few showers around the southern end of the caspian say ima still catch one of the northern parts of iraq as we go through friday and want to those could be on the shop side further south a day sixteen retry kabul will be dry nineteen celsius here getting up to eighteen nineteen degrees to just around the levant said beirut just east and present sunshine shows a little further north just pushing up across northern parts of lebanon into syria i think see some wet weather there just spilling out a wintry weather to just across the caucasus between the black sea and the caspian it does look a little to stay but. sas day it is generally dry across
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a good part of the middle east thirty three celsius there for caracas you'll notice and we're getting well in the thirty's across iranian peninsula thirty six celsius for the abu dhabi and also for riyadh wants sunshine as we go on into sas day but perhaps not quite as well thirty three degrees still plenty warm enough to get out one of two showers just rather solemn and of the red sea because i wanted to showers just around the eastern cape of south africa that retreating away and showers pushing further north. whether sponsored by cattle. line. to the answer for them not to do this or if you join us on all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about. you have seen what it can do to people using multiple drugs including and some people. everyone has a voice from the twitter and you could be on the street join the global
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conversation on mt is iraq. welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera censored version of the mother report into russian interference and the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election has been released no evidence of direct collusion involving donald trump it doesn't clear him of obstruction of justice president trump's legal team has declared total victory but democrats want the attorney general to testify before congress the u.s. house judiciary committee chairs requested access to the full unedited version of the report. government has resigned after protests over last month's must killing
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more than one hundred sixty husband were killed leading to large demonstrations against the government over. the un envoy to libya is warning that violence could intensify in the country fighters loyal to the u.n. recognize government have launched a new campaign in the south against the warlord after all the un security council met in emergency session in new york to discuss the battle for control of the capital tripoli but failed to agree on a draft resolution for ceasefire but what i had as the latest from tripoli. forces loyal to the world a lot of her have to manage it to recapture. seventy seven hundred kilometers to the south from the capital tripoli that's after the forces loyal to the you could notice the government briefly took control of inherent in tripoli the government forces managed to push have this forces back beyond the
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disused to tripoli international airport and meanwhile have those warplanes targeted the government forces locations. for fighters one of them is in critical condition on the political level there is also a development on the political level as the interior minister. the government fed him a shower stated that the ministry of interior is suspending all relations with france in terms of security and training get fields that's because as he says france is a major supporter of. the warlords have to also in tripoli the military the military general prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against several officers in the east including the warlord have to himself for their involvement their arrest warrants has for their involvement in targeting civilian areas in
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tripoli including the only this is the only operational airport in the city i'm a to get airport and also it is eventually areas in tripoli city center which killed several innocent civilians. fuel shortages in syria are making life tough for many people government held areas are among the worst affected and u.s. sanctions are being blamed so hot as more now from beirut. the queues for petrol are kilometers long and often it's not available in areas under the syrian government's control the authorities are rationing subsidized fuel last week it was twenty liters every two days now the cap is twenty liters every five days the government says it's short of oil and fuel because of western sanctions on syria and tighter u.s. sanctions on its ally iran.
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it has been six months since iranian oil tankers last arrived at syria's port officials say they are being prevented from passing through this ways canal the canals controlled by egypt and it denies that accusation but iran like syria is a target of u.s. sanctions aimed at reducing its influence in the region damascus to say they are facing an economic war the oil industry used to provide twenty five percent of the government's revenues before the war it used to export half of its production this sector has since suffered losses the government lost control of its main oil and gas fields the bulk are in the north east an area under the control of the u.s. backed kurdish led syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. controlled region is bordered to the north by turkey and to the east by iraqi kurds
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they aren't friendly neighbors that is why unofficial trade with the syrian government particularly in oil has been vital for the economy but there are reports from damascus that the u.s. is pressuring its allies to stop the trade. government gets one third of its all. in the past. to a stop to reach government areas. denies any pressure it's even denies having business dealings with the government. before the war was able to meet its fuel needs now officials say the amount of oil produced in government areas is short of what it needs by almost one hundred forty thousand barrels a day it's a serious challenge for the government as economic hardships have been feeding into public discontent. and the nation's president. both. election results won't be known until next month when he reports.
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it appears there will be no change of tenant for now at the presidential palace in the indonesian capital jakarta based on provisional results joko widodo has won another five years in office but that's not how his challenger sees it. today i. have been declared as the president and vice president of indonesia for the period of twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four by sixty two percent votes based on the real count. disputes the unofficial results that showed. a large margin of general says there were many discrepancies in the electoral process before the election he alleged there were irregularities involving more than seventeen million voters and vowed to resort to people power if the problems amounted to cheating there is
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a sense of history repeating itself here when. the two thousand and fourteen election. cheated and took the case to the constitutional court which ruled against him there's no sign he's going to give up easily this time either. they can get big numbers onto the streets considering coming out. not to protest but to celebrate is a victory for the. security forces. to disrupt the vote counting. army. public constitutional. democratic process. official results won't be known until. they're expected to confirm. president. in the two man race. sixteen thousand employees of what was india's second
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largest and line of running it in the capital new delhi calling on the government to help save the jobs ways has run out of money and grounded all of its flights reports from new delhi. they're fighting for their livelihoods airways employees haven't been paid in months some not since last august and been taking a toll on them and their families education of children suffering parents says is not you know they can get off the way it was because all the introduces and things . before i thought that we might retire from here you see here is my son is also in jail. so if i point out that it really it really got into this situation i wouldn't have brought him in this. once considered india's premier private airline it suffered financial difficulties for years coming close to collapse in
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two thousand and thirteen until the hot air waves bought a twenty four percent stake infusing you cash and life into the airline but new low cost domestic carriers have continued to eat into jet airways market share and profits formally announced the first jets founder well was forced to step down from the board in march after being criticised for continuing to spend on planes in premier landing slots as the airlines debts were piling up. for passengers in india at the grounding of jet is expected to lead to higher airfares but aviation analysts say that will be temporary and is one of the. growing. threat of the most. in some form of. not experiencing that kind of rule so i don't see that more than four to six months. later. the capacity gap. but that's little comfort for the tens of thousands of jet.
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employees who stuck with the company despite working on paid. has given everything to. things a lot of things of. which. it's been so much. the same because. the former governor many hope their years of service in what was connolly considered a dream job would not have been in vain anyone with a flight booking receive a cancellation email early on thursday the airline will now have to wait for the outcome of a round of bidding by potential buyers i may tend to get an idea of what the future may be in the meantime jet airways employees can only wait and hope the airline will take off again. chuck. the most dangerous country in the world as a journalist to do that job nor is the safest the campaign group reporters without borders has published its annual league table of press freedom around the world.
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for the first time in three years north korea has been replaced as the world's most dangerous country for journalists tech man the sun now tops the world rankings president kirchner and good he brought him up met office has run the former soviet republic for twelve years with what its critics describe as an iron fist. the government controls all media journalists or press and the internet is highly sensitive essentially leaving a media black hole for. syria remains another danger zone for journalists but reporters without borders says journalists worldwide up against an intense climate of fear and danger to press freedom campaigners say bahrain egypt and saudi arabia stepped up repression of the media censorship has increased in the saudi kingdom since the murder of jamal khashoggi last october journalists in egypt can't do their job without fear of imprisonment al-jazeera journalist mahmud hussein.
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have spent more than two years in jail without trial al-jazeera denied the gyptian government accusations of broadcasting false news to spread chaos the world's biggest jailer of journalists is turkey i called the fake is the enemy of the people and they are they are the enemy of the us president donald trump has often had a rocky relationship with the media a b.b.c. cameraman was attached to the trump support rally in texas a couple of months ago and bomb threats have been sent to media outlets for the first year the united states slipped into the orange which is the problematic category of countries it was also in two thousand and eighteen for the first time ever on the short list of deadliest countries for journalists in the world and that was following the massacre in the capital because that news room in maryland mexico remains one of the boards deadliest countries but journalists at least ten were murdered there last year some of the thousands who have lost their lives in gang
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violence. paul says one of the price is ethiopia since becoming prime minister and. introduced widespread reforms including releasing prisoners and dropping charges against media outlets the feeling of safety and security the ethiopian journalist has improved to the envy of many of their colleagues worldwide . al-jazeera. part of a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera censored version of the model report into russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election has been released it found no evidence of direct collusion involving donald trump but is inconclusive on whether he obstructed justice trumps legal team has declared total victory but democrats are accusing attorney general william barr of misrepresent. in the report. the report recounts ten episodes
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involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense after carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the office of legal counsel and other department lawyers the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense mani's government has resigned off the protest of the last month's mass killing the deaths of more than a hundred sixty herdsman led to launch demonstrations in the capital but protesters accused the government of not doing enough to stop the violence nicholas hawkeyes mill. there's been mounting tension in the political arena adding to this this chaos that you're seeing in mali. the security situation there is political
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tension between the president and members of the opposition so there will be clear . pressure on the president to try to bring in members of the opposition in hopes to these. that are taking to the streets because the situation is just deteriorating by the day the u.n. envoy to libya is warning that violence could intensify in the country fighters loyal to the internationally recognized government launched a new campaign in the south against the war. u.n. security council held an emergency session to discuss the situation but it failed to agree on a draw for a solution to a ceasefire. sudanese protesters are demanding a foster transition of power they continue to gather outside the military headquarters in khartoum despite promises of reform from the military council forced president bashir to step down last week well those are the headlines the
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news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station down so much in buffalo . and for you. i am today in checking in on three stories we're following here. april is the month of a young american woman whose family detained by the government she was fifteen i find out what impact that campaign is having to take a look at. political crisis you probably haven't heard about why a young democracy in mongolia may be a road to i really could be a lot i'll be looking for your comments on twitter and of course in our live you
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tube chat there be lots of talk about today so we want to hear from you we'll start with a topic that already has our community talking muslim american politician or have recent comments by u.s. president donald trump put her life in danger stay tuned. just wanted to say how. come for some you know mars presence in the u.s. congress today is hugely important and influential especially for most americans like me who work in the book and she's. gone totally against trying to. have her be anti-semitic and especially through her actions in congress i mean she's supportive of the nine eleven victims attack planned and that everyone proves that she is not only a muslim but also an american and she shouldn't be defined by your religion in this country. since she took office u.s. congresswoman oman has faced
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a barrage of criticism from president donald trump is supporters and the right wing media now many are asking how things attacks put her in danger last week tweeted a video that was taken out of context to imply that she was trivializing this sense at ten but eleventh attacks on the world trade center in new york and the pentagon in washington d.c. he followed that with another tweet calling out of control and alleging that she had made anti semitic and anti u.s. comments the white house press secretary has defended the president and trump said he didn't regret his comments so what is the impact of these comments when joining us to talk about this from vancouver canada dalia mogahed head is the director of research at the institute for social policy and understanding and from new york journalist niddah khan welcome both of you to the stream i want to start with our community because people have so much to say about this topic in particular so this is a tweet from tar who says that it is unfair and outrageous for the u.s.
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president to marginalize representative at home are into tweet a video that combined repetition of a quote from her speech with the footage of devastation that occurred on line eleven it could make her vulnerable before we get too deep into the workings behind the. why do you think that representative omar's a target to begin with. well thank you for having me i think that she is a target to begin with because of her unapologetic stance as a progressive as a woman of color and as a visible muslim she is not afraid to speak her mind she is not afraid to challenge people she is not afraid to make people uncomfortable in the best possible way and so from the perspective of those attacking her she doesn't know her place she's acting like an equal instead of what they think she should do which is to act like
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a grateful guest. nido there was so much excitement when this new intake of congressmen came in to washington d.c. could you anticipate the kind of backlash that. has been getting did you worry when he celebrated diversity coming to congress oh well i was definitely celebrating along with many other american muslims and muslims around the world and i would say a lot of young progressives as well because this was a huge feed in and of itself to see people like. and alexander equality of cortez and also on the presley who all four of these women who are women of color we should also point out have been the targets of intense scrutiny and intense attacks both from the right wing and even from the left from the democratic side as well because they are representing the progressive agenda they are pushing for things like climate change like an end to so many wars going on
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a livable wage you name it like a lot of social issues that go against the grain and actually challenge the status quo so because of that you're seeing people who are so uncomfortable by them and have just made it their duty to just continuously vilified dehumanize and attack them in any way possible and what they've done to is just absolutely barbara handsome bow and disgusting and i think many good people from around the country and around the world have just been disgusted by what's happened to and it's very dangerous because she even said herself that ever since president trump tweet to his twitter page the death threats against her increased exponentially what so you mentioned the challenging the status quo we got a tweet from someone in europe and they agree completely with you richard says no more fulfills five criteria for trump eight one is that she's a woman she's a muslim she has dark skin she's smart she rocks the boat and she like see the other representative from new york are serious threats to the status quo but this
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next week here is one that we hope you can. focus on because word does as that these comments have led to rising islamophobia hate crimes death threats not only against representative omar and american muslims in general but many us politicians haven't got enough to defend her and then they are part of the problem what has the impact been has it been something that's tangible can you've seen what the impact of it. will impact on her life is very tangible i mean let's not forget that a man who was actually arrested for attempting to kill her i mean there her death threats that she is facing are very real and then for the president to tweet something so outrageous so incite full of violence so irresponsible less than twenty four hours after this arrest it is it's almost unbelievable so the impact on ill hern is very tangible but i think it goes even
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wider than that it's an impact on muslim americans overall because these attacks and these. these accusations against a hand don't come from nowhere they're not they're not coming from you know they're not random they are invoking anti muslim tropes buehler and deep rooted anti muslim tropes around the idea that muslims are inherently anti american or anti semitic which are simply not true they are. false troops built on misinformation impure eclipse falls and the fact that they're so there's such a large group of people in the united states that believe them in some way make it so much easier for these attacks to take root and and pogo vulnerable people into possibly even violence but it's a wider than just
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a fringe that will take a while and say it's also about bullying kids in school it's it's about. micro aggressions it's about discrimination in the workplace and i just want to make sure to emphasize that the attacks on you know her no more are based in anti muslim stereotypes that can be impure a cliche known to be false. i want to show you. something here from represent to tafe though how to omagh and she's reacting to the tweet that the president put out that we were talking about just a little while ago she says we are all americans assessing danger in life has to stop and then hey this is really important since a presence tweet i've experienced an increase in direct threats on my life many directly referencing or applying to the president's video so bearing that in mind
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the president knows this that minister knows this and then present trump was asta about the backlash and also about the potential danger in maybe putting the congresswoman in and this was his response. termino maher sent out a release last night saying that your tweet from a couple of days ago has led to direct threats on her life any second thoughts about that tweet and the way it was produced and put together no not at all look she's been very disrespectful to this country she's been very disrespectful frankly to israel she is somebody that. doesn't really understand i think life realized what it's all of it's unfortunate she's got a a way about her that's very very bad i think for a country i think she's extremely unpatriotic and extremely disrespectful to our country. a festival of health that of us is the calander of all the cultural he knows apple threats about
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a comment. why. well i like i said earlier i'm slowly disgusting but not surprising because remember this is the same man who stood on a national stage and called for the children quote unquote total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the country and it's important to remember that all of this stuff like dolly was saying does not exist in a vacuum and there is a long history of the right wing joining up this stuff we've seen them do it time and again and especially during election time i've talked about this a lot that during two thousand and ten during the midterm elections they used the whole ground zero mosque fiasco to rile up their base to people to get people out to the polls and participate in the election and sadly it worked for them then it worked in two thousand and sixteen and we're going to see it again in two thousand and twenty and it's important also to remember that these aren't just words and rhetoric there are actual policies that get implemented behind this so for instance with the muslim ban and i want to say that it was wonderful and beautiful to see so
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many people standing in solidarity with the muslim community when that ban was first proposed the first iteration but what happened is is that people tend to be oftentimes emotional and episodic and when that initial outrage dies down that's when the real danger and damage takes place and you saw that with what was the third iteration of the ban which was then upheld by the highest court in the land by the supreme court and it effectively banned millions of muslims from entering the country and i asked the question where is the outrage so you see this infringement of people's rights and infringement of who's allowed into the country a rise in hate crimes and a very dangerous situation all around and you're just going to see more and more of that as the twenty twenty election comes up and it's a very unfortunate where we are and know that i wanted to end this segment at the end with a comment that we got from a reporter this is from slate columnist who has written extensively on that you can see this on my laptop here is there was a man this riot and he explains why people are so angry have
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a listen. so for me i think one of the reasons why i get so defensive when it comes to the attacks against of the head omar is because i recognize them i think any muslim in america will recognize the way that she's been treated and held to a double standard and having her americanus questioned just by default because she identifies as muslim in public so i think one of the reasons why. i take it so personally and why others are taking it so personally is because we we've been through it we know what it's like. we survived they that daddy i see you nodding thank you so much for joining us we know we will have you back on the string as we get ever closer to elections in the u.s. in twenty twenty and now we move to mongolia where political crisis is cause and many in the country to slowly lose faith in their government. amendments alone national security council to act on full discretion when it comes to the removal of the judges. that can be
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a measure of threat to an apprentice of the judiciary. as the judges can be removed for some decisions that are not favored by the national security council which is a highly political institution overall we are experiencing a political momentum where the top political leadership is appalled in the end justifies the means approach in their political decisions that we cannot accept by any means. demonstrations began in november against a former parliamentary speaker for his alleged involvement in corruption he was eventually voted out of his job in january after more than half of mongolia's m.p.'s boycotted parliamentary sessions and stalled legislative action and in a vote in late march the parliament gave the president free rein to bend the courts in his favor to break things down for us from the capital silly city by tar until words ago as a journalist journalist at the mongolian and national broadcaster and contributing reporter to the a.f.p. news agency welcome to the stream on and i want to start with this tweet we got
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from julie and he is a sociologist who was recently in one go and he writes mungo leah in a state of political turmoil and has been for months with a series of scandals many one goalie and some selves don't necessarily see this as a crisis but frustration with elements of political systems especially parties are very high talk to us about the fallout from this corruption scandal what does it mean for the people. i'm sure basically what this means is that. when the when the when when this lot came to be it bases show that. how people. the people there does not trust the government and also how the president tied a general public's sentiment to show that there was torture and those corruption in the legal system and that and he used that rhetoric to justify his actions to
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justify his notion for this law to take out the judiciary and also basically giving more power to the national security council so that sort of the parliament has no power over the judiciary any longer basically i had a key figure in the story is of course the president of he looks like a fascinating character i'm just looking here to buy bill but he is a self-made billionaire martial arts champion and and the stories go on and what can you tell us about him because it's actually his cowardice personality that is driving what is happening in mongolia right now even of a form of arrests that. well like you said he is a self-made millionaire and but there's a lot of questions on how he made those money how he made his fortune this is some
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talks about how he used racketeering for measures and also used insider knowledge to gain the upper hand on the one. had its first hug and said that basically had stocks of old companies he bought some of those stocks and. and and basically become the owner of those companies and in this matter the regarding what happened in the legal status of the judges it's not just the president of the us also two other people the speaker of parliament and also the prime minister who holds the power to basically dismiss or recuse judges and also dismiss the general prosecutor and also that commission independent thought against corruption. so even the prime minister as well and in both the president and the prime minister have reportedly tried to set themselves apart from this corruption i
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want to play video comment we got from david smith is a director of the mongolian inner asian studies unit at the university of cambridge and he talks about what could happen have a listen. there is widespread public frustration with politics at the moment and politicians in general and the endless series of corruption scandals have convince a lot of mongolians that parliament is a kind of self-serving clique. both the leading politicians of the moment the president battling a prime minister who will soon have tried to distance themselves from that represent themselves as outsiders and i think there is a growing appetite for some alternative perhaps something more authoritarian both of those leading politicians have presented themselves almost as putin esque figures a sort of strongman so i think it is possible they'll be a change in the future so what do you think they might feel in the future. or. the biggest fear in right now is that if if. if the president and the
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prime minister can solve this more power and during the next elections so action. people will not maybe there will be some kind of corruption scandal or some kind of illegitimate illegitimate voting. those people more conservative more power and maybe dismiss the democratic process basically and dissolve the parliament. more power to themselves with ok thank you for joining us on the stroll and telling us about one go now fellow go on to the time and to of a young man a woman. have been five days here i would like to wish c.m. allie up to a very happy birthday she is an eritrean american citizen who was imprisoned without trial when she was just fifteen years old on april third she time twenty two i'm calling on the eritrean government to release some and everyone to put
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their support behind us campaign so that she is released as soon as possible. for you or her you are there you are. the out there you. are are. the doings of the e.u. or. happy birthday i have to think of you today as always for ever in solidarity movement. you can't be simulating some joy there but also some sadness as well here to tell us more about c.m. from london we have an essay so she's never trained d.s. but he asked for a free speech activist and also the founder of one day c m that's an organization that is campaigning for the release of uncle say i'm sorry for this it's good to
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have you here to tell us more about this story such a tragic story and a mystery at the same time i'm looking at pictures here on my laptop of a little girl tell us what we know about this little girl what happened to. her name with the how ali abdul she was fifteen years old she was trying to leave. which has a policy where you have to apply for x. that means it's going to the country anyone who's the same age was and is still could mean even now she is twenty two intuitively you have to ask you this means to get one because you have to stay in the country try to leave was present at the border and she hasn't been seen or heard from we don't know anything about her situation or conditions or whereabouts we have this week from age of aquarius who says sam could be any of us she was robbed of her youth at fifteen and has not been heard from since she deserves a chance at life without being oppressed by the by a totalitarian regime just as all eritreans do we have to inform by their voices
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any chance we can get so of course we're seeing lots of treats from the diaspora here but what has eritrean government actually said about her detention nothing there to a government has detained several people in eritrea i mean there's up to thousands of thousands of people have been in prison about a trial and combined for all these people there to government absolutely nothing so we'll know in one. case we draw your link between her family and the reason she was detained of the reason she's missing because there is a connection there one could make an educated guess as to why she was taken. i mean they imprison people at the border all the time and we kind of try to emphasize the fact that the home is one person seems unique because she happens to be a direct and an air tran citizen which means that the u.s. government should be fighting for her but she's also unique in the sense that her father was a part of the government and defected so there's obviously a way that she's being held as ransom by the government now but regardless there
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are young people see homes age younger than her that are being held attained in eritrea so it's not kind of an idea of just one person who happens to be in prison because the government decided to do this one time it's a pipe systematic issue in eritrea. you know has affected almost every family and many of the tweets do mention her father this from hannibal says that the matter of the fact is the government has detained her to silence her father from speaking out against his former boss he is leverage the government has held hostage to silence her father who we know is not in the country who is in and an exile and on that note there is a video comment we got from someone who says that this is really just part of a broader pattern this is felix he's a senior researcher for eritrea at the human rights watch and he spoke to us from ottawa. it seems i'm going to tension sadly isn't due to those who were brought out of arbitrary detention across eritrea routinely individuals that oppose the
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government where his family members it was a government who tried to it's gone from military service are detained often in really horrible conditions torture is widespread you know detention centers in eritrea and there's very little recourse in the courts because people are very rarely charged and he was in hopes that peace with ethiopia would change the situation so people exceed but unfortunately there has been very little indication that the human rights situation is about to uproot. seven s. as you mentioned see how it's not the only one he says it's a broader pattern your uncle is someone who you've also been campaigning for can you tell us about him. so he mentioned the peace with the filthy and i think that's a good starting point it became independent einhorn and then into ninety eight to two thousand it was a war with a few that the government used as an excuse to silence you know deceptive voices of just any kind of progressives in the country my uncle's a journalist as a journalist and wasn't present as a part of that about up there was other journalists other politicians and they've
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all been imprisoned since two thousand and one they shut down the free pass they haven't opened the parliament and there's actually not any kind of democratic platform his or anything in the country right now so he's absolutely right this is a part of the wider pattern of solitary and policies that is affecting a single a rich man living in the country. we've seen this in recent days from a congresswoman here in the u.s. because as you mentioned she is also a u.s. citizen this is congress woman bass representative karen bass she writes i was in eritrea just last month the country's leader should release the ham who had a birthday this past week and all of eritrea's political prisoners to send a message that the country is embarking on a new path that includes respect for human rights so unfortunately that is all the time we have for now but of course we will be keeping an eye on this story our thanks to bill nasa and a reminder to our community as always if you have a story you'd like to see all of the stream you can purchase at a.j. string i mean i will see you next time.
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deteriorating with detailed coverage and how bad is it don't know tough the reason may makes it clear that the current political impasse simply can't go on from around the world while aid agencies are warning people of the dangers of cholera and distributing vaccines many are still using levels for thing and cleaning. told this special council's report states that is quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government the u.s. attorney general says the mother investigation clears president trump of collusion with a political storm continues. along
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down jordan assault as there are live from doha also coming up molly's prime minister quits along with his government following widespread protests for weeks off of one hundred sixty people in ethnic violence. who want the president to be in prison but look on to hear much of what the horrors. protesters in saddam say the arrest of the. president is not enough and demanding a military in that administration birthplace by civilian rule plus. i'm robin forestay a walker include a viewing. of a comedian who is poised to deliver a political earthquake in ukraine's presidential election. president trump is declaring total victory after the release of a sense and. report into russian collusion the democrats want trump's attorney general to testify before congress they also want to see the full unedited version
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of the report. reports. donald trump's two thousand and sixteen campaign team was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but when robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now bowler's investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is now public the special counsel's conclusion stated at least three times accordingly while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him as far as the u.s. attorney general is concerned trump is not illegal jeopardy bill barr says just because muller's report is filled with details about contacts between the campaign
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and russian officials doesn't mean anyone committed a crime we collect this information we use that compulsory process for the purpose of making that decision the report confirms what the u.s. intelligence community believes russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign between trump and hillary clinton russ upon tax with. members of trump's inner circle were many including with his donald jr who is not be charged with any crime his lawyer michael cohen and campaign manager paul man a fort both kohen and man a ford are now headed to prison for a lawyer to the government about their actions however muller and his investigator say there's not enough proof of a bigger conspiracy or of presidential interference if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state based on the facts and the applicable
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legal standards however we are unable to reach that judgment. but muller at mit's he never compel trump to sit for an interview in the interest of time raising questions in congress and the general public about how thorough this investigation really was rosily george al-jazeera washington. well president trump says he's been completely cleared by the model report but democrats plan to continue the political battle over what it revealed and fish as the latest from the white house. president trump went ahead with a planned event at the white house enjoying according to aides the best piece is his election i'm having to take you who's called. no collusion no obstruction. the best pieces his election he did earlier urged his supporters to watch the attorney general's news conference and within minutes of it ending tweeted out the message he's been repeating for twenty two months no collusion no obstruction the
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president might hope that it's game over but it's not the white house and its republican allies will keep pushing the message that it's time to move on and things well but only to the next stage of an inquiry which has cast a shadow over washington for the last twenty two months democrats want robert mueller and attorney general bill barr to give evidence to congress it is clear the special counsel's office conducted incredibly thorough investigation in order to preserve the evidence for future investigators their special counsel made clear that he did not exonerate the president and the responsibility now was to congress to hold the president accountable for his actions congress must get the full and redacted report along with the underlying evidence uncovered by special counsel muller but the leader of the republicans in the senate sees no prospect of impeachment of the president well the speaker's gone out of her way to discourage that kind of talk. but far be it from me to predict what the house may do
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but the speaker's indicator her total lack of enthusiasm for the particular route one area democrats might push on is that miller could not decide if the president committed obstruction of justice leaving it open for congress but one of his fiercest defender says not is known since intent matters and the president's intention here was not to was not to do that and so intent matters and i know you want to cherry pick one line here or one line there because the big lie that you've left lie for two years it's over folks but it's not just democrats pushing for fresh investigations which will pre-election campaign calling for an investigation into those behind what it describes as a politically motivated show. for p.b.s. controversy around this into a win for sure i'll just see that the white house. bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general he says that president trump apology
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. if there's one thing that the mall report shows and i've read most of the four hundred forty eight pages there clearly was smoke there and it wasn't fake smoke alternately there wasn't a fire that satisfied legal standards but there was a whole volume mountains of evidence that were incriminating even if not dispositive of proof of guilt and remember that is what caused trey gowdy he's a very conservative republican a congressman of south carolina before he retired say mr trump if you're innocent why do you act like a guilty person and i think it's also true that many of those who refused mr trump's orders to do wrong also thought that he was involved in some kind of wrongdoing otherwise they wouldn't have bought at executing his orders so it's not a vindication of the personality of mr trump it's a vindication of the system and i think if anything mr trump owes mr mohler an apology for suggesting that he just concocted all of this four hundred forty eight pages. i know there's real evidence there but i do think that all of the things
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that are very ugly if you will about how trump comported himself will be campaign issues i just don't think that they have the legal strength to force her to compel or invite the democrats to continue to hold hearings on this i think it will something we'll hear on the stump. mali's government has resigned after protests over a mass killing last month the deaths of more than one hundred sixty falana herdsman brought tens of thousands of protesters onto the streets queues the government of not doing enough to stop the violence to zero as nicholas hart was a neighbor in some of the resignations pose big challenges from ali's president. the prime ministers to me lube a my guy did not give a reason for his resignation but it really comes as no surprise because just days ago on wednesday the national assembly and members of the ruling party and the opposition in an unprecedented move put out a motion of no confidence against the prime minister and against his government and
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that was supposed to be voted in on friday the resignation came on thursday night it also comes on the heels of nasser protests on april fifth thousands of malia's took to the streets asking for the prime minister's resignation and calling for foreign troops to leave the country there's thirteen thousand un peacekeeping troops as well as french troops france being the former colonial powers they're trying to fight out rebel groups active in the north of the country but just three weeks ago this insurgency turned into an ethnic conflict with poll villagers being targeted by their own neighbors poles are semi nomadic group some of their neighbors accuse them of supporting some of these insurgent group of the north but the main reason why the prime minister is resigning is because many millions are unhappy about the fact that the cost of living has risen by twenty
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percent promises made by president. was reelected not just have not been kept the schools have not opened since september the justice system is paralyzed it seems all of the government institutions have not been functioning adding to that is due to. aeration of the security situation in mali so the president has announced that he will choose a new prime minister and your government in the days to come. hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in sudan demanding civilian government an end to military rule the rallies one of the biggest since president omar al bashir was forced to step down last thursday the ruling military council has promised sweeping reforms but demonstrators say they'll continue to apply pressure. from khartoum. i am at the fringe of this morrow test of the sit in and you can see behind me the headquarters of the military and the crowds decided today to show how many people
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they can still bring to the streets because yesterday they have something new to the list of demands to the military council including the creation of a civilian government and i civilian the presidential council instead of the military council wants to. put them in the prison of the. last government but. we are here of one want. and want unity we are here to see the trades are trying. to show the word we are not for settling here because we need we need to put those on the one team to the prison we need to meet. freedom. right now some of them they are not in the prison or not we need all of the. you know. they have called it the march of the millions. every single component of the
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city's professional and unprofessional society about what to do to this march and that the message is united and the gist of it is that the sudanese protesters tablet from the history of sudan they have ceded to evolution is stolen in the past by the military and today they want to make sure that they don't leave the streets until. they see the fruits of this sort of emotional until they see a complete change happening in this country no time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back thousands of jobs on the line and india as one of the country's biggest private airlines grounds its fleet. playing against the odds xerox musicians compose a message to the government board that status.
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