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every single component of the city's professional professional society about what to do to this march. message is united and the gist of it is that the sudanese. from history are so down they have see it do it evolution is stolen in the past by the military today they want to make sure that they don't leave the streets until they see the fruits of the solution 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 or aren't musicians compose a message to the government for not staying with us.
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normal service just about being regimes across the middle east now some dry weather coming into the forecast as we go on through the next couple days and still see a few showers around the southern end of the caspian say that much still catch one or two showers into northern parts of iran as we go through friday and want to those could be on the sharp side further south a basis generally dry kibble will be dry nineteen celsius getting up to eighteen nineteen degrees to just around the levant said beirut should cease and present sunshine shows a little further north just pushing up across northern parts of lebanon into syria and you see some wet weather there just spilling out of turkey when she weather to just across the caucasus between the black sea and the caspian it does look a little this but the sas day it is generally try of course 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 iraq in peninsula thirty six celsius for doha abu dhabi. i will say for riyadh one sunshine as we go on into sas day but
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perhaps not quite as well thirty three degrees still plenty warm enough to get out one of two showers just around the southern end 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. technology. leading the way in the digital revolution. making a difference in the unlikeliest of places. this week tackling sexual health things that africa and then a social change in london inspiring young people can't produce over this way so they're using money for all taking. the final episode of life while the that it's on al-jazeera.
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welcome back to remind of our top stories here this hour a sense a version of the mother of orton to russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election has been released it found no evidence of direct collusion involving donald trump but it doesn't clear him of obstruction of justice. but president legal team has declared total victory but democrats want the attorney general to testify before congress the u.s. house judiciary committee chair requested access to the full unedited version of the report. and molly's government has resigned after protests over last month's mass killing more than a hundred sixty falana husband were killed leading to large demonstrations accusing the government of. flooding has devastated large parts of iran
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affecting ten million people many of last away because morsi rose so quickly so it was other reports from unrest on province on those who are now desperate and the efforts to help them. the river near this village had been rising all night people here say the. floods came around sunrise they scrambled to higher ground with no time to save anything but themselves now they're scrambling for handouts. for those who've lost everything even a pair of shoes is precious. these women say younger stronger people take everything leaving nothing for the weak. generations of people have been living in for one hundred years and moving closer to the water even the oldest say they've never seen floods so bad the rains were a reminder the path of the river is older than anything else here a few weeks ago all this was underwater now half the houses will never be rebuilt and the good job is you have
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a shot we must move somewhere else in the past the river was not this big but now it has come to the village the government won't give permission to build houses anymore. around four hundred people live in this village and it took the river only a few hours to swallow up half of it no one here could tell us how long it might take to recover after the water level went down the villagers were able to come back to their homes and start the enormous task of cleaning up this mound of mud it was at one point actually inside this house and if you come into the house you can get a sense of how bad the situation actually was when the flooding was happening this brown line running across the wall almost to the ceiling that's how high the water level got inside this house. volunteers have come to help but some houses are too far gone others completely washed away. one woman a widow said it took years to make a home of her own she still owes half of what she borrowed to build
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a house in which she can no longer live. but we just want a house they bring water food and everything we don't have a house so this things can not replace our home they gave me a tent to live in a tent. all over the country many people are having similar experiences survivors living among the debris of the things they've lost so. it's cold at night and hot in the day it's really difficult to live in a tent. for now people are getting help but say what they need most are new places to live so they can stop living by the road in tents overlooking broken homes and the river that broke them. village in lauriston province iran climate activists in the u.k. say they'll stage a protest at heathrow airport on friday the extinction rebellion group has been causing major disruption in london blocking roads with some protesters even growing
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themselves the trains say their campaign is to bring urgent action on climate change thousands of police officers have been deployed in the city but hundreds of people arrested the un's human rights chief says a mass trial in bahrain failed to comply with international standards on fairness honesty international says tuesday's hearing was a mockery of justice hundred thirty nine people were jailed for plotting to form a so-called bahraini hezbollah with links to iran's revolutionary guard all but one of them had their citizenship revoked the shia majority in bahrain has been revolting for years against the island's sunni monarchy with a spokesman for the u.n. high commissioner for human rights she says the nature of mass trials makes them unfair. very very it's very difficult to have full respect for the due process rights and for them to have what we call a quality of our air defense and the prosecution have equal resources.
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to present a case. we have heard that you know many of these people who were there they were represented and only some of them were not to get lawyers that there are just a great. many of them are actually tried in absentia meaning that they were not present in the court when the deliberations they sort of rulings and what have you even sense is that this was announced trial using a very broad and very counter-terrorism law that many many rats mechanisms over the years the government's not central. and not only were people convicted and sentenced to somewhere between three years and i think. most of them all had their nationality. and this is not this time this has happened in bahrain and that since two thousand and seven hundred eighty people have had their nationality . sixteen thousand employees of what was india's second largest airline have run it
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in the capital new delhi calling on the government to help save their jobs jet airways ran out of money and grounded all its flights faced amid reports from new delhi. they're fighting for their livelihoods these jet airways employees haven't been paid in months some not since last august and spent taking a toll on them and their families education of children suffering parents is 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 he's also flying as a pilot so if i would have thought 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 two thousand and thirteen until the hot air waves bought
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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. demand of the most. in some form of. not experiencing that kind of growth 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. yet employees who stuck with the company despite working on paid from the day i've
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joined so many of their land has given everything to us and sadly out of things a lot of things it seems. to be there you don't know what happened it's been very uncertain my p.s.r. loyalties to me the same because bad about the stand is because it is the former governor many hope their years of service in what was connolly considered a dream job will not have been in vain anyone with a flight booking received a cancellation email early on thursday the airline will now have to wait for the outcome of a round of bidding by potential buyers on may tenth 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. al-jazeera new delhi. for them as the lansky is the front runner to become ukraine's next president in sunday's second round runoff against incumbent petro poroshenko the actor and comedian who's challenging the president for his job as a multi-million dollar t.v. production company robin forced to walk a went to selenski his hometown to find out more about the man whose only
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experience of politics is playing the president on t.v. for. this is wreak crooked hold in english a city built on a no and steel production. and birthplace of a man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the low to mid zielinski. zielinski plays a humble history teacher who becomes ukraine's president in the hit comedy t.v. series servant of the people the real zelinsky has no political experience but ever since announcing he wanted the top job he's been favorite to win. i asked a local historian what could be a greek can tell us about the zielinski. this is a city of mentally iron and steel the kind of character that will never let you down here locals who know him say success inspired selenski and his comedy
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troupe. you always wanted what was best not just for him but for his friends his family would never reach just good people like him. this is the apartment block zielinski grew up in and his parents still live here now it's clear he's come from humble beginnings rather like the character in his t.v. show but there is one big difference the real since he is a very powerful business associate who's helped him get to where is now. one of ukraine's most powerful oligarchs owns the t.v. station that hosts zelinsky shows the oligarch lives abroad and is wanted on embezzlement charges ukraine's incumbent president petro poroshenko accuses me of being called a puppet. many men here have died in the fighting against russian backed
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separatists a former governor of the region. financed the war effort and he's still respected for that you think when you go in with give me a visit if it wasn't because the russians would have been here when the war started it was called a more ski he stood at the helm of the need program region without taking a dime the war drags on and pensions here bad enough to live on good washing ensures we've got nothing to do nuffin with none of them started when up in america i was also shot mind and did anything bad happened there will be all right the people of could have unique appear ready to pin their hopes on one of their own robin first you walk al-jazeera t.v. the. musicians at iraq's national symphony orchestra are locked in a paid dispute with the government haven't seen a paycheck so father see it somewhat even left but those who have them say they'll
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continue to perform despite the odds and reports. a ballet studio with peeling floors of the player of dust and ramshackle chairs is the rehearsal space for the iraqi national symphony orchestra some how the musicians maintain their focus seemingly oblivious to the inevitable power cuts that have become common in iraq since last year the orchestra has been involved in what the conductor calls a war with the ministry of culture the staff hasn't been paid so far this year and spent most of twenty eighteen without a paycheck until they were eventually paid in what the fans of. the staff of the ministry of culture acts as if they are living in another world and they are disregarding the fact that the musicians haven't been paid we have suffered and we are still suffering there are one hundred ten musicians and support. staff with the iraqi national symphony orchestra their average salary is eight hundred dollars
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a month since the pay dispute began last year ten members have left. for years the conductor says the government has attempted to slash the annual one point four million dollars budget of the orchestra then in two thousand and eighteen an anti-corruption law was implemented it banned staff from working a state job and also getting paid to work with the orchestra since the one nine hundred seventy s. members had been granted a waiver i mean the government should be you know supporting us like because we are to be the you know cultural you know front of the whole country i mean we're the only symphony orchestra in the country and we were one of the first symphony orchestras that were established in the middle east still but you know of course they wouldn't consider that this is really devastating. the ministry of culture says it's at the bottom when it comes to federal funding and is struggling to pay
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for its entire portfolio about reaching an equitable agreement with the musicians and the novela the ministry of culture needs to have an inclusive vision for the future of their i.q. symphony orchestra we need to overcome the outstanding issue you know dr rise up with a new talent to generation that embraces art and music by all iraqis and most of. the orchestra has continued to perform this year what are kind of to be completely honest with you were to find we're playing against all odds. the musicians say their passion is fueling them but they know they can't live on that alone. zero back to. the french investigators think an electrical short circuit may have caused the. inferno in paris emergency workers are being honored for their work in
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battling the blaze which started on monday and raged for hours firefighters were hosted by french president emanuel. palace among them was the paris fire brigade chaplain who rushed into the burning cathedral to save ancient artifacts including what's believed to be christ's crown of thorns more than nine hundred million dollars has been played so far to help rebuild the structure. part time for a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has declared total victory off the release of the mother report it found no evidence of collusion between the campaign and the russian government but it didn't play a trump of attempting to obstruct justice democrats are accusing the attorney general william barr of misrepresenting the inquiry. when the attorney general gives the perception that the president fully cooperated in the investigation when he didn't they provided all the information materials when they didn't when the
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president in fact deprive the special counsel perhaps the single most important piece of evidence that is his own verbal testimony that misleads the american people mali's government has resigned after protests mass killings last month the death of more than one hundred sixty felony herdsman brought tens of thousands of protesters onto the streets they accuse the government of not doing enough to stop the violence. there's been mounting tension in the political arena adding to this this chaos that you're seeing in mali adding to the security situation there is political 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 ps these angry mali and that are taking to
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the streets because the situation really is just deteriorating by the day. hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in sudan to demand an end to military rule. is one of the biggest since president omar al bashir was forced to step down last thursday the ruling military council has promised sleeping reforms but demonstrators say they'll continue to apply pressure. on the un's human rights chief says a mass trial in bahrain failed to comply with international standards on famous one hundred thirty nine people were jailed for plotting to form a so-called bahraini has with links to iran's revolutionary guard all but one of them of their citizenship revoked. i'm trying a database in the u.k. said stage a protest of heathrow airport on friday extinction rebellion the group has been causing major disruption in london blocking roads with some protesters even gluing themselves to trains and stations thousands of police officers have been deployed in the city but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after
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life upstaging thanks so much and i feel. their dreams have turned out to be disappointing. if anyone called me to say he read each. side advise him to come three young north africans tell the story of how europe is known they hoped it would be. al-jazeera world welcome to italy. it's a mobile world. with calls texts and apps to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefiting.
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chan mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world. this serious challenge is app developers from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help me in. life. this week life apps business south africa and to meet young people who are creating their own apps for social good and looks back across the series to see what's been achieved. the beautiful city on the southern tip of africa. south africa is
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a rapidly emerging economy it relies on mobile phones and wireless technology far more than on expensive to. young company designs mobile phone apps not just for entertainment but to help people in poorer communities. keep mobile phones have revolutionized everyday life. and last generation. access to music access to my solicitor to single needs to be back to back i'm told them they come and they can have a good time but they can get our nations on. i'm patient not a subconscious suit but come. on the best. to get some of my sex. sexual health is a huge issue for young people in south africa and because i believe apps can help.
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so the challenge for design is to come up with a life out for sexual health. nun's a grew up in the townships now she's a key member of the creative team who has given me a bit because she knows she collects inspiration and that's. pretty good. i don't connect with negative and then she be a caring creative make a difference so i am a caring creative because i have a story that mirror my society is the relates to the stories that i write therefore i was. going to have. so creative nancy come up with a sexual health. nancy sets off on a research trip. she's heading northeast towards johannesburg a city where it's been estimated that about one hundred. posts here. and then
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soweto despite the poverty ninety nine one hundred households have access to a mobile phone. she wants to find out if a life up could help with issues like aids teenage pregnancy and other sexual health issues. it won't prove easy. so i'm trying to find out you know by now what are some of the things that a bank would want to and says from the phone sabol that's house who needs it why why you have to sleep me with the three weeks out of the month that lead to good things up with the big assembly. i don't think. i meant that you guys would talk the point of words of what you did to the man when you when you can't do it not that i did that there wasn't the idea is that you you're getting to know the person you're getting to know maybe it's not even a conscious decision what the our actual decision indaba the women he meets researching up a little more helpful
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a lot of it all somehow infected or affected by serious viruses that comes through social engagement you understand so with that said so from a check on especially with young people as in obama to age pregnancy is high beside clearly people don't don't protect or don't use protection or don't see the need to use protection why is that like it's not like us until you say see right now because of things like teenage pregnancy or together will lead to speak this is b.s. i say show yeah maybe we really do need like help. see need guidance of a career we have. a life i could offer guidance on sexual health the question is how many you have you know and for inspiration the step since my local internet cafe to see how can i help you tune in and surrounded by computer literate kids
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about nuns in knows they now access the internet through smart phones as well as laptops and internet cafes many young people still use s.m.s. or text messaging none he wants to know what's the best way of building a sexual health crisis how can one actually build the application that would best meets your requirements is the way you see a tweet it comes to you six when it comes to health when it comes to excess of information in that regard traditionally you know and there are some as you took the train to pick it is that could be a chore nancy's got lucky. the cafe owner is trying to develop an app that collects text messages about sexual health and lets people share them it between those two people so you can create. a mobile application for the whole community sure you know so that shawn it can be able to manage its own health issues you know it can see how many. people who have went through this i mean if your political
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interests me you know people are getting better showing their one of those kind of things that miller's buy buy the whole community not only the health care system called blown away santa sables idea is to help spread health information by a kind of extra nic word of mouth. nancy think his idea could form the basis of our own life communicating sexual health messages but there's a long way to go so let's connect will skype and then we can take this conversation and then just. let's elaborate more on the like the awful paul and access to information and out of investing we can actually empower them using a form from what i call up all that and much you presently doing with that whole health of our future so. thank you so much that i know none of these life is clearly going to need much more work it's
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a mission she still working on. nuns is convinced technology can empower young people and not just in the developing countries but the world over. a twenty first century world city close to the skyscrapers of its financial elites lies shoreditch london's creative digital. and digital incubates and design i have and. it's all about young people developing new ideas making money and also doing good including with a mobile phone. and i don't find there's a very powerful tool i can empower people around the world and using mobile phone technology to solve problems in one's local community can be a great way to create change demonstrably one leading charity showing how mobiles can be used for good is c.d.i.
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the center for digital inclusion based in brazil but with a branch here in shortage means you some of the program is called out and it's about inspiring young people to become problem solvers for getting them to think through person what is their problem and i look community and how can they sell their leasing my fault technology. absolute good i'm now working with fifty thousand young people across britain creating mobile social and web apps. so we're trying to create a generation. that young people. can get the skills they need to actually understand what the technology is not just consuming technology that's a definitely not about money games ops are about solving a problem and yes there is a huge commercial industry out there tearing it up but the main thing that we advocate is that getting young people interested in the first place and being part
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of my bar up to me is really important. job so good such wants and aren't working on a stop and search out. people from ethnic minorities are two times more likely to be stopped by the police than white people the app documents and uploads they use as experiences when they're stopped by the police. so i have been sites and such before obviously coming hours telesales just next to brixton a supply of people all stopped going to databases and always for the right reason is walked around me so a lot of times and i was stopped and still used to kind of fix myself is direct proceed to the caribbean not on my even allowed to be stopped today so can i mean so. i have not noticed this kind of put me in a position where i dispelled a bit disempowered in that situation so the stuff and said shot was a trade in two thousand and ten going to help people know what they're right so we
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need to stop he said but it was a decent quick and easy way once you've downloaded that you click into it tells you what you can do and say or why you might be stopped and searched when you can on the road or when you're in a vehicle and we've got a section for the top of the sea as well because a lot of reporters and stuff like this use when the filming stuff you step into is the last. where you have to do is just upload your experience and that consists of basically put in your age in your fantasy your six and then just like you to put in the office by two numbers he stopped and searched you on this stuff and such that number if you get one or so after that you just basically break how you feel you were treated by the offices and there's like a set criteria of questions here such as how badly do you think the reason was for the stop and search and how much respect do you feel you were showing me stuff to
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say. and why are you doing it with this that i could have picked up your notation or my keys in the g.p.s. . i want you still without a form just upload it one hundred percent known in the city to the. database and i should experience that. apps for good i'm now working with four hundred schools across the u.k. . one of the first to enroll was east london central foundation girls school. peoples are shown how designing mobile phone apps can help young people to identify and solve everyday problems. and that is. something only phone that does one thing and one thing only really really well why is it good to be able to solve problems because you're going to face the everyday.

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