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answer based media we get this our assertion we've got no in thailand. and. we're getting told was easy. and the new guy does it or. he. is our simulator. main man this is his face that's up and this is part of subtext media this here we are setting up our internet cafe it's still under way and we are hoping that in the next three months or so it could put in more computers more computers that really will be running in there will be a bit of happening around here is my favorite car and says my dream car my dream car is eighty's in ten you know up in the air is the jet that's my dream times what. but this is one of the cars that i love and also i always have
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the. world's billionaires list you know is money important to you feel much. why it is what can you do without money as tell me what. is it grew up in the african a heartland in the north of the country. at seven she went to a segregated government school was. god's hand was there. a lot and i said i was like a father. says be given me and i am sure. it was a lot. that you can see into. the students. and when it's part of this big deal thank you to duncan i
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have to thank him and their friends i use them but i. six years ago she moved to a bank a coal mining town near pretoria where bank it is the risk place on the planet. the people yes everybody either works on the model works for a contractor that works on the mon or you know something mine relighted if you don't drink and if you don't use drugs and you don't carry on like a bad thing then you will have nothing to do with back. we are. ordered. to. lose it works in the family business she runs the office with her mother.
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the. scifi version of vehicles. for instance you give us a brand new sparky and it's all white and shiny we do. we put a very ugly black roll cage on the back of it we put the lots on reverse suit is so we fully convert vehicle to argue vehicle yet we are free spearing for rubberized which surprises it's not just pull it back in and spray on some chemicals it is actually of atrocities. by mark thanks. my brother doesn't exactly have a specific job description whatever needs doing is to do jack of all but most are of most honorable couple but. anything needs to be done greatly old myself . i'm teaching that will be able to also work in your home teaching him a lot when he's coming right quite nicely.
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if you can actually work he's so succesful to vs michoacán or the like b. he suffered my a mood down hanun on the opining about the mini mate and i hiked went to honey sixty six. when we started doing them on stuff and i started having to deal with these people i had to either sink or swim these miners or just but not block normal people at all and. i did not sink and i am still swimming. and in fact i've got quite a reputation in the industry everybody knows we're not so i'm a customer i will have your things on this old vessel that then come all i want all my shit happens. the at school and she was
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seven the best friend was a boy called steenie was that there. was . was like is it he had had very little interaction with black people but so yes as a commission you don't respond cause she he actually knew that so much nine more would longest long so smart the single doctor said. by fourteen he was a dedicated party animal. the size of a single all over the world. i can live a life in and living for. the social and for a guy in for manslaughter. i was. upset that he i
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thankfully live a hard lives in for a few years ago i thought it was a good luck to myself away and that said obviously i was down at quitting. any mesa perceive offered him a course a second of those thought in the family is the kind of a series of dominican there's a what do you know what i did not after him i think it to be amazing we did hear it after as an obvious what him to. seven years before he unless it were going steady . from the. neck you. gotta feel. good a funny feeling that. you know how to find out and we don't see.
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this i'm. not out but you know i. help to kind of satisfy you not to for the final time to be a father come to me and i'm a confidant oh. so you're here. in fact he married my release being his waitress in a bar is in for the i my friend of a second i give a fuck i did stop fucking loslyf and said i would have her know you so my living with the month deal i think it was a phenomenal. sky five years of my living. they've been married for five years and have a little boy called tionne. of a need for that me might as well clue off a little there's a hell of a list i. fear that if he. of
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course that is that was a clue it could it could be at the miss and then my mother lisa live this way oh. yeah and they've moved very recently and i just getting used to the place. what's happening next door is the band rehearsal. but so quite often you have. music on the side you know as you can hear the church is literally just on that other side to that side of this wall of the side of it all.
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it's got all. those nice to have a good luck cities for this appeal to get up with all of my studio that is funny which is how money i send and that i cities all the typical to come play live in this light at the last me. if a god cease in luxury cruises up to overlook me but i was just this week but there's something that's also come up with political scripts got so. turbaned on the indian ocean is home to longer would have been found but there was something no it's just been just the one just to put it another girl in the pokey best case but he was born here and grew up in a small black township on the outskirts of the city. you know in melbourne when
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it's closer to home again go on with tom. that's. one on the one on the run on the go to teacher plans house off something that they came into mind. we gave them my school this is the one someone we gave them some civil and some more and then they said. this could think you'll see we gave them everything. to me at seven he was one of the first township kids to be admitted to a white government school. route. through to the moon roof. the roof. this
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was a lie here when i was in school. before he started that he was very nervous about it. and. everyone will laugh at me. and i thought else going to be the only day to day. with the bed nine black youths. six of us knew each other because i'm from the same neighborhood and it was like. we did our best to disassociate with nothing because we want to play you know. this has been a laugh if i came here. and by that sign i think that's my state of free classroom if you're going to. if you're man enough to go and put it in the language you know ask yourself. some how. do you have to sign your name if you
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don't tell us who. my friends used to tease me about my uniform when i was insured probably was ok because it looked like everyone else's it was green pants and no white shit. when i went to afternoon was khaki shorts a safari top but x.x. black shoes the safari at that too with the how do you school type thing lisa said and i got i do know uniforms mistah. were not met in june but uniforms i get. that is perhaps something which is really good to our country i mentioned the issue of racism because if you did not belong to a certain race people would have believed in you basically you were considered inferior you can remember what the final solution was all about yes none of them select my parents monkeys could have gone to the kind of schools of this it's. since i started school and. when they were going to school with white people mostly
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. never ever can have. i mean i've never been to mexico for the most problems on the country. mainly play people trying to get black people that's what they thought. it was hard for him to fit in both at school and the time. had an argument to the sky is easy to beat me up and that's harder to come. in while i was talking to one of those old friends who is like behind me hit one of the point of. consciousness and when i can lower a couple i was here. in the hospital. and then i started having seizures. in a prosthetic in another company a bit. early. and there. was arguments. he claims and last august and i told him no wasn't true.
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and then his friend says i think i'm gay then because i go to a white school and stuff like. by twenty one he was at a university that was almost entirely black. had moved to johannesburg and was studying human resources. there because he does i know used to. be best to avoid you just like there is this but his studies are not as important to longer as fitting into a new social see hiding out and it may or may not think like. if you were to describe yourself what put first country right from noxious sometime in the loud always talking i think that. the biggest drawback about being black is that and that people have
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a tendency to feel that there are degrees off being black it's embarrassing like for everybody involved that you should just look at people and go. not so sure about him but he's not black enough. did you finish your degree. on the ground store haven't found like the thing that defines that that's what you do. trying to find that thing and human resources just wasn't it. i think i would just like to be successful. lot to reach a stage we we we don't have to worry about that after st how we can apply this how we're going to pay that what are we going to do about this way. you're going to put
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all of me at the heart. of this. but i was that. is a limit that the decision. in order to get this ended this report and. the good will be improved was i could never been taught to be living somewhere else but i have been a place where. i'm surrounded by people that care about me and i care about them and that's possibly the most important thing to me. what i want to achieve is to change that mindset of people to tell people that it doesn't have to be all bad in your life it's a she you that stands up to change the. refugees heading for a better life in australia in two sentences and sent to remote island indefinite detention in holistic conditions get
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a conscience. understand how you can do this to smuggle for each and eyewitness accounts the main thing you're doing for pain for even asking them not to harm themselves not to kill them to witness chasing a sign. on al-jazeera. it really is the international perspective that sets al-jazeera apart other news outlets beyond thorsten systems out of reach out not simply to our screens or wisdom is about public service and making a difference in people's lives i'm amazed every day by reporting on al-jazeera and the places that my colleagues go it inspires me to take a different approach to how i report news your. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking school. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into
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its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme of helping change the face of india. soup authority announces their. visit i'll be in doha the top stories from al-jazeera the archbishop of colombo has been speaking about the easter sunday attacks in sri lanka he says he feels that he has lost his community security does remain tight across the country use to searching for seventy people be believed have ties to assault and the death toll has now been revised to two hundred sixty really a sad situation many people's lives have been shared and b.
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i have personally failed to leave loss for me personally because i have to. make them to. be something really sad because they even be church hoping that he'll be able to go back or meet their children and on a beauty it will be easter sunday. for the first time judges in sudan have joined the three week mass sit in the military headquarters to demand civilian rule following the overthrow of president omar al bashir the army says it's willing to hand over some top government positions to civilians however protesters in khartoum say it's unacceptable for military leaders to stay in control of the transitional process. in algeria thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets for eight ten friday in a row they are maintaining pressure as they demand the removal of the military's chief of staff and one remnants of the old government gone president abilities buttafuoco stepped down earlier this month top u.n.
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officials are visiting ringle refugee camps in bangladesh the u.n. says more international support is desperately required to help nearly one million refugees from me in ma the aim is to raise nearly a billion dollars in humanitarian aid. verses in the west african country have been enough just one choice when they head to the polls for parliamentary elections on sunday the country is now facing a political crisis after the opposition was forced by new electoral laws an election watchdog ruled only two parties both allied with the president patrice tallow and i'll qualify to stand in the election it is the first time in thirty years the opposition will not be in the running in mozambique tens of thousands of people have been rescued from their homes after cycling kennett made landfall on the north coast it's still recovering from the devastation of cycling a day from just a month ago. more news on the web site it's always there for you al jazeera dot com you are right up to speed with all the top stories back now to twenty eight up
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south africa a season. or forward through in rural sturk sprayed the challenging conditions you have not dampened her ambitions. i wake up around five every morning we have a temper on the yard with should we share with about fourteen other families it's about i'm happy about where i am now because i see where i'm going in a normal last year i was and we i am now so i knew that these progress. that's better. met more of a journey with new culture we lived in a one bedroom house where you have to wash in that corner cook in that corner sleep in that corner but now it is you've got a five from house so for me when i look back at all those stages i'm happy because i know it's not magic it's what you have to wake up every day and see it happen and
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then. write. a page of fourteen which you had a very particular vision of how she wanted her life to turn out i don't have children and is has been i just want to be alone in my house and go into work that's all and to make money and get rich those who hunted i don't wanna get married because of heat it's actually the first day he said down he proposed he said to me but you know that i love you and i said no and he said yes i do as it ok you're supposed to love me i mean brotherly and sisterly love church kind of thing i've got to love god everything it is said to me no not that type of love i mean i was shy a was blushing if the two of us house. you thinking ok maybe this is the first the last guy who will ever propose maybe i'm going to be single for ever and frustrated in trade only what's going to happen. when you
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met. the type of person that likes to coddle i love to feel loved if you're watching a movie you must sit like hold me but he can then like his own space i think you eventually made us we said and i understood that we moved we are affectionate now he's coming to that. over and i really struggled to being with him like spend time with him in everything and i think some weeks ago i asked him to spend more time in the office or something now he thinks there's something wrong with him and isn't i just want us to. leave. if you're black and you were married
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told why plus you lost girl will sure. why. or she has a wife she'd like to live with white people you see. why didn't she do what you want to do. if i did that. i wonder girl tallish like you and member stand alone which i speak when i met home that's so i do think you end up marrying a white person who may be. if you're not. going to a very good place for missions are granted and i mean seen the same day for the last like five years and. yet if she has been five years. and nice she's she's good to me man she's she's she's great go i'm still get like try talking about her she can walk into a room. out of it. and still think that she did and
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she's just she's stately and she's poised and and she doesn't in the end the best thing about it is she doesn't see all the things that i see that. he met laura at work the first time i saw like this. with you can you walk from there to there. you know when people look at you that you know looking at them that you can tell the still looking at you it was one of those feelings. i had to walk past these days begin to get out and who is that she she works i'm not in this department gammick i'm going to come this department every day. was very open as my face patients people are not supposed to be. on the stairs i was looking for a long. distance differences in looking long as it was doing it was like one of them and they know we could eventually go being liked by you know took off yeah
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about getting married. the next question. next question. do you talk about permanence. we have. a conversation like it's had yeah we're going to share it. happens it's a very sporadic thing to be talking about something else that would lead into that marriage is a good thing people should all get married great stuff. train someday it will happen to each of our children. and get. all the soumaya because i mean most of the friends have kids right now people are getting married there was a phase when it was just it was four we did the five things one yeah i want to have kids i think you see what i mean this is not. it's not
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a commitment open and shut thing with me and i'm on to see myself being someone's daddy i love kids. over. here and decided on them. that i love you. is a stunning hmi and scott. i can only say to do that for most of amazing is only on a cane and it was obvious a full of it was and i want his. wife marley's is a teaching assistant at the after care on the church compound where they live what
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are you guys doing now you got me. yes that's not a good. you don't have brown. i can release a lot of this because of what had to be a hide behind and zinni a franchise equip as my main self and what i think when i thought of that i was gone. just in it for more could decide to did it weapon and it was hit hard on this one so it was in this holiday matter because it was a little fluid. not at all says dolphin addicted to brace and one. i had one guy edited it they're going to augment it with i took the dog to try to muscle after by storm off the heaviest before has had to be a yard of it's not a to be a. i could be vital to specs myself over that time but the ravens has made him want to
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stick it in city what was once hunted small black and is kind of the iraqi and you said those from da has really said france and still going strong a little south africa got it why did this is why we made a lot of. the back three years ago to new life took a dramatic turn in tracing the dean bike to maine it was that of hans winter with the body the owner dies and bunch of this made months before i was of enough to see to it is this enormous but that must admit it let me add a connect the dynamic of the state to do what i call the edible hand in a minute of the soul and arcane metaphor of alcohol might ever get you look like but i still think now here's a deputy pastor and runs the youth ministry amazing to vs this my hero the acting but made a father of a lot of bands and i tell openness to visit academia if you like
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him here you know see one when in the us you can also lose the petitioner live or believe that anthony or those that are open look ellie ever who it could recruit upon the pillow of course will amaze where the video teeny you have all of the dyson amazes silliness around about my yellow phyllis's feet of me and i've been all that unfunny devastates it does act as a go to market in particular but the most. the why there might include is that a myth about. ok is different for what it wanted by for this means. you know the commitment of by for the just means in it with your scope it i am since i live. seem a bit strange together you know i think i've read he's. an
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account. by fourteen the romance of teenie was definitely over and resists concerns may elsewhere. it's quite an embarrassment to your parents like say for instance. you know this guy's been seen each other and you don't even have plans for getting married and you got pregnant or something high embarrassing is that your parents. since moving back in with her parents visitors found them to be a lot more broad minded than she thought they were with us of course and i did. run on them i think if counted correctly according to my mother we have fourteen people in the house myself and born my mom and my grandmother and grandfather my brother and his girlfriend my brother's daughter amy in the resort and jane are right in the lights and my three children we staying in all to save up money it was my
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mom's suggestion to try to buy off our dates and then get something for ourselves something that belongs to us. and i gotta find some whisky and how does it work. it's a vegas. like it's a big house me any m.e.'s you see in case it gets difficult. but we seem to be making it work surprisingly enough we my quick have a lot of balls in the sauce. it is not easy every day but will it out to complain no. you don't drink. you know which amounts to tap water and with that please be warned him a drink with. everything is giant from when i was seven what was
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a fully functioning country everything was wiki. the money went to the right places it was a look i did correct it was actually spent correctly everything is going to haywire right. from. the morning. i was. a very working day after week. a waste of time to try and complain and anyway if you do get well you know if you get somebody on the line it is not my department. they see on c.n.n. . he. actually is on them for us government. this report on the. why this is going on. do you. want to.
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shoot. somebody who it will give us alcohol to live for a little blood test and it. was a pup and. i made him a bit of a kind of push at this situation for. this. but the but it's a variance once and for twenty. in the work of the doctor that the kids are more conservative with a bully a bit of you know what's what big of viruses are able to respect all. was in my opinion a good president. i think his vision of what he wanted was not wrong. it just never happened for me i think that africa is more frustrating now than it was when i was saving i think so because then we were told who was the ending. now who's the enemy because things are getting worse as well but who's to blame.
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the. government does like a cult. premise of a cult is if you're in here you're right everybody out day and you're wrong and what is going to keep us together. self preservation if anybody says anything bad about it just band together and see which one. they grew up having that trust that chord has my back that he keys that he knows me
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that he wants the best for him back he's my father. is how you talk to god and sometimes when you don't pray i feel our relationship going stale me and him so i always try to communicate with him cause that he if we could if i don't pray out on his have this fear that maybe i'm drifting apart. live. now it's more intense because i married have pasta so why get to have only seen change that i never thought i'd have but i think i like i'm.
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tired love lost someone today it is gone do when is a child was a job i had it on john's or when we look at our band account just on the bank account did say figuring it out. we have a tendency to be discouraged other move all of that would be in the five years they've been here a leader has tried to carve out a role for himself as a leader in the community. not to politician or a prophet for example but one boy made on a police guy and so we had to mobilize a community around micro speakers and call the community a meeting you know we assist the police. the greatest police actually us and who are living in the community we are responsible for the community of
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surrendered my life and i don't know about you know i was around out of my life to this cause. last summer you guys were with me i was married and i was pregnant with chyna one of these we may shoot a little one to you right now i would say i've got a great husband we've got to feed it not we've got pictures in the claw of got pretty much what to me is a perfect life wow greg. it was by far the biggest mistake of my life things just started getting from bad to worse i really don't have time for any kind of crap in my life at all and it got to a point we. are just said enough and that was it
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a fault for divorce and nine months of trying to get him to sign the pipe as he finally signed the pipe this and that was that i was the host happiest day of my life. that's the one thought of it than the of assad is still fighting for maintenance. so that is my relationship with the must see him in court. every two months we in court and it gets biased by and it gets biased far and it's been the mines and it's guys been going on for three years already. so how do you pay these bills my mom president. at the time of the breakup reagan was only six months old and jenna was three how did you cope i almost didn't i went on a mad crazy shopping spree got my hair colored by in august got a whole new wardrobe a max thought any court of my mum's locked fund. would well guess and that worked
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for me. now she has another baby boy who was born. off to my divorce why not i was out and i don't play pool i don't know if it was me or the capias amounts of alcohol that i had consumed but needed to be played actually i just saw the face first and it just felt felt familiar like you know. out of all the go other girls in the club her face was the one that actually the top you know the safe if you meet someone in the uk a club or a whatever you know it's actually a bad thing but. it ended up not being such a bad thing for us ya know i was sitting in your ten month old baby two
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other kids which i love also to bits and. then on my neck. i would describe as it's a very outgoing person a straight forward. always trying to be happy even though you know the situation is not a situation to be happy in i think all of us we look up to and we respect values and years. and you know without tossing things you've been cut back on compliant keeps on back will make mark so he's got to use. a very useful little thing as i said i need a back room and i mean i am actually on your side yes that. verifies i've heard the government running. and i'm happy. he was just right just. what was.
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just us wonder what mom. was in the black and was he village what if. the day the moscow says off. those that are for those of you know of the freakin. president the flock. i'm able to talk to him about my ambitions but i think he doesn't take me seriously to something point i think it i don't know maybe things that. i think he doesn't he says. you can't really say that the bad this run to show him and this is going to cook and all that other cake nonsense so i don't think anybody has a role. figured out if you go on. him
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when you. are which is well it has fallen apart she fled a home with a family and believe his life was threatened by a mob in a local dispute there's no way to go and i staying the night with the sister in johannesburg. these people were away at the gate and they were shouting there he goes they goes you know so at that time we're still busy packing some few stuff so that's when we started leaving my baby's brogues shoes in everything we had literally ten minutes to pack now we've been getting phone calls that you must not come back that the family members of the guy that has been bitten by the tear for drivers are going to kill with so do you feel that you're going to have to. give up on that dream i've given up why should black to black fight
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like that to why should we have an inside job that is so bad that you want our brothers dead i don't know he was born there i wasn't but me i'm done i'm totally done my first priority is my kids i would love to see my baby at school. now i really don't know what's best. but i'm not going. from having a gun and smarts just. such an amazing place people. don't .
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know if you change since you. charge in the lives of the children of apartheid over twenty one. each story reflecting a history of dramatic social and political change twenty eight up south africa three.
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hello there we've been seeing some more very heavy downpours over parts of south america recently some of the worst affected places have been in peru these pictures are from the east of the country you see the water that is just way too deep in a place that should be joy and this is the north of the country where vehicles have been washed away now it looks like we're going to see some more showers here as we head through the next few days but some wet weather is actually a bit further towards the east parts of brazil that stretching all the way across towards the northeastern parts we're also seeing some very heavy downpours here feather savile some heavy rains over parts of paris and also into the northern parts of argentina it's been incredibly wet here over the past week or so yet more rain is falling and yet more rain is expected as we head through the next couple of days at least to the south of all of that is when as we get to around twenty degrees further north and for many of us across the central america plenty of sunshine around in the south is more in the way of cloud as it is. towards the west as well but i think for most of us here there will be some sunshine as well as some
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showers further north we can see some rain there that's working its way over parts of florida but that will ease as we head into saturday and things that will brighten out without some severe weather over parts of the u.s. recently all thanks to this system and it's working its way toward the east. as a sponsor town. a climb to stein world of illegal trade what you have here is not just arguments object you're talking about people. the little dimension where the spoils of war are smuggled and sold to auction houses and private collectors and gangs are selling an artifact is where finance is the beheadings and must use in the middle east don't sound don't that's one quick solution trafficking on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be hurt and the story needs to be told
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was shouted out to all of radio with exclusive interviews the dangerous for journalists to editors publishers all around the world and in-depth reports are real be canadian courts in a way out as iraq has teams on the ground by konami world to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news out live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. on the one say we have to help them to reveal their psychological future the strain and on the other say you have to help them to leave their lives
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spiritual aid for sri lanka the archbishop of colombo speaks out and urges help of every kind for the bombing victims. judges in sudan join mass protests demanding civilian world but the ruling military council aims to retain control. just over a week after the journalist lyra mckean was shot dead the irish and british governments try to end more violence political stalemate and therefore the name. from the n.b.a. playoffs time champions it's on twentieth. round exit of the game. this tight security in sri lanka mosques and other places of religious worship the police say they're also hunting seventy people suspected of having links to eisele
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following sunday's wave of bombings the death toll from the easter sunday suicide attacks has been revised to around two hundred sixty that's about one hundred fewer than previously thought the country remains on high alert though with more bomb warnings the prime minister is admitting confusion over the fatality numbers as well as intelligence failures and elfin and as has more now from colombo. sri lanka on high alert with fears of more attacks against worshippers. um soldiers godson anthony shrine in colombo securing one of the sites attacked on easter sunday outside mosques muslims undergo security checks before attending friday prayers with bomb warnings many decided to pray at home they're gathered here rather thick for a good reward at a show of solidarity work a priest here and a catholic before our brothers and sisters who work here on
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a big massacre with concerns of retaliation religious leaders are calling for reconciliation and the moment we have said we want and we need masses right now until further notice once we assess the situation and be sure that these be not happen again if we can provide adequate security to the people who come to the church then we are starting a small army the increased security can be seen everywhere on the streets of colombo prime minister on a victim a singer told al-jazeera that he intends to find out why warnings about the attacks weren't acted upon we have to admit the failure in intelligence the breakdown in the flow of information. and that's one of the matter that are being investigated right into the truck i mean if not for the lapse many of them would be alive today . intelligence services and the government has been criticized for not acting on
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warnings about possible attacks defense secretary him a city financial who was asked for his resignation by president mighty policy saying or has stood down a state of emergency has been enforced since tuesday giving security forces greater powers to detain and interrogate. for the details of those emergency powers are emerging among them is censorship of the media and internet and limiting the right of assembly the tension is reminiscent of sri lanka's twenty six years of civil war which ended ten years ago more arrests have been made and police have released the names and photos of suspects c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinema and granted although police have not named the bombers they have said they came from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburban colombo their neighbors are in shock and got their man mail cover it saddens me
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that muslims who are my neighbors have done to us it puts a black spot on all of us muslims because police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism. and mineral joins us live now from colombo meanwhile the president held a meeting earlier today what came out of those discussions. peter the president basically describing watered happened so far in terms of investigations talking about the one hundred thirty to one hundred forty isis linked operatives that were part of this norco sort of extremist group he said over seventy had been brought in under arrest questioning in detention he did see the search for the others is ongoing he did talk about the state of emergency that is
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enabling the three armed forces and police to use the full extended powers to them under the emergency he also talked about what brought the intelligence services in his opinion to this state i mean essentially reflecting on this serious sort of breach of intelligence on this lapse of the intelligence services he did talk about the weakening of the intelligence service a sensually the fact that some of these officers had been jailed or had been prosecuted he did sound a critical not in terms of the actions taken against the intelligence sort of spectrum as a whole in terms of looking for reasons for this but he also pledged to ensure to repair to rebuild and bring this country back again from literally what we consider that has been reduced to its knees peter
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security of course. in colombo and in other cities what's the latest on the ground . rita we're having the security situation is moving very very fast as we've been talking about in the preceding hours the extension of the emergency has meant that the forces have a full gamut of powers they can use and we're seeing this in a very palpable and very significant security presence on the streets of colombo around the country where there are a lot of search operations there are sporadic checks there are mobile patrols of the three armed forces crack police force commanders a lot of reports of leads being pursued today we heard just a short while ago that forty six wards had been recovered from the location following a tip of there are further reports of explosives as well as leads in information
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coming out from the interglacials of the suspects already in custody so there's a lot happening today on the friday the muslim day of prayer we did see a very heavy security presence around mosques and even worshippers that were going in for prayers were subject to body searches the authorities not taking any chances in terms of churches we heard from the archbishop that basically services are on hold so a lot of things where the security of this country's concerned as the authorities try to get a handle on the situation of particularly amidst the fear that there might be further attacks peter mayle thanks very much. i'm linda is a senior lecturer in peace studies islamic politics and conflict management at lancaster university in the u.k. he joins us now from the city of lancaster. what's your take on how the government is handling this so far. and the fact is that there are almost
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seventy suspected terrorists in the lewis is a great concern of the moment yes it can sort of start looking for suspected hideouts but the fact is that how do you kill a deal is it that is exactly what the silicon state is facing that is what this lincoln said isn't going to a moment but then we also have to look at the repercussions that are going to reverberate in the subsequent months and years to come the realist sense within the christians muslims under who this is that missed it apparently at the moment so can the government sort that out by just saying this terrorists or those who are in the hiding we don't now at the moment to minority religions told first thing this morning to worship in private to worship in safety that clearly is unsustainable so what has to shift or change now for the government to be seen to
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be getting a handle on this. in the past practice like selling companies to have a very complex interreligious to listen it has got seventy percent buddhist thought in person in the terminals and then we are talking about in person muslims and seven person christians under listen to between these communities husband paul from over the impact in the post-independence period both the buddhist and muslim hard occasions where they have accessed and most it in fact the muslims have been of the receiving end during the civil why is when they were targeted by the tamil. as well as the government forces so they. kind of. grievance if we could say that but in recent years they have also become the targets of the hardline extremist buddhist who have been attacking them in fact they have been open calls to attack them they haven't even spare their subsequent looted individuals have been killed
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their houses have been bombed and so on and so forth so it is not the us what the government can do the challenge is how do you say is the psychology how do you change the attitude of the measure to single this community and the manner to muslims of the moment and the complexity is that we have a new challenge here that is a christian so there nor nowhere in the question before thinking whether they control the muslims or not so the muslims are going to be are deceiving and from the buddhist the hindus as well as the christians in the foreseeable future in the foreseeable future. version of one potential scenario. forgive me if i sound impertinent but can you back that up with any data to suggest that people will behave as a reaction to what we've seen going on across these two weekend. well the fact is it is the second why is his last three decades muslims from the north
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and destroy massacred the pogroms against them by the city of course the supreme all. of a guinness afterwards but the fact is that the muslims were targeted by the state government forces. militia during that particular period and following the peace process that is two thousand and nine on words that have been sporadic incidents of violence against the muslims across the country so that goes in to suggest that takes are not going to be that. calm and cordelia in the foreseeable future and also we are also talking about christians going about talking in the. home will see .

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