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cyclon kenneth struck while mozambique was still struggling to deal with the impact of cycle. aid workers say many remote areas and small islands are still waiting for supplies aid has started to arrive but it's slow partly because of bad weather some talks of managed to reach remote areas by roads and some areas can only be reached by am backspins on the weather what the united nations says hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter food and drinking water the eye of the storm was narrow but it was ferocious it took out everything in its path so those are the people that we're targeting this food assistance already going out to nearly twenty seven thousand people so this operation is moving at a pace and scale but we need the international community to care we know this is a part of the world that often doesn't get attention it needs the world's attention and it needs the world to care. more rain is expected and that could be already
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swollen rivers people living in areas at high risk of flooding have been urged to move to higher ground but some families say they have nowhere to go they just hope the worst of the with the has passed so they can begin rebuilding their lives. al-jazeera mozambique so to come on the program ugandan opposition m.p. bobby wine is freed on bail after being arrested on charges he says were made up to silence him. for joining us. and supporters of the wiki leaks founder rally outside a london court as he fights extradition to the united states. i think the rain is welcome it's gone very stormy in the southeast of australia
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sudden queens and new south wales and. toria the active front has been active front one tornado spotted in some parts somewhere near melbourne and the front itself is just edging east which you see into new south wales and sitting there for a day or two that behind it is not very warm sixty nine late ninety in melbourne the first thing probably getting colder where the person joining the sunshine that's positional last a couple of days or those on the change come saturday fourteen in melbourne the sunshine same in hobart and this is where the story line is a cold front running up in towards brisbane by the time nonstop very will moderate only twenty two degrees they expect some stormy weather that's all staying that saw the tasman sea for the time being but it's quite a strong blow in the southern portions although you've got a good start in new zealand i think on friday fifteen to ninety degrees in the sunshine quite rapidly that green runs into the south to start its progress jury saturday. enjoying a couple days and similarly which is unusual actually we've got fire weather
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throughout japan temperatures rising slowly twenty three in tokyo twenty nine back in beijing although rather cloudy in china. a university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study. investigates the pakistani company at legibly selling fake degrees to the thousands of police around the world zero. zero. where ever you.
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know going to one of the top stories on our syria but his word is president nicolas maduro has urged the armed forces to fight any traitors plotting against him in a show of strength majority look to the streets of the capital caracas surrounded by thousands of soldiers. more than a million people in india have been ordered to leave areas along the east coast ahead of a severe storm cycle and funny has been upgraded to the highest category level with winds gusting up to two hundred fifty kilometers per hour. mass protests are taking place in sudan where demonstrators have staged a million strong march to press for a civilian government protest to say the military isn't serious about handing over power. ugandan pop star turned opposition politician bobby weiner has been freed on bail after spending two days in
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a maximum security prison he's facing trial after leading a street protest last year against attacks on social media why has been warned not to engage in protests while on bail catherine sawyer has more from company. the cause of the moment bobbie wind supporters hired he'd been freed the pop star tata politician was arrested on monday accused of leading an illegal potus last year against a newly imposed social media tax. the bail hearing in kampala took an unprecedented four hours he's lawyers argued that he wasn't going to feed the country and would abide by the bail tom's i am glad that he has been granted bail and therefore secured a temporary freedom and that in itself is a very exciting thing. because nobody desires and should be in a prison for. one form of the proceedings from prison by the link it's
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a new system introduced by the judiciary to increase efficiency. but he supporters say to use to prevent them from coming to court they also say the charge against him of disobeying a statutory duty and another pending teasin case are politically motivated if you are. the politics of this country this is not. someone. comped up. by the region has been the order of the day so they are following the script. his wife. told us she's just glad it's over for now he's due back in court in three weeks this has not happened with rights the first time we're having a. shower i do not know. like police drove wind straight home to avoid any of his supporters who plotted to see him.
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government officials accused to show they are in control of some accuse whine and other opposition leaders of trying to destabilize the country the opposition is vowing to continue what they're doing to hold the leadership to account catherine song al-jazeera compound. the u.s. attorney general has refused to testify on his handling of the miller report in the democrat controlled house of representatives when he was a no show at the hearing just a day after being grilled in the senate which is largely controlled by republicans has been accused of avoiding lawyers brought in to question him about the investigation into russian collusion during trump's twenty sixteen presidential election democrats say barr is in contempt for failing to appear and some are calling for him to resign. americans and a naturalized cubans who once owned properties in cuba that were seized by fidel castro may now seek damages for their losses their claims total more than eight
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billion dollars and could cause international turmoil lawsuits were authorized by the trumpet ministration after historic change in u.s. policy. has more from washington. american cruise ships docked in the port of havana are a sign of how far the business relationship between the u.s. and cuba has come in a few short years the ships arrived in twenty sixteen after president barack obama eased a decades old trade embargo but they sailed in taking a risk that may now back fire the previous owners of the land the ships are docked on the private families that lost their property to cuba's communist government are suing they're doing that under a legal provision just enacted by donald trump the floodgates are open sores big there's a lot of people that have had their properties expropriated carolyn chester is among the nearly six thousand americans who have certified claims to land or
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investments in cuba her parents had a farm there the family's nest egg taken away at gunpoint by fidel castro's soldiers when she was just a baby honestly sixty years that's a long time ago i don't have a lot of time left you know i'm in my golden years and. i'd like to see this claim settle if not for me for you know my family chester wants payment for her claim now valued at two million dollars but with no way of collecting damages from the cuban government the case is most likely to go to court are those where a foreign company profited from the seized land carnival cruise lines was the first defendant named thursday economists say the lawsuits will have a chilling effect on cuba's troubled economy truth. be. more to go want to go.
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cubans taking to the streets of havana for its annual may day parade this week sent a defiant message to washington. we are not afraid of trial or the americans or anyone because we are cubans and we will defend what we have cuba's president calls the u.s. decision to allow the lawsuits a provocation the european union and canada have both pushed back as well saying they should protect foreign investors in cuba and concerned about the president set by the new u.s. policy but the white house has stood firm in its tough and stance against leftism in cuba saying it is righting a wrong in history. castro al-jazeera washington. where he's founder julian assange says he'll fight extradition to the united states speaking via video link from prison a source told a london court his work had quote protected many people and refused to be agreed to
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be extradited a soldier is wanted in the u.s. related to computer hacking and even barbara reports from central london. it was. i was. passionate support for the u.k.'s most famous prisoner but will he see be on the way to face trial in the united states. julian assange was removed from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested three weeks ago hours later u.s. prosecutors charged him with conspiring to access a classified u.s. government computer as and has just started a fifty week jail sentence for skipping bail in twenty twelve so he addressed the court via video link mr assange said i do not wish to be extradited for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people well that's a message that resonates with many supporters here but whether he wins out in the courts is hard to say a lawyer for the u.s.
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said that in twenty ten the former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning downloaded more than a half a million classified reports relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan as well as a quarter of a million diplomatic cables the vast majority were later released on assigned his wiki leaks foreign. journalists and we keep deeks are published and they publish the truth they're being targeted for telling the truth and this has huge potential implications so our journalists and media outlets all across the world. american officials have accused the sounds of endangering people's lives through the mass publication his backers say he's done nothing wrong and they fear the u.s. could widen its legal case beyond the hiking charges of course we're worried about it we have a provisional question the united states which has at this stage one charge with a five year sentence but there is much speculation the united states about where the additional charges might be brought by that now for once he's returned to the united states. his legal team say they'll wait to receive
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a full extradition request before deciding on their next steps barbara al jazeera. voting has ended in local elections in england and northern ireland and the winner appears to be apathy the ruling conservatives predicted to lose hundreds of council seats but across the country it seems many people simply refused to vote in protest over the chaos of bricks it largely has been following events from yorkshire in northern england. look it's increasingly an endangered species their numbers dropping as bricks it sucks the life out of them my son is very skeptical and he has a saying that politicians all politicians law you know that link is that it's amazing i don't think there is a democracy in this case it's just is a card. with me pressure i give you the impression is a democracy but there's not as i said before that are on the agenda by eleven in
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the morning just twenty seven people had come to this polling station in richmond the main market town in this part of yorkshire very strongly what came across to me was that the felt that the m.p.'s didn't want to leave the european union and they and they do and they do. and that it was apply for is not to what she leave so it's a revolt against politics in that sense it is this in miniature is the story of these elections people unable to separate local issues from the gigantic mess the brics it has become this is just warn of a chilling effects of the disaster of brecht's its people being so disgusted that they are now refusing to participate in the democratic process at the same time the governments cannot produce a list of program to present to the queen because they don't know what to put in its and they still don't know if the u.k. is going to participate in european elections which are exactly three weeks away in
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short breaks it has put the whole of british politics in sue suspended animation england is now a peculiar place where the public is heavily politicized yet is starting to reject traditional parties out rights it suddenly presents a major problem when people question the point of voting in what's supposed to be a democracy gloriously al-jazeera richmond in yorkshire. a scandinavian airline s.a.'s has read. a deal with its pilots to end a strike almost four hundred thousand passengers mostly in sweden denmark and norway were grounded by the strike over the past week pilots had criticized the airline over wages and working conditions s.a.'s shares jumped nine percent on the news the deal. cyprus's justice minister has resigned over a bungled investigation into the murder of seven foreign women and girls a cypriot army captain admitted killing the women and girls and dumping some of
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their bodies in a lake critics accuse the government of doing little to investigate the murders because the victims were migrant workers the police complaints commission is investigating how the case was handled the last five hundred years since the death of the italian painter leonardo da vinci the artist architect and engineer was born near the town of vinci in fourteen fifty two but spent most of his professional life in florence and milan davinci is last supper and mona lisa are among the most widely influential paintings of the renaissance they were chained to reports from or was in france but even she spent the last years of his life. leonardo da vinci arrived in france carrying his most famous work the mona lisa on the donkey's back . this royal chateau de on was on the banks of the wa is where he spent the final chapter of his extraordinary life. young french king francis the first was enthralled by his genius he called leonardo his father never will tell you what's
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whole city to the french kings three in the west to show you were seeking to tour an intellectual refinement the tea had previously discovered in italy and wanted to transpose to the french court you wanted to show you the french court was the most elegant in europe five hundred years after his death his hope the legacy of leonardo the maestro of the nascence can help repair relationships between italy and france which once again have hit turbulent times. president emmanuel macro and his the talian counterparts. hope to soothe the tensions between rome and paris over the hardline immigration policy of italy's populist government and its support for the yellow vest protesters in france the president's lunched at the mansion which will be a dato was given it was close to say which contains his workshops and studio it was here one of his apprentices sketched
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a hasty portrait of his master now and on rival collection of leonardo's during held by the british queen is to be put on display for the first time at buckingham palace we are now dorry's. italian genius. but also your pinching us know it is becoming a universal genius a portrait hangs in the royal chateau of francis the first at the deathbed of leonardo it is in fact an example of sixteenth century fake news the king was away on rolled business when given she drew his last breath but his spirits and his genius still haunt this land david j. to al-jazeera on france. in one of the top stories around his era venezuelan president nicolas maduro has
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urged the armed forces to fight any traitors plotting against him a show of support for the military men who are took to the streets of the capital caracas surrounded by thousands of soldiers his actions for a failed attempt on tuesday to unseat him by rebel forces loyal to opposition leader. failed military uprising sparked large scale protests against the government which left four people dead and hundreds injured i don't know if it's out of. this that they want to show an armed force of thieves of tricksters is that the armed forces we want that is why i say we have to keep up the pace with treason with coup plotters stay active the order has been given to the traces to stop them to the coup plotters to reject them the armed forces must be united in cohesive. well than a million people in india have been ordered to leave areas along the east coast ahead of a severe storm cycle and forney has been upgraded to the highest category level
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with winds gusting up to two hundred fifty kilometers per hour trains boats and buses are being used to evacuate residents and tourists forney is expected to make landfall on friday. united nations has condemned what it calls the worst barrel bomb attacks in northwest syria for fifteen months government helicopters and warplanes supported by russian jets attacked deescalation or safe zones in rebel held areas at least four people have been killed including children mass protests have taken place in sudan where demonstrators have staged what they call a million strong march to press receive billion government protest leaders say the military isn't serious about handing over power after ousting longtime leader omar bashir the two sides have agreed on forming a joint civilian military council to run sudan but are at odds over the details there's been another outbreak of cholera in mozambique a week after sideline kenneth slammed into the region at least forty one people
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were killed by the powerful storm which flattened communities in the north of the country aid has slowly began arriving but thousands of people in remote areas still need help first the headlines do stay with us one i want east is next thanks very much watching for that. americans are struggling to pay their rent a problem isn't just limited to places that he's. a former governor of the idiot social back has cost the country good stuff. we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on which is zero. getting a university degree with ask any study or exams sound too good to be true can be applied in new term university destroyed this guy and actually like it or not hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for pledges like this from fighting in online universities do you think these people are ready by these people if at all
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and i want to want to investigates the pakistani company allegedly pulling the strings behind the scam and the lengths they will go to to keep the money flowing some sense this the best event. getting a degree isn't a z. . for most students it entails years of study and hard work. increasingly millions of students trying to gain vasile qualifications by studying online. but not all online degrees are what they seem. sanitations to every one of us meet the head of the department of law a new food university which says it's based in the united states we host one of the
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most renowned faculty in the world new food promises no more marathon study sessions no more cramming for those dreaded exams and at a bargain price our education standards and protocols are constantly be. to provide our students the very best possible. new foods website claims to have a presence in more than one hundred eighty countries. and it's not the only online university selling its global rate. must claims to be the world's largest university which was news to benjamin placards an investigative journalist who specializes in stories about higher education. and. big whether it was to time i think with. something that can step by step by step and then the floodgates open must
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university was the first institution we came across. benjamin quickly discovered a lot of different university websites with some very curious similarities there are all the websites for the universities have the same template. they have a banner at the top that says the name of the university the colors are different. there is a little picture of a woman with a head ready to take your call. little box here that tells you about the creative course is that you can do it university . and the other thing that is very similar is that when you log on to these various websites they'll do a pop up and say we're having a special offer on scholarships callers now that happens on every single website.
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the websites also often feature indorsements from start like lecture ethan turner at california port university teaching a california university is a great achievement in my academic career but we were unable to find any lecturer called ethan turner or indeed any university called california poor when we searched for the address given on the website we ended up at what appears to be a mexican butcher shop i would say it's only obvious when you start to scratch i was shocked at how obvious it was after just a very small amount of scratching below the surface dramatic university claim studying he will bring you a step closer towards professional excellence and features a glowing testimonial from one of its students dream out of the awesome experience party i was able to earn my keep stay in leadership and education administration but when we checked out dramani address instead of the impressive university campus we found a team. schock. the common denominator between these websites is
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a company called x. act the exact world's leading i sounded as though the first time i heard about exact words from a source of mine. abu dhabi he basically said me. an email saying i've been offered a scholarship from this university and it just sounds fishy to me i check them out and. the more you found out about them the more you realize that. x x on it is say it's pakistan's biggest and most successful lie to be company. but to its critics it's the world's biggest agreement selling bogus degrees to hundreds of thousands of customers. exact now has a global presence in six continents one hundred twenty countries and thirteen
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hundred cities. except located in the hospital pakistan's biggest city caracas he claims that he left them ten years it's grown into a billion dollar company employs more than twenty five thousand workers. pockets on it or school but just billion dollars but metering. except is the creation of one man show web shop. in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven mr shoaib ahmed shaykh embarked on a journey to create a company that would become a household name in every industry but to me i'm a subset meat body not me but not i'm not. big it says not on me. as shakes company exact group so too did his reputation as a business mogul in pakistan. but in may
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twenty fifth pakistanis woke up to some shocking news. i think it feel islay fake laugh i edited out the baby on the left i feel money running time and time approximate by and that is only shake you've been arrested and charged with being the same to open a store machine complex with the fraudulent activity. shows that these men all fake degrees and then just by being a certain amount of money you can buy a degree amount but i live a double exempt not. just need to get it out i'm going to that on my exec she asked me to get it out i'm going to. shake insists that his company simply makes software which businesses of all types including online universities can use to find customers his loyal shall cut hi out says shake cannot be held responsible for what happens between customers and online universities that use x.x. software the exit function on the ground they called send food and has had this is
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too bad in this city providing and information on behalf of the university to speak to mr fox and fish. and shakes lawyer stresses that his client has not been convicted of any crimes that i know has been for me. then it has to be proved that it has to be mccain that is has to be sure indeed this is unfair unjust. but when the pakistani authorities raided access his offices in may twenty fifth jane they found a mountain of compelling evidence. there were hundreds of thousands of blank degrees to bigots lists of hundreds of fake universities thank you count showing payments amounting to millions of dollars and tens of thousands of names and contact details the customers around the world. there are also
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recordings of hundreds of hours of phone calls where representatives of the fake universities demand payments from often terrified customers that you just pay an amount of and thousand dollars budgeted small amount you're actually putting at risk everything out there are going to be a different year for your crew appeared not among the recordings was stored on hard drives at x.x. call centers local media reported the police also found proof. of evidence being destroyed with documents being burnt files dumped into the sink and computer hard drive smashed look at what they saw on the landing what they thought when you complained that despite the arrests and seizure of evidence many of the online universities linked to exact a still up and running and the pakistani authorities have not taken steps to shut them down so what actually goes on in these degrade operations.
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had right. hello is this the l r r many of us who. know university. to find out researches in london in singapore made a series of coals to some of the universities linked to extract network. obvious told about online and online universities. you can sort of get greedy and traditionally. the coup was presented themselves as lacking any of the kind of academic qualifications normally required by legitimate universities but very came to biodegrade the response. and positive.
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crashes yeah in the online world it doesn't take long to find office the thing too good to refuse. does not mean the experience based program that starts i was curious for these online universities a lack of basic academic. simply doesn't matter. custom is a toad life experience is a not ok but i wouldn't actually have to take any exams with a university. a whole range of degree and diploma courses offered at a bargain price. without
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having to do any actual studying or take a single exam the lucky student is suing the proud recipient of an impressive looking stupid showing that he or she has been granted a degree from a world renowned university were. that in a twenty fifth date the new york times published its own investigation which for the first time identified exacts as the world's biggest agreement. at first the exposé threaten to bring the roof down on the company. on money. but the story of accept and the fake degrees was far from over.
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