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minutest who gets away with murder will jordan al-jazeera kuala lumpur and for more on this al-jazeera investigation by will jordan you can go to our you tube page you tube dot com slash al-jazeera english. and our south africans are voting in what's only the sixth democratic election next wednesday one of the key issues is an ongoing debate about land ownership most of the land is still owned by the minority white population that many blacks also lost property at the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred four when traditional zulu lands were turned to tribal ownership for minimal has more from the quiz illian a tell province where your degree for nuclear equipment to lee and his family have lived on this land for generations he says the lid to the clan other rightful owners but they lost their rights to the land when it was placed under the administration of the in a trust in one thousand nine hundred four when a part date ended and a democratic government came into power we must fight. by any means
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necessary to do to get bit over lent because this is not midget. as if. we up being. the trusted ministers about three million hectares of land across the province some of the largest tracts of land in south africa this community says the trust under king good rules will it is abusing its power by charging people rent the problem is that that sized is asking people to pay rent or lend they already all on lend they inherited from their ancestors the argument we have been here for so many years in ways that in working on the trust coming from to get to ten that into tenants on our own ancestors lived through the trust says it uses the money collected to run its board and for education and development projects but people in
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the meanies say they've seen little in the way of development last year a parliamentary report recommended that the trust be disbanded it's not a claim of systems is the. off shoot periodicity of cultures where somebody from one culture thinking he will she can dictate to other cultures the government says it plans to amend the constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation how when and which land will be expropriated remains unclear here to remains a major political issue with the governing african national congress promising that the policy will empower the landless changes to the law could remain land administered by the trust could be appropriated by the government and redistributed some communities say they want to own the land themselves and not rented from the trusts but the government has assured the zulu king that the trust land is safe for
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now. the assurance came just months before national elections commentators say the government is worried about losing support from the zulu people over which. king has significant influence while the trust may be appeased people here say this is their insist and they should own it. so i had for you on the program one of the world's richest and most powerful want to officially be crowned as king. and with. his victory on. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.
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welcome back. the king of thailand will finally be crowned on saturday two and a half years after he inherited the throne king or a long corn or rama ten paid homage to his ancestors as part of the preparations for the elaborate coronation ceremony a sixty six year old succeeds his father who reigned for seventy years when he reports from bangkok. in a serum any lasting three days thailand will march into a new royal era king mark how would your long corn will be formally crowned inside the grand palace in bangkok his father king a do new day died in october two thousand and sixteen paving the way for his only son to ascend the throne thailand is a constitutional monarchy meaning the king is supposed to have no political power
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but it's strict less majesté laws designed to prevent defamation or criticism of the royal family are instead used to stifle political dissent landing many in jail . among them some your prick sarkozy who spent seven years in prison before being released last year he doesn't see the laws changing any time soon so. deciduous should have to change because the last two exist the mechanisms that the state used to abuse people rights are still there all at least a situation to same it can take a turn for the worse but many thais view the king as a father figure and board commemorative pins to mark the coronation ahead of his crowning rama ten as he's known made a surprise announcement that he had married his fourth wife is the deputy head of his personal security force and is now queen. at the time of king put me on to do new day's coronation in one nine hundred fifty there was political instability in thailand and instability around the monarchy itself there are similarities today
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the first election since a coup in two thousand and fourteen was held almost six weeks ago we still don't know the results and like nine hundred fifty the army is in control of the. kingpin we pond reigned for more than seventy years so few thais have experienced a coronation ceremony historian sulak see what i did he supports the monarchy but has campaigned for its reform attracting several complaints against him for less majesté the monarchy. is the only it's a douche and in this country that large for all work so one hundred years to get a very very easy but i think to preserve it is much much more difficult but it's worth preserving i think the new king means really real about his country and you want to do something significant. he's already done that taking control of the palace his fortune and changing a constitution that was passed in a referendum to give him greater power many thais look to the king to provide
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guidance in times of crisis kingma how would you along corn may be called upon to do that early in his reign given the uncertain political future wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok time after all this for with peter. thank you very much caster semenya says she's determined to carry on after a commanding victory in what could be her last eight hundred meters race. the south african runner produced a new meeting recalled at friday's diamond league event in doha with a time of one minute fifty four point nine eight seconds on wednesday as she lost her case against testosterone rules due to be imposed by athletics governing body the i.w.a. if with the new regulations kicking in on the eighth of may the feature of seminyak and others like a at shorter distances is unclear. but not the main goal was the main plan. defending the world title was a main goal so. i will be here defending the world title because when you win you
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believe you know so i believe that i will be here yes can you tell us what you made of the cats ruling and how you feel about it now and if you will take the medication as as as suggested by the national first with medication hell no that's a legal matter is so pretty confidential you come over really discussing issues here we can support what the needs is what i don't bust so if you want to know anything about me you approach my legal to well you want to know anything about my line to me it's all on top of it yes so you can't carry on running the eight hundred metres of course always and i'm going to because so no matter what i'm a crazy idea i see events like hell but it doesn't make us saw my colleague i believe in it's so that's what i want to do in future and i can't be forced to innovate series when i want to see chases so no man can tell me what to do so like i said i'm here for a cup os if i want to see events i see should go but if somebody wants me to see
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chanel does their own problems not mine so like i said i'm a pall on the second one from hunger because the five k. so i can run in his eyes i want this is all about the mill believing it's all about inspiring the well is someone going to get snow a lot about sports it's a ball human dignity you know human life so what do you do if used by the work she was doing it no matter what doesn't matter if you're going to check outside people leave they look up to you you always make sure that you do what's best for them it's about what i don't. so what now for so many of our sports correspondent andy richardson was watching and. well this really was a powerful and poetic response from a caster semenya in light of that ruling from the court of arbitration for sport on wednesday a ruling that some thought my and her running the eight hundred metres could even result in a quitting athletics altogether not so she plans to be back here for the world championships in the eight hundred meters and says helmont to the idea of taking
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medication to lower her to start her own levels she appears to be on a direct collision course with world athletics governing body and its head sebastian coe believes the ruling is fair says it's not about defining gender it is about ensuring fair competition has generally been reluctant to even talk about the samantha issue preferring instead to talk about his desire to expand the appeal of track and field when caster semenya the sport already has a global icon someone who is respected for her fight against prejudice and discrimination and someone who is of course an outstanding performance on the track she's dominated her event for the best part of a decade or may have hoped that that ruling i draw a line under this controversy from what we've seen from so many on the track tonight and from what we've heard from her afterwards it appears this saga is a long way from the finish line. liverpool manager you're going to plop is confident three nil the feat at barcelona won't the rail be a challenge for
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a first english premier league title in twenty nine years liverpool can regain top spot for match the city when they go to newcastle on saturday we are ambitious like how we want to but we still know it's a lot of us in our hands but the only thing we can do is to beat you cause that's unbelievable. that is our problem not that other teams are going on monday night or whatever that's not our problem manchester city play on monday home against leicester city manager says it's wrong to suggest leicester have nothing left to play for this season. i cannot imagine the list of players come here for the holidays so maybe they can tend to you know to the finish and the salmon in the position depends on the others also and the anything is that is going to happen they're going to try to make a good game sure the title is already decided in each of these. events it's needed some inspiration from cristiana rinaldo in friday's dobby clash against torino the
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visitor silencing the u.v. fans of the sun lukich capitalized on some sloppy defending early in the game looked as though the champions would suffer an embarrassing defeat of a city rivals but with six minutes to go now those head at risk on one to. the defending cricket world cup champions australia have welcomed back steve smith and david warner to their training camp to play served a year long ban for their part in a cheating scandal that rocked the team but coach justin langer says they are only positives in their britain. it's not tension on a state. where we're so excited to have the boys but we're sick so it's sort of that playing cricket has been a big build up to it will draw on their experience on and off the field and we would be absolutely crazy not to the center going to be challenges for both of them know. that you know when you've come from a top position of captain and then you're not well then you know it's going to be
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a certain degree if you military that comes with that and that's where we leave it from our backs you in london marion thanks very much peter well that's it for the news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with much more of the day's news for you i will see you there shortly stay with us. i am a vision every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and of course there's donald trump account through the eyes of the world's jannah least that's right out of
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a hamas script that calls for the an aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media to focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most in bed is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. it's a door to climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every beauty's is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it really brittanys happiness is what we ensure it if that is quantifiable of the by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has . in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented
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a groundbreaking school. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty announces iraq. a powerful sight plane hits east in india after more than a million people were moved from its path. so i maryam namazie and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up the u.s.
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ramps up its plan to choke off iran's energy exports ending sanctions waivers which had allowed some countries to buy its oil. accusations from the u.n. that migrants in and garion detention centers of being deliberately deprived of food in breach of international law. and i am nicholas park in the commercial capital in biddin court the new where the military has been deployed after the opposition involves more protests in the days to come. a powerful storm is ripping through india's eastern coast toppling trees and bringing down power lines at least eight people have been killed and hundreds injured in a dish est on funny made landfall early on friday the effect of being felt across the continent from the beaches of sri lanka to mount everest and nepal more than a million indians have fled their homes to seek higher ground scott hyla has more
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from you danny. with one hundred eighty kilometer per hour winds cycling forty slammed ashore in the distance states in eastern the. forty first made landfall friday morning near the coastal city of putting a holy place for hindu time zones i'm going to listen the rain has stopped since early morning it's a very strong storm the trees have been uprooted really. they're closed there is no electricity the rain has caused my house to flood the boat but that because this is worse than the one thousand nine hundred nine storm i feel scared to be at home or to go outside i fear we might be blown away if we go out. the strong side close expected to move north through and weaken as it hits west bengal and my colleague state it will then head to bangladesh. a big concern as coastal storm surges and resultant flooding about a million people have been evacuated india's navy air force and disaster response
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force are on standby. airports and schools were closed before the storm hit funny is the most serious cyclon for the region in twenty years in one nine hundred ninety nine a super cycle and devastated and killed ten thousand people across the state. the coast of a state is prone to cycle and storm surge and tsunamis in banquets and shelters have been built over the last seven years before he will be the first test of how they stand up to a powerful cycle. got harder al-jazeera new delhi. on the other side of the indian ocean people in mozambique are trying to rebuild their lives following the destruction caused by cycling kenneth some towns are dealing with a cholera outbreak off to several cases recorded in a number of hard hit areas aid delivery has been slow because of bad weather. reports from makhanya. cyc lone candidate was so powerful that in some places
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entire communities were destroyed rooftops were blown off walls from houses were toppled to the ground is live thousands of people homeless some people are sleeping in schools tens and community halls until they can rebuild their homes i would say they really have nowhere else to go right now to this have these makeshift shelters for anything they could find something to keep them going and they can rebuild their homes aid workers say the biggest challenge they face the moment is trying to access people who are still in remote areas like this place it took us about five hours to get here by boat on really rough waters and by the time we got there was so much devastation in many parts of this town a lot of people are sleeping in a makeshift hall because their homes have been destroyed now for aid workers of course it's not just access in places like this sometimes roads are impossible because trees are for them blocked the roads or bridges have been destroyed and someplace to be accessed by air and that means of course all depends on the weather
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is not been raining as hard as it used to last week but it is still raining and that does have relief efforts aid workers are also concerned about the outbreak spread of diseases like cholera and malaria the government has warned that there is a cholera outbreak and people should be careful the biggest concern now is that it's a race against time for aid workers and government officials to help people who are stranded to mention people who need food and urgent help get it as quickly as they can. venezuela's opposition leader is taking his quest to win the support of the soldiers back to the streets but with a new strategy at a news conference in caracas once again offered amnesty to soldiers to use to switch their support from president nicolas maduro he says his supporters will be on the streets from ten in the morning on saturday handing out amnesty leaflets but venezuela's military leaders have so far not declared support for quite
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a zero and still back president well al jazeera is to raise a bow is following events for us in the venezuelan capital and tell us what happened in caracas today. what it was a peaceful day and like the previous ones we can see it we have seen here in venezuela because of the protests that have been ongoing since one why the attempt to change the status quo in this country last tuesday when he appeared in a military base like a lot and not far away from where i am with around seventy one so disarray around it by them saying that a change in government was going to happen in venezuela he was accompanied by opposition leader leopoldo lopez who had been in house arrest for the past two years and the fact that he was even there seemed that something could change well until now it did not one way though continues to be here in venezuela once against challenging the government going and talking to or oil workers for example like he
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dick today and giving press conferences and again saying that the military should stand on the side of the venezuelan constitution saying that the goal of my ludo was elected because of fraud and he says calling the people once again on the streets this says as a he's challenging the press them but on the other hand we're seeing president equal as mother will showing that he continues to be strong in this country that people continue to support him even though the type of support he used to have has in a way decreased in the past year because of the economic crisis happening this country and again what we have seen is mother was surrounded by the military showing that he still enjoys the support of the armed forces and that's a problem for going to because he hasn't been able to persuade the military to abandon the government of president dora. yes and this is something that we have been seeing since january since when he started challenging the government of new
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kilometers or the finns he did not recognize that my daughter when he took office once again earlier this year and since then what we have seen is when the what but why you are asking that they tell you to join him in the side for freedom that's the way he called it he's also been offering amnesty in the last to those members of the military in the members of the military among other things and what we're seeing right now is a new challenge a challenge that he's hoping to take to the streets this saturday asking people to basically go to military bases with him with relief less where they're asking the soldiers on the streets police officers on the streets members of the bolivarian national guard to join them in this fight it's not clear whether he'll be able to achieve it if i don't know because of the position of the situation that of the armed forces the importance the armed forces have within the venezuelan government they're just not the military they're part of
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a government this is have civic military alliance that rules venezuela right now the military is deeply involved in the economy in security among other things and that's why many believe that it may take a long long time for any type of real change to happen here thanks very much for the latest from caracas to raise a bone. well the united states is ramping up its sanctions on iran by ending waivers that allow eight nations to buy iranian oil they include china india and turkey it could now face sanctions unless they stop importing iranian crude iranian oil sales have already fallen by half since the us pulled out of the twenty fifteen u.k. dale same bus ravi reports from an oil expert in iran's capital tehran. hours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions and to hold welcomed an important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful public
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relations no matter this a comes to us says we hope all of that but it has to get done that would divide us when the united states reimposed sections it granted waivers to some of the runs biggest customers ending those waivers and iran supply means prices at the pump are likely to rise to address suggestions by u.s. president donald trump that some opec members namely saudi arabia and the united arab emirates might increase production to make up for iranian oil not making it to market it's probably potentially more dangerous to the very existence of the organization not to talk of that but does it with none of that is. the morphs to divide this organization to saw is seeds of discord. to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took decisions
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let alone implemented together needing to meet market demand has been an important part of how iran has kept selling oil and coped with us sanctions china turkey and iran have also said they cannot abide by unilateral american policies and will continue dealing with iran if pushed iran could obstruct shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and restart your brain human richmond none are things iranian leaders say they actually want to do but there is little doubt the country is hurting a crippled economy soaring prices runaway inflation iranians worry it could mean taxes going up and subsidies on fuel electricity and consumer goods going down last year this conference had even more buzz and even bigger exhibits and there was a little more excitement in the air about doing business but that was before the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and really imposed sanctions but one
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russian chief executive said u.s. sanctions are exactly why russia wants to do even more business with iran but that's why we're here at the circus you know we've you know it's for sure. it will be additional opportunity for russian companies because surveys in many many years since there is we get very good relationships between iran as a country and russia as a country and so he union even by us and now is there is a good chance to start to mutual cooperation between companies. for the business level under u.s. sanctions he says the kremlin has encouraged companies to seek out iranian business partners characterizing sanction. as temporary complications but many iranians basic u.s. sanctions are not temporary you know likely to be to more hardship zero zero to her own. troops and many have maintained a tight hold on protests following two days of post-election violence that hundreds
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of people are demonstrating since wednesday against the exclusion of opposition candidates from last weekend's parliamentary polls nicolas haq is in new economic capital while the opposition promises that more protests in the days to come the military continues to patrol the streets of the commercial capital coats and here to try to reassure the population after days of violent protests just days ago the military used live ammunition to try to disperse the crowd killing some of the protesters before that protesters overrun security forces protesters calling for president to step down and for a new vote or revote from sunday's parliamentary election an election that was widely boycotted with a historic low turnout eighty percent of the population of the registered voters did not come out to vote.

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