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the president jacob zuma within the last 10 years and also ongoing protest against public service poor delivery of public services they happen almost every week in south africa and have done say since the early $2000.00 now that explains i guess at least in part the a.n.c. is declining vote share at all so it's clear that a lot of south africans don't find the opposition any more convincing that's why we're seeing it decreasing turnout as well welcome thank you. still to come for you here on al-jazeera opposition supporters protesting in venezuela's capital against the material government's crackdown on dissent will be live in caracas. also had pushed to the brink the people of sudan continue to toil on the economic hardships under the new military rulers.
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hello again it's good to be back where we are seeing some very heavy rain showers right now pushing across parts of turkey now those good be quite heavy at times and could cause localized flooding you can see the rain showers right there making their way over here across the eastern sections of turkey a little bit cooler for at for $1000.00 degrees they are down here towards a level though it is going to be 28 degrees and as we go from sunday to monday those showers start to make their way towards the caspian back who rain in your forecast as well as down towards tehran with a tempter them of about 29 degrees well here across the gulf it is going to be quite warm temperatures are expected to come up as well but we do have some clouds pushing through the gulf right now and here on sunday in those clouds we could see rain shower to bill we do expect those to be quite light for doha on sunday $37.00 degrees but as we go towards monday it is going to be $39.00 degrees with riyadh seeing a high temperature there about 36 degrees and then very quickly across much of this . the portions of africa we are looking at dry conditions across much of the area
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even over here towards madagascar things will be quite dry for you with engine arrival at about $26.00 degrees there down towards cape town though on sunday it is going to be a cloudy day and those clouds will continue here on monday up towards your head of spring though plenty of sun in the forecast at $23.00 and durban a nice day a 25. welcome
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back you're watching al-jazeera these are your top stories 4 people including 3 gunmen have been killed in an attack on a luxury hotel in the southwest of pakistan a separatist group called the liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack in the port city of. the rebels in yemen have started redeploying forces from 3 ports surrounded by saudi forces the pullout is expected to continue for several days under u.n. supervision millions of yemenis depend on supplies of food fuel and humanitarian aid from the ports of data salif. one other story in south africa the governing
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african national congress has retained power after series general election historically. the a.n.c. has won with more than 57 percent of the votes giving president. another 5 years in office. opposition leaders in sudan are rejecting calls by the military council to resume negotiations within 72 hours to help form a transitional government protesters say the military's proposals don't match the demands of the people. from the capital khartoum. a position all saying well them all to totally all polls to a lot of time to talk to the transitional military consul they say they do not like that talk to us the transitional military council has been we're told any different from those of the film team but they say they face a more bigger problem which is divisions within the opposition forces
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for freedom and change to themselves last week difference as a margin between the civil society we which is led by the sudanese professional association which doesn't like living behind the protests and sit downs forced into a position on they traded insults and will kinds of comments against each other in the media and now. holding talks to try and. bring a position unitech box about they can face the transitional military council from a united front of polls the ease of ways against time saddam is facing so many problems including the economy where people are facing so many shelter just off most of the basic necessities. full fuel it. seems like these on site in most parts of the city multis say sometimes they spend
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the entire day waiting to fill up their vehicles. the fuel crisis shortages of bread and electricity outages opposing a major challenge for the country's transitional military council madhu trehan and his own father everything is as before there was no difference between the old regime and the military council we still have shortages and queues for bread and fuel. back used to full money at banks and the few tell a machine some still hold koch under the sea and in his. dozens of people wait patiently in line to get money out what the most out of interest of and it may take us up to a month sometimes to withdraw full salaries treat government imposed limits it's ramadan and people are fasting it's unfair to wait for this long to collect our own money our own right according to bungle fishelson it's been taking an average of $6.00 hours for the few a.t.m. . talked to be emptied. the financial ecosystem they say house quite
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simply seized. yet since that removal of a metal bush in from office the sudanese pound strengthened against the dollar on the black market sulfides it again almost a 3rd of its value but not is yet to fully into law prices for basic commodities. while lying on the island are of course prices had begun coming down but have once again risen due to the mess of demand for commodities during ramadan we can only pray that things get better for us. a decision to cut food and fuel subsidies i mean last year increase discontent with the government and 3 that mosque protest in december that ultimately led to me to move the from office the protest are still going on the people of sudan i used to making do with the little lady how constantly inventing the little thing and coming together to find new ways to make
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ends meet but the effects on me years of political on the comic isolation they say is threatening to break another determination and push them over the edge but how much does it or how to sit down. in venezuela opposition supporters a gathering for protest in the capital caracas the man who's months a challenge to president nicolas maduro leadership has called these nationwide demonstrations on weapons the his deputy at gaza was arrested and later sent to a military prison for taking part in last month's failed coup attempt to resume joins us live from caracas stories of how many people of the expecting to take part in these new protests. well this protest is almost over why though was here just until a few minutes ago he's been talking to the people there were around 400 people that came to this demonstration a small number of people compared to other demonstrations in the past why they all
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said that he's been talking with the united states southern command to discuss any type of cooperation he also asked people to remain on the streets but this fight for democracy in venezuela is not over but it's not clear yet what the strategy of the opposition is going to be we've been talking to some people here and many are increasingly frustrated with the opposition itself because they say that it's not delivering any type of change or soon enough they're saying some of them were actually saying that they were hoping for a military intervention from the united states they're already saying that there's already an intervention in the country by russia and by cuba and some students that we've been talking to us here say that said they are hoping that they were hoping to go to other streets not to this process and confront with the parties they say that's the way out of the government of the whole lots of voters not through dialogue but through a very big fight that they're hoping to take that's what some students were telling us right here why is it do we think serious that there haven't been any military
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defections because there was a point a few days ago when it seemed to be that that was what was to go i do was betting on. what we've been seeing in the past year. we've seen some small defections from the national guard from the armed forces from the police but that seem to have stopped the largest defection that we've seen is the person in charge of the intelligence services in fact and he called out my little on friday he said call him a traitor his name is christopher figure he's currently in hiding some people say that he has left the country he was a very close man to me called out my children to go but he was a mole he was a traitor and that he was recruited by the cia and he was the man that's been plotting against the run the country i'm going to go just a few minutes ago he also said that they're still in talks with members of the military but is fine if the small defections that we have seen we haven't seen any
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real moves from the leadership from people like really needed by the notes from the ministry of defense and one of the most powerful men in the country and in a way the truth of this is that when you talk to our soldiers among others they say that they don't trust being why they are there very very close to who are chavis a socialist revolution they say that chavez gave members of the military a different role in society and many are not willing to give that up just yet and you get the sense where you are to reason that the authorities are reacting to the current situation as of today might be a precursor to another reaction that might be a lot more significant if the situation deteriorates. further. what we've been seeing us through this for last past 4 months here in venice where that since it all started back in january is you know it has ups and downs we've seen protests that are massive with thousands and thousands of people on the
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streets demanding change and then smarter gatherings like this one what we're getting a sense is also the opposition wants to be extremely curfuffle when they call on people to take to the streets last week 5 people lost their lives and we've been told that they don't. and to be responsible for any more deaths that's not forget that for example of the leaders opposition leaders said the up was the low price for example who's been in prison for this past 2 years now he's seeking refuge at the spanish ambassador is rest is he well he was accused of inciting violence and that's why we have seen at least from the opposition that they want to be extremely careful on the demonstrations they make we know as we have seen in the past that when people take violent to through the streets to demand change there's been very very serious government were pretty fresh and human rights groups say that it's brutal repression we've seen lots of people dead lots of people detained lots of people injured after why the opposition wants to be extremely careful when they call for these demonstrations in the country. ok we'll leave it there to reason
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many thanks. ok we're going to give you some live pictures on the developing story in the albanian capital to run a day and see those pictures coming to us here al-jazeera an anti-government demonstration in tirana has now turned violent albanian opposition parties are holding an anti government rally to protest against what they call a government they accuse of being corrupt and links to organized crime those are claims of course that the government denies those pictures coming to us live you can see them a lot of cocktails being thrown you can see the founding of police will paramilitary police type employees keeping protesters although the protests as don't seem to kill the ball the talk about getting through that cordon. in front of those steps there on the side of that government building will carry on monitoring that situation for you any major developments bring it to you on al-jazeera.
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president donald trump says he does not consider north korea's latest missile tests to be a breach of trust young yang has conducted 2 drills in less than one week mr trump told the american website politico he thinks the missiles are quote short range and very standard stuff tensions have risen following the failed hanoi summit between mr trump and the north korean leader kim jong un last february. in hong kong pro-democracy politicians have come to blows with those loyal to beijing over the government's bid to allow extradition to mainland china. some try to stop others debating amendments to the extradition will changing the law boards allow suspected criminals to pose very big national security charges in china opponents say it is another erosion of hong kong's independence from china as guaranteed in the 1907 handover from british rule. south korea is the place to
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be if you want to get a glimpse the future of electric cars 0 emission technologies being on show at a major exhibition in june al-jazeera macbride reports from the island aiming to become the 1st in the world to be carbon free by 2030. this show brings together everything you need for an electric future. yes the cars both the sensible ones and the fun ones and all the other every day vehicles to service in a world beyond fossil fuels all using the same advances in electric engine and battery technology but in all shapes and sizes even one made using a 3 d. laser printer. i think we have passed the inflection point and evey's have become the norm the battery prices come down by more than a 3rd so vehicles cost less as well. for an expo promoting green
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transport j.j. who is the perfect stage. a large volcanic island off south korea's southern coast it's famous for its rugged good looks. a tourist destination that knows how valuable its beauty is and how vulnerable to climate change. because of that it's committed through renewable energy and electric vehicles to being completely carbon free by 2030 and the entire jeju island is a natural treasure we wondered how best to preserve it and when you came to transport we decided to go electric jeju seems perfectly placed for such an experiment an island with relatively short driving distances well suited to electric vehicles and with a semi autonomous government able to pursue bold policies when it comes to embracing the electric vehicle juju is already way out in front of all the evey's
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in south korea right now a quarter of all here on this one island but it's still got a long way to go to be 100 percent carbon free. the vast majority of vehicles still use fossil fuels but the government is quickly putting in place the resources needed to encourage people to go electric. there is a tone as we took the provincial government is providing enough support in terms of regulation and funding transport companies are also replacing their vehicles so i'm sure we can achieve that goal. as the quest continues others in asia and beyond watch with interest what jade you can do maybe they can do also. rob mcbride al-jazeera j.j. to south korea. ok let's go back to those live pictures coming to us out of the indian capital to iran and you'll see there around the city big anti-government demonstration. and you can see smoke looks like tear gas might not be tear gas it
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might be just smoke left around from what looked like certainly molotov cocktails that were being thrown just in the last 10 or 15 minutes or so now burning opposition parties are holding. an anti government rally they're protesting against what they call the government they accuse of being corrupt and linked to organized crime those are claims that the government the sypher asli denies. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera peter dobby here in the chair in your headlines 4 people including 3 gunmen have been killed in an attack on a luxury hotel in the southwest of pakistan a separatist group called the blotches stand liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack in the port city of guatemala so if africa's presidents are all run a post has urged unity in moments after his party the african national congress was
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declared the winner following wednesday's general election the a.n.c. has won with more than 57 percent of the votes but with historically a low voter turnout i thought lute each and every one of you and i thank you for making it possible for this election to be resoundingly expression of the will of the people of south africa we can declare with certainty that democracy has emerged victorious in our country our people have given all of the leaders of this country a fair mandate to bird a better south africa for all who the rebels in yemen have started redeploying forces from 3 ports surrounded by saudi and amorality forces the pullout is expected to continue for several days under un supervision millions of yemenis depend on supplies of food fuel and humanitarian assistance from the ports of her
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data salif and. an ongoing situation in venezuela today where opposition supporters gathered for protests in the capital caracas the man has mounted a challenge to president nicolas maduro his leadership has called these nationwide demonstrations now on weapons day. those deputy that's a man called zambrano was arrested and later sent to a military prison for taking part in last month's failed attempted coup. of the. in hong kong pro-democracy politicians have come to blows with those loyal to beijing over the government's bid to allow extradition to mainland china some people try to stop others debating amendments to a new extradition law changing the law would allow suspected criminals to face a national security charges in china opponents say it's another erosion of hong kong's independence from china as guaranteed back in 1997. those are your headlines
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more news on the web site al jazeera dot com up next with inside story sees. a record 41000000 people forced from their homes and the number of displaced from conflicts and natural disasters will continue to braun's so why is the world ignoring their plight and who should be responsible for protecting them this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm home he'd seen that every day thousands of people risk their lives by crossing borders to escape wars and natural disasters but many more are forced from their homes have no choice but to stay in their own countries a record 41000000 people were described as internally displaced last year more than double the number of refugees and increasingly people are becoming homeless because of cycling's floods and droughts which are becoming more frequent because of climate change or marriage choudhry has the details. more people were forced from their homes by fire ants and natural disasters last year than ever before the majority from 10 countries with syria and colombia topping the list and then a weekend refugee council is warning the trend is likely to continue unless people are protected from new conflicts world leaders are not sitting down and say let us at least agree on one. the civilian population. of new conflicts like the
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ones we're seeing now and in libya the escalation which seen in yemen again the new conflict in cameroon were doing nothing about in 2018 there were 28000000 new displacements ethiopia democratic republic of congo and syria account for more than half that figure almost 11000000 people were forced out by violence and conflict but the majority of new cases about 17000000 were because of natural disasters the philippines china and india accounted for around 60 percent mostly due to evacuations. the report shows it's an increasingly urban phenomenon complex in cities such as daraa in syria the data in yemen and tripoli in libya accounted for much of the internal displacement recorded in the middle east. many of those trying
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to escape the effects of climate change had to cities including tucker in bangladesh which are already facing overcrowding problems a recent world bank report said more than $140000000.00 people could be displaced by climate change by 2050 europe is being told it needs to step up to the plate and play its part in tackling the global crisis we are 250 people died crossing the berlin wall during a generation of cold war and now we seem to accept $2500.00 or more people dying pay yeah and the mediterranean is again it's a damning verdict of the so-called european civilization we cannot have that happening however statistics show refugees all the displaced often go to nearby countries rather than europe or the united states turkey pakistan uganda and lebanon except more of them millions of people just waiting for the chance to restart their lives. but every year there are more and more refugees and fewer
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places willing to take the men and marriage choudhry al-jazeera inside story. pullets bring in our guests from geneva we're joined by alexandra de lacked the director of the internal displacement monitoring sensor who led the team behind that reports from paris france was given the professor of environmental geopolitics and migration dynamics at the paris institutes of political studies by skype from facility in greece mariana cataca leckie a journalist focusing on migration and the coeditor of the book critical perspectives of migration in the 21st century thank you all for joining us if i could at turn so you 1st alexandrov be like this reports is staggering to many on 1st viewing more than double the number of people internally displaced the refugees
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so why aren't we hearing more about this what is true with shocks every year when we publish this reports at how little attention internally displaced people continue to receive particularly from the international community and this year was it was like every other year we reports high numbers this is a record number of 41300000 people living internally displaced because of conflicts and violence across the world to dominantly in sub-saharan africa and the middle east and yet because this displacement is happening behind borders and often in areas that are difficult to access the international media hardly ever report on them and they remain invisible not just to their own governments in some cases but also to the international community so we're talking about extremely vulnerable individuals who are not getting the protection and the assistance that they need and as you said on top of the conflict displacement that we report every year we're also looking at millions of. every year that are forced out of their homes because
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of sudden and slow onsets disasters so again a phenomenon that is very much global in scope that is growing in scale and in complexity and yet that is receiving much less relatively of the attention both in the media but also in the policy debates currently ongoing one of the interesting aspects that popped out for me in any case was that was the environmental angle false version men. were you surprised to saw that more people appear to be displaced by environmental factors the violence and security issues well clearly this is not a surprise and this confirms what other reports and other studies they've been showing for years that we tend to see people displaced by climate change in iraq the instruction as a kind of distant and looming risk the reality is that it's a clear and present raise is that needs to be addressed right now and as you were
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just saying with alexandre arrange an eva in should ask can't respond to every voter centric view migration that is that they feel that migration is of concern to them only if people cross their own borders but the reality is that we should care about internal displacement as much as we do for international displacement and migration because these are not too distant from them in and then don't national displacement is often a continuation of internal displacement this is not a series of local phenomena we are dealing here with a global crisis that deserves attention right now mary and i got a call that you focus on migration a lot of your work is to do with the one might say the end points when when my can sleep countries and and heads into other ones what was your reaction to this reports when you saw it i was quite surprised to be honest because. we have to keep in mind that international displacement is the 1st step of migration so
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what happens in the countries that people are in internally displaced. will affects the receiving countries of migrants in the future and we have seen this with the refugee crisis that the so-called refugee crisis that started in 2015 those quite right in europe were initially internally displaced in syria iraq and other countries. now we we have a statement from from young eagle and the sexy general of the norwegian refugee companies it is a very forceful reaction to this he said because these people haven't crossed the border they receive pitiful global attention the millions are being failed because of this because of insufficient international diplomacy but one could almost argue that even those who are crossing the borders are also dropping out of the attention what would you say that it's to would you agree with that exam to be like that because these people aren't crossing borders this is not this is not we're not
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becoming aware of it but also because. how do you say even those who are crossing borders are still dropping out of the public sphere how did it start of tackling this what is true that i mean a lot of the refugees in the very vulnerable migrants who have made their way were trying to make their way into europe into the united states over the last few years have received relatively more attention but as far as what we're saying it's not always necessarily the right kind of attention it's very much driven by everyone's anxiety at them arriving at our borders but in relative terms i think it is fair to say that i.d.p.'s across the world are generally much less spoken about because they are happy because this displacement is happening in low low income countries very fragile countries for the most ponds and that there's a tendency to think that the problem is better left at home but what we're seeing and i completely agree with with what's already been said that unresolved internal displacement leaving internal displacements to happen behind these borders without
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giving it the attention that it deserves will lead to cross border flows and will lead to all sorts of other cyclical patterns of crisis insecurity we see how difficult it is for i.d.p.'s to return to their homes of origin and that that impossibility to reach solutions at home only perpetuates the cycles. of crisis of conflict and of further further vulnerability the that we see across the globe so it is not a solution it's not a response to to to not care and to not integrate internal displacement into global policy debates on this basement and migration let's take a look at the driving factors of this because we are seeing this ramping up it's already risen over a 1000000 over the past year. the report suggesting this is likely to keep going apace what's driving this is important to look at those factors 1st before we can even think about coming up with a solution for such
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a men if you would weigh in on this these. when we look at the latest report from the internal displacement monitoring center which says that 28000000 people were displaced last year internally 10800000 were displaced as a result of conflicts 17200000 were displaced as a result of disasters and out of these $17000016.00 were dismissed as a result of weather related disasters that is disasters that will be aggravated in exacerbated as a result of climate change what we see today is that the factors are no longer separated from one another but that climate change in particular is also even an effect on the economy and political drivers of this basement for example if one takes sub-saharan africa about half of the whole sars there depend on subsistence agriculture as their primary source of livelihood which means that any change in a temperature only changing arrange for is directly affecting the economic results
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of these families and actually those we call it can make migrants coming to the shores of europe we might as well call them ecology gallo and ramadan migrants because the enrolment in economy means the same thing for a lot of people in the world if one looks at the conflicts in the heart of africa again we see that a lot of these conflicts are driven by and ramadan conditions competition for land water scarcity drugs today we are no longer like we were in a situation in 1950 s. or 1960 s. where we could get degrees to people according to the drivers of their migration today we saw these drivers being intermingled with each other in influencing each other considerably marionette had a group that lost or as a result of climate change which means that we need to i beg your pardon francoise if i could just turn to you mariana is this something that you know or it's a. good tally with your research that the environmental aspects are also driving in a way that perhaps security in violence was before my research many fulkerson is
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and europe. also in the mediterranean so we haven't seen large numbers of fine for a month of migrants we have seen people who have been displaced due to conflict however what i found surprising in this report was when i was reading about. afghanistan. half of those who were display of the what it does have displaced due to environmental reasons in afghanistan. are the same pretty much the same numbers as those who were displaced because of conflicts so i think we will in in the near future will keep saying people who will. arrive in here up here to environmental reasons because as i mentioned before i did these are the phone into internal displacement is the 1st step of migration and once that once the target have been that people where internally displaced start being affected people will start to flee so i think i haven't seen it about much in my research right now but
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it's something that will come up with the future in the areas that i fox that's interesting you say that that this is perhaps we're seeing we're seeing this is an opportunity to nip this in the boards we agree with that alexander be like that we should be focusing more on quite an environmental factors when it comes to tackling both internal displacements an external migration. i don't think it's necessarily a question of focusing more on climate and environmental factors than on the non political and conflict related ones as as marianna has even said just now what we what we're seeing across the world is that both environmental m. political factors are converging very much to cause very complex patterns of displacement and foot and to drive these numbers up so there needs to be much more investment both on the on the political side many of the crises that we're seeing across the world of very much political crises that require political solutions that means that there needs to be much more investment in in development of course
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because under development and income inequalities are at the some of the root causes of these of these problems so investment on the development side but also in peace building and conflict mediation activities and then of course that has to go hand in hand with much longer term investments now and in the future into disaster risk reduction preparedness climate change and. urbanization urban planning one of the main trends of our report shows that internal displacement is increasingly becoming an urban phenomenon so investing really in the capacities of local governments to absorb these populations and to look at solutions at the local level at the level of municipalities to find solutions so that they can be integrated into 1st perhaps the informal economy and then then into a more formal process so that they can access jobs and employment and so that gradually we can actually start seeing those numbers coming down so there needs to
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be investment on the response side to find solutions whether their return or local integration and also significant investments in the prevention so that so that we can prevent these these these flows from happening in the future so this responsibility is it to tackle this problem as we're looking through the report say it seems that a large chunk of these people who aren't terribly displaced have some 2 thirds. are coming from just a handful of. is it down to these individual countries to tackle this or is there are a way to roll to the plate for special menu thoughts and i think that it should be a global concern and we have a tendency to c.d.'s our local krises were as it should be a global concern into sure that countries like to set of migration is one of their top priorities but the reality is that they're not interested in global migration dynamics until people come and cross their own borders if we want really to address migration on a global scale we need to pay more attention and more interest in d's local
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situations and clearly given that a lot of the drivers leading to migration are also related to climate change there is a huge responsibility from usual as countries we should not forget that a lot of these local crisis are also the result of the actions conducted by industry last countries be true climate change or be it true geopolitics and therefore this should really be a global responsibility and clearly industrialized countries cannot say that migration is their top priority if they don't pay attention to what's happening far away from their borders as well but some of the many of the countries where migration is a specific problem and where it's causing an up and up swell of populous politics i'm thinking particularly of europe here will be arguing that the republicans that should be sorted 1st before we start interfering in other people's countries do you think that there is
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a will to tackle this. how do you see this progress in france for. well the problem is that we always wait until the last minute until the situation becomes a crazes and of course what really fuels the anxiety and the fear of people and also the previous road is this rich and this narrative about actresses and populist bodies in europe and clearly understood that they could play this to their own benefit and that the more they would describe migration as the crazies the more people would be anxious about this and would vote for them i think that we need to realize that migration can be managed and can be organized but if we want to do that we need to really look beyond our own borders and look at what's happening in the countries of the region and into countries of transit if we don't do that if we wait until the last minute then of course it will become a crazes and then of course it will lead to a more nationalist and populist policies mariama cataca lackey you know your research has focused on these this migration of the 21st century the later stage of
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the chain and certainly this has become more of an issue it has become more of a talking point and it is permeating national politics in many countries do you see that the role of that we're all night do you see there will ever be a will to tackle this at source or is this. a review the coming 2 competing ideologies are coming against each other and there will be no will to tackle this. i don't think there is a subtle it in. us because this is what we've same on the way that you have been you know has minus the refugee crisis in europe. not that of the issue in. in such that they try actual manage the situation they're trying to manage the floods in the european partners and in a way they create new corridors. within europe.
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i'm not sure if it will it certainly affects. national politics throughout europe it does not affect and it does affect the rights of the fire rights in europe. but pacifically increase specifically it does not play that huge of our own because we are not reelect well. planned at the moment but migration and refugees are not a priority. but it's something that if. it's should the guy priority it's certainly better than i what i would say to you mariana's that perhaps this is not a political priority for the european union in the run up to these elections but this narrative is being harnessed by groups on the far right the say this and see immigration and see and see letting people in keeping borgia strong keep in borders tight do you think that this is something that needs to be tackled 1st in order to
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deal with the problem the the wider problem of preventing internal displacement or do you think the 2 can be tackled side by side. i think these narratives have to be battled 1st by the democratic circle of farm or political. of political leaders 6. however it's not because the far 1 right is using migration. as one of the main it's one of its main narratives and i think this is one of the main reasons that breaks happened and i think that survey european leaders in each. in it's in each country not pay that much attention to that and they should do it i'm not sure if it i'm not sure if it can happen to my side but it should be a priority at the moment example be like what do you think the books are to tackle
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in this be do you have this political problem we do have this narrative this and see immigrant narrative in developing countries we also see there is a problem with climate change denial do you think that we need to tackle those. absolutely i mean i think it's clear that. the breakdown in international surratt solidarity has been made obvious when it comes to the refugee response within the european level than in the u.s. as well but it's even more obvious when you look at the question of internal displacement and in fact many of the arguments that we've been making of the last 20 years ever since we started reporting on this phenomenon we started making arguments with were very much humanitarian arguments because we assumed that the that decent human beings should care about what is happening to other human beings at the other side of the world unfortunately we've seen that these arguments have fallen on deaf ears and have just simply not worked so we have started actually now
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making a different kind of argument and changing the narrative about it so that we can mobilize as much political support as as we think this issue deserves for example when we are now talking we have demonstrated clearly the links between unresolved internal displacement and cross border movements we now also looking at the economic cost of internal displacement to countries and to regions we mustn't underestimate what this displacement is going to mean for future generations of people and of countries themselves as as as children are dropping out of school women are losing their employment prospects the mental health impacts as well of this phenomenon is certainly not be overlooked but there is more important to financial cost and a burden that rests on these states that will prevent them from quite simply reaching their objectives on the sustainable development goals that they've all committed to for 2030 so all these global policy agendas and policy frameworks that
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are out there from the s d g's to the paris agreement to the sendai framework on disaster risk reduction in the new urban agenda are at risk of not being implemented if not sufficient if instead. political attention and financial resources are if sufficient resources are not. put into into the the root causes of these of these crises which very much starts at home in the countries of origin ok and i'm afraid we have run out of time for this discussion right many more tough exterior explored with this i'm sure we'll continue this discussion online but for my guests now thank you so much alexandra b. lal the leg for such a man and mariana catahoula lackey thank you at sea to a you at home for watching you can see the program any time visiting our website al-jazeera dot com the discussion as you were saying does continue online do you
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yemeni government calls it a ploy. gunman stormed a luxury hotel in pakistan a guard is shot dead and security forces killed 3 attackers. who works together black and white men men women young women to build a south africa that truly belongs to those who live in. the lowest ever share of votes for south africa's governing a n c yes the final results are to close. it with all your support for me no one's championship leader valtteri bottas clinches pole position for the spanish grand prix that and more later in the program. to the rebels say it's the 1st stage in their part of a un brokered deal that other groups now need to fulfill the yemeni government says it's just a ploy to see fighters have begun pulling back from 3 major ports
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a movie expected to continue over the next few days under u.n. supervision it includes for data an important gateway for food and humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis rely on sort of carry out has a story. the battle for the port of data has been at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in yemen aid agencies have pleaded with the warring factions to withdraw from the strategic port a gateway for desperately needed food and medicine. millions are facing famine after more than 4 years of fighting between the forty's and the coalition led by sad eurabia and the united arab emirates. according to united nations healthy rebels will redeploy from her data and the ports of salif used for grain and there are safe and entry point for oil we have a huge problem terms of the lack of trust between the saudi led coalition on one side who has the rebels on the other worse very good but develops
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a little bit of trust that could potentially pave the way to eventually solving this conflict is going to really require some actions. there are many governments backed by the coalition have expressed skepticism over the agreement on friday the minister of information mohamed ality any tweeted any you know actual deployment that does not allow for the principle of joints monitoring and verification of the terms of the sweden agreement is elusive and unacceptable. the amany government did not state whether vest side would make a reciprocal move. the agreement stipulates that both sides withdraw at the same time we complied with the agreement and we expect the saudi led coalition to do the same if they don't we've made our point plans were brokered by an led committee under the starcom agreement a pakistan between the rival competence last year. but soon after
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a cease fire was agreed on the 18th of december fighting resumed in the port city of hyundai and since then repeated attempts to enforce the trees have failed the un says it is monitoring the redeployment of fighters from the ports yet it's still unclear how far forces will go and who will eventually control the 3 ports side a higher. and there are several sticking points there's still no clarity about who will take control of the ports in who data is who sees redeploy their forces then there's the critical question of the center international airport which has been closed to commercial traffic since 2016 the opening of the airport is urgently required for yemenis trapped in to see controlled areas and to bring in much required medical and food supplies and the payment of salaries to public sector employees to yemen's main work force in rebel held areas have stopped getting their salaries for months from the yemeni government based in aden and the kendall is a senior research fellow at the university of oxford pembroke college she joins us
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from london elizabeth kendall why has neither side managed to deliver on that early promise that we saw last november december time in sweden when they had the peace talks. the reason why this hasn't been delivered so far is because i was there a rush at the end of the stockholm dogs in december to reach some kind of understanding look both sides signing in order to do that they have to keep the details very very send and so the devil has been in that detail and in trying times that means that it's taken 4 months so this move today to come about even though it was originally chronic back in december so i think we have to be hopeful and pleased that progress is being made but very cautious before we declare it's the beginning of greece let's talk specifics for a 2nd elizabeth who wants to control who data and yet who might end up controlling
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the data naturally both of the main more and sides would like to control who danger and this is one of the problems the stockholm agreement. that the data which we handed over to was it will know who forces both sides those that he sees and the so-called legitimate government would like those local forces to be its forces this is being what the u.n. has been trying to iron out because this move by the who sees now in withdrawing is a little bit of a surprise i'm not sure exactly whether the un knows what to put in place for the course at the moment obviously the next step if the who says do you actually withdrawal would be for the government forces to do the same and does that mean when you talk about the u.n. there does that mean the u.n. is in effect a spent force i mean martin griffiths he was on a plane for day after day after day he literally said to them in sweden over christmas time don't go back to killing each other pick up the phone talk to us so
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has he not got anything else he can bring to the table. i think martin griffiths has a lot of energy in the him yet and i believe it's largely owing to him that we're discard along the road don't forget martin grip this works in yemen just last week and having a meeting with the who sees so i'm sure his time is energy has gotten us to this point so far what i have to say though is that it's only a very small part of an incredibly complicated conflict even extradited or does come of if the withdrawal does come off on both sides that still leaves the whole of the rest of the country that needs to be sorted out and there are many different warren factions not just the 2 that are involved in this agreement they have to be brought into the sun as not to be brought into action it doesn't very long way to go before we can start to talk about the peace that can be rolled out is that shut
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a big mosaic of conflict that the u.n. current deal with it in as much as it's a truthful peace process is you simplify it you break down the issues you put the big issues perhaps on the back burner but how data is by and large car but then with the u.n. have to take its eye off the ball to try and address the other issues the issues that you've just been talking about. the u.n. will have to keep its eye on every ball and one thing that has happened while there's a day to process is the road along for the last 4 months is that fighting has escalated in some other areas don't forget the stockholm agreement wasn't just about the date and the northern ports it was also about tire is which is an area. that a little farther away from that it's a major battle fronts and that is the come what's more fighting in the north of yemen and the christmas war hasn't happened yet we've got secessionist movement in the south and we've got independence movements in the east of the country as well as many tribal struggles all of this will need to be taken into account bit by bit
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by the u.n. all perhaps in towns and parallel process so there's a lot of luck still to do when we have to just hope that this is indeed the beginning of something greater elizabeth kendall thank you you're welcome an attack on a luxury hotel in the south worse a pakistani has ended with a security guard and 3 gunmen killed it happened in the port city of god or in the province of a star a separatist group called the block just on liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack on the pearl continental hotel. is following the story from islamabad. do you think. of the. tag they. have been and. also the fact that the security forces weren't able to evacuate.
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according to. security guard at the entrance gate however. from the security forces down in the hall where they were a kid according to the military the people who were injured even medical assistance liberation army on the other hand. all 4 of the. one involved in the tag of course busy were have been trying. to well coming to the border. go audited of significant importance because the chinese that investing tens of billions of dollars and of course. maximize the number of casualties however timely action from the security forces had there were 2 major. me as a pakistani writes the direct. independent media he joins us on skype from new york
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. this organization has claimed responsibility what do you make of them. yes so this organization has been getting down such terror attacks in the past as well there was a you know one of the notable attacks was on the chinese consulate in karachi which you long claimed by this organization and you know they're. obviously the 1st to destabilize the region because as i was mentioned by your reporter china is investing nearly $50000000000.00 into what is known as the seebeck or the china pakistan economic corridor which is part of the belt of the initiative and so of other forward to is now being managed by the chinese a bit of a great importance but pakistan's economic future as well as china has plans and
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the v.l. of want to upset them and bugs bunny authorities have been known for a long time using india of supporting b.l.m. and such other separatist groups by giving them training arms and cash cetera. because that there is of course like to forward. dynamic here the 1st is of course the. fighters with the facts on the state and the 2nd is the indian chinese that rivalry in that region and pakistan now being there is a. very clear and very formidable political and economic ally of china in the region is obviously something that box any state thinks needs to be. addressed so clearly. the symbolism of this attack is plain for everyone to see but is the message.

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