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libya's un recognized prime minister is offering a road map for peace to end the 5 year civil war phase and sarah is proposing a 3 step process to end fighting with warlords after he says it will require u.n. observers to make sure all sides are held accountable for any peace efforts in recent work recent weeks forces loyal to have been trying to seize the capital tripoli from the internationally recognized government. misuse of political initiative in order to find an exit to this crisis and i call on the libyan people to support this proposal and our initiative is summarized as follows 1st of all inclusive libyan congress be convened with the coordination of international players to include all the components of the social fabric of libya including all heavyweight political and
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national figures whereby we pave the way for building the state on the rule of law and democracy 2nd during this congress and the agreement will be reached on a future roadmap whereby the constitutional foundation be laid and agreed upon whereby presidential and parliamentary elections be held before the end of 2019. head has more now from the libyan capital. it's the 2nd speech to be delivered by libya's recognized prime minister. but this is different from the 1st the speech in this speech. is announcing a new stage of the political settlement in libya and it seems that he's announcing a road map to include civil categories of the libyan political landscape but not with the warlord health that is indicating that the negotiations
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between the rival factions before april the 4th that's when half those forces launched at the military offensive in tripoli is different from the negotiations after april 4th so now it seems that the meetings held with the elderly. personalities from the east of libya during the past weeks the past few weeks in tunisia to choose people to be. of the warlord who for have to take part in the political process is. still ahead on al-jazeera could really use syringes and drips be the cause of hundreds of children infected with hiv in southern pakistan. and how many people in iraq are worried about the energy supply.
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hello again well here across parts of northern asia we have been watching a big storm system make its way across japan over the last few days you can see the circulation with the storm and it has been quite windy across much of the region now some good news is we are going to be seeing some better weather across parts of japan it is still going to be quite rainy though up here toward sapporo temperatures only getting to 13 degrees so quite chilly and damp across that area winds are still going to be a problem there and as we go from monday to tuesday we're going to see a few showers lingering across the area but in general things are going to be getting better across much of the area of tokyo it is going to be a nice day for you with the temps are there of 25 degrees while the rain is back across much of china we did have a little bit of a break here across the east it only lasted a few days you can see where we are picking up a few holes in those clouds heavy rain though across much of central china we have been looking at widespread flooding across much of the area unfortunately that is
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going to continue across much of the region hong kong your rain is back as well we do expect to see a time to there of $31.00 degrees and then here across the philippines the rain is going to continue quite hard at some points we do expect to see manila at about $34.00 degrees over here towards vietnam heavy rain few as well cambodia rain and bangkok it is going to be a rainy day if you with a temperature of $33.00 degrees. in morocco unregistered an under-age marriages have caused problems especially for women and children i've been trying for years to get my daughter legally recognised by her father the pressure from lobby groups has led to changes to the family code giving women greater rights in marriage while keeping the family at heart now the divorce rate has increased a lot mainly with the patience made by the wives. al-jazeera world.
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you're watching a reminder of our top stories this day after hong kong suspended an extradition bill thousands of demonstrators are filling the streets again demonstrators say they want the proposed more completely scrapped. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been ordered to pay $15000.00 after being found guilty of misusing state funds. accepted a plea bargain that admitted to lesser charges. saudi jets have hit targets in the yemeni capital sana'a. rebels attacked 2 saudi airports the spokesman says drones
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targeted saudi u.a.e. coalition military hangars and control rooms. and the ad was attacked again. vigil has been held in mali's capital bamako after a series of attacks between communities the international criminal court is looking at allegations of crimes against humanity and the president of mali is under growing pressure to deliver on his promise for peace nicholas hart has more from. they've come to this open air slaughter house to escape death still vivid is the smell of burnt flesh. full on the lost his father. doggone lost his son. they said i'm a light in front of my eyes don't go and accuse fall on the sinful on these blamed dawns each community accusing the other for the killings in attacks on their villages along with the harm done to them we can never go home it's not safe
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anymore. this is what is left of barry's home full only say doggone hunters were behind the attack. last sunday hundreds of dawn died in what appears to be retaliatory killings while the international criminal court investigates what may constitute crimes against humanity hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the center of mali turning this meat market into a makeshift camp. and fall on these have come to the capital bamako not just to escape the violence but to be closer to a government that has failed to protect them in their villages and they hope that here. can deliver on its promise to bring back peace. want unity and yes despite the support of $20000.00 u.n. in foreign troops the president seems unable to bring the country together.
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he's facing mounting protests with calls for his resignation including from the influential cleric. leading the demonstrations. general says the president is my friend but i will continue to denounce his governance people from the north the armed groups the people fighting against each other we're all volume's we need to promote dialogue bring an end to the violence that's turning into a senseless war. it is a country in crisis deeply divided with each community mourning their dead unable to break the cycle of revenge nicholas hawke al-jazeera pharmaco. health officials in pakistan southern sindh province are struggling to treat people who tested positive for. most of them children the world health organization says there aren't enough drugs to treat all those infected laura but a man who reports. imtiaz ali and his family live in the tiny remote town of
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project arab it got wild attention 2 months ago when medical experts found multiple cases of hiv mostly in children the ali family know this pain too well of the 6 children only one hadn't contracted the virus 2 of them died. my wife and i 8 hiv negative but sadly 5 of our children contracted hiv and 2 of them died recently now i am more worried about my other kids as there is no proper treatment available here and i can't afford to take them to any good hospitals doctors were baffled when they found many parents had tested negative to the virus but their children positive. authorities trace this back to a local doctor. they have accused him of infected patients with a virus through contaminated syringes he denies these allegations and the investigation continues. screening centers were quickly established including the
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district capital larkana but the findings were worrying from just over 20000 people screened more than 750 people have been diagnosed with hiv 80 percent of a children. the unfavored this is. not properly. treated and. the banks are failing unscreened. helped organize ation says is not enough antiretroviral treatment stopped in pakistan only hoffer the new patients are being treated the illness also carries a social stigma the clinic has set up counseling sessions for women too afraid to be screened worried if they've contracted the disease they'll be out calls from the community the ladies mostly they are coming the door nor their go ahead terry has
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happened if someone is positive that isn't is this 3rd order of every miss we wanted to give their own decisions to them in order here. not in not the children being never referred to it it was a deficiency there's also concern if the government doesn't act quickly the virus could lead to aids an illness that is far more difficult to treat back in russia darrow imtiaz ali spends what time he can with his children but it's a battle to keep that temperatures down a common side effect of hiv all the more difficult during the school teaching some a month's nor about a manly out to sarah. anton pozner is the president of the international aid society he says the recent spread of aids in effect actions to children in pakistan is preventable you have to ask is are how did children most of these are children get infected by hiv well it's either through their mothers juju or in pregnancy and
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delivery or breastfeeding or then you and as these mothers are negative that's not all then it's through low transfusion we heard about that some of the children may have been. or through the use of unsafe practices that was really just because if you give an injection someone a small amount of blood is drawn into the syringe and h.l.v. can last in that syringe from a few hours to a few days if some of that reduces that syringe are they doing ready an injection to actually put the person into a child the virus can be turned and i think that what's happened is that there's just been very unsafe perhaps if people have not been trained correctly and they really shouldn't have now and you do several things that the mode of transmission and then hold out well and that makes your training the more that regulate which
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ensures it never happens. the u.s. has granted iraq a 3 month waiver extension to buy electricity from iran after that sanctions against countries doing business with tehran will go into effect iraqis rely on tehran for vital energy supplies but in the summer months that's not enough charles strafford reports from basra. hussein radi starts the generator he helped build using an old engine. which supports electricity to families in this poor neighborhood of plus or so. there are hundreds of generators like this one across the city because daily power cuts often last for hours. we provide electricity to the poor it comes on for an hour then it's off for 5 children really suffer in the summer heat we are so tired inside i have nothing joyful in my life it's all been misery the government has forgotten us. iraq cannot
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meet its own electricity needs even a city like basra which because of its huge oil wealth could be one of the richest cities in the world of aust amounts of the electricity comes from close by across the border in neighboring iran the us has increased sanctions on iran in recent months and this could seriously affect neighboring iraq which depends on iran for its power supply. iraq relies hugely on iran for this vital resource and a decrease in that power supply could cripple the local economy further we so angry demonstrations over the lack of services in bus for last year the situation hasn't improved since then. america's just extended a sanction waiver for iraq so it can keep buying iranian electricity and gas for another 3 months the us is trying to help iraq be less dependent on its neighbor
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for fuel as a means of increasing its pressure on iran energy giant exxon mobil recently signed a $53000000000.00 deal with the iraqi government to develop 2 southern oil fields it's hoped that project will also help iraq be more self-sufficient in gas needed to few electricity power plants considering the potential boil wealth of basra the poverty and lack of general services is shocking piles of rubbish lined the streets there are open drains buildings long ago fell into disrepair even with the help of iran there isn't enough electricity being distributed here. to a city that people like hussein say has suffered years of government elect charles strike that al-jazeera basra. peru has deployed riot police to guard its northern border to stop an influx of migrants from venezuela and even as well as holding a passport and a humanitarian visa are being allowed in new into effect on saturday military
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official says around 10000 venezuelans entered peru and day earlier rushing to get in before the new rules went into effect. racism in australia is in the spotlight on the big screen at this week's sydney film festival the final quarter tells the story of adam goodes a top footballer who faced discrimination on and off the field and dared to speak out against it andrew thomas reports from said. listen to the player. for more than 3 years at the end of his playing career australian rules football star adam goodes was booed every time he touched the ball what is going on is watching. a new film is explicit about why racism on the side to stay alive. continue to stay in sydney swans player adam goodes was
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an aussie rules legend but other much in 2013 the indigenous australian did something that upsets many fans a 13 year old girl in the crowd shouted something racist at him and he pointed her out here he. called me and i. as the 1st family before it was a monkey and i. it was it was shattering goods became a vocal anti racism campaign or australia's government awarded him the title of australian of the year but the abuse and booing just got worse goods his treatment from the sports pages to the front page. many accused him of being overly sensitive but others said that not recognizing the bully was in reaction to good as anti racism activism was itself racist in a country with a history of white supremacy were aboriginal people were only recognized as citizens in the late 1960 s. the final quarter makes uncomfortable viewing i think astride has always had
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a difficulty talking about rights and when this happened it really highlighted how challenging this was we came up with every excuse we possibly could as to why adam goodes was being booed but we weren't prepared to actually on the fact that racism was involved the film has become the hit this week sydney film festival and another film which includes new interviews with goods is due to premiere at the melbourne film festival in august on the it wasn't just adam goodes the footballer he was angry at reaching. for through one man and 2 films australians are confronting what many call the country's casual racism andrew thomas al jazeera sydney. this is age there is going to round up now of our top stories
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a day after hong kong suspended an extradition bill thousands of demonstrators have filled the streets. filled with people dressed in black in a sign of solidarity protesters say chief executive kerry lands decision to hold off on the proposed law is not good enough they want to scrap and land to step down they are opposed to the bill which would have allowed people who are wanted for crimes to be extradited to mainland china. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been ordered to pay $15000.00 after she was found guilty of misusing state funds sarah netanyahu admitted to the charges under a plea bargain she was charged with fraud last year after allegedly spending $100000.00 of state money on lavish meals saudi jets have hit targets in the yemeni capital sana'a now after who the rebels attacked $2.00 saudi air force spokesman says drones carrying explosives targeted the design and airports peru has
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deployed riot police to guard its northern border to stop an influx of migrants from venezuela only venezuelans holding a passport and humanitarian visa are allowed in the new requirements came into effect on saturday a military official says around 10000 venezuela's entered peru a day earlier rushing to get in before the new rules went into effect. but imo that document is very very valuable not so much because of how much it cost from venezuela to peru but it's also the journey the path the days on your feet the nights without eating and not having a home to sleep it's all worth it. libya's un recognized prime minister is offering a road map for peace to end the 5 year civil war phases is proposing a 3 step process to end fighting with warlords after he says it will require u.n. observers to make sure all sides are held accountable for any peace efforts. those are the headlines inside story is next we're back in half an.
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hunger on the rise in south sudan the u.n. warns that millions of the country face a critical lack of food this despite a peace deal following the country's civil war so what should be done to stop the disaster and who or what is the plague this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan a record 7000000 people in south sudan
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a facing severe hunger according to reports by its government and 3 u.n. agencies that's more than the heart of the population a lack of rain an ongoing economic crisis and years of civil war are being blamed for the worsening situation here is how one of the authors of the reports. from the world food program described the extent of the crisis every year hunger reaches higher levels in south sudan with millions of people unsure when they'll next be able to eat food shortages usually peak between may and july when the reports stop short of declaring a famine but says nearly 2000000 people go without meals for long periods and suffer acute malnutrition and that's leading to many deaths over the past 2 years the number of people needing food aid increased by 2000000 and if the lack of rain and poor harvests continue 21000 people could suffer famine. on top of natural
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disasters years of political unrest and civil wars of pushed south sudan into crisis the country became the world's youngest in 2011 when it gained independence from neighboring sudan that followed a peace deal that ended africa's longest running conflict but the country descended into war 2 years later when president salva kiir accused his former deputy and former rebel leader of plotting a coup the violence left 3 180000 people dead and displaced about $4000000.00 it wasn't until september last year that president kier agreed to set up a unity government with mashallah but that's been delayed because the government says it's unable to disarm and integrate rival forces. so let's bring in our panel for today's discussion joining us now from juba in south sudan pierre voted who's the deputy representative of the un's food and agricultural organization in south sudan from nairobi we're joined by alan boswell
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who's a senior analyst at the international crisis group and from syracuse in upstate new york joke joke who's the co-founder of the institute which is a think tank focusing on south sudan gentlemen welcome to you all pierre let's start with you the u.n. has stopped short of declaring a famine in south sudan how far away from that the way could it become a famine. then you're a father mandatory but we have to see with the recent analysis we provided. yesterday after it's we had the impression of the situation is more they were known it was one year ago. this is due to the fire about to despite the fact that these mortgage board according to the a.b.c. the analysis has been done recently there is less people who are needing humanitarian assistance so we have the impression that the situation is getting
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better of course we are in wait with conditions for the months there is it's due mainly according to the united states again is human it is the fact that there is a massive humanitarian assistance with schools with our stance says in disillusions a number of all the activity or so we starting to develop in they're going to rain down of activity for resilience and budget gladwin i'm sure your bid the production the crop production has met and or saw a bit of access in the country so the movement of the british and is better than it was one notable this is also arguing with the disagreement effect that it's true the man is improving ok. there is refresh not stable or that the situation is stable slightly better but it is as you say still dire what happened to bring about this current situation ok well then what decisions in fact what we are going through and what we did since the ins and outs before you are
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suited to walk and it's a conjunction of different different different effects the 1st one is that once again there is a massive humanitarian assistance and that is to is to going on still very massive . there is food distributions dornan though a very large scale still in the country it's improved in term of access just to get he says last year out but also it's complemented by a number of actions middle the regime but there's been do. by the un indians use in the ground in order to provide us dance quicker and more efficiently in denmark rapid response but also in terms of complementarity was different axis or so emoting the source of the noise in the response by increasing the pollution and increasing. the culture of the fish except they are the 2nd the images of course it's the beasts of the month to destroy but there is this time it is asians and they're going to various lists fights but we have to be very cautious about what because we are so arise and cut the rusty recently in but another one with the but
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it doesn't and or so in a barn one junkie so this is the situation but despite a fight there is a beast there is still a large number of people is going to because it's us with our witches or source but in the threat on the on the civil predation there so this is a bit where we are the month suggestions is that is that is getting slightly better it's true but we have to keep in mind that the number of the board in anger is still expanding so while there we are we are just a bit ization the action has to be completed with more durable actions but a ground we need 2 of the peace agreement ordering and progressing and reaching to concrete actions in the should in order what's national of the other in on the other side we need to why we continue absolutely need going to new the dimension assistance dissolution of foods but also to pass through on activities more aerated resilience so trying to build the capacity of the south sudanese to produce a for themself to sell the food they producing in the market in the to benefit all
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the other nice ok alan bose well in nairobi how did south sudan a country rich in mineral resources come to this who or what is to blame is it all about climate. yeah i mean this is obviously not a climate related drought this is one that is incredibly manmade and honestly is one that you know the fingers can be pointed in and many and all directions on i mean south sudan was was born in 2011 i was there at the time from 2010 living in the country and there was a lot of hopes for this country but in 2013 basically the leaders of the country started squabbling over who would lead the country and then it fell into this horrific civil war and even from the beginning of south sudan i mean it was a country which was the basic services were basically all provided by outside
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n.g.o.s and governments and as this war has continued that it's only increased to the point now where we have really over half the population almost and semi-permanent you know close to starvation and in serious need of food aid at such a state so how much of the blame for what's happened in south sudan and for the suffering of its of its people currently the countries the played a role in helping south sudan gained its independence that. i mean like i said there's lots of blame to go around and i think definitely a lot of blame needs to fall on the u.s. and its allies as well as the regional countries who supported the peace process and of course you know the south sudanese elites you know hold the most direct responsibility for what's happened to their country but you know i was i was there when south sudan was leading up to independence and the the sort of optimism and
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blueprints for this new country were completely out of whack with the reality and i think a lot of the tough conversations that need to be had with the political elite weren't happening at that time and sadly there are you know plenty of people who sort of predicted that a crisis like this might happen although the scale of this has been you know truly atrocious i mean but it's not only bent just the civil war in as much as people fighting rebels i mean several of the areas which are most in need of food are you know areas that don't even have any rebels fighting the government it's just that the government control has completely collapse i was in a place called room back a couple years ago where you know this is a place where there are no rebels at all it's completely government controlled and you had fighting spilling into the town itself to the place where to the point where you couldn't leave the hotel and you know because that's how that insecurity was you can imagine trying to plant and you know and raise your your life stuck in such an environment joke not
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a joke and sort of cues where do you stand on this who's to blame for what's happened in south sudan where the. good things as be upset good the extent that these crises escalates to a point although. it's got a little family in my job that would be true human action or inaction. the fact that this south sudanese this day. has not lived up to its promises to take responsibility for the welfare of its people is primarily the reason why south sudanese are still unable to make their ends meet. but also because particularly this year if this if this intuition is going to come to a point where people die of starvation. and to the extent that it can be blamed on
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nature what is going on now is that rains have delayed it which means that whatever. remain an optimist from last year will fall short of chicken curry in the people for the next harvest so that. a bit that can be blamed on the environment climate and the delay of or of rains but overall. the south sudanese a state. as a state warned of war and continued to a live in war. everything that has happened to deny or deprive the south sudanese of their capacity to continue to. themselves is to be squarely put at the doorstep of the south sudanese leadership if that is so i did
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think ok what is your knowledge of what about the the the international community that the question that i put to alan a few moments ago about of the countries who helped played a role in helping sudan achieve some standard cheviots independence should the international community have been paying more attention doing more trying to head off this crisis was or was to a certain extent it inevitable because there's a there's a an element of of of whether involved here of climate involved. now there is as alan said i think there has to be recognition of the failure at the outset to. combine state building which a lot of countries like the u.s. the u.k. norway were engaging in in 20 level. with the nation building which was to try to focus on recounts islands.
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