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and the 2 camps set up here are already at full capacity so. we've been complaining to the authorities and partnerships that displaced people started arriving at this camp so we can organize how to assist them properly but nothing has happened now there are more people than the camp come hold and living conditions where people aren't. eatery is one of the largest provinces in democratic republic of congo it has large diamonds and gold reserves the fight for control of the area is fueling the violence and a longstanding dispute between the hammer cattle herders and lendu farmers tens of thousands of congolese have been killed in the cycle of reprisal attacks and camps like this are becoming a permanent home for many mohammed al jazeera. well power is slowly being restored of course for south american countries after a massive blackout millions of people across argentina. and brazil have been affected everything from traffic lights to train services and shops where without
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electricity energy companies frantically working to bring the power back on they've certainly succeeded in parts of one a series of leaks where our bureau is because theresa bo is live for us now how much of things have improved. well come on it was a very chaotic a morning here in argentina after this massive power outage affected not only argentina but also neighboring here of why some areas of brazil among the other slowly coming into the capital here streetlights were completely off public transport among other things and all that was combined with a major storm so the early hours of this sunday a sunday father's day here when a site is were pretty dramatic for many of those who are without electricity the government is saying that the main cost of this outage was generated in a dam that is located in northeast argentina right at the border with find out why they say that it had
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a problem and one of the lines right there is what caused this major damage however that has not been confirmed it is expected that the secretary of energy will give a press conference in the next hour to explain what has happened and the president is saying that there's going to be a thorough investigation into what went wrong in the meantime the company and their and energy companies are saying that they're trying to restore power but cup where we are power is has been restored and many areas around the country similar situation has happened there prioritizing however areas and situations where they are for example electricity dependent patients like on dialysis among other things and also asking the population in general to be very conservative when consuming water because that could be also a major concern if water is not restored fast enough to raise a boat with the update from buenos aires thank you in the news ahead sudan's ousted leader all of a shia faces. prosecutors in his 1st public appearance since being thrown out of
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office. hello again it's good to be bad. well here across we are looking at some showers across much of northern turkey and eastern turkey as well now the showers are mostly from the afternoon heating of the day and you can see here mostly along the coast where we do have some moisture as well down towards parts of syria though it is going to dry with attempted there in aleppo of $31.00 degrees down towards jerusalem it is going to be a nice day at about 26 maybe up to about 27 degrees there a little further towards the southeast though for quite city temperatures coming down slightly but still very hot in the region winds are also picking up we do expect to see a high there of 45 degrees now speaking of hot and dry here in doha our temperatures are hovering into the mid to high forty's we're talking about 46 to 47
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degrees over the next few days as well as some gusty winds at times and that could bring the visibility down across the region down here towards the law we expect on tuesday to see some clouds in your forecast most of the clouds we saw over amman from the storm in the arabian sea are now pushing off so better skies across the region most got it is going to be a sunny day few at $39.00 degrees and then very quickly across the southern portions of africa fairly dry across much of the region all here towards durban though it is going to be a little bit cool today with the top there of $22.00. arts
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. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera there has been a major show of force in hong kong where an estimated 2000000 people came out to express their anger over a proposed extradition bail chief executive kerry lamb announced she would suspend the bail the protesters want it gone altogether. renewed fighting between ethnic groups and democratic republic of congo has killed at least 260 people. in the 40 villages were destroyed and more than 100000 people forced to flee the eastern
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province of the 2 re in the past week. an electricity slowly being restored across 4 south american countries after a massive blackout millions of people across argentina. and brazil were affected by a system failure in argentina. i diplomatic flurry to build bridges between sudan's military council and the protesters is facing many obstacles the army insists on having a bigger say in the transitional council a condition rejected by the civilian leaders that they say sudan's militarism to has lost the trust of the people after the violent crackdown on demonstrators. as more. this is sudan's most unpopular man mohammed have done that below is the commander of the rapid support forces they were made up of fighters from the notorious gen joe weed militia who were accused of killing tens of thousands of people in the darfur region they have been accused of opening fire on civilians
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during the dismantling of the sitting in front of the military school to him earlier this month hamdan also known as him it faces growing calls to resign and face justice. but the man seems determined to stay in power has been holding rallies like this one in the capital over the last few days where one minute. we are prepared to hand over power the protesters say they want a government of technocrats that's fine with us we want the same thing but here's the problem the protesters are in favor of an unelected parliament to eradicate the military council. how miti told the crown that the perpetrators of the crackdown will be executed but many accuse him it to himself along with the had of the military council of office rating the violence. on the streets the
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protesters remain defiant. i don't think you'll be dressed investigation if it's the military council investigating i'm one of the victims no one came to ask me anything criminals must not be the same people investigating the attack many sudanese say they are angry with the military council yes it a man is a rebel leader who had been in exile he returned to sudan after the mitra deposed longtime leader. hoping to be part of any a political process but he was arrested and deported to neighboring south sudan after the crackdown on the sit in now he darts the. it's who wants to hand over power to civilians it is sudanese people who made it it would be military. does not do one with that it would be as boring as no did you have beyond border to a civilian i don't get it big government as the crisis drags on sudan's former
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leader a model bashir appeared in public for the 1st time since he was overthrown has been questioned by an anti corruption prosecutor. many sudanese blamed bashir his top aides military and intelligence officers or embezzling money and killing civilians during his 3 decades in office the us e.u. and the african union have sent on voice to sudan to mediate they are concerned the impasse could lead to more violence and uncertainty. syrian government forces have exchanged fire in the province after what he said was a deliberate attack on its soldiers at least 15 civilians were killed there on saturday as a russian and syrian forces advanced on the support from. these rescue workers are calling on those inside to make themselves known the reply.
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help process for godsake a boy is found under the rubble by the white helmet who later shared this image telling the world he survived more than a dozen others were not so lucky killed in airstrikes frosted live on saturday syrian civil defense units a russian and syrian warplanes have been attacking them while they're trying to rescue civilians. hundreds have been killed in the province over the last 6 weeks in what's been designated a deescalation zone. hours after russia announced its latest ceasefire in it last week turkey announced syrian forces shelled one of its observation posts. injuring 3 soldiers turkey warned damascus that it would respond to any attacks and sent reinforcements into the country on sunday turkey said its forces were attacked again for a 2nd time in 3 days and it responded with heavy weapons with turkish troops
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apparently coming under attack by the syrian government that's backed by russia an area that was supposed to see a decrease in fighting is becoming increasingly unstable and chapelle al jazeera. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been ordered to pay $15000.00 after being found guilty of misusing state funds sarah netanyahu had been charged with fraud last year after allegedly spending 100000 dollars of state money on lavish meals but she took a plea bargain and admitted to lesser charges her husband is also facing possible charges in a separate corruption case just as he begins campaigning for a 2nd israeli election in a year. also the israeli cabinet has approved a settlement in the occupied golan heights that will be named after u.s. president donald trump it'll be called trump heights back in march the u.s. president changed decades of u.s.
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policy to officially recognize the occupied golan heights as israeli territory more on both those stories with very false it. well opposition parties have been pointing out that benjamin netanyahu transitional government ahead of september's election doesn't have the or thorazine to actually and act a new settlement in the occupied golan heights but that hasn't stopped benjamin netanyahu he's taken his cabinet up there for what he called a festive cabinet meeting which was attended unusually you have to say by the us ambassador david friedman all this coming on the same day that his wife sarra had to be convicted in jerusalem of a corruption case she pled guilty to making the best of somebody else's mistake in in using public funds to have lavish takeout meals cooked by some of jerusalem's best chefs at the same time as the prime minister's
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residence was employing a chef of its own so that was against the rules she is due to pay back or least be fined some $15000.00 u.s. dollars of course the bigger question now confronts benjamin netanyahu he has 3 corruption cases of his own attempts to try to secure immunity and secure a change in the laws which would have prevented the israeli supreme court from overturning any immunity all of that was really put aside by the fact that he was unable to cement a coalition after the last election he's now called new elections or had the israeli parliament call new elections as a term of the 17th all of the stuff that's been going on in the golan today very much part of his efforts to try to get reelected and also appeal to his friend in the white house donald trump. crewmembers of one of the tankers damaged by explosions in the gulf of oman have now arrived in dubai their accounts will help determine what was behind the reported attacks on the 2 vessels one of the ship's
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owner says that his crew saw flying objects just moments before which contradicts the u.s. version of events tehran has denied any involvement and summoned the british ambassador over his support for the u.s. allegations saudi arabia is also blaming iran and has called for swift action to secure oil shipping routes. people in northwest nigeria say they had no protection when gunmen attacked villages killing 34 people that happened overnight in the northwestern state of some fara hundreds of people have died in the region this year in violence blamed on a conflict over land between cattle herders and farmers the armed group boko haram and other religious fighters operate in that area drifts as the details now from a brooch. in fact the conflict in some for a state started way back as far back as 2009 and it's been like this for a very very long time however the last 4 years have seen a spike in the number of a types and the number of casualty figures because of
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these frequent attacks between the cattle herders and of course the local farming community now the problem as escalated to such a level that that are criminal gangs who have also come in and taken advantage of advantage of the situation and this criminal gangs and are only limited to the nigerian side of the border that are foreigners as we were told by officials who have come into them for a state and also being part and parcel of this problem an official told al jazeera a few weeks ago that there are more than 48 cams 8 major cams and 4034 major smaller camps in some forested alone so the whole problem actually is partly the problem of climate change is partly responsible for this crisis more and more cattle herders are moving in words or inland as the area in the north or the area north becomes dry and dry and so they move their cattle and as
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a result of movement of these cattle they sort of drive their cutters through farmlands they follow news we spoke to say that these farm lands have been expanded into grazing areas and cattle routes or for cattle for migration purposes and through that stage set the stage of conflict between the 2 sides and now the conflict has moved from the outward north depart into the central part of nigeria and into the southwest where we've seen in the last 2 years hundreds of people have been killed. donald trump is accused the new york times of treason after it reported the u.s. is increasing cyber attacks on russia they are single quotes former and serving government officials say the u.s. hacked the russian polygraph the report says all this is part of an aggressive cyber campaign partly retaliate for interference in the 2018 mid-term elections christine salumi has the details. the new york times article does not give details about specific actions being taken by the pentagon's cyber command unit rather it
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describes increasing attacks on the russian power grid and other potential targets as well as a change in posture from a more defensive strategy to a more offensive one and the reporting seems to be bolstered by comments made by john bolton the national security advisor in just the last week in which he describes taking a broader view of potential cyber targets in the as a way to send a message to russia or to anyone else who might be trying to hack the united states that they will pay the price if they do the new york times speculates that officials are talking about this operation as a way to send that message to help send that message and while president says that this information is not true last year congress and the white house itself gave broader powers to the cyber command to act without prism presidential approval and the article actually quotes unnamed sources who say that they were afraid to
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discuss these moves with the president because of how he might react or who he might share the information with for the 84 years after his career and that the american baseball legend babe ruth is still breaking records his jersey from the late 1920 s. has been optioned for $5600000.00 the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold it breaks the previous record which was another of his jerseys that was $4400000.00 back in 2012 it's on the buy and the seller remain a secret. this is these are the top stories a major show of force in hong kong where an estimated 2000000 people came out to express their anger over a proposed extradition bill chief executive kerry suspended the bill but the protesters want it scrapped altogether. power slowly being restored across 4 south
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american countries after a massive blackout millions of people across argentina uruguay and brazil have all been affected with energy companies frantically working to bring the power back on everything from traffic lights to train services and shops without electricity renewed fighting between ethnic groups in democratic republic of congo has killed at least 160 people nearly 40 villages were destroyed and more than 100000 people in the eastern province of the children forced to flee in just the past week. sudan's ousted leader omar bashir has been brought to the public prosecutor's office after he was charged with corruption he appeared for the 1st time since he was overthrown as he was driven from a prison in khartoum reports say he was also charged with illegal possession of foreign currency. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been ordered to pay $15000.00 after being found guilty of misusing state funds sorry
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netanyahu had been charged with fraud last year after allegedly spending 100000 dollars of state money on lavish meals but she took a plea bargain and admitted to lesser crimes. husband is also possibly facing charges in a separate corruption case. all of the begins campaigning for a 2nd israeli election and here also the israeli cabinet it's approved a settlement in the occupied golan heights that will be named after u.s. president donald trump trump heights it will be called. in march the u.s. president officially recognizing the occupied golan heights as israeli territory and iran assert to announce on monday the latest steps to scale back its compliance with the 2050 nuclear deal on saturday president hassan rouhani renewed his ultimatum that his country would continue to scale back its commitment to the deal unless other world powers did more to protect it from u.s. sanctions and that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera banquet the news hour right after
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inside story. suspended but not scrapped anger over hong kong's controversial extradition bill isn't going away and protesters are demanding the territories lead us dept down so how will hong kong deal with growing public discontent and how is it viewed in china this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan a controversial extradition laws been suspended in hong kong but protesters say
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that's not enough the bill would allow suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial the demonstrators have demanded that it be scrapped completely and now want the territories leader carried a lamb to step down to the chief executives like a prime minister at his chosen by committee but that committee is made up of maybe prove beijing politicians and business leaders the one country 2 systems governance deal with china was meant to protect hong kong semi autonomous status but protesters say their freedoms under threats and that they'll fight to keep them rob mcbride reports from hong kong. if the hong kong government thought its last minute backdown would keep more people at home this was hong kong's answer. protesters filled the length of the route of the march and spilled over into adjoining streets ah well before the show jewel start time the crowds began forming
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at the starting point they say hong kong's freedoms within china are being further eroded and a calling on the chief executive kerry lamb to quit and we will not stop until we get true democracy in hong kong because even in parallel with that dollar the system is still unfair we do not have through the month a real we do not have a election most protesters will black to show their anger towards lam and the hong kong police and many carried white flowers in memory of a man who fell to his death the night before the march while putting up a protest banner. the incident adding to a sense of bitterness towards a government they say doesn't listen to them i don't think the government listen to us but at least we have the staying out does carry alarm support your city. your face of course our said that's our biggest star in the world they may have a joke with every so i think the government yes but no.
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this is the 2nd major march in as many weeks protesting against a controversial extradition bill the government has been trying to introduce critics say it would allow china to extradite political opponents to face summary trial in mainland courts protesters want that bill withdrawn altogether. and they're also angry at the way the police dealt with last week's occupation of streets around the local legislative council building the organizers have made this not just about the ad. tradition bell but also a protest against what they say was the excessive use of force by police in breaking up what was largely a peaceful demonstration last wednesday some of the most violent scenes on hong kong streets in years kerry lamb has promised to consult more closely with hong kong people over the proposed legislation and insists she hears their voices today
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it must be difficult not to hear the. public pride al-jazeera hong kong. so let's introduce our panel for the days to scuttle from hong kong we're joined by emily lau former chairperson of hong kong's democratic party from beijing either tangan a political analyst specializing in china and from steve saying director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies good to have you with us all of you emily let's start with you how much longer can carry lamb survive as hong kong's lida why are people so angry with her in particular. well i don't know i think people who march today they are demanded her resignation and also of course demanded they withdraw the bill immediately but unfortunately she didn't hurt respond in the evening she just used she did not even come out to meet the press
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she just issue a statement saying offering an apology and that is too little too late i think the people are very angry steve sang china's foreign ministry has publicly backed lam she says that china's leaders have confidence in my judgment and will support me is beijing going to sack beijing we'll get her view will be forward end of her term but beijing will not remove her right away there is a need for beijing to save face and have for people who have to or push really and or scary lamb but beijing we were. i really am not have backed down yet. and basically suspended the view. on a tag and you've heard what both steve and emily said how embarrassing is this climbdown
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for beijing was it instigated by of aging. highly doubtful i mean beijing is trying to keep an eye on the situation they rely on carey lamb to take control and to manage things and i think they're deeply disappointed i would agree with my colleague from england that this is going to be a situation where they will back her now but probably look for a replacement before the term has and an enemy after somebody is processed what happens next will will public anger in hong kong subside will the legislation do you think be brought back once things have calmed down or will it be allowed to rocks like 2003 xp article 23 national security law well if kerry lamb refuses to withdraw the bill as soon as possible i think the anger will not subside and it is very stupid and i understand that the
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probating legislators are also very nervous and one of them cried according to a newspaper when they had a meeting yesterday because they were very afraid of elections coming up local elections in this november and then a legislative council election in september next year and they are very afraid that they will lose the election because they know that many hokum people are hopping mad so if kerry does nothing and just throw out an apology i don't think that's enough and i think the commotion the their anger and the demonstrations will continue emily were was this just badly thought out legislation. as kerry lamb has implied or do you suspect that there was something more sinister to it. well i don't know i think now 1st of all i think this thing was scary lem's
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making because i don't think beijing forced it on her kerry land use the taiwan homicide case to say oh we want to find a solution not just for the taiwan case but also for mainland and macau and she's totally underestimated the sensitivity of the issue and also the hong kong people's fear of the communists and then when the whole thing now developed like this of course i think beijing must be unhappy at 1st if they thought that she could solve the rendition problem that's great but now they saw that you know this whole thing has attracted so much international attention and then today they met the n.p.c. delegates the national people's congress telling gays and and the. and the other rubber stamps went to that chinese liaison office and they told them they said oh in the last few days they were 68 statements issued by foreign governments so of
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course they care about international public opinion and i hope the international community will continue to look at what's happening in hong kong and the media will continue to report war to war and what's happening here ok we'll talk more about the international reaction just a moment 1st steve. clear up. the situation surrounding kerry lamb was this situation entirely of her own making she says already errors in communication she insists that she isn't beijing's profits were she encouraged though do you think by beijing to push this legislation through so quickly. i think it is a very very large extends to every lambs making i we don't see every lamb just paid things pockets and killing except the assume was told by a tame my reading is that baiting a for
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a general instruction or request to carry a lamb which is to put in place the legal framework for the rendition all tilted to mainland us who use hong kong safe haven or the e.u. gotten dates then tevye them make it very close to that a good judgement and widen the scope of the lol which would in fact make people in hong kong as well as one of those working in hong kong or even possibly flew on kong was 10 surely subject to being renditioned to china to face times it was that and that is where everything starts going wrong as you keep on making a huge number of mistakes in terms of the example the use of force by the police force and her refill so to apologize properly and even when she make to me the
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statement to retract she put the safety of police officers had all her citizens it is not somebody who has any sense of what a good little girl really needs to be by not trying a president she is a leader who tolerates failures by those around him by officials do do you do you honestly think that lambs position this is safe is only a matter of time before she is replaced. i got answer that earlier i do think that there would be an examination of exactly how she put this but let's change the narrative 2 a little bit this idea that having an extradition treaty with taiwan macau and china is 20 years overdue this would be like puerto rico in the united states not having ability to extradite murderers and rapists now what was actually put on the table was quite reasonable in fact much more reasonable than the 20 other extradition treaties that hong kong has with other countries including the united
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states the united states the only threshold is that it's punishable by a year or more what was on the table by kerry lamb and i agree she did not communicate it well was this idea that nothing political nothing involving tax or religion would be things any crime have to be punishable by more than 7 years hardly something that is threatening the daily existence of hong kong people and then on the other hand you have people like former legislator lao strident voices who are calling for all sorts of perceived wrongs but there is absolutely no end game this is lemmings running off a cliff and destroying home call in the process hong kong's recent. over the last 2030 years of the reason they have done well is because of china acting as a gateway now it has different competitors and chan's and shanghai even in beijing
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and terms of the capital in financial markets this is not the time to be rocking the boat it should have been a time in which people like miss laos should be telling people that you have to be practical about what the situation is hong kong is part of china it is not going to float away emily lau what do you make of that. well i think most of us accept that we are part of the people's republic of china and we want this policy of one country 2 systems which bating foisted on us we didn't create it beijing force it on us and britain also agree in 1907 when they handed us over to communist rule but under one country 2 systems of course hope all will continue should continue to thrive as an international business and financial center but the people will also continue to enjoy the free lifestyle
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person no safety the rule of law independence of the judiciary these are things we enjoy under british colonial rule and as chris patten said just at the handover the law was amended to ensure there's a file war which separate us from the communist regime so that you know the chinese legal system would not come into our kong but what this extra british extradition bill proposes to do is to drive a truck through the fire war create a big hole that we don't have our legal system anymore so it's one country one system and the hometown people we want it to be a business and financial center but we want our core values to be preserved person no safety civil liberties and the rule of law steve saying we're currently watching
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lemmings running to the cliff edge says. look at london there's nothing to stop people from relocating their operations post breaks when conditions change the same is true of hong kong what do you make of that. i think that is at the top of the top i'm up for a poem called he's in a bit of a very tight corner at the moment and i take my hats off to all the people in hong kong in the way how they have been standing up for their own values and spending their weight like and they have been defending it in a very reasonable way the reason why she chimping and the chinese government to back off for the current situation is that the demonstrators not go on the speech the same. way she can think and they could not say we are post the communist monkey they simply said we are here in our state.
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own way took a line and to do 2 of our 2 now that is something which allow the sons to. tactically put the blames on having lamb cookies anyway and the loud message you sent me to me so turning it into a song called vs china issue will make it into a real crisis which there will be no. artifact of what you make of that no one is a huge saying that the people in hong kong don't appreciate how good china has been for them i don't. it's a question of economics and i think there's a lot of misplaced aggression that is going on here quite frankly the amount of money that has flowed into hong kong and created the kind of lifestyles and also the extremely high property value was not shared to the to the regular people which
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you had as people at the very top have been exceedingly have been wealthier and wealthier they have done well from the system most of them have had cooperations or businesses in china and they've done very well but the rest of the people have just been suffering in their real incomes have gone down employments is fairly dismal they have well educated but they do not have an outlet for that so at this point they're feeling that somebody is to blame and i think these pro-democracy groups are throwing out this idea that everything would be wonderful if they only had democracy if their china would only allow them to go their own way and that is a pipe dream it is a type dream that could lead to in minutes tragedy for a lot of these people as i said they are pied pipers out there who are trying to use this particular issue as part of a larger issue cake saying that there should be an independent safe steve steve i see you shaking your head to i think it is
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a complete misreading of what people doing they are not they aren't doing what's responding to a few high class getting tends to. get creative which essentially is. a proceed to communist party and introduce democracy and expect moccasins to. scott and so on that's not looking at the fall he's been saying it's weight off my and core. they would like to have direct you know actions or to keep executive. but that's reading as the media were pushing for and the current situation and in fact the case don't you can read to them had gone through in your neck broke before she became chief executive she would not make the kind of mistakes that was literally politically illiterate type
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of mistakes which put on call into this current situation and damage to bill a sense of that in china and hong kong china's interest written much better so yes they allow the electoral process to toast turn up with somebody who understands what needs to be done and is able to communicate you speculate with people in hong kong who can we the people get phone calls involving it direct in a direction which would be acceptable to both on kong and sometimes that it was assumed which is achievable but not by somebody who is wanted by the team but does not understand. emily lau caroline had pretty good approval ratings at the start of her term to what extent was it was a stumble or some sort of fall from grace for only about a matter of time people accuse her of being arrogant is she. well for
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cause i think that is and no secret a tour even within the government and into community she's described as exceedingly arrogant very full of herself and of course as she looks down on always everybody she things she is the brightest she's the most intelligent person and nobody else is worth listening to and so it's very insufferable and but the trouble now is shows that that she's wearing capable and today a news report said the chinese leadership is very unhappy with her and think that she's not capable at all and so you know and i think the probe aging politicians are also mad at her so she is really on the run and i'm not good i mean as far as china is concerned of the international reaction that has been to the protests in hong kong the chinese economy right now under pressure to juice the ongoing trade war with the u.s. a possible meeting between president trump and president xi if the g 20 summit in
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japan this could this could not come to a worse time could it it can't afford china can't afford any more international 6 scrutiny like this can it. well i don't know if it's a question of screwing the i mean for china if you talk about core values one of them is the integrity of the nation what's happening here is you have a number of red lines and red buttons which are being crossed and pushed in the taiwan straits in the south china seas now hong kong there's also scrutiny in it seems that it within beijing that they feel that they're being surrounded that there are forces that are trying to attack them and all pressure campaign that's part of this kind of economic. attack by the united states and that is a very very dangerous situation to be in. beijing cannot see somebody trying to
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create a straw man out of kerry lamb to toobin as sense insist as my 2 colleagues say that everything should be run democratically everything was run democratically everything would be just fine well if that was true the world would be in much better shape today than it is currently with these so will these kind of protests side that it will these have to go to will not tolerate it well will least kind of protest be tolerated after 2047 oh gosh no i mean there were probably we could be having an inflection point led by these kind of pied pipers who are saying yes you know everything will be fine we can force democracy upon the mainland and this is not about china versus hong kong this is just about one individual this is the kind of talk that leads to unintended consequences and that's that is really is what is at stake here in the next few years if this continues it will be tragedy all right steve will give you the final word to what
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extent do you think i mean the protests do have one island on 2047 the protesters rather. well. china of the commons far east and. it will not allow them or stations happened in china and the and he is direct i think it's a reasonable assumptions that they were expect from kong much more like china but we're still voting about another 28 years to go as harold wilson once famously said if they don't come in politics 28 years eternity they have much to play will we not note that the rocks to follow in china you think is to keep hong kong could change on the current weight well of law all these possible and where it will go. on the basis that we must end our discussion many thanks
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this is al jazeera. and i'm come on santa maria and you're with the news from al-jazeera i i i estimated 2000000 protesters forced the government of hong kong to apologize for its attempt to pass a law allowing extradition to china. also in the news intensified fighting between
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2 tribal communities in democratic republic of congo forces 100000 people to move we have an exclusive report electricity slowly returning after an unprecedented power failure across several south american countries leaves tens of millions in the dark and just as his wife is found guilty of misusing state funds israel's prime minister holds a controversial cabinet meeting in the occupied golan heights and in sport india looks set to win a rain affected cricket world cup match against pakistan india on the brink of a 7th straight world cup victory over their face rivals. 6 hong kong's chief executive has once again apologised for how the government handled its plans to bring in extradition to china which sparked off those massive protests kerry says she is sorry for causing quite conflict and disputes still an
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estimated $2000000.00 demonstrators packed the streets many of them dressed in black and a sign of protest still lingering on the roadways now they want the proposed bill scrapped entirely and for kerry to stand down the law change would have allowed people who wanted to serve in crimes to be extradited to mainland china let's go to hong kong now scott hyde law is there for us early hours of monday morning isn't it now 2 am spot still some people out there. there are a few stragglers out here come on i say few probably a couple 1000 yeah but you know earlier in the day estimated from the protest organizers 2000000 people that's nearly double the size what we saw last week at the beginning of a week that saw violent protests turned violent on a wednesday and as you mentioned yes the protesters are calling for this bill this controversial extradition bill to be scrapped entirely it was suspended by the
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government here but they want to completely scrapped and they also want kerry lamb to resign a couple of the things that they are really pushing for and they made this a statement issued a statement just a few hours ago those 2 things but they also want the government to a verse it's classification of what happened on june 12th when those violence when the protests turned violent they said it was a riot condition the protesters didn't like that they want the government to apologize or to reverse that classification they're also calling for anybody who was arrested during these protests to be released so those are kind of the demands if you will of the protesters obviously many people coming out got an apology from kerry lamb so a little bit of progress but they still have these objectives that they're focused on and they say that most likely were early morning hours now here in monday they are saying that they want to hold a strike tomorrow so they're telling people to stay away from work and the business is to stay close but we know that some of these who are still here again the stragglers there's still a lot of them but they're stragglers compared to the numbers we saw earlier they
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are probably going to stay here for most of the night very few police around here kemal that's one thing that i can definitely say for sure so there's really no direct confrontation possibility at least from what we can see now come on i'm interested in your thoughts on the the future and the position of carrying them right now does she have to worry about the protesters will maybe actually who both busy is in beijing. both absolutely both come on because they're saying they're not going to stop and this obviously elevates the crisis here i mean it's very very apt to call this a crisis so the more the attention that these protesters get and they say they're going to stay out they're going to strike so they're going to get more attention that elevates the crisis and that continues the crisis and of course beijing is watching very closely we know that there are probably we heard an analyst speak earlier of beijing that based analyst he said of course because of the way this has
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been handled who knows what's going to happen to carry lamb on that side of things so that's going to be a very challenging situation for her to correct the situation she said in her apology and earlier in the week as well that she and her government did not handle this well they didn't they didn't communicate that well what was in the bill and then even after that they didn't handle this past week that well so she admitted that she didn't do such a good job we'll have to see what her bosses in beijing feels appropriate action after that ok scott in hong kong thanks. we have multiple teams covering events in hong kong rob mcbride was out a few hours ago amongst the protesters in hong kong. this is where the march has come to an end the government's main office complex and also the legislative council building many thousands of protesters have been streaming away from here to go home but many thousands more have been staying on in fact so many they've now
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spilled out onto this main highway completely blocking it this is cool road which 5 years ago was at the very center of the occupy movement so symbolically it's very important for hong kong's pro-democracy activists important that they occupied at least for a few hours on this very important evening for the moment there are no signs of any police they do appear to be keeping a very low profile allowing the protesters here to be very much in control at the moment after a 5 year we don't see that people are getting down but increasingly we are getting too old hat our own freedom we do you think the government here is listening to people and he's having. yeah sol i come here to support them every day and i want to show the whole world that this is not riots this is a peaceful protest in hong kong 5 years ago
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a whole community existed here with tents even classrooms food distribution recycling and so on and it seems that these mainly young people students are trying to recreate some of that on this evening still determined that in one form or another the quest for full democracy will be kept alive here in hong kong. has some analysis now 1st martin lee who is the founding chairman of the democratic party in hong kong he told us the political future of chief executive carol lam really isn't questions. i think it's there whether she resigns or not she will look at bay jake but as far as we're concerned the bill must be scrapped and then if they really want to discuss let us discuss on that basis that there is no bill we don't want to go to be hanging over our heads is a thoroughly bad bill and it wasn't even thought through properly by the government we are not just objecting to the way the government has been handling the presence
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of this bill but they voted bill itself because if this bill were to be passed into law any person living or working in hong kong as well as any person actually spending a holiday or just passing by can be transferred from hong kong to meet me in china to be tried in a china mainland caught on term up charges and we don't trust the judicial system in china so if this bill were to be passed welcome people with fear totally exposed to. crimes of this really devore commit but they would be convicted of that because in china even lawyers can be locked up. and here's the view from beijing on a tank in a political analyst who advises the chinese government and believes beijing's patience will soon wear thin. from beijing side i don't know that they're terribly impressed with kerry lamb's handling of things and the one cardinal sin in china is
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not to be able to handle the situation correctly so it could be difficult for her to have expressed unconditional. support for her but with this newest round of concessions and protests i think it will go very difficult on the other hand it seems that hong kong is deteriorating with the kind of mob rule despite having elderly and people and children joining the march you cannot simply every day get out there and demand that the government be changed the idea of having an extradition treaty with china after 20 years is not a reasonable how you get there and what terms are and ball i think if you anyone was actually looking at who was proposed it was quite mild if you were to use
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a crime by the u.s. government that was more than a year you could be extradited to the united states but if you were involved in and with china you could only be done literally for rape murder very very serious crimes crimes that would take a more than 7 years in terms of. sentence a possible sentence. or moving to other news and renewed fighting between ethnic groups in the democratic republic of congo has killed at least 160 people nearly 40 villages were destroyed and more than 100000 people have been forced to flee in the eastern province of the tury in the past week al-jazeera gained exclusive access to one of the villages that was attacked and mohammad has a report. this is what's left of mark both village in bunia in the northeast of democratic republic of congo fighters attacked overnight looting and burning several houses at least 40 villages and more than $100.00 houses were destroyed in violence between the lendu and hemet tribes and the militias this week members of
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the helo community say then do assailants came to their homes armed with machetes members of the lendu tribe and now occupy these villages community leaders say lend to rebels blocks roads as a way to control the area. be ready to live in peace without him and neighbors despite many youth in our community who have lost their minds and committed unfortunate actions we call on our youth to come back and live in peace with everyone. the government is calling for calm. we are aware of the killings that have taken place against civilians in this area the only message for you as victims is that we must investigate and make sure those responsible will be punished un peacekeepers and congolese armed forces have deployed teams to assess the situation they've also strengthened their presence in the area by setting up 3 temporary military bases but the congolese army has been unable to control the rebel groups its soldiers and police have been attacked some killed while trying to stop the
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tribal fighting some rebels also targeted a u.n. helicopter. the situation here is tense they have a community accuses the government of not protecting them they've been protesting against the violence calling for more to be done to stop the killings. the current situation is a response. ability of the national government it must deploy more troops on the ground to fight against the militias in order to stabilize the situation the violence has forced thousands of people to flee their homes seeking refuge elsewhere on friday and saturday alone more than 6000 displaced people arrived at this camp in bunia many living in difficult conditions with the bare minimum. i wonder if we have an authority or president in this country even after the elections and the new president people are still dying like animals. and the 2 camps set up here already at full capacity.

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