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well this movement this revolution in the words of many of these protesters are saying in their worse not mind of their revolution where does it go from here and that is going to be the real question in the days weeks months and really perhaps even in the years ahead but i will tell you that everyone here on the streets said they have seen nothing like this people taking to the streets forcing their governor out they said look think about everything else in the future tonight they say or in the early morning of hours of thursday as it is right now here in puerto rico they say this is about their celebration of forcing a governor out someone that they deem is a is person had to be out the 1st step they say in order to reclaiming their government give real is on to the ground 0 of a developing story in san juan gave great to talk to you thank you so much. will staying with a story kenneth mcclintock formerly the lieutenant governor of puerto rico currently a senior public policy advisor at polytechnic he says the government's resignation
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is an iconic moment for puerto rico. i think that this is one of the most historic events that the 3000000 american citizens to live in puerto rico kind of have lived through throughout their lifetime and it's a moment that we have to remember for many decades to come it is in part a result of the reaction of our people last monday we had a 100000. at the end of the march the largest in the history of recall it wasn't 500000 we have to stick to the facts of this but it was 100000 and it was definitely the largest political event or are people event in the history of puerto rico and now we have to look forward to having a new governor our 2nd female governor will be governor one that ask is currently
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the attorney general in puerto rico and we have to unite behind her in an agenda of healing and image and not 4 only the economic growth that we find here having after 13 years to continue to expand. we we've had chronically difficult economic situations for over a decade and things have been improving recently and we have to make sure that that there's a lot of steps back and in that process. ok let's just show you some of the very latest we'll show you a malone's if you will of the latest pictures and live pictures if we still got the feed of life pictures coming to us now you can see the puerto rican flag being waved high and proud about those demonstrations gave and is on to our correspondent making the point during his coverage over the past month to minnesota this is such a fluid situation on the ground the govern attending his resignation what an hour
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and 20 minutes ago or so we still. he was going to resign and resign with immediate effect he didn't there was a little twist in the tale of that resignation we were listening to it we were monitoring it he said i will resign it's time to go i've spoken to my children spoken to my family i will not go until august the 2nd the problem from a constitutional point of view brackets it doesn't really matter in this sense how many people do not have a job at the moment in the upper echelons of the congress close brackets because there are claims and counterclaims we've had them on this channel there are claims that there are 14 top jobs that don't have an incumbent in them at the moment other people are saying actually that's just more like 4 or 5 it is that difficult to pin down the details of the political situation in puerto rico at the moment one of the reasons we understand that and we are kind of extrapolating this out from that governor resigning from his resignation statement in theory should be the secretary
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of state for puerto rico which as we've been explaining to you is an incorporated u.s. protectorate in effect. it is technically part of the united states should go to the secretary of state the local secretary of state is nobody in that job because that person resigned as well so many people have resigned there is and this is something that will perhaps come to fruition in the coming weeks and months of the possibility for a criminal aspect to this because the relevant police authorities did bring in. search warrants and various places we understand therefore if you've got a search warrant you can to search for things. again claim and counterclaim over the galaxy of some of those text messages that got into the public domain they were homophobic text messages allegedly sent or received by the governor but that was
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a tipping point for the people the protesters on the streets. and that was the governor reacting to that because the because the groundswell of public opinion was so against him. let's talk to. who is joining us on the phone from san juan. just take us through what your experience of this i guess is a popular revolution has been in the past few hours. from rome thank you for having me i gave your were it's a mix of emotions right because we're dealing with a government that has been you know thrown through be corrupt we're dealing with a bunch of politicians that were caught doing makeup walking right so right now for
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the working group. you know only a small group of people in the street come up are drawing in maybe a little bit later are going down on i think i've lost track of time on the start of the dirt and you know i've got darker. not there but we've been documenting the whole process what the menu from this is done every time we have a movement like that are usually a lot harder to recruit people but given the fact that many others in the population did are tied to hurricane marty i would say you know pretty badly 2 years ago and i and how they were actually benefiting a lot of people were dying people were going on 3 people or 30 made people more a lot quicker so in a matter of like a few days something grew from a 100 people to almost a 1000000 people are bigger too but when we marched. i've seen online the picture that i think you posted feeds you with your daughter you know very happy she looks very happy very excited she's not going to become a politician any time soon so i guess i'm looking at what
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a 7 year old perhaps i mean let's be realistic here so much hope on your face in that picture on your twitter stream so much hope in your daughter's face i guess she kind of understands a little bit what's happening she looks old enough to comprehend what's going on. but what was the i mean the tipping point was clearly the revelations about the text messages but how can a few text messages getting into the public domain poll a local government how can end up with so many people resigning including the governor. i feel like i've been airing an activist for quite some time and we don't think that we are reading. the fact that the chats were actually evidence and proof of what we have been doing all along and then the other thing is that the kind of repair getting them back up you know what you're going local knows you know our organization actually just they're only able to get 2 months worth of checks right so we don't know what happened for about 2 years i mean we have an idea we don't
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have any right and it just goes to money i mean there's been good homophobic messaging there's you know i talked to give them against women i've talked to a prominent politician. well you know you know a lot prettier even during a hurricane there are ways of making fun of like people who are obese i mean i can go on and on and on and that many people like me everybody connected different level and just join in because i mean we like there are many things might happen behind us going to talking that we never get you know prevent directly just you know names on the. right kind of to the point that one of them actually mentioned that they were going to what are you going to be in a puerto rican after song you know that really you know about one point of view or 2 months out and they've been to her life on so much you know well it occurs to me that there's almost it's almost as if there's there's like 3 puts a rico's here there's the puts a rico of optimism people saying we need to his dollars please come back we're
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doing ok there's the puerto rico of the status quo the governors the soon to be former governors puerto rico which is kind of maintain himself and his people in a position of power and authority kind of disconnected from what's going on or how you're perceived by the trumpet ministration in washington and then there's a 3rd puerto rico which is your put to recoat in amongst all these claims and allegations of widespread corruption give us a sense give us a feeling if you can. that corrupt parts of puerto rico if it's exists in the way that you perhaps feel it exists how that impacts your daily life on a week to week basis. for me i'm a small business owner i i you know i have to work hard to make money even just to buy the equipment to go back a and active and you know it takes you know my hard earned money to do that. here
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and you said there was before he goes i sort of disagree because there were 2 there were the people that were struggling and then there were people that work for the government saying everything is business as usual please come for the when you know when they're spending. great amounts of money on advertising to bring people over when there's people that have a roof over their heads right so on my side how it effects me as does right now we have certain laws that allow foreigners to come in and not have to pay taxes while people who are still businesses here for quite some time have to pay taxes you know there's a lot of things that were going on reduce really to puerto rico that you know one of the very minority who is benefiting from this corrupt government and they're starting the wrong message out there maybe a few people that didn't benefit from that. or they fell for that story right and they even bain and the child you know they taking advantage of people right even from their own party and then people like me that when we work we work 67 days a week especially after the hurricane 5 just to make sure we could survive and make
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sure our businesses were ok and our family members ok you know i think the difference was that people when people were making themselves millionaires some people had been couldn't even keep their insulin their grandmother's insulin and so they could get medicine so i think you know it might seem like is reportedly going to be and the only people that are saying we're open for business comfort tourism you know where the pain people are benefiting from and i'm not saying that of course we want people to come we want people to see what they should have been a priority when people are going hungry ok. in san juan thanks so much for coming on late night i suspect you'll be out partying full most of the night still to come you know time local time real good to talk to you thank you. we move on north korea has conducted its 1st missile test since the us president donald trump met kim jong un nearly a month ago south korea and japan say 2 short range missiles were fired into the ocean off the coast at warm sun earlier this month north korea warned that military
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drills and serve korea could derail the resumption of nuclear talks with washington mcbride's in seoul. did response here in south korea to these missile launch is the government here very careful not to undo all of the good work that has been done during the past year and a half or so of reconciliation with north korea a defense ministry spokes person has said that this was a military threat rather than a provocation nonetheless it doesn't help ease tensions on the peninsula there has been a slightly more robust response from japan with japan's defense minister saying that these missiles although short range could have been ballistic in which case that could have been a violation of u.n. resolutions which could have consequences the firing seems to have been north korea's way of saying it is unclear as to displeased with exercises that are going
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to be held in august between south korean and u.s. forces it also could be sending a message to the u.s. and to the administration of president donald trump especially after the heightened expectations of this surprise meeting on the d.m.z. between donald trump and kim jong un less than a month ago they were following that meant to be working level negotiations between officials from both sides to try to set up a way forward to a 2 way another formal summit those negotiations were meant to taken place during july well july is fast running out and so it seems is north korea's a patience of kim jong un has set a deadline for the end of this year for negotiations to restart and for the u.s. to give some relief from sanctions in return for north korea giving up parts of its nuclear arsenal this does seem to be a reminder of just the size of its arsenal of weaponry that it has that its
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disposal. is the way with north korea's nuclear pardon me missile ambitions aspirations will get a. a drip drip drip of information we can confirm that least one of the 2 missiles north korea test fired on thursday was a newly developed design and flew about 690 kilometers that's an official the south korean defense ministry being quoted by the reuters news agency the other missile we understand traveled about 430 kilometers before coming down in the sea off the east coast of north korea that's according to that same official the official adding that a detailed analysis was being done to verify if the 2 models if the 2 missiles rather were the same old all i.e. if they behaved in a slightly different way after takeoff. to a large explosions have rocked the afghan capital kabul the ministry of interior says at least 5 people have been killed and 10 were injured it's believed the attacker rode a bike into a bus carrying government employees the number of casualties is expected to rise
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new u.k. prime minister boris johnson settles into his 1st full day in the job on thursday having conducted a political call the night before he's appointed a cabinet of ministers mainly on the euro skeptic side of the governing conservative party and he is sticking by his claims that he can renegotiate breck's it by the end of october even though his critics say he does not have the time to do that not even barbour has more now from central london. it's been called britain's biggest cabinet clear out without a change of ruling party on a day that saw more than half those in the top job is gone many of them sacked it became clear loyalty to boris johnson in the leadership race has been rewarded and support for his rival the previous foreign secretary jeremy hunt has been punished while many of the new appointments a prominent vote leave campaigners like dominic robb who resigned as bracks secretary in protest at the reason may's deal with brussels incomes pretty patella
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right winger has advocated bringing back the death penalty as home secretary or interior minister she replaces such a job that he moves into 11 downing street as chancellor in charge of finances and that's a major indication of prime minister johnson's thinking his predecessor philip hammond resigned even before johnson was officially in office alone that the prospect of a premier willing to countenance a no deal bracks it's becoming is and goings here at downing street always attract a lot of attention and speculation about what the prime minister's priorities are going to be but this time around the real question is whether ministers stand on bricks and i think what it tells us is that he's going to want people around him who are very committed to his do or die a page breaks it who would be prepared to go out with a new deal on the 31st of october and that although he has talked about creating a team that represents the whole of britain that represents the sort of across posse consensus within the conservative party in those top jobs he's going to want
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people who are very much hard core bright city is the time has come to act to take decisions. but johnson speech outside number 10 did outline major spending a 20000 more police officers on the street but a social care and more funding for education he talked about offering hope for what he called the forgotten people and the left behind towns but some observers are skeptical that he'll get any further with tackling inequality the to reason may do it as a tide of open said it's unlikely that he will massively increase public expenditure but he has talked about money he took by giving tax cuts to. so it seems unlikely that he will. meet that in order to address even equality. of course parliament being tied up with leaving the e.u. was a major reason why some of to resume its plans never got off the ground given the challenges that remain around delivering some kind of breaks it boris johnson may
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also go down as a one issue prime minister to al-jazeera london. to the states the former u.s. special counsel robert muller has told congress his report didn't see exonerate president trump of obstruction of justice as tamala was testifying at 2 different hearings about his investigation into allegations of russian interference in the 2016 us presidential election. donald trump has vetoed 3 measures to block arms sales to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. because of the war in yemen on expressing his concerns for civilian casualties in the conflict mr trump said congressional efforts to block weapons sales would damage relationships with key allies in may he bypassed congress to sell more than $8000000000.00 in weapons to the gulf states. this is al jazeera let's recap the top stories so soft puts a rico's governor ricardo rosello has announced his resignation the decision comes
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off to nearly 2 weeks of protests tens of thousands took to the streets of leaked messages that show to making sexist and homophobic comments will leave office opus the 2nd inside the i'm not going on that despite having a mandate from the people who elected me democratically today i feel that continuing in this position presents insert mountable difficulties adding heard the complaints spoken to my family thought of my children and in prayers i for taking the following decision i announce to you today that i'll be resigning as governor effective friday 2nd of august gabriel elizondo has more from the capital someone it was celebration quite frankly it's a little after 1 am local time on thursday in the streets of old san juan and as you might be able to see behind me and maybe even here it is absolute celebration thousands of people packed the old city of san juan right in front of the
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governor's mansion protesting for hours calling for him to resign this capped more than 12 days of protests here in puerto rico to end the biggest political crisis in this island's history quite frankly there are 6000000 puerto rican americans actually that live on the mainland of the united states us remember puerto rico is a u.s. territory thousands of them have come back to puerto rico to take part in what they say is in their words a revolution. north korea has conducted its 1st missile test since the us president donald trump met kim jong il nearly a month ago south korea and japan say 2 short range missiles were fired into the sea off the coast at once and. 2 large explosions have rocked the afghan capital kabul the ministry of interior says at least 7 people have been killed and 27 were injured the new u.k. prime minister boris johnson is settling into his 1st full day in the job today
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he's appointed a cabinet of ministers mainly on the euro skeptic side of the tory party up next it's witness i'll have a summary of the news for you in about half an hour see that in south korea around 2000000 dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want the engine tradition taken off the menu when no one east investigates green dog friends or food or knowledge of the.
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