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and international community that she has done nothing wrong and to put it into fat say she and her company. morally bankrupt and unicef sometimes take claiming that the people we see mountains have changed more into something else that says if a serious made me lie ok let's go live now to my colleague andrew thomas andrew we can see you've changed location where are you what have you been seeing and hearing . based on 50 meters away from where i was speaking to you perfectly calmly an hour ago and that just shows how quickly situations can change here this is whole court road one of the main streets on the hong kong island is a flyover there should be trucks with traffic on a monday a look at be complete it's like a viper testers and in the last 20 minutes or so tear gas has been pulling down on the. blood coming out of tight the gas mask up but beyond the fly over there are
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barricades and beyond then we assume i'm actually going to see them but place because that's where the tear gas has been coming from as it's been fired over onto the floor of these protesters are using traffic cones to try and put those on top of the tear gas canisters and stop that's not from spreading but it's only having limited effect as a sight even 10 minutes ago this was just a cloud of tear gas most of it's played now which is how i'm able to so but piece of the broader picture a day that was supposed to be about a peaceful strike in hong kong and courage and people not to go to what tickles economic destruction but. monday economic disturbance but not this. yet again and this is happening again and again and again normally peaceful protests which are then taken over by lots of people who do love level vandalism the house is the best way of putting it in traffic
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lights in some cases taking a pot and just uses barricades but the place then coming in with the situation like this on previous days this has happened off the dot once it's nighttime well it's already made up then they bought a clock in the afternoon on them now this is happening it's not the only place that there are 7 sites in honking my protests we know of tear gas used in at least 3 now including here but for all carry lamps words about wanting to address the violence and chaos in this city well this is violent this is chaotic this is what she and this doesn't look like it's going to be they got another to. buy just over there. as you're talking to. flipping between those live pictures. and some of the wires to show. the protesters waiting quite patiently i mean give us a sense if you can how well organized the demonstrators are i mean. who
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the authorities i guess will be tanking to find out who they are where they live where they work that kind of thing. we don't know if protest leaders and there's a contradiction here they're certainly old and all used in the sense that they know what to do they spread messages on social media very quickly about where to head very effective quickly taking down traffic barry's using them as barricades being times of someone you know group charge of the protest as well i've not seen any evidence of that so at a place conference a press conference by the place an hour ago they said that since may june when all these protests began they've used a 1000 rounds of tear gas nobody's a lot lol today they also said that arrested now hundreds of people whether they think they're going off the ringleaders and that will help local list down well it doesn't look it doesn't from this whoever is in custody who has been arrested it's is not stopping this. is the. bigger and
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bigger so the show is on some place. within themselves at a local level if you like but there is no overall organization but what they want now is that initial demands to see these extradition laws killed completely to never ever come but will they have moved into something altogether different much broader coles but democracy full self rule in hong kong that means something that isn't overseen by beijing because what they fear is that one country 2 systems is increasingly becoming one country one system and they want. democracy all told to me here there's a man you can say oh you just dropped them but carrying lots and lots of bricks you can't say the protest is an innocent in all of this they are throwing bricks like that at symbols of the state and then that the place responded what's the umbrella is go up to try and protect the identities of those gathering based bricks this is what we say again and again on the straights here. very quickly no level
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organization but in terms of organized structure peter no and when we saw that news conference from carrie lamb andrew she seemed to be quite delicately signaling to the protesters saying look if you do this and if this carries on you are actually jeopardizing what we have you you are in danger in the unique quality of hong kong so don't push this too far. absolutely when it goes back to this one country 2 systems she was essentially saying if you're not careful or test as you get one country one system china even to a greater extent in the protests think that already exists they want 2 countries or certainly 2 systems within one country but 2 very distinct systems and knife think that the current situation by beijing gets essential. hong kong government will that is not properly a 2 systems set up and i want that to change but certainly carry on with saying be
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careful don't push this too fast you also said in a press conference and i think we played a bit of it in the introduction to all of this the hong kong was on the verge of a very dangerous situation well if this isn't already a dangerous situation the water that we're on the verge of because quite honestly it's hard to know how this could get much more chaotic they groom us on social media about beijing what's done for this much longer the chinese news agency very close to the government in beijing wrote an editorial saying that essentially the central government authorities would not stand much longer ideally by is that a threat that the people's liberation army of china might get involved there is a garrison here in hong kong there are rumors but they could come out in a post some sort of mushy lol here in hong kong that would be a very radical step that would be completely destroying any illusion of hong kong's government being charge it would completely destroy the illusion of one country 2
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systems but by using may decide that that is what is necessary to end dates because this is not dying down basically it's not as if it's getting lower level as the days go on if anything it's escalating and this is bane beginning with a strike then peaceful protests and now a poll the sun even goes down this well this has been the most pathetic day yet and are just briefly not not wishing to interpret what's going on as something that it's not but is there an. in the room and it is in this tenement square in the beijing government the chinese authorities do not react well to protests so this there's been since these demonstrations kicked off there's been a sense that yes kerry lamb and the territorial government the administration is watching this but the. poll watching kerry land because they feel insecure if you will people take to the streets and when you get civil servants defying what they're being told to do and taking to the streets that's significant if you get
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those people banding together with the people who were against the extradition legislation that gets more significant as well. where are they to eventually jenna's where there and of course with internationalized that's the elephant in there and you're absolutely right very different situation of course that was in beijing in the chinese capital in mainland china being told now to see more tear gas going in the same bricks being funny to the playstation as well and very different situation baby girl. as is the way with those things we've lost communications there with team on the ground in hong kong we'll try and establish communications with andrew as soon as we can and will stay with these other pictures coming to us we're being told that drew and his camera operator and the satellite people they're all safe on the ground there in hong kong they're not injured it's just that you know there's those
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things happen and literally what happens in that situation is the reporter the correspondent the cameraman for totally understandable reasons they move very fast and cables get pulled out of holes therefore we lose the feed of pictures that they are bringing to us but you get a sense there of what's going on the authorities are using tear gas not for the 1st time in the last hour or so it's about 90 minutes maybe 2 hours since this started moving around the protesters there with tear gas kerry took that news conference a few hours ago she was very very clear she was very strong said she's not going to resign and that's what the demonstrators want i think we've managed to reestablish contact with our correspondent and her thomas who's there and if you can hear us forgive me if i sound like i'm show sings i know it's noisy where you are just get us right up to speed what's going on. and
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you saw. just come in when we lost our connection briefly and you can see i'm not talking to you from behind a gas market is very very necessary you need it a lot of tear gas just came in and. some bricks think not of the building over there that may or productively quite honestly i don't see that many breaks and they seem to be an all volunteer. mike about what you well good talk briefly about because you mentioned that and of course. we're going to tear gas running down now that is the elephant in the room case now. very different situation what's next now i'm not a long time ago some to media was organizing demonstrations then the central chinese government a much stricter way of dealing with things on the mainland then as they do now than in hong kong but of course we could see signs some jews on the streets of hong kong understanding what to go wrong and saying they came internationally and just trying to keep the peace people are in order but there are
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provoked by some of these protesters and if these protesters know one thing they now have to protest and provoke just imagine if some people were killed what would happen then international world's media would be watching it. not that i'm struggling a little it's not an equally thank you cannot in our eyes see hong kong protesters achieve what they want through violence because what sort of precedent will that sent for other parts of china other cities not to mainland china this is about hong kong pizza but it's actually about so much more and tell you what we'll let you go grab a drink of water gather your thoughts stay safe stay close and we'll come back to you if we can in the next few minutes if there are any major developments but in the meantime and thomas and our crew on the ground there in hong kong thanks guys
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we'll talk to you very soon libyan media reporting 41 people have been killed in airstrikes launched by forces loyal to the warlord holly for her after the attack reportedly targeted a wedding party in the turn of mobs up in the southwest of the country dozens more were injured more than a 1000 people have been killed since after us forces launched an offensive in april to take control of the capital city tripoli what up there were head joins us live now from tripoli much more great to talk to get just walk us through what happened here. will appear to a local sources including a member of the local council in music told us that more than 40 people were killed in the airstrikes launched by a drone loyal to the warlords. yesterday of the southern a town of about 900 kilometers it was the capital
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tripoli we understand that the tribes which are out of the majority in the town of the murder are rejecting their military what they call the military at all by forces loyal to the warlords really for have to since they launch a military campaign in this hour of libya and then in the last february to take control of the locations including towns that oil fields and airports in the sales of libya since then we know that sporadic fighting has been taken place between bullfighters on the one hand and have to his forces supported by local groups from the south was on the other hand now we understand that since last thursday fighting broke out between the 2 raver factions in and around the town and the local authorities in that medics say that all the casualties
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all the victims are civilians but on the other hand have those forces deny that and that accusing the tipple fighters of recruiting. groups of their cousins the book cousins from chad on the other hand i spoke to a member of the. council in mosul and he just told me that all the victims are libyans and they have libyan i.d.'s he also said that the are blaming the governor. and of national accord for not doing enough to protect civilians in the south and namely and the town of missing meanwhile he is now the local council member is holding the united nations support the mission responsible for all these attacks because he said that recently the united nations support the mission in libya has been in
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a way or another encouraging the warlord have to. launch more attacks on civilians in many parts of the country we know that remember peter that when have to his forces launch and the military campaign to take control of the cells and last february the tribes were stood fast and they confronted have to his forces there and they are they say that the are totally rejecting what they call the military at all by have to us forces in the south of libya remember this is totally different from what's going on in and around tripoli as you know peter that the military campaign launch of but have to in a print the beginning of april to take control of the capital tripoli this is different from their military campaign luncheon by his forces in the south of libya in the last february thanks very much. now the u.s. president donald trump has denounced 2 mass shootings in ohio and texas saying
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quote hate has no place in america the attacks killed $29.00 people and injured dozens in less than 24 hours the 1st shooting in el paso texas taunted saturday morning shoppers at a shopping center 20 people died there including 6 mexicans is being investigated as a domestic terror case and possibly a hate crime 21 year old patrick cruciatus was arrested at the scene he's now been charged with murder state prosecutor has said they will seek the death penalty the 2nd shooting happened in dayton ohio 9 people there were killed when a 24 year old man in body armor opened fire in a popular nightlife area the shooter's 22 year old sister was among the victims police say they killed the gunman less than a minute after he started his attack. hate has no place in our country. and we're going to take care of it i spoke with attorney general bill barr had like i spoke to her separate director of the f.b.i.
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spoke to the governor and both governors that we're doing a lot of work you know a lot of people are working right now a lot of law enforcement people and others spoke to members of congress about whatever we can do in a lot of lot of things are being done right now as we speak. after the 2 mass shootings one of america's top footballers has taken a stand on gun violence in the nation's capital u.s.a. a national team player and for the delphia going to captain humber of the boy school the open golems team victory of the d.c. going to them somebody who then ran over to what it's like microphone to protest against a lack of action from politicians. congress to do something and. the president of honduras systemwide having links to drug trafficking after he was named in a document filed in a us federal court american prosecutors accuse one orlando hernandez of receiving campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in return for protection and says
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he's a victim of criminals seeking revenge. this is an act of revenge from drug traffickers against the only president that did what it had to be done it's only logical to expect this criminals to react like this they want to block us from continuing with our fight but we won't be stopped by the united nations is calling for sanctions on businesses linked to me in mars military over what it says is a genocidal campaign against the rango me a mars army controls vast swathes of the economy u.n. investigators are urging world leaders to impose financial sanctions and say foreign firms doing business with those companies could be complicit in international crimes a military crackdown that we can in 2017 years force more than 700000 muslim or anger to flee across the border into bangladesh.
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let's recap the sob story so far this hour here on al-jazeera the indian government to scrap parts of the war that give significant autonomy to indian administered kashmir the region is set to be split into parts and constitutional provisions that give us special protections are being removed pakistan has strongly condemned the vote. a citywide general strike is taking place in hong kong the police of 5 tear gas to disperse crowds that were blocking traffic earlier this quite disrupted train services in the to cancel flights. the rebels say they've launched a series of drone attacks against saudi arabia the reported targets were. on airports on the air base in the southwest there's been no confirmation from the saudi government the u.n. is calling for sanctions on businesses linked to me and mas military over what it says is a genocidal campaign against the rohingya in laws army controls vast swathes of the economy and investigators are urging world leaders to impose financial sanctions
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and to say foreign firms doing business with those companies could be complicit in international crimes a military crackdown that began in 2017 this forced more than 700002 flee to bangladesh. central portugal is dealing with a large wildfire about 100 kilometers northeast of lisbon and started on saturday near the town of tomorrow forecasters are warning high temperatures could spark more fires last month wildfires injured more than 40 people and left many homeless . $1000.00 people have been killed in egypt after a crash involving multiple cars in cairo on sunday the accident triggered an explosion which set fire to the neighboring national cancer institute 30 people were also injured in the blast egypt's prosecutor general has ordered an investigation. iraq is denying any links to an oil tanker seized by iran's revolutionary guard on saturday iran's state news agency says the tanker was
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in the rocky vessel smuggling 700000 liters of illegal in the silt in the gulf those are your headlines the news continues after witness a cold war family reunion i will see you very soon. the saudi u.a.e. war on yemen has led to thousands of deaths and left millions hungry what role has the u.s. played in the world's worst humanitarian crisis on this is the entity that has the right to begin and end wars robert malley a top advisor on the middle east to president obama talks to al-jazeera.
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the little. group. water swallowers be very important. it is considered our main staple.
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in the world it takes a lot of work to dismember a wallers. takes a crew you know to find that out. takes the family to put it away. to. survive here it's about family.
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i know i have relatives there. i just don't know very much about them. i have no connection with my rest russian relatives at all i don't know their dialect so there's a really big there. i've heard stories a long time ago holland their worst interaction between the villages before the ice cream. i think about home my grandparents might have felt when based separated them. that must have been a big grief for them too. that connection. a lot of our elders have asked today made would love to have a reunion. like . time to travel courtney's or for day meet i and minister to all the programs
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we have all the accounts we oversee. it's like taking care of dime each. the last reunion was you know in the early ninety's. so if this is going to be the 1st event for a long time i think it's going to be so special. 8 will be traveling to welsh today with bearing our weather permitting 8 of them will be staying at the school and maybe 5 or 6 my house between my house and 4 pics it's over that stop gate i have that were signed. and. if you read the comments today they will be traveling to well we didn't for the
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weather to come down to come today we can. go depend on the weather ahead of what they're going to come here or whether it's always the thing for me so if it's going to be delayed it's going to be delayed. nothing really works on schedule. time time's dire need it's really hard to live in. they always. remind us when the ice starts to reseat and make. you know you could fall through. i lost my daughter my youngest she went to the ice me 212000 i. was 6 years old. just 5 minutes before she was with me and she was down there and gone just in 5
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minutes i have lost her. took me a while to heal from that. and when i was going to that process lot of have to do with subsistence be it with food or your sewing skins sure you're making a park or something. you're doing something to keep yourself busy subsistence is so time consuming that it heals you too. high i don't think of his coffee decaf. yeah for tomorrow i'm going to put in a fridge. are you know you go with the own under i was kind of around it the boat is just there for favored member. or favor.
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my best memories of how our parents. thought of it was subsistence my dad loved hunting and fishing. because he's a lot older is a little harder for him now. the. my parents moved because of medical research. there are new and. the people. i know are there bigger part of them who really wants to be and i mean. they were here 6 weeks ago and they were so happy.
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that i want to be taking care of my care. but i ask my mom her tour de force with she really needs me here. knowing that they prefer a native foods. i'm sending in the stuff they enjoy from guy meat because i worry about them. these are a mixture of food in oil this one is baby orosz. this one is breast milk of the walrus this is. intestine it's really rinse clean half dried the end quote. peavy all or.
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war or skin plus a little bit of that blubber. it's really hard to dig in the barrel of your hands freeze going in the oil is for a reason then you're digging it's hard you gotta be really tough for that. nice. he joked are you keeping those eggs. i should bring a few older as i'm going to make them or egg mike salad or. some kind of cap and fever gets you because to me just to isolate it. those moments i was call my alcatraz time you know.
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80 percent it is alcatraz. but 20 percent it's paradise. sometimes i go down this one. pick cabbage and i'm just like come up this way. and then i go down another rich study mandaue. the greens are you there is everything you want here this area is one of my favorite picking area on a cabbage. but my mom when she was here she showed me all the picking ground all her favorite spots. you see how i remove it without taking their work. so it can grow another and next year too . it's time
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consuming but it's failing. and it also involves the kids to help you to prepare. it kind of keeps the family to shit together. on. the links bubble. bubble get it near. and give me a fire. on me. and i can let you but in a 1000000 but leave it you were sick if
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a good guy. he better remember me babe poor when you're both 67 you're still going birding. great but look at. the. my guy right because coming over. my way that made him but tell you that they'll make it out tomorrow. but we don't know about the russians. they're russians are you ready to it's descendants of our family our site had 2 of
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maybe 2 i think 2 of them really are side of and. maybe your great great uncle thank you name last time i went over a long time in america in russia as i always do with battling going on. people that tell you go across naked the night this is this is my cousin and i mean take that you know go there great uncle had told you he's coming he's coming now with him look like you. knew if he had washed ash you can pick.
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1 it so hard because the separation between us and russia makes it hard for us to event communicate. by dancing god but that's just rebirth share that. i mean there's a great many things we're expecting to do there's a great many things we'd like to see happen but we have to have them here for.
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the right order and the start of fun out of this situation. like you said you guys can't be seen there for ever. if it's not good for you bowl right away with the weather from stone or so the water is always still rough. but you guys could do acknowledge week before you make. your choice you know you go to do it like he said some of you do have time you know let me know. when it. comes he said y'all keep important ok he said go rushing that flexible right no. that's not you know and they still want to come up if you want to come oh dear. no
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. you know. good to have hope but you know you don't want to keep it up all the time ringback ringback ringback ringback. that's a per mile there were fights on monday but and i felt good well since. trying to come out cheerful. it's.
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you. know nothing. when i grew up here we had 20 or more elders around. now we have maybe 2 years. so having to surf and tap that it is heart felt for a lot of people because we always wish this. for dying me.
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passions you so much much you know they're all the sun and they're going to start to you know we cured you know she's the one who knows all about and. know. all the home video signals and you know. i can hear that happiness insight and laughter. to them just interact with each other in grand isle new mexico grandson. 10 years old their grandson hired me because they have money to take up an elaborate you've got to cut your response. to. 30 were really exchanging talking
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about dancing and what you're doing came from big guy we don't move to little dang he. split a copy of their nephew. sister's son in her letter. you think you are more similar. or. earlier he was seeing the last time when he saw him he was much stronger stronger man and he was asking you did you eat these food what i'm going i'm sure. when i was growing years ago. to a war you. were going to miss it. if you go. here
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i agree. well the living has a piano we think of it and then monday so it's monday thursday known that we get out at 12 are we do it ok morning but how are we to. get the pick up and you know you got close to the top. 2 2 of my. past. when they ask us to go down to the chopper and greet and i didn't know who i was
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really creating. and now that i spend a few days with them i think in a year's time i get my passport to the supreme court and 1st required we are going to visit a couple of the villages there. where the primitive. struggle through life most of it is not all happy. i've gone through a great many things. but knowing that you had times
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where you. hard it was just fall. that helps you to remember that there's going to be a better time ahead of you. through a shed passion for elephant conservation colleagues have become friends but with civil war descending they must now protect themselves from escaping deep into the rain forest all back to the west and low. for the elephants surviving the poachers is a lifelong challenge to vang must count lost
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next 60 minutes been told that if the military does. panic on the streets of hong kong as police move in to break up protest is leading a general strike. india's government scraps part of a law that grants special status to indian administered kashmir. as new delhi cut cell phone and internet links in the disputed region and puts local politicians under house arrest. in libya forces loyal to the warlord holly for hafter launch air strikes killing at least 41 people. i'm going to get your score with the sports is in and scriptures have a huge task ahead to save the 1st ashes test and after 2 mass shootings in the u.s. this top american football as tells lawmakers enough is enough. congress to do something and you.
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know hong kong wide general strike has turned into another confrontation between the police and protesters the police have been firing tear gas to break up crowds that were blocking traffic earlier the city was brought to a virtual standstill by the strike train services were disrupted and at least 100 flights were canceled protesters are angry at how the government and the police have handled weeks of protests triggered by a controversial extradition bill many with the territories leader carry lamb to resign that she's accusing the protests is of trying to destroy hong kong. such extensive disruptions in the name of certainty months or uncooperative movement have seriously undermined hong kong's law and order. and are pushing our city the city we all love and many of
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us helped to build through the verge of a very dangerous situation hong kong's opposition politicians say kerry lam herself has lost legitimacy to continue in office. kerry land has cryptically tell the hong kong and international community that she has done nothing wrong and if that's true saturday she and her company. morally bankrupt and her use of diversion tactic claiming that the people is the monster have changed morphed into something else that's seriously a lie. having their lives now trying to thomas who is one of the precious eyes in hong kong and andrew things have turned pretty volatile she would say quite quickly where you are. very quickly over the space of about
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45 minutes what was i love aaj but peaceful as far as i could see a demonstration turned into really a battleground with for a period of time tear gas raining down on a crowd thousands strong now the worst few stones being thrown at a central government building that i saw but i'm not sure whether they happened before or after the tear gas began but perhaps 4550 minutes ago now it will not take us to get all right in the middle of hong kong but road there is hawk all right one of the main thoroughfares through the city of hong kong it should be on a normal monday one of the busy roads people leave work before it's even got dark hair is turned really into a big battleground as a little look about the situation was like 45 minutes ago. a lot of 2 guys just hanging on. some bricks i think lot of the building and then mayor productively quite honestly i don't see that many bricks and they seem to be an all for not too
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long mike you got what you will we're going to run him down now that is the elephant in the room very different situation what's next noms a long time ago some through media was organizing demonstrations there in the central chinese government much stricter way of dealing with things on the mainland then as they do now than in hong kong so going back to the actual general strike how how broad how deep has this call for a general strike been observed. i'm afraid we seem to have lost andrew thomas but i think you got a gist of what the situation is like in hong kong today where there is a general strike and apparently much of the city has come to a standstill indicating that many people from various sections of the city are observing this this call for a strike you also saw
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a little bit earlier from andrew's report how one particular location got. pretty tense with a lot of. class being used by police but also a projectiles of some sort will be also being thrown by some of the protesters as well that's something that. has pointed out as i believe you go to andrew back now andrew give us an idea then of the extent of the strike and how much disruption it's causing to the city. we're marching today monday was a day or 2 hobs the 1st after that at lunchtime was all about the strike in this area the city center of hong kong was like a ghost town it was deserted in part because people had chosen to take part in the strike chose not to come to work in part because people couldn't get to work because the thousands of if you like active protesters did a very good job of shutting down the transport system they blocked the doors of trains stopping them from running to the entire subway system went down for
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a period of a part of 6 hours on monday morning and they also blocked many of the roads into the city what about lunch time they abandon those tactics and started themselves coming to the city and really it's got very very crowded since and the softer than monday afternoon has been all about the process they started peacefully in 7 different locations across hong kong under the most central one here admiralty but even the new territories and callin the other protests as well and as has so often been the case peaceful protest moved into something different the people did come along looking like they wanted trouble they did come along with gas masks and hard hats as if they were expecting confrontations with the place and you can't say they were to. this is an innocent in this they certainly threw some projectiles and some buildings that way so they certainly made barricades but the police response here with round off the round to gas coming down on a crowd that was largely not doing those things well that was the most reaction that i have seen in the days that i've been covering the protests here in hong kong and there have been other rounds of take gasified in other parts of hong kong in
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the new territories in kalon as well at least 4 different locations in hong kong in the last 2 hours we may have to guess and as you saw it was pretty wild here and they haven't entirely played everybody either went as a will discover is the big question because it's just getting worse i've been here for a few days now 4 or 5 days and every day there's been protests and on almost all of those days those protests have ended with clashes with the place ended with tear gas kerry lamb in the past press conference he's given a full nights on monday said that this violence is destruction had to end and that imposing law and order in hong kong was the only way and the police and other security agencies would ensure the old it was restored she alluded to being on the verge of a very dangerous situation will it when already in a dangerous situation then what on earth. is a worrying question this has become so much more than about those controversial extradition laws that kicked all this off back in june the protest is now if you
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speak to them say that overall the much broader right now is. democracy here in hong kong not what they see as a puppet master in the chief executive overseen by beijing but somebody that they can independently vote for themselves that's what they want they feel they've got the wind in their sails and i can't see them backing down they say that one country 2 systems means hong kong should be properly independent within china not overseen by phasing kerry lamb and have press conference essentially warned that if the protest is on capital it's going to be one country one system and it will be china's central system the provider even here andrew thomas live in hong kong thank you. the indian government is covering parts of a constitutional provision that gives special status to indian administered kashmir the home minister ahmed shah's announcement came as a region is on the look down with all communication lines suspended and this is the most significant change yet for the people of the region in more than 70 years priyanka gupta explains it was
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a sudden and momentous decision. india's government says it's revoking special privileges granted to indian administered kashmir the opposition is furious. it's a change in the constitution with far reaching consequences are not just inserted using the powers vested under the 3rd section of article 370 following the recommendation of parliament the president announces that starting the day the president of india will sign the declaration and the day when it will be published in the government is that all the sections of article 370 will cease to hold good except for section one of the article article 370 the section of the constitution that gives significant autonomy to kashmir is at the heart of why the region joined india in 1947 it allows the regional government to make its own laws except in finance defense foreign affairs and communications that means the residents of the
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state live under different laws from the rest of the country in matters such as property ownership and citizenship now the central government plans to split up the region into 2 parts. and one and the uk which will be directly governed by new delhi the government has put parts of indian and ministered kashmir under security lockdown and has deployed tens of thousands of additional troops internet is blocked and phone lines are down. 3 prominent push me pull a tissue 2 fem former chief ministers are under house arrest revoking indian administered kashmir special status is expected to garner strong reaction this is a straightforward pandering to the hindu majority electorate in india. b j p o the hindu nationalist party came to power in the elections in may this year
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with enhanced majority based on promises that it would remove these special provisions which they say that under to the muslims of india so there is a clear political polarization here with the ruling party trying to pander to its hindu votebank. they have already been protests as the spread on sunday about the government's plan to hurt article $35.00 in article $370.00 is our basic constitutional right we have made an agreement with india the basis of his articles and now they are trying to derail vocals articles this is an injustice to us. are not going to tolerate we should just. disputed kashmir is one of the most militarized areas in the world india and pakistan claim it as their own for now the region is on the edge as it prepares for what's to come priyanka 0.

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