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no iranian flag bearer the panamanian flag was removed black paint was put on all the markings and then there was another look at this ship was leaving and we heard the radio communications between the port and the captain of the ship the anchor was being lifted and then the reverse happened for no explanation whatsoever other than further radio communications in which the captain was given permission to put a platform at the stern of the ship to actually put up a new marking and also he got permission to leave he was asked when he was leaving and he got permission to leave on sunday evening whether or not that's observe the could easily be another communication at any time and the ship is free to go. it's named adrian. the all the indications systems we've looked at still neighbors grace warm and the dead
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destination is a mediterranean no release of any destination from any source right now the bolter government is adamant that iran's claims that they're free to go anywhere that will amount to nothing other than political messaging and they say that they have won over this whole issue of the e.u. sanctions on syria the chief minister has communicated with all e.u. institutions now statements being put out the evidence has been passed on to the you that this was a successful operation to defy an attempt to breach. in zimbabwe riot police of injured protesters who were complaining about the high cost of living running battle started in the capital harare after the high court dismissed an opposition attempt to waive the turn the government banned on the demonstrations. from harare.
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what was meant to be a protest over the economy turned into chaos police in zimbabwe had banned the demonstration saying they were expecting violence alleging some opposition supporters were armed a high court judge dismissed an application by the opposition movement for democratic change to overturn the ban opposition leaders then called off the march but some of the supporters were defiant saying they had a democratic right to demonstrate in a show of force right please remind people what happens in a country with a history of brutally silencing voices of dissent. in boys not free where are we going as a country we're suffering we're hungry we can't afford to send our children to school. c but every time the police dispersed the crowd some of them kept trying to come back some opposition supporters are refusing to disperse so riot police are slowly trying to push them back the aim is to get them out of the city
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center the police fear that if people are to stay in this area they could be looting and damage to property many zimbabweans blame president was government economic mismanagement soaring inflation rising food prices and growing unemployment they say they want an end to their misery and to be heard every road leading into iraq is good police stops they have thousands and thousands of people that are stopping people come come from are all we are asking for was just an hour . they're marching along nelson mandela of a somewhat of much of a can of count as being in a position of opposition to parliament it doesn't last for more than one hour but the trip to bali it has been stopped much of harare city center was unusually quiet on friday shops and businesses were closed many people stayed home fearing violence president says fixing the economy will take time and that's a need to be patient but it seems for some patience is running out. have
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they got lots more to come here at al-jazeera including a u.s. congresswoman rejects israel's offer to allow her family visit she says she refuses to accept quote oppressive restrictions north korea rules out fer the peace talks as it fires 2 moment's silence into the sea of japan. hello again welcome back where cross parts of turkey we have seen some thunderstorms brewing in the afternoon across parts of the black sea you can see those clouds right there we're going to start to see those systems making their way a little bit more towards the east towards the caspian but down towards the south in syria we are looking at temperatures into the mid thirty's beirut at 30 degrees in jerusalem here on saturday at about 29 degrees few a little bit further towards the south into kuwait city temperatures are
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a little bit cooler than what they have been we expect to see 43 degrees as your high on sunday well here cross the gulf last few days been quite humid in the morning but going to see some better conditions as we go towards saturday a little bit drier not too much though 43 degrees are expected high as we go towards mecca though it is going to be a warm day at $45.00 but over towards we do expect to see some a nice conditions for you with a temperature of $25.00 degrees and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we are dealing with some clouds and some coastal clouds here across much of the cape cross the eastern cape as well durban is expected to see a high of 21 degrees with winds coming out of the south capetown a little bit warmer a few at 20 but plenty of sun across much of the interior with harare seeing 25 degrees here on saturday may be getting a little bit cooler on sunday but johannesburg a very nice day for you at 21. millions
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of workers a big inside lived in the brick humans of india one i want to explore the house satellite technology is now helping to set them free. 0. all right it's time for a 2nd look at the top stories here it out to syria the u.n. security council has discuss the crisis in indian administered kashmir for the 1st
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time in almost 50 years the chinese ambassador says members were concerned that the situation could get worse but india india's and pakistan's u.n. ambassadors spoke after the meeting and they stopped a long standing positions only see. a radius supertanker seized by british forces last month is preparing to leave gibraltar at least by sunday the supreme court in the british territory ordered its release on thursday a new cruise on board in the ship has a new name. police in zimbabwe have beaten up demonstrators who were protesting against the high cost of living running battle started in the capital harare after the high court dismissed an opposition attempt to overturn the government ban on the demonstrations. the us democratic congresswoman rashida to lave says she will not visit her grandmother in the occupied west bank despite receiving permission from israel israel's interior minister says she would have been allowed only humanitarian grounds if she agreed not to call for
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a boycott on israel while she was there but she maintains that she won't be saw this end quote won't be treated like a criminal earlier the deputy foreign minister of israel said she'd be banned after lobbying efforts by president trump doesn't jordan has more now from washington. the u.s. president donald trump has not commented since the michigan congresswoman marsha to leave has decided not to go to the occupied west bank to visit with her grandmother and other members of her extended family on friday to lead put out a statement saying that her initial decision to accept on humanitarian grounds it doesn't was undercutting the very reason why she chose to run for the u.s. congress to stand up for the rights of those whose rights have been oppressed she said that she could not live with herself even though she very much had wanted to spend time with her 90 year old grandmother and with other members of her extended
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family this prompted an immediate response from the israeli interior ministry which accused the leap of essentially trying to play the visa application process for political gain here in the united states the israeli government recently act in a law that bans those supporters of the b.d.s. movement or boycott divest sanctions movement from visiting israel or the occupied west bank but because of her status as a member of congress and because she had promised that she would not discuss politics while in the occupied west bank the interior ministry had decided on thursday to give to leave a visa to visit her family the about a virus has spread to a previously untouched policy of the democratic republic of congo the 1st 2 cases have now been confirmed in south keven officials say
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a 24 year old woman and her child contract that the virus off to visit visiting a town that is in the epicenter of the outbreak the outbreak in the eastern part of democratic republic of congo has killed more than $800.00 people since it started more than a year ago malcolm weber has more now from nairobi. the 2 new cases a woman and the child other 1st cases in the south kivu province the woman died on tuesday and was subsequently identified positively as an abode of patient now her journey began in beni which is the epicenter of the about her outbreak which started a year ago she traveled by bus and then my boat she traveled through 2 densely populated urban centers firstly the city of goma on the north shore of lake key which has a population of about 2000000 and we 1st saw a bowl of cases there last month and she traveled by boat to the city because of you on the south shores of lake kivu we haven't yet seen any of polar cases there
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and if you travel to a remote village in south kivu province now this is more than 700 kilometers from where the outbreak started about a year ago more than 800 people have died since then in spite of a very effective vaccine and some recently reported successes of drugs used to treat patients if they caught early enough it's clear that the government still struggling to control the spread of this about the outbreak. in the largest anti-government protests in hong kong or entering the 11th week demonstrators have gathered in the central city park to voice their anger at china's control of the former british territory the protests were triggered by a proposed law which would have allowed for the extradition of suspects to go to the mainland and they grew into a wider revolt demanding more democracy and the resignation of the chief executive carol hoda abdel-hamid has the latest from hong kong. this is
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a rally attended mainly by student the banner here being power to people liberate home kong the revolution of our time we haven't seen any scenes of violence we haven't seen any police presence and actually organizers right at the beginning of this rally hold up under protest to remain peaceful now the message coming out of here is slightly different the protesters wanting to reach out to the outside world mainly the western world and they have their sort of asking the u.k. parliament to say that china has breached the city no british joint declaration of 1984 which actually hammered the status of hong kong and the autonomy or relative autonomy aid has from beijing and it's also calling on the u.s. congress and the u.k. parliament to consider in acting some sort of legislation which would pave the way to impose some sanctions on some members of the government here they didn't name it
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but many would tell you that the basically they're talking about kerry lam the chief executive of hong kong and some other members of the government now. is gearing up for a weekend of many rallies and protests about 5 of them are scheduled you have people who will be on the streets because they. but the bigger rallies would be. the pro-democracy protesters sunday is a key day thousands and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people expected to attend that rally authorities have not given the permission for any marches citing the fact that there have been these scenes of violence unfolding on the streets. the chief executive of hong kong's biggest airline has resigned after
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cathay pacific employees were site and suspended for taking part in the pro-democracy protests cafe's board said rupert hold needed to be replaced because the airline's commitment to safety and security had been called into question china's leaders warned employees not to take part in the protests which close the airport and grounded hundreds of flights. north korea has rejected further reunification with the south saying the suggestion is foolish the government spokesman in pyongyang made the announcement before the latest ballistic missile test the firing of 2 short range weapons into the sea of japan on friday is the 6th test in the past month north korea says it's angered by the south's latest military drills with the united states or the south korean president said the momentum for dialogue with the north was still alive despite worrying actions by pyongyang.
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i pledge to solidify the foundation so that we can successfully host the joint 2032 pyongyang lympics instant tool in the world is one korea by achieving peace and unification by 2045 which will mark the 100th anniversary of liberation. for the gun control debate in the us is a clash of cultures pretty much between rural areas where gun ownership is common and big cities have a cerned about crime and mass shootings a survey by the pew research center reveals 30 percent of american adults say they own a gun whether their own is 0 not americans have broad exposure to almost half of all adults say they grew up in a household with guns 44 percent know someone has been shot most gun owners say they use weapons for protection others said their collectors all use them for hunting rob reynolds has been to needles that's a small town on the california arizona border. needles california
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sizzles in the mojave desert where summer temperatures top $49.00 degrees celsius and the enduring colorado river provides a little relief it's a conservative gun toting trump supporting town at the edge of liberal trump loathing california where new more restrictive state gun laws have recently gone into effect that's rankled local so much that the city council took the unusual step of declaring needle's a sanctuary city we kind of want to get their attention with the sanctuary city. the shooting range is just across the river in arizona where gun laws are much more lenient californians who want to purchase ammunition here are subject to expensive restrictions under california law gun shop owners say the rules don't make sense
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because if there's a will there's a way if they want to get it they will across the u.s. states that have tightened up their gun laws in response to crime and mass shootings find their efforts effectively neutralized by neighboring states with lax gun rules the teenager who killed 3 people at the gilroy california garlic festival in july used an a k 47 style semiautomatic weapon purchased legally in nevada he wasn't old enough to buy one in california the research is pretty clear that states with restrictive gun laws how many rower gun homicide rate however that doesn't stop people from still traveling interstate with bar arms taking and weapon that's legal in one area to another state were illegal because we don't have border tracks from state. officials in needles want an exemption from state laws so
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that residents can buy bullets in arizona they say it's too inconvenient to buy ammunition in the nearest california gun shops which are hundreds of kilometers away they also want pistol packing neighbors from arizona to be allowed to carry their weapons openly when visiting needles which is prohibited they don't want to unload they don't want to leave their weapon at home to come over here and eat. the messy patchwork of state laws is another reason why gun control advocates say congress needs to change gun laws on a nationwide basis robert oulds al-jazeera needles california. let's take a look at the top stories here it out to syria the u.n. security council has discussed the crisis in india that mrs men administered kashmir for the 1st time in almost 50 years china's ambassador says members are
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concerned that the situation may get worse with india's and pakistan's u.n. ambassador spoke after the meeting and they stuck to their longstanding positions on the territory mike hanna has more from the u.n. . that is the 1st time in some 50 years that the security council has formally addressed what is said in the agenda as the india and pakistan problem but this meeting did not go very well it would appear one diplomat says that the outcome was dead on arrival and certainly we understand from a number of sources that china could not even get agreement on releasing a formal statement urging parties not to take unilateral action to inflame the situation within the kashmir and iranian supertanker that the seas by british forces last month is preparing to leave gibraltar at least by sunday the supreme court in the british territory ordered its release on thursday a new crew is on board and the ship has a new name. the police in zimbabwe have beaten up demonstrators who were protesting
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against the high cost of living running battles at it in the capital harare after the high court dismissed an opposition attempt to overturn a back and on demonstrations the us democratic congresswoman. says she will not visit her grandmother in new york replied west bank despite receiving permission she refuses to agree to what she calls oppressive conditions set by israel health officials in the democratic republic of congo say the better outbreak has now spread to a 3rd province in eastern. the 1st 2 cases a 24 year old woman and her child have been confirmed in the province of south keven north korea has rejected further reunification talks with the south saying the suggestion is foolish a government spokesman in pyongyang made the announcement before the firing of 2 short range weapons into the sea of japan but south korea's
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president means the momentum for dialogue with the north is still alive or attack today those are the headlines here at al-jazeera coming up next inside story. he promised political and economic reforms but after more than a year in office zimbabwe's president stands accused of failing to make good on his promises he's now faced with public anger or reforms enough to fix the economy in zimbabwe this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program. emerson my god came to power in zimbabwe with promises of change and reform the rule of his predecessor robert mugabe had been marked by economic collapse and crackdowns on dissent but nearly 2 years since the one god what took charge little has changed the economy is still struggling while rights groups say abuses are continuing and critical voices are being silenced the main opposition party defied a government ban to hold protests on friday but these were violently broken up by the police we'll go to our panel in just a few moments but 1st our own we toss a report from harare. leaders in the opposition had gone to court to try to overturn the police that were deprived of the judge saying that there was no case that people had a rapist i did the same thing here at the spa can seduce 800 hits of religious leaders with the ripening started we love the idea that even the relief and dry
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police in the sands and on your group of people that are living here is one of the men who was beaten in the protests this in the hundreds looked at it heard it. just standing doing nothing what she waited for him to come but a future would do well to the crippling of a corner saying little is old the 4th reason would it not to know it nothing could but it filters into louis vuitton villages who could create a quote where what's been silly some of the good. things the problem is the riddle through your proof it's just one syrian rebels people brutal refolding related by police during the procedure to believe they are the reason why they bad because they have information if you read some of the opposition watch as long as they say that somebody had just asked the wrong us in some parts of the city that they want to be in the going to 90 days to restrain windows and only the freedom of the shops
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opposition the it is deny all you want they say that even though the protests in harare was banned they are promising to continue with the practice in other cities and towns. zimbabwe has been struggling for decades during robert mugabe's 3 decades in power zimbabwe entered a state of near perpetual crisis between 1901 and 2008 the economy shrunk by 50 percent analysts blame overspending corruption and mismanagement while mugabe blamed foreign sanctions over his human rights record by 2008 inflation hit 231000000 percent rendering zimbabwe's currency worthless when mugabe was ousted in 2017 emerson and god were promised. forms to revive the economy but so far he's had little success there have been protests over widespread shortages of fuel and other necessities the world food program says half the country's population will struggle to get one meal a day by early next year. all
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right let's go now to our guests joining us in wellesley massachusetts cheaper than dollar a she is a professor of african studies at wellesley college and in london patricia kay she is the spokeswoman in the u.k. and ireland for zimbabwe's opposition party the movement for democratic change or m.d.c. we had the zimbabwean government spokesman lined up for the show but he pulled out minutes before we started recording cheap-o. let me start with you how worried are authorities about the prospect of more protests and how bad do you think the situation could get. based on good response and if you gave away they had you know a lot of police out on the streets and i just the presidential guard out on the street i think it suggests that the little mole larry and they would want us to believe i think if it is that people haven't come out and express their consent
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and so they have sent out a heavy. deal that we need and the implication patricia what do you think ultimately these protests will achieve. i think that they will raise the issues that are faced in zimbabwe just to raise those issues to the popularity of zimbabwe but also to the international world i think that they were exposing their bad governance of the current government. but more importantly that there is a need for change in the country and that there is a need for political change and that is what the current government is fighting against which to put into emerson and god were promised things would get better under his leadership that there would be greater transparency that there would be
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more investment but many say the economy has actually deteriorated under his rule just how bad are things there concerning the economy. your listeners might remember back in 2008 when the public had serious inflation and people will read lots of money we have seen people lots of money because they is no cash these are serious cases. but i think if we go away when the minister of finance and asked if you need to go which is that involve listening to says the end of any answer meant inflation this and that suggests that things are pretty bad what we do know is that is that people are going to the city so that means for at least 16 hours a day at these. what is the kind of expensive but without inflation numbers with that little nation that is from the ministry of finance we can actually use you know statistical economic and answers but what we do have
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people should what's that the a salaries and at matching the question that it's about was the things that we've. also been somali twice over the last year and i have seen that deterioration in november 27th to when i was last in bali it all is crazy and even in the end you know the quest of things that are a cent to go out and narrow things have you know they really went down. a path because they've no cash really been the case that saying that that image brought back to zimbabwe dial it and it wasn't in that resolution in my opinion to bring back the zimbabwean carriage and we know that when people don't have to dance in it that really affects people's ability to. shape and do business effectively in the country patricia john york a building on what daria just said i mean with with inflation so high with with
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power cuts that last in some areas up to 1000 hours a day shortages of water rising political tensions i mean this can't just be fixed with mere reforms right now this has to be a complete overhaul of the economic system. yes there has to be a complete overhaul of the economic system but i think that in order to achieve that overhaul there needs to be a review of governance they need to be a change of government we know that the issues that are currently facing zimbabwe have snowballed out of the political crisis the political legitimacy of the current government and taking you back to 2 to last year during their one eyes the elections which clearly showed that the winner of those elections was president
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nelson chamisa and what followed with the declaration of the zimbabwe electoral commission and the concorde declaring the current administration into into presidency so we think that if the political reforms are not managed and not carried out there is going to be no change with regard to the economic reforms so we need to get back to the drawing board we need to get back to political legitimacy in order to address some of these things the current government does not have the capacity to turn around the economy they have completely failed when minister i'm totally came into office he made a lot of promises but we have not seen any of those promises realized so we need to go back to the drawing board cheaper than during the opposition from your
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perspective using the right tactics your. and the opposition is in a difficult position. on one hand i think the east. and asia into the pool for the opposition to engage in sam dad not we there. in fact because if there is no doubt then people estat in limbo and we've seen people out in the streets and people are getting bits and you know their chances that some people get in bed early injured innocent people who'd lose their lives but i also understand why the opposition made that willing to engage in dialogue the meant because from the atmospheric to the last election but you know because the people's lives i think it's really important that that was change than see it as sitting down at mit that they still think that the opposition is doing the best they can i think bowing out of practice is as bad a procedure that i to every way in the world who see
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a threat to cinema just in branson didn't say that and they make it so that even that been wrong because that's something that is protected by the press the 2 should end when the opposition has told was the way that i am it is for certain splendid by using badness so it wasn't that think their options are limited and then mallow changed to engage me in this and then that i can what with me what would need to happen or ask to see any kind of resolution is that the opposition needs to be clear about what it is that been wet from the government in those things that they need from the government have to be achieve the goals i don't see him as a remember the stepping down tomorrow so an action that asking him to step down is major liesl the situation and i think that sent me it would sort of just had landed but it does seem to make think that we have asked to be moved to give their opposition much more than saying you know you can just be at ways of these and i think they have to be needed to give up sam power to. gottman ends of sounds like
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meet the opposition but i think right now we haven't been as late you know that it was anything when up and come and sit down and talk to him as an innocent man that was government to think well we don't have t.v. and resent you give it any power to concede to the opposition and that when seen as a think the attics and. patricia chaney ok you just heard chip and daria talk about the fact that there is an impasse and also the need for the opposition to be clearer about what exactly it is that they want i want to get your response that but i also want to ask you course that m.d.c. leader nelson chamisa he's indicated that the opposition is calling for more than just concessions regarding austerity so what else is being called for. so as i think a presidential mrs been very clear as has already been alluded to that we are not seeking to go into any government of national unity but one of the things that
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a presidential minister has called for is in national dialogue where we can get around the table and discuss how to resolve some of the issues that are currently faced in the country in zimbabwe and so the impasse that has been mentioned does exist because the current government does not want to come around the table to discuss so so we can't achieve anything we can't resolve some of those issues as long as they are is i mentioned earlier going back to my point around the political crisis and the legitimacy issues that are faced in the country those do need to be resolved in order for for for zimbabwe to have a way forward and so in national dialogue is the starting point to resolve some of
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those issues cheaper than there are there was a mood of hope that was blossoming in zimbabwe after the removal of robert mugabe from power has that completely gone away at this point. i think i think it's completely blown away. people as shocked actually that somebody has deteriorated so deeply of them actually 17 in november to 17 and i think even a 2080 and we're hearing reports of people in the vast reservoir saying you know i think it's sad for me to go back home with sesame to glenn beck yet people is about to say i think you know we should give him a semester a great chance. to use that as a 2nd chance to do things right by the people but i think after the august 5th shooting things just started to go down the drain then because the government's response to trust has been demonstrations by the opposition has been to rehab behind it and i think in some ways the government has won in strapped to you know
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and i think the opposition to this right that if we demonstrate they win to bring us the if they will maybe as we can see the government is sort of one into the shaft all showing the i wish i had when they didn't have those trust in him was the massive weight i also understand that some back in china have with them but that a faction of concerns with that i for action and we haven't been in a semester wouldn't deal effectively reproductions of coming into office i think if we had data that that's something that's with him what's you more created from the people you know if he had addressed corruption if he had addressed the millions of dollars that then you see there's only one person who's been of a standstill but when you talk to them bob and see what they said she just escaped because people think that the assembly fish that i remain in the government that haven't been dealt with and so you know i imagine that the inability to deal with corruption he's willing that to send out soldiers whenever they have questions
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whenever people speak out i think that's really what is in a show that he was willing to deal to to deal with the in zimbabwe south. deming is your finance came in. and out of your way i think people hoped that he was very educated he was lots of people really hopes that he would put in measures that would get that economy balancing again but he doesn't seem to be doing that and in fact i think he was looking at there is a sort or a story to measure that i think he's doing a lot of look east quality takes that but unfortunately it spends if it hurts to use the same policies that are used in singapore and hong kong if you don't ration if you don't sort of the legitimacy issues that are ongoing if you don't we didn't the citizenry and the government can't think very act has to bend as we
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know that and moment is very handsome by weight but again if one is to bend it has been beating up people pushing them off the streets and those are not things that built clapp it ends but at the same time i really do watch to question the opposition but i think people are just getting frustrated with the opposition as well because sometimes they just don't make the opposition is very quiet when it comes to issues of dealing with corruption you know that people are they frustrated with the way that the opposition has or has been having issues that they're not political and so i think the opposition also has a responsibility to deal with the intent of to shock people that you know we're not just going to go out to practice but we are not actively pushing issues of corruption we're actively pushing our council people to address the issues they're getting every day people so well. and you know people are very frustrated said the african muslim is very very frustrated that they are just heard to put in dari talk
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about the frustration the people in zimbabwe have not just with the president but also with the opposition's would like to get your response to what he said about how the opposition should be doing more to engender trust. i think that the opposition have started so one of the things that was meant to be happening from today was the freeze in marches that were going to be rolled out from starting from the couple city harare and from next week across the whole of zimbabwe and that these were going to continue and one of the reasons for these marches was to force the government to start addressing some of those concerns that cipro has strays around corruption about. the opposition we are working very hard to ensure that we are responding to the people's frustrations. limited in some ways to some of the things that we can do as you have seen today
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what's been demonstrated by the current government is that when we try to resolve things through peaceful processes they are heavy handed but coming down to dealing with corruption we are speaking out in parliament we are raising of voices and we are challenging the current government to ensure that everybody every minister that is involved that is implicated in any corrupt activities are brought to justice and we know that the current government has been speaking since 2017 about some of the measures that they would take to ensure that they are dealing with corruption but that is not materializing what we have seen with the recent nasa audit report findings is that one female minister has been arrested but where are the others because so many are implicated so really we are saying to the
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government we are challenging them to deal with corruption. and to ensure that justice is served and that internally. sales any issues are dealt with as would any organizations but i think that the sport light is on the government and they need to deal with corruption and get things right which i also want to follow what you said with with this question you know police had said that they banned protests because they had evidence that the protests would be violent what is the indices response to that. i think that that was unwarranted that is. not true we know that the current government smolders operandi to create situations we know that they have been known for example to buy m.d.c.
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regard and to use it themselves and to point the finger back at the m.d.c. i think those comments were and warranted we had peace marshals ready to support the protesters as they went around we were well organized and there were no issues of violence what we have seen today is the opposite is that actually the riot police set up on peaceful protesters that was sat on the ground and begun to assault them out say that absolutely we are a party that does not believe in violence and we would hope that the world today has seen that it is the ruling party that perpetrates human rights violations against opposition and human rights activists cheaper than dowry amnesty international has criticized escalating crackdown against human rights defenders as
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they call it activists civil society leaders and members of the opposition including abductions and torture that's according to amnesty international critics of president and governor say the crackdown on dissent is getting worse under his leadership than under the leadership of president mugabe what do you say to that. because of bad people make between ravaging that way and this and that almost to meet a central point which is that the only impression left government was letting back to everyone else the masterminds are you know balance and breakdown in government and that the challenge for him is a matter of waiting back the people in his government and the same people that actually implementing what he says by those i know you are supposed to have me on the show that you put out if you go back to the street one of the interesting exchange of this been having with people is trying to sure that that this new government is doing things differently so if you teach us things like well it is no
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longer a plenty to be test people and then the best the mission will win message the plan and the ad can receive some language that is reasoned out a way you set out a memo to the police to say you know a lot of the touch people you know with a lot of the deaf people because what we do see is that the police who are is one big violent city but i think that is structured to do that comes from the top and the reason it comes from the top is because the government doesn't have practical solutions to the economy conditions etc when they don't want it because people are raising issues about the economy the only way they know how to do this one is by using violence yes and i think they're only doing that because the the fuel cloud and they don't have any. real ways to address it kind of the challenges and i just want to point out that i think most people have that he much trust has if you ask them of the things that they're not even affiliated with the n.t.s.b.
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always said of p.s. so this is just what you know the people that i think he's a home head in what to do with them i don't know how to speak down i don't know what i'm going to do but who feel i don't know what i'm going to do basic supplies wasn't the truth to prices and. xor then those people get it and add by your own government we've also said what you didn't mention was that at least. in the last year it is the people that have been added to. the government economically that jesse jackson that which has arrested 3 times whatever little gravity in $1000.00 here yet that's huge. and i'm not sure why innocent that right has been so little and to erode any willpower that you know a good deal that the wealthy had and what we really need to keep and he said it all and he strolled in the that you're right i say lose weight even
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you estrace that but it's obviously because peter out how to deal with the economy and people keep responding is all right you have to bend our right to put our i'm sorry but we've run out of time so we're going to have to leave it there i want to thank all our guests chipper then dari and patricia chin yorka and thank you too for watching you can also see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is add a.j. inside story for me mama gentlemen the whole team here bye for now.
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cust the kashmir dispute for the 1st time in almost 50 years. the iranian oil tanker seized by british forces more than a month ago gets ready to sail despite objections from the united states. violence in zimbabwe's capital as protesters defy a ban on anti government demonstrations. and taking aim against more restrictive laws we visit a californian city has declared itself a garden sanctuary. but 1st the crisis in indian administered kashmir has been the subject of the united nations security council they've had consultations on the issue for the 1st time in a was 50 years now this disputed region has been under
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a virtual lockdown the 12 days now after new delhi revoked its autonomy the meeting was requested by pakistan and china judging from what i've heard from the discussions of this occurred council members. have express it that there are serious concerns concerning the current situation. kashmir they are also concerned about the human rights situation there and also. general weil. of members that parties concerned should refrain from taking and lateral action which might further away the tension there since the tension is already were a tense and very dangerous shortly after the tinies ambassador addressed the media he was followed by the indian and the pakistani ambassador to
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the u.n. both sides pretty much stuck to their long held positions the voice of the kashmiri people the voice of people of occupied kashmir has been heard today in the highest diplomatic forum of the word they are not alone their voices have been heard their plight their hardship their pin their suffering the occupation and the consequences of that occupation has been heard in the u.n. security council today the fact that this meeting took place is testimony to the fact that this is an internationally recognized dispute. there was an effort to stop this meeting from convening and we are grateful to all 15 members of the u.n. security council for the green to having this meeting. we're ready to address
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these issues in a manner that states who have normal approaches to international ties should address them. and in our case we are committed to the same legume it. it's now for pakistan to make that commitment to stop terror to start ducks there we've got 3 correspondents on the story. for who's in the indian capital new delhi kemal hiders in the pakistani capital islamabad 1st say let's go to mike hanna he's at the u.n. in new york so a fairly short meeting mike as we've already mentioned it was called for by the chinese ambassador pretty much soon after those consultations he came out that expressed china's own interest in the territory many people forget and think it is just a situation of pakistan versus india. yes indeed world the brevity of the meeting it lasted well under an hour
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a clear sign of the fact that there was no consensus among members in the security council china had wanted a joint statement to be issued after the meeting they could not get agreement within the council a number of members object ing to go on the record in terms of any formal statement following these closed door consultations so the chinese ambassador basically gave what the statement was that he would have wanted to issue in the 1st place calling on an end to any action or or unilateral action that could further inflame the tensions in the region but the as far as the security council is concerned they haven't met for some 50 years on this particular issue no indication that they could come to any agreement now when they haven't been able to in the past so in real practical terms has this these consultations behind closed doors or the u.n. security council has it moved the dispute on the tl. well it would
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appear not pakistan argues that the fact that the meeting took place is significant that it does promise a greater into nice ation or internationalization of the conflict india however is sticking to its guns saying that this is a bilateral matter it will not brook any outside interference in what it sees as an internal affair any group brit's allusion to the greater conflict between pakistan and india should india says be guided by that similar agreement. from 1972 in terms of which they committed to bilateral agreement or bilateral resolution in the particular area but the un by taking this lack of consensus in the security council is basically stepping back once again from the situation unwilling to further internationalize the conflict many within the council arguing very strongly it would appear that for them to get directly involved now could merely serve to heighten tensions china for one believes otherwise it believes that the conflict
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should be internationalized that the u.n. should play a greater role and that the u.n. should in fact enforce the numerous resolutions it has passed in the past on this crisis all right mike thanks for that mike hanna there live at the u.n. in new york now let's go to kemal hyder our correspondent in the pakistan capital islamabad and as mike was saying the pakistani ambassador depicted this pretty much as the 1st step the 1st victory if you like in the campaign that was announced by imran khan on pakistan's independence day suggesting that the international diplomacy is the way to get this situation resolved. absolutely and of course every other member that there are other options and therefore the 1st option that august done opted for. through diplomacy drydock and really that john. i need then came on board and it was because of the
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chinese had that today's meeting took place after that meeting the pakistani foreign minister was also talking he said that bulger's don had no jurisdiction in august on the administering the united nations military observers group for india and pakistan i just read on me he said on the progress on the site. today indian leadership today moved to destruction is to remove the view. that there should be leaders to find out for themselves what their question midis have to say also on an importer note the budget on a prime minister called the us president. and he explained progress on sports vision or were desperate to get the prices as low to august on is concerned this is seen as a diplomatic breakthrough because the indian ambassador to the u.n. and you are doing to their simulate agreement with bugger stone dead because this was not by
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a naturally agreement supposed to consult each other on all outstanding issues and looting so as riders progress on is. concerned by letter of the border may day and the only forum knowledge the international forum gets done had warned that this because this has to be taken very seriously. that i bore dr all along the line of control that separated. me to india and project on the administered buggiest on saying that go into something even bigger maybe even a conflict so there's a duration still very tense spot august on our diplomatic offensive and the feeling hated that dave indicated that the international community to that day said indeed a dangerous crises come all given the strength of feeling across the country particularly in. pakistan administered. about where we've seen protests.
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and indeed way you are in islamabad will the people of pakistan be satisfied if you like with the diplomatic offensive how much pressure is there upon him on calm to take perhaps more visible move or bust action where did it spread but there's also a feeling that the military which. when this crisis began saying that they. were dick miti brother and sister was a very strong message imran khan also warned the international community about the ramifications of any conflict that could be sparked by a strategic miscalculation so the people are just waiting to see what kind of moves india will make what really happened when the state rendered strictures that lifted of course warning that day maybe another false flag operation by did indians
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richard b. would dead an excuse to try to divert attention on the line of control and on pakistan did something even the pakistani military chief warned about so it will be interesting to see what happens within the next few days but the pakistani foreign minister also saying that he will be holding a high level meeting tomorrow and budget on of course will be coming out. on how to move forward right kimo heidi i live in islamabad thank you let's go now to new delhi and correspondent that the indians feeling that this is not the place they don't want to internationalize it they don't want outside players they see this purely as a bilateral matter with pakistan or as indian ambassador was saying in new york that this is an internal matter they see it as their sovereignty in terms of how they amend their own constitution. right to marty there are 2 things that would be minimized or said was that india is
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committed to being a bilateral issue one that should be resolved by law actually he repeated what the government has been saying that india is standing by the similar agreement in that was signed back in 1972 and in that sense try to lead to rest any pakistani apprehensions of his apprehensions about india walking away from resolving the issues and treating the issue as a bilateral issue so there was there was a regeneration there. if you look at it overall the the impression of the indian and doesn't try to give was that walks the chinese ambassador on the pakistani ambassador said before him was actually not the accurate picture of what happened inside the meeting he also said that if there are any fears that the chinese or the pakistanis may have about any action so busy that india might be gunning in pakistan i've missed me then there was no such thing india is not planning any such actions.

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